Octa Ramis

Octa Ramis, a Human female was born on the planet Chandrila in the Core Worlds, roughly around 1 BBY, but spent much of her life on planets with high gravity, which helped her build up her physical strength. After it was determined that Ramis was Force-sensitive, she began attending the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4, where she was first instructed by the Jedi Masters Kam and Tionne Solusar before becoming apprenticed to Kam Solusar on an individual basis. While at the academy, Ramis became romantically involved with another student, Miko Reglia. Sometime before 25 ABY, Ramis graduated and achieved the rank of Jedi Knight. Despite some within the Order—including Tionne Solusar—believing that Ramis and Reglia had ended their relationship after graduating, the two were able to meet up again on several occasions. Ramis also worked with the Twi'lek Jedi Daeshara'cor on several missions, and the two became close friends.

In 25 ABY, Ramis was present at a memorial service for Reglia, who had been killed on Helska IV by the Yuuzhan Vong—an extra-galactic species of warriors who intended to conquer the galaxy. He was the first Jedi to die in the conflict that would later be known as the Yuuzhan Vong War. As the invasion continued, Master Luke Skywalker called a meeting of all active Jedi soon after the Battle of Dantooine. Ramis was among those present at the meeting, which was held in the Jedi Headquarters on Coruscant. She supported Kyp Durron's position that the Force should be used to defeat the Yuuzhan Vong and that the Order should take a more aggressive stance against the invasion. She was shocked by the New Republic's decision not to authorize Jedi missions within the invasion corridor. Master Skywalker assigned her a mission to assist in the war effort, but it did not have an aggressive mandate.

Before leaving on her assignment, Ramis helped Daeshara'cor search through the records archive for information on superweapons, using her computer skills to erase the search logs. The Twi'lek Jedi had been a slave as a child and had never let go of her hatred for slavers. When she learned that the Yuuzhan Vong were taking slaves and implanting them with surge coral to do their bidding, she transferred her hatred to the invaders and sought to destroy them by any means. To that end, she hoped to find another forgotten superweapon hidden somewhere. However, Ramis was unaware that a computer program designed by Jedi Anakin Solo to track search requests was also running on the academy's databases. Because of her ignorance, Ramis did not delete her searches from its records, and Solo and his aunt, Master Mara Jade Skywalker, were able to correlate the data and stop Daeshara'cor before she could harm herself or others.

Later, Ramis was one of two dozen Jedi who were assembled to defend Ithor, the homeworld of the Ithorians, as part of a joint Jedi, New Republic, and Imperial Remnant force. The Jedi met aboard the Tafanda Bay, an Ithorian Herdship in orbit around the planet. In a ceremony led by High Priest Relal Tawron, each Jedi had to renounce a part of themselves—in effect, "pruning" aspects of themselves to become closer to the Mother Jungle. Ithorian tradition dictated that this ceremony was required for anyone wishing to set foot on Ithor. Ramis stated that her mourning for Reglia had blinded her to many things and that it was time to let him rest.

While Ramis was fighting in the Battle of Ithor, Daeshara'cor was killed in action, and the Yuuzhan Vong released a bacterial weapon that destroyed the planet's animal and plant life, leaving it a lifeless husk. As the war continued, the New Republic and Jedi suffered defeat after defeat. Eventually, the Yuuzhan Vong offered the galaxy a deal: they would stop their invasion and end their conquest with the capture of Duro if the Jedi were handed over to them. As anti-Jedi sentiment grew, several Jedi were betrayed by those who wanted to appease the Yuuzhan Vong. After these events, Master Skywalker called another meeting of Jedi. Ramis attended, but the anguish over Reglia that she had laid aside had been replaced by grief for the loss of Daeshara'cor during the Battle of Ithor. She strongly supported Master Durron's view that the Jedi had to protect their own as the galaxy turned against them. As the war continued, Master Skywalker established a High Council to better coordinate the Jedi. Although the New Republic's Advisory Council had denied his request to form such a body before the war, Skywalker now felt it was necessary. Ramis was a member of the Council along with other Knights and Masters.

Two years into the war, Ramis joined Kyp's Dozen, a group of starfighter pilots led by Master Durron. She was the only other Jedi in the squadron. The Dozen fought at Coruscant when it was conquered by the Yuuzhan Vong. Near the end of the days-long battle, the Dozen were assigned to protect a ship carrying Jedi scientists, including Danni Quee, who had recently developed a way to jam the Yuuzhan Vong's Yammosk war coordinators, which efficiently coordinated their coralskippers. Ramis commanded a flight in the squadron, with three other pilots under her command.

After emerging from hyperspace into the battle zone, the Dozen linked up with the corvette carrying the scientists and their battered escort. Ramis led her pilots into combat with Yuuzhan Vong coralskippers, engaging a larger-than-normal enemy fighter that was trying to strike the corvette. The coralskipper's dovin basal—which created artificial singularities similar to black holes as a defense—resisted the standard tactic of stutter-firing low-powered laser shots to overtax them, forcing Master Durron to find another way to destroy it. Using the Force to take control of the hulk of a freighter destroyed by the Yuuzhan Vong, he sent it hurtling toward the coralskipper while other members of the Dozen ensured it held its course. Ramis, who had been reassigned to defend the corvette, watched as Durron's tactic resulted in the deaths of three pilots under his command.

Appalled that his actions had cost the lives of so many pilots, she abandoned his command and led the last two remaining members of the Dozen toward the small Jedi fleet. Harried by coralskippers, her wingmen were killed as she secured the area around the corvette. Quee helped her by activating a Yammosk-jammer, which confused the enemy fighters. Ramis regrouped with the Jedi fleet, the only other survivor of the Dozen alongside Durron.

