Coreth Landwalker
- I am Coreth Landwalker. I am a pilot. I am a rifleman. But most of all, I am a ranger. And that is who I shall always be.
- —"Coreth", Tales of Coreth Landwalker (2005)
- This page is about the Master Ranger in Star Wars Galaxies. For other uses, see Coreth (disambiguation).
Coreth Landwalker is the base upon which everything rests; the character I began writing with and the first MMO character I ever made. A quintessential Ranger, he constantly was at war with himself and his nature as a Force-Sensitive.
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| Coreth Landwalker | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Homeworld |
Corellia |
| Born |
28 BBY (Approximate) |
| Died |
Unchronicled |
| Physical description | |
| Species |
Human |
| Gender |
Male |
| Height |
5'11" |
| Mass |
82 kg |
| Hair color |
Brown (Balding) |
| Eye color |
Blue |
| Skin color |
White |
| Chronological and political information | |
| Era(s) |
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| Affiliation |
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| Known masters |
Da-Nael Shuroth |
| Known apprentices |
Unnamed "Jedi Rangers" |
Personality
Coreth tended to be deadly serious most of his life. While he did have a sense of humor-and on rare occasions demonstrated it-he tended to stay focused on what he was doing at any given time. This focus helped him in his chosen profession, and was adaptable to his other life choices as the Galactic Civil War raged on.
Upon learning of his facility with the Force, he was willing to explore what it might mean for him, right until his vision on Dathomir. Upon realizing that he was at risk of falling to the Dark Side, he chose to avoid any interactions with that part of himself, preferring to remain as he was. It took a great deal of time for him to start accepting his potential, and a great deal of motivation for him to train in the Jedi ways.
But even after that, he refused to take the title of Jedi, believing the Jedi Code to be flawed. Unable to give up his own attachments, he chose to use the Force responsibly, but with his own sense of control instead of the Jedi Way. The Code, he felt, was best exemplified by droids, for all the emotion the Jedi was expected to feel.
Abilities
Coreth was a Master Ranger, a Master Rifleman, an ace pilot, an Officer and-in many ways-a Jedi-trained warrior. Due to damage to his brain during an encounter over Dantooine, it was difficult for him to hold onto old skills as he learned new ones; it took years of constant Force healing for that damage to be repaired. Even after that, however, many skills aside from his ranger talents had atrophied due to his long exile on Yodd's planet. It's unlikely that he has his old skills in a starfighter, his aim with a rifle isn't quite as steady, and his lightsaber combat abilities aren't as honed as they were when he fought Kairn Badnerin. But he still maintains the high level of skill needed to be considered a Master Ranger, able to construct traps and camps, and hunt the most dangerous creatures without fear of being killed by them.
The Force
Coreth's skills with the Force tend to manifest themselves physically-giving him exceptional reaction time. He doesn't have the best control when it comes to moving objects with the Force, and can't influence the weak-minded worth a damn; but his senses, already finely honed by his ranger training, are almost supernatural.
Weaknesses and Limitations
Self doubt has always been one of Coreth's weakest points, right up there along with a vague sense of fatalism. The fatalism has mostly gone away thanks to his training at the School of Hidden Wisdom, but he occasionally still suffers moments when he wonders exactly how he got to where he is.
Equipment
Coreth wields a green bladed lightsaber, but prefers to use a T-21 blaster rifle. He wears a bandolier that is often stocked with assorted ranger traps, such as phecnacine darts, adhesive mesh, flash bombs, stink bombs, and more. He often wears a special-operations backpack that holds his crafting kit, which he uses to help construct his campsites.
Coreth owns a hunting lodge on the moon of Rori, which contains crafting stations and most of his trophies over years of hunting. He also owns an underground bunker in the Mustafarian design on Lok, not far from Mount Chaolt; this is where his arsenal of weapons is located, as well as computer banks and other equipment.
