Shado Vao was a male Rutian Twi'lek Jedi Master who was the apprentice of Kol Skywalker and a close friend to Kol's son, Cade Skywalker during the time of the Sith–Imperial War and the subsequent Second Imperial Civil War against Darth Krayt and the One Sith. Following Kol's death during the Massacre on Ossus, Vao took the last remaining ship and fled the planet with the surviving younglings and Cade's Master Wolf Sazen, but was forced to leave his best friend behind, who was thereafter presumed dead.