Arca Jeth was an Arkanian male who was a Twi’lek Tott Doneeta in the ways of the Force. He was also one of the first known Jedi to use the ability of battle meditation. i584z
In 4,050 BBY Master Jeth was part of a Jedi/Republic task force which was sent to the Hapes Cluster to eliminate the threat of the Lorell Raiders, who had been preying on Republic shipping lanes for decades. Following the defeat of the Lorell Raiders, Jeth took part in the Hyabb-Twith Campaign and helped drive the Nelori Marauders from the Hyabb-Twith Corridor. He served the war droid. In the arms of his most gifted student, Ulic Qel-Droma, Arca Jeth became one with the Force.
Interestingly, Arca’s surname was never mentioned in the Tales of the Jedi comic-book series, and was only provided the last name of Jeth with the release of the Tales of the Jedi Companion from West End Games.
On page nineteen of the Tales of the Jedi Companion it is stated that “two dozen Jedi warriors” were initially dispatched to deal with the Nelori threat. However, at the end of the same paragraph it is written that “Only five of the twelve Jedi survived the encounter”. It should have stated that only five of the original twenty-four Jedi managed to survive.
In the comic issue Old Republic comic series, has confirmed that the this misspelling will be corrected in trade paperback collection which will contain issue 33.
Biography
One of the earliest known missions of Arca Jeth’s involved the Lorell Raiders who were a group of pirates that colonized the Hapes Cluster some time before 4,000 BBY The Raiders eventually learned a number of safe routes through the Transitory Mists from which they could Republic forces spelled their end; the women of the Hapes Cluster, who were now freed from the servitude of the Raiders, instituted a female dominated society and placed all power in a single monarch, the Queen Mother.
Rise of the Nelori Marauders
Arca Jeth first earned his reputation as an expert lightsaber master during the Hyabb-Twith Campaign, which constituted a series of skirmishes between the worlds deeper and deeper into the Core. Jeth, along with a number of other Jedi, began to take notice of the Nelori Marauders’ aggressive activities, and as the number of dead Republic citizens began to climb, the Jedi called a meeting at the library world of Ossus. The Jedi decided that it was time to stop the aggression of the Marauders, and thus dispatched a task force to deal with the problem.
Immediately, two-dozen Jedi were sent from Ossus and they managed to encounter, and pursue, several Nelori starships back through the Hyabb-Twith Corridor. The Jedi tracked the Nelori back to their main base on the planet Voon, and coordinated an attack on the headquarters. The Jedi managed to severely damage a large majority of the Marauders base, and kill most of the Marauders stationed there. However, the besieged Nelori managed to send out a distress call to other Marauder bases in the vicinity, and before long reinforcements arrived and launched a vicious counter-assault against the Jedi. Of the original twenty-four Jedi dispatched to the Hyabb-Twith Corridor, only five managed to survive the counter-attack and call for their own reinforcements.
Within the next forty-eight gathered their remaining forces from throughout the Corridor and established a stronghold on Voon. Together, the Jedi launched an all-out attack against the gathered might of the Nelori Marauders.
However, upon arriving at the Nelori stronghold the Jedi stormed in and began searching—only to find it deserted. There were no Marauders, no shared living spaces, no half-eaten plates of food—nothing. The Jedi wondered among themselves where the enemy was and how they could have escaped the planet without the Jedi knowing. At that moment, however, Arca Jeth gained a moment of insight into the situation. He stretched out his Force awareness and felt below the Nelori stronghold, deep into the subterranean caverns that pocketed Voon’s crust. There, Arca felt—something—a mass of life that was so tangled and entwined that he realized that he had never felt anything like it in the Force before. Arca warned his fellow Jedi and together they cautiously began moving downward, below Voon’s surface.
The Jedi followed Arca down through the stronghold and into its lower-levels, eventually coming to a crudely cut, sloped corridor which led to a cavernous antechamber. Arca led the other Jedi warily down through the ageway and into the awaiting chamber. Once there, Arca again reached out with the The Jedi Knights managed to quickly end the fight and force the remaining Nelori to retreat, thus erasing their threat from the Hyabb-Twith Corridor and ultimately the Core.
Revolt on Coruscant
The year 4,015 BBY witnessed an event on Coruscant that brought Arca Jeth to the forefront of the planets attention: the Great Droid Revolution.
he Droid Revolution began with the assassin droid HK-01, which was a prototype for a new Hunter-Killer series of droids planned for production by the Czerka Corporation. For several weeks HK-01 led the droids of Coruscant in a violent uprising against their sentient masters.
Ironically, the Republic’s greatest challenge during the revolt was while fighting their own security droids and Juggernaut Coruscant.
The threat eventually came to an end when the Jedi destroyed the leader of the droid rebellion, HK-01.
Return to Arkania
During this time the Masters of the Jedi Order feared the return of the Dark Lords of the Sith, and sent out Jedi to various sites throughout the galaxy that were once focal points for the dark side—Arca Jeth was sent to his homeworld of Arkania, which was once an ancient Sith repository of knowledge.
Upon arriving on his homeworld, Arca established a Jedi praxeum in the wilderness, far from the diamond mines that now pocketed the planet. There he trained many apprentices, sometimes up to as many as twenty students at a time. Arca trained his apprentices in the arts of meditating, Dark side of the Force.
While his students trained, Arca continued surveying the planet and searching for any presence, no matter how small, of the dark side.