Following the Battle of Coruscant, the New Republic was fragmented, leading to the creation of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances to fight the Yuuzhan Vong. The Jedi Council agreed with Skywalker to join the Galactic Alliance Advisory Council, and to balance the number of Jedi with non-Jedi, some members, including Ramis, left the High Council.

Ramis continued to serve on the front lines and was present on Mon Calamari in 29 ABY for a meeting called by Master Kenth Hamner to discuss the lack of communication with Master Skywalker, who had traveled into the Unknown Regions to search for the legendary living planet of Zonama Sekot. They believed that Zonama Sekot held the key to defeating the invaders, and Skywalker had gathered a group of Jedi to find the planet. The Imperial Remnant had provided support ships and personnel to aid the mission. Ramis suggested sending a ship to contact Skywalker's group and determine their situation. Ramis was still on Mon Calamari when the Yuuzhan Vong attacked the planet. With Master Durron on an assignment to the planet Caluula, Ramis led the reformed Dozen into combat against the Yuuzhan Vong. The Allied forces won the Defense of Mon Calamari, as the Yuuzhan Vong withdrew from the engagement. The sudden reversal surprised the commanders of the defending fleets, who feared that it was part of a plan to attack fleet elements stationed in other parts of the galaxy.

The reason for the Yuuzhan Vong's withdrawal from Mon Calamari was soon revealed: Skywalker had convinced Sekot, the living intelligence of Zonama Sekot, to move the planet to the Coruscant system to invite the Yuuzhan Vong to peacefully settle on its surface. He announced that it was a seed of the Yuuzhan Vong's original homeworld, Yuuzhan'tar. Skywalker called all available Jedi to the planet, assuring them that it was safe to travel to the Coruscant system despite the presence of a large Yuuzhan Vong fleet orbiting Coruscant. Ramis joined many of her fellow Jedi on the surface, where Skywalker explained the importance of Zonama Sekot to the Yuuzhan Vong. The planet was important in the Yuuzhan Vong religion, and its sudden reappearance was seen as a sign of defeat. The Shamed Ones, the lowest caste of Yuuzhan Vong society, saw the planet as a holy, sacred place that was the key to their redemption. Its arrival triggered a rebellion on Coruscant, which the Yuuzhan Vong had renamed "Yuuzhan'tar."

Sekot agreed to create living ships for the Jedi, and Ramis, along with other Jedi such as Kyp Durron, Corran Horn, Kyle Katarn, and Saba Sebatyne, underwent a special ceremony. Ramis and the other Jedi were led over a bridge and through a lamina-surfaced tunnel into a series of hidden courtyards. Each candidate had to follow a special diet, wear sashed robes and necklaces, and listen to a series of litanies chanted by Magister Jabitha Hal, the leader of the Ferroan and Langhesi communities that lived on Zonama Sekot. Each Jedi then bonded with their seed-partners, living organisms that would grow into their new ships. Ramis bonded with two of the seed-partners, which were then removed and taken away to be converted into a living ship by the cybernetic Jentari.

Several days after the bonding ceremony, Ramis's ship was complete and delivered to a landing platform on a canyon rim for inspection. Ramis circled the craft in awe, noting that the ship's features included plasma weapons and a gravitic drive system that were patterned after those on a Yuuzhan Vong coralskipper. As the Jedi continued their inspection, Skywalker received word from Booster Terrik—commander of the Errant Venture and Corran Horn's father-in-law—that a Yuuzhan Vong battle group was heading to the planet. An Alliance force was already fighting the Yuuzhan Vong at the outer planet of Muscave, and the ships had been detached from that formation to attack Zonama Sekot. Those like Ramis who had bonded with living ships were to immediately take to the air and get used to flying them in preparation to defend the planet. Before taking off, an impromptu ceremony was held where each Jedi ignited their lightsabers and held them aloft, gathered around Master Skywalker. As the Jedi angled the blades inward, Skywalker gave a quick speech to unite those gathered for the tasks they were to perform.

The few Jedi-piloted ships engaged Yuuzhan Vong coralskippers in the skies above Zonama Sekot. The presence of living ships much like their own confused the Yuuzhan Vong, and the yammosks had difficulty differentiating friend from foe because of the similar organic nature of the ships. Some of the Jedi had trouble controlling their craft; as living organisms, each craft had to "get to know" its pilot, effectively bonding with them. While some Jedi had no trouble letting go of their egos, others found it harder, and their ships were not as responsive as they should have been, sometimes even refusing to fire on the enemy. In time, however, the bonding process smoothed out, and the Jedi pilots defended the planet in earnest.

As the battle in the Coruscant system intensified, the focus shifted toward the orbit of Zonama Sekot. Heavy fighting between the Alliance and Yuuzhan Vong threatened the planet, and Sekot used the Jedi-piloted ships to defend the planet long enough to prepare its other line of defense—specially designed starfighters capable of grappling enemy vessels. Sekot grounded the Jedi fighters and then used the grapplers to bring Alliance and Yuuzhan Vong ships down to the surface. Ramis and the other Jedi pilots witnessed the first act of a Yuuzhan Vong surrender on the surface after four coralskipper pilots were forcibly brought down.

The Yuuzhan Vong soon surrendered unconditionally to the allied forces, agreeing to disarm and return to Zonama Sekot, where they began to build a new, peaceful society. As Zonama Sekot prepared to welcome its new residents, Master Skywalker called a conclave of all Jedi to outline his vision for the future of the Jedi Order. Ramis attended the gathering, where Skywalker urged each of them to look inside themselves and see how they could best serve the Force and themselves. Four days later, many of the Jedi, including Ramis, had left Zonama Sekot to search for lost friends or return to their homeworlds.