At one point, Coreth owned a YT-1300 freighter called Distant Horizons. After it was destroyed, he acquired a YT-2400 called the Undying Ranger. It's likely that he renamed it. At one point, he has flown an Ixiyen starfighter, a Belbullab-21 starfighter, and a SoroSuub Yacht named Far Horizons. The latter was eventually stolen by the spy, Zhaven Rel.
Character History
Early History
Much of Coreth Landwalker's early life has been unchronicled. It is known that his mother died at an early age on Corellia, and his father remarried a Coruscanti woman and had another child, Weldon. The two stepbrothers were on good terms, although they rarely saw each other; thanks to his father's shipping business, he could go between worlds easily, and Coreth was raised on Corellia in Bela Vistal, while Weldon was raised on Coruscant. It is suspected that the stepmother didn't care much for Coreth, but that is speculation.
In his youth, Landwalker would accept a challenge from friends to climb one of the mountains around Bela Vistal: Mount Wallan. When preparing for the attempt, he encountered an old scout who told him to beware if he managed to reach the summit: "You may discover who you are." During the four day climb, Coreth discovered new ways to hurt-but he reached the top, and upon seeing the world from that height, he realized that the world-and more-was so much larger than anything he had ever imagined. And he wanted to see it all.
Mastery
The intervening years between that time is unrecorded as well, but it is known that Coreth completed his education-and began to learn the ways of the wildernesses and the creatures that inhabited them on many planets. He spent much time on Tatooine, learning the trade of the scout, and finding it was still insufficient. In time, he would seek out a ranger, an undisputed master of wilderness survival, and learn what he could from him. His travels took him to Lok, Dantooine, and finally, in a personal test of his skills, to Dathomir. There, he hunted the most dangerous creature on that world: a rancor. During that hunt, his patience and knowledge of the environment allowed him to take down a rancor and harvest its hide-and in doing so, Coreth became in his own mind a Master Ranger-and nobody could say otherwise.
Not long after he achieved this feat, he purchased a home in a small Corellian town called Horizon, southeast of Coronet City, and became one of the town founders. During a trip for supplies in Coronet, he witnessed an attack by an AT-ST walker upon fleeing rebels-and not caring about what got in the way, whether it was private property or civilian lives. This pushed Coreth, who had previously eschewed politics, into opposing the Empire. The rebel cell-the Hyperspace Outlaws-was more than happy to accept another volunteer.
His time on Corellia was also spent in learning to fly personal starships; a stint in CorSec gave him the training necessary-and the funds-to purchase a freighter, Distant Horizons. He also infiltrated the Imperial Navy for a brief period, which ended when he was casually outed by none other than Darth Vader on Naboo-and was lucky to have escaped with his life.
The Dark Future
During one of his hunts, he was approached by an old man who revealed to Coreth that the ranger had a degree of Force sensitivity. Intrigued, he went to the world of Dathomir to the village of Aurilia. There he learned to hone that sensitivity into something more-he sharpened his senses and awareness. But the downside was that he was able to have a vision-a vision of himself, full of rage and hate, twisted into becoming a force for darkness. Unwilling to become that, he left Aurilia, hoping that the destiny could be thwarted if he never took the next logical step in his learning.
During this time, he would encounter a man named Kairn Badnerin, who had once been an Antarian Ranger, and offered to teach Coreth how to integrate what he'd learned with his own natural talents. Coreth didn't realize until it was almost too late-and in part, thanks to a Wookiee friend, Mallani-that Badnerin was leading him to the Dark Side of the Force; after confronting Badnerin, the dark warrior promised that the two would meet again, because Coreth had a destiny.
This foreknowledge would continue to eat away at him, however, and with the additional pressures of the Galactic Civil War, he attempted to leave it behind to explore the Unknown Regions. Force visions began to drive him to madness, until he was found by an old friend named Rais Orann and his brother, Weldon. They brought him back to sanity, and Weldon revealed that they had been hoping to exonerate him of slaughtering Rebels-the work of one of two clones created by the Empire. Coreth, Rais, and Weldon would confront the clone and kill him. Coreth realized that he couldn't run from the galaxy anymore, but still hoping to put the Force behind him, he decided to enlist fully into the officer corps in the Rebellion, starting with assisting in protecting the work being done on the world of Hoth to build a new rebel base.
