Star Wars

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Aayla Secura

Aayla Secura was a Rutian Twi'lek Jedi Master and Clone Wars general who commanded the 327th Star Corps alongside Commander Bly. She fell on Felucia during Order 66, shot in the back by the clones she had led.

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Ahsoka Tano

Ahsoka Tano was a Togruta Force-user, Anakin Skywalker's Padawan during the Clone Wars who left the Jedi Order after being wrongly accused of treason. She survived Order 66, became the rebel agent Fulcrum, and outlived the Empire.

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Anakin Skywalker

Anakin Skywalker was a Jedi Knight of the Galactic Republic and the prophesied Chosen One destined to bring balance to the Force. He fell to the dark side and became the Sith Lord Darth Vader, then found redemption at the cost of his life by destroying the Emperor.

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Aurra Sing

Aurra Sing was a Force-sensitive Palliduvan who left the Jedi Order to become a feared bounty hunter and assassin. A renowned sharpshooter, she trained the young Boba Fett before her long career ended at the hands of Tobias Beckett.

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Barriss Offee

Barriss Offee was a Mirialan Jedi Padawan who grew disillusioned with the Order during the Clone Wars and bombed the Jedi Temple, framing her friend Ahsoka Tano. She later served the Empire as an Inquisitor before renouncing it to live as a wandering healer.

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Bespin

Bespin was a gas giant in the Outer Rim Territories, mined for valuable Tibanna gas from the floating metropolis of Cloud City. Long unaffiliated, it was seized by the Empire during the Galactic Civil War.

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Bo-Katan Kryze

Bo-Katan Kryze was a Mandalorian warrior of House Kryze who fought through the fall of her sister Satine's rule, the conquest of Mandalore, and the Great Purge. She rose to wield the Darksaber and unite her scattered people to reclaim their homeworld.

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Boba Fett

Boba Fett was an unaltered clone of the Mandalorian Jango Fett, raised as his son and trained from childhood to become one of the most feared bounty hunters in the galaxy. After surviving the sarlacc, he claimed Jabba the Hutt's throne as Daimyo of Mos Espa.

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C-3PO

C-3PO was a 3PO-series protocol droid built by Anakin Skywalker as a boy on Tatooine. Fluent in millions of forms of communication, he served the Skywalker family, the Galactic Republic, the Rebel Alliance, and the Resistance, and was the lifelong, often anxious companion of the astromech R2-D2.

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Cad Bane

Cad Bane was a Duros bounty hunter considered the best in the galaxy after the death of Jango Fett. A specialist in fighting Jedi, he worked repeatedly for Darth Sidious and was finally killed by his old apprentice, Boba Fett.

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Cal Kestis

Cal Kestis was a human Jedi Padawan who survived Order 66 by hiding as a scrapper on Bracca. Drawn back into the fight by the crew of the Stinger Mantis, he spent years evading the Inquisitorius and rebuilding his connection to the Force.

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Captain Rex

Rex was a clone trooper captain of the 501st Legion who served under Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano through the Clone Wars. He resisted his inhibitor chip during Order 66 and later joined the rebellion against the Empire.

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Chewbacca

Chewbacca was a Wookiee warrior from Kashyyyk who fought across four galactic conflicts. The co-pilot and lifelong friend of Han Solo aboard the Millennium Falcon, he was instrumental in the defeat of the Empire and the First Order.

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Clone Wars

The Clone Wars was a galaxy-spanning conflict fought from 22 to 19 BBY between the Galactic Republic and the breakaway Confederacy of Independent Systems. Secretly engineered on both sides by the Sith, it ended with the Jedi purged and the Republic reformed into the Galactic Empire.

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Confederacy of Independent Systems

The Confederacy of Independent Systems was the secessionist government of star systems that broke away from the Galactic Republic, sparking the Clone Wars. Led publicly by Count Dooku and backed by corporate powers, it was secretly controlled by Darth Sidious.

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Corran Horn

Corran Horn was a Corellian Security investigator who became a Rogue Squadron ace and New Republic hero before discovering his hidden Jedi heritage. He rose to the rank of Jedi Master of the New Jedi Order and served through the Yuuzhan Vong War and the crises that followed.

