Appearance

Special abilities

Powers and abilities

Shan destroys a blast door with the Force.
"She does have the gift, Master Zym, just like Bastila did. I'm sure of it."
―Dar'Nala, regarding Shan's lineage[2]
As the descendant of Revan and Bastila Shan, two of their generation's most powerful Jedi,[75] Satele Shan was incredibly strong in the Force.[8] Shan was skilled with the use of telekinesis, and her strength with such abilities even as a Jedi Knight was enough for her to bring down an entire mountain on top of Darth Malgus during their battle. She was also able to dismantle the door to Darth Mekhis' fortress using the Force and was skilled enough with tutaminis abilities to block a lightsaber blade with her bare hands without injuring herself.[17] Shan's powers grew over her lifetime; by the Battle of Rhen Var, she was able to destroy a blast door simply by using the Force to break it into pieces.[6] During the incident on Sebaddon, she dismantled hex droids with a mere gesture, when the droids proved more than a match for other Jedi and Sith alone.[8]

Satele Shan and her master, Kao Cen Darach
Throughout her life, Shan was known for her affinity for foresight—she predicted the arrival of the Sith Empire at Korriban,[7] and her ability to view the future grew stronger over the course of her life. By the time of the renewed war with the Sith, many Jedi believed that the Grand Master could change the future simply by predicting it. Shan was also an accomplished telepath, to the point that she could both read the minds of others and communicate in full sentences with them. She could influence the biological components of more than half a dozen hexes to keep them at bay, though Shan could not influence the hexes and maintain a Force shield strong enough to seal in the air around her at the same time for long.[8] Shan's Master Dar'Nala suspected that she had inherited her ancestor Bastila's skill with battle meditation,[19] and Shan was well-versed in the art of battle meditation by the time of the Galactic War, when she used it to support her allies in the battle against the returned Revan.[63] The Grand Master also developed a strong bond with her apprentice through the Force, which allowed her to sense Konshi's emotions from halfway across the galaxy.[8]
Trained by the Order's Battlemaster, Kao Cen Darach, Shan was exceptionally skilled with the use of both a normal lightsaber and a double-bladed lightsaber.[1] In combat, Shan was an agile fighter who utilized acrobatics to both evade her opponents and quickly strike them down. During the battle of Alderaan, Shan was able to cut down four Sith Warriors effortlessly and hold her own against the powerful Darth Malgus, the killer of Shan's own master. Although Shan fought well Malgus proved to be the superior lightsaber duelist, destroying her double-bladed lightsaber before being caught off guard by Jace Malcom and overwhelmed by Shan's astonishing Force powers.[17]

Mentality

Personal history

Early history
The region around Brentaal IV, like much of the northeastern and eastern sections of the Core Worlds, was largely explored between the years 27,500 and 25,000 BBY. Brentaal was a member world of the Galactic Republic by the year 22,000 BBY, developing into a major economic hub as it served as a checkpoint for traffic entering the Bormea sector along the Perlemian during the Republic's early centuries. Around 24,500 BBY, Brentaal was the site of a battle between the Legions of Lettow and the Jedi Order during the Force-using Order's First Great Schism.[3] For several thousand years, the planet served as a jumping-off point for ships exploring the Colonies region, and most of the goods that returned to the early Republic from the Outer Rim Territories passed through Brentaal.[2]
Besides the Perlemian Trade Route, the Brentaal–Denon Route was an early hyperlane that linked Brentaal IV with the planet Denon in the southern Inner Rim, and the Corsin Run spiralled northeast from Brentaal to the planet Corsin in the Expansion Region.[3] Even early in Brentaal's history, the planet was controlled by the Brentaal Houses—merchant families that competed for control of the planet's trade and shipping industries.[2] During the Manderon Period, Andel Tanner was a prominent inventor who worked on Brentaal IV around 6000 BBY, crafting a pair of slugthrowers that were valued at over 12.4 million credits by the year 0 ABY.[14] Around that same time, the Antarian Rangers, a group of individuals who aided the Jedi Order, established a division on Brentaal.[15] Around 4000 BBY, a number of Humans from Brentaal colonized the planet Muzara in the Expansion Region, barely avoiding conflict with the native Muza; the Brentaal League hoped that its settlement would make Muzara into a profitable agriworld.[16]

