Raian Keldabe was a Force-sensitive Human male from Mandalore who was briefly trained as a Jedi, but upon his master's demise on the planet of Corellia, he left the Order and became a Senator's aide for his homeworld. At the start of the Clone Wars, he resigned from the Senate and fought alongside the Galactic Republic and the Jedi, whom he had left, to fight the increasing threat of the Separatists. During the war he became a well-known general, on par with some of the Jedi Masters he fought alongside. When Palpatine seized control and executed Order 66, Raian was hunted down by Darth Vader and the Clone troopers due to his mastery of the Force. He managed to elude Vader and the Empire and go into hiding on the planet of Manaan. It was there that he first encountered operatives of the Syn