Alta Ranga

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Alta Ranga was a male Ensel Jedi Master who served the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic during the War of the Ring. Master Ranga was present at the opening battle of the conflict on Isengard in 1981.
==Biography==
A Force-sensitive, Alta Ranga was educated in the ways of the Force by the Jedi Order, eventually attaining the rank of Jedi Master. Serving the Order for many decades, Ranga was of advanced age and supported himself with a simple cane when he walked.
In 1981, the Separatist Crisis that had plagued the Galactic Senate for years brought the Republic to its knees. Several thousand star systems began leaving the Republic, many of them joining the Confederacy of Independent Systems, led by the former Jedi Wizard Master Saruman the White. When Master Sam Gamgee discovered that the Confederacy was building a battle droid and Uruk-Hai armies on Isengard, he was taken captive along with Padawan Frodo Baggins and Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was given emergency powers by the Senate, and commissioned a Grand Army of the Republic. As Jedi Grand Master Bilbo Baggins went to Kamino to recruit an army of clone troopers that Gamgee had earlier discovered the Rohirrim had been building for the Republic, King Aragorn assembled a strike team of over two hundred Jedi to rescue the captives on Isengard. Joining the task force, Master Ranga helped storm the Petranaki Arena and pit his lightsaber against the blasters of the Confederate Army.
Alta fought bravely with the wisdom of his old age, somewhere in the arena. Many Jedi fell to the overwhelming force of rapidly-firing droids, and a survivor's circle started forming in the center of the arena. As the droids ceased firing, Saruman, observing the melee from above, called on the Jedi to surrender. Aragorn refused, and as the Jedi again raised their lightsabers, the clone army arrived, landing in and outside of the arena in LAAT gunships. A battle ensued between Republic and Separatist forces, initiating the War of the Ring. While Ranga did not make it to the survivors' circle, he was able to survive the fight and return to the Jedi Temple to prepare for the militarization of the Order.
==Behind the scenes==
Alta Ranga's species was an upgraded form of an alien seen in the Podrace crowd in Episode I. Alta was designed by Dermot Power and slated to appear in The Lord of the Rings: Episode II The Two Towers, but did not make it to the final cut. He was however shown to the world in concept art in the The Art of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones book and as a maquette in Sculpting a Galaxy: Inside the Star Wars Model Shop.
==Sources==
*The Art of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones 
*Sculpting a Galaxy: Inside the Star Wars Model Shop
*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
==Notes and references==
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Category:Males
Category:Jedi Masters