Obi-Wan Kenobi

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

**Obi-Wan Kenobi** was born fifty-seven years before the Battle of Yavin on Stewjon in the Main Universe. At only six months old, he was taken to the Republic capital of Coruscant and initiated into the Jedi Order.At the Jedi Temple, he trained with a class of younglings under the direct supervision of Grand Master Yoda until the age of twelve. When he was almost thirteen, he began to lose hope that he would ever become a Jedi, as after an initiate turns thirteen, they're withdrawn from selection and sent to serve in the Jedi Service Corps. One day, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn visited the temple to oversee the younglings spar. In hopes to impress Jinn, Kenobi used vicious maneuvers against his peer, Bruck Chun in order to defeat him. Qui-Gon saw the boy as too aggressive, and elected not to take Obi-Wan as his Padawan.

After turning thirteen, Kenobi was sent to serve as a ploughman in the AgriCorps on the planet Bandomeer. Coincidentally, Qui-Gon Jinn was also sent by the Council to Bandomeer, a mission that had actually been a trap set by his fallen Padawan turned Dark Jedi, Xanatos. Now leading the Offworld Mining Corporation, Xanatos was using cruel practices to opress the people of Bandomeer. One of his men attacked Jinn, but the Jedi was saved by Kenobi, who still hoped to prove himself worthy of becoming his student. Afterward, Jinn sent Kenobi back to his duties with AgriCorps and appointed a confrontation with Xanatos, not as former adversaries, but as ambassadors to attempt to settle the dispute in a civil manner.

Xanatos, however, sabotaged the meeting, and Jinn was once again saved by Kenobi. During their altercation with Xanatos, during which Qui-Gon dueled his former student, Kenobi proved himself to Qui-Gon, even though Xanatos ultimately escaped the duo. Afterward, Qui-Gon took Kenobi to become his Padawan learner, and though they set off to a bumpy start, their relationship grew into a deeply connected bond. The two would later rencounter Xanatos when the Dark Jedi was planning an attack on Master Yoda, and working with a misguided Bruck Chun to do so. Chun kidnapped Kenobi's friend, Bant Eerin and Obi-Wan was forced to duel him to save her, which ultimately led to Chun's death.

After he escaped, Xanatos returned to his homeworld of Telos. Kenobi and Jinn went after him. On Telos, however, they were not very welcomed. They were astonished to find out that Xanatos wielded significant financial and political power there. He was considered a hero to his people. What the people of the planet did not know is that while Xanatos and the government had been distracting them with a form of gambling called Katharsis, Offworld had been pillaging the planet's resources. The two Jedi were then framed and wanted for a crime they did not commit. Xanatos captured them, but the two Jedi managed to escape. Xanatos committed suicide by diving into a pool of acid after Jinn stopped his plans.

#### **Old Buddy**

Shortly after constructing his very own lightsaber on Ilum, Obi-Wan accompanied his master on a mission to Ord Sigatt, where he met a Besalisk named Dexter Jettster, who was selling illegal weapons in order to appease a gang that oppressed the people of Ord Sigatt, and were the reason that Jinn and Kenobi had been sent there in the first place. After the Jedi dealt with the dispute, Dexter promised Obi-Wan that he would never resort to crime again, and Kenobi gave him a chance at a clean slate. After that, Kenobi and Jettster would become life-long friends.

#### **Mandalorian Crisis**

At some point prior to 32 BBY, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan were sent to Mandalore to protect Duchess Satine Kryze, who they would spend over a year with on the run from her enemies. During this time, Kenobi and Kryze fell deeply in love, and though he never told her this, he would have left the Order had she given him the word, which she never did. After the crisis was averted, Kenobi and Jinn returned the Duchess to Mandalore and left to Coruscant to remain Jedi. Satine later learned that she was pregnant, though she never told Obi-Wan, who she knew was undoubtedly the father.

