Even Piell

Even Piell, a Force-sensitive Lannik male, was a Jedi Master who served as a senior member of the Jedi High Council in the final decades of the Galactic Republic Era. A native of the politically unstable planet Lannik, the battle-hardened Piell was regarded as brusque and bellicose and was renowned as a warrior and swordsman. Despite his small stature and gruffness, Piell was a larger-than-life and empathetic figure, traits he gained in part by revisiting his troubled homeworld, during which he lost his eye to terrorists. Piell believed that all beings were his kin and that it was his duty as a Jedi to help anyone in need. Inspired by the Lannik people, Piell was one of the Jedi's major advocates for younger generations and those at risk and considered himself far more in tune with common people and the Living Force than his peers.

Prior to the Clone Wars, Piell served as a Councillor during the Defense of Kwenn, during which he led a project that restarted funding for the local school system, and later served during the Invasion of Naboo and the Separatist Crisis, which resulted in the outbreak of the Clone Wars between the Republic and its splinter state, the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Piell was among the Jedi involved in the First Battle of Geonosis, after which he was given the formal rank of Jedi General within the newly-commissioned Republic Military. A reliable asset to the Jedi, Piell carried out many of the Clone Wars' most sensitive missions and was attributed with protecting Republic territories and information alongside Captain Wilhuff Tarkin. As the war carried on, Piell and Tarkin discovered the coordinates for the Nexus Route, information that could prove disastrous in Separatist hands because of the route's direct connection to the Republic capital planet Coruscant.

As the custodians of the Nexus Route coordinates, Piell and Tarkin's fleet group was targeted by Separatist forces, and while under attack they purged the data from their Star Destroyer and each memorized half of the coordinates as a safeguard in case either broke under interrogation. Upon his capture, Piell, Tarkin, and what remained of their crew were taken to the Separatists's maximum-security Citadel prison complex on Lola Sayu. The Republic launched a covert rescue operation led by the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Ahsoka Tano, who managed to free Piell and Tarkin but were trapped on the planet's surface by prison warden Osi Sobeck's forces. While fleeing the Citadel to reach a designated rendezvous point with a Republic extraction team, the group was hunted by a pack of anoobas dispatched by Sobeck, and Piell was fatally mauled by one of the creatures. Piell revealed his half of the Nexus Route coordinates to Tano before dying from his injuries.

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