Satine Kryze

Duchess Satine Kryze is a major character in the 2008-2020 animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and a posthumous character in the 2014-2018 series Star Wars Rebels.
She was the ruler of Mandalore and leader of the pacifistic New Mandalorian people during the final years of the Galactic Republic. Sometime before the Blockade of Naboo, Satine spent several months with Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi on the run from assassins. During this period, Satine and Obi-Wan developed romantic feelings for each other, although they never acted on their mutual attraction.
In the final year of the Clone Wars, Satine was usurped by the Mandalorian extremist organization Death Watch, who sought to resurrect Mandalore's warrior past. The leader of Death Watch, Pre Vizsla, was usurped and executed shortly after his victory by Darth Maul in an ironic twist. After luring Obi-Wan to Mandalore, Maul executed the imprisoned Duchess before Kenobi's eyes to torment the Jedi Master.
She was voiced by , who also played Caroline Becker in Wolfenstein (2009), and Ina Leifsdottir in Voltron: Legendary Defender.
==Overview==
Satine is a devoted pacifist as well as the ruler of Mandalore. In her youth, she was targeted by political adversaries and was put under the protection of Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi. During the year they spent on the run, Satine and Obi-Wan had deeply fallen in love with one another, but ultimately Obi-Wan chose the Order; although Obi-Wan would have left the Order to be with her, but Satine respecting the obligations of duty, including her own, didn't ask him to forsake the Jedi. The two were reunited during the Clone Wars when the actions of the Death Watch drew the Senate's attention to Mandalore.
== Biography ==
Satine was first-born of Clan Kryze of Mandalore, during the closing years of a violent civil war that had ravaged the planet for decades. The destruction and suffering she saw instilled in her the firm belief in pacifism, which she would adhere to for her whole life. At some point, she and her younger sister, Bo-Katan, became estranged, as Satine wished for Mandalore to adopt a creed of peace and non-violence, whereas Bo-Katan was a staunch traditionalist, wanting the warrior culture of their past to remain the way of Mandalore.
During her youth, she was targeted by political rivals and dissidents, thus the Jedi Order sent Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi to defend her. The threat was such that they needed to go on the run; during the year spent together, due to their similar personalities and ideologies, plus attraction, Satine and Obi-Wan fell in love. However, when the threat passed and the Jedi were recalled, Satine and Obi-Wan parted ways, as neither could abandon their obligations for romance; even so, Obi-Wan remained in love with her, albeit was in denial due to his commitment to the Jedi Order, and Satine herself, while outwardly indifferent, also loved him deeply.
Satine became Duchess of Mandalore, and would bring sweeping reforms to rebuild the war-torn planet. Her policies helped reconstruct livable cities on the ravaged world, and improved quality of life for the civilian population; she ended starvation and homelessness, as well as enacted aid programs that reduced crime. However, despite her rule helping restore Mandalore, there were fanatical traditionalists who resented her peaceful stances, and interpreted her charity and compassion as weaknesses that defied the "natural order"; traditionalists would reject Satine's vision of Mandalore, with the most prominent being the terrorist group, Death Watch - while not publicly known, her own sister, Bo-Katan, joined this sect. However, the traditionalists lacked numbers and supplies to challenge her authority, thus were ejected from Mandalore, after which they'd establish camps on one of the planet's moons, Concordia, where their threat appeared to fade out of sight and out of mind.
Upon the outbreak of the Clone Wars, Duchess Satine became the representative for the thousands of worlds that wished to remain neutral in the conflict between the Republic and Separatists; despite Mandalore being a part of the Republic, Satine refused to subject her world to yet another war.
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== Trivia ==
* Satine serves to act as the face of a third faction in the Clone Wars, one of neutrality; the war previously seemed to have only two major factions (barring criminal groups that existed before, during, and after the conflict; also setting aside the fact that both sides of the war were ultimately pawns for Darth Sidious).
* Obi-Wan's relationship with Satine provides further context for why he was so sympathetic to Anakin's secret marriage to Padme, beyond their own brotherhood; it is also adds a reason to Anakin's jealousy of an imagined affair Padme had with Obi-Wan, since he knew his master was capable of romantic love.
* There is a popular fan-theory that Satine's nephew, Korkie Kryze, is actually her secret child she had with Obi-Wan, whose true parentage was kept hidden as to avoid a scandal. Albeit, there lacks empirical evidence to support this theory, plus no confirmation nor acknowledgement from the production team.
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