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Junak, Taj

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this Jedi Knight managed to survive the Jedi Purge, and hid from the Empire in the Freeworlds region of Tapani Sector. He assumed the guise of Professor Shellery Kint, who taught at the Mrlsst Academy. While there, Junak worked behind the scenes to steal or rease important Imperial data from research labs throughout the sector. When the Empire moved into Tapani Sector and threatened to take over the Mrlsst Academy, Junak sacrificed himself to save the school. Emperor Palpatine's exterminators captured him in one of the common areas, and they burned him on the spot. Ever since, no grass has grown in the area, which has been walled off as a monument to the ancient Jedi. It is rumored that Junak's ghost roams the academy grounds, and his legacy was that of the "Ghost Jedi," whose spirit haunted the Mrlsst Academy. This rumor was later used as the basis for the name of the band Ghost Jedi.