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Ferus Olin
 * Ferus Olin was originally created as a rival character for Anakin Skywalker the series of Jedi Quest. After the last book The Final Showdown, Ferus leaves the order due to a dispute among Tru Veld, Anakin Skywalker, and himself inadvertantly causing the death of fellow padawan and friend, Darra Thel-Tanis.

Personaltiy and traits

 * "We haven't recieved our instructions,"
 * "I am sure our instructions will be to avoid having a good time at all costs,"
 * "Padawans are always trying to get me to relax, I'm just not made that way."
 * -Tru Veld and Ferus Olin, The Dangerous Games, page 16

Ferus Olin had thick, dark hair with gold streaks running through it and also had noble facial features. He always made sure to have an impeccable exterior. He is also described as being very tall and solid, yet still quite agile. In lightsaber training he used both hands equally well. Although it was strictly emphasized at the Temple that one student is no better than another, Ferus seemed to have all the gifts that other Padawans yearned to have. Ferus also had a very strict adherence to rules. He was steady and brilliant, as well as a physically gifted althlete, and was popular with all the students. He excelled at everything he tried causing everyone to admire him and desire to be like him. There was never anybody who spoke his name without praise.

The Way of the Apprentice

 * "Does that sound okay to you?"
 * "Sounds like a good plan."
 * "We have an agreement, remind me to declare this an annual holiday when we get back to the Temple."
 * -Ferus Olin to Anakin Skywalker and input by Darra Thel-Tanis, page 139

This is Ferus's first appearance in the Star Wars series. Ferus was sent to a planet called Radnor after a toxic disaster strikes the two main cities. Ferus was to work alongside Darra Thel-Tanis, Tru Veld, and Anakin Skywalker, although Anakin and Ferus did more arguing than problem solving. After they are separated from their masters the apprentices are forced to cooperate in order to make sure the people of Radnor are safely transported off the planet. However, this is complicated by a group of theives that are are murdering the citizens of Tacto while raiding their homes for goods. At first Ferus has a problem with Anakin's idea of chasing the raiders via a homing signal sent by one of the droids they had destroyed, but gives in only for them to be caught in a cross-fire at the raiders warehouse. While Anakin thought that they should chase after the raiders, Ferus encouraged them to look through computer files in order to head them off. That done, they head to the Emergency Command Center to talk to the person heading the evacuation. It is there that they learn that the ships dedicated to taking the Radnorans off-planet have been delayed for an undisclosed amount of time. Then one of the neighboring planets, Avoni, offers a group of ships to help relocate the Radnorans. The padawans are overseeing the evacuation while their masters are in the Isolation Sector. When it comes time for the masters to leave, they are forced down by an MTT. The padawans find this out via the sister of the commander in charge of the evacuation. Anakin and Ferus argue over whether or not they should go or heed their masters and stay where they were. Finally, Anakin wins out and they travel across the sector. Upon finding their masters' crashed speeder, the padawans also come across the MTT that forced them down. Anakin and Tru come up with a plan to get inside the MTT and use it to destroy the droids it had deployed. This is a plan that Ferus and Anakin were finally able to agree on causing fellow padawan Darra Thel-Tanis to remark that they should declare that day a holiday from then on out. After the battle is over and their masters saved, Ferus and Anakin have an impromptu albeit short confrontation. It is during said confrontation that Ferus warns Anakin that he does not trust him and will keep an eye on him. This infuriated Anakin, furthering his dislike of Ferus.

The Dangerous Games

 * "There are beings who equate danger with pleasure, it is a mistake easily made for those who do not think deeply."
 * -Ferus Olin to Tru Veld and Anakin Skywalker, page 113

Ferus's appearance in this book is short, although it leads to an important insight of his character. Anakin and Ferus are still largely at odds with one another, but Anakin tries to hide it from his master because he did not want Obi-wan to know that an apprentice as gifted and respected as Ferus did not trust him. This is made even worse after the masters give the padawans a chance to explore on their own and instead, Ferus turns it into a lesson plan to observe protocol and customs. Their fellow padawan, Tru Veld, realizes how much this bothers Anakin and jokingly covers his mouth with his hand in order to prevent him from arguing with Ferus. When Anakin finds out there is a podrace set to happen he peels off from the little group in order to go check it out. While there, Anakin ends up racing in the podrace because there were rumors that it was a fixed event and that one of the podracers brakes would fail. This ends up being Anakin's podracer, but before he even set out to race Ferus grilled him with questions over whether or not he had done things such as trying to cancel the race and tell someone what is going on leading Tru to point out that if they did that then they would never know who was behind it or why. Ferus seems to let it go after that, but still watches Anakin carefully.