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Coruscant

Coruscant was a city-covered world in the Core, the political heart of the galaxy for thousands of years. Capital of the Galactic Republic, the Empire, and for a time the New Republic, it was home to the Galactic Senate and the Jedi Temple, with a teeming underworld buried beneath its towers.

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Count Dooku

Dooku was a Jedi Master who became disillusioned with the Order and fell to the dark side as the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus. As Count of Serenno he led the Separatist movement through the Clone Wars, all the while serving as the unwitting pawn of his master, Darth Sidious.

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Dagobah

Dagobah was a remote, swamp-covered world in the Outer Rim Territories, strong in the Force and home to a cave saturated with the dark side. It served as the hiding place of the Jedi Master Yoda and the site of Luke Skywalker's training.

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Darth Caedus

Darth Caedus, born Jacen Solo, was the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo who rose as a Jedi hero of the Yuuzhan Vong War before falling to the dark side. He seized control of the Galactic Alliance as a Sith Lord and was killed by his twin sister Jaina.

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Darth Maul

Maul was a Dathomirian Zabrak trained from childhood as the Sith apprentice of Darth Sidious. Cut down on Naboo and left for dead, he survived and rebuilt himself, becoming a crime lord and a relentless seeker of revenge against the Sith who discarded him and the Jedi he hated.

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Darth Vader

Anakin Skywalker was the prophesied Chosen One, a Jedi Knight and hero of the Clone Wars who fell to the dark side and became the Sith Lord Darth Vader. He enforced the rule of the Galactic Empire for decades before his redemption and death at the Battle of Endor.

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Death Star

The Death Star, formally the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, was a moon-sized Imperial superweapon capable of destroying an entire planet with a single shot. It annihilated Alderaan before being destroyed at the Battle of Yavin through a flaw deliberately built into its design.

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Din Djarin

Din Djarin was a Mandalorian warrior and bounty hunter known across the Outer Rim simply as the Mandalorian. Hired to retrieve a Force-sensitive child, he instead became the foundling Grogu's protector and adoptive father.

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Endor

Endor was a forested moon in the Outer Rim Territories, home to the Ewoks and other native species. It became the site of the climactic Battle of Endor, where the Rebel Alliance destroyed the second Death Star and the Galactic Empire fell.

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Ezra Bridger

Ezra Bridger was a human Jedi Padawan and revolutionary leader in the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire. Orphaned on Lothal, he joined the crew of the Ghost and was trained in the Force by Kanan Jarrus.

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Finn

Finn was a First Order stormtrooper, designated FN-2187, who refused to fire on innocents and deserted to join the Resistance. He fought through the war against the First Order alongside Rey and Poe Dameron, ending it as a co-general.

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First Order

The First Order was a fascist military junta that rose from the remnants of the Galactic Empire in the Unknown Regions. Secretly a puppet of the resurrected Darth Sidious, it conquered much of the galaxy before its collapse in 35 ABY.

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Galactic Civil War

The Galactic Civil War was the conflict in which the Alliance to Restore the Republic waged rebellion against the Galactic Empire. It ended with the Empire's defeat and the founding of the New Republic following the Battle of Endor.

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Galactic Empire

The Galactic Empire was the fascist regime that replaced the Galactic Republic when Sheev Palpatine, secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, proclaimed himself Emperor. It ruled the galaxy through fear, military power, and the hunt for the Jedi until its defeat at Endor and final collapse at Jakku.

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Galactic Republic

The Galactic Republic was the democratic government that ruled much of the galaxy for over a thousand generations from its capital on Coruscant, served by the Jedi Order. After the Clone Wars it was reorganized by Palpatine into the Galactic Empire.

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General Grievous

Grievous was a Kaleesh warlord rebuilt into a cyborg who served as Supreme Martial Commander of the Separatist Droid Armies during the Clone Wars. A feared Jedi hunter who collected the lightsabers of his victims, he led the Confederacy's forces until his death at the hands of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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Geonosis

Geonosis was a harsh, rocky planet in the Outer Rim, home to the insectoid Geonosians and their vast droid foundries. It was the hub of Separatist industry and the site of the battle that opened the Clone Wars.