Sometime after the conclusion of the Yuuzhan Vong War but before 35 ABY, Ramis achieved the esteemed rank of Jedi Master and became a member of the informal Masters' Council. She was among the group of Masters who convened at the Jedi's new base of operations on the world of Ossus. Their purpose was to examine Jedi Knights who had been overtaken by the collective mind of Killik hives, transforming them into Joiners. The Jedi discovered that a clandestine "Dark Nest," known as Gorog, was instigating the Killiks to engage in warfare with the Chiss Ascendancy. This conflict threatened to involve the Galactic Alliance, so they resolved to put an end to the Dark Nest Crisis by eliminating Gorog.

While the Masters used their StealthX starfighters to covertly infiltrate the nest located on the moon Kr, Ramis accompanied Masters Durron, Katarn, and Sebatyne on the Millennium Falcon, along with Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo. When communication with the Skywalkers was lost, the Millennium Falcon transported the Masters, along with four YVH 5 Bugcruncher war droids, to rescue the two Jedi Masters. The Masters and droids battled their way through the Gorog nest, defeating numerous Killiks who sought to kill them. Just as the rescue team reached Skywalker, he vanquished the Dark Jedi Welk. Subsequently, the Masters addressed the Dark Nest's nursery, where Killik larvae were consuming captured Chiss prisoners. They freed several captives who were still alive. Thul, upon learning of the Dark Nest's existence, consented to relocate the Killik nests to newly discovered planets within the Utegetu Nebula. Ultimately, the Jedi dismantled the Dark Nest and brought the Swarm War to a close in 36 ABY.

In 40 ABY, escalating tensions between the Galactic Alliance and Corellia, one of its member states, threatened to erupt into open warfare. The Corellians, dissatisfied with the Alliance's restrictive regulations on the size of their planetary defense fleet, began withholding their tax and military contributions while continuing to benefit from the Alliance's economic infrastructure. An attempt by the Alliance to bring Corellia back into compliance triggered a full-scale war. Corellia soon gained allies and established a Confederation to oppose the Alliance. Although the Jedi Order had been involved in the conflict from the outset, one of their members, the Jedi Knight Jacen Solo, assumed a prominent role in the conflict. He first became the head of the Galactic Alliance Guard, a secret police organization created to combat the growing presence of Corellian terrorist cells on Coruscant, and later as Co-Chief of State of the Alliance following a military coup.

Without the Jedi Order knowing, Solo had been swayed by Lumiya, a follower of the Sith, and was gradually succumbing to the dark side of the Force. Master Jade Skywalker eventually learned of his fall through information provided by her son, Ben Skywalker, who was Solo's informal apprentice. This revelation led to a confrontation on the planet Kavan where Solo murdered Jade Skywalker. Concealing his involvement in her death, he led the Jedi to believe that Lumiya was responsible. Jade Skywalker's remains were returned to Coruscant, where a formal funeral was held. Ramis attended the service, standing with the Order's other masters on a raised platform, and witnessed Jade Skywalker's body becoming one with the Force. Tionne Solusar included an illustration of this event in Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force, a historical compilation he created around that time.

Shortly after the funeral, Grand Master Skywalker withdrew Jedi support from the Alliance after Solo, who had embraced the identity of Darth Caedus, seized the Jedi Academy on Ossus by stationing Galactic Alliance Guard troops there. Even though Caedus threatened to kill the Jedi on Ossus and destroy the Jedi Temple on Coruscant if Skywalker did not support him, the Grand Master refused to allow the Order to be manipulated further. He established the Jedi Coalition, a loose alliance of organizations and individuals dedicated to stopping the war, and the Jedi Order regrouped on the forest moon of Endor, where they established a secret outpost.

Ramis was among the Masters, including Skywalker, Durron, Katarn, Cilghal, Sebatyne, and Horn, who convened on the landing platform atop the outpost to discuss how to confront Caedus. During the discussion, where Durron suggested a mission to neutralize or capture Caedus, the Masters engaged in a practice lightsaber duel. Ramis, maintaining her composure despite her feelings about the recent near-fatal injuries of the Masters Solusar on Ossus, chose to hand her lightsaber to Master Sebatyne. She instead used telekinesis to lift stones and rocks from the forest floor and direct them at the assembled Masters as they fought.

As the mission discussion continued, Durron mentioned a young Jedi candidate, Seha Dorvald, whom he intended to use as a guide through Coruscant's undercity. However, Caedus had sponsored her to the Academy, and she had provided him with information about the Temple. Following the attack on Ossus and the evacuation of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, Dorvald confessed to her actions. After questioning Dorvald, the Masters, while acknowledging her wrongdoing, realized that it stemmed from a misguided sense of loyalty to the man who had brought her to the Jedi. Skywalker then authorized the mission to deal with Caedus, but it ended in failure. The Jedi Coalition eventually defeated Caedus at the Battle of Uroro Station, killing the Sith Lord and installing Natasi Daala as Chief of State of the Galactic Alliance.

