Kirlocca Kirlocca was a male Wookiee Jedi Master who served the Jedi Order as the Almas Academy ' s Battlemaster in the years leading up to the Clone Wars . Biography . Early life . Though arriving at the Almas Academy in the Cularin system at a young age , Kirlocca , a Force - sensitive Wookiee , was older than any other student at the academy up to that time . However , when Headmaster Nerra Ziveri tested the boy , he was discovered to be extremely strong in the Force and was accepted promptly . Kirlocca had the distinction of being the last student that Ziveri accepted to the academy before mysteriously vanishing on one final mission . Raised on Almas within the walls of the Academy , Kirlocca demostrated the reflexes and strength of a Wookiee as well as true mastery in manipulating the Force . Kirlocca had a ferocity that came out when he fought , but he refused to give in to his people ' s fighting rage , which he thought was too close to the dark side , nor did he give out war cries in battle , fighting instead in an eerie silence . Watching Kirlocca ' s prowess with a lightsaber had been described as being " like watching water flow over the falls . " Knighthood and Mastery . After training at the Academy for years and constructing a yellow - bladed lightsaber , Kirlocca received the rank of Jedi Knight . Remaining within the Cularin system , the Wookiee Jedi served with distinction . Kind - hearted and wise , Kirlocca achieved the rank of Master and was nominated to become an instructor at the Academy . As an instructor , Kirlocca felt the best way to impart what he knew was through martial training , helping the younger to direct their energies through lightsaber combat . After several years , Kirlocca was appointed as the Academy ' s Battlemaster or , as the title was known at the Academy , the Master of Lightsabers . Aside from overseeing all lightsaber education classes , Master Kirlocca administered the Trials of Knighthood and also gained a seat on the Almas Council . Always one to listen , Kirlocca often answered students ' questions with simple but baffling answers , and was determined to kill whomever he considered was violating the will of the Force . At some point in his career Kirlocca dismissed Intiate Raik Muun from the Academy for falling in love with another student . When the Clone Wars erupted between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems Kirlocca remained at the Academy and did not take up arms against the Separatist Droid Army . During this time , the Wookiee organized a group of Padawans and Knights to accompany him on a meditative retreat into the Almas Wasteland . During the trip , the group was attacked by a group of Jedi who had been psychologically tortured by the dark side forces working in the wastelands . Subduing their maddened allies , Kirlocca was able to return the mad Jedi as well as his students to the Academy safely . At the end of the first year of the war , Master Kirlocca attended a peace conference organized by the Sentient Beings Opposing Violence Foundation . Boarding the " Luxury " , the ship aboard which the talks would take place , in orbit around Rennokk , Kirlocca and his fellow Jedi were attacked by Raik Muun , the student the Wookiee had dismissed years earlier . Muun hoped that by releasing two vicious t ' salak s aboard the ship , she would turn the Jedi mediators into crazed killers , so as to discredit the Order . While the creatures did attack Kirlocca and his companions , the Jedi remained calm in the face of death , killing the beasts and succumbing to their wounds peacefully . Her plan failed , Muun fled the scene before the Thaereian military could arrest her . Back on Almas , the Academy mourned the loss of Kirlocca , replacing him with Master Devan For ' deschel on the Council and as the new Mistress of Lightsabers . Powers and abilities . Kirlocca was a master of Form I and was a fierce warrior , using his Wookiee heritage to his advantage . Despite this he was careful not to give in to his species ' fighting rage . He also possessed a strong connection to the Force .