Brentaal, at the intersection of the Perlemian and the pre-existing Corsin Run and Brentaal-Denon Route
In 3705 BBY, Brentaalan native Freia Kallea—a daughter of House Kallea whose parents disapproved of her apprenticeship in the Brentaal Spacefarers League—began to work as a hyperspace scout. Over the course of the next year, Kallea linked together a number of pre-existing hyperlanes in the northern galaxy: the Corsin Run, Mandalorian Road, Sprizen End Run, the Spurs of Celanon, and the Morellian Trail. By 3694 BBY, Kallea had extended the Brentaal-Denon Route all the way to the southern rim of the galaxy, forming the super hyperlane that she named the Hydian Way, after her Duros friend Banu Hydia. The events of Kallea's trailblazing, along with the Brentaal noble Sival Brentioch's courting of Kallea during those years, were dramatized around 1500 BBY in The Kallea Cycle, a famous opera that endured for hundreds of years.[3]
The Human Satele Shan, the descendant of the famous Jedi Revan and Bastila Shan, was born on Brentaal IV in 3699 BBY, and the Jedi Knight Ardun Kothe worked with war refugees on Brentaal during the Great Galactic War between the Republic and the Sith Empire.[17] The planet was the site of a Republic Military outpost during the Cold War between the Republic and the Sith Empire over fifty years later. That outpost was later wiped out by the Sith Lord Kavos, who killed the experienced Jedi Knights Ayesho and Nil in the process. During the Cold War, an anarchist group known as the Revolutionary Edge Brigade was active on Brentaal, and the group—including a Rattataki named Kaliyo Djannis—frequently robbed banks, blew up public holorelays, and kidnapped influential corporate and political figures. One such attack on Curovao became known as the Curovao Bombing.
During the New Sith Wars, a series of conflicts between the Republic and various Sith factions that spanned the millennium between 2000 BBY and 1000 BBY, the Bormea sector was conquered by the Brotherhood of Darkness in the year 1002 BBY. Brentaal IV was captured by the Sith shortly after Corulag and Chandrila, with the planet's defenders only offering what the Sith Lord Skere Kaan considered to be token resistance.[9] Kaan's capture of Brentaal forced his Jedi counterpart Lord Hoth to make his move and draw the Sith into battle at the planet Ruusan.[18]
Unrest and the rise of the Empire
"So—the Republic has control of the planet again. Who's going to run it?"
"I don't know. I imagine that's something Supreme Chancellor Palpatine will decide."
―Quinlan Vos and Agen Kolar, after the Battle of Brentaal IV[10]
Brentaal was the intended target of a foiled acquisition attempt by Darth Sidious in 33 BBY, when the Sith Lord boldly attempted—via machinations between the Trade Federation, Groodo the Hutt, and Trinkatta Starships of Esseles in the adjacent Darpa sector—to seize this strategic cross-roads planet, that the Federation might utterly control two major galactic trade routes, the Perlemian and the Hydian Way. A team of Jedi Knights led by Adi Gallia and Qui-Gon Jinn, including Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi, ultimately struck down the violent plot with its intended use against Brentaal of 50 Vulture-class droid starfighters modified with prototype hyperdrive engines branded as illegal by the Republic.[19]
In 22 BBY, the Allied Tion Historical Society's Cradle of the Galaxy exhibit began a Core Worlds tour on Ralltiir on 13:4:1, and the exhibit was showcased in the Cormond Museum of Arts on Brentaal starting on 14:3:1, almost a year later, before it moved on to Chandrila two months later.[4] On 13:4:25, the Jedi Knight Reeft was involved in an altercation in a marketplace on Brentaal; Reeft had been pursuing the thief Rotar Lopani, who had allegedly stolen sensitive diplomatic datapads from Coruscant a month earlier, but the Xexto bounty hunter Tosinqas attempted to claim the 8,000-credit bounty on Lopani. Tosinqas fell several stories to land on Lopani, killing him, but the Xexto was startled by the sound of Reeft's lightsaber igniting and charged the Jedi only to kill himself by running into the weapon.[20]