Acceptance
During his time as an officer, Coreth was utilized by General Pelar Vernan, the chief of Intelligence, to operate as a highly mobile asset. In this capacity, he led a strike team against the Cloaks, a group of space pirates that had operated around Corellia; extracted a Black Sun Vigo from his stronghold on the world of Lok while attempting to retrieve a spy with operational knowledge of Star Core technology; and coordinated strikes on Imperial targets, including an operation in conjunction with his old allies in the Hyperspace Outlaws. In that time, he met a number of people who would be of help to him in the future, including a near-Jedi named Eryn Skiesdottir. This time was not without tragedy-he learned that his father and brother were killed in an accident at a port on Kuat.
A taunting message from Kairn Badnerin showed the truth: it hadn't been an accident. It had been murder. Coreth abandoned the Rebellion at that point to confront Badnerin on Yavin IV, and after attempts to finish Badnerin with assorted traps he'd set up, chose to take up the lightsaber and fight Badnerin to a draw-mostly because of a dead-man's switch set that would guarantee that a victory by Badnerin would be a very short one. Coreth would not return to the Rebellion after this confrontation, however, but go to a hidden school at the direction of the Old Man. He learned to fight properly with a lightsaber by a former Padawan and over a period of months, sharpened his skills for the moment when he would face Badnerin again-and the dark warrior's master.
Coreth's Hammer
Coreth returned to Corellia in time to learn of the murder of General Vernan, and with the assistance of Eryn Skiesdottir and an old friend-turned-Jedi, Tidal Oneka, they eventually found the assassin and stopped him from striking down the Queen of Naboo. Coreth would keep a distance between himself and the Hyperspace Outlaws, not wanting to put them in a conflict with the greater Rebellion; he had, after all, abandoned their military with top secret knowledge, and he hadn't been fully trusted thanks to the existence of his clone-and it was understandable, given the attacks soon after of the second clone, who had taken to calling himself "Coroth".
Over time, Coreth would act as a knight errant of sorts, going from world to world and doing what he could against pirates and Imperials. On Lok, he took a bunker away from local pirates, and began to use it as a personal base of operations. Eventually, he assisted in evacuating the villagers from Aurilia as the Empire began to blockade the world of Dathomir, and in the process ran into Kairn Badnerin once more. Coreth accompanied him to an unknown system, with the hopes of dealing with Badnerin and his master once and for all. Coreth thwarted their schemes, ultimately, not by using the Force, but by using a beckon call on his ship to crash it into the structure being used by Badnerin and his master. Badnerin himself was defeated in a final duel with Coreth-but the end result was that Coreth was stranded on that world for three years-during which time the Emperor was killed.
Jedi Ranger
Coreth would in time be rescued, and was embroiled in a treasure hunt where the Empire, Eryn Skiesdottir for the Republic, and a Hutt crimelord sought out a secret cache of ancient information that had been concealed by an ancestor of Coreth's. The bad news was that the Hutt had an edge: he hired Coroth. Despite a number of twists and turns, Eryn and Coreth-as well as the spy, Zhaven Rel-found their way to the hiding place of the secret information, and Coroth was killed.
In time, Coreth was Knighted and made a Jedi Master-both in absentia, and without his own knowledge, since he'd never accept either title. He would eventually marry Skiesdottir and take on a trio of apprentices who he threatened to turn into rangers instead of Jedi. In doing so, he melded his teachings as a ranger with the views of a Jedi, and his apprentices would take for themselves the title of "Jedi Rangers". The final fates of Coreth and Eryn remain undocumented.
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Trivia
As an amusing aside: books that detail the origins of the Jedi Order refer to "Je'daii Rangers". It's quite possible that Landwalker has unintentionally revived their tradition....
Fiction
- Tales of Coreth Landwalker
- Finding Rais
- Ranger's Choice
- The Confronting The Darkness Trilogy
- Point of View
- Final Reckoning
- Landwalker