Depa Billaba Depa Billaba , a Force - sensitive human female , was a Jedi Master who served on the Jedi High Council during the final years of the Jedi Order . She was born on Chalacta and became a member of the Order at a young age , where she was trained by Jedi Master Mace Windu . Billaba was later appointed to the Council alongside her former teacher , and was present when Jedi Master Qui - Gon Jinn presented Anakin Skywalker , the Chosen One to the governing body . She later attended Jinn ' s funeral after the Jedi Master was killed during the Battle of Naboo . Billaba continued to serve as a member of the Council during the political crisis that led to the Clone Wars , a pan - galactic civil war between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems . During the war , she took Caleb Dume as her Padawan learner . After the Conquest of Kaller , the two were attacked by Billaba ' s battalion of clone trooper s after the execution of Order 66 , a secret protocol branding all Jedi as enemies of the state . Due to Billaba ' s sacrifice , Dume survived the Jedi Purge and went into hiding under a new name — Kanan Jarrus . Initially traveling low and taking odd jobs , he eventually joined a group of rebels who opposed the Galactic Empire . Although Jarrus hid his true identity as a Jedi for years , he remembered his Master with fondness . After adopting Ezra Bridger as an apprentice , Jarrus initially relied on his own incomplete training under Billlaba in order to teach Bridger the ways of the Jedi and the Force . Biography . Early life . Depa Billaba was born on the planet Chalacta many years prior to the Clone Wars . She had a sister , Sar Labooda . As a child , she was held as a captive by space pirate s who killed her parent s . She was rescued by Mace Windu , a member of the Jedi Order , and he brought her into the Order . Billaba became Windu ' s Padawan and trained under the Jedi Master in the ways of the Force until becoming a Jedi Knight . She was renowned for her skills with a lightsaber and favored Form III when teaching other Jedi . Life as a Jedi . Invasion of Naboo . Eventually , Billaba was given a seat on the Jedi High Council , serving alongside Windu . During the Invasion of Naboo , she was present in the Council chambers of the Jedi Temple when Master Qui - Gon Jinn told the story of how he encountered Darth Maul on Tatooine , and how Jinn believed that Maul was a Sith Lord ; Maul had been attempting to capture Queen Padmé Amidala of Naboo . The Jedi Master also revealed he had found Anakin Skywalker , a young slave he had freed on the desert planet , and that he believed the boy was the Chosen One destined to destroy the Sith and bring balance to the Force . The Council was skeptical of both claims , but nonetheless agreed to test the boy and investigate Darth Maul . Despite being impressed with Skywalker ' s abilities , the Council initially rejected Jinn ' s request that the boy be admitted into the Jedi Order on the basis that Skywalker was too old to begin Jedi training . They instead ordered that Jinn and his apprentice , Obi - Wan Kenobi , travel to Naboo to protect Queen Amidala , who was returning to her planet to fight back against the Trade Federation invasion . The Federation ' s invasion and occupation ended during a battle to retake the planet . Maul mortally wounded Jinn in lightsaber combat , before Kenobi gravely wounded the Sith Lord ; Maul went into exile and would not be heard from again for many years . Jinn ' s dying wish was that Kenobi train Skywalker as a Jedi , a wish that the Council agreed to . Billaba and other members of the Jedi Council traveled to Naboo and attended Jinn ' s funeral , before taking part in a ceremony marking a newfound peace between the human s and Gungan s of Naboo ; the Federation , as a common enemy , brought the once - feuding peoples together . The Clone Wars . Ten years later , the Secessionist Movement plunged the Galactic Republic into a political crisis , with thousands of star system s seceding from the Republic and joining the Confederacy of Independent Systems ; the conflict was designed by Darth Sidious , the Dark Lord of the Sith publicly known as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine , as part of a plot to destroy the Jedi Order and take over the galaxy . Billaba was present on the Jedi Council when the body ordered Kenobi to investigate the plot to assassin ate now - Senator Amidala , an outspoken opponent of the Military Creation Act that would have allowed the Republic to raise an army to combat the Separatists ; Skywalker was further ordered to travel with Amidala to Naboo so she could be protected from harm . These events led Kenobi to discover a clone army built for the Republic in secret on Kamino , and the Galactic Senate to grant Chancellor Palpatine emergency executive power . The Chancellor enlisted the clones as the Grand Army of