Jai Kell

Jai Kell was a human male politician who represented his homeworld, Lothal, in the New Republic Senate. In his youth, he was a cadet at the Academy for Young Imperials on Lothal fifteen years after the rise of the Galactic Empire, thought to be Force-sensitive by Commandant Cumberlayne Aresko and Taskmaster Myles Grint. He was known to have a mother, who also lived on Lothal. During his time at the Imperial Academy, he was a member of Unit Aurek which was part of squad LRC-077. Kell had an amicable relationship with Zare Leonis and Pandak Symes but did not get along with Nazhros Oleg.

Later, Unit Aurek was joined by Dev Morgan, who was actually the Force-sensitive rebel and Jedi-in-training Ezra Bridger. Bridger was on a mission to steal a decoder from Imperial Headquarters which contained the location of a kyber crystal shipment. Kell and Morgan attracted the attention of the Grand Inquisitor, who ran a secret program known as Project Harvester which identified Force-sensitive individuals. After Bridger learned that the Inquisitor was coming, he and Leonis persuaded a reluctant Kell to escape the Imperial Academy. The Spectres then arranged for Kell and his mother to go into hiding.

Four years later, Jai, now a member of Ryder Azadi's Lothal resistance group, encountered the Spectres once again. They had been sent to Lothal by Rebel Alliance leader Mon Mothma in response to a message from Ryder about a new TIE Defender the Empire was developing on the planet. Jai helped Bridger and Sabine Wren avoid detection and arrest, and later helped the Spectres escape the occupied Jhothal through its sewer system. He later helped recover the hyperdrive of the stolen TIE/D Defender Elite prototype, and assisted in destroying the air defenses placed to defend the Imperial Armory Complex.

By 9 ABY, Kell became a senator of the New Republic Senate. He later presented the mural of the Spectres to the Lothalite public in Capital City, along with Governor Azadi.

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