Rasi Tuum

Rasi Tuum, a Cathar, came into existence, being born as part of a group of siblings that included Ahn and Zho, sometime in the years preceding the Sith–Imperial War. It was discovered that he and his siblings from the same birth possessed a connection to the Force, leading to their training in the traditions of the Jedi Order. Rasi eventually attained the rank of Jedi Master. During this period, he served as the instructor, the Padawan, to the Human female Azlyn Rae.

At a certain point, Tuum was dispatched on a mission to the planet known as Roon. While present there, the Jedi Master sensed a disturbance and encountered the pirates Rav and Zareb Syn in the act of attacking a miner's settlement. As the pirates retreated towards their vessel after abducting a young Arkanian girl, he gave chase. After Tuum employed his lightsaber to sever Rav's right leg, Syn seized Tuum from behind, causing both of them to tumble off the ship's loading ramp. The Cathar killed Syn and then utilized the Force to propel himself onto the ship's loading ramp in an attempt to continue pursuing the pirates. However, Rav discharged a weapon, striking Tuum in the chest and causing him to fall to the ground. The Jedi Master survived both the gunshot wound and the fall, and from that moment forward, he often wondered about the well-being of the girl he had attempted to rescue.

In the year 130 ABY, the Galactic Alliance and the Jedi Order were both overcome by the forces of the Galactic Empire and the One Sith at the conclusion of the Sith–Imperial War. Tuum and Rae were both present at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, the galactic capital, when the Sith forces of Darth Krayt, the Dark Lord of the Sith, initiated their assault. In the midst of the battle, Tuum instructed Rae to flee the Temple. Tuum survived and was able to escape, eventually making his way to the Hidden Jedi Temple, which had been constructed by Jedi Master Nat Skywalker and the Jedi Council on the planet Taivas. Two days after the fall of Coruscant, the Sith attacked the Jedi Praxeum on Ossus, resulting in the deaths of numerous Jedi and the dispersal of the survivors. Krayt then declared himself to be the Galactic Emperor and commenced the pursuit of the remaining Jedi Knights.

In the year 137 ABY, during the time of the Second Imperial Civil War, Tuum was present at the Hidden Jedi Temple when Cade Skywalker, the bounty hunter, and his team arrived, having been guided there by his uncle, Nat Skywalker, who was now known as "Bantha" Rawk. Shortly after Skywalker's starship had landed, an Imperial delegation loyal to Roan Fel, the deposed Emperor, arrived. While Skywalker, the Imperial Knights, and Rawk were in discussion with the Jedi Council, Tuum recognized Azlyn Rae, his former Padawan—who had become an Imperial Knight and had arrived at the Temple with Skywalker—and approached her. Following a joyful reunion, she inquired about the other Rasi Tuums, his siblings from the same birth. Tuum informed her that while Ahn had been killed by the Sith, Zho was still alive and was searching for any remaining Jedi to bring to the Temple. As they made their way to Meditation Garden Orenth, Tuum began to question whether Rae felt a stronger allegiance to the Jedi or to the Imperial Knights, who had rescued her following the Massacre of Ossus and had completed her training. After Rae explained that she had sworn an oath of loyalty to Emperor Fel, Tuum expressed his belief that her heart would always yearn to serve the Jedi way. He requested that she meditate on their conversation as she departed.

Moments later, as Tuum began to meditate in the garden, he was attacked by Jariah Syn, a companion of Cade Skywalker, who sought to kill the Cathar in order to avenge the death of his father, Zareb Syn. Tuum was struck in the back by one of Jariah Syn's Yuuzhan Vong thud bugs but managed to evade Syn's blasterfire, disarming the Human by using the Force to summon Syn's blaster to himself. As he cut three more bugs in half with his lightsaber, the Jedi inquired as to the reasons for Syn's attack. When Syn accused Tuum of murdering his father, the Jedi used the Force to throw Syn against a pillar, pinning him there, and then entangled him with nearby vines. Seeking to learn the identity of his attacker, Tuum allowed Syn, who had witnessed the Jedi kill his father, to recount his version of the events. After listening to Syn, Tuum explained that he had sought to protect the miners who were being attacked by Syn's father and Rav, and implored Syn to acknowledge that his father was a criminal. When the Cathar inquired about the girl whom Rav had taken, Syn informed him that she was not well, and then departed, leaving Tuum in the meditation garden. Later that night, Tuum—along with Skywalker's crew, Rawk, Azlyn Rae, and the Jedi Shado Vao and Wolf Sazen—witnessed the Jedi Council's rejection of Skywalker's plan to assassinate Darth Krayt. Despite this, Skywalker's crew—Vao, Rae, and the Imperial Knights Ganner Krieg and Antares Draco—traveled to the planet Had Abbadon. After ambushing Krayt, they believed that they had succeeded in killing him.