the Republic , and they were put to use in the Battle of Geonosis , which sparked the Clone Wars between the Republic and the Separatists — just as Sidious had intended . Her sister , Labooda , was killed during the battle . Attack on Mahranee . Billaba was present on the Council whilst watching a live holographic recording of the devastating Separatist attack on Mahranee , the homeworld of the Mahran species . Following the attack , Windu convinced Billaba and the rest of the council on a secret mission to assassinate Count Dooku . At the suggestion of Kenobi , the Council recruited Quinlan Vos , who was experienced in undercover work , and Dooku ' s former apprentice Asajj Ventress for this sensitive operation . Ventress agreed to assist Vos with the mission but insisted that the Jedi could only overcome Dooku by training in the ways of the dark side . Damaged goods . At some point , General Billaba and her troop s faced General Grievous , the Kaleesh cyborg who led the Droid Army of the Confederacy on Haruun Kal . That day , the Jedi Master ' s battalion suffered ninety percent casualties . Billaba herself was badly injured , to the point that she fell in a coma . After six months of constant care at the Jedi temple ' s infirmary , she came out of her coma , seeming to have made a full physical recovery . The senior members of the Jedi High Council feared that her mental and emotional state might still be too damaged . Consequently , Billaba underwent a full fitness assessment . When it appeared that she had indeed fully recovered , Billaba was allowed to resume her position in the High Council . Following her reinstatement , Billaba took an interest in a Jedi youngling named Caleb Dume , whose questioning nature caught her attention . She was impressed by Dume ' s questioning about how the Jedi Knights chose their Padawans when she and Windu were in the Jedi Archives . Billaba then instructed Dume , Sammo Quid , and Tai Uzuma in Form III defensive poses . Billaba was present during a group training session in which Kenobi , now a Jedi Master and a member of the Jedi Council , told a group of younglings , including Dume , about a beacon in the Jedi Temple ' s central security station that could call all Jedi back to Coruscant in time s of great crisis . Dume asked the Jedi Master if it could be used to warn Jedi away from Coruscant , a thought that Kenobi had never entertained and that caused concern and commotion amongst the assembled younglings . Billaba attempted to stop Dume from his line of questioning , but Kenobi encouraged him and speculated that the beacon could indeed be used to warn Jedi away in times of unexpected peril . Billaba saw Dume , as she had in the past , as having a mind for strategy and at the end of the session , Billaba was once again impressed by him . Despite her recovery and her reinstatement to the High Council , some of the clone trooper s started spreading the word that General Billaba was " damaged goods . " This rumor reached Caleb Dume who decided to directly ask the Jedi Master . The two were discussing about whether she was " damaged goods " despite her recovery , but their discussion were interrupted when they sensed something and saw thermal detonator s outside her quarters . Jedi Temple Bombing . Billaba then took Dume and fled her quarters when the bombs went off . Billaba wanted to hide and wait for information , but went after Dume when he attempted to take on the bomber , CIS Captain Rackham Sear . Billaba saved Dume and prevented Sear from setting off his bombs . When Sear refused her offer to surrender , they fought until he jumped off the roof and threw bombs at her and Dume . She survived and decided to take Dume as her Padawan . She trained him in the ways of the Force , as well as in lightsaber combat . Billaba valued Dume ' s strategic mind and encouraged him to put it to good use . At some point , Billaba brought Dume to one of the thousands of Jedi Temples in the galaxy in order to undergo a rite of passage in which he would need to face and overcome his greatest fears . Three weeks after the Jedi temple bombing , Billaba took Dume to get a Kyber crystal and construct his lightsaber . Skirmish on Kardoa . By the end of the war , Billaba and Dume went to Kardoa to take command of a battalion led by survivors from her last battalion , Commander Grey , Captain Styles , Sergeant Soot and Corporal Big - Mouth . Their mission was to verify if there was a Separatist presence . Leading her battalion through some canyons , they were attacked by Coburn Sear and his droid s , whom Billaba managed to force a retreat , although Dume was injured . Third Battle of Mygeeto . Billaba and her battalion were then sent to Mygeeto to clear the southern mesa s of battle droid s . Billaba , Styles , Dume and Stance were outnumbered , but were able to clear the mesas . They became surrounded during another attack , and Billaba called Grey for an extraction . She and the others fought the droids as they came , but there were too many . They were then saved when Fenn Rau ' s Skull Squadron bought them more time and were evacuated . They never got to meet or thank Fenn Rau in person . Billaba returned to the base camp . However the camp came under attack by battle droids led by Colonel Sear and General Grievous . Billaba fought Grievous , cutting off several of his hands . However , Grievous was able to wound her . Despite that , she continue fighting until Dume , Styles and Grey came to aid her . Grievous and his forces retreated . Billaba was placed in a bacta tank to heal from her wounds sustained in the fight . Battle of Kaller . Billaba , alongside her apprentice Dume , Grey , and Styles fought against the Separatist forces of General Kleeve on Kaller . Billaba and her forces were able to route Kleeve ' s forces and forced his retreat . Billaba then spoke with Gamut Key , assuring him that his village would no longer be forced into giving them supplies and labor . Billaba and her troops billeted outside of Key ' s village . After a training session with Dume that lasted after sunset , they relaxed at a campfire with Grey and Styles . They discussed the role of questions in regard to orders and to the Jedi Order , at which Billaba gave Dume a holocron . He was to use it to " study the role of questions " and " peaceful dissent " in the Order . Order 66 . It was moments later after this that , at the culmination of his plan , Sidious executed Order 66 , a command to all clone troopers , including Grey , triggering their control chip s to kill the Jedi as traitors . It just so happened that Billaba had begun meditating and received a Force vision of the deaths of her fellow Jedi , including Masters Ki - Adi - Mundi , Aayla Secura and Plo Koon . Billaba took hold of Dume ' s arm which allowed him to see the visions , warning him also of the danger . By the time the clones started aiming , Billaba told Dume to run , already on her feet and igniting her lightsaber . While Dume froze up in shock , the clone troopers started firing : Billaba deflected their shots back at them , cut down the ones within reach and used blasts of Force push on groups . She shouted to Dume to bring him back to his senses and he quickly joined in her defense as they killed clone after clone . Grey ordered the others to surround them and Billaba quickly realized that they could not win against nearly an entire battalion that was going to cut off all escape routes . She told Dume to run and that she would be right behind him ; Dume knew she was lying , but did as he was told . Grey ordered concentrated fire on Dume as he scrambled up a hill , but he deflected the ones that didn ' t miss , so Grey instead ordered Styles to cut him off and hunt him down . Billaba shouted to Styles and turned toward him , intending to use the Force on him , but this left her open to Grey who shot her in the back . Having fallen forward to the ground , Grey and two other clones repeatedly fired on her , much like what had happened to Secura . Having turned around at the top of the hill when he heard her shout to Styles , Dume witnessed his Master ' s death . Her sacrifice gave him time to hide and evade the clones , just as she hoped it would . Legacy . Because of Billaba ' s sacrifice , Dume was able to escape the clone troopers . Sidious declared himself Emperor and transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire , with Jedi branded as enemies of the state . After watching a message from Master Kenobi — a message broadcast over the Jedi beacon , warning Jedi to stay away from Coruscant just as Dume had predicted — Dume went into hiding and changed his name to Kanan Jarrus . He kept his identity as a Jedi secret so as to avoid execution , and he gave up the Jedi path for many years . He had fond memories of Master Billaba , despite living as a civilian . He eventually joined Hera Syndulla , a Twi ' lek resistance fighter , and formed a rebel cell that operated on and around the Outer Rim planet of Lothal . He remained haunted by Billaba ' s final words , knowing that he ran away while she gave her life . During their rebellion on Lothal , Jarrus took on his own Padawan , Ezra Bridger , who helped him reconnect with the Jedi path . Some of Jarrus ' own teachings were recollections of what Billaba had taught him , such as when Jarrus brought his student to a hidden Jedi Temple on Lothal in order to face and overcome his fears . Jarrus himself also had to face his own fear of being an inadequate teacher , due to his training under Master Billaba having been incomplete by the time the Clone Wars ended . Her death left Jarrus with a bitter mistrust towards clone troopers , which Jarrus explained to Bridger after meeting Captain Rex and two other clone soldier s , telling him how she had been gunned