#praven

Been a while, huh? Well, I've been working on my own headcanon for the crew members of my take on the Jedi Knight storyline, since there a few that don't fit what I have in mind, and one that I straight up do not like. So, I decided to give the rundown of my take on the Jedi Knight Crew.

T7-01

I don't have any major changes for him compared to canon. I mean, you can't really improve upon perfection. He was Artek's first companion and one that continues to follow him all the way to hell and back.

Kira Carsen

Just like with T7, Kira hasn't changed much either. My only major difference is that she and Artek have known each other for a bit longer and that she is never referred to as his Padawan. They initially flirted with another at first but never progressed beyond being friends with benefits, and any potential romance as a whole ended between Chapters 1 and 2. That being said, they're still really close to one another, kinda like bonded cats lol

Brayla Kirumo

Brayla is Artek's (actual) Padawan, roughly taking Doc's place on the team. He met her on Balmorra when she was still just a Resistance Scout when he ended up discovering her force potential. Warren Sedoru encouraged Artek to take her in as his Padawan and she's been by his side ever since. She's a scrappy, impulsive spitfire...which makes her the perfect match for a Jedi like Artek.

(credit to @dingoat for the art above. I love it!)

'Watcher One'

Watcher One roughly takes the place of Sergeant Rusk on the crew (Rusk and Doc are still characters, they just don't join Artek on his travels). Artek spared his life back on Taris, giving him the opportunity to disappear into a new life. However, with the outbreak of the war, he's now joined the young knight's side as the crew's medic and scientist. I do plan giving him a new alias like he mentions in his message, I just dunno what yet.

Praven

Praven roughly takes the place of Lord Scourge in my narrative (not sure what to do with Scourge exactly just yet, he's kinda in limbo rn). After Artek convinced him to defect to the Jedi Order, he ended up under the mentorship of Master Kiwiiks of all people (who he apologized profusely to, of course). He was eventually knighted and, in an ironic twist of fate, ended up returning the favor to Artek by freeing the latter from the Emperor's control. This led to the both of them becoming very good friends and perhaps something more...

Masterlist

As one of the many Sith Lords to participate in the Sacking of Coruscant, Praven established himself as a powerful Sith and force-user. He was deeply trusted by his master, Darth Angral, taking on Angral's son, Tarnis, as his apprentice and guiding him to the rank of Sith Lord himself during the Great Galactic War.

Angral's plan during the Cold War was to reignite the war by taking control of various Galactic Republic superweapons, deploying them against strategic targets. Praven was dispatched to secure another superweapon on Tatooine, and to use it to lure Tarnis' killer into a trap to kill her. Angral's dishonourable methods, however, forced Praven to disobey his orders and challenge the future Hero to a duel which, to his surprise, she won. After securing the superweapon and it's deactivation codes, Praven is spared by the Jedi and left to hand himself over to Republic custody, with the intention of joining the Jedi Order.

Accepted by the order, he trains as a Jedi Padawan and, when the Galactic War breaks out, is one of the first waves of reinforcments to be dispatched to Corellia under the Hero's command. Taking a joint leadership role under the Hero, alongside Jedi Knights Unaw Aharo and Bengel Morr, the three execute the Hero's plan and support her in her efforts to stop former Jedi Master Tol Braga from destroying his own ship to murder thousands of civilians.

Lol it’s kinda funny how the Jedi Knight can just collect Imperials / Imperial aligned npcs like pokemon

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Edit: and as @swtorpadawan pointed out, this doesn’t even take into account temporary enemies like Bengel Morr (not Imp aligned but an enemy), Galen, Warren Sedoru, Leeha Narezz and Tol Braga.

Ah. Sadly this one doesn’t exactly have a happy ending.

Master Tol Braga, the Jedi who never knew failure…until he met the Emperor who corrupted his mind.

He says he broke free from Vitates control, that his eyes were simply opened. The Galaxy wasn’t worthy saving, it never was.

Whether those were truly his own thought or just Vitiate controlling him, I’m afraid no one will know for certain.

Once Arono defeated him he saw the Dark Sides hold over Master Braga was too strong and decided to put him out of his misery.

You see, Arono Maxir is a good man. He’s someone wanting to do the right and willing to give people a chance to redeem themselves, like with a Bengel Morr, Watcher One and Lord Praven.

But after escaping Vitates thrall, something that left him heavily scarred both mentally and physically, and given pretty much no time to rest before being sent back to the front lines he was…different.

He still tries to do the right thing but after why he’s been through he’s…going to make some lapses in judgment.

Killing Master Braga was unfortunately one of them.

(This may seem like a flimsy excuse but this was just to keep with the canon of Braga being dead mentioned in the Agent storyline, which as I’ve said before I have a reason for doing this)

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I have, indeed, spoken about Praven before! @isi7140 asked about him once, and I referred them to this little gem. Needless to say, he's doing alright.

He's definitely one of my favorites from the Jedi Knight story!

Regarding Watcher Three… I have more bad news.

So after the dissolution of Imperial Intelligence, the former Minister setup (the former) Watcher Three with a new identity, and he takes a nice little data analyst job, making decent money and otherwise keeping a low profile. Generally not harming anyone.

And nobody bothered him because no one knew who he was! The Minister had done a good job helping him hide.

Then, years later, some months after KOTET, several former members of Imperial Intelligence are suddenly murdered in the space of a week.

Watcher Three is one of them.

True story - I have a WIP that opens with Gahraath (Cipher Nine) and Kaliyo standing over Watcher Three's corpse, trying to find out what happened on behalf of the Alliance.

They know the Minister and others have been killed. They know they are almost certainly on the 'kill list' themselves.

Who could be responsible? Who could have been clever enough to find the former Intelligence personnel?

(Dun-dun-DUUUUUN!)

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So when I got my Jedi Knight to Corellia, the only thing I could think of when we ran into Praven was how delightful it was that Scourge instantly went into snarly antagonistic defensive mode because very clearly jealous.