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Grand Admiral Thrawn

Thrawn was a Chiss military genius who rose from the Chiss Ascendancy to become a Grand Admiral of the Galactic Empire. Renowned for studying the art and culture of his enemies to defeat them, he hunted the rebels of Lothal before being carried into exile by a pod of purrgil.

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Grand Moff Tarkin

Wilhuff Tarkin was an ambitious officer who rose to become the first Grand Moff of the Galactic Empire and Governor of the Outer Rim Territories. A ruthless advocate of rule through fear, he oversaw the Death Star and met his end aboard it at the Battle of Yavin.

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Grogu

Grogu was a Force-sensitive child of the same species as Yoda, raised at the Jedi Temple and hidden after the fall of the Order. Rescued by the Mandalorian Din Djarin, he became a foundling and was eventually adopted as Djarin's son.

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Han Solo

Han Solo was a Corellian smuggler who captained the Millennium Falcon and became a general of the Rebel Alliance. He helped destroy two Death Stars, married Leia Organa, and died at the hand of his son Kylo Ren.

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Hera Syndulla

Hera Syndulla was a Twi'lek pilot and rebel leader who captained the starship Ghost and led the Spectres. The daughter of Ryloth resistance leader Cham Syndulla, she rose to become a general of the New Republic.

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Hondo Ohnaka

Hondo Ohnaka was a Weequay pirate who led the Ohnaka Gang from his stronghold on Florrum. Equal parts opportunist and rogue, he captured Count Dooku, tangled with Jedi and Sith alike, and lived long enough to ply his trade into the era of the New Republic.

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Hoth

Hoth was a remote ice planet in the Outer Rim Territories where the Alliance to Restore the Republic built Echo Base. It is best known for the crushing Imperial assault that drove the rebels from the world during the Galactic Civil War.

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Jaina Solo

Jaina Solo was the daughter of Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo and a Jedi Master of the New Jedi Order. Named Sword of the Jedi by her uncle Luke Skywalker, she was an ace pilot of the Yuuzhan Vong War who ultimately struck down her own twin brother after he became the Sith Lord Darth Caedus.

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Jango Fett

Jango Fett was a Mandalorian bounty hunter regarded as the best in the galaxy, the genetic template for the Republic's clone army and the unaltered father of Boba Fett. He was killed by Mace Windu at the Battle of Geonosis.

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Jedi Order

The Jedi Order was a monastic, nontheistic religious order devoted to the light side of the Force, serving for over a thousand generations as the guardians of peace and justice in the Galactic Republic. Nearly annihilated by Order 66, the Order endured through scattered survivors and was rebuilt, however briefly, by Luke Skywalker.

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Kamino

Kamino was a remote, ocean-covered planet in Wild Space, home to the cloner Kaminoans. There the Grand Army of the Republic was bred, and there the Galactic Empire later destroyed Tipoca City in an orbital bombardment.

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Kanan Jarrus

Kanan Jarrus, born Caleb Dume, was a Force-sensitive Jedi Knight who survived Order 66. After years in hiding he joined Hera Syndulla's rebel cell, trained Ezra Bridger, and died liberating Lothal.

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Ki-Adi-Mundi

Ki-Adi-Mundi was a Cerean Jedi Master and member of the Jedi High Council who fought through the Clone Wars as a general. He was shot down by his own clone troopers on Mygeeto when Order 66 was issued.

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Kit Fisto

Kit Fisto was a Nautolan Jedi Master and one of the finest duelists in the Order, a Clone Wars general and High Council member. He died in seconds when he tried to arrest the Sith Lord Darth Sidious in his office on Coruscant.

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Kylo Ren

Ben Solo was the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa and the grandson of Darth Vader. Turned to the dark side by Snoke, he became Kylo Ren, master of the Knights of Ren and Supreme Leader of the First Order, before finding redemption and sacrificing himself for Rey.