down by the same men that had fought beside her for years . The records of the Jedi Temple , which included information about Billaba , also remained after the fall of the Jedi Order , and after the Temple was renovated into the Imperial Palace . The Grand Inquisitor , a Dark Side Adept tasked with hunting down and eliminating Jedi who had survived the Clone Wars , was aware of Billaba from the Temple records . During a confrontation with Jarrus , the Inquisitor correctly deduced that Jarrus had been trained by Master Billaba due to his preference towards Form III . Eventually in 1 BBY , Jarrus was killed when he saved his friends from a explosion caused by Governor Arihnda Pryce ' s walker , being engulfed by the flames after the Spectres escaped to safety . Personality and traits . Depa Billaba was a human female with tan skin , and she wore jewels on her forehead and brow . She also bore the Chalactan marks of Illumination . She wore the simple , traditional garb of the Jedi Order , including a brown robe and a light tan tunic . When she was a Padawan , she developed a close bond with her master , Mace Windu . She was considered a wise and spiritual Jedi , and she imparted what teachings she could onto Caleb Dume before she was killed during the fall of the Jedi Order . Jarrus survived the ensuing Jedi purge and eventually became a rebel leader , using the strategic mind that Billaba helped cultivate in order to fight against the Galactic Empire . Jarrus recalled Billaba as being a stricter teacher than he was , although she was not overly serious , sometimes gently teasing him about his habit of asking many questions . He also remembered many of her teachings and passed them on to Ezra Bridger when he took the boy as his own Padawan . One such lesson was Billaba ' s belief that Jedi had to be willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of others ( which she herself carried out with her death ) , a lesson Jarrus himself did not fully understand until he allowed himself to be captured by the Empire on Lothal so the other rebels could escape . She also believed that the Jedi Order made a crucial error in taking military titles , believing that was not a matter of leadership , but of role and rank . Powers and abilities . Billaba was skilled in the ways of lightsaber combat , which earned her renown from her fellow Jedi . Her skills were documented in the records of the Jedi Temple , which were accessed by the Empire after the fall of the Jedi Order . In studying the Temple records , the Inquisitor learned that Billaba emphasized the use of Form III in close - quarter lightsaber combat . He was able to use this information to deduce that Jarrus had been trained by the late Jedi Master . Behind the scenes . Depa Billaba was based on an early design of a Jedi Council member for that had a spiritually inspired design . Billaba was portrayed by actress Dipika O ' Neill Joti in the 1999 film . The character appeared again in the 2002 film , but Joti did not film any new footage . Instead , stock footage from " The Phantom Menace " was used for her appearance as a Jedi Council member in " Attack of the Clones " . The character was slated to appear in the " Crystal Crisis on Utapau " arc in the animated television series " " , which was revealed in concept art released on StarWars . com as part of " The Clone Wars " Legacy . In these concept art , she was mislabeled as " Deepa Billaba . " Ultimately the character did not appear in the episodes , which were released in story reel form on StarWars . com . Billaba holographically appeared in the 2015 novel " Dark Disciple " , which was based off unproduced episodes of " The Clone Wars " for the seventh and eight seasons of the series . Despite effectively being a background character , with no lines in either " The Phantom Menace " or " Attack of the Clones " , Billaba was the focus of a number of now - non - canon " Star Wars " Legends stories . These stories included the 2004 novel " Shatterpoint " by Matthew Stover , which revealed she was the former Padawan of Mace Windu and chronicled her fall to the dark side of the Force . Some elements of her backstory , such as her species , homeworld , and tutelage under Mace Windu , have since become part of official canon . She was first depicted in the new stories of the official " Star Wars " canon in the 2014 novel " A New Dawn " by John Jackson Miller , in which it was revealed she was the master of Kanan Jarrus , one of the main characters of the animated television series " Star Wars Rebels " . She has since been mentioned in a number of the show ' s episodes . There had been some confusion as to what Billaba ' s species was . According to the Databank , Billaba was a " Chalactan . " But according to the " " , her species was " Human " . Pablo Hidalgo clarified in a tweet that " Chalactan is a culture and heritage . She is biologically human . "