Depa Billaba

Depa Billaba, a Force-sensitive human female native of the planet Chalacta, was a Jedi Master who served on the Jedi High Council during the final years of the Jedi Order. She was born on Chalacta and became a member of the Order at a young age, where she received instruction as a Padawan under Jedi Master Mace Windu. Billaba was later appointed to the Council alongside her former teacher and was present when Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn presented Anakin Skywalker, the Chosen One, to the governing body. She later attended Jinn's funeral after the Jedi Master was killed during the Battle of Naboo.

Billaba continued to serve as a member of the Council during the political crisis that led to the Clone Wars, a pan-galactic civil war between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. During the war, she, like many of the other Jedi, became a general within the Grand Army of the Republic and would take on Caleb Dume as her Padawan learner. Following the Battle of Kaller's conclusion as was part of the wider Outer Rim Sieges, the two were attacked by Billaba's battalion of clone troopers during the issuance of Order 66, a secret protocol branding all Jedi as enemies of the state and calling for their execution. Due to Billaba's sacrifice, Dume survived the Great Jedi Purge and went into hiding under a new name—Kanan Jarrus. Initially traveling low and taking odd jobs, he eventually joined a group of rebels who opposed the Galactic Empire. Although Jarrus hid his true identity as a Jedi for years, he remembered his Master with fondness. After adopting Ezra Bridger as an apprentice, Jarrus initially relied on his own incomplete training under Billaba in order to teach Bridger the ways of the Jedi and the Force.

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