Raik Muun

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Raik Muun was a Near-Human Dark Jedi, who lived during the waning years of the Galactic Republic. Muun joined the Jedi Order and studied at the Almas Academy, a Jedi academy that was located on the planet Almas, in the Cularin system. She attempted to pursue a romantic relationship with her fellow student Nek Lawsirk, but he rejected her and she was dismissed from the Academy by Jedi Master Kirlocca.

Muun left the system and fell to the dark side of the Force. However, she returned a few years later, determined to destroy the reputation of the Almas Jedi and ultimately drive them out of the Cularin system. She based herself on the moon Tilnes and after learning of the existence of a dangerous creature known as the t'salak, Munn traveled to the planet Cularin, where she planned to find the creature and use it in her plot against the Jedi. Muun discovered the cavern where the creature was hidden, but was unsuccessful in freeing it. Afterwards, she began to pursue a different method for freeing the t'salak, by capturing Nek Lawsirk and then disguising herself as him, allowing her to obtain the creature from Morad'Ka, the Mother of the Tarasin Jaraana irstat. She forced some captured scientists to make the creature reproduce, but was driven from Tilnes by a group of freelance agents who had been hired by the Jedi to find Lawsirk. Munn then orchestrated a plan to unleash the t'salak during a peace conference that was being held by the Jedi and the Sentient Beings Opposing Violence aboard the liner Luxury, using the creatures to enrage the attending Jedi and so discredit the Order. However, the agents who had drive her from Tilnes confronted her and thwarted her plans, forcing her to flee the ship.

Following the end of the Clone Wars, Muun traveled to the planet Coruscant and became the apprentice of Inquisitor Valin Draco, a Dark Jedi who served the Galactic Empire as a Jedi hunter. She accompanied him on a mission to investigate the ruins of the Almas Academy and was defeated when they were attacked by a group of Alderaanian Resistance agents.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Dismissal from the Almas Academy 1.2 Searching for the t'salak 1.3 Impersonating Nek Lawsirk 1.4 Attack on the Luxury 1.5 Student of Inquisitor Draco 2 Personality and traits 3 Powers and abilities 4 Behind the scenes 5 Appearances 6 Notes and references

[edit] Biography

[edit] Dismissal from the Almas Academy

Raik Muun was a Human halfbreed, who was born during the waning years of the Galactic Republic. She joined the Jedi Order and enrolled at the Almas Academy, a Jedi Academy located on the planet Almas, in the Cularin system. However, she did not adapt well to the rigors of Jedi life and attempted to pursue a romantic relationship with one of her fellow students, the Zabrak Nek Lawsirk, despite such relationships being forbidden among the Jedi. Lawsirk rejected her advances, which greatly upset her. Jedi Master Kirlocca, the Academy's lightsaber instructor, learned of what Muun had done and he believed that it showed she was unsuitable to become a Jedi, so he expelled her from the Academy. She blamed Lawsirk and Kirlocca for her dismissal and left the system, to plot revenge against the Almas Jedi.^[4]

[edit] Searching for the t'salak

Muun turned to the dark side of the Force and a few years later, during the time of the Clone Wars, she returned to the Cularin system, intent on gaining revenge against the Jedi. She set up a temporary base in an abandoned chemical factory on the moon Tilnes and obtained some battle droids to serve her.^[4] After researching the myths of the Tarasin, a sentient species that was native to the planet Cularin, Muun learned of the existance of a dangerous creature known as the t'salak.^[1] The t'salak was a seemingly indestructible creature that resembled a black, oozing mound and could cause people to be overcome by a violent rage, by simply touching them with it's tendrils. Over one hundred years earlier, it had attacked the Tarasin and they had imprisoned it in a cave beneath the surface of Cularin. Muun decided to find the creature, but was unable to discover the exact location of it's cave.^[3]

A group of construction workers, who were building a bridge for a race course, inadvertently unearthed the cave. Muun learned of their discovery and in the middle of the night, while the workers were sleeping, she arrived at the construction site with a group of her battle droids. She left the droids to secure the site, while she entered the cavern, confident that she would be able to find the t'salak. Inside, she encountered a series of obstacles that the Tarasin had placed inside the cave, to prevent anyone from freeing the t'salak. She crossed a deep chasm that blocked the route through the cave, then passed a large boulder that blocked her path. She then entered a large chamber, with a concealed door that lead to further chambers. After locating the button that opened the door, she entered another tunnel, but soon found her way blocked by a wall of roots and vines. She tried to cut them down, but the roots and vines regenerated every time she sliced through them. The obstacle had been engineered by the Tarasin to allow only people who had never touched the dark side of the Force to get through, so Muun was unable to pass it.^[3]

