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When Ania asked Jao why Wredd would use the Carreras array to make a spectacle of himself, Jao speculated that Wredd was a megalomaniac who wanted to gain attention for his actions and to make the Triumvirate look weak. Ania then related how her travels had brought her to the Carreras system. When Jao asked her why she was going to Coruscant, Ania admitted that she wanted to avoid execution in Carreras and revealed that she had been summoned by Empress Fel herself. When Ania asked Jao what he was going to do about Darth Wredd, he replied that it would be better to obey the Empress. Later, Jao changed his mind and decided to go after Darth Wredd. He persuaded Ania to join him in their hunt for Wredd. Ania and Assam tried to sneak off of the ''Animus'', but were discovered and confronted by Master Val and a squad of Stormtroopers. <ref name="Legacy 6" /> |
When Ania asked Jao why Wredd would use the Carreras array to make a spectacle of himself, Jao speculated that Wredd was a megalomaniac who wanted to gain attention for his actions and to make the Triumvirate look weak. Ania then related how her travels had brought her to the Carreras system. When Jao asked her why she was going to Coruscant, Ania admitted that she wanted to avoid execution in Carreras and revealed that she had been summoned by Empress Fel herself. When Ania asked Jao what he was going to do about Darth Wredd, he replied that it would be better to obey the Empress. Later, Jao changed his mind and decided to go after Darth Wredd. He persuaded Ania to join him in their hunt for Wredd. Ania and Assam tried to sneak off of the ''Animus'', but were discovered and confronted by Master Val and a squad of Stormtroopers. <ref name="Legacy 6" /> |
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| − | Master Val attempted to reason with Jao Assam by reminding the younger Knight that they had to trust that the Force would guide the Empress in this matter. Assam replied that that was what he was exactly doing. Assam warned that Darth Wredd was not satisfied with just killing Sith and had wider ambitions. Master Val refused to listen and ordered Assam to stand down. At that point, Val's Imperial comm droid arrived, spooking the Stormtroopers and causing them to open fire. Val deflected their laser blasts with his lightsaber and told Val that he did not want violence. After Assam refused to submit, Val conceded that the younger Knight was right and allowed him to go. However, he warned Assam that dereliction of duty was a "selfish act" for any Imperial Knight. Jao and Ania then left on a stolen Imperial shuttle before Val and the Stormtroopers changed their minds.<ref name="Legacy 7" /> |
+ | Master Val attempted to reason with Jao Assam by reminding the younger Knight that they had to trust that the Force would guide the Empress in this matter. Assam replied that that was what he was exactly doing. Assam warned that Darth Wredd was not satisfied with just killing Sith and had wider ambitions. Master Val refused to listen and ordered Assam to stand down. At that point, Val's Imperial comm droid arrived, spooking the Stormtroopers and causing them to open fire. Val deflected their laser blasts with his lightsaber and told Val that he did not want violence. After Assam refused to submit, Val conceded that the younger Knight was right and allowed him to go. However, he warned Assam that dereliction of duty was a "selfish act" for any Imperial Knight. Jao and Ania then left on a stolen Imperial shuttle before Val and the Stormtroopers changed their minds.<ref name="Legacy 7">''[[Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 7]]''</ref> |
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| + | Jao Assam and Ania Solo then headed into [[hyperspace]], intent on hunting Darth Wredd but with no clues of where to fight the Sith insurgent. While traveling through [[hyperspace]], Ania asked Assam about whether his vision had given him any hint of where they should be traveling. The two of them also browsed through regional incident reports for information on Darth Wredd's whereabouts, which included files on court martials and prisoners of war. Aia also asked Assam how long the authorities kept these records and whether they stretched back through the [[Second Imperial Civil War]]. She also wondered whether the Triumivrate would have purged these documents as well. Jao responded that Wredd was probably a [[Sith apprentice]] since he did not wear the tradition Sith tattoos which most members of the One Sith wore. He also speculated that Wredd could have been serving anywhere during that time and that they should look at files relating to that period.<ref name="Legacy 7" /> |