After the war ended, Ramis took on Seha Dorvald as her apprentice. In 43 ABY, Jedi Knight Valin Horn, Master Corran Horn's son, suffered a mental breakdown, convinced that his parents and fellow Jedi had been replaced by impostors. Despite being confined to the Temple's infirmary on Coruscant, he escaped and fled. However, Master Cilghal had implanted a tracking device under Horn's skin, allowing him to be tracked. Ramis and Dorvald were part of the Jedi team tasked with finding him and bringing him back to the Temple. Based on Dorvald's suggestion, they monitored the Senate Building because the apprentice believed that Horn might be thinking like an animal due to his mental state. Three years prior, Dorvald and Horn had been on the mission to assassinate Jacen Solo after he embraced the Sith identity of Darth Caedus. During that mission, they had used Coruscant's undercity to move around and execute their plan, and Dorvald reasoned that Horn might use that knowledge to his advantage, either to steal a vehicle to escape the planet or to take a politician hostage. Ramis agreed with Dorvald's reasoning, and the pair positioned themselves in the plaza in front of the Senate Building, monitoring a tracker attuned to the device under Horn's skin. As they waited, Horn approached the plaza, validating Dorvald's theory. Ramis praised her apprentice's insight and instructed her to inform the other Jedi searching for Horn that they had located him.

Horn had incapacitated Enneth Holkin, the protocol aide to Corellian co-Chief of State Denjax Teppler, stealing his clothes and identification cards to gain access to the Senate Building. However, Holkin had activated his panic ring during the assault, alerting security in the Senate Building to his distress. Security personnel immediately identified Horn's presence in a secured corridor where he was not authorized to be and initiated a security lockdown of the Senate Building as per Chief of State Daala's standing orders. Daala, as part of a campaign to address the perceived arrogance and sense of superiority within the Jedi Order, particularly their apparent lack of accountability and belief that they were above the law they claimed to uphold, had issued specific orders for dealing with rogue Jedi in the aftermath of Darth Caedus' reign as ruler of the Galactic Alliance. Ramis and Dorvald approached the Senate Building, where the Master attempted to gain access by using a mind trick on the female security guard. Unfortunately for Ramis, the security guard was not easily influenced and resisted all attempts at persuasion. Frustrated, Ramis turned to Dorvald, who was using the Force to sense Horn's feelings. Despite gaining a sense of his intentions, she could not accurately track him. Ramis melded with her apprentice, gaining a sense of Horn's Force presence. She felt him decide to take two vehicles; while she wondered how he would accomplish that, a shuttle with Kuati markings crashed through a closed portal one hundred meters above them. As the shuttle crashed to the permacrete plaza, Ramis heard the distinctive whine of an X-wing's repulsors. Sensing that Horn was escaping in a starfighter, she used a combination of Force speed and a telekinetic push from Dorvald to launch herself into the air.

Ramis intercepted Horn's fighter as it slowly emerged from the makeshift opening, colliding with the fuselage on the starboard side and clinging to the nose. She attempted to destroy the cockpit canopy's latch with her lightsaber, but, forced to use her off hand, Ramis only left a mark on the transparisteel. As she tried again, Horn anticipated her move, increasing the fighter's thrusters to disrupt her strike. Although Ramis managed to penetrate the canopy, creating holes on both sides, she failed to strike the latch. As Horn cleared the perimeter of the hole, he engaged the fighter's engines and began to ascend into Coruscant's sky. Ramis realized that Horn intended to gain altitude and then shake her off, resulting in a fatal fall. She tried to strike the canopy once more with her lightsaber, but it bounced off as she could not gain leverage or strength behind the blow. As Horn dislodged her, Ramis fell towards the ground. Deactivating her lightsaber and attaching it to her belt to prevent any accidental harm to passersby, she braced herself for impact. As Ramis neared the ground, Dorvald caught her with the Force; although Ramis hit the ground hard and lost consciousness, the impact was not fatal. Despite being sore and suspecting a concussion, Ramis complimented her apprentice on the catch. Dorvald was concerned that they had failed to capture Horn, but Ramis pointed out that they had forced him out of hiding. Now that he was airborne, the tracker implanted in him would be more effective, and the broken cockpit seal meant he could not escape into space. Eventually, Horn was recaptured by the other Jedi teams that Ramis had alerted earlier.

As the galaxy recovered from the war instigated by Darth Caedus, Chief of State Daala sought to hold someone accountable for his crimes. Ultimately, she directed the Galactic Alliance justice system to prosecute Grand Master Skywalker for failing to prevent Jacen Solo's moral decline as head of the Jedi Order. Rather than subject the Jedi Order to scrutiny for their actions during the war, Skywalker agreed to Daala's terms of exile from Coruscant and relinquishment of control of the Order to Master Kenth Hamner. Skywalker was to have no formal contact with the Order for ten years, unless he could provide irrefutable evidence and justification for why Solo's transformation into Caedus was not his fault, and implement safeguards within the Order to prevent other Jedi from suffering the same fate. Ramis attended a meeting of the Jedi Masters' Council where Skywalker officially stepped down as Grand Master and appointed Hamner as his successor. She later attended the farewell ceremony for Skywalker as he prepared to leave Coruscant, alongside many other Jedi, as well as the companions and comrades that Skywalker had gathered over the years. The day after Skywalker's departure, Ramis attended another Council meeting held in the Masters' Chamber. Hamner, seeking to demystify the Order and increase public sympathy and support for the Jedi, agreed to allow a documentary crew to follow a Master on assignments. When he asked for volunteers, Master Ramis offered herself after Master Sebatyne commented that any film crew following her would likely produce a documentary too violent for children.

Ramis remained on Coruscant and attended a meeting of the Jedi Masters called by Master Hamner after Jysella Horn, Valin Horn's sister, experienced a similar mental breakdown. Jysella Horn had escaped the Jedi Temple, fleeing into the surrounding precinct where she injured several civilians and the Ramoan Jedi Knight Bazel Warv. Her actions were captured on holocamera by the journalist Javis Tyrr, and she was subsequently stunned and arrested by Galactic Alliance security before the Jedi could apprehend her. Ramis, along with the other Masters present, expressed surprise that Chief of State Daala had denied Hamner's request for an immediate meeting, instead scheduling one for three days later.

