Depa Billaba

Depa Billaba, a Force-sensitive human female native to the planet Chalacta, was a Jedi Master who served on the Jedi High Council during the final years of the Galactic Republic. She was initiated into the Jedi Order at a young age, where she was trained by Jedi Master Mace Windu. Billaba was eventually appointed to the Council alongside her former teacher and was present only a few months later when Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn presented Jarik Shan, a Force-sensitive orphan he found on Chandrila, and then Anakin Skywalker, the Chosen One, to the governing body the next year. She later attended Jinn's funeral after the Jedi Master was killed during the Invasion 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 Republic and the Separatist Alliance. During the war, a failed engagement with Separatist General Grievous led to massive clone casualties and left her in a comatose state. Subsequently returned to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to recover, she encountered the youngling Caleb Dume, and after jointly halting an attack on the Temple by Separatist Kage assassins, took on Dume as her Padawan learner. During the Conquest of Kaller, the two were attacked by Billaba's battalion of clone troopers 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 Great Jedi Purge and went into hiding under a new name — Kanan Jarrus. Initially traveling low and taking odd jobs, he eventually joined a rebel cell that opposed the Galactic Empire. Although Jarrus hid his true identity as a Jedi for years, he remembered his Master with fondness, and after adopting Lothalite urchin Ezra Bridger as his apprentice, Jarrus initially relied on his own incomplete training under Billaba in order to teach Bridger the ways of the Jedi and the Force.
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