Some time after Shado Vao informed the Council that Krayt had been killed, Tuum traveled with a Jedi group led by Jedi Master K'Kruhk to the planet Agamar, where they were scheduled to meet with Emperor Fel and discuss the possibility of an alliance between the Jedi and Fel's Empire. The night before they were to meet with Fel, Tuum engaged in a discussion with Masters K'Kruhk, Hira, and Shado Vao regarding Fel and his Empire, with K'Kruhk insisting that the alliance was essential for the time being. The following day, Tuum, Hira, and Vao were present for the successful negotiations between K'Kruhk and Fel for an alliance between the two organizations. Shortly thereafter, Moff Nyna Calixte, who was in service to Krayt's Empire, betrayed the organization by arriving and informing the Jedi and Fel's Imperial Knight bodyguards that the Sith were aware of the meeting and were approaching with a task force with the intention of either capturing or eliminating the Emperor.

Tuum, his fellow Jedi, and the Imperial Knights prepared for battle as the Sith revealed themselves. K'Kruhk instructed the Cathar and the other Jedi to defend the Emperor, believing that the fate of the galaxy hinged on Fel's survival. During the battle, Tuum and Azlyn Rae escorted the Emperor's daughter, Imperial Princess Marasiah Fel, to the Imperial delegation's shuttle, Defender One. As the three of them approached the shuttle, a group of TIE Predators fired upon the ship. The resulting explosion incapacitated Tuum and Rae, allowing the Sith to capture Princess Fel after the Emperor was evacuated aboard the shuttle without her. After Tuum and Rae awoke to find that the Princess had been captured, they reached out with the Force and sensed that the Sith were taking her to Coruscant.

Three days after the Sith's attack on Agamar, Tuum and Rae ambushed the Sith Yuln and Bokar, who were searching for survivors of the battle, and killed them. After finding the deceased Sith's attack ship, Rae expressed her distress over failing her duty to protect Princess Fel. Tuum insisted that it was the Force's will that she was captured, but he eventually agreed to help Rae with her attempt to save the Princess. They strove to infiltrate the Sith–Imperial fleet above Agamar aboard the Sith attack ship, and tried to board the Pellaeon-class Star Destroyer War Hammer. However, the War Hammer's docking codes had been changed, and Tuum and Rae were assaulted by other Sith attack ships. They managed to escape and headed for Bastion to inform Emperor Fel and the Imperial Knights of the Princess's location on Coruscant. After arriving, Tuum and Rae transmitted the proper clearance codes to Fel's forces, which enabled them to bypass the mines in Bastion's orbit. They landed on a docking pad with Imperial Knights Antares Draco and Ganner Krieg, Master armorer Hogrum Chalk, and the Jedi Shado Vao waiting for them. After disembarking, Draco verbally berated Rae for not successfully protecting Princess Fel. Tuum attempted to calm him down but was Force-pushed across the landing platform by Draco. Vao then warned the Imperial Knight not to strike his ally. Ultimately, Draco, Krieg, and Vao successfully rescued Princess Fel from the Sith world Korriban, although Draco was captured during the mission.

In 138 ABY, the Hidden Temple was attacked by the reborn Darth Krayt's Sith forces, and the Jedi had to evacuate to Bastion. There, the joint forces of the Jedi Order, Fel's Empire, and the Galactic Alliance planned to strike at the heart of Krayt's Empire, Coruscant, and attempt to retake the planet. Tuum joined a strike team that was supposed to infiltrate Coruscant before the main invasion force and disable the computers that controlled Coruscant's orbital defenses. The strike team was led by Morrigan Corde—the alter ago of Moff Calixte—and also included Skywalker, Vao, Sazen, Rae, and Masters Krieg and Sigel Dare. The team was covertly brought to Coruscant on Skywalker's ship, the Mynock, and reached the computer center two minutes before the main attack was set to begin. The strike team's appearance surprised the Imperial technicians and stormtroopers stationed there, and Tuum and the rest of the group engaged them in battle. Krieg, Vao and Skywalker managed to destroy the computers, disabling the orbital defenses and allowing the allied fleet to safely emerge from hyperspace near the planet. As the full-scale battle erupted, Skywalker led the strike team towards the Temple of the Sith to confront Darth Krayt. At the entrance to the temple, however, they were confronted by a number of Sith, including the high-ranking Darth Talon and Darth Stryfe. Intent on stopping Skywalker, Talon led the Sith into an attack on Skywalker's group.