Shortly after Jysella Horn's incarceration, Jedi Knight Natua Wan experienced the same mental breakdown as the Horn siblings while escorting the Solo family at the Coruscant Livestock Exchange and Exhibition. After a brief struggle, she was captured, but the entire incident was recorded by Javis Tyrr. Daala, who had also learned that the Jedi were holding Knight Seff Hellin, who was also suffering from the same malady, went to the Jedi Temple to demand that the two Knights be handed over to Galactic Alliance security to be frozen in carbonite. This method of imprisonment had been used on Valin Horn, and Jysella Horn was scheduled to undergo the same treatment. Master Ramis joined several other Masters in confronting the Chief of State at the entrance to the Temple.

Several months after Luke Skywalker left Coruscant, the Order received a message from his son, Ben, informing them that they had encountered a new Sith organization. Despite being unable to provide official assistance to Skywalker due to the terms of his departure agreement, Master Hamner ordered squadrons of StealthX fighters to be prepared for launch to assist in dealing with the resurgent Sith. Ramis was tasked with ensuring that the Order's most experienced fighter pilots were rotated back to Coruscant for the mission. However, a raid on the Temple by Mandalorian forces, authorized by Chief of State Daala in an attempt to retrieve Chev Jedi Sothais Saar, who had succumbed to the same psychosis affecting other young Jedi, inflicted heavy damage on the Jedi headquarters. A blockade around the Temple by Galactic Alliance forces also prevented the Order from launching its StealthX squadrons, as they would have been easily shot down upon exiting the Temple hangars.

As more Jedi succumbed to the Force psychosis, the Order attempted to confine them to the Jedi Temple and keep them out of Daala's reach. At an emergency meeting, Hamner revealed to Ramis and the assembled Masters that the Chief of State demanded that Saar, along with the latest known victim, Turi Altamik, be turned over to Galactic Alliance authorities immediately. When Hamner refused, Daala made a veiled threat against the lives of the Jedi's families. The Masters were united in their outrage at the threat, and Hamner warned them to prepare for a possible second attack on the Temple by Mandalorian forces. Shortly after, Mandalorian forces, led by Belok Rhal, besieged the Temple, demanding the immediate release of Saar and Altamik into their custody within the next thirty-six hours.

At a meeting of the Masters, plans of action were formulated. When it was discovered that all exits from the Temple, even those thought to be secret, were guarded by Mandalorians, Ramis suggested that all apprentices search for alternative ways out of the Temple. Given that it had been destroyed and rebuilt multiple times, it was possible that an overlooked exit existed. Hamner agreed, and Ramis, along with her apprentice, Seha Dorvald, took on the assignment. When the idea of negotiating with Rhal arose, since they had no means of contacting anyone outside the Temple due to communications jamming, Ramis suggested that someone should go out to meet with the Mandalorian commander. Eventually, apprentice Kani Asari volunteered. The Masters approved her decision; she was Master Hamner's personal assistant and could therefore speak on his behalf, and she possessed no critical intelligence that could be extracted if she were captured. As the assembled Masters watched her approach the Mandalorian commander, they were shocked and outraged when Rhal shot her at point-blank range, killing her instantly. The Mandalorian declared that there would be no negotiations and that the Jedi were to surrender Saar and Altamik within twenty-four hours.

Despite Asari's murder, Ramis and Dorvald led teams of apprentices to scour the lower levels of the Temple for potential exits. After seven hours of searching, Ramis began to notice a large number of rodents entering the Temple. Initially, some were scared off or killed, until Master Horn noticed that the rodents were carrying items attached to them, including messages from the outside and medication to keep the mentally ill Jedi sedated. The rodents had been coerced into helping through the Force by Leia Organa Solo. Realizing they now had a link to the outside, the Jedi began to send messages back with the rodents. Unexpectedly, the Jedi in the Temple's detention center affected by the psychosis began to return to their normal selves. Master Cilghal, lacking any other explanation, presumed that Master Skywalker had located and eliminated the source of the condition affecting the Jedi. She was correct, as Skywalker had fought and defeated Abeloth, a powerful and ancient being that had been influencing the Jedi. In an effort to lift the Mandalorian siege on the Temple, the Jedi allowed the now-cured Sothais Saar and Turi Altamik to exit the Temple to face both Chief of State Daala and the gathered media. Although Daala admitted that the Jedi no longer appeared dangerous, she refused to release the Horn children from Galactic Alliance custody but did lift the Mandalorian siege on the Temple.

During a Jedi Council meeting, Ramis demanded an immediate strike against the Alliance facility holding the Horns, asserting that the Jedi should no longer allow Daala to hold members of the Order hostage. Her position was supported by the Masters, but Acting Grand Master Hamner refused to authorize an operation that could potentially kill Galactic Alliance security personnel. Near the end of the meeting, Hamner revealed that he had a plan to deal with Daala; he had entered into an agreement with Admiral Nek Bwua'tu that the Bothan would use his influence with Daala to assist the Jedi Order, provided the StealthX wing remained in the Temple's hangars. When the Masters demanded to know his plan, Hamner refused to disclose it, stating that he had agreed to keep the matter confidential between himself and Bwua'tu. The Masters, tired of Hamner's seemingly ineffective leadership and his willingness to submit to Daala's wishes, were on the verge of disobeying him and launching both a rescue mission for the Horns and the StealthX wing until the Acting Grand Master challenged them to remove him from office through a lightsaber duel. The Council unanimously turned to Master Horn for his decision on the matter. Despite his personal feelings, Horn stated that the disagreement between Hamner and the Council had not yet reached that point.

