Luke Skywalker's Stormtrooper Apprentice Finally United the Jedi & Empire
The first Stormtrooper to become a Jedi in the Star Wars franchise later found a way for Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Order to work alongside the remnants of Palpatine's Empire. Kyle Katarn is one of the best-known characters from the Star Wars Expanded Universe before it was rebranded as Star Wars Legends. Katarn’s story, which is largely told through the Jedi Knight video games, appears in the Star Wars Tales comics, where his Stormtrooper past and Jedi Knight present come full circle during the Yuuzhan Vong War.
A native of the Sullustan moon Sulon, Kyle Katarn ended his service in the Imperial Stormtrooper Corps and became a Rebel spy upon learning that the Galactic Empire razed his home and murdered his father for being a Rebel sympathizer. In Legends, a series of missions resulted in the Death Star plans being stolen, and one such mission was completed by Kyle Katarn and fellow Rebel spy Jan Ors. After Return of the Jedi, Katarn notably discovered that he had a strong connection to the Force, and he eventually became a prominent Jedi Knight in Luke Skywalker’s New Jedi Order.
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A story in issue 21 of Star Wars Tales, «Equals & Opposites,» by Nathan Butler and James Raiz, depicts the Battle of Ord Sedra, in which New Republic and Imperial Remnant forces fight against the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong and their allies, the ironically-named Peace Brigade. When Imperial Stormtroopers appear and surround Katarn early on in the conflict, a Peace Brigade member assumes that they’ll attack the Jedi Knight, only for Katarn to say, «Actually, they’re with me.» The Imperial Remnant and the New Republic had signed a peace treaty, the Pellaeon-Gavrisom Treaty,
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