Honi Honi was a Force - sensitive Human female who lived during the last decades of the Galactic Republic . Recruited into the Jedi Order before the age of three , she trained as an Initiate at the Jedi Temple on the Republic capital of Coruscant in 44 BBY . That year , Honi and her Initiate clan got into a turbolift accident arranged by the Dark Jedi Xanatos as a part of his plot to destroy the Temple . Honi and her peers were saved thanks to the timely actions of the Jedi Bant Eerin and Obi - Wan Kenobi . Biography . Born around 47 BBY , Honi was a female Human whose Force - sensitivity was detected at an early age , which led to her acceptance into the Jedi Order as an Initiate . She began training in the ways of the Force at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant , the capital planet of the Galactic Republic . Honi was sorted into a clan with nine other Initiates under the stewardship of Jedi Master Ali - Alann . In 44 BBY , when Honi was nearly three years old , her clan got into an accident as Ali - Alann was escorting them in a turbolift that connected the nursery to the dining halls . During the ride , all save one of the turbolift car ' s repulsorlifts failed and the horizontal shaft collapsed , leaving the car teetering over the Lake Level several hundred meters below . In order to keep the children calm while waiting for rescue , Ali - Alann told them stories . The accident was witnessed by Jedi Initiate Bant Eerin and Obi - Wan Kenobi , a former Padawan hoping to re - enter the Jedi Order . Recognizing the danger the students were in , Eerin rushed to call for help . Meanwhile , Kenobi climbed up to the shattered shaft and assisted Ali - Alann in removing the Initiates from the car , Honi being the first to be taken out . By then , members of the Jedi High Council had arrived to the scene , as had Master Qui - Gon Jinn . The Council members used the Force to hold the car steady while Kenobi took out the younglings one by one and handed them to Jinn . When all of the children were safe , Master Mace Windu commended them on doing well in the scary situation , saying that the Force had been with them — to which Honi earnestly replied that Ali - Alann had been there as well . The Jedi later found out that the accident had been arranged by the Dark Jedi Xanatos , the failed former apprentice of Jinn who had planned to bring down the Jedi Temple . Personality and traits . Honi had brown eyes and red hair that she wore in braids coiled around her head at the time of the accident . Having been trained in the use of the Force and to control her emotions , Honi — though serious — showed no fear when Obi - Wan Kenobi came to rescue her from the broken turbolift car , trustingly allowing him to carry her on a narrow catwalk hundreds of meters above the Lake Level . Like the other members of her clan , Honi had a great admiration for their caretaker Ali - Alann . Behind the scenes . Honi was created by author Jude Watson and first appeared in " " ( 2000 ) , the seventh installment in the " Jedi Apprentice " series . The young reader novel remains the character ' s only in - universe appearance to date . The 2003 " Star Wars Roleplaying Game " supplement " Galactic Campaign Guide " mentions Honi as an example of a Human female name in its random name generator table . Honi received an entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , a three - volume reference book published in 2008 .