Adi Gallia

Adi Gallia was a Force-sensitive Tholothian female Jedi Master of the Jedi Order and member of the Jedi High Council during the final decades of the Galactic Republic Era. Born into an upper-class diplomatic family on the Republic capital of Coruscant, Gallia was highly regarded by both the Jedi and the Republic Senate for her skills as a diplomat and political consultant, a reputation she fostered by controlling a vast covert intelligence network that ran throughout her native city. During the Clone Wars, a pan-galactic conflict between the Republic and its splinter state, the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Gallia was promoted to the rank of Jedi General in the Grand Army of the Republic. On the frontlines, Gallia led clone forces such as the 91st Mobile Reconnaissance Corps into battle while also working alongside pirate groups such as the Lok Revenants.

From the opening salvo of the Clone Wars, the First Battle of Geonosis, where she oversaw the orbital battle, Gallia was turned from a political expert to a battlefield commander. In the earliest days of the war, she helped strategize the war effort as the Republic armies spread across the galaxy but soon had to join the conflict herself. When Master Eeth Koth was taken captive by Confederate General Grievous, Gallia joined her fellow Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker in the Battle of Saleucami to rescue him. Although Gallia and Skywalker successfully freed Koth, Kenobi's attempt to defeat Grievous failed, though not before Gallia personally clashed with the feared Jedi killer. Gallia later served in the daring retrieval of Republic forces in the Battle of Lola Sayu, flying as one of General Saesee Tiin's wing commanders, and continued to aid in strategy meetings on Coruscant, including during the Battle of Mon Cala.

Shortly after leading a mercy mission to disaster-ridden Aleen, Gallia was taken prisoner by General Grievous in the Battle of Patitite Pattuna, but her captivity was brief and she was soon rescued. Alongside Kenobi, Gallia answered a distress signal on Bray, where they fought the vampiric creature known as Lord Ravna. At the start of the war's third year, Gallia again stood at Kenobi's side when he set out to track down the rogue Sith Lords Darth Maul and Savage Opress. Following the two Dathomirians across the Outer Rim, Gallia and Kenobi tracked them to Florrum, where they recruited the aid of the pirate king Hondo Ohnaka. Despite her efforts, Gallia was outmatched during the subsequent duel with the Sith and was slaughtered by Opress in their confrontation. After her death, her seat on the High Council was offered to her cousin, Jedi Knight Stass Allie.

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