Uumay Hawlatha

Uumay Hawlatha was an ancient Bimm Jedi Master who regularly assisted the Jedi Knight Iskat Akaris in her struggles to find clarity through meditation during the waning years of the Galactic Republic.
==Biography==
===Training Iskat===
Hawlatha was born sometime before the fall of the Republic. His Force-sensitivity led him to be trained as a Jedi and he attained Mastery at some point. The Bimm became good friends with Master Klefan Opus and, after a serious accident involving the youngling Iskat Akaris and her friend Tika, both Jedi often led the former in meditation sessions. These continued even after Akaris was taken as a Padawan by Opus' former apprentice Sember Vey.
In 22 BBY,Star Wars: Galactic Atlas the Clone Wars began at the First Battle of Geonosis. Vey was killed in action and Akaris was subsequently knighted. However, she was soon removed from the field for her actions on Thule. Sequestered to the Jedi Temple crèche to help raise the younglings, Akaris spent a great deal of her free time with Hawlatha, as he was one of the few senior Jedi to maintain permanent residence there. She spent an hour every morning with him in the Temple gardens, practicing meditation techniques she had first learned from her dead master. Hawlatha often sang in his native Bimmini during these sessions.
During one of these meetings, Akaris asked Hawlatha how to achieve the serenity that he seemingly had. The Bimm told her to live in the present, stating that only in the now could one find peace. Akaris responded that she often felt that the Force wished her to be out in the field, helping to defend the Republic. Hawlatha pointed out that her current role was important: helping to mold the future generation of Jedi, but Akaris argued that she felt that her talents lay elsewhere, and that the battlefield was the only place where she had felt one with the Force. Hawlatha ended the conversation with the pronouncement that distinguishing between one's own will and that of the Force was difficult, particularly for the young, urging her to be patient before dropping back into a song.
===Akaris' reinstatement===
Around 20 BBY,The mission to Olgothon 3 takes place approximately two years after the mission to Thule. As that event takes place a few weeks after the Battle of Geonosis, which Star Wars: Timelines dates as the beginning of the Clone Wars to 22 BBY, the mission to Olgothon 3 must take place around 20 BBY. Hawlatha and Opus spoke to Masters Yoda and Mace Windu on Akaris' behalf. Hawlatha remarked that it was unfortunate that the average Knight did not meditate as much as Akaris; he shared a chuckle with Yoda when the other quipped that the Temple gardens would be crowded if that were not the case. The Bimm and his friend continued to exposit their belief that Akaris had learned patience and was ready to return to the battlefield. Yoda also mentioned the confidence Supreme Chancellor Palpatine had expressed in her, and the two Councilors ultimately assented, sending Akaris on a mission to Olgothon 3. On her way out, she thanked her mentors for their support. After successfully completing the assignment, Akaris returned to Coruscant, spending the next several months meditating with Hawlatha in the mornings and sparring with Opus in the evenings. 
In 19 BBY,The mission to Frong ended during the execution of Order 66 which is dated to 19 BBY by Star Wars: Timelines. Therefore the mission to Frong took place in 19 BBY. during one of these sessions, Akaris asked the Bimm whether he had ever been to war. After stating that he had never been called upon for combat duty, he admitted that while he would not be glad to fight, he would be willing to do so if needed. Hawlatha pointed out that such was not really his talent, asking if Akaris had found hers. She responded that it would not surprise him that action was her strength, indicating her eagerness to return to the field. Hawlatha laughed, saying that it did not and that her time would come. His statement was prescient, as that very afternoon Akaris was sent to Frong to hunt down General Grievous. 
==Appearances==
*Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade 
==Notes and references==
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