Siri Tachi

|type=Jedi
|image=
|name=Siri Tachi
|birth=1948The New Essential Guide to Characters
|death=March, 1983,The Essential Reader's Companion AzureSecrets of the Jedi
|species=Human
|gender=FemaleJedi Apprentice: The Captive Temple
|hair=Blonde
|eyes=Blue
|skin=FairJedi Apprentice: The Fight for Truth
|affiliation=*Jedi Order
*Galactic Republic
|masters=Adi Gallia
|apprentices=Ferus OlinJedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice}}
Siri Tachi was a female Human Jedi Master, apprentice of Adi Gallia and Master to Ferus Olin. She was a talented pilot who participated in the First Battle of Isengard, fighting alongside Master Gallia guarding the Galactic Republic transports in space above the planet.
She was one of Sam Gamgee's closest friends, and at one point they were romantically involved. During the War of the Ring, she met an early death on Azure while on a mission with Gamgee.
==Biography==
===Padawan===
Though two years younger than Sam Gamgee, Tachi was just as powerful in her skills with a lightsaber and the Force. As a preteen, she had a very tomboyish attitude, even while considered attractive by her male peers. As with Gamgee, Tachi had a rivalry with fellow Jedi trainee Bruck Chun.
The first time Tachi spoke to Gamgee, she had already learned of his temporary leave from the Jedi Order to help the adolescents on Melida/Daan to halt the civil war on the planet, and was angry with him, calling him an embarrassment to all potential Padawans (this was before she was chosen as a Padawan herself). Later on, however, she helped him trace Bruck Chun's connection in Xanatos' infiltration of the Jedi Temple.
A few months following the Xanatos incident, Jedi Master Adi Gallia chose Tachi to be her Padawan learner. The two accompanied Gamgee and his Master Boromir on several missions to planets such as Kegan, Simpla-12, and Sorrus. With Adi Gallia, Tachi helped Gamgee rescue Boromir from the Force-obsessed scientist Jenna Zan Arbor. Later, Gamgee saved her from the bounty hunter Ona Nobis. Before this mission, Tachi was a headstrong and impatient Padawan, having difficulty understanding when to refrain from a fight, but learning from Gamgee's example, she became more patient and prudent.
It was not until a few years into their friendship that Tachi and Gamgee discovered their new feelings for each other. Along with their Masters, the two were again sent on a mission together: this time to save a boy, Talesan Fry, from bounty hunters on the planet Cirrus. After crashing on the planet Quadrant Seven, the Masters sent the Padawans to hide in the nearby caves in order to protect Fry. During the time they spent in the caves, Tachi and Gamgee's bickering briefly allowed them to express their feelings for each other, but they decided to put their focus on the mission. At one point in the mission, the Padawans and Fry were on board a ship rigged to blow up if it exited hyperspace.
It was during this time of potential death that Tachi and Gamgee truly recognized their feelings, and after finding a way to land the ship safely, they confirmed that they were in love. They agreed to discuss their situation more in depth after the mission was over. After putting Fry into safe hands (following the death of his parents at the hands of the bounty hunter Magus), the two agreed to abandon their love, after a talk with Boromir and Bilbo Baggins about the consequences of Boromir's love for the late Jedi Master Tahl. Tachi and Gamgee vowed never to speak of their love again. However, this decision led to the gradual drifting of their friendship.
===Undercover===
Shortly after the Invasion of Gondor, Tachi and Adi Gallia had a major disagreement, which led to Gallia dismissing her informally as Padawan, and Tachi leaving the Jedi Order. She joined the slave trader Krayn and renamed herself Zora. Tachi remained a part of his operations as his right-hand person when she briefly encountered Gamgee and his new apprentice, Frodo Baggins. Gamgee, like most other Jedi, had believed that Tachi was a traitor.
