#icarus...oh icarus

Now to be completely honest, I don't think Icarus even knows why he was on Balmorra. I think they sent him as a young Padawan with his first Master--Master Kriti--mostly because of the war. Why exactly they would allow a Junior Padawan for the first three years of his training to be in an active warzone...I don't know.

But Icarus made friends with some of the military personnel around him...until the Sacking happened. I think once the Treaty of Coruscant went into place, everything started to get really tense for Icarus. Obviously he was just a kid, but with the Jedi being blamed for the Republic losing the war and the continued conflict planetside...

Icarus won't tell me is later unable to fully remember what occurred leading up to the scrap, but a couple of drunk young soldiers got pretty angry about how the war had gone and went to attack Icarus. With the trained reflexes of a child at war and simply self-preservation, Icarus managed to engage them in a fight before they could actually kill him; one of them managed to hit Icarus hard enough in the eye to damage it and blind him, at which point it was a wild scramble for his lightsaber and resulted in the death of the soldiers.