A Jedi of the Jedi Order lived centuries before the reign of the Galactic Empire. The Jedi was infected by gundravian hookspores and eventually died. The Jedi's corpse, along with their Penumbra-1 shattersprite, ended up inside the wreckage-prison Accresker Jail. The hookspores, mutated by the Jedi's personality and Force-sensitivity, remained with the corpse and used its Force powers to attack the prisoners. The fungus eventually abandoned the corpse when it discovered a worthy host, and Accresker Jail was crashed into the planet Tiferep Major.
The Jedi was possessed by gundravian hookspores
Centuries before the time of the Galactic Empire, a Jedi of the Jedi Order became infected by gundravian hookspores, a highly infectious fungus. For a few years, the Jedi and the hookspores coexisted, the fungus becoming physically imprinted on his heroic personality and Force-sensitivity. The Jedi was then killed while in their Penumbra-1 shattersprite, and the wreckage of the ship eventually came to be within Accresker Jail, a wreckage-prison used by the Galactic Empire by the time of the Galactic Civil War. Stuck on the prison, the hookspores used their newfound powers to appear as a Force spirit and terrorize and attack prisoners, creating the illusion that Accresker Jail was haunted.
The corpse of the Jedi was discovered around 1 ABY by the rogue archaeologist and Accresker Jail inmate Chelli Aphra, who was led to the wreckage of the Jedi's ship by the Force spirit. She discovered the infestation of hookspores and the Jedi's lightsaber but was forced to return to the prison before she could do anything about either. Accresker Jail was decommissioned shortly after when its staff learned of the gundravian hookspore presence, and the wreckage-prison was set on a collision course with the rebel-aligned planet Tiferep Major by the Empire.
Chelli Aphra plunders the Jedi's corpse.
While trying to escape the prison with her companions, Aphra halved the gravity of the wreckage-prison to move the wreckage and make a clearer route to an escape pod. In doing so, she also made sure that the Penumbra-1 shattersprite was on the way, hoping to acquire the dead Jedi's lightsaber. When Aphra's group ran into the gundravian hookspores, the fungus briefly possessed them, showing its past with the Jedi. The hookspores rejected the group as they did not have the ideal personality the fungus was imprinted on. However, it later abandoned the Jedi's corpse to try and infect the vigilante Tam Posla, who had his own justice-orientated mindset.
Freezing the gundravian hookspores with a coolant grille before they could merge with Posla, Aphra returned to the Jedi's corpse and took his lightsaber to try and sell it. In a later confrontation with Posla, the rogue archaeologist tried to use the lightsaber, only for it to break due to its age. An assassin droid then killed Posla, and Accresker Jail ultimately crashed into Tiferep Major. The gundravian hookspores survived the crash and merged with Posla's remains, transferring the Force-sensitivity acquired from the late Jedi to the vigilante. The infected undead Posla was ultimately destroyed on the planet Milvayne.
The Jedi was a human with dark-colored hair. They had a hero complex which became imprinted on the gundravian hookspores.
The Jedi first appeared as a corpse in the twenty-second issue of Marvel Comics' Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic series, written by Simon Spurrier, illustrated by Kev Walker, and published on July 25, 2018. The character appeared alive through visions in the following issue, also written by Spurrier and pencilled by Walker and published on August 22 of that year.
- Star Wars: Timelines