At that time, the Twilight Covenant's lead instructors were still the first Jedi Masters Tang Xiao had revived—Green-Betty and Aiden Ward. Their main students numbered only a dozen or so children with Force talent discovered on Dawn Star Planet.
At sixteen or seventeen, Sola Kohn was already the oldest among the Twilight Covenant's trainees. After her, several more overage trainees joined one after another.
The Protoss did not place much importance on overage trainees like them, so the training they received was limited. In the end, none of them achieved anything particularly remarkable in the Force.
Yet during her life there, Sola Kohn felt a rare sense of familial warmth. Her days on Drai II were monotonous, but the trainees grew ever closer, like siblings. At every dusk, they often gathered beneath the observatory platform to listen to Master Betty speak of the true meaning of Force cultivation and the mysteries of the universe. Master Aiden Ward would also teach them how to use the Force for amusing little games.
The mysterious Protoss, the staid Geth, and the ever-increasing number of golden buildings on the satellite also filled Sola Kohn with longing.
By the time she completed her basic studies, the Clone Wars had already erupted. Yet the war had not reached Dawn Star Planet. Sola Kohn also traveled to that world, so foreign to her, and experienced a life entirely different from that of the Galactic Republic's Core Worlds.
There were none of the Noble Houses' schemes and smiling treachery, nor all those cumbersome formalities, banquets, and social obligations. Dawn Star Planet had only vibrant energy and the determination to rise from behind and catch up. Faced with a colossal entity like the Galactic Republic, the people here wanted something very simple—survival.
Sola Kohn quickly fell in love with