Alongside the other Masters present on Coruscant, Ramis attended another Council meeting where Knight Jaina Solo and businessman Lando Calrissian relayed information about Master Skywalker's mission to the planet at the center of the Maw to confront Abeloth. As part of their report, they revealed that the Sith organization that Skywalker was temporarily allied with was also allied with pirate organizations and appeared to be building a war fleet. Shortly after, Ramis and the other Masters prepared to welcome a shuttle carrying Jedi Knights from the Jedi world of Shedu Maad who had been unable to return to the Temple while it was under siege. While waiting for the shuttle, the Masters viewed a news report from the planet Blaudu Sextus where a uprising had occurred. The Council, fearing that the revolt had been orchestrated by Freedom Flight, an anti-slavery activist organization, had dispatched Jedi Knights Avinoam Arelis and Sothais Saar to investigate. During the news report, which showed Mandalorians hired by the government slaughtering the Octusi who were peacefully protesting for their freedom, the two Jedi Knights intervened and captured the Mandalorian commander, Belok Rhal. Master Sebatyne believed their actions were the will of the Force, while Acting Grand Master Hamner worried that Daala would interpret their actions as a sign that the Jedi were opposing slavery in the galaxy and wished to assure her that this was not the case. During a heated debate between Hamner and Sebatyne, the Acting Grand Master was forced to reveal his deal with Admiral Bwua'tu when Han Solo disclosed that he knew of the agreement, having learned of it from a Sullustan senator, Luewet Wuul. The Masters concluded that Hamner had betrayed the trust of the Council by not informing them. Ramis, along with the other Masters, agreed with Sebatyne's statement that she had no confidence in Hamner and effectively ousted him from office.

With Hamner out of commission, the Jedi Council, under the guidance of Master Sebatyne, took swift action. They authorized a raid on Galactic Alliance Security Detention Center 81 to free the Horn siblings. Simultaneously, they deployed the StealthX wing to aid Master Skywalker in his fight against the Sith. Among the select few Council Masters chosen to lead the StealthX wing were Ramis, Kyp Durron, and Kyle Katarn. Their strategy involved launching the wing while the Galactic Alliance Sixth Fleet was distracted. To this end, Booster Terrik, the grandfather of the imprisoned Horn siblings, utilized his Imperial II-class Star Destroyer, the Errant Venture, to host a sabacc tournament. This tournament attracted one hundred of the wealthiest and most influential individuals within the Galactic Alliance, including senators and high-ranking military personnel. Terrik's plan was to destroy several Alliance orbital facilities with these individuals onboard, and then escape with them as hostages. The Council's intention was to launch the StealthX wing without engaging Alliance forces, taking advantage of the Sixth Fleet's response to the Venture's actions. However, Hamner escaped his confinement and attempted to prevent the launch. A duel ensued between him and Master Sebatyne in the hangar; both participants were fighting without the intention of killing the other, but Sebatyne sustained an injury, and Hamner was knocked off a balcony. Sebatyne used the Force to prevent Hamner from falling to his death, but the former Acting Grand Master threw his lightsaber at the relay box controlling the hangar doors. To ensure the launch proceeded as planned, Sebatyne was compelled to prioritize controlling Hamner's lightsaber over saving him from the fall. The launch was successful, but Hamner perished. Following this, Ramis and the StealthX wing met up with the Errant Venture, traveling to Almania's moon of Pydyr, where they successfully rescued Master Skywalker and his son, Ben, from the clutches of the Sith.

After the battle that occurred on Almania, Ramis and Master Durron convened with the Jedi Council on Coruscant, where they decided to forcefully remove Chief of State Daala from her position of power. The Jedi needed to infiltrate operatives into the Senate Building as part of their plan. To facilitate this, Booster Terrik arranged for the Jedi to use the Dust Dancer, a transport vessel with a legitimate history. Ramis, disguised with darkened skin and bleached white hair, and Seha Dorvald piloted the Dust Dancer to the Galactic Alliance military base on Borleias. There, they impersonated a transport carrying a large quantity of luxury goods destined for the planet. Dolo Karenzi, the night-shift quartermaster, believed there had been a mistake since the base had not ordered the goods. However, he allowed the transport to land and unload the cargo, intending to secretly store the goods and profit from their sale later. As the Dust Dancer was unloading, Terrik's Errant Venture arrived in the system and began transporting the sabacc tournament participants to the base, freeing them from their limited confinement. As the Jedi anticipated, the Dust Dancer was then commandeered to transport the players back to the capital.

Upon the Dust Dancer's arrival at Coruscant, Dorvald piloted the Lambda-class shuttle DeepRay to the Senate Building, carrying Wynn Dorvan, Senator Fost Bramsin, and General Merratt Jaxton. Ramis and Master Durron were concealed within shielded smuggling compartments aboard the vessel. Despite having the opportunity to infiltrate the Senate Building from the shuttle, the Jedi pair lacked the necessary disguises and false identifications to move around unnoticed. Consequently, the shuttle had to remain in the Senate Building until these items could be provided. Dorvald then detonated an explosive attached to the right stern thruster, simulating an engine failure and necessitating that the shuttle remain grounded in the hangar for "repairs." A day later, the droids C-3PO and R2-D2, disguised and infiltrated into the Senate Building aboard the Millennium Falcon, delivered false identifications, credcards, and disguises to the two Jedi. Ramis was to assume the identity of "Olya Merker," a comfort specialist assigned to the tertiary support detail of Senator Haydnat Treen of Kuat, while Durron would be "Izzen Fray," a financial analyst from the same delegation. With the "repairs" completed, Dorvald launched the DeepRay. She informed the hangar personnel that the repairs would cause a significant amount of smoke during launch. As the shuttle ascended, the two Jedi Masters used the smoke as cover to exit the shuttle, enhancing their speed with the Force to clear the cloud and infiltrate the Senate Building undetected.

