The ronin is the alias used by a former Sith lord and main protagonist of "The Duel" and “The Duel: Payback,” episodes of the non-canon 2021 Disney+ anime anthology series Star Wars: Visions. He is also the titular main protagonist of the 2021 novel Star Wars: Ronin - A Visions Novel.
Appearance[]
The general shogun-esc appearance of the Ronin greatly disguises his sith history to a point he can be easily mistaken for a jedi. he also bears a cybernetic jaw prosthetic along a line marking across his lower face.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Prior to the reunification of the Empire, Jedi knights had served various constantly warring feudal lords. The Sith arose as a splinter faction of the Jedi clans seeking self-determination and an end to the constant wars plaguing the galaxy.
As a boy, the man who later came to be known as "the Ronin" had a deep-seated anger he carried throughout his life, and kindness had rarely been afforded to him in his youth. He at one point became a Jedi apprentice to a lord, an occasion upon which he learned the board game shogi. At the time, it was fashionable for a Jedi master to use the game to train their most promising apprentices how to manage a battlefield. The boy, however, wasn't interested in shogi, only developing an appreciation for it years later, when he was no longer a Jedi. Due to his exceptional performance for a child taken into the Jedi clans, he was bequeathed the power and responsibility of a lightsaber, as well as power over people, his Jedi guardians.
According to Jedi records, he was deeply loyal to both his lord and his adopted clansmen. When he was knighted, his clansmen became his guardians, one of which was the woman who became known as the witch, whom he he fell in love with. During a battle, he faced a choice between saving his lord or saving his guardians, eventually allowing his lord to die, which was considered a cowardly act among the Jedi, as outliving one's lord was seen as dishonorable and unacceptable for a knight within the Empire. As a consequence, the Empire sentenced him and his guardians to death, declaring them rebels for disobeying Imperial orders. As the Dark Lord of the Sith, he and the Sith witch led the Sith rebellion.
The sith rebellion[]
Together with a Sith witch, the future Ronin led the rebellious Sith faction against the Jedi. The witch would resurrect the bodies of the dead before they could join the Force to create Sith demons that continued to fight for the Sith.
As the Dark Lord of the Sith, he devised lightsaber auxiliary technology that extended the capabilities of lightsabers, and blueprints for his designs were distributed amongst the Sith cells. After the young warrior Kouru built her lightsaber, she received the dark lord's blueprints to construct a parasol auxiliary, and her Sith master made a fan auxiliary. The Dark Lord and the Sith witch had been in love, and they conceived a daughter on Rei'izu, unknown to the Dark Lord.
During the great muster on Rei'izu, the Dark Lord looked into the divine kyber mirror of Shinsui Temple and saw a vision of horrors and warfare. He became disenchanted with the rebellion he had led and turned his lightsaber against the Sith who had followed him. The Sith rebellion ended after the Ronin's change of heart. At the culmination of the rebellion, the Empire was reunited through alliances amongst the rival feudal lords, and the Jedi came to be the Emperor's most faithful servants. The Sith became scarce in the galaxy as they were hunted down by Jedi Knights and agents of the Empire, as well as by the Ronin himself.
An unlikely hero[]
Two decades after the Sith rebellion, the Ronin wandered the Outer Rim Territories with his droid companion, B5-56.
Eventually, the duo came to the planet Genbara, where, after two months, they ran out of credits while wandering in the spring through the countryside. A local woodcutter told them of a small lean-to they could spend the night at, and offered directions to the mountains, noting that only one out of four villages that lay in the valley beyond the mountains still remained, allegedly due to angering a spirit that didn't take kindly to settlers.
After following a road up the mountains past a ridge, the duo and stopped at Tohno Teahouse just outside the village. He repaired the shopkeeper's power droid in exchange for food and tea, when Bandit Troopers led by Kouru, a self-styled Dark Lord of the Sith, attacked the village. Kouru's bandits rounded up the village's residents in a central area when a group of bounty hunters who had been hired to protect the village counter-attacked. They began to turn the tide of the battle when Kouru emerged, killing a Trandoshan guard with her lightsaber parasol.
B5-56 had sustained damage from the attackers' shrapnel. The teahouse's Sullustan shopkeep had once been a mechanic, so the Ronin entrusted his astromech to the store owner for repairs while a pot of tea boiled and departed to duel Kouru. The former Sith strolled casually down the village road towards the bandit leader amidst violent carnage until he reached her. Kouru asked the Ronin who would dare challenge her, telling the man he did not look like a villager. The errant Sith identified himself as "just a simple wanderer." Kouru removed her lightsaber's parasol auxiliary and leapt ferociously to strike him. However, the Ronin froze the bandit midair with the white flare of the Force, leading her to boast that it had been a long time since she killed a Jedi. The Ronin drew his red lightsaber and retorted that he was not a Jedi, unfortunately for her, claiming that if he were, she may have stood a chance. The two then dueled in the village square.
The pair moved to a nearby river. They continued to fight on floating logs down the river to the edge of a waterfall that concealed a temple. The bandits had killed all but one guard, a Gran, when the shopkeep's tea boiled. At that moment, B5-56 flew up in the air and launched a salvo of twelve missiles which killed every bandit except Kouru.
The Ronin jumped off the log upon which he and Kouru had been balancing and lay in ambush in the temple below. Kouru followed his footsteps into the temple, where she saw the more handsome of his lightsabers activated. She struck the being holding his saber, cleaving it in half, only to see that it had been held by a metal statue of a Jedi rather than her foe. The Ronin then killed Kouru, stabbing her through the chest with the hidden blade of his scabbard auxiliary.
After returning to the village, he was initially mistaken for a Jedi knight by the child village chief. He demonstrated to the villagers that he was not by unsheathing one of his red blades and using it to shatter Kouru's lightsaber hilt. Although he initially collected the kyber crystal from within, the voice in the Ronin's head observed to him that the boy had a familiar look on his face. Recognizing that the boy was too ready to become old but had no protection to help him survive, the Ronin gave the crystal to the child and said it would ward off evil. Some time later, B5 admonished him for giving away the kyber, as it would either be too difficult to sell or invite trouble for the villagers, prompting the Ronin to ultimately regret his decision. The duo left the village, walking down a long path to the mountains. That night, they stopped to rest in a lee of a low hill, and saw funeral pyre smoke billowing from the direction of the village.
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