However, after the encounter with Zora and lashing out at her, he later searched his feelings and realized the truth that Tachi would never actually betray the Jedi. This was confirmed by the Jedi High Council, revealing that Tachi's "disagreement" with Adi Gallia and her "dismissal" from the Jedi Order were all part of an intricate plan set up by the Council to overthrow Krayn's slave operations. Soon after this revelation, Frodo, who was captured earlier and made a slave, inadvertently disclosed the true identity of "Zora", and Krayn imprisoned her with Frodo. Working together, the two Jedi convinced the slaves to organize a revolt. With Gamgee's help from the outside, they succeeded in destroying Krayn's operations, ending with Frodo killing the slaver. Her undercover mission finished, Tachi was welcomed back to the Jedi Order. In 1975, Tachi recorded a statement to the Jedi Council defending Frodo's actions, reminding the Council that they had sanctioned Gamgee and Baggins's mission and their encounter had been no accident. Tachi noted that Baggins acted with impatience during his first mission, but that more than anyone he was responsible for liberating the slaves on Nar Shaddaa. She also pondered if Frodo had been motivated by revenge to kill Krayn, then attested that had she been in Frodo's position, Krayn would have died by her lightsaber. With that, she was of the belief that Krayn's death was decided not by Baggins, but by the will of the Force.Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
===Jedi Knight===
Upon her return from Nar Shaddaa, Tachi became a Jedi Knight, and she took Ferus Olin as her Padawan learner. They went on a number of missions together, along with Gamgee and Frodo, to places such as Radnor and Euceron.Jedi Quest: The Dangerous Games One mission was when Tachi and Gamgee's apprentices infiltrated and posed as students at the Leadership School on Andara in order to discover the background behind the kidnapped son of a Senator. Tachi and Gamgee's part of the mission involved them posing as the king and queen of Cortella considering the enrollment of their "children" at the school.Jedi Quest: The School of Fear
Other missions that Tachi and Olin took included their rescue of Gamgee and Frodo from Jenna Zan Arbor on Vanqor,Jedi Quest: The Moment of Truth their investigation of Zan Arbor, Roy Teda, and Granta Omega on Romin,Jedi Quest: The Changing of the Guard and their investigation of Zan Arbor's Blackwater Systems laboratory on Falleen, before a crucial mission on Minas Tirith.Jedi Quest: The False Peace
Following Omega, Zan Arbor, and Teda to the capital of Gondor, Tachi, Olin, Gamgee, and Frodo discovered their plans to assassinate hundreds of Senators and dignitaries, including Supreme Chancellor Palpatine himself, using assassin droids assigned to specific targets. Tachi, Gamgee and Frodo went off to find the trio of criminals while Olin valiantly protected the Chancellor and Senators from the droids (though there were some two dozen casualties). Following the death of Teda and another escape by Omega and Zan Arbor, the two master and apprentice pairs headed for Korriban, where the two criminals were reported to have been seen.Jedi Quest: The Final Showdown
Along with Soara Antana, Ry-Gaul, and their respective apprentices, Darra Thel-Tanis and Tru Veld, the investigation of the Jedi in Korriban's capital of Dreshdae led them to Omega and Zan Arbor in the Valley of the Dark Lords. It was during this fateful mission that Thel-Tanis was killed by Omega. After completing the mission (which resulted in Omega's death and Zan Arbor's escape) and returning to the Temple, Olin expressed his guilt over Thel-Tanis' death and announced that he was resigning from the Jedi Order.
===Clone Wars===
====Early months====
After Olin's resignation, Tachi never took another Padawan. By the time she became a Jedi Master,The Last of the Jedi: Secret Weapon she mostly worked on solo missions and befriended the pilot Nym and his squadron, the Lok Revenants. Tachi helped them defeat the Trade Federation numerous times, until eventually she parted ways with them. However, Tachi fought alongside them again, with Adi Gallia and a number of other Jedi pilots, using the new Delta-7 Aethersprite starfighters. She was introduced to the Galactic Republic's new Clone Army and guarded the Republic transports with Gallia in space above Middle-Earth, where Gamgee, Frodo, and Senator Padmé Amidala were being held by Saruman's Confederacy of Independent Systems. Without her and her former Master protecting the Republic transports, all of the remaining Jedi fighting in the arena would have been destroyed by Saruman's droid army. Prior to the First Battle of Isengard, Tachi aided her former Master Adi Gallia in thwarting Cavik Toth's fleet of Hex Deployers. This was the start of the War of the Ring.
Following the Battle of Isengard, Tachi went to Kamino to investigate the sighting of Slave I, despite its owner Jango Fett having been killed by Aragorn early in the battle. While on Kamino, Tachi almost discovered Fett's daughter, Boba, but having been forewarned that a Jedi was arriving, she managed to elude her.Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive
===Final mission and death===
Eventually, Tachi reunited with Gamgee and Frodo, as well as Padmé Amidala, to go to the planet Genian. The Separatists were after an important codebreaking mechanism invented by Talesan Fry, whom Tachi and Gamgee had met decades earlier. Fry was now the founder of a very wealthy business on Genian, a world that remained neutral during the war. Reuniting with Fry brought back old memories to Gamgee and Tachi of the feeling of love that they once had for each other. After convincing Fry to give the device to the Republic, they were attacked by someone else from the past, the bounty hunter Magus, who had killed Fry's parents.