The Master of Disguise

 * "Good fight, except for one thing."
 * "What one thing?"
 * -Ferus to Anakin after Soara's enlisted battle, page 85

Ferus's only appearance in this book is when he is enlisted by Master Soara Antana to fight Anakin in a sanctioned lightsaber match in order for Anakin to show Master Antana how much he has improved through her teachings, which, in the end, appears to be nothing. During the battle Anakin let his anger get the best of him and Soara sensed it as well as Ferus causing Anakin to feel more animosity towards Ferus.

The School of Fear

 * "What if we get caught? We could get confined to our rooms between classes. How will we investigate?"
 * "Pretty simple. We'll have to avoid getting caught."
 * -Ferus Olin to Anakin Skywalker, page 33

In this book Ferus and Anakin are assigned to monitor a school in which a student, Gillam Tarturi, had been 'kidnapped.' Ferus is accepted immediately by the other students whereas Anakin had more trouble falling into line. After Anakin is approached by Marit Dice he decides to become part of their secret squad and agrees to take part in a mission involving an attack on Andara. Ferus urged Anakin to wait until they knew more about the squad and tried to head off Anakin with a reason not to leave on the mission, but the very person they were there to find locked Ferus in a hidden chamber. Meanwhile, Anakin decided to go ahead and leave with the squad. While sitting in the hidden chamber Ferus looked through a data pad he had found which took credit for the kidnapping and death of Gillam. Ferus finally figures out that the squad chose Anakin because they were going to kill him and disguise him to look like Gillam. By the time Master Siri Tachi and Master Obi-wan Kenobi found Ferus, Anakin had already left with the squad. After tracking them down and fighting a battle Anakin proves that he had grown more adept with the force which both amazed and frightened Ferus as well as their masters.

The Moment of Truth

 * "You weren't there. You don't know what happened. You have no right to judge."
 * -Tru Veld to Ferus Olin, page 129

Ferus and his master Siri Tachi along with Tru Veld and his master Ry-Gaul came to the rescue of Obi-wan and Anakin during a mission. Before the extra teams were involved, Anakin had been subjected to an experiment which caused him to feel nothing and he chose the contentment over leaving to rescue Master Kenobi. Although Anakin had not told anybody until he was forced to do so, Ferus called him on it. Tru Veld defended Anakin by telling Ferus he had no right to judge Anakin because he was not there and did not know for a fact what happened. Ferus apologized to Anakin more out of civility than actual regret, but Anakin's anger towards Ferus still simmered.

The Changing of the Guard

 * "I've never been able to joke like the others. I know I can be pompous, too correct. I never learned how to tease the other students. They came to me for help with their studies, they looked to me for answers, but no one wanted to be my friend."
 * -Ferus Olin to Obi-wan Kenobi, page 77
 * "His power is so great that he thinks his judgement is as well."
 * -Ferus Olin to Obi-Wan Kenobi, page 79

After the Jedi's biggest enemy, Jenna Zan Arbor, escapes and flees to Romin, Ferus and Anakin along with their masters are called on to capture her. Unfortunately, the planet Zan Arbor had escaped to forbid any sort of law enforcement from entering Romin and taking a criminal captive. In order for them to enter, they decide to pose as a group of criminals called The Slams. Ferus resisted at first because he was against taking on another's identity, which, to him, was not worth forsaking his dignity and authority as a Jedi. He caved in eventually and for once he was the outsider in the planning and Anakin was a part of the group. Later, after landing on Romin, Obi-wan sent out Ferus and Anakin to scout the area for possible escape routes. It is during this excursion that Ferus makes a casual comment about the knowledge of when to be done when there is no real objective in mind, that Anakin decides he might have a casual conversation with Ferus. When Anakin comments to Ferus about how he had thought that Ferus thought he was never wrong, Ferus points out that he just tries to not let it show, doesn't everyone? While Anakin is busy stewing over what he thought was Ferus trying to trap him into admitting a weakness, Ferus is continuing to talk as if nothing is wrong. Suddenly they were kidnapped by a local group of rebels meaning to stage a coup on Romin. Meanwhile their masters are meeting with Jenna Zan Arbor in an attempt to lure her off planet so they could officially take her into custody, but learn that she in league with Granta Omega leading them to decide to let her lead them to him so they could capture both criminals at once. After learning of the plan to destroy the world leader, Roy Teda, they decide to help the rebel force on Romin over-throw the government. Ferus objects to this saying that they do not know what will happen or how it will turn out, as well as the fact that there was no guarantee that the coup would be bloodless. That night Ferus and Obi-wan accidently meet in the garden after everyone else had gone to bed. It is in this time that Ferus admits to Obi-wan why he does not like Anakin. Ferus tells him he is afraid because they should not follow someone who believes he always speaks with a voice of absolute right. After the Jedi agreed to help the rebels take control, the revolution begins and ends with violence and bloodshed. Even after seeing the effects of the decision they made, Anakin still believes they were right in the decision they made. While Obi-wan finally sees what Ferus was trying to tell him, this admission helped Ferus to unbend around Anakin.

