Axel Josen

"Now you're telling me Skywalker wants to bring back the Jedi? Listen, we dug up old reports&mdash;real, verified stuff&mdash;and those monks couldn't be trusted as far as a Jawa can spit. Hell, their Grand Master was banging some crusty librarian on the side, and preaching his celibate doctrine to all the little Padawans. Hypocrites, every one of them."

- Axel Josen in Infostarwars: Episode #79-D/43 Luke Skywalker: Changeling Conspirator?

Axel Josen was a male HoloNet host of the Infostarwars show and a conspiracy theorist.

History
Josen had a HoloNet show, Infostarwars, in which he often talked about plasma trails and conspiracy theories including claims about Jedi powers. His conspiracy node was infamous as of the time of the Galactic Empire, and its pages featured updates on conspiracies and claims about Jedi and the Empire.

The Infostarwars conspiracy node updated around the time of Luke Skywalker's eighteenth birthday, featuring a page with the claim that female Jedi of the Jedi Rebellion had been captured by clone troopers and held in Imperial prison facilities. The author speculated on the reasons for this, and shared the opinion that Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine and his advisors in the Empire's upper echelons were Trandoshans in disguise. Skywalker decided to discount the site's opinions.

Josen and his ilk long featured the vague details found in Voren Na'al's Official History of the Rebel Movements, and generated conspiracy theories on the Dark HoloNet over the document's accuracy.

Josen's Infostarwars broadcasts were played on a viewscreen in the Imp bar The Old Hope on Aralia, catering to patrons who discussed conspiracy theories about the Galactic Civil War. Some Centrists spouted Infostarwars conspiracy theories.

Josen aired his views on Luke Skywalker and the Jedi in Episode #79-D/43 Luke Skywalker: Changeling Conspirator?, an installment of his Infostarwars show, claiming that the former Jedi Grand Master was having sex with librarian Jocasta Nu while preaching celibacy to Padawans. Josen branded them hypocrites, and scoffed at the idea of Skywalker bringing back the Jedi. In his elder years, Luke himself, having discounted Infostarwars's claims in his youth, considered Josen a paranoid conspiracy theorist whose HoloNet site made ridiculous claims about him and the Jedi. Among the theories were claims that Skywalker could shape-shift, and used the ability to take the form of various women's husbands in order to father numerous children, complete with vestigial tails.

Grummgar assumed the destruction of Hosnian Prime talked about at Maz Kanata's castle on Takodana was a false flag operation, meteor storm, or one of the plasma trails Josen kept talking about.