Using the provided equipment, Ramis and Durron successfully forged a requisition order granting them access to an unoccupied office within the building. They then proceeded to gather intelligence on the inner workings of the Senate, including the movements of senators and political personnel, as well as the security protocols. They discovered that Fleet Intelligence had taken over the Chief of State's personal security and had installed their own monitoring hardware into the Senate Building's security systems. In some instances, they had managed to install their own hardware onto the modifications before activation, granting them access to holocams throughout the building. The Masters also found a way to create self-erasing orders for personnel rotation, enabling Jedi to enter the Senate Building disguised as Fleet personnel to bolster their presence. In a briefing to the other Masters at the Temple, Ramis and Durron advocated for Plan Delta, conceived by Master Horn, as the most viable option. The Council concurred, and more Jedi infiltrated the Senate Building. Shortly after, the Alliance CC-7700 frigate Fireborn was destroyed over Coruscant in a terrorist attack by the Klatooinian Grunel Ovin, the leader of the Sapience Defense Front. In response, Daala ordered an attack on Klatooinian settlements by Mandalorians. Ramis and Durron intercepted the communiques and realized they had to act immediately to prevent a massacre. With the agreement of the other Masters, the Jedi organized themselves into action. According to their plan, the Jedi and their allies locked down the Senate Building by manipulating its security systems to simulate an external attack, securing key areas of the building. Chief of State Daala was arrested, and a Triumvirate was established to assume control of the government, consisting of Master Sebatyne, Senator Treen, and General Jaxton. Following the coup, the Jedi finally held a funeral for Kenth Hamner, which Ramis attended.

With Daala's removal from power, the ten-year sentence imposed on Grand Master Skywalker was overturned, allowing him to return to Coruscant. Ramis, alongside the rest of the Council, warmly welcomed him back in the Master's Chamber upon his return to the Temple. During the meeting, Skywalker announced his intention to train Vestara Khai in the ways of the Jedi. Khai, a member of the Lost Tribe of Sith who had been traveling with the Skywalkers, had developed feelings for Ben. Having witnessed the horrors perpetrated by Abeloth firsthand and having been forced to slay her father, who was under Abeloth's control, on Dromund Kaas, Khai had begun to question the Sith way. Grand Master Skywalker affirmed that Khai's desire to abandon her Sith teachings and embrace the Jedi way was genuine, and Ramis accepted his word. Skywalker also announced his decision to relocate the Jedi from Coruscant. Ramis and the other Masters questioned this decision. The Grand Master explained that the move was intended to separate the Jedi from any involvement with the government, allowing them to become an independent entity better suited to serve the galaxy. They would no longer be held hostage by an administration that viewed them as subservient tools. The Masters agreed to his decision, and the Triumvirate governing the Galactic Alliance was dissolved.

After leaving Coruscant, Skywalker led the majority of the Order to the planet Upekzar, an ancient Sith world. He suspected that Abeloth, now allied with the sentient Sith Meditation Sphere known as "Ship" and a faction of the Lost Tribe of Sith, might be hiding there. Ramis was among the Jedi who entered an abandoned city and encountered a Keshiri Sith named Tola Annax. Abeloth had infused the woman with dark side energy in an attempt to trap and eliminate the Jedi. Killing Annax upon meeting her would have released the pent-up energy within her body, causing a massive explosion. Although the Jedi refrained from killing her, the accumulation of dark side energy was tearing Annax apart. Ramis and the other Jedi present retreated from the city at Skywalker's command. As they fled, the ground began to tremble, and Abeloth's laughter echoed around them. The ground cracked and shifted, creating chasms that the Jedi had to use the Force to leap across. Clouds above the city began to generate Force lightning, which struck both the Jedi on the ground and those providing aerial cover. As they ran, Annax exploded behind them, and the release of dark side energy propelled the retreating Jedi into the air, triggering a dormant volcano that began erupting with hot ash and molten rock. Most of the Jedi used the Force to cool the superheated air, but some perished while trying to breathe. The surviving Jedi escaped the city ahead of a pyroclastic surge from the volcano, heading towards their own ships or larger transports. Although some Jedi were lost, the majority of the ground force survived the trap.

With the Jedi absent from Coruscant, the Lost Tribe of Sith infiltrated the galactic capital, posing as newly elected senators, officials, and journalists. This occupation was part of Grand Master Skywalker's plan to draw them out of hiding and gather them in one location, although the Jedi were unaware that Abeloth was also on the planet. A month after surviving the trap on Upekzar, the Jedi, assisted by Admiral Bwua'tu and an underground intelligence network, infiltrated Coruscant and positioned themselves to simultaneously strike high-ranking Sith throughout the planet. Master Ramis and three other Jedi were tasked with either capturing or eliminating Kayala Fei, the Sith's primary spokesperson on the anti-Jedi propaganda outlet BAMR News.

Ramis and her team disguised themselves as a relief production crew brought in after the regular workers had been served spoiled thakitillo. The Jedi took their places behind a mixing console after setting up their sabotage. During a live midday broadcast, Ramis arranged for a message to appear on Fei's holoprompter, demanding her surrender or death. Fei, realizing the situation, used the Force to evade a stage light that swung down at her, bisecting it with her lightsaber. However, her focus on the stage light caused her to miss a broken cable that had fallen behind her. The cable wrapped around Fei's neck, electrocuting and killing her. Ramis instructed Fei's co-anchor to continue the broadcast, assuring him that a medical droid was on its way. As the co-anchor announced Fei's accidental death, Ramis gathered her team and proceeded to her next target.

