Ona Nobis Ona Nobis was a bounty hunter hired by the scientist Jenna Zan Arbor to capture Jedi and anyone else who was Force - sensitive for her experiments . She was a member of the near - Human Sorrusian race . She wielded a deadly whip which could be used as a laser as well ( though not exactly the same technology as a lightwhip ) . She was also a master of disguise . Nobis bore a deep hatred for the Jedi Padawan , Obi - Wan Kenobi . Biography . Early life . Ona Nobis was born on the planet Sorrus in a tribe led by Goq Cranna . In 53 BBY , she was paid by an agent from the Sorrusian government to betray and manipulate her own tribe into voting for a dam , diverting water from their territory . The agent could have more fertile land to add to his mountain property . As a result , the tribe ' s land had dried up , forming the Arra Desert . Nobis fled offworld before the tribe could discover her deception ; she had a hideout full of rations and supplies that she could pick up for later . Nobis was denounced a disgrace by her people , even more so when she became a bounty hunter . Bounty hunter . Working with a mad scientist . In 43 BBY , Nobis was hired by the renowned scientist Jenna Zan Arbor into kidnapping Jedi and other unaffiliated Force users so that the latter would experiment on the Force . She would strangle her victims and then drain them of their blood . The first to be killed was Ren S ' orn , the son of Belascan Senator Uta S ' orn . He was allegedly attempting to break into Zan Arbor ' s secret laboratory on Simpla - 12 after his " release " ; as a result , Nobis murdered him to keep her employer ' s activities hidden . Months had passed and Nobis had left six victims behind in the slums of Coruscant to baffle the police . She even managed to kidnap Jedi Master Noor R ' aya on his homeworld of Sorl and brought him to Zan Arbor for more experiments . The search for the datapad . Weeks later , Nobis began to track Didi Oddo on Coruscant because he was believed to have a datapad revealing information on Zan Arbor . She attacked Didi on a swoop , knocking off a Cavrilhu Pirate ' s visor on the way . Just as she had Didi trapped in her whip , the Cavrilhu angrily chased her away with a vibroblade , but not before she lashed him . Two days after the attempted kidnapping , Jedi Master Qui - Gon Jinn and his Padawan , Obi - Wan Kenobi , happened to have returned to Coruscant when Didi asked begged them to help him . When they came to Nobis ' apartment at the Soft Landings Inn , in the hopes of persuading her to leave Didi be — and finding out if she was chasing the wrong target — the bounty hunter attacked the Jedi . She managed to slightly wound Qui - Gon before escaping . Disguised as an old man , Nobis went to the Splendor Tavern . There , she " lost " a cottage on Duneeden in the Cascardi Mountains to Helb , a member of the Tech Raiders ; she knew that the Neimoidian would trade it to Didi , whom was eager to find somewhere to hide with his adopted daughter , Astri . Minutes later , she was spotted by Qui - Gon and Obi - Wan , who went after her . However , she outraced them and disappeared in a six - road square . Afterwards , Zan Arbor was invited to a big dinner party at Didi ' s Diner . Among her group of fellow scientists , Nobis went under the identity of " Reesa On , " which was " catch me " in Sorrusian dialect ; the whole purpose of the name was to mock her pursuers . Once the party was over , Nobis stayed behind . She knocked Astri unconscious , trapped Didi with her whip around his neck , and searched for the datapad in Didi ' s office . She could not find it anywhere . When the Jedi came to the rescue , Nobis fought them off with her blaster , using the Oddos so that her opponents would rush at their defense . Then , she jumped out the window and fled on her swoop . At the hotel where Zan Arbor was staying , Nobis dressed up as a parking clerk . Qui - Gon and Obi - Wan had been there to question the scientist in their investigation . As the Jedi were leaving , the disguised Nobis " helped " to move some speeders that were blocking their own , at the unsuspecting Qui - Gon ' s request . Her targets vulnerable , she rammed a speeder onto theirs , knocking Obi - Wan off the platform . The Padawan managed to use his liquid cable launcher to prevent himself from falling . With Qui - Gon entirely focused on Obi - Wan ' s safety , Nobis made her escape once again . The bounty hunter knew that the Oddos had left for Duneeden . She had remained on Coruscant long enough to keep the Jedi from figuring out her plan . Arriving at the house in the Cascardis Mountains , she posed as a very old caretaker that " came with the place . " She lured the Oddos into a false sense of security by saying that no one came here during the winter . Qui - Gon and Obi - Wan discovered what Nobis had done and went Duneeden to rescue the Oddos . But Nobis was already inside the house , waiting for them . She activated some sort of lockdown sequence , trapping the Jedi and Oddos with durasteel coverings on every exit . She even tampered with the Jedi ' s cruiser to keep them from escaping . Dressed in black , Nobis blended with the dark surroundings to ambush the Jedi . As they fought , she had deduced that Astri was hiding Zan Arbor ' s datapad in her tunic after kicking her . The Jedi did everything they could to keep her away from Astri . Obi - Wan jumped to swing from some pipes and kicked Nobis with both legs , causing her to fall down the ramp hard and lose consciousness for a few moments . The Jedi cut the durasteel off a few windows and exited the house with the Oddos . Nobis , furious at being outmatched by such Jedi , woke up and pursued them outside . Obi - Wan discovered the Sorrusian ' s hidden cruiser down the mountain and urged the Oddos to make a break for it . Nobis knocked off the platform they were fighting on with enough time to form a sled from her suit , sliding after the Oddos . The Jedi raced her downwards , but she managed to stop between the Oddos and the transport . She caught Astri with her whip and dragged her toward her . She shot Didi when he tried to stop her , though he later survived . Nobis was within inches of Zan Arbor ' s datapad . When she found that Astri wouldn ' t give it up , she set her whip to laser mode and prepared to kill her . But Obi - Wan used the Force to leap and kicked Nobis again to send her back . Nobis drew out a vibroblade and threw it at Astri . Once more , Obi - Wan intervened . He grazed two of her right fingers with his lightsaber in one hand and caught the hilt of the blade with the other just in time . Angered and in pain , the bounty hunter vowed to Obi - Wan that she would have revenge . She shot out a lunge line from her utility belt with a homing beacon attached to pull her toward the ship ; she suffered some more injuries while bouncing on the ice . She got aboard , preparing for takeoff . Before the hatch had closed , Qui - Gon jumped inside to catch Nobis , but she shot him at point blank range , just missing his heart . He fell into unconsciousness . Nobis set course for Simpla - 12 , where she delivered Qui - Gon into Zan Arbor ' s clutches . As part of her treatment , her injured fingers were fused together . Her obsession with Obi - Wan remained . Tino . After dropping off Qui - Gon , Nobis ' next job was to assassinate Tino , a friend of Zan Arbor ' s first Force - sensitive subject , the late Ren S ' orn . The scientist feared that the man might know something that could expose her location and experiments . However , before Nobis could begin , she had to return to her hideout her homeworld of Sorrus . There , she picked up a survival rations pack and filled her datapad of past jobs with misinformation on her current target : the governor of Cinnatar . She figured that this would lead anyone who found it on the wrong trail , while she could kill Tino without trouble . Then , she returned to Simpla - 12 . Nobis knew that Tino was working at a warehouse in Sim - First , Simpla - 12 ' s capital city . Dressed in her black suit , she sneaked in and found the unsuspecting Tino working one level below her in Sector Two . She prepared to strike him down with her whip , but she didn ' t see that Obi - Wan and Astri were also in the vicinity . Obi - Wan spotted her and shouted a warning to Tino before using the Force to jump on the platform where Nobis was standing . Surprised and angered that she had been discovered , Nobis attacked Obi - Wan by throwing boxes at him before resorting to use her whip and blaster . As they fought , Astri led Tino to safety . Obi - Wan managed to keep Nobis off - balance , simultaneously corkscrewing Nobis ' whip with the blade of his lightsaber and avoiding her blaster fire . Nobis was not willing to forsake her whip . However , she was forced to reconsider when she found herself between Obi - Wan at her front and Astri behind her on a gravsled . She jumped off the catwalk and fled on a ramp that led to the lower levels . There , the bounty hunter slipped through a door that was the size of the warehouse ' s tech droid s ; her Sorrusian physiology allowed her to fit inside , an advantage her adversaries lacked . Shortly afterwards , Nobis had taken in another job from a different client . She arrived outside Zan Arbor ' s laboratory and requested access via the entrance ' s intercom from the doctor ' s Quint assistant , Nil . But Nil was not responding . Before long , Zan Arbor let the Sorrusian in and explained that the laboratory had been infiltrated : Nil was missing and two people , including a Jedi , were most likely trying to rescue Qui - Gon . She demanded Nobis to find the intruders , but the latter of the two women was expecting payment for her " last task " given by the former ; she even had plans in case she and Obi - Wan would meet again . Zan Arbor , frantic , tried to persuade Nobis that Obi - Wan might be here at this very instant . Still , the bounty hunter wouldn ' t budge , stating that she would meet the Padawan whenever " she , " not her employer , saw fit . When Zan Arbor began refusing to pay her , she made her a gruesome offer : pay or die . Frustrated , Zan Arbor gave Nobis her payment in an envelope , vowing to never hire her again . Nobis didn ' t care in the slightest ; she just left the premises . Then , she took off for a return trip to Sorrus . A trap for the Jedi . Upon arriving on her home planet , Nobis discovered that she was being followed by Astri Oddo , who brought along three companions — Cholly , Tup , and Weez — to capture the bounty hunter . Sensing an opportunity to get revenge on Obi - Wan , she ambushed the foursome on their air taxi , killed the pilot with a brand new whip , and took them to her hideout . There , she tied them up and gagged them before taking out every tool and provision available to her . In case Obi - Wan would try looking for the captives , Nobis set up a lever that would cause debris to collapse and cave everyone inside once tripped . She then made her way to the Sorrus Medical Center in the planetary capital , Yinn La Hi ; she had another trap in mind . Nobis persuaded " Doctor " Ivo Muna to contact Obi - Wan on his comlink , informing the Padawan that Astri was the hospital , badly injured in an " accident " ; the girl had " asked " for him to come before she passed out . Obi - Wan , anxious , promised he would be there soon . Nobis had then made her way to a room on the partially constructed Wing M , third door on the left , which was where Astri would be said to be resting . The ward was just the same as the hallway outside . After studying the terrain , she perched herself on a beam used for the ceiling , readying to ambush Obi - Wan . Sure enough , Obi - Wan was being led toward the room by Doctor Rai Unlu . He went inside alone after Rai Unlu had left for some " emergency . " Nobis leaped from her beam out of the darkness and attacked , but not before Obi - Wan had time to back away , drawing his lightsaber . She knew that this room would restrict Obi - Wan ' s movement because the Padawan retreated into the construction site to get on better ground . The bounty hunter followed behind , expressing how she had longed for this moment to come . At first , Obi - Wan jumped on every obstacle in the hall to gain the upper hand over Nobis , letting the Force guide him as he went . But as Nobis drew a blaster to add with her whip , the boy could not concentrate on both weapons at once , slipped on some stones and fell onto a muddy puddle . He dodged her weapons and then went back on his feet . Outmatched , Obi - Wan telekinetically threw a fusioncutter at her , causing her to intercept it with her whip . This distraction gave Obi - Wan time to jump over the bounty hunter , landing on the nearest girder behind her . Nobis tried to lasso the Padawan in , but he was out of reach , hopping from girder to girder until he was on the other side of the site . Knowing that her quarry had escaped her , she let out an angry scream . The final battle . During this time , Nobis was contacted via her comlink by Jenna Zan Arbor , who wanted to rehire her , despite the latter ' s previous claim to the contrary . She was needed to smuggle the scientist and Noor R ' aya into Belasco , the home of former Senator Uta S ' orn ; then , she would once again protect Zan Arbor as she began working on a cure to the bio - plague she introduced on this world ' s water supply . Hearing that she would get a cut of this reward the Belascan people could offer Arbor Industries , Nobis accepted the offer and left Sorrus for Belasco . As she arrived at the Senta spaceport , the bounty hunter disguised herself as a Belascan medic and awaited the V - wing cruiser Zan Arbor would be flying . Zan Arbor went under the alias Cir L ' ani , a native Belascan returning home with her sick " father " ( Noor ) . When the cruiser landed , Nobis met her employer , who held the weakened Noor on a med - splint , and they both traveled to the palace . She kept herself well hidden in one of the ceiling vents nearing S ' orn ' s private quarters , where Noor was being held . S ' orn , who was a part of this conspiracy , posed as a volunteer med aide and left two trays of food for her Sorrusian compatriot . Nobis slithered out of the vent , helped herself to two tarts , and sneaked the trays with her into her hiding place . Later in the day , Zan Arbor and S ' orn ' s scheme was falling apart . It was in the middle of a party in the royal grounds that the Jedi revealed the plot to Belascan Leader Min K ' atel , who ordered for S ' orn ' s quarters to be searched and the Senator surrounded . But the palace guard droid s had been reprogrammed at the last moment by Zan Arbor to shoot the Jedi . As the fight broke out , Siri Tachi , apprenticed to Master Adi Gallia , somehow found Nobis and went after her . This act of impulse would almost cost Siri dearly . Nobis lured her onto the palace roof and caught the Padawan ' s lightsaber with her whip , trying to wrench it off . As she drew a blaster to shoot Siri , Obi - Wan rushed to the rescue , using the Force to knock the blaster away from her . Nobis nearly fell as a result , but quickly recovered . She switched the whip to laser mode to attack Obi - Wan and pulled out her second blaster . She dodged a charge from Siri , causing her to mock both Padawans on their abilities . Once again , Obi - Wan corkscrewed his lightsaber around Nobis ' whip and the bounty hunter fired in response , narrowly missing him . As she pulled on the whip hard , Obi - Wan fell , but used this opportunity to twist and kick Nobis ' blaster out of her grasp . Then , Siri joined Obi - Wan as they cornering Nobis together . Feeling the need to escape , Nobis reverted her whip to normal mode and lassoed onto a nearby drainpipe , propelling herself over the Padawans . At the same time , while in midair , she pulled out a third blaster and aimed at her prey . Before she could fire , Adi Gallia arrived and jumped toward Nobis , cutting the whip in half . All the bounty hunter could do was give a look of surprise as she fell to her death . Personality and traits . Ona Nobis was a clever , greedy , sarcastic , and treacherous bounty hunter . She would find ways to outsmart any pursuer . She rarely spoke to any of her targets . Whenever she captured a bounty , she would always put them in servo - cuff s . Nobis didn ' t care about her employers ' worries ; in fact , she was extremely selfish and heartless . She only wanted to get their money and move on to another assignment . The bounty hunter went as far as threaten Jenna Zan Arbor by reminding her of what she was capable of . Skills and abilities . Nobis was adept at strategy . She could the environment to her advantage in a fight , if the option were available , such as her ambushing Obi - Wan Kenobi in the Sorrus Medical Center .