### **Learning the Truth of the Force**

Only months after leaving Mandalore and choosing to remain within the Order, Obi-Wan was visited in his chambers by the Celestial Oobi Doob Scooby Dooby Benubi, who told him the truth about the almighty Force that the Jedi served, who was actually a being known as Gar. Though Kenobi did not initially believe the man, everything Benubi had told him about the Force was turning out to be true, and so he accepted it. He pledged allegiance to the Order of Oobi Doob, and Benubi gave his new disciple instructions. He told Kenobi that Gar had chosen him for a higher purpose, and that Kenobi was to go along with Gar's will for as long as it was seen fit by him. Kenobi did as he was told, and was left in his chambers.

Kenobi studied extensively in the knowledge of the Force that only he now possessed, even learning and utilizing the Words of Power in battle. Such a phrase that he saved for a rainy day would include "Hello There".

### **Mission to Naboo**

At age 25 in 32 BBY, Kenobi and his master were sent on a mission to Naboo to settle a dispute between the Trade Federation and the hostage inhabitants of the planet. The Federation had placed a blockade around the planet and were attempting to force Queen Amidala to sign a treaty that would legalize an invasion of Theed City, and the entirety of the planet. When Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan arrived to negotiate with Viceroy Nute Gunray, they were escorted by a protocol droid named TC-14 to a conference room to wait, and it was in there that they became locked inside as the room flooded with dioxis.

Being incredibly powerful and disciplined in the Force, the two Jedi were able to hold their breaths for an extensive period of time. When Gunray sent a squadron of B1 battle droids to ensure the Jedi were dead, Jinn and Kenobi sliced through all of them swiftly and made their way to the bridge. Gunray sealed off the bridge, and before Qui-Gon could cut through the blast doors, two Droidekas were sent their way and fired upon the Jedi. The two were put on the defensive, and had to access the Speed Force in order to flee the scene before they were obliterated. The two escaped the blockade ship by stowing aboard two droid transport ships and making their way down the planet surface.

While in the Naboo forest, Obi-Wan was temporarily separated from his master, and when they reunited, he found Qui-Gon in the presence of a bumbling, moronic Gungan named Jar Jar Binks, who unbeknownst to them, was actually a Sith Lord in league with Darth Sidious. Binks led the duo to the underwater city of Otoh Gunga, a city inhabited by Gungans who had banished him for being "clumsy". At the city, Jar Jar was arrested, and the trio were brought before Boss Rugor Nass, who instated that Jar Jar would be "pewnished". Qui-Gon, however, saw that Jar Jar could be valuable to them, so he argued that he had saved the Gungan's life, and therefore was owed a life debt demanded by their gods. Nass accepted, and sent them on their way, providing them with a Bongo that would transport them to Theed through the planet core.

During their escapade through the core, they were nearly devoured by several creatures of the sea, though each creature would always be devoured by something larger. Qui-Gon said the line, "There's always a bigger fish." This phrase belonged to the Words of Power, and it was the first time that Obi-Wan would suspect Qui-Gon to know about Gar just as he, and he was unsure whether that made him trust his master more or less.

Infiltrating Theed City, the Jedi were able t take out Amidala's droid escort, rescuing her, along with Quarsh Panaka and Sio Bibble, who was then later recaptured during their escape. They went to the hanger bay and were forced to fight their way onto a Royal Starship Nubian, where they escaped the city and set course for Coruscant.

#### **A Slight Detour**

The ship was immediately under siege of the blockade upon attempting to escape the planet. They ammassed heavy damage before R2-D2 was able to put the deflector shield back up. Although the astromech droid was able to save them from annihilation, the ship ammassed heavy damage and was forced to stop to replace parts. The nearest world they could find was Tatooine, which would suit their needs, as it was out of the control of the Trade Federation and under the jurisdiction of Jabba Desilijic Tiure. And while the Hutt Empire was just as, if not far more ruthless than the Federation, they were not currently running from the gangsters. They landed on the outskirts of the desert world and proceeded to Mos Espa Spaceport.