The Battle of Brentaal IV
The Clone Wars between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems erupted with the First Battle of Geonosis in 13:5,[21] and unrest soon reached Brentaal when the Separatist Commander and Brentaal clan leader Shogar Tok captured a prison facility on Brentaal and converted it into his base of operations. Becoming a warlord on his homeworld, Tok rallied his fellow Brentaalans against what he claimed to be a corrupt Republic and establishing a Separatist military presence on the planet as early[10] as 13:8. As part of the Jedi Knight Quinlan Vos's deep-cover mission to infiltrate the the ranks of the Dark Acolytes, the servants of the Confederacy's Count Dooku, the Jedi Master Tholme sent Vos to Brentaal.[22] Vos infiltrated Tok's prison base as "Korto Vos," and in 13:10 Vos sent a false message[23] to the Republic claiming that Tok's rebel movement was unprepared for an attack. As a result, the Republic sent a fleet under the Jedi Generals Shaak Ti, Agen Kolar, Shon Kon Ray, and Plo Koon to drive out the Separatist presence there, but they found their enemy ready for the attack.[10]
Unable to bombard Tok's fortress on account of its heavy shielding, the Republic tried to land ground troops to take the fortress, but the building's ion pulse cannons took out a large number of the Republic's LAAT/i gunships. Kon Ray was killed in the early fighting, and the Republic lost more than a quarter of their forces in the first few hours[10] of the Battle of Brentaal IV against the natives and the battle droids of the Trade Federation.[24] Shaak Ti and her troops rescued Vos and three other former prisoners—Sagoro Autem, Lyshaa, and Ryyk—and convinced them to help infiltrate Tok's fortress in exchange for their freedom. While Kolar led a diversionary attack, Ti and her group infiltrated the structure through the sewers and split up to achieve their objectives of disabling the shields and cannons and capturing Tok, and Plo Koon withdrew the Republic forces to wait for Ti's signal. Ti's group was successful in all of their objectives, though Ti was forced to kill Tok, and the Republic quickly achieved victory.[10]
During the early Clone Wars, Brentaal was represented in the Galactic Senate by the Human Senator Arcel Mosbree, who planned to retire from the Senate in 21 BBY. After the conflict on Brentaal, a Republic government was installed with Jerrod Maclain as temporary governor, as Mosbree was considered an accomplice to the Separatist movement on Brentaal and removed from office. In 14:9, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine formally appointed Maclain as regional governor of Brentaal, a role which Malcain filled for almost twenty-five years.[25] The Shoosha family escaped from Brentaal during the battle, and the young musician Bann Shoosha composed a work entitled the Vissencant Variations to celebrate their escape shortly afterwards. By 20 BBY, the Variations were considered to be one of the great musical works of the recent millennium, despite being less than two years old.[26]
Under the Empire
"We have taken every precaution to ensure visitors enjoy their stay on Brentaal. The Kallea Cycle is an important part of this planet's—and indeed the Core Worlds'—culture. We want to avoid having anyone's experience marred by the activities of criminal elements."
―Inspector Zanza Gata[6]