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| + | At that point, Ania recognized one of the individuals on the file as [[Dieben]], a [[Nalydian]] who had been Darth Wredd's henchman on [[Mala (planet)|Mala]]. Following the destruction of the Carrerras communications array, Dieben had been picked up in an escape pod in the [[Surd Nebula]]. The two quickly learnt that Dieben was a wanted fugitive who had been extradited to his homeworld of [[Nalyd]] to face punishment for various crimes. Ania and Jao then traveled to Nalyd, a planet of swirling orange fog. After landing at a spaceport on that planet, Assam discovered from local sources that Dieben had been sentenced to death for various felonies including the assassination of a minister, assaulting an "officer of the law", and the sabotage of a public transport resulting in ten deaths. As punishment, Dieben was to be executed by firing squad in a public arena.<ref name="Legacy 7" /> |
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| + | Before the execution could be carried out, Ania commandeered a [[Nalyd's spider like creature|spider-like creature]] and "rescued" Dieben. Together with Jao and Dieben, Ania fled the arena. They were pursued by the Nalydian authorities, who also rode spider-like creatures and fired [[blaster]]s. During the escape attempt, the spider was shot and the three beings fell down a steep cliff. While Ania and Jao survived the fall, Dieben was not so lucky and was impaled by a sharp needle-like plan, resulting in wounds that led to his death. While Ania and Jao were unable to extract any information from Dieben, they quickly found out from the guards that Dieben had planned to rendezvous with Darth Wredd on the planet [[Dac]] following the events in Carreras. Dac, the homeworld of the [[Mon Calamari]] and [[Quarren]] species, had become a 'dead world' after the [[One Sith]] unleashed a biological weapon into its oceans the previous year. <ref name="Legacy 7" /> |
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| + | When cornered by their Nalydian pursuers, Ania managed to convince them to release her and Assam by pointing out that the latter was an Imperial Knight who was skilled in lightsaber combat. In exchange for returning Dieben's body to the Nalydian authorities, the Nalydians informed the two companions that Dieben had indeed planned to rendezvous with Darth Wredd in Dac. While preparing to disembark to Dac, Ania tried to convince a skeptical Jao that Dieben had been telling the truth because he was not smart enough to lie. Jao also recalled that Dieben had bragged about having powerful friends, whom Ania assumed to be Darth Wredd. Since the One Sith had poisoned Dac a year ago, the planet had become uninhabited and was lawless. There was some criminal activity in the Calamari system since the Galactic Triumvirate lacked a presence there. Ania replied that Dac's lawlessness made it a perfect hiding place for the Sith. Assam was convinced by Ania's argument and the pair traveled to Dac.<ref name="Legacy 7" /> |
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Jao Assam was a Human male who served Empress Marasiah Fel's Empire as an Imperial Knight. After the Second Imperial Civil War, he went to the Ottega system as an agent of the new Triumvirate.
Biography
Early life and training
At some point in his early career, Assam had been mentored by Yalta Val[2] and he felt such loyalty to his mentor that he disobeyed the direct command of his Empress, Marasiah Fel.[1]
Troubles in the Surd Nebula
Stationed in the Ottega system, Master Assam became concerned when his section of the array did not receive a carrier signal from the other side of the Surd Nebula. His concerns only deepened when Master Val did not send his comm droid with an updated completion time. He contacted Empress Fel and was ordered to remain in the Ottega system. Leaving the completion of his array to his Ithorian allies, he set course for the Carreras system in a starfighter, but came across the Carreras blockade.[1]
Upon arriving, the Shifala guards stationed there, who were operating under the orders of Darth Wredd, an imposter who had taken Master Val's place, attempted to arrest him. However, Assam activated his lightsaber and fled to his ship. The Shifala gave chase, but Assam activated the hangar bay force field and sealed them inside. He then detected the homing signal from Master Val's comm droid on Carreras Minor, which had come into the possession of Ania Solo and her Mon Calamari friend Sauk.[2]
Rescuing a Solo
Assam arrived just in time to rescue Ania and her allies, including the assassin droid AG-37 from a large, tentacled creature that had attacked AG-37's freighter on the planet's surface. He and Ania were thrown clear and she held him at gunpoint as her recent experiences with the Sith imposter had made her distrustful of Imperial Knights. Assam deduced that, because he had easily traced the coded Imperial signal transmitted by the droid, Master Val would have done the same and was, for some reason, unable to. Sauk showed him a holorecording of a duel between Val and a Sith he had encountered on a planet in the Surd Nebula. Realizing that Val had been replaced, the four went to find him. Loading Assam's ship onboard the freighter, they set course for the Surd Nebula. Shifala forces followed them, but broke off once they reached the nebula, even though they'd damaged the ship's thrusters. Once inside, they discovered that the planet they'd expected to find was gone, and a starship captured them in a tractor beam and brought them aboard.[2]