Muun was furious. She left the t'salak cave and took her anger out on the construction workers,^[3] by capturing them and taking them back to her base on Tilnes.^[4] She left her droids behind and they stunned a security team that had been sent to find the missing workers. Determined to obtain the t'salak, she decided to try and persuade the Tarasin into helping her releasing it. She disguised herself as a male Human Jedi and traveled to the Jaraana irstat, a Tarasin tribe that lived in a village about 50 kilometers from the cave. On arrival there, she approached Mother Morad'Ka, the eldest woman in the village, and asked the Tarasin to accompany her to the cave, which Muun claimed would be for the good of the system. Morad'Ka sensed through the Force that something wasn't right about the request, so refused. This made Muun very angry and she stormed out of the village, screaming curses at the Tarasin. The next day, she returned to the village^[3] and used explosives^[1] to set fire to it,^[3] in an attempt to destroy the settlement.^[1] The fire caused a lot of damage to the structures in the village^[3] and aided Muun by creating a sense of apprehension among the Tarasin towards the Jedi, who the Jaraana believed had caused the fire.^[1]

[edit] Impersonating Nek Lawsirk

Not put off by her initial failure to obtain the t'salak, Muun began to persue a different plan to acquire the creature. The Almas Jedi had sent Nek Lawsirk, who was now a Jedi Knight, to ask Morad'Ka to let them study the creature. Morad'Ka agreed to Lawsirk's request and said that she would give him the creature when she felt that the time was right. Muun learned of the agreement and planned to capture Lawsirk, then collect the t'salak herself. She disguised herself as a Jedi and over the course of a few weeks, committed various immoral acts on Cularin, such as charging citizens for protection. As a result, rumors began to circulate around Cularin, attributing Muun's actions to the Jedi and causing the local inhabitants to perceive the Order as being violent and cruel.^[4]

Lawsirk heard the rumors and began investigating the cause of them, but after a week of searching had discovered nothing. Muun sent him a holo-message and in it claimed that she could reveal to him information about the rumors, if he came and met her. She then asked him to travel to Tilnes and told him the location of the chemical plant where she was based. Although he distrusted her, Lawsirk did not want to pass up the opportunity to learn more about the rumors, so he traveled to the chemical plant on Tilnes, to meet with Muun. He entered a darkened room inside the plant, where Muun was waiting on a catwalk, to ambush him. Her battle droids opened fire on the Zabrak, and he responded by igniting his lightsaber and jumping up onto the catwalk. Muun then used her own saber to disarm him and pushed him into an empty chemical vat, in which she imprisoned him.^[4]

With Lawsirk captured, Muun took his lightsaber and used theatrical makeup to disguise herself as him. She traveled to the city of Hedrett on Cularin and, based from Lawsirk's apartment there, inflicted various unlawful acts against the local population, to further undermine the peaceful reputation of the Jedi. While in the disguise, she demanded protection money from people and staged an attack on The Chasm, a cantina that was located in the nearby city of Gadrin. She placed a holorecorder inside the building's refresher, which she hoped would be found by one of the cantina's patrons, ensuring that the attack was recorded. Muun then entered the cantina and walked over to a group of tough-looking people, who were sitting at a table near the door. She gave them a gesture that suggested that she wanted a fight, causing them to laugh at her. Afterwards, she stood where she was and looked around, waiting for someone to come out of the refresher with the holorecorder. A few minutes later, the Kubaz Forg F'Lopo emerged with it and began using it to film his friends. Muun immediately flipped over the table next to her and attacked the cantina's patrons with Lawsirk's lightsaber. She cut off a number of arms and legs and also killed a Bothan. When she had finished, she apologised to the survivors for the mess and dropped a handful of credit chips onto the floor, which she claimed were to cover the cost of the cleaning. F'Lopo filmed the whole attack and the footage was confiscated by the Office of Peace and Security. They passed the footage on to the Almas Jedi and the attack was attributed to Nek Lawsirk.^[4]

Morad'Ka eventually decided to let the Jedi study the t'salak, so she sent a message to Lawsirk, telling him that he could go and collect it. Muun intercepted the message and, while still disguised as the Zabrak, traveled to the Jaraana irstat to collect the creature. She arrived in the evening and took the creature from Morad'Ka straight away, refusing to share refreshments with the elderly Tarasin. After taking the creature to the factory on Tilnes, Muun returned to Hedrett and used a mind trick to kidnap three biologists from a lab that was used by Culpharm, a local pharmaceutical company. She took them back to Tilnes with her and forced them to try and find a way to make t'salak reproduce. While the biologists were present, she also repeatedly allowed the t'salak to touch Nek Lawsirk with it's tentacles, causing him to become enraged.^[4]