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Lando Calrissian

Lando Calrissian was a smuggler and gambler who lost the Millennium Falcon to Han Solo, became Baron Administrator of Cloud City, and joined the Rebel Alliance as a general, piloting the Falcon in the strike that destroyed the second Death Star.

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Leia Organa

Leia Organa was the adopted princess of Alderaan and secret daughter of Anakin Skywalker. She became a leader of the Rebel Alliance, a founder of the New Republic, and the general of the Resistance against the First Order.

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Lightsaber

The lightsaber was an elegant energy-blade weapon powered by a Force-attuned kyber crystal, carried by Jedi and Sith alike. Capable of cutting through almost anything, it was a symbol of its wielder's role and a mark of great skill.

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Luke Skywalker

Luke Skywalker was a Tatooine farm boy who became the central Jedi of his age. He destroyed the first Death Star, redeemed his father Darth Vader, and founded a new Jedi Order before dying on Ahch-To.

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Luminara Unduli

Luminara Unduli was a Mirialan Jedi Master who commanded the 41st Elite Corps and trained Barriss Offee. Arrested and executed after Order 66, her remains were later used by the Empire as bait to lure surviving Jedi to their deaths.

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Mace Windu

Mace Windu was a human Jedi Master and senior member of the Jedi High Council during the final years of the Republic. A renowned warrior and general of the Clone Wars, he uncovered Palpatine as a Sith Lord and was killed when Anakin Skywalker betrayed him.

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Millennium Falcon

The Millennium Falcon was a heavily modified Corellian light freighter, famous as the ship that made the Kessel Run in under twelve parsecs. Won by Han Solo from Lando Calrissian, it became a symbol of resistance across two galactic wars.

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Mustafar

Mustafar was a young volcanic planet of lava seas in the Outer Rim, mined for rare minerals and steeped in the dark side. It was the place of Anakin Skywalker's fall and the site of Fortress Vader.

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Naboo

Naboo was a lush, pastoral planet in the Mid Rim shared by two peoples, the human Naboo and the amphibious Gungans. Birthplace of Sheev Palpatine and home of Padme Amidala, it was the site of a Trade Federation invasion that launched Palpatine toward supreme power.

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New Republic

The New Republic was the democratic government founded by the victorious Rebel Alliance after the Battle of Endor, restoring the galaxy's republican rule. Its complacency toward the First Order ended with the destruction of its capital at the Hosnian Cataclysm.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi

Obi-Wan Kenobi was a Jedi Master who trained Anakin Skywalker, served as a general in the Clone Wars, and survived Order 66. In hiding on Tatooine he guarded Luke Skywalker before guiding him into the Rebellion.

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Omega

Omega was an enhanced human clone created from the genetic template of Jango Fett. Raised on Kamino, she joined the renegade squad Clone Force 99 and became a prime target of the Empire's cloning program.

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Padme Amidala

Padme Amidala was the elected Queen of Naboo and later its senator, a leading voice for democracy in the final years of the Republic. Her secret marriage to Anakin Skywalker shaped the fate of the galaxy for decades.

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Palpatine

Sheev Palpatine was the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who rose through the Galactic Senate to become Supreme Chancellor and then self-proclaimed Emperor. He orchestrated the fall of the Republic and the Jedi Order, ruled the galaxy for decades, and sought to cheat death itself.

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Plo Koon

Plo Koon was a Kel Dor Jedi Master and High Council member who discovered Ahsoka Tano and commanded the 104th Battalion in the Clone Wars. He was shot down by his own clone pilots over Cato Neimoidia during Order 66.

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Poe Dameron

Poe Dameron was a starfighter pilot who flew under the callsign Black Leader and became one of Leia Organa's most trusted operatives. He led the Resistance through the climactic war against the First Order, ending it as its acting general.

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Pre Vizsla

Pre Vizsla was the Governor of Concordia and the secret leader of Death Watch, the Mandalorian terrorist group that sought to overthrow the pacifist rulers of Mandalore. Wielding his clan's ancestral Darksaber, he briefly seized the planet before falling to the Sith Lord Maul.

