Satele Shan was a Force-sensitive Human female who served as the Xilo Jedi Order's Grand Master during the Cold War and the Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire. The daughter of Jedi Knight Tasiele Shan, who was herself a descendant of the legendary Jedi Knights Revan and Bastila Shan, Satele was born on the planet Brentaal IV in the year 1791 NE. Inheriting her family's Force-sensitivity, she was inducted into the Jedi Order and became the Padawan of Jedi Master Ngani Zho, though she later traveled to the Sith homeworld of Korriban to study under the Zabrak Battlemaster Kao Cen Darach. It was there that she witnessed the recapture of the planet by the Sith Empire in 1809 NE, and she escaped to warn the Republic with the help of the smuggler Nico Okarr and a Republic trooper named Jace Malcom at the cost of Darach's life.
Achieving the rank of Jedi Knight under the tutelage of Master Dar'Nala, Shan led her fellow Jedi and the forces of the Republic Military into battle in the Great Galactic War, becoming a well-known hero to the Republic. Shan also grew close with Malcom despite the Jedi Order's restrictions on attachments, and their bond drove her to rescue Malcom and his small band of Special Forces troopers on the Core World of Alderaan when the Empire invaded the world in 1823 NE. Her arrival turned the tide of the Battle of Alderaan in the Republic's favor. After defeating the Sith Lord Darth Malgus in combat with the help of Malcom, she and Malcom began an affair that lasted for six months before Shan broke it off in fear of the darkness in the soldier's heart. However, she was pregnant with Malcom's child, and Shan eventually gave birth to her son, Theron, in secret with the help of Master Zho before giving the child up to the Jedi Order and returning to the battlefield.
In 1837 NE, Shan was selected to be part of the delegation that was to attend peace talks with the Sith Empire on Alderaan. However, the Empire used the conference as a distraction while it attacked the Republic's capital of Coruscant, holding the world hostage to force the Republic to accept the terms of the Treaty of Coruscant. As the galaxy settled into an uneasy Cold War, Shan foiled a conspiracy to sabotage the new peace perpetrated by Dar'Nala herself and afterward embarked on an odyssey inspired by the call of the Force across the galaxy. The journey led her to the Jedi Order's long-lost homeworld of Tython in the Deep Core, and for her rediscovery of the planet, Shan was appointed to the position of Grand Master and given leadership of the entire Order. In her new role, Shan guided the Order through a number of crises that arose during the Cold War also and trained her Kiffar Padawan, Shigar Konshi, to Knighthood.
As the fragile calm of the Cold War began to collapse, Shan worked with the Republic Emergency Response Corps to protect the unsteady peace and the innocents of the galaxy, and she was alerted to a dangerous threat from the Sith Emperor by his former servant Lord Scourge when a daring mission that she had authorized to capture the Emperor ended in disaster. Learning that the Emperor intended to extinguish all life in the galaxy, Shan helped the Jedi Knight known as the Hero of Tython foil the Emperor's plans and personally led an invasion fleet in an assault on the Imperial capital of Dromund Kaas while the Knight confronted and defeated the Emperor. As the renewed war continued to spread across the galaxy, Shan worked with her former flame, Malcom, in his capacity as Supreme Commander of the Republic Military, and the two achieved victory over the prototype Imperial warship Ascendant Spear at Duro thanks to the efforts of their son, Theron. Shan also forged a temporary truce with the Empire's Darth Marr in order to combat the threat of the Order of Revan, and the two led their combined forces in defeating the returned Revan on the moon Yavin 4. Shortly after the Revanite Crisis, she would lead the Republic in the campaign to capture the planet of Korriban from the Sith. It was there that she witnessed the capture of the planet by the Allied (namely those of the Imperium of Man) Forces and which she was briefly attacked by them, she then escaped to warn the Republic with the help of the Voidhound and the leader of Havoc Squard and of the smuggler Nico Okarr and a Republic trooper at the cost of Darach's life.
After the end of the First Multiverse War, Shan journeyed through the multiverse in search of answers to the dilemmas that plagued her. However, the darker path was what she treaded down as she was slowly consumed with fear and hate. She joined the Imperialist Alliance after she killed 260 Allied soldiers during the Coruscant Massacre in the Second Multiverse War and fell to the Dark Side as the Sith Lord Darth Raylen.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
The (Xilo) Great Galactic War[]
Fighting the Vititate's Sith Empire[]
Hero of the Republic[]
The (Xilo) Cold War[]
A tense treaty[]
Grand Master of the Order[]
Mysteries of Tython[]
Guiding the Order's heroes[]
Return to War[]
Against the Empire[]
Family ties[]
Revan returned[]
Imperium Invasions[]
During her time on Korriban, Satele held off a battalion of Sith troopers when a fleet of ships appeared over the skies. While at first relieved to be receiving reinforcements, Satele's relief turned to shock and horror as the ships were revealed to be those of the Imperium of Man. As several drop pods and landing ships made planet fall, several Chapters of Space Marines and regiments of the Imperial Guard marched on the sored ground.
Under the horrible wrath of the fanatical Imperium, Shan was, for the first time in her life, stricken with an unbearable amount of fear. Her feet began shaking, eyes wavering, gripping her lightsaber in fear.
Satele saw Sith infantry being gunned down by the hundreds with Lasgun fire, Dreadnoughts tearing apart Sith Walkers with Lighting Claws and Power Swords, and Space Marines cutting through enemy defenses like butter.
She was a Jedi that had fought against the Sith her whole life, facing down Darth Malgus and the Sith Emperor himself, and all kinds of danger that those in her order usually face and she did not show an ounce of fear. Yet when against these men of the Imperium that threw their lives in such fury and fantasism, Shan was utter petrified with fear.
Unknown to her, this would be the start of a war that would ravage her galaxy for the coming decades, although she, and many others, notice some particular is happen not just to her but every else across the galaxy as the horrific months turned into blood-soaked years.
An Offer They Can't Refuse[]
Two years into the war and with the Imperium ravaging the galaxy, fighting the Galactic Republic, the Sith Empire, the Hutt Cartel, and the newly discovered Eternal Empire of Zakuul simultaneously. Both fear and respect were given from all sides as the Imperium tore through world after world, even with the Jedi and Sith's combined efforts. However, contact was made by an enigmatic faction known as the Empire of the Combine Race.
The 'diplomats' of the Combines had offered to support the galaxy in defeating the Imperium. While initially very skeptical, the Republic agreed as the Imperium was closing in and all their efforts at stopping them had repeatedly failed.
The Long and Bloody Years[]
For all their suspicious behavior, the Combines kept true to their word as their forces began holding and pushing back the Imperium from utterly annihilating the Republic. That said, it was not like the forces sent by the Combines steamrolled over the Imperium, as many of the Jedi would note that any and all soldiers of the Imperium became ever more rabid and furious whenever they encountered Combine forces.
However, the alliance had given the factions various boons. One being the Combine Nanites, which has allowed Shan retained her youth and health even as the war stretched into many decades.
Even still, the Imperium were a foe not so easily smited.