Imri Cantaros

Imri Cantaros was a Genetian human male Jedi Knight of the Jedi Order during the time of the High Republic born around 246 BBY. Spending time on both Genetia and Hynestia in his youth, Imri was later apprenticed to Jedi Master Douglas Sunvale, and was at one point stationed aboard the transport ship Steady Wing alongside Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh. When the ship was sabotaged by the Nihil marauders Gwishi and Klinith Da, Cantaros and several other individuals, Honesty Weft, Avon Starros, and J-6, escaped in a shuttle as the ship exploded. Master Sunvale was killed in the destruction of the ship, and Cantaros and the others eventually became stranded on the jungle moon Wevo.

During his time on Wevo, he began to develop strong feelings of anger towards the pirates responsible for his master's death and eventually let those feelings boil over when he saw that the pirates were also stranded on the moon with them. He went rogue, disobeying Vernestra's orders to plan a strategy to subdue their enemies. He and Weft were captured by the pirates after their ambush failed, and Vernestra eventually rescued them. However, when Vernestra was in peril, Cantaros intervened, using a Force choke on Da. Vernestra cautioned him about using the Dark side of the Force, but Cantaros was desperate for revenge, even dueling Vernestra for a short time before he calmed down and realized the error of his ways.

By the time they were rescued by the Trandoshan Jedi Master Sskeer, Cantaros was disappointed in himself for his lack of composure and feared that he would be expelled from the Jedi Order. However, at the dedication of the new Starlight Beacon, Vernestra revealed that she would be taking over as his master and promised to help him grow in the ways of the Force. Cantaros was overjoyed and even cried with happiness, promising that he would not let her down and his new master echoing her confidence in him.

Sometime after the skirmish on Wevo, Cantaros and his master, on the request of Master Avar Kriss, performed an autopsy aboard the Starlight Beacon on the corpse of a Hutt trader that had been killed by Nihil raiders while attempting to transport Vratixian barley aboard their starship.

Cantaros was present on Starlight Beacon during its destruction and assumed deceased by Rwoh. However, he in fact survived and ended up on the planet Aricho in the Occlusion Zone, where he fought against the Nihil occupation along with J-6. Rwoh eventually found him and helped him capture Kara Xoo. Rwoh knighted Cantaros, and he decided to stay in the Occlusion Zone to continue helping people there.

After the Nihil conflict, Cantaros became a prominent Jedi philosopher, writing a number of treatises that Jedi Knight Indara read. Eventually, Cantaros died.

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