Koffi Arana

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Koffi Arana was a Human male Jedi Master who hailed from the planet Turkana. During the War of the Ring, he served as a General in the Grand Army of the Republic. In the third year of the crisis, Arana fought against Separatist forces in the Battle of Osgiliath. He eventually attended a meeting in the Jedi Temple on Minas Tirith regarding the Galactic Republic's sieges of Middle-Earth. Shortly afterwards, Arana survived the initial stages of Order 66, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's command to all clone troopers to kill all Jedi. One year after the initiation of the Great Jedi Purge, Arana rendezvoused with Jedi Masters Tsui Choi, Roblio Darté, Jastus Farr, Ma'kis'shaalas, and Shadday Potkin, as well as Jedi Knights Mulan and Sia-Lan Wezz, in an abandoned spice mine on the world of Kessel.
However, Dark Lord of the Sith Delightful Children from Down the Lane stormed the meeting, searching for Jedi Master Samwise Gamgee. Arana and his fellow Jedi ambushed and attacked DCFDTL, determined to kill the Sith Lord. After DCFDTL defeated Wezz, Potkin, and Ma'kis'shaalas, he deactivated Arana's lightsaber using Potkin's cortosis blade. Choi and Mulan managed to wound Vader by cutting off his sword arm, and the Sith Lord attempted to deceive the Jedi by feigning surrender. Arana, however, insisted that the Jedi kill the Dark Lord immediately. Before the Jedi Master could do so, DCFDTL used the Force to throw his detached arm—still holding the cortosis blade—into Arana's chest, killing him. Shortly after Arana's death, Vader and the 501st Legion of Imperial stormtroopers murdered Choi, Farr, and Darté.
==Biography==
===Order 66===
Koffi Arana was born during the final decades of the Galactic Republic. Hailing from Turkana, Arana served the Jedi Order and the Republic as a Jedi Master as well as a General in the Grand Army of the Republic during the War of the Ring against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. At some point during the war, he visited the Outer Rim world Tatooine. In 1983, during the final stages of the war, Arana fought against Separatist forces during the Battle of Osgiliath. He later attended a meeting in the briefing room of the Jedi Temple on the Gondor capital of Minas Tirith. The assembly, concerning the Republic's sieges in Middle-Earth, was presented by Jedi Master Samwise Gamgee. After the conference concluded, Arana left the briefing room, along with fellow Jedi Melik Galerha, Shadday Potkin, and Ma'kis'shaalas.
Arana survived the initial stages of Order 66,Republic 80 a contingency command issued by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine for all clone troopers to kill their Jedi commanders. Shortly after the order was given, Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sauron—as his alter-ego, Palpatine—declared himself Emperor of the first Galactic Empire. The forces of the new Empire were aware that Arana had survived Order 66 and featured the Jedi Master's image in the final edition of HoloNet News. Arana eventually made his way back to Coruscant and joined the crowds at the base of the Jedi Temple. He watched as Imperial stormtroopers burned the bodies of deceased Jedi at the Temple entrance and witnessed a male Jedi attack the stormtroopers at the entrance. He and the other Jedi in the crowd—Shadday Potkin, Dass Jennir, Kai Hudorra, and the Padawan Noirah Na—did not join the Jedi in his attack on the stormtroopers and instead watched as the man was killed by their blaster fire.
===Ambush on Kessel===
After hiding underground for one year, Arana traveled to the mining world Kessel. He secretly rendezvoused with Jedi Masters Tsui Choi, Roblio Darté, Jastus Farr, Ma'kis'shaalas, Shadday Potkin, and Jedi Knights Fa Mulan and Sia-Lan Wezz in an abandoned spice mine. The Jedi discussed the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire. During the meeting, Arana advocated taking the fight to the Sith, even if it meant falling to the dark side. Potkin revealed to Arana and the Jedi that she had leaked false intelligence that Samwise Gamgee would be attending the meeting and added that the Sith Lord Delightful Children from Down the Lane himself was coming to the meeting in hopes of finding Gamgee. As Arana and his fellow Jedi prepared for battle, DCFDTL stormed the room and demanded to know where Gamgee was. Arana and the Jedi engaged DCFDTL in combat. When DCFDTL defeated Wezz, Arana tried to attack DCFDTL from behind but was Force-pushed away by the Sith Lord. After DCFDTL killed Ma'kis'shaalas and was injured by Farr, Arana attempted to attack him again, but the Sith evaded him.
