Rur/Legends

"You have reached the portal desolate, Jedi. I sense your despair at the sights you have seen and at the dire memories thus awakened. Enter! Step within and see the face of your nemesis, your just accuser… behold, Jedi… behold the vengeful remains of Rur, High Shaman of the Order of the Terrible Glare!"

―Rur

Rur was the High Shaman of the Terrible Glare during the time of the Order of the Terrible Glare's war with the Jedi Order thousands of years before the Galactic Civil War. Although Rur physically died with the rest of his order when the Jedi ruined their homeworld of Garn, a semblance of his mind survived, downloaded into a computer in his citadel. Over thousands of years a vengeful Rur lured many Jedi to their deaths with fake distress calls, until aspiring Jedi Luke Skywalker arrived on the planet and informed Rur that the Jedi had been destroyed in the Great Jedi Purge—unable to comprehend that his eternal vengeance was out of reach, Rur's computer exploded.

Biography

"You tremble, Jedi. You thought we were destroyed by your treacherous attack these many months ago. You thought that you were safe… but I, Rur, survived, not in mortal form, 'tis true… my mind was encoded and preserved within the devices of knowing you see before you."

―Rur

The High Shaman of the Terrible Glare, Rur served in an exalted position in the Order of the Terrible Glare, a Force-wielding order that waged a destructive war with the Jedi Order during the era of the Galactic Republic. Rur's order was eventually defeated—Rur himself was the last survivor of the Terrible Glare before the Jedi laid waste to the order's home planet of Garn. Although Rur did not survive, he encoded his mind and uploaded it into a computer that presented a holographic projection of his likeness.

In this form, Rur spent the eons taking his revenge, one Jedi at a time. Rur activated a false distress call from his citadel on ruined Garn, attracting many Jedi over a period of millennia, all of whom were killed by vicious beasts within the fortress and their souls forever trapped in soul snares. This form of Rur only perceived these endless centuries as a few months, until the era of the Galactic Civil War, long after the Great Jedi Purge, when his beacon attracted aspiring Jedi Luke Skywalker. Skywalker attempted to explain to Rur that the Jedi were gone and thousands of years had in fact passed—the program unable to comprehend this truth, the machine exploded and destroyed Rur's entire citadel.

Rur's name still persisted elsewhere in the galaxy during the Imperial Period: on the Outer Rim, a cult following Rur's memory known as the Acolytes of Dread Rur stalked the spacelanes, capturing starliners and sending the ships and all aboard to a fiery death inside nearby suns. The Acolytes saw themselves as Rur's elect, and believed that all forms of existence outside of stars and space itself were accursed obscurations of the Terrible Glare—they believed it their mandate to destroy all such abominations. The Corellian Security Force ultimately dispatched the Nagai agent Bey to investigate the group, and he foiled a Acolyte plot to destroy a Camblian Order liner carrying hundreds of youth scholars off of Glova.

Personality and traits

"Thousands of years? All the Jedi gone? But my revenge… my sweet revenge! You lie, Jedi! You lie to save your skin!"

―Rur

Driven by his hatred of the Jedi Order that destroyed everything he stood for, Rur ensured that he would persist in some form long after his physical death in order to get his revenge. That revenge became Rur's only reason for existence—when the remnants of his mind realized that revenge was now out of his grasp, he self-destructed almost immediately.

Behind the scenes

Rur appeared in "Blind Fury!," a 1982 comic story appearing in Star Wars Monthly 159, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by John Stokes.

Appearances

• "Blind Fury!"—Star Wars Monthly 159 (First appearance)
• "Blind Fury!"—Classic Star Wars: Devilworlds 1

Sources

• Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare Author's Cut, Part 12: Tales Of The New Republic on StarWars.com (article) (backup link not verified!)