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| - Ral-tu Varn, later known as one of the Heroes of Tython, the Outlander, and the Alliance Commander, was a very powerful Jedi Knight and later Jedi Master who battled the resurgent Sith Empire during the Cold War and subsequent renewed war. Born approximately two decades into the Great Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire, Ral-tu was trained under several masters across the galaxy during the Cold War before being sent to the Jedi Order's homeworld of Tython in 3,643 BBY. There, he was taken on as a Padawan by Orgus Din along with another padawan Sibbons Donlar, during the conflict with the native Flesh Raiders. On Tython Ral-tu and Sibbons became as close as brother's and they earned loyal companions, a Glided Flutterplume which they named Wings, an MT-4T Astromec
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| - Ral-tu Varn, later known as one of the Heroes of Tython, the Outlander, and the Alliance Commander, was a very powerful Jedi Knight and later Jedi Master who battled the resurgent Sith Empire during the Cold War and subsequent renewed war. Born approximately two decades into the Great Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire, Ral-tu was trained under several masters across the galaxy during the Cold War before being sent to the Jedi Order's homeworld of Tython in 3,643 BBY. There, he was taken on as a Padawan by Orgus Din along with another padawan Sibbons Donlar, during the conflict with the native Flesh Raiders. On Tython Ral-tu and Sibbons became as close as brother's and they earned loyal companions, a Glided Flutterplume which they named Wings, an MT-4T Astromech Droid, they nicknamed him Blue, T7-O1 another astromech droid, and a fellow padawan named Rynesh Lytonn. Sadly, Rynesh was soon killed by Flesh Raiders. As newly-elevated Jedi Knights, Din's apprentice's foiled a plot by Sith Lord Tarnis against the Republic capital of Coruscant. Ral-tu continued to go on many missions with Sibbons Donlar and Donlar's padawan Kira Carsen, who Ral-tu developed a romantic relationship with, despite the Jedi Code's no attachment rule. Ral-tu was also recruited into the elite Coruscant Aegis squadron, operating under the call sign "Shield". Tarnis's death at the hands of Ral-tu and his fellow Jedi caused the Sith Lord's father, Darth Angral, to declare war against the Jedi Order and the Republic, which forced the Jedi and crew to travel the galaxy in order to stop the Sith's apprentices from unleashing stolen Republic superweapons. The team halted the efforts of Imperial Intelligence to capture the Republic scientist Doctor Nasan Godera on the planet Taris, and worked with the Republic Strategic Information Service, the Republic's own intelligence agency, to destroy the Power Guard Project and defeat Angral's apprentice Lord Sadic on the moon Nar Shaddaa. Ral-tu and crew also hunted down and destroyed the Shock Drum weapon on the planet Tatooine, where they also convinced Angral's apprentice Praven to become a Jedi and rescued Carsen's former Master Bela Kiwiiks. Ral-tu and Sibbons' mission to Alderaan saw the destruction of the Death Mark laser and the death of Angral's apprentice Nefarid, but Angral killed Master Orgus and tested his new Desolator weapon on the agriworld Uphrades with horrific results. However, the Jedi and crew foiled Angral's attempts to use the Desolator against Tython and Ral-tu and his companions defeated the Sith Lord in battle, and as a result, Grand Master Satele Shan and the Galactic Republic granted Ral-tu Varn and Sibbons Donlar the ceremonial title of "Hero of Tython." Ral-tu and Sibbons Donlar soon joined a strike team led by Jedi Master Tol Braga whose purpose was to capture the Sith Emperor himself. While the Jedi recovered a prototype cloaking device on the war-torn planet Balmorra, Varn gained a new ally in the combat medic Archiban Frodrick Kimble, known as Doc, and rescued Braga's Padawan Sajar from Imperials and the threat of the dark side on Quesh. The final preparation for the capture of the Emperor was a mission to the ice planet of Hoth, where Ral-tu worked with Sergeant Fideltin Rusk of the 301st Infantry to recover the plans for the Emperor's space station, after which Rusk joined the Jedi's crew. However, when Ral-tu joined the rest of the strike team in a confrontation the Emperor, the Sith ruler easily defeated the Jedi and turned Varn and three other Jedi of the strike team, Tol Braga, Leeha Narezz, and Warren Sedoru to the dark side. After months of training as a Sith under Overseer Chaskar, Ral-tu was freed by the ghost of Master Din and escaped from the space station with the unlikely help of the Emperor's Wrath Scourge, the Emperor's personal executioner. Scourge revealed to the Jedi High Council that the Emperor intended to consume all life in the galaxy with a dark ritual, and the Sith Lord joined the Hero's crew as the group traveled to Belsavis in order to prevent the Imperial officer Krannus from destroying the planet and starting the Emperor's ritual. Ral-tu then fought and redeemed fellow strike team member Leeha Narezz before traveling to the planet Voss, where Varn worked to stop the Sith Lord Fulminiss from unleashing a plague of madness. After defeating yet another fallen strike team member, Warren Sedoru, the Heroes of Tython assumed command of all Jedi on the embattled planet of Corellia, and led the Outer Rim Jedi Forces against a corrupted Tol Braga's attempts to start the Emperor's ritual. In the Emperor's moment of weakness, the Heroes and T7-O1 confronted their enemy in the Dark Temple on the Imperial capital of Dromund Kaas while a Republic invasion fleet assaulted the world. Despite the Emperor's immense power, the Knights apparently struck down the Sith ruler, for which Ral-tu and Sibbons were awarded the Cross of Glory and the rank of Jedi Master. Later in the war, the Heroes played a role in attempting to prevent the Emperor's return at the hands of the mad Jedi Revan, and were elevated to the rank of Battlemaster as a result. Ral-tu was then involved in the hunt for the former Sith Emperor after his revival on Yavin 4. However, he was captured by the Eternal Empire just prior to its invasion of the galaxy. Subsequently, he was frozen in carbonite for five years while the Eternal Empire oppressed the galaxy. Ral-tu, now known as the Outlander would eventually be freed by his past ally, Lana Beniko, lover of Sibbons Donlar. After he was freed he would go on to lead the Alliance, a resistance movement that apposed the Eternal Empire.
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