Barriss Offee

Barriss Offee, a Force-sensitive Mirialan female, was a Jedi healer who ascended to Jedi Knighthood during the Clone Wars. Born in 40 BBY to parents she would never again see, Offee was discovered by the Jedi Order during infancy and was brought to the Jedi Temple on the galactic capital of Coruscant. When it came time for her to start training as a Jedi Padawan, she embarked under the tutelage of Jedi Master Luminara Unduli, another Mirialan, who instructed her in the ways of the Force and also in the traditions of their shared heritage. In 22 BBY, during the escalating Separatist Crisis, Offee joined Unduli in helping Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan, Anakin Skywalker, settle a border dispute on Ansion. Their efforts resulted in an accord between the Unity of Community and the native Alwari tribes, preventing the key backwater world from seceding from the Galactic Republic.

Offee was thereafter part of the Jedi task force that went to rescue Kenobi, Skywalker, and Senator Padmé Amidala from Geonosis, where the Confederacy of Independent Systems had sentenced them to execution. The ensuing Battle of Geonosis sparked the Clone Wars, in which Offee became a Jedi Commander, leading clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic alongside her Master. Besides defending the Jedi Order's Crystal Caves of Ilum and employing her healing skills on New Holstice and Null, Offee formed a friendship with fellow Padawan Ahsoka Tano, the Padawan of Anakin Skywalker, during the Second Battle of Geonosis. That campaign saw Offee and Tano obliterate a major Geonosian battle droid foundry and they quelled a following outbreak of mind-controlling Geonosian brain worms. In 20 BBY, Offee was assigned to the crew of Republic Mobile Surgical Unit 7 on Drongar. Despite the growing temptation of the dark side Offee passed the trial and graduated to Jedi Knight.

Believing that the Jedi had fallen from the light as a result of their heightened militancy in fighting the Clone Wars, she worked with activist Letta Turmond to orchestrate a bombing of the Jedi Temple as a demonstration of her misgivings. Offee then framed her friend Tano for the bombing, as well as for her subsequent murder of Turmond. Although Offee posed as ex-Separatist bounty hunter Asajj Ventress to further manipulate Tano and ensure her friend's arrest, Skywalker discovered the truth. After Skywalker defeated her, Offee confessed to her crimes at Tano's trial before being taken into Republic custody. At some point near the end of the war, Offee was released and took Zonder as her padawan. While on Felucia, she was leading a squad until she was killed when Order 66 was issued by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, marking her a victim of the Great Jedi Purge.

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