"Young Jedi Knights: Jedi Sunrise" Quiz

Answer: Jacen Solo

Tenel Ka felt that the warrior was more important than the weapon, so she put off and then rushed the construction of her lightsaber. There was a flaw that was not exposed until it was put under stress during training.

Jacen and Tenel Ka were being written to become a teenage romance. It was during their sparring that the tragic accident happened. In works that took place later in the Expanded Universe, the two became a secret couple and had a daughter, Allana.

Answer: Brakiss, the leader of the academy, gave it to Zekk

The Shadow Academy mass produced lightabers for their students, which were given freely. Zekk, as Brakiss' prize student, was put in a zero-gravity lightsaber fight to the death with Vilas, the prize student of Tamith Kai.

Answer: The Hapes Cluster

Tenel Ka was royalty of two systems, but she kept her Hapan ancestry from her friends. The Hapes cluster was wealthy and had excellent medical technology, but also had a reputation of hedonism and scheming. Tenel Ka was whisked away on a Hapan shuttle in the middle of the night. Jaina was able to identify the make of the shuttle as it lifted away.

Answer: Tenel Ka refused to accept it

The replacement arm was being pushed on Tenel Ka, with the doctors and her grandmother ignoring her reservations. While she acknowledged that Master Luke's artificial hand did not make him lesser, he had chosen to have it. Tenel Ka hadn't. She rejected the new arm as her first assertive act since the accident. Tenel Ka would never get a new arm in later Expanded Universe works.

Answer: Ambassador Yfra of Hapes

Ambassador Yfra was Ta'a Chume's (Tenel Ka's grandmother) right-hand woman. Yfra was the one who frequently communicated with Tenel Ka, and was the one who picked her up from the Academy. With Tenel Ka's parents away, Yfra hatched a plot to kill both Tenel Ka and Ta'a Chume (looking like accidents or using unaffiliated assassins), and assume power for herself.

Answer: Recovering fibres from a siren plant

The siren plant was a carnivorous flower that could consume whole Wookiees. Lowbacca had made a belt from the fibres he had recovered during his rite, which was both useful and a mark of his passing.

Kashyyyk has been depicted in many media, with slight variations. In the video game "The Knights of the Old Republic", the player went to the forest floor (the Shadowlands) to kill a terentatek (a scary creature like a rancor).

Answer: They flew into an ion storm without shields

A rodent had taken up residence in the ship and made a nest for itself. Jacen found the rodent and noticed it had chewed through some wires just before the ship was pulled out of hyperspace. It turned out the wires were important for keeping the shields up, which would have let them pass through an ion storm safely. Jaina, Lowbacca, and Chewbacca were able to get the ship to Kashyyyk in one piece, but it needed repairs. Jacen named his new pet Ion.

Answer: Because Lowbacca had done the same thing

A Wookiee was allowed to bring companions to a rite. Usually they would hold the siren plant's strong petals open while the rite-taker recovered the fibres. Lowbacca, going for personal prestige, performed his rite successfully on his own. Raaba, who had been planning to perform the rite with her friend, went off on her own to emulate Lowbacca. There may have been romantic feelings, and a desire to prove herself to Lowbacca in particular. Raaba did not return from her rite.

Lowbacca was back on Kashyyyk to support his sister during her rite. She would accept his help, but had complicated feelings towards her brother for being indirectly responsible for her friend's death.

Answer: No

Garowyn was the original pilot of the Shadow Chaser until the Jedi stole it in the second book, "Shadow Academy". She found the Shadow Chaser on Kashyyyk and got aboard. Unfortunately, the repairs from the ion storm were not finished, so she couldn't fly it away. Jaina and Lowbacca confronted her, and she almost got away, but fell into the underworld.

Answer: The underworld

Kashyyk was a planet covered in forests of massive wroshy trees. Wookiees lived in cities built in the top branches. Light did not penetrate very far down, and the deeper one went, the more hostile the flora and fauna became.

Wookiees only went into the underworld for their rites of passage, or when it was necessary. The Jedi and Wookiees led their attackers on a chase into the underworld, which turned out to be much more dangerous for the ill-prepared Imperium forces. While in the underworld, Sirrakuk managed to dispose of a dark Jedi using a siren plant, passing her own rite at the same time.

Answer: Qorl shot down Norys

Qorl tried to train the former youth gang leader as a stormtrooper, and later as a pilot. Norys was bloodthirsty and never learned control (often causing lots of collateral damage in training), nor respect, nor discipline.

During the battle at the Jedi Academy, Norys pursued the damaged Lightning Rod, despite orders to turn away and focus on more important targets. Jacen Solo, the young man who had helped Qorl escape Yavin IV, was on the Lightning Rod. Qorl shot down his own disobedient student to save Jacen.

Answer: Qorl was stranded again on Yavin IV

Qorl was a TIE Fighter pilot from the Battle of Yavin (seen in the first movie, "A New Hope"). He was stranded on Yavin IV for twenty years, until the young Jedi stumbled across him, and he was able to use their ship to escape. Qorl joined the Second Imperium, but was unimpressed.

During the battle at the Jedi Academy he could not bring himself to surrender, but neither could he continue to serve the Imperium. He flew on what he thought was a suicide run, but he was just shot down and crashed back on the moon. The crash destroyed the droid arm he'd been given by the Second Imperium. Qorl ended the story where he began: alone in the jungles of Yavin IV, except this time he was at peace.

Answer: Palpatine wasn't real

Emperor Palpatine arrived at the Shadow Academy in the previous book, "Darkest Knight." He still only communicated through transmissions, and dismissed his own welcoming party when he arrived; Brakiss only ever saw the Emperor's four red-clad guards.

It turned out that the four guards were running a simulacrum of the Emperor to control the remaining loyal forces.

Answer: Brakiss was on the Shadow Academy when it self-destructed

Brakiss, being a powerful dark Jedi, had had enough with the guards, and demanded an audience with the resurrected Emperor, only to find out he didn't exist. Three of the four guards didn't survive the encounter, but one got away on the Emperor's shuttle, and had the self-destruct codes for the Shadow Academy (the ones used to keep the Academy in line). Brakiss went down (or up, in this case) with his academy.

Answer: To prevent Jaina from getting close to the bombs in the temple

Part of the plan during the battle was to destroy the Jedi Academy. An Imperium special forces soldier snuck into the Academy during the battle and planted charges at key locations (he never got out because Jacen's crystal snake had escaped and bit him with its anesthetizing bite).

Zekk knew about the explosives, but didn't have time to convince everyone to stay out of the Academy, so he instead stood his ground to prevent entry until the explosives went off (which knocked him out). The building survived, but the students' focus for the next many months would be repairing it.

Zekk left with his old father figure, Peckumhum, to travel the galaxy and get away from anything Force related for a while. He would become a Jedi in later Expanded Universe works.