A young Platt Okeefe watches starships land on Brentaal.
The Clone Wars came to an end in 19 BBY, when Chancellor Palpatine declared himself Emperor and reformed the Republic as the Galactic Empire. In the months after the end of the Clone Wars, several agents of the former Senator Bail Organa fled to Sel Zonn Station, one of the XQ2 Platforms orbiting Brentaal, and Imperial agents pursued them there to prevent them from escaping and reaching Organa. Sel Zonn Station was minorly popular among some Brentaal nobles at the time, though the station had not flourished in the last few years.[13] The famous Brentaalan smuggler Platt Okeefe was born to House Okeefe around 18 BBY on Brentaal,[27] though she later left her homeworld to become a pilot in her teens.[28]
By the year 0 ABY, the Hutt Shettora operated a criminal faction on Brentaal, controlling the black market on the world and selling good-quality merchandise at only slightly higher prices than normal. The Hutt Puullo served at the group's forefront, using his expertise in business to oversee the black market. Due to the planet's significant black market, the Empire maintained a large Imperial Customs office on the world.[29] In 0 ABY, the pirate Venslas Beeli conducted a number of raids against Brentaal and other worlds in the region, leading the Rebel privateering frigate Far Orbit to attack Beeli's pirates.[30] The Far Orbit was later lured into a trap by Imperial forces near Brentaal, though it escaped,[31] and some of the Far Orbit's crew later traveled to Brentaal in order to secure a datacard from an Alliance contact and managed to escape Imperial Security Bureau agents who pursued them.[32]
In 36:5, the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order moved to place new tariffs on luxury agri-exports from the Bormea sector,[33] and the resultant tariffs negatively affected imports to Brentaal.[34] Inspired by the popular holo Kallea's Hope by Neile Janna, which translated The Kallea Cycle into a popular and modern format[6] from Old Brentaal[3] when it was released in 1 ABY, Brentaal's Council of Human High Culture spent the next two years working on the opera to bring it back to what they called "its classical roots."[6] However, the Council's true goals were the promotion of Humanocentrism, as they reworked the opera to highlight the achievements of Humans and excluded alien performers from the show.[3]
On 37:2:23, Imperial Customs uncovered evidence of a smuggling scheme that was believed to be responsible for redirecting raw materials that were intended for Brentaal to the Outer Rim. Captain Dalea Trovin coordinated the investigation, and Customs raided a warehouse complex in the city of Votrad, discovering thousands of tons of raw materials that had been listed as missing or misrouted. The Brentaal Trade News published a report on Trovin's efforts, though the captain had not yet been able to determine where the raw materials were being diverted to.[35] In 2 ABY (38:2), Brentaal began preparing for the premiere of The Kallea Cycle, in which Vessa Brentioch of House Brentioch would portray her ancestor and the famed Chandrilan singer Gelod Vothran would play Sival Brentioch. The production was performed by the Brentaal Hall Conservatory and funded by a number of the planet's most prominent houses, including the Dajaal Family, House Brentioch, and Hall Jo'uda, and it took place in Votrad Stadium—which had been outfitted with more than 100,000 seats and a 500-mete-long stage.[6]

The Kallea Cycle's opening night in Votrad Stadium
The show had a premiere date of 38:2:13,[3] and prominent dignitaries from across the Core Worlds and the Colonies traveled to Brentaal and Votrad in particular to attend, though security remained high to ensure that the production went smoothly. However, the notorious jewel thief Tanda Marelle, known in the media as the Tombat, struck at a banquet in Votrad on 38:2:12 that was attended by a number of famous guests; Vessa Brentioch, Gelod Vothran, the production's Maestro Trebian Shullos, Moff Jamson Caglio of the Bormea sector, Imperial Advisor Alec Pradeux, and Inspector Zanza Gata of the Imperial Office of Criminal Investigations were among the banquest's attendees. However, several of the guests discovered small quella stones—the Tombat's trademark—baked in their dessert bowls of shim-bay crispa, an act which many believed to be a statement on Gata's inability to capture the Tombat and one that raised questions as to whether Gata's true intent in overseeing the opera's security was to in fact set a trap for the thief. Moff Caglio publicly expressed his displeasure with the Inspector, but the production of The Kallea Cycle continued without incident.[6]
On 38:4:21, the Brentaal League of Guilds declared a Landmark Holiday to celebrate a record week of commodities trading, as more credits and stocks had passed through the Brentaal market than ever before during a five-day period. Governor Maclain, House Brentioch, Hall Jo'uda, and the Dajaal Family were among those that benefited from the market activity, which also boosted many corporations in the Core Worlds, and the week-long Landmark Holiday was filled with parades and parties sponsored by the planet's trading houses. The Brentaal Hall Conservatory presented an encore performance of The Kallea Cycle in celebration before the opera began a tour of the Core Worlds and the Colonies a month later, though Vessa Brentioch was replaced by Neile Janna in the role of Kallea for the Kallea Tour, and the Brentaal commodities exchange was closed during the holiday.[36]
However, in the weeks after the Landmark Holiday, Brentaal was wrought with scandal: five of the Dajaal Family's commerce officers were arrested after it came to light that they had breached market confidentiality, and the officers claimed that they had passed data to Governor Maclain in exchange for monetary incentives and political favors. Maclain was soon accused of underhanded dealings in the commerce exchange by two of his aides and numerous bureaucrats from nearby systems, and Emperor Palpatine himself dispatched Grand Moff Rufaan Tigellinus to head an investigation of Maclain, leading some to believe that Palpatine had assigned Tigellinus—a member of the exclusive Order of the Canted Circle and a major player in the politics of the Imperial Court—to the case because Maclain was funding the Rebellion. Tigellinus denied those rumors while assembling his staff for a departure to Brentaal, and he proceeded to interview several bureaucrats in the Bormea and Darpa sectors during his investigation.[36]
The Battle of Brentaal IV
"For now, though, you must act. Make a stand. Force them to come to you."
"Where?"
"It's obvious. Brentaal IV."
―Ysanne Isard and Sate Pestage[37]