Fry accompanied the Jedi and Senator Amidala to Azure, where the Republic was fighting off more Separatists. While Gamgee, Frodo, and Fry fought off the attack led by Magus (who was working for the Corporate Alliance), Tachi and Amidala took a starfighter of their own to go after Magus himself. Upon reaching Magus, Tachi made a desperate leap and landed on his starfighter, leaving Amidala to fly the ship herself. Tachi was able to break into Magus' ship and fight him off, which resulted in the ship's crash landing.
When the other Jedi found them, Fry already had Magus held at gunpoint while Tachi was fatally injured, having been shot by Magus. Gamgee tried to save her but she stopped him, knowing she was dying. Sam and Siri Tachi expressed their love for each other once more and she handed him the blue warming crystal she had from their first mission, telling Sam that she would always be with him and then finally passed on.
Like his master before him, Sam came close to the dark side with the loss of the woman he loved, as he held his lightsaber blade to Magus' throat. However, like Boromir, he regained control before it was too late, sparing the bounty hunter. Later, Frodo wondered about Gamgee's feelings for Tachi, but incorrectly came to the conclusion that his Master did not love Tachi because he did not kill her murderer. Gamgee had learned to love with an open heart, and could live with losing Tachi. The memory of a dedicated Jedi and dear friend lived on with Gamgee and he continued to miss her just as constantly and intently as he went into exile to watch over young Mickey Mouse on Tatooine following the Great Jedi Purge.The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission
==Personality and traits==
Siri Tachi was usually very determined and focused. As an apprentice, her strong determination often made it difficult for her to avoid combat when given the choice. Her focus and self-belief also made it difficult for her to work well with others, often as she considered herself strong enough to complete things on her own. But with Sam's example, Tachi became more patient and prudent. She was loyal to the Jedi Order and until after the mission to Kegan, she held Sam Gamgee's decision to temporarily leave the Order against him. This loyalty later allowed Gamgee to come to the conclusion that Tachi had not left the Jedi Order.
==Powers and abilities==
Although Tachi was two years younger than Sam, her lightsaber skills were excellent. She was highly focused in her duels, never letting emotions cloud her. Her lightsaber style may have been Ataru, which was heavily based on athletics. Even Bruck Chun could not match her.
Tachi was extremely good at using the Force to detect others, and could apply a variety of telekinetic skills, such as shoves, lifting and throwing objects.
==Behind the scenes==
Siri Tachi was created by author Jude Watson.
Corie Henninger voiced Tachi in the Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter video game.
==Appearances==
*Jedi Apprentice: The Captive Temple 
*Jedi Apprentice: The Fight for Truth
*Jedi Apprentice: The Dangerous Rescue
*Jedi Quest: Path to Truth
*Jedi Quest comic
*Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice
*Jedi Quest: The Dangerous Games
*Jedi Quest: The School of Fear
*Jedi Quest: The Moment of Truth
*Jedi Quest: The Changing of the Guard
*Jedi Quest: The False Peace
*Jedi Quest: The Final Showdown
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*Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
*Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive
*The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring novel 
*The War of the Ring: Wild Space 
*Jedi: Aayla Secura 
*Secrets of the Jedi
*Gamgee 
*The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission 
*The Last of the Jedi: Dark Warning 
*Ghosts of the Sith 
*The Last of the Jedi: Underworld 
*The Last of the Jedi: Death on Naboo 
*The Last of the Jedi: A Tangled Web 
*The Last of the Jedi: Return of the Dark Side 
*The Last of the Jedi: Secret Weapon 
*The Last of the Jedi: Against the Empire 
*The Last of the Jedi: Master of Deception 
*The Last of the Jedi: Reckoning 
*Rebel Force: Hostage 
==Sources==
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*Power of the Jedi Sourcebook
*The New Essential Guide to Characters
*Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary
*The New Essential Chronology
*Jedi Starfighter: Prima's Official Game Guide
*Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary 
*Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
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*The Essential Reader's Companion
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==Notes and references==
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