Jedi Prince

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Jedi Prince is the name of a series of novels By Paul Davids and Hollace Davids set in the Star Wars universe. They were published through Bantam Doubleday Dell Books For Young Readers.

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Ken, the main hero, is a brave but callow youth, whose behavior resembles that of Luke Skywalker before his Jedi training. Raised in the Lost City of the Jedi for the first twelve years of his life, Ken eventually joins the Rebel Alliance, where he is discovered by Skywalker. Ken is the son of the mutant Triclops and, therefore, grandson of Emperor Palpatine.

Chief Slavelord Trioculus and later His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Trioculus I of the Galactic Empire is the self-proclaimed son of Palpatine. As his moniker implies, he has three eyes: two in the same place as a normal human and a third on his forehead. He attempts to procure the glove worn on the hand that Darth Vader lost in his duel with Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi. This glove is rumored to bestow great power upon its holder. Trioculus was killed by a droid replica of Princess Leia.

As the son of Emperor Palpatine, Triclops was sent into solitary exile the very moment he was born because the Emperor could sense and feared that his son could become an even more powerful master of the Dark Side than even he was. Nevertheless, Palpatine overlooked one important fact in his son: Triclops was a pacifist. Triclops was so named because of his three eyes, the third being in the back of his head and during his exile, The Empire began to administer shock treatment therapies which eventually drove the boy insane and so he was sent to the Imperial insane asylum on the planet Kessel. While there, he came into contact with a nurse by the name of Kendalina, a Jedi Princess and the two formed a relationship, fell in love, and eventually conceived a child. Kendalina was eventually killed and their son, Ken, was taken away from the asylum by an unnamed Jedi Master and took him to the Lost City of the Jedi on Yavin IV where Ken was trained to embrace the Light side of the Force. The only reminder that Ken had of his father was a silver birth crystal that he wore about his neck.

Triclops was made to work in the Spice Mines of Kessel where he came under control of the ambitious Slave Lord Trioculus who, like Triclops, also had three eyes. Trioculus rose to become Lord Overseer and then went on to become Supreme Slavelord at which point he concocted a plan to take Triclops' place as the son of Emperor Palpatine. The Imperial Central Committee worked very hard to ensure that Triclops' true identity remained unknown to the rest of the Galaxy and when he eventually went insane, was moved through a succession of Insane Asylums before The Empire realised that his Force powers were becoming active. Though he was a pacifist and an individual who radiated calm, whilst sleeping his subconscious would develop terrible weapons of mass destruction and other technological advancements and The Empire quickly learned how to retrieve these concepts and put them to good use. Virtually nobody within the Imperial Hierarchy really knew what had become of the young Triclops except for the great Prophet of the Dark Side, Kadann. So when Grand Moff Hissa and Trioculus came to him seeking his blessing so that Trioculus could take his place as the new Emperor, Kadann accosted them and revealed that he knew the true son of Palpatine was, in fact, still alive and being held captive in a Reprogramming Institute on the planet Duro. Meanwhile, after succeeding in reprogramming an old assassin droid, Triclops affected an escape from the Reprogramming Institute and wandered through the maze-like Valley of Royalty until he had the fortune of encountering some leaders of the Rebel Alliance.

Afrer pledging pacifism and his desire to see the Empire's demise, Triclops was taken to the Alliance's Defense Research and Planetary Assistance Centre (DRPAC). There, after study, the Alliance was alarmed to discover that Triclops conceived of numerous weapons of mass destruction in his sleep and even more alarmed when they discovered Triclops sleepwalking to study old defense files. After further tests on the Emperor's son, Alliance scientists discovered that The Empire had fitted Triclops with an implant that transmitted these plans to Imperial Probe droids as and when they were conceived. To counter this, The Alliance deliberately input misinformation into a file and allowed the sleeping Triclops to transmit this data to a nearby probe droid. The Alliance scientists, after numerous tests, found that macaab mushrooms would destroy the implant in Triclops' mind without causing any damage to his brain and so Luke Skywalker set out on an expedition to the planet Azrid where these mushrooms were found to grow, but the operation to destroy the implant never came to fruition as they found that Triclops had managed to escape from the DRPAC leaving only an impassioned letter to his son, Ken.

Grand Moff Hissa, whose alien origins, signified by his pointed teeth, seems to contradict with the Empire's supposed anti-alien politics, seems to be far more in control than Trioculus, whom he, it appears, manipulates to his advantage. The fact that Hissa explains everything to Trioculus (for the benefit of the reader) gives the impression Trioculus is an idiot and therefore helpless to Hissa's manipulation.

Dreamer of Dark Dreams, Supreme Prophet of the Dark Side Kadann is notable as being one of few the characters from the series to be depicted in any other work of the Expanded Universe, along with Zorba the Hutt. Kadann is a bearded dwarf and prophesied that the next Emperor would wear the glove of Darth Vader, hence Trioculus' interest in it. In the Dark Side Sourcebook, it is revealed that this Kadann was a Jedi who was secretly turned to the dark side before the Great Jedi Purge. He pledged his loyalty to Palpatine, and was thus spared and became one of his chief advisors. Kadann had remarkable talent with foreseeing the future (hence his title of Supreme Prophet); he had foreseen the Emperor's death at Endor and tried to warn him (a warning that went disregarded, of course). Of course, this biography only applies to the original Kadann; the false Kadann, instated by Imperial Intelligence to head the Church of the Dark side was eventually slain aboard Scardia Station by Grand Admiral Afsheen Makati.

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Despite the unpopularity of the series, its places, situations, and technology are frequently referenced in other Expanded Universe sources, though its characters themselves seldom appear.

The series has been retconned in many ways. For example, according to Paul Davids, the series takes place over the course of five years, but the Star Wars timeline lists all the events as taking place within the same year and as being generally of little importance. The wedding of Han Solo and Leia Organa set to take place at the end of the series is never shown, and for some reason or other is postponed until the later novel The Courtship of Princess Leia. (The authors have explained that they planned to show Han and Leia's marriage in a later issue, but that the series was cancelled before they could actually show it.) Some explanations are that as Leia prepared to walk down the aisle, the wedding was interrupted and rescheduled for much later, or that the marriage was annulled after a short time and the two were remarried in Courtship, which would not be especially surprising given the turbulent nature of the relationship between the two. Another retcon is that Kadann and the others were trying to steal power away from Ysanne Isard. Isard is never mentioned in the series--in fact, it has frequently implied there is no Imperial leader other than Trioculus--but this retcon was created to fit the series into the established timeline. It was, however mentioned in the New Official Chronology.

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