New Republic forces attack the Brentaal moonbase.
Brentaal was still under Imperial control in 4 ABY, when the Rebel Alliance won the Battle of Endor that saw the deaths of both the Emperor and his Sith apprentice Darth Vader. The Empire began to fragment in the wake of the Emperor's death, and the newly-formed New Republic began advancing towards the Core Worlds and Coruscant. In 39:12, nine months after the Battle of Endor,[38] the elite New Republic starfighter unit Rogue Squadron was sent to recon Brentaal, and a group of five fighters entered the Brentaal system and began to collect data. By that time, the Empire had established a moonbase on the surface of one of Brentaal's moons and placed the Imperial Admiral Lon Isoto in command of the planet's military forces, and Imperial TIE fighters were deployed to drive off the intruders. The New Republic fighters emerged victorious and damaged the moonbase's interior before departing the system.[37]
Grand Vizier Sate Pestage had assumed control of the Empire after Palpatine's death, but Director Ysanne Isard of Imperial Intelligence desired the throne herself and advanced her cause by serving as a mediator in his dealings with the Cabal—a group of wealthy and politically influential citizens—and playing the two groups against each other.[37] Isard advised Pestage to invite an attack on Brentaal, believing that she could orchestrate a New Republic victory there and bring about Pestage's downfall.[18] As Admiral Isoto was considered incompetent, Isard sent part of the elite 181st Imperial Fighter Wing under Colonel Baron Soontir Fel to Brentaal, and Pestage agreed to her suggestion before issuing a public statement that the Empire would defend Brentaal from invasion. In response, Admiral Gial Ackbar of the New Republic began active preparations for conquering the planet, giving Rogue Squadron and Colonel Horton Salm's Aggressor Wing two weeks to prepare.[37]
As planned, two weeks later a task force under Ackbar's command entered the Brentaal system and attacked the planet's moonbase, capturing the facility and using it as a staging ground for an assault on Brentaal itself.[37] The Imperial forces under Isoto's command made no attempt to retake or destroy the facility, though the admiral—who spent most of his days in with pleasure girls in the city of Vuultin—ordered the razing of the forests around the city in order to install missile sites and a bunker for Fel's 18st. Though the locals protested, Isoto ignored them, believing that his presence in Vuultin made the strategically-worthless city a prime target for the New Republic. Fel disagreed and sent most of his forces to nearby Oradin, as the city's spaceport facilities would aid the New Republic in landing troops on the surface. Fel was correct: Admiral Ackbar ordered Rogue Squadron to feint at Vuultin while Aggressor Wing accompanied their main forces to Oradin.[12]