Eventually, the biologists developed a technique using lasers, that allowed them to split the t'salak into two individual creatures. As she believed that the biologists had now served their purpose, Muun tied them up with spacer's tape and told them that she was going to kill them. However, Master Kirlocca had hired a group of freelance agents known as the "Heroes of Cularin" to find Lawsirk and they had tracked the Zabrak to the factory. They entered the plant and Muun was alerted to their presence, so she abandoned the biologists and ran out of the room. She fled the factory^[4] with both t'salaks and a set of notes that the biologists had written, about how make the creatures divide.^[1]

[edit] Attack on the Luxury

Muun used the biologists' notes to further split the t'salak, so that she had five individual creatures, each as strong as the original. When she learned of a peace conference that was going to be held between the Almas Jedi and the Sentient Beings Opposing Violence, she realized that it was the opportunity she had been waiting for to discredit the Jedi. The conference was to be held aboard the liner Luxury near to Rennokk, a moon of Cularin, and Muun planned to use the t'salaks to enrage the attending Jedi and cause them to attack the delegates, which she would then broadcast to the holonews. To implement her plan, Muun disguised herself and adopted the alias "Lernia". Using several forged letters of recommendation from notable pilots, "Lernia" was able to secure a job as the co-pilot of the Luxury for the duration of the conference and through her new position, she was able to smuggle her t'salaks and battle droids onto the ship. Muun also hired the bounty hunter Caor Maw to try and delay the Heroes of Cularin from further interfering with her plans. In a further attempt to slow down the agents, Muun told Razor Leader, the commander of a Thaereian military starfighter squadron that had been assigned to defend the Luxury, that a ship would attempt to dock with the liner, so that it's crew could attempt to sabotage the conference. She also claimed that the crew of this ship would have credentials showing that they had been sent by a high ranking individual on Cularin, which she hoped would persuade the Thaereians to prevent the agents from boarding the liner, should the agents learn of her plans and try to stop her.^[1]

The agents eventually defeated Maw and were sent by Jedi Master Lanius Qel-Bertuk, the headmaster of the Almas Academy, to prevent Muun from disrupting the conference on the Luxury. Their ship approached the liner and, in the guise of Lernia, Muun contacted Razor Leader, insisting that the Thaereian squadron destroy the agents' starship. Razor Leader disagreed and planned to let the agents dock with the Luxury, so Muun used a mind trick on the liner's gunner and ordered him to open fire on the Thaereian starfighters and the agents' ship. Realizing that she had ran out of time, Muun began the implementation of her plan to disrupt the conference and started by killing all of the bridge crew on the liner, except for the captain, Veer. She tied Veer up with spacer's tape and attached an explosive device to him, forcing him to fly the Luxury in the direction of Rennokk. Muun also ensured that the ship was inside the moon's gravity well, so that even if the Thaereians opened fire on it, the ship would continue it's descent towards the moon. She then jettisoned all of the liner's escape pods except one, before releasing the t'salak from two canisters that she had placed inside the ship's conference room. The creatures began attacking the attendees, sending them into violent, uncontrollable rages. Jedi Master Kirlocca and two Jedi Padawans attempted to fight the creatures, but one of the Padawans became enraged and slew the other one. A Rodian reporter then picked up the lightsaber of the fallen Jedi and went on a rampage, attacking the other delgates with it. With the Rodian and the rogue Padawan attacking the other attendees, it appeared as if the Jedi were deliberately attacking the delegates, so Muun activated a news feed, that started broadcasting live images of the attack to the holomedia. She also sent a group of battle droids to the ship's engineering section, to inflict damage on the Luxury's systems, to ensure that it's course could not be altered.^[1]

The Heroes of Cularin eventually landed on the Luxury and Muun began monitoring them, so that she could keep track of what they were doing. She tried to slow their movements aboard the liner by initiating an atmospheric evacuation of the landing bay while the agents were disembarking from their ship. The agents were able to stop the evacuation and made their way the engineering section, where they defeated the droids that Muun had sent there, and repaired some of the damaged systems. They then made their way to the conference room, where they defeated the t'salak, although not before Kirlocca was finally overcome by the creatures and killed. The agents confronted Muun on the bridge and she engaged them in combat. She wanted to kill them for foiling her plans, but did not fight recklessly and remained fully in control of her actions. However, despite her efforts, the fight began to go against her, so she fled and escaped in last remaining pod, which she flew to a location where a getaway ship was waiting for her.^[1]

[edit] Student of Inquisitor Draco

Muun eventually returned to her base on Tilnes, and while there, she heard reports of Order 66,^[2] an order that had been issued by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to clone troopers, telling them to kill all of the Jedi.^[5] Believing that the issuing of the order had denied her the chance to gain revenge against the Jedi, Muun decided to confront the people responsible for the deaths of the Jedi. To do this, she traveled to Coruscant, capital world, or the Galactic Empire, the newly-formed galactic government that had replaced the Republic. However, on Coruscant she instead found Valin Draco, a Dark Side Adept who was a member of the Inquisitorius, an order of Jedi hunters who served the Empire. Draco saw great potential in Muun, so asked her to join him and she accepted, as she believed that she had finally found someone to love her.^[2]