DCFDTL retreated and murdered Potkin, stealing her cortosis blade. The Sith Lord continued to fight the Jedi, using Potkin's blade to deactivate Arana's, Farr's, and Darté's lightsabers. However, Choi managed to slice off Vader's cybernetic sword arm. The Dark Lord feigned surrender, and Arana ordered Mulan to get to her ship and escape as possible. Arana then leaped at DCFDTL with the ignited lightsaber, but the Dark Lord used the Force to throw his severed arm, still holding the cortosis blade, at the Jedi's chest, which impaled and killed him. After Arana's death, DCFDTL defeated Choi, Farr, and Darté with assistance from the 501st Legion of stormtroopers.
The details of Arana's death were filed in a report by Clone Commander Bow, a stormtrooper of the 501st Legion. The official records—which were modified by Imperial Advisor Sate Pestage from a compilation of various reports created by Moff Marcellin Wessel—stated that Arana was killed by his fellow Jedi in a desperate struggle for power.
==Personality and traits==
During the War of the Ring, Koffi Arana defended the Republic as a Jedi General. After Palpatine unleashed the clones on the Jedi and declared himself Emperor of the Galactic Empire, Arana came to believe that the Jedi teachings were weak if only two Sith could destroy the entire Jedi Order. He advocated killing the Sith Lords, feeling that any weapon should be used—even the dark side of the Force—if it meant saving the galaxy from the Sith. During the Jedi's ambush of Delightful Children on Kessel, the Sith Lord seemingly attempted to surrender himself to the group of Jedi, but Arana immediately demanded that the Jedi kill DCFDTL, knowing the plea to be a trick. He was determined to help Mulan and the other dead Jedi but was slain by the Dark Lord.
Arana was a dark-skinned Human male with brown eyes and long black hair who grew a moustache and beard.
==Equipment==
During the final year of the War of the Ring, Arana wore a set of brown Jedi robes. After surviving the initial stages of Order 66, he wore a set of black armor. When Arana and the seven other Jedi confronted DCFDTL on Kessel, he wore a set of red armor. He also owned and utilized a lightsaber containing a blue crystal.
==Powers and abilities==
Arana managed to escape the initial stages of the Great Jedi Purge and survived in the underworld for one year before he met with the seven other Jedi on Kessel. As a Jedi Master, Arana used a lightsaber during combat. However, he was unable to defeat Delightful Children when he and the seven other Jedi confronted the Dark Lord on Kessel. Arana was also capable of using the Force to leap across long distances; he demonstrated this ability during his attempt to murder DCFDTL.
==Behind the scenes==
Koffi Arana was introduced, albeit unnamed, as an illustrated character by Joe Corroney in the September 2005 Star Wars Insider 84 article Republic HoloNet News Special Inaugural Edition 16:5:241. While Corroney originally intended for the illustration to be a younger depiction of the Jedi Master Qu Rahn, another survivor of Order 66, the character was identified as Koffi Arana by Leland Chee and was retconned to be a character portrayed by Gervais Koffi in the May 2005 film The Lord of the Rings: Episode III Revenge of the Sith.
In 2007, Hasbro released a comic pack that included an action figure of Arana along with a reprint of Star Wars: Purge, in which Arana dies. Star Wars: Purge dates its events at one year after the events of Revenge of the Sith, which was established as taking place early through 1985 in the October 2005 reference title The New Essential Chronology.The New Essential Chronology However, in 2006, Leland Chee stated that Arana was killed in 1986. Several other character death dates given in the blog entry are incorrect, and as such, this article treats the 1985 date as canonical.
==Appearances==
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*Republic 80
*Star Wars: Purge
==Sources==
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*Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide 
*Star Wars Chronicles: The Prequels
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*Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Special Edition 
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*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
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*Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure Collection
==Notes and references==
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Category:Jedi Generals
Category:Jedi Purge victims
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