Radek Vidar

Radek Vidar was a mercenary-turned-Jedi who fought in the Battle of Onderon and participated in the reconstruction of the Jedi Order under the Council leadership of Daer'Gunn. At the time, his personal master was Jana Dophi, the Jedi librarian.

Early Life
Radek was born on the human colony Amvas II, located in the Expansion Region of the Galaxy, not far from the Unknown Regions. Life for the inhabitants of Amvas was simple enough; they had both cities and vast rural areas, and were generally self-sufficient in all of their production. Many inhabitants were borderline xenophobic, and no one truly wanted interaction with the Galaxy at large. When the Empire forced itself on that Galaxy, though, many inhabitants felt a sense of duty to defend not only themselves, but also anyone else they could. Among those rebels were Radek's parents.

But when Radek was born, both of his parents departed from the business of rebellion. There were few naval vessels associated with Amvas, so most of the rebelling occurred on the ground - especially around the mines, which the Empire had confiscated. Determined to raise Radek in a peaceful home, away from the warfare they had known for so many years, Radek's parents were among those calling for a truce.

When Radek turned fifteen, the rebels on Amvas decided that there was only one option to keep the Empire from the minerals and resources which the planet had available: make the planet uninhabitable. The radical faction planted a series of chemical and dirty nuclear weapons in the major cities and mines across the planet - and then fled the destruction which they had sown.

Radek narrowly survived by being in his parents' rural home; his parents, on the other hand, had been in one of the planet's major cities. Radek assumed they were dead and found an environmental suit in the basement of their home, some weaponry from their days of war, and forged his way out of the countryside and toward more urban environments. Any other survivors he encountered were intent on their own good health; firefights and murder became second-nature to Radek over the next year and a half. The death of others led to his own survival on uncontaminated food and water sources that had been sequestered away. After all that time, he discovered a smuggling vessel, equipped to survive the radiation and poisoned atmosphere. The smugglers were taking the minerals which had been warred over for years and making a huge profit; Radek persuaded his way on board and was dropped off at the Hutt-controlled moon of Nar Shaddaa.