The False Peace

 * "So how come get to freeze on a factory floor while you hang around a luxury hotel?"
 * "Just lucky, I guess."
 * -Anakin to Ferus, page 17

Anakin and Ferus continue their mission from the Changing of the Guard, which was to track down Granta Omega. Ferus and Anakin were working well together up until there was an attack on the Senate. Anakin had been ordered by Obi-wan to stand guard over Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, but after Ferus shows up Anakin decides to follow the route his master went in hopes of being directly involved with the capture of Granta Omega. Meanwhile Granta had released hundreds of seeker droids into the main Senate chamber and Ferus was the only readily available Jedi to deal with the situation. As a result Granta Omega was able to escape. After the battle is over Anakin finds out through Supreme Chancellor Palpatine that Ferus recieved a special notice from the Jedi Council because he did his duty and the bitterness towards Ferus creeps back in to his mind.

The Final Showdown

 * "Do you see what you've done?"
 * "Yes, I see what I've done, Do you? I'm afraid for you. You think admitting you were wrong opens you up to attack."
 * "That's not true, I think you should save you fears for yourself."
 * -Anakin to Ferus outside the Jedi Council Chambers, page 146-147

The book opens with Anakin working on the flux aperture of Tru Veld's lightsaber. He gave it a power boost and rebalanced the handle which becomes a crucial piece of information at the end. Shortly after, they are called to see the Jedi Council where it is announced that they will be travelling to Korriban after Granta Omega. Then the Council lets the Padawans on to an important piece of information for them. The Council had decided to move up the length of time it took for a Padawan to take the trial to become a Jedi Knight. They chose Ferus Olin as the test case because he was the most stable and promising of all the Padawans. Anakin becomes so furious he is barely able to make it out of the room without exploding because he was convinced that he was better than Ferus and therefore should have been chosen. Shortly before they leave for Korriban Anakin makes a promise to himself that he would prove that he was better than Ferus; all without Ferus ever even knowing they were in competition. This proves to be impossible and once they have touched down on the landing platform Anakin challenges Ferus to bet who would find Omega first. Ferus takes Anakin up on it to prove to Anakin that neither one of them is any better than the other. Shortly after the Jedi find themselves in the Sith monastery the padawans are separated from their masters. While trying to find their way back they hear the sound of droids marching into one of the many chambers of the Monastery. They had no choice but to battle them. During the battle with the Commerce Guild droids Anakin sees what he thinks is a Sith Lord and leaves Tru, Ferus, and Darra to finish off the droids while he chased after it. Upon his return he sees that his friend Tru Veld is looking strained and unhappy and decides that he will talk to him as soon as he could do so privately. Ferus comments to Anakin about his absence. All the padawans seemed to hold a slight grudge against Anakin for leaving them there to fend for themselves. From there the masters and their padawans go to investigate a hangar inside the monastery because they thought the Sith might have been headed there. While the masters are discussing their next step Anakin notices that Ferus and Tru are missing. He spots them talking quietly in the corner of the docking bay and Ferus is working on Tru's lightsaber. Anakin immediately becomes upset because Tru went to Ferus instead of him to have his lightsaber fixed. It is while Ferus is working on Tru's lightsaber that he realizes that with the changes Ferus made to the 'saber the flux aperture should probably be checked again. However, he elects not to tell Tru because, after all, Ferus was almost a Jedi Knight and Ferus always did everything perfectly so therefore there should be no trouble. Much later the Jedi teams head out to the Valley of the Dark Lords where they encounter a group of vicious Tuk'ata. It is during this battle that Anakin glances over at Tru and realizes he forgot to tell him about the adjustments, but he could not tell him there because then the masters would know that Tru had been hiding it from them. By the time they began a battle inside one of the tombs Tru's lightsaber finally shorts out. Anakin sees this and considers for a moment whether or not to go help his friend or follow his master and Granta Omega. Ferus and Tru exchanged a glance before Anakin could do anything and then traded lightsabers. Ferus dropped into backup position while Tru went after the zombies. Granta had tricked them, though. He led them to believe he was trying to escape through the rear, but he circled around to the front door where Ferus was. Darra saw that Ferus was in trouble and she leaped over to where Ferus was, determined to save him. Granta shot her in the chest with his KYD-21 blaster pistol and she fell, still keeping her body between Granta and Ferus. Ferus was so shocked he dropped to his knees and began to crawl towars her, seemingly unaware of everything else around him. He took a blaster bolt to the shoulder and kept on going, but it was already to late for Darra. By the time they had returned to the Temple, Ferus had decided to resign from the order. He and Tru apparently had a discussion during the journey home or perhaps even after they came back into the Temple and they became closer to friends. Tru and Ferus finally confront Anakin about his knowledge of the lightsaber's repair while in the Jedi Council tower. Ferus is still inside discussing his future with the masters and Anakin is waiting to talk to him while Tru comes into the room. He tries to sneak back out without Anakin noticing him, but Anakin hears a rustling noise and turns around. He tried to strike up a conversation with Tru, but Tru remains distant, finally turning around and leaving. That is when Ferus walks out of the chamber.He announces to Anakin that he was resigning. This shocks Anakin to his core, leading him to ask the obvious question. Why? Ferus says he felt responsible for Darra's death and although Anakin says this was not true because there was no way he could have known. Then Anakin makes a verbal slip referring to the fact that he knew about Tru's lightsaber, only confirming Ferus' belief that Anakin had known. Tru creeps back into the chamber while this conversation is taking place. When Tru tells Anakin that he would have known, Anakin points out that Tru did not come to him instead of saying something that someone who is innocent would say, like I did not know it was broken. It is then that Tru breaks off his friendship with Anakin saying that he thought he was truly seeing him for the first time. Anakin openly accuses Ferus of being accountable for the loss of his friend, but Ferus tries to point out that they were both at fault. Anakin still refuses to believe this. As Ferus is walking out of the door he tells Anakin that if the Jedi ever need him, he will be there. That included Anakin. This got to Anakin more than anything else because although Ferus was leaving and they were angry with each other, his last words had been kind ones.