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Qui-Gon Jinn

Qui-Gon Jinn was a human Jedi Master, the apprentice of Dooku and the master of Obi-Wan Kenobi. A defiant follower of the living Force, he discovered Anakin Skywalker and died on Naboo at the hands of Darth Maul, later returning as one of the first to learn how to persist as a Force spirit.

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R2-D2

R2-D2 was an R2-series astromech droid manufactured by Industrial Automaton who served the Royal House of Naboo, the Jedi, the Rebel Alliance, and the Resistance across decades of galactic conflict. Never given a full memory wipe, he developed an adventurous, independent character and repeatedly turned the tide of history, most famously by carrying the stolen Death Star plans.

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Rebel Alliance

The Alliance to Restore the Republic was the resistance movement that opposed the tyranny of the Galactic Empire. Built from scattered rebel cells by Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and Saw Gerrera, it stole the Death Star plans, won victories at Yavin and Endor, and ultimately became the New Republic.

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Resistance

The Resistance was the military movement founded by Leia Organa to oppose the First Order when the New Republic refused to act. Modeled on the Rebel Alliance, it survived the war's darkest days and triumphed at the Battle of Exegol.

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Revan: the Prodigal Knight

Revan was a human Jedi Knight who led the Republic to victory in the Mandalorian Wars, then fell to the dark side and forged his own Sith Empire as a Dark Lord. Captured and mind-wiped, he was retrained as a Jedi, turned against the Empire he had built, and destroyed it. This entry describes the Legends continuity.

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Rey

Rey was a scavenger from Jakku who discovered the Force awakening within her, trained under Luke Skywalker, and came to lead the Jedi against the resurrected Sith. Born a granddaughter of Darth Sidious, she rejected her bloodline and took the name Skywalker.

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Sabine Wren

Sabine Wren was a Mandalorian warrior, artist, and revolutionary whose work inspired the symbol of the Rebel Alliance. A wielder of the Darksaber and later a Jedi apprentice, she fought to free both Mandalore and the wider galaxy.

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Savage Opress

Savage Opress was a Dathomirian Nightbrother transformed by Nightsister magick into a brutal weapon. Made an apprentice first to Count Dooku and then to his own lost brother Maul, he cut a path of destruction across the Clone Wars before falling to Darth Sidious.

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Shaak Ti

Shaak Ti was a Togruta Jedi Master and High Council member who spent much of the Clone Wars overseeing clone training on Kamino. She was killed in the Jedi Temple by the newly fallen Darth Vader during Order 66.

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Sith

The Sith were an ancient religious order of Force-wielders devoted to the dark side, driven by hate, anger, and the pursuit of power. Born from a schism in the Jedi Order, they warred with their rivals for millennia, reached the height of their power under Darth Sidious, and were finally destroyed at the hands of Anakin Skywalker and Rey.

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Tatooine

Tatooine was a harsh, twin-sunned desert planet in the Outer Rim, homeworld of the Jawa and Tusken Raider species. Ruled by Hutt crime lords and largely beyond the reach of central government, it became the hiding place of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the boyhood home of Luke Skywalker.

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The Force

The Force was an energy field created by all life that bound the galaxy together. It granted supernatural powers to the Force-sensitive and underlay the millennia-long conflict between the light-side Jedi and the dark-side Sith.

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Thrawn

Mitth'raw'nuruodo, known as Thrawn, was a Chiss officer of the Chiss Ascendancy who rose to become a Grand Admiral in the Imperial Navy. A brilliant and ruthless strategist, he believed victory in war came from knowing the enemy.

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Wedge Antilles

Wedge Antilles was a Corellian starfighter pilot who defected from the Imperial Navy to the rebellion. A survivor of both Death Star battles and a leader of Rogue and Red Squadrons, he flew through the Galactic Civil War and beyond into the era of the Resistance.

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Yoda

Yoda was the Grand Master of the Jedi Order, a teacher of younglings for centuries who led the Order through the Clone Wars. After Order 66 he went into exile on Dagobah, where he trained Luke Skywalker.

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Zeb Orrelios

Garazeb Orrelios, called Zeb, was a Lasat warrior and former Honor Guard captain of Lasan who joined Hera Syndulla's rebel crew, the Spectres, in the fight against the Galactic Empire.