• Jedi “Mistress” Phaenia
• Gener/Race: Female Umbaran
• Class: Jedi 7 / Noble 1 / Force Adept 4 / Jedi Master 1
• Role: Master of Technology

Jedi “Mistress” Phaenia of the Unified Force Academy was a young girl from one of the mid-level social classes on her shadowy home planet of Umbara when she was identifed as having abilities in the Force. Her family was proud to see her selected for Jedi training, as it brought a certain level of prestige, and thus raised their social standing on their world.

As a youngling, Phaenia showed great aptitude with mechanical and electronic devices. Her race is prone to being secretive and reclusive, and Phaenia took to working on broken equipment rather than spending time with other younglings practicing with the lightsaber. She was selected as a Padawan to a Pau’an Jedi Master, as his race also favored the darker environs that Umbarans prefer. He taught her many of the introspective Force techniques such as Farseeing, Foresight, and Force Visions. She also discovered some others on her own, particularly the dangerous use of Force Lightning, believing that she could use it to power repaired devices or droids… though she quickly discovered that its use was tapping directly into the Darkside, so she avoids using it and keeps knowledge of it secret. (more…)

• Qillon Kree
• Gender/Species: Male Gand
  
• Class: Jedi 7 / Jedi knight 4 / Jedi master 2
• Role: New instructor to the Academy

Originating from the mysterious and remote world of Gand, Qillon Kree is a veteran of the Great Sith War and a formidable jedi master in his own right. The stocky master has until recently gone only by the name “Gand,” a response to some personal failure he felt during the War. More recently, especially after the successful Treaty of Morymm that saw that world enter the Republic, he has again assumed his name.

Qillon is soft spoken and introspective, rarely given to rash action or passions. However, he advocates a more aggressive approach to the Jedi order, and as such he can be provoked to a whirling frenzy, a practitioner of dual lightsaber techniques. Where others would council hesitation and the slow road, Qillon’s experences in the Sith War gives him the instincts of fast and decisive action. (more…)

• Jedi Master Edan Photona
  
• Human male Jedi 7/Jedi Knight 5/Jedi Master 2
• Mini: Mace Windu

Master Edan Photona is a long-time fixture at the Unified Force Academy. Master Photana provides a challenging contrast and perspective to the core teachings at the UFA.

Unlike many of the senior masters at the Zebulon Academy, Photana eschews the Unified Force philosophy, instead cautioning students to be mindful of the Living Force. According to Master Photana, jedi should live in the moment, trust in their instincts, and open their minds to living things and their contributions to (and interactions with) the greater Force. (more…)

• Jedi Master Ren Denobis
  
• Human male Noble 1/Jedi 7/Jedi Knight 5/Jedi Master 2
• Mini: Old Obi-Wan Kenobi (blue lightsaber).

Master Ren Denobis is the second most senior of the Jedi at the Unified Force Academy. Strident in his belief that the Jedi Order must take an activist role in the galaxy, he is renowned for his volcanic battles with Master Queil over the role of the Academy on the Outer Rim. He is an articulate and talented speaker, and perhaps the one individual at the academy who can hold his own with Queil.

Master Queil: The diminutive leader of the Unified Force Academy on Zebulon Beta. Credit: The New Essential Guide to Alien Species

• Jedi Master Queil
• Lannik male Jedi 7/Jedi Knight 5/Jedi Master 5
• Mini: Even Piell (small, green lightsaber)

The only surviving founder of the Unified Force Academy, Queil is the diminutive, brilliant headmaster of the school. He’s also one of the major architects of its Unified Force school of thought and is famous (or rather, infamous) for his ability to demolish the philosophical arguments of his opponents. Some of the students whisper that he has grown stubborn and proud in his old age, an opinion that even a few teachers share.

Still, he commands the respect of everyone at the Academy and has been known to even browbeat the planetary governor into submission on those rare occasions in which he’s left the academy grounds.

He argues for a more aloof monastic Jedi tradition in which they deal not with the every day concerns about the galaxy, but things that truly endanger the balance of the Force.