Katooni/Legends

Katooni was a female Tholothian Jedi Initiate serving the Jedi Order during the Clone Wars.
==Biography==
===The Gathering===
A Force-sensitive near-Human of Tholothian blood, Katooni was trained in the ways of the Force at the Coruscant Jedi Temple. Like other Jedi of Tholothian decent, Katooni donned a traditional headdress of dangling seedpods recovered from the planet Tholoth.Star Wars: Episode I The Visual Dictionary When the Clone Wars erupted between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Order's members were forced to serve in the Grand Army of the Republic. As the war was waged across the galaxy, Katooni was deemed to be one of the top members of her clan and suitable to travel to the sacred Jedi world of Ilum to participate in the ancient ritual known as The Gathering. Escorted to Ilum by Padawan Ahsoka Tano, Katooni and other Initiates entered the hidden Crystal Caves and met with Grand Master Yoda inside the caves.
Katooni and other Initiates entered the caves in search of their crystals for use in their personal lightsabers. Katooni accompanied her fellow Initiate Zatt as they searched deep in the labyrinthine caves. Coming across a massive cliff, Katooni found her crystal at the peak of the frozen wall of ice. Zatt departed from Katooni to find his crystal. Climbing up the rock face, Katooni retrieved the crystal and found a passageway at the top of the cliff. She rushed into the passageway rather than climbing back down, but fell through a weak patch of ice. Trapped in a frozen chamber near the mouth of the caves, Katooni called for help and saw Petro on the other side. Petro, however, refused to help as his time was almost up and he had yet to find his crystal. Alone and fearful of freezing to death, Katooni gave in to despair and wept. As the gates were almost frozen over, Petro realized his error and returned to Katooni and gave her the courage needed to escape the ice cave and make her way back out of the caves to the applause of her friends. Outside the caves, Master Yoda commended Katooni in having confidence and other younglings as well.
===Attack on the Crucible===
After the Gathering, Tano prepared to escort them back to Coruscant. While the Crucible was in deep space, Katooni and other younglings continued their training under the direction of Professor Huyang, the Jedi's prime lightsaber designer and engineer. Huyang showed the younglings the countless models of lightsabers and asked them to visualize their models. While Katooni and other younglings began the construction of their lightsabers, Hondo Ohnaka and his pirates attacked the Crucible to steal the younglings' crystals so that Ohnaka could sell them on the black market. After the pirates boarded the Crucible, Huyang ordered the younglings to hand over their crystals to him for safekeeping, but Petro didn't hand his over. Katooni and the others hid in the ventilation shaft, where Tano ordered Ganodi and Zatt to make their way to the cockpit, find R2-D2, and secure the ship's bridge. Katooni, Byph, Petro and Gungi would follow Huyang and seal themselves in the ship's hold and await Tano's command. Tano intended to reroute the ship's power to the engines so the Crucible could break free of the pirate ship's grip.
Ohnaka ordered the pirates to smoke the younglings out of the ventilation shaft and secure the crystals, and soon Katooni and her fellows started coughing as gas grenades filled the ventilation shafts with choking smoke. Huyang lifted the floor panel to emerge in a corridor, and he was immediately throttled by a pirate. The pirates demanded that the captive younglings hand over their crystals. Petro pulled out his lightsaber, opened its crystal chamber, and inserted his shard, but Katooni warned him that his lightsaber would explode. However, he ignited his blade, looking to fight, but the gleaming blue shaft faded out. The pirates chuckled and snatched the lightsaber, but Petro's lightsaber exploded in the pirate's grip. The younglings and Huyang dashed away from the stunned pirates. Huyang instructed them to continue to the hold; he had been damaged in the explosion and couldn't aid Katooni and her fellow younglings in battle.
In the training room, Katooni and Gungi set the training remotes to their highest power settings and programmed them for defense. Running from two pirates, Byph lured the pirates into the room. Katooni called Zatt to seal the room from the bridge. The remotes swarmed the Weequays, relentlessly zapping them. But Katooni and her fellows couldn't make it to the hold. Ohnaka and his pirates stood in the way; the younglings were surrounded by pirates. Ohnaka demanded that the young Jedi hand over the crystals. Suddenly, Tano arrived. She Force-pushed most the pirates out of the way, allowing Katooni and her fellows to get to the hold. They drove the pirates from the ship, but Ohnaka captured Tano. So the younglings were alone and stranded.
