Barriss Offee

### **Personality**

Calm, Studious, Devoted, scholarly, curious, brave, outspoken, courageous, reserved, angry

### **Home**

Mirial (formerly)
Coruscant

### **Allies**

Ahsoka Tano, Luminara Unduli, Anakin Skywalker (all formerly)

### **Enemies**

Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker, Clone Troopers

### **Quote**

“I did it. Because I've come to realize what many people in the Republic have come to realize. That the Jedi are the ones responsible for this War. That we've so lost our way that we have become villains in this conflict. That we are the ones that should be put on trial, all of us! And my attack on the Temple was an attack on what the Jedi have become. An army fighting for the Dark Side, fallen from the Light that we once held so dear. This Republic is failing! It's only a matter of time.”

“*I've learned that trust is overrated. The only thing the Jedi Council believes in is violence!*”
―Barriss reveals her true colors to Anakin Skywalker.
**Barriss Offee** is a Jedi Padawan character from the *Star Wars* universe. First appearing in the film *Episode II: Attack of the Clones*, Barriss Offee's character was later developed in the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, where she was often paired with Anakin Skywalker's Togruta Padawan, Ahsoka Tano.

## **Biography**

A Mirialan Padawan to Jedi Master Luminara Unduli, who was the same species as her, Barriss Offee was born Force-sensitive and raised by the Jedi at a young age. Having never known her birth parents, Barriss grew up in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, although her original homeworld is Mirial.

Barriss formed a close relationship with Master Luminara during her training. She is initially the opposite of Ahsoka, as Barriss is shown to be polite and mild-mannered, whereas Ahsoka is impulsive and headstrong. The two Padawans first meet on the planet Geonosis, where they are assigned to help their Masters destroy a droid factory. Barriss and Ahsoka are successful in destroying the factory, but in so doing they also bring down the ruins on themselves, becoming trapped in the rubble. Although Ahsoka is upset by the turn of events, Barriss accepts her fate, believing that they have saved countless lives with their efforts. Just as the Padawans have given up, Master Anakin and Luminara are successful in rescuing them from the rubble.

Barriss turns to the dark side much later during the Clone Wars, frustrated by the destruction and conflict caused by the war between the Jedi Order and the Separatists. Barriss believes the Jedi no longer represent what they once did, and so she carries out a bombing on the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, framing her former friend, Ahsoka, who is put on trial by the Jedi Council. Anakin eventually figures out that it is Barriss who is behind the attacks, and he confronts her. Barriss surprises him by wielding the red lightsabers of Asajj Ventress, and they engage in a duel throughout the Temple. However, Anakin bests her.

Barriss was arrested for treason but the damage was done as Ahsoka left the Jedi Order shortly thereafter, but Barriss was killed by a Clone Trooper-run AT-TE walker on Felucia, falling victim to Palpatine's Order 66.

## Trivia

* Barriss is one of the few Dark Jedi in the *Star Wars* saga.