After becoming his apprentice, Muun accompanied Draco on various assignments, relishing in the opportunities that they gave her to hunt Jedi. When Draco was sent to investigate a Force nexus on Almas, he brought Muun along with him, as he believed that her familiarity with the planet could be helpful to the mission. After arriving in the Cularin system, Draco, Muun and some Imperial support troops flew to Almas in a Theta-class shuttle and landed in the city of Forard. They then made their way to the Academy, which lay in ruins as a result of an attack on it near to the end of the Clone Wars. Inside, Draco and Muun encountered the Twi'lek Jedi Master Vhiin Thorla and his Padawan Dorv'Tilsta, who had came to the Academy in search of other Jedi survivors of the Empire's Jedi purge. A fierce lightsaber duel ensued and Muun used a t'salak to induce Tilsta into a murderous rage, causing the boy to attack his master. Thorla was forced to kill Tilsta, but in doing so became so overcome by guilt that he was weakened, allowing Draco and Muun to capture him.^[2]

Shortly afterwards, Draco discovered the holocron of the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Rivan in the Academy sublevels and chose to remain there, to study it. Muun stayed with him and while they were both there, a group of Alderaanian Resistance agents came to the Academy ruins, in search of the Qornah Holocron, a Jedi holocron that had been kept in the Academy. However, Draco had located the Qornah Holocron first and had taken it with him to the sublevels, so the agents made their way there, to confront him. The agents approached Draco, so Muun flanked her master and ignited her lightsaber, in preparation to defend him. The agents attacked Draco and Muun took up a defensive position in front of him, while four clone shadow troopers, elite Imperial troops that served Draco, prepared to ambush the Resistance team. Once the agents had moved close enough to them, Muun and the shadow troopers then engaged them in melee combat. However, Muun and the troopers were eventually incapacitated by the agents, who then defeated Draco and left the academy with the Qornah Holocron.^[2]

[edit] Personality and traits

Raik Muun had red eyes and green hair.^[1] She lacked control over her emotions and desires, making her unsuited for Jedi training and quick to anger. Because of this, she could not stop herself from becoming obsessed with Nek Lawsirk and did not take it well when he rejected her.^[4] Following her fall to the dark side, she became muderous and demented,^[2] so became very angry when she didn't get what she wanted, like when Morad'Ka prevented her from obtaining the t'salak.^[3] When she fought against the Heroes of Cularin aboard the Luxury, she fully committed herself to their defeat and was confident that she would be victorious.^[1] She also liked to use deception to achieve her aims.^[3][4][1]

As a Dark Jedi, Muun wore black-colored clothing,^[4][1] but after she became the apprentice of Valin Draco, she started wearing a darker-colored version of the standard Inquisitor attire.^[2] She wielded a crimson-colored lightsaber, which she had constructed herself.^[1]

[edit] Powers and abilities

While at the Almas Academy, Muun demonstrated a great talent for controlling and manipulating the Force.^[4] However, after she left the Academy, she fell to the dark side of the Force, from which she was irredeemable.^[1] She knew how to use the Force to influence the minds of others,^[4] to sense impending danger, to move objects and to enhance her dark side powers.^[1]

[edit] Behind the scenes

Raik Muun was created by Matthew Domville for the Forces of Cularin trilogy of adventures in the Living Force campaign, a supplement to the Star Wars Roleplaying Game. She later appeared in Echoes of the Jedi, a role-playing supplement that was written by Abel G. Peña and Jean-François Boivin; and released in 2008. Her species was not revealed until her appearance in Force Convention, the last adventure in the Forces of Cularin trilogy, which identified her as a Near-Human. Echoes of the Jedi later added to this, by claiming that she was a Human halfbreed.

In Force Convention, the third adventure in the Forces of Cularin trilogy, the players, who role-play as the Heroes of Cularin, can effect Muun's actions. She behaves more aggressively for players of a higher level tier and can use Force lightning if she is fighting against higher tier players. It is also possible for the player characters to kill her, although her later appearance in Echoes of the Jedi means that such a death would be non-canonical. In Echoes of the Jedi, it is also again possible for Muun to be killed, when she fights against the Alderaanian Resistance agents.

[edit] Appearances

• "Force Concession" (First mentioned)
• "Force Contention" (Appears in hologram) (First appearance) (First identified as Raik Muun)
• "Force Convention"
•  Echoes of the Jedi on Wizards.com

[edit] Notes and references