In the years prior to the Great Sith War, Arca took three apprentices to train—the brothers Ulic and Tott Doneeta, all of whom would go on to play key parts in various aspects of galactic matters.
Watchman of Onderon
In the years following the Great Droid Revolution, Arca Jeth continued to serve Queen Amanoa was situated within the fortress city of Iziz; and outside of the city were the outcasts of Iziz, known as the Beast Riders, who had learned to survive in the wilderness of Onderon. Now that Onderon was a member state of the Republic, it was up to the Jedi, and more specifically Master Arca Jeth, to help settle the ongoing dispute which had lasted for centuries.
However, after Arca had explained the history of the conflict on Onderon to his three apprentices (Ulic and Cay Qel-Droma, and Tott Doneeta), he told them that he was not going to Onderon to oversee the dispute. Instead, he was sending the three of them to help end the ongoing conflict between the two societies.
The three apprentices arrived at the walled city of Iziz, and quickly found themselves embroiled in the conflict between the forces of Queen Amanoa and the Beast Riders. The situation on Onderon soon deteriorated under the guidance of the Sith Lord’s spirit and forced it to abandon its hold over Amanoa, thus breaking Nadd’s control over Onderon’s rulers.
The Naddist Revolt
Even though Arca had managed to break Freedon Nadd’s hold over Queen Amanoa, Nadd’s remains were still causing a dark shadow to imbue the city. To quell this feeling, Arca and his apprentices planned to transport the sarcophagus of the Sith Lord away from Onderon to its primary moon Dxun, where an enormous tomb would hold the remains.
During a procession for the remains of Nadd and Amanoa, a dark side apprentice by the name of the Jedi, the Naddists managed to steal the sarcophagi of Freedon Nadd and Queen Amanoa, and then retreated back to their underground dwellings.
After Warb Null had retreated from the skirmish, Ulic and the other Jedi rushed to Arca Jeth`s aid. The attack, mixed with the Freedon Nadd appeared, Ommin lashed out at Master Arca and disabled him with a surge of dark side energy. Galia, who was surprised and horrified at her father’s transformation, stayed with Ulic while he tried to fight his way through Ommin’s guards to rescue his fallen master. However, Warb Null appeared and managed to hold Ulic at bay while Ommin escaped with the unconscious body of Arca Jeth. Ulic managed to defeat Null, killing him the process, but was unable to reach Arca in time to rescue him.
With the capture of Arca Jeth, Ommin planned to torture Arca to the brink of death, where Ommin believed that Arca would be forced to call upon the fallen Jedi as a dark side spirit. To this end, Freedon Nadd assisted Ommin in his torture of Arca Jeth.
Meanwhile, Ulic sent a request to Ossus for further Nomi Sunrider, Dace Diath, Shoaneb Culu, Kith Kark, and Qrrrl Toq. The Jedi reinforcements arrived on Onderon and immediately fought their way to where Ulic and his remaining Jedi were. Together, they stormed the stronghold where Arca Jeth was being held and managed to fight through Ommin’s guards. The combined might of the Jedi forced Freedon Nadd to withdraw his spirit’s from Ommin, and thus Ulic was able to charge forward and kill the old man and rescue Arca.
Following the defeat of King Ommin, Arca Jeth supervised the internment of Freedon Nadd’s remains in a tomb on Dxun.
Conclave of Deneba
Following the Freedon Nadd Uprising, a pair of aristocrats from the Empress Teta system seized power in a bloody coup and named themselves the Krath, after a fearsome childhood legend. These two usurpers were Satal Keto and his cousin Aleema, and both were proficient in the use of Sith sorcery taught to them by the late King Ommin of Onderon.
Due to his firsthand experiences fighting pushing back the droids, and Master Arca once again demonstrated his mastery of Droid Disable against the invading horde.
The Jedi defended each other furiously, but the battle had a tragic end—Master Arca was struck down by a Krath war droid even as he saved Ulic Qel-Droma‘s life and died in the arms of his student.
Legacy
Following Master Arca’s death on Deneba, Ulic Qel-Droma was overcome with grief and blamed himself for the death of his master. As a result, Ulic went ahead with his plan to infiltrate the Krath believing that his desire to avenge Arca’s death justified the action—Ulic would eventually fulfill his destiny of becoming a Dark Lord of the Sith.
Following the Great Sith War, Cay Qel-Droma.
These incidents, combined with Nomi Sunrider’s stripping him of the Force, led Ulic into a self-imposed exile on the tundra planet of Rhen Var. While there, Ulic entered a state of depression where he constantly reflected on the life he lived, the love he lost, and the mistakes he had made. It was during one of these moments of reflection that he began to contemplate his own death and he wandered out into the snowy wastes of Rhen Var. It was then that he experienced a vision of his long-dead master, Arca Jeth. Ulic argued with Arca about what he had left to live for since he could no longer feel the Force. Arca, after asking if Ulic was a coward, reminded Ulic that he was still in possession of what he had always had—his inner strength, and natural lightsaber skill. Upon hearing this Ulic reflected on the fact that he owed Master Arca so much, and for that Ulic vowed he would live.
Unfortunately, another of Arca’s apprentices, the un-knighted Padawan Haazen, would also take the dark path just as Ulic Qel-Droma had done. Using a secret Jedi Covenant to create a rift in Sith artifacts in a plot to elevate his own power over not only the Jedi, but the Republic as well.