Life after the Jedi Order

 * "I'm sensing something that surprises me, I would not expect that life outside the Jedi Order would suit you."
 * "I would have said the same, but I adjusted."
 * -Ferus Olin and Obi-wan Kenobi, The Desperate Mission, page 106

Shortly after resigning the Jedi Order, Ferus found himself on Bellassa. It is here that Ferus meets his closest friend, Roan Lands. They decide to come together to create a business dedicated to protect 'whistleblowers.' Dona Telamark was their first client and they became friends with her as well. After the Clone Wars begin, Ferus and Roan sign up to serve as officers in the Grand Army of the Republic. They also founded a resistance group called the Eleven, named for the first eleven people to become a part of the group.

The Desperate Mission

 * "So I say to myself, who is this Ferus Olin anyway?"
 * -Weasy to his friends at the pub in Mos Eisley, page 10

Ferus Olin is taking refuge while in the midst of healing from a wound to the leg from a blaster, thanks to the Empire, when Obi-wan Kenobi shows up outside Dona Telamark's mountain cabin. When Ferus invites Obi-wan inside, they both immediately note the changes in one another; they both looked older, more haggard. Obi-wan fills Ferus in on the happenings since Ferus had left the order. He had found Ferus via an overheard conversation at a pub in Mos Eisley and decided to come help him with whatever he could. They decide to leave as soon as they were able to recover Kenobi's ship that was buried in the snow when he landed. It is early the next day that there is a message from the HoloNet stating that if Ferus Olin was not given up within the next 24 hours then a group of citizens rounded up from Bellassa would be executed. As Ferus is rushing to leave the cabin to get to town as soon as he possibly could and Kenobi is urging him to stop and come up with a plan, there is a sudden explosion and two bounty hunter hired by the Empire come after them. Both Ferus and Obi-wan make it out of Dona's cabin through a secret trapdoor that led into an old mine. Upon Ferus' return to the city, the prisoners were able to revolt due to Ferus' friendship with his fellow members of Eleven. As Kenobi and Ferus blast off of Bellassa they find they are being tailed by who Obi-wan suspects is Boba Fett. During a conversation between Ferus and Obi-wan about Ferus' relation to the Jedi Order, a street kid named Trevor Flume, whom Obi-wan had paid to help him earlier in order to find Ferus' exact location, popped out of one of the secret compartments in the ship. Unsure with what to do with him, Kenobi and Ferus are forced to take him all the way out to another planet because of Boba Fett's attack.

