Template:SW Character Jerec is a fictional character of the Star Wars universe, appearing in the computer game Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. Jerec is the leader of the seven Dark Jedi that the player must face in the game.
Physically blind, he perceives the world around him thanks to the Force, similarly to Darth Traya. Serving the Galactic Empire and the murderer of Morgan Katarn, after the fall of Palpatine his goal was to absorb the power of the Valley of the Jedi and begin a new Empire. However, Kyle Katarn, after fighting and defeating his six henchmen, stops him before he achieves his aim and defeats him in an epic lightsaber duel inside the Valley's inner sanctums on the planet of Ruusan.
Jerec was trained by Palpatine under Darth Vader along with a number of other dark students in an attempt to ensure the dark side's reign over the galaxy should anything happen to either Vader or Palpatine. Jerec often studied from one of the Emperor's many Dark side texts, the enourmous Dark Side Compendium (which Luke Skywalker would later study from at the tutelage of the reborn Emperor, on Byss). In this malevolent tome, Palpatine mused about a proposal he never actually had time to test: he would take 7 or so trained Dark Jedi, and submerge them utterly into the Emperor's evil will; they would be fanatical, absolutely loyal, nearly unstoppable servants- a Dark Side Elite. But Palpatine never carried it out fully (he did use Battle Meditation to acheive a weak form of this however). Jerec determined to pick up where Palpatine left off- unfortunately for Jerec, Palpatine sensed his intent, and wary of possibly being overthrown, blocked Jerec from further access to his corpus, or indeed, any advanced training at all. After Palpatine's death at the hands of Vader, Jerec took his chance and aimed for his goal, binding the minor characters Boc, Gorc, Pic, Maw, Sariss, Yun .
He apparently reappears in Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith (the Jedi Knight expansion pack), this time as a variety of Sith statue scattered throughout the last few levels.
There is a novel with Jerec as a bit character in the old Star Wars book series, Galaxy of Fear.
Although realized by a fully digital character in the game itself, Jerec is portrayed by actor Christopher Neame in the cut scenes after completion of certain levels.
Jerec is briefly referrred to in Dark Horse's Clone Wars series.