Phow Ji Phow Ji was a male mercenary from the planet Bunduki . He was hired as a hand - to - hand combat instructor for the Galactic Republic forces during the Battle of Drongar and made a lieutenant . He was later killed while single - handedly taking on a group of Salissian mercenaries . Biography . A former Teräs Käsi champion , Ji once defeated Jedi Knight Joclad Danva during a tournament on Bunduki . In 20 BBY he was appointed at Drongar ' s RMSU - 7 as the unit ' s hand - to - hand combat instructor after the previous instructor had died . After a teräs käsi match against Usu Cley – RMSU - 5 ' s combat instructor – Ji met Padawan Barriss Offee with whom he had a miff due to his disbelief in the Force . While on Drongar , Ji killed three Salissian mercenaries in a hand - to - hand combat after which he took some kind of trophies from them . The battle was recorded by a cam droid that was found by Sullustan reporter Den Dhur . During another of his confrontations with Padawan Offee , she accused him of the mercenaries ' murder based on the record . He tried to get her to demonstrate the Force to him , but when Offee did by making a towel hover in midair , he dismissed it . Later , while Ji was walking away Offee used her Jedi abilities to make him trip . As revenge for his humiliation Ji waited for Offee near her quarters the evening after Filba ' s death . After a quick scuffle he managed to drop the Padawan in the mud . Around that time Dhur started following the martial artist trying to make a story out of him . Dhur ' s original report depicted Ji as a violent thug , but his editor , feeling the Republic needed more heroes during turbulent times , edited it so that Ji came across as a hero . Ji got into yet another confrontation with Padawan Offee after he killed seven Separatists near the Kondrus Sea . When he was poisoned by a hypo dart fired by a Separatist soldier , she saved his life by channelling the force to heal him , even though she thought him a vile murderer . Enraged not only that a Jedi had saved him but had shown him that the Force was in fact real , Ji walked into the jungle and started a firefight with a group of Salissian mercenaries who were on Drongar training for an assassination mission believed to be of vital importance to the Separatists . During the fight he was hit by a pellet from a slugthrower and was later attacked from the air by Separatist soldiers in a drop ship . Mortally wounded , Ji pulled a thermal grenade and triggered it . Ji died in the ensuing explosion , taking the drop ship and the Separatist soldiers with him . The entire fight was chronicled by a cam droid onto a holocron . The record was delivered to both Barris Offee and Den Dhur . In one of his last acts as Chancellor , Palpatine had a statue of Ji erected in Monument Plaza . Apart from being a master of Teräs Käsi , Ji was also a master of Hapan Tae - Jitsu , and the Echani art . Personality Due to his skills Phow Ji was extremely arrogant , taking his defeat of Jonclad Danva as proof the Force was a myth . As such he became enraged when his ego was bruised , violently attacking Barriss when she made him trip . When Barriss Offee healed him in a way that made it impossible to deny the Force ' s existence Ji decided to go out in a blaze of glory , unwilling to live in a world where he ' d have to admit that the Jedi had the power to beat him .