Children of the Jedi

The children of the Jedi were a group of Jedi trainees and dozens of younglings that fled the Jedi Temple around the time of the Great Jedi Purge. The group included a male Human who played a mandolin; Margolis Mingla, a young girl who helped care for the children; the Ho'Din Brigantes Ustu; as well as Nichos Marr, Hoddas Umgil, the Ismaren siblings Lagan and Roganda and their parents. Of the dozens of children in the group, although most were Human, there were also Wookiees, Bith, a Twi'lek and an Ithorian.

The group found refuge with the Ho'Din Jedi Master Plett, who had lived an isolated life on Belsavis for seventy years was able to shelter the Jedi in his compound. However, the Galactic Empire discovered the location of the children and dispatched the dreadnaught Eye of Palpatine to destroy them. Callista Masana and Geith Eris, two Altisian Jedi who had been in contact with Plett, were able to board the dreadnaught while it was traveling through the Moonflower Nebula and disable it. When the dreadnaught failed to arrive, the Emperor dispatched a small strike force to attack. Plett and the Jedi were able to repel the fighters using Y-wings. Plett and the children subsequently fled Belsavis and separated.

Of the scattered Jedi refugees, the siblings Lagan and Roganda Ismaren were captured by Inquisitor Ameesa Darys. She killed Lagan and subverted Roganda to the dark side. She became one of the Emperor's Hands. Another of the Jedi children, Nichos Marr, later trained as a Jedi at the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 for a short time before succumbing to the fatal Quannot's Syndrome. Among the other survivors of the Jedi children, knowledge of Plett's Well was suppressed, although its existence was known of by the House of Organa.

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