===Rescuing Tano===
After Ohnaka's raid on the Crucible, the younglings called for help, and Katooni contacted Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. Kenobi hailed the younglings and promised to send Commander Cody to pick up the stranded younglings. However, Kenobi suffered a surprise attack by General Grievous and was eventually defeated. Meanwhile, Katooni and the younglings continued their guidance of building their lightsabers aboard the ship, but only Katooni couldn't finish her lightsaber. When Petro wanted to disobey Kenobi's advice and rescue Tano by the younglings themselves, Katooni was not in favor of the plan, but when it appeared that the ship's coolant was leaking, the younglings had to travel to Florrum. While leaving R2-D2 to repair Huyang and Ganodi to watch the ship, Katooni went with the group and were able to persuade themselves by joining Preigo's Traveling World of Wonder, a circus act led by Preigo, as acrobats. During the show, Katooni stole Tano's lightsabers from a drunk Ohnaka. While Ohnaka was still drunk, Tano and the younglings escaped aboard a WLO-5 speeder tank and headed back to the Crucible.
===Battle on Florrum===
Katooni and her fellows were eventually recaptured by Gwarm and his pirates, but when Grievous arrived on the planet, Tano persuaded the pirates to release her and the younglings so that they could rescue Ohnaka. While breaking Ohnaka out of his cell, Katooni completed her lightsaber with encouragement from Huyang and Ohnaka. When they fled to get Ohnaka's private fleet of ships, Katooni traveled with the pirates aboard Starhawk speeder bike. As Ohnaka was planning to abandon Tano and the other Jedi, Katooni pointed out that they had all trusted him, and Ohnaka agreed to help them escape from Grievous.
Taking the Slave I, which Ohnaka had retrieved after it had crashed, Ohnaka waited until the other Jedi were all on board so that they wouldn't get caught in the blasts, then fired upon General Grievous and quickly left the planet as the Armored Assault Tanks arrived. After returning the Jedi to Kenobi's ship and reuniting with Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ohnaka pretended that the entire thing had been a rescue mission from the start. Just before he left, Katooni caught his eye. Ohnaka gave her a small smile and a nod of appreciation. After the pirates left, Kenobi formally welcomed the younglings into the Jedi Order. Katooni and her fellows eventually returned to the Jedi Temple.
Around 20 BBY,Darth Maul—Death Sentence 1 Katooni and her fellow younglings were training under Jedi Master Tera Sinube at the Jedi Temple. When it was revealed that Barriss Offee was the one behind the Bombing of the Jedi Temple Hangar and death of Letta Turmond by blame Tano, Skywalker dueled Offee to the training ground where Katooni and her fellows were training. Offee was defeated.
==Personality and traits==
A shy and timid girl, Katooni's confidence increased after her success in getting her lightsaber crystal. However, she had difficulty putting her lightsaber together; eventually Ohnaka encouraged her to complete it. Although Ohnaka had captured and even threatened to kill the younglings, Katooni realized that he wasn't all bad and persuaded him to repay his debt to the Jedi. She and Tano were the only members of the group whom the pirate seemed to respect. Although she was a Jedi, Katooni was not always able to hide her emotions and was full of fear and despair when she was trapped in the ice cave, afraid that she would freeze to death.
==Powers and abilities==
Katooni was a young Jedi Initiate and one of the top in her class. She could use telekinesis, such as when building her lightsaber and when she was trapped in the ice cave, though she needed Petro's help to break it. She was also capable with her lightsaber, being able to destroy several battle droids.
==Behind the scenes==
Katooni first appeared in The Clone Wars: Season Five episode "The Gathering," the first episode in a four-part story arc, which was titled "Young Jedi" and previewed as a full-length 80-minute feature at Celebration VI in August 2012.
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*Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic 6.47
*Star Wars: The Clone Wars Magazine 19
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==Notes and references==
Category:Females
Category:Jedi trainees of the Jedi Order
Category:Post-Ruusan Jedi
Category:Tholothians