Barriss Offee

Barriss Offee

Jedi Knight

Barriss Offee, a female Mirialan, is the dutiful Padawan to Jedi Master Luminara Unduli, a Mirialan woman who took Barriss as her student around the time of the Battle of Naboo.

Like her Master, Barriss Offee's appearance is easily recognizable as Mirialan, with olive skin and a series of diamond-patterned tattoos set across her face. These tattoos were unique in Mirialan culture, with their meanings being deeply spiritual and personal.

Barriss was also unique among the Jedi Order in that she was a skilled Jedi healer using her abilities with the Force. Barriss was among the Circle of Healers during the time period of the Clone Wars, and used her abilities at a Rimsoo on the planet Drongar, helping to heal wounded clone troopers and aid the Republic's medical staff.

Before that, though, Barriss joined her Master, Luminara Unduli, as well as Jedi duo Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan, Anakin Skywalker, to settle a border dispute on the world Ansion. Barriss and Master Luminara were attacked by hired gangsters on the streets of Ansion before being saved by the arrival of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. Barriss was later captured by two more lackeys, but managed to persuade them to quit working for Filba the Hutt and join the Republic's side, after demonstrating her skills healing with the Force. Despite numerous set backs, the Jedi team came out successful with the mission, persuading Ansion to stay within the Republic and not join Count Dooku's Separatist movement.

Following this, Barriss and the others were called back to Coruscant, where they stood in for a meeting with Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, elected leader of the Republic. Obi-Wan and Anakin were selected for another assignment, while Barriss and Luminara stayed at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. When Kenobi was later captured by Count Dooku and his droid army on the planet Geonosis, Barriss and Luminara were among the 200 Jedi who accompanied Master Mace Windu as he led a strike force to rescue Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin, and the Naboo senator, Padme Amidala.

Barriss and Luminara entered the execution arena together on Geonosis but soon became separated during the heat of the battle, as the Jedi were surprised by the sheer force of the Geonosians and the droid army. Barriss was one of the few survivors of the intense conflict, apparantly finding her way out of the arena without joining the surviving Jedi in the final circle in the center of the arena, where her Master ended up. However, Master Yoda arrived seconds later with the Republic's new clone army, straight from Kamino.

Soon the clone troopers were wiping out the droids, with the Jedi serving as their generals during the intense battle. It's unknown whether Barriss led clone troops into battle herself, or if she stayed close to Luminara's side, as she was still a Padawan at the time. The Master-student pair were adept at fighting in tandem, Barriss copying the moves of Master Luminara's green lightsaber with her own blue one.

Like other Jedi during that time period, Barriss would become a Jedi general during the Clone Wars in the years that followed the events on Geonosis. As she grew older, she spent more time going on her own missions while Luminara was called away to lead battles on other worlds. Sent for an assignment on the swampy planet Drongar, Barriss encountered a Separatist spy while healing clone troopers at a Republic Rimsoo. Barriss also discovered that Drongar's primary crop, the bota plant, enhanced her connection to the Force in powerful ways. However, instead of giving in to the alluring power of the bota, Barriss felt that she had resisted the dark side and earned the rank of Jedi Knight. It is assumed that upon returning to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, Barriss was granted the rank and promoted. Barriss was most likely an esteemed Jedi general, as she preferred to settle disputes with her lightsaber rather than with diplomatic games.

As the Clone Wars drew to a close, Barriss met the end of her story on the planet Felucia, while assisting the clone armies in defeating the droid forces on the planet. Barriss, like most of the Jedi Order, was unaware that Chancellor Palpatine was in fact a Sith Lord and he had swayed Anakin Skywalker to the dark side. Issuing Order 66 to all clone troopers, Palpatine commanded the Republic army to turn on their Jedi leaders and execute them. While leading a clone troop battalion on Felucia, Barriss was caught unaware and blasted by one of the Republic's  AT-TEs.