After Luke Skywalker's team of Jedi failed to reclaim their Jedi Temple from the Lost Tribe and discovered that Abeloth was working with the Sith, the Grand Master promptly convened a joint meeting of the Jedi Council and their closest allies in the Senate and the military, held in the offices of Sullustan Senator Luewet Wuul. The Council, with only Masters Kam and Tionne Solusar absent to tend to the students on Shedu Maad, welcomed their newest member, Jaina Solo, with Ramis whispering her greeting as Master Solo took the seat beside her.

The Council and their allies were briefed on Abeloth's nature and history in connection with the Force entities known as the Ones, and that Abeloth derived her power from fear and could possess multiple bodies across the galaxy simultaneously; killing one avatar weakened the others. Following the meeting, Grand Master Skywalker and Master Solo destroyed Abeloth on her planet and rescued Ben Skywalker, while Master Sabatyne, Tahiri Veila, and Void Jumper marines destroyed Abeloth in the Temple. The Jedi ended the Sith occupation of the capital, and the threat of Abeloth was lessened; however, to Ramis and the Council's dismay, the Senate requested that the Jedi leave Coruscant.

Aboard the frigate Redstar, Ramis and the rest of the Council, excluding Masters Kam and Tionne Solusar, and alongside acting Chief of State Wynn Dorvan, visited Grand Master Skywalker as he recovered from battling Abeloth. Masters Ramis and Barratk'l relayed a report from Jedi Knights Avinoam Arelis and Sothais Saar, who had been attacked three days prior by a tentacle that materialized from the Force before disappearing. Skywalker concurred with the Council's assessment that the tentacle was a remnant of Abeloth attempting to strike at a representation of her hatred. He further resolved that the Jedi must locate the legendary Mortis Monolith where the Ones had resided to secure the Dagger of Mortis, the weapon capable of countering Abeloth's immortality. Upon learning that the Senate had voted to remove the Jedi from Coruscant, Skywalker agreed with the decision, causing all of the assembled Masters' Force auras to ripple in shock. The Grand Master explained that by withdrawing to the planet Shedu Maad, the Order would prevent their war with the Sith from reaching the capital again, clarifying the reasoning for his decision.

Octa Ramis, a passionate Jedi Knight, often openly displayed her emotions and was known for her volatile temper. She was deeply in love with fellow Jedi Miko Reglia and was grief-stricken when he was killed by the Yuuzhan Vong. Although she did not outwardly express her grief at Reglia's memorial service, she harbored anger towards the Yuuzhan Vong for taking him from her and sought retribution for their actions. Shortly before the Battle of Ithor, she realized that her pain was clouding her judgment and preventing her from fulfilling her responsibilities as a Jedi, and she was able to release her grief. She continued to love him and fondly remembered him sixteen years later during a conversation with her apprentice, Seha Dorvald.

During the Yuuzhan Vong War, Ramis advocated for a proactive stance against the invaders, believing that the Jedi Order should prioritize its own interests as the galaxy at large turned against them. While Ramis often supported Kyp Durron's philosophy, his sacrifice of those under his command during the Battle of Coruscant soured her opinion of him and his beliefs.

Ramis was deeply affected by the injuries that her former instructors, Kam and Tionne Solusar, sustained at the hands of Galactic Alliance personnel on Ossus during the Second Galactic Civil War, but she maintained her composure through strict self-control. She was known as one of the quieter Masters on the Council, yet she possessed a commanding presence and knew how to take charge even in chaotic situations.

Ramis was a capable Jedi instructor, willing to accept Seha Dorvald as an apprentice despite the latter being older than most apprentices at her skill level. She knew when to discipline her apprentice and when to offer praise, and she allowed Dorvald to take the lead when scouting potential locations that Valin Horn might visit after his escape from the Jedi Temple. She trusted Dorvald and shared personal secrets with her, including a youthful crush she had on Han Solo.

Master Ramis was a tall Human woman with dark hair, standing at nearly 1.8 meters.

Octa Ramis was a fully trained Jedi serving in Luke Skywalker's Jedi Order. She was proficient in the use of a lightsaber, although she was less effective with it in her non-dominant hand. Ramis could enhance her speed using the Force and effectively employed telekinesis, demonstrating the ability to lift multiple objects simultaneously and direct them on precise trajectories. Ramis could also use the Force to influence individuals with weak minds, although those with strong wills could resist her suggestions.

Beyond her Jedi abilities, Ramis was also skilled in using computer systems and could erase traces of file searches without leaving any evidence. She was also a skilled pilot, serving as a member of Kyp's Dozen during the Yuuzhan Vong War and leading them in Durron's absence, such as during the Battle of Mon Calamari. Her piloting skills were further demonstrated when she was chosen by seed-partners on Zonama Sekot, and a living ship was crafted specifically for her to defend the planet. Even after joining the Masters' Council, she was frequently assigned to starfighter duty, either in an administrative role or flying in support of various Jedi operations.

Octa Ramis was first introduced in The New Jedi Order: Dark Tide II: Ruin, a 2000 novel within The New Jedi Order series by Michael A. Stackpole. She is a recurring character throughout the rest of that series and the 2009–2012 Fate of the Jedi novel series, which explores further threats to the New Jedi Order's existence.

An illustration in the November 2007 sourcebook Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force depicts Ramis among a group of Jedi Masters attending the funeral of Mara Jade Skywalker, an event from the novel Legacy of the Force: Inferno, published in August of that year. While Ramis was not mentioned by name in the novel, artist Chris Trevas included her because he needed more people in the picture than just the Jedi who were explicitly named in the book, and her presence was not contradicted by the text's vague mention of "Jedi Masters" being in attendance.