Dark Warning

 * "Can you make it?"
 * "Can a bantha fly?"
 * "Actually, no."
 * "You're such a stickler for details, Obi-wan."
 * -Obi-wan Kenobi and Ferus Olin combating Boba Fett, page 13

After landing Ferus, Obi-wan and Trevor are all forced to take cover because of the bounty hunters' attack. They were able to make it back onto their ship, but Boba Fett took off after them until he was forced to make a crash landing on another planet named Deneter. The trio was beginning to run out of gas so they had to make a sudden stop on the planet of Acherin. Unfortuanately, Acherin was in the middle of a war, but one of the rebels helped them out and after discovering that Kenobi was a Jedi Raina decided to take them to their leader, Toma. Their landing on the planet had caused alarm with the opposite side of the war and they threatened to destroy their beloved city unless the general surrendered. Instead of surrendering, Toma sends out his pilots including Raina and Ferus, who offered to go. It did not take long to see that they were fighting a losing battle, so Toma called all remaining pilots left back to the base. Even though Toma surrendered the opposing force still destroyed their city and Toma, Raina, Ferus, Obi-wan, and Trevor were all able to make it off planet before the aerial attack began. They were persued by the opposing force, but were able to lose them in the same atmospheric storm they had lost Fett in. Soon they discover that within that atmosperic storm is an asteriod that was capable of sustaining life. They decide to use the asteroid as their base and both Toma and Raina volunteer to stay. Obi-wan and Ferus decide to head out to Ilum in hopes of Ferus rebuilding a lightsaber and hopefully rescue Obi-wan's lost friend Garen Muln. Obi-wan leaves Ferus and Trevor on Ilum to go to Polis Massa to be sure that the identity of Luke and Leia would be safe. While Ferus was in the Crystal Cave he was leaving Trevor behind to wait for him, which was something Trevor was not thrilled about and spent precious time trying to argue with Ferus over it. When Ferus finally makes it through the Gorgodon nest and into the cave, his visions start coming to him. The first is of his old master, Siri Tachi. She accuses him of thinking that he is always the best and that he is now setting off on this journey to prove that he can be one of them (Jedi) again, that he could go back and change his decision. The second on was of Anakin Skywalker who accuses him of having wanted to destroy his future and when that did not happen he decided to quit. Anakin turns into Darth Vader and tells Ferus that he should give up now or else it will only lead to more destruction. Ferus watches a vision play out of Garen, Raina, Roan, and another jedi he could not place are consumed by a mighty fireball. Ferus pushes through that vision and sees his crystals. After picking them up and turning a corner he finds Garen. While he and Garen are planning an escape from the cave without the Empire battalion out fron seeing them, Trevor is inside one of the Emprial ships snooping. After Garen and Ferus get away from the first attack wave, Trevor hotwires the ship and take them back to Toma's ship. Later Ferus went to see Roan to pick up supplies for the base and Obi-wan decides to leave again for Tatooine. After dropping off the supplies and Garen at the asteroid base, Ferus and Trevor head to Coruscant in search of any other Jedi that might be alive and need help.

Underworld

 * "It's a symbol to the galaxy - the wreck of the Jedi Order. But to us, it's a symbol of what we can be again."
 * "I don't know if it's a symbol of anything anymore, I just know that it was my home, and I don't want them to blow it up."
 * -Ferus Olin and Fy Tor Ana on saving the Temple, page 127

Death on Naboo

 * "Whoever you are, thank you!"
 * "It's us, sweetcake. Watching your back as usual."
 * "It's good to see you! I owe you one."
 * "You owe us plenty!"
 * -Rescuing Ferus from prison, page 77

A Tangled Web

 * "I was searching. I thought we should work together."
 * "I work alone."
 * -Ferus Olin to Darth Vader, page 127

Return of the Dark Side

 * "The Emporer gave you an assignment. I expect a full briefing."
 * "You can expect it, but you won't be getting it. The Emporer's instruction was to report to him directly on my progress. No one else. And that would include you."
 * -Darth Vader to Ferus Olin, page 38

Secret Weapon

 * "I'm ready to learn."
 * -Ferus Olin to Emporer Palpatine