Captured and brought aboard the Carreras G51 communications array, Assam was suspended in a stasis field and confronted by the Sith that had taken Val's identity. The Carreras system's governor Biala watched this and, realizing the danger the Sith posed to her system's standing in the galaxy, freed Assam and returned his lightsaber to him. He, in turn, set Ania, Sauk and AG-37 free. The four went to engage the Sith, but Ania's rash actions in destroying his shuttle exposed their position. The Sith sliced AG-37 in half and briefly dueled Assam. Though Assam managed to wound the Sith's face, he was impaled by debris and exposed to the vacuum of space as the Sith fled aboard another shuttle.[3]
Darth Wredd then returned to his base on the dark planet of Mala. There, he used the nearby Carreras array to make a broadcast to the wider galaxy, outlining his Sith ambitions. Wredd also attempted to execute Master Val but was stopped by Ania. Ania and her companions then managed to escape on their starship before the Carreras array collided with Mala. However, Darth Wredd also escaped. While traveling through space, Ania, Sauk, AG-37, and Master Val came across Assam floating in space. Miraculously, the young Imperial Knight had been saved from certain death by Master Val's comm droid, which had secured a breath mask over Assam's face. AG-37 speculated that perhaps the droid had felt Assam had come to the Carreras system specifically for it and had saved Assam in gratitude. [4]
Pursuing Darth Wredd
Assam remained in a critical condition aboard AG-37's freighter until the comm droid's distress signal was picked up by the Star Destroyer Animus. Assam was placed in a bacta tank to continue his recovery. While submerged, he experienced a Force vision of Darth Wredd killing Empress Fel. Assam later related his vision to Yalta Val, while he was dueling with a training remote. However, Yalta Val dismissed Assam's concerns about Wredd's threat to the Empress and reminded the younger knight that they had orders to follow and that Wredd was not his problem. Jao disagreed and insisted that Wredd was still a threat. Val explained that he did not like his orders but as an Imperial Knight, he was bound to serve the Force by serving the Empress. He reminded Assam to remember his vows and reprimanded the younger Knight for disobeying a direct order by venturing to Carreras to rescue him. While Val was grateful to Assam for saving his life, he believed that Assam's disobedience was an act worthy of punishment.[5]
While Assam viewed his recent assignment to Coruscant for the next cycle as a form of punishment, Master Val thought that the younger Knight need to spend time recovering since Darth Wredd had nearly killed him. While distracted, Jao was hit by a laser beam fired by the training remote. Continuing his conversation, Assam argued that their highest duty as Imperial Knights was to protect the Empress. Val refused to continue the discussion and insisted they had orders. Frustrated, Assam sliced the training remote in half but indicated that he understood his orders. Uncomfortable with his superiors' unwillingness to tackle the threat posed by Darth Wredd, Assam later confided in Ania, telling her of the vision and his feeling that Wredd wanted him as an apprentice. However, Ania assured Assam that because he had already reached the rank of Imperial Knight, there was no danger of him falling to the dark side. After briefly relating the history of the Sith to Ania, Jao speculated that Wredd was systematically killing off the other Sith in order to restore the Rule of Two.[5]
When Ania asked Jao why Wredd would use the Carreras array to make a spectacle of himself, Jao speculated that Wredd was a megalomaniac who wanted to gain attention for his actions and to make the Triumvirate look weak. Ania then related how her travels had brought her to the Carreras system. When Jao asked her why she was going to Coruscant, Ania admitted that she wanted to avoid execution in Carreras and revealed that she had been summoned by Empress Fel herself. When Ania asked Jao what he was going to do about Darth Wredd, he replied that it would be better to obey the Empress. Later, Jao changed his mind and decided to go after Darth Wredd. He persuaded Ania to join him in their hunt for Wredd. Ania and Assam tried to sneak off of the Animus, but were discovered and confronted by Master Val and a squad of Stormtroopers. [5]