Obi-Wan remained on the ship to safeguard the queen, who was actually one of her handmaidens, Sabe posing while Padme disguised herself as one of her servants to accompany Qui-Gon, Jar Jar and R2-D2 to the city. While Kenobi awaited the return of his master, he was visited at night by Gar, who he pretended to know naught of. Gar explained who he was and about the true nature of the Force, and Kenobi "pledged allegiance" to him. Gar then told him that when Qui-Gon returned, it would be with a boy named Anakin Skywalker, who Gar had plans for, and that it was Obi-Wan's mission to see to it that Anakin was initiated into the Jedi Order no matter the cost. After Gar left, Benubi appeared on the ship and reminded Kenobi to follow Gar's will until further instructions followed.

Kenobi would later receive a call from Jinn, who sent him a sample of Anakin's blood to track the midichlorian count of the boy, and Kenobi discovered that it was over 20,000, which was higher than that of Master Yoda himself. Kenobi began to wonder what Gar could have planned with a being so powerful, and he became very nervous. But he trusted Benubi, and so he did as he was told. The following day, the "queen" was contacted by Sio Bibble in a distress call. Kenobi knew that the message was a trap set by Gunray, who wanted to know their location, and so he ordered them not to send a reply.

Qui-Gon returned with the parts required, having obtained them from a junk dealing Toydarian named Watto after Watto's slave, Anakin, bested Sebulba in the Boonta Eve Pod Race, which won them both the money required for the parts, as well as his freedom. Qui-Gon left to retrieve the boy, and when they returned, they were attacked by a Sith assassin known as Darth Maul, whose moves were so quick and cunning that Jinn was having trouble holding his own, never mind best his opponent in combat. Anakin stormed into the ship and told Kenobi and the pilot, Ric Olie what had happened, Olie piloted the ship over the duel and Qui-Gon was able to escape Maul by jumping aboard.

The Jedi had still not known that the Sith still existed, as they had seemingly been decimated over 1,000 years prior, but when Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan returned to Coruscant and informed the Council of their attacker, the Jedi feared that the Sith were not, in fact, gone. After telling them about Maul, Qui-Gon went on to tell the Council about Anakin, saying that he wished to have the boy initiated into the Order. They requested that Anakin be brought before them. After they ran a series of tests on Anakin, Master Windu told Qui-Gon that the Council had elected not to train him, due to his age. Qui-Gon volunteered to take the boy as his Padawan, though Yoda reminded him that he already had one, to which Qui-Gon said that he believed Kenobi was ready to face the trials that would make him a Jedi Knight.

Despite the Council telling him no, Jinn insisted that he would train the boy, legitimately or otherwise, despite Kenobi pleading with him not to go against the Council's wishes again. Meanwhile, Queen Amidala did not see her pleas within the Senate, she decided that she was going to return to her home and fight for her people, with or without assistance from the Republic. The Jedi could not allow her to go alone, so Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan were sent to escort her, and Jinn brought Anakin along to observe and learn.

#### **Battle of Naboo**

The heroes infiltrated Theed Palace with the help of the Gungans, who had been driven out of their home by the droid army, and Qui-Gon told Anakin to hide in the cockpit of a ship inside the hanger and wait there. Anakin, however, accidentally turned the ship on and, with the assistance of R2-D2, joined the battle that was taking place against the blockade above. Padme, who had revealed herself as the true queen, led her men to take Gunray, which left Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan to deal with Maul, who awaited them in the palace. The Sith continually managed to separate Kenobi from the ongoing duel, and eventually, Obi-Wan was stopped while chasing them down a hallway arrayed with shields. The trio waited for the shields to let up to continue fighting, and Maul and Qui-Gon led themselves into a room with a reactor shaft. Obi-Wan was unable to get to them in time, and he watched the duel while he waited for the shields to open again.

It was during this time that Maul managed to gain the upper hand against Qui-Gon and impaled him in the stomach. Qui-Gon fell to the floor in defeat. When the shield let up, Obi-Wan raced after Maul in a fit of rage, managing to slice his double-bladed lightsaber in half. Maul, however, managed to overpower Kenobi, and with a Force push, was able to knock him into the reactor shaft. Kenobi only barely caught himself on a ledge. He realized that Maul had the High Ground, which he lad learned from his studies of Gar was the ultimate weapon that he was surely done for. Maul kicked his saber off of the ledge and it fell down the shaft.

Obi-Wan then realized that his opponent