Jelph Marrian

Jelph Marrian was a Human male Jedi Knight who served in the Jedi Covenant as a Covenant Shadow, an agent whose records of existence had been erased and was notably familiar with the planet Taris. He developed a strong aversion toward the Sith due to his childhood experiences during the Great Sith War, which devastated his homeworld of Toprawa. Due to his strong antipathy toward the Sith, Jelph joined the Jedi Covenant, a secret sect within the Jedi Order that was dedicated to preventing the return of the Sith. Following the dissolution of the Covenant in 3963 BBY, Jelph fled into Wild Space and became stranded on the planet Kesh, a remote world that was ruled by a Sith tribe.

To avoid detection, Marrian adopted a new persona of a slave and became a horticulturalist on an isolate farm on the banks of the Marisota River. In secret, he worked on repairing his damaged Aurek-class tactical strikefighter so that he could return to the wider galaxy and alert the Jedi and the Galactic Republic to the presence of the Tribe. Through his work, Jelph developed a good reputation for producing high-quality fertilizers and eventually befriended Orielle Kitai, a Sith Saber and the aristocratic daughter of High Lord Candra Kitai. In 3960 BBY, Orielle and her mother were wrongly accused and punished for a failed assassination attempt against the ruling Grand Lord Lillia Venn. As punishment, the Kitais were reduced to the status of slaves.

Orielle sought refuge and solace with Jelph, who provided with shelter and lodging. During this time, Orielle accidentally discovered his "secret starfighter" while he was out hunting for wildlife. Seeing Jelph's starfighter as an opportunity to restore her family's fortunes and status, she traveled to the Tribe's capital of Tahv where she informed her mother and the architect Gadin Badolfa, who had close ties to a few rival High Lords who were opposed to Grand Lord Venn. Upon learning that Orielle had uncovered his secret, Jelph followed her to Tahv and confronted her at the city's waterworks. Following a brief scuffle in which Jelph gained the upper hand, he admitted his Jedi background to Orielle and managed to convince her to abandon her Sith ambitions for power and domination. Marrian also expressed his feelings for Orielle which she reciprocated.

After Orielle acknowledged that she had informed the Tribe of Marrian's secret, the two returned to Marrian's farm on an uvak, a winged reptilian beast native to Kesh. However, they were pursued by the Grand Lord Lillia Venn and her followers. They managed to reach the farm where Jelph managed to slip away while Orielle confronted the newcomers in an attempt to make them leave by claiming her secret had been four blasters, a technology unknown to the Tribe. Despite her efforts, Venn and her followers were able to locate Jelph's starfighter. However, Jelph had prepared for the event that his secret starfighter was discovered and attacked Venn's entourage with the blasters. After killing several Sith, he and Orielle managed to escape into the Marisota river. Meanwhile, Venn was killed when the starfighter exploded since Jelph had rigged it with explosives in the event it was stolen.

Following the "Night of the Upside-Down Meteor," Jelph and Orielle hid in the jungle highlands of Keshtah Minor, the continent that was the Tribe's domain. The couple also severed their ties with the Jedi and Sith respectively. Jelph came to that decision after intercepting transmissions which showed that the Jedi Order had descended into a civil war. As a symbolic gesture of severing his former ties, Marrian destroyed his transmitter, the last remaining relic of his offworld origins, with the help of Orielle. They then built a home deep in the jungles of Keshtah and produced three children.

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