During the following battle, Dare was wounded and Sazen was struck down, although he managed to take Stryfe with him. Bested by Skywalker, Talon left the scene in order to warn Krayt of the impending attack. Urged by Vao, Skywalker followed her, while Tuum and the others remained to hold off the Sith. Skywalker was able to kill Krayt, and Krayt's death drove his loyal Sith troopers insane, as they attacked the allies and the Sith alike. Tuum and the strike team cut down the Sith troopers, and the battle—and the entire war—was soon over as the remaining Sith fled from Coruscant. In the aftermath of the battle, Tuum was present at the funeral of Roan Fel, who had fallen to the dark side during the battle and had been killed by Draco. During the funeral, the new galactic government was announced, the Galactic Federation Triumvirate, consisting of the Duros Admiral Gar Stazi, Master K'Kruhk, and the newly-crowned Empress Marasiah.

The Cathar Jedi Master, Rasi Tuum, possessed a strong belief in the will of the Force, perceiving it as the guiding influence behind every action. Although he found no pleasure in ending a life, he held the conviction that the Force occasionally dictated that a Jedi must bring an end to a life, particularly in the case of a wicked individual. However, Tuum never resorted to killing when other options were available, and he consistently sought to protect those he considered innocent. Despite harboring doubts about whether the Jedi could place their trust in Emperor Fel after the Sith were defeated, he nonetheless extended his protection to him when the Sith–Imperials launched their attack on the delegations on Agamar. Upon reuniting with Azlyn Rae, his former Padawan, and learning that she had become an Imperial Knight, Tuum questioned her about the strength of her allegiance to the Jedi versus the Imperial Knights. While he understood that the Imperial Knights had provided her with the completion of her training, he believed that Rae was, at heart, a true Jedi who would always yearn for the Jedi way, even though her duty to the Imperial Knights was clear in her mind. During the battle of Coruscant, Tuum was resolute in his determination to shield the other members of the strike team from the attacking Sith led by Talon.

Tuum had brown fur with a short beard and a long mane worn in dreadlocks. His eyes were brown with yellow sclerae. By 137 ABY, he had a thin scar running down his nose and was closer in size to the Whiphid K'Kruhk than he was to Humans.

Rasi Tuum demonstrated proficiency in telekinesis, frequently employing this ability to shove his adversaries or disarm them. He also possessed the capacity to manipulate plant life using the Force, enabling him to incapacitate his enemies. Tuum was capable of utilizing the Force to leap great distances. On Roon, he exhibited the ability to sense a disturbance in the Force and successfully pinpoint its origin. Furthermore, he was able to sense the presence of Princess Marasiah Fel following the battle on Agamar. Tuum was skilled in lightsaber combat, effectively using his lightsaber to deflect enemy blasterfire. He also managed to surprise and kill the Sith Bokar by cleaving him in two.

Tuum typically wore a set of brown Jedi robes and a necklace. He wielded a lightsaber containing a green crystal until the time of the Sith's attack on Agamar. During that battle, Tuum utilized a blue crystal in his lightsaber. While fighting during the assault on Coruscant against Darth Krayt's empire, Tuum made use of a lightsaber with a yellow crystal.

Rasi Tuum's genesis occurred through the collaborative efforts of writer John Ostrander and artist Jan Duursema specifically for the Star Wars: Legacy comic book series. His initial appearance was in the form of a visual representation of three Cathar, all identified as "Rasi Tuum," within the resource comic Star Wars: Legacy (2006) 0. An individual, never named, but visually resembling Rasi Tuum, met his end in the second issue of the series; however, the twenty-fifth issue of Legacy, released in 2008, clarified that the deceased Cathar was actually Ahn, identified as one of "the other Rasi Tuums," confirming that Master Rasi Tuum was still alive. Later, also in 2008, The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia contained an entry under "Tuum, Rasi," accompanied by an image from Legacy 25 and biographical information pertaining to Ahn, while omitting any reference to other individuals sharing the name Rasi Tuum. This article has interpreted the inconsistencies found within The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia as mistakes arising from the editorial process during publication.

Originally, the cover art for the forty-ninth issue of Star Wars: Legacy was intended to show both Rasi Tuum and Azlyn Rae. However, prior to its release, the cover was changed to one that instead displayed Cade Skywalker alongside Wolf Sazen.