Echuu Shen-Jon
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| Star Wars character | |
| Echuu Shen-Jon | |
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| Position | Jedi Master, General |
| Homeworld | Unknown |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Height | Unknown |
| Affiliation | Jedi, Galactic Republic |
| Portrayed by | N/A |
In the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Echuu Shen-Jon was a powerful Jedi Master who was trained by Mace Windu.
[edit] The Clone Wars
Echuu Shen-Jon and his padawan, Stam Reath, were two of the many Jedi who were sent to Geonosis to rescue Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Echuu survived the battle, but his padawan was killed by Sev'Rance Tann, one of Count Dooku's generals. The Jedi Council assigned Echuu Shen-Jon a new apprentice, Naat Reath, Stam Reath's sister. They were given orders to reclaim the world of Sarapin from the Confederacy of Independent Systems' control.
They then tracked Sev'Rance Tann to the remote world of Krant, where she was overseeing the construction of a weapon stolen from the Old Republic known as the Decimator. After destroying the Decimator facilities, Sev'Rance Tann captured Naat Reath, and held her prisoner in a Confederacy base. Echuu Shen-Jon, consumed by the dark side, went to rescue his padawan and killed Sev'Rance Tann. Realising what he had done, Echuu Shen-Jon stayed on Krant to stop himself from being fully corrupted by the dark side. It was likely that he too was a practitioner of the seventh form of lightsaber combat Vaapad, and that he had learned this from his former master Mace Windu. This could explain how he fell to the Dark Side for a short time. It is likely that during his days of self-imposed exile he went back to mastering a less dangerous form of lightsaber combat, most likely Form III, Soresu, or Form V, Shien / Djem So.
[edit] The Dark Times
Several years later, during the Galactic Civil War, Princess Leia's ship, The Cretacian, crashed on Krant. Princess Leia and her honor guard were confronted by Echuu Shen-Jon, who helped them liberate the planet so they could meet with Bothan Spies on the island of Le'Roche. With information from the Bothans, Echuu went with Leia to the asteroid of Geddes. Echuu and the Rebels, with the help of a small army of Wookiees led by Chewbacca's father, Attichitcuk, infiltrated an Imperial base to recover an ancient Jedi artifact. Just as the Rebels reached their transports, they were intercepted by Darth Vader. Fearing what the Empire would do if they obtained the artifact, Echuu destroyed the relic and confronted Vader in a duel to buy the transports some time to take off. Echuu fought with courage and honor, making his last stand as a Jedi Master before being decapitated by the Dark Lord of the Sith.
His spirit would later contact Leia to return to Geddes, now Hanoon, to retrieve the shards of the artifact with Luke Skywalker.
He has not been seen or heard from since.