The Battle of Brentaal
When Rogue Squadron and the 181st began to dogfight among the skyscrapers of Vuultin, Isoto decided to pull his capital ships back to the night side of the planet. Baron Fel's fighters inflicted heavy losses on Aggressor Wing in the first minutes of the battle, but the panicked admiral demanded that Fel pull his fighters back to Vuultin and defend him, and the New Republic command ordered Rogue Squadron to withdraw in fear that the 181st would attack the main battle group. Oradin was heavily damaged but was captured by the New Republic, though Fel's second-in-command Turr Phennir took out a New Republic assault shuttle that crashed into a Brentaal school, injuring a large number of children. When Fel refused a medal for his actions, Isoto decided to declare a Brentaalan holiday entitled "Fel's Day," and despite the desires of both the Cabal and Pestage, Isard's manipulations kept the two sides from knowing that they both thought Isoto should be relieved of command. When news of Oradin's fall reached Coruscant, Isard ordered a fleet of two hundred and five vessels to launch from Coruscant and head to Brentaal with the purpose of evacuating the planet's wealthy upper classes.[39] By doing so, Isard hoped to make Pestage look foolish and deprive the Cabal of a potential power base.[40]
When the fleet arrived at Brentaal, the New Republic Provisional Council feared that the evacuation would mean the removal of Brentaal's wealth and cultural artifacts and as such ordered the New Republic forces to stop the evacuation. Rogue Squadron and Aggressor Wing worked to disable the evacuating ships over Vuultin while assault transports landed to capture the city, and Baron Fel—angry that Isard's manipulations had endangered his pilots—led his unit against Rogue Squadron in order to follow his orders and honor his duty. During the assault, Isoto was assassinated by his concubine Grania at Isard's orders after he complied with Isard's demand for him to issue an evacuation order. With the issuing of the evacuation order, every ship on Brentaal was given immediate clearance for vertical takeoff, but Fel was forced to order the 181st to retreat from the battle and protect the fleeing citizens.[40]
Later history
"The treasonous people whose plotting allowed the Rebels to take Brentaal IV died for their perfidy. I welcome you, the loyal survivors, with the promise that your suffering—"
―Part of Sate Pestage's address to the evacuated Brentaalans[40]

Brentaal IV
The Brentaalans who managed to evacuate were welcomed to Coruscant by Pestage, who publicly blamed the loss of the Battle of Brentaal IV on treasonous citizens who had died in the conflict.[40] From Brentaal, the New Republic moved their forces up the Hydian Way in 6 ABY after conquering much of the western and southern galaxy, and Oradin had been rebuilt to its former bustling state by the year 9 ABY, when the astromech droids Whistler and Gate—the droids of New Republic pilots Corran Horn and Wedge Antilles—traveled on a solo mission to the city in order to locate the smugglers Talon Karrde and Mirax Terrik. The Grand Oradin Hotel was a major resort in the city, and the building's turbolifts played recordings of the history of the Battle of Brentaal IV to their passengers.[5]
The planet was briefly conquered by Grand Moff Ardus Kaine in 10 ABY during the offensive planned by the reborn Emperor Palpatine. Brentaal remained a part of the New Republic for the next decade and a half,[3] and the Brentaal Academy hosted the 412th Proceedings of Galactic Anthropology and History, with the historian Vilnau Teupt as the keynote speaker in 24 ABY.[18] During the Yuuzhan Vong War of 25–29 ABY, Brentaal was attacked by the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong species, and like those of Ralltiir and Chandrila, the planet's inhabitants chose to fight the invaders,[11] though several of the planet's cities were destroyed when the Brentaalans fought the Yuuzhan Vong.[3]

Education

Points of interest
Cormond Museum of Arts[4]
Favis Resort[2]
Grand Oradin Hotel[5]
Votrad Stadium[6]

Employment

Region
Ringali Shell, Core Worlds[1]
Sector
Bormea sector[1]
System
Brentaal system[2]
 
Brentaal Houses[3]

Accomplishments & Achievements

Major imports
Foodstuffs[2]
Trade goods
Major exports
Financial services[2]
Trade goods

Intellectual Characteristics

Immigrated species
Humans[2]

Known Languages

Primary language(s)
Old Brentaal[3]
Galactic Basic Standard[2]

Personality

Social

Birthplace

3699 BBY, Brentaal IV[1]