Gira
this man, a red-haired Jedi Knight who was trying to get the last group of Padawan learners to safety during the Jedi Purge, was cornered by Darth Vader when the Sith Lord captured his starship. In order to ensure the safety of his Padawan charges, Gira agreed to join Vader and the Dark Side of the Force in return for their safety. Unfortunately, the Captain of the starship had already agreed to join the Empire in order to save his own life. The Padawans were all killed when their escape ship was destroyed, and Vader chose to leave Gira to his own fate. Gira, unable to reconcile the deaths of the Padawans against his own decision to save himself, took his own life rather than succumb to the Dark Side.
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