Master Val attempted to reason with Jao Assam by reminding the younger Knight that they had to trust that the Force would guide the Empress in this matter. Assam replied that that was what he was exactly doing. Assam warned that Darth Wredd was not satisfied with just killing Sith and had wider ambitions. Master Val refused to listen and ordered Assam to stand down. At that point, Val's Imperial comm droid arrived, spooking the Stormtroopers and causing them to open fire. Val deflected their laser blasts with his lightsaber and told Val that he did not want violence. After Assam refused to submit, Val conceded that the younger Knight was right and allowed him to go. However, he warned Assam that dereliction of duty was a "selfish act" for any Imperial Knight. Jao and Ania then left on a stolen Imperial shuttle before Val and the Stormtroopers changed their minds.[6]
Detour to Nalyd
Jao Assam and Ania Solo then headed into hyperspace, intent on hunting Darth Wredd but with no clues of where to fight the Sith insurgent. While traveling through hyperspace, Ania asked Assam about whether his vision had given him any hint of where they should be traveling. The two of them also browsed through regional incident reports for information on Darth Wredd's whereabouts, which included files on court martials and prisoners of war. Aia also asked Assam how long the authorities kept these records and whether they stretched back through the Second Imperial Civil War. She also wondered whether the Triumivrate would have purged these documents as well. Jao responded that Wredd was probably a Sith apprentice since he did not wear the tradition Sith tattoos which most members of the One Sith wore. He also speculated that Wredd could have been serving anywhere during that time and that they should look at files relating to that period.[6]
At that point, Ania recognized one of the individuals on the file as Dieben, a Nalydian who had been Darth Wredd's henchman on Mala. Following the destruction of the Carrerras communications array, Dieben had been picked up in an escape pod in the Surd Nebula. The two quickly learnt that Dieben was a wanted fugitive who had been extradited to his homeworld of Nalyd to face punishment for various crimes. Ania and Jao then traveled to Nalyd, a planet of swirling orange fog. After landing at a spaceport on that planet, Assam discovered from local sources that Dieben had been sentenced to death for various felonies including the assassination of a minister, assaulting an "officer of the law", and the sabotage of a public transport resulting in ten deaths. As punishment, Dieben was to be executed by firing squad in a public arena.[6]
Before the execution could be carried out, Ania commandeered a spider-like creature and "rescued" Dieben. Together with Jao and Dieben, Ania fled the arena. They were pursued by the Nalydian authorities, who also rode spider-like creatures and fired blasters. During the escape attempt, the spider was shot and the three beings fell down a steep cliff. While Ania and Jao survived the fall, Dieben was not so lucky and was impaled by a sharp needle-like plan, resulting in wounds that led to his death. While Ania and Jao were unable to extract any information from Dieben, they quickly found out from the guards that Dieben had planned to rendezvous with Darth Wredd on the planet Dac following the events in Carreras. Dac, the homeworld of the Mon Calamari and Quarren species, had become a 'dead world' after the One Sith unleashed a biological weapon into its oceans the previous year. [6]
When cornered by their Nalydian pursuers, Ania managed to convince them to release her and Assam by pointing out that the latter was an Imperial Knight who was skilled in lightsaber combat. In exchange for returning Dieben's body to the Nalydian authorities, the Nalydians informed the two companions that Dieben had indeed planned to rendezvous with Darth Wredd in Dac. While preparing to disembark to Dac, Ania tried to convince a skeptical Jao that Dieben had been telling the truth because he was not smart enough to lie. Jao also recalled that Dieben had bragged about having powerful friends, whom Ania assumed to be Darth Wredd. Since the One Sith had poisoned Dac a year ago, the planet had become uninhabited and was lawless. There was some criminal activity in the Calamari system since the Galactic Triumvirate lacked a presence there. Ania replied that Dac's lawlessness made it a perfect hiding place for the Sith. Assam was convinced by Ania's argument and the pair traveled to Dac.[6]
Appearances
- Star Wars: Legacy 2: Prisoner of the Floating World, Part 2 (First appearance)
- Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 3
- Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 4
- Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 5
- Star Wars: Legacy: Outcasts of the Broken Ring
- Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 11
- Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 12
- Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 13
- Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 14
- Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 15
- Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 16
- Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 17
- Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 18
