Gurn Akkare
Name: Gurn Akkare
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Skin color: Mocca
Eye color: N/A
Hair color: Brown/Grey
Age: N/A
height: N/A
Home planet: Ekswayu
Marital status: Single
Title: Padawan
Ship: None asigned
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Born in the last years of the Old Republic, on the Mid Rim world of Ekswayu in 40BBY, Akkare was discovered to be a Force-sensitive by visiting Jedi Master Tayris Falkor, who brought him to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant for training. Though he was only an average student of the Force, Akkare was accepted into the Jedi Order, though he was slightly older than usually allowed, based on the arguments of Master Falkor, who saw potential in the young apprentice’s mental abilities, specifically his talent for looking into the future. Though certainly untrained, this ability most often manifested itself in quick flashes of the immediate future, often appearing to give Akkare exceptional reflexes.
When Akkare was finally accepted as a Padawan at age fourteen, unsurprisingly to the Master he had trained with for so long, Falkor, the Clone Wars were but five years away, and amid the rising political tensions, Akkare frequently experienced ever more worrying visions of conflict. This unshakable certainty that war was on the horizon, as well a fascination with the lightsaber that he had not lost since his induction into the order, convinced Akkare that he should focus more on his relatively poor martial skills, rather than his gift for mental manipulation of the Force as his Master often tried to persuade him to.
Through years of determination, by the time the Clone Wars broke out, Akkare had been able to merge the new physical abilities he had worked so hard for with his ability to predict the near future and became a very capable practitioner of Form III lightsaber combat, presenting his enemies with a near impenetrable defence. Maintaining this, however, took a great deal of focus for Akkare, and he knew that, despite his longings, he would never be the heroic frontline fighter that Jedi like Mace Windu and Anakin Skywalker had already proven themselves to be.
Resigned to this fate, Akkare decided to accompany his master in leading a naval task group, using his foresight to help the commanders plan strategies and direct orders in combat. As the war dragged on, however, Akkare became increasingly disillusioned with the Jedi Order and his place in it. Despite all his work, all his effort, he still found himself failing. This came to a peak when, acting on the counsel of one his visions, half the task group was obliterated as they found themselves trapped between a massive Separatist fleet and the asteroid field Akkare’s vision had assured would bring them victory. When Supreme Chancellor Palpatine personally gave Falkor and Akkare their most important mission yet, Akkare resolved it would be his last for the Jedi.
Dispatched with a small clone Task Group, the two Jedi were ordered to scout the fringes of Wild Space and the Unknown Regions, supposedly both for new resources for the Republic, and a large Separatist force rumoured to have gathered there. In reality, this was just another of Palpatine’s efforts to test the borders of his territory, and as with Outbound Flight and so many other hidden projects, whose purpose was merely to examine the strength of potential enemies, it was predestined to fail.
A hidden transmitter would send Palpatine all the data he needed, while one of his Separatist operatives sabotaged the entire fleet, which was controlled only by the flagship, ostensibly for secrecy. The task group’s hyperspace jump into the Unknown Regions was to be their last. The hyperdrive and navcomputer were both utterly ruined by the sabotage, and the group was left to fend for themselves in hostile territory, unable to return home. The death of Falkor a few months later was the final blow. Akkare proclaimed himself no longer a Jedi. Though he still carried his lightsaber, his slowly altered his robes over the years so that they were no longer the traditional garments of the Jedi. His Padawan braid was simply thrown in the trash compacter, Akkare not deeming it worthy of a better fate.
For twenty-seven years the task group remained lost and alone, the ships slowly falling apart, sustaining damage from the various enemies they encountered. Akkare’s lightsaber and Force abilities had gone unused for all this time, and by the time they were eventually found, he was an ageing, cynical man haunted by the horrors of his experience, and uncaring to the galaxy at large.
It was Imperial Vice-Admiral Marcus Pitto who eventually found the remains of the task group, while in pursuit of a mysterious alien battleship. What he found was no longer a proud Republic task group, it was a mismatched collection of battered vessels crewed by rapidly ageing clones, who numbered far fewer than the original complement, lead by a middle aged man who had resigned himself to a grim fate. In a joint effort, Pitto recovered what was left and crushed the alien forces that had dared invade Imperial space. Though he considered annihilating the race from orbit, Akkare advised him to spare them. In doing so, Pitto unwittingly invoked an ancient tradition among the aliens, and they swore their allegiance to him. It was this that made Pitto realise what an asset Akkare, and more specifically his predictions could be.
Akkare’s resentment of the Jedi Order, and the cynicism brought on by his forced exile left him uncaring towards the fate if the Order of which he had once been a proud member, and unsurprised that they had attempted to betray the newly declared Emperor. Even when Akkare eventually learned the truth, he was unconcerned, believing the Jedi to be deserving of the fate. Forever in debt to the man who brought him home, Akkare swore allegiance to the Empire.
Though Akkare would not be present for Pitto’s capture of the Vengeance-class Battlecruiser Hunter (later renamed Proditus), the final deciding factor in Pitto’s promotion to Admiral, Akkare became one of Pitto’s closest advisors, and was by his side from the start of Pitto’s expansionist campaigns.