Shaak Ti

Shaak Ti ʃɑk ti was a Force-sensitive Togruta female Jedi Master who served as one of the final members of the Jedi High Council before the Great Jedi Purge. Highly regarded amongst the Jedi Order for her wisdom, Ti excelled as a teacher and was a highly skilled combatant and swordsman, as well as a devoted believer in the ways of the Jedi. Ti ascended to the prestigious High Council following the death of Master Yaddle, and retained her seat until the Order's dissolution at the end of the Clone Wars. During the Clone Wars, a galaxy-wide conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Ti was given the rank of Jedi General in the Grand Army of the Republic and took part in the pivotal battles of Geonosis, Kamino, and Coruscant, but spent much of the war stationed on Kamino, where she oversaw the production and training of the Republic's clone soldiers.

While on Kamino, Ti was a close mentor and protector of the clone army, additionally serving as the commanding officer of the garrison stationed on-world, which she led in the defense of Kamino from an attack by Confederate General Grievous. Her compassion for the clones clashed with the Kaminoan's cold view of them as products, and for much of her time on Kamino, Ti had a strained working relationship with the Kaminoan government. Late in the war, Ti became entangled in a conspiracy surrounding the origin of a mysterious inhibitor biochip implanted in every clone. As she attempted to root out these secrets from rogue ARC Trooper Fives, whose unauthorized investigation led to their discovery, the Kaminoan leadership, mainly Chief Medical Scientist Nala Se, worked to undermine her to keep the inhibitors' true purpose secret. Despite her efforts to the contrary, Ti was unable to help Fives as he suffered a mental collapse at Nala Se's hands, and his secrets died with him.

After the biochip conspiracy, Ti elected to return to the Republic capital, Coruscant, where she aided the Jedi Council in its failed attempts to discover the identity of the Dark Lord of the Sith, who they believed had engineered the war and played a role in the origin of the clone armies. Though they devoted much time to discovering their identity and motives, Ti and her fellow Jedi were unable to learn who the shadowy figure was. Among other endeavors, Ti sealed a Starweird in the Sason Temple with Master Aayla Secura and later participated in the Battle of Coruscant. In the final days of the war, however, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine of the Republic revealed himself as the Sith Lord Darth Sidious and enacted the Great Jedi Purge to wipe out the Jedi once and for all, using the clones' inhibitor chips to turn the Republic's armies against the Order. Ti, who was still on Coruscant, was slain at the hands of newly christened Sith Lord Darth Vader as he and his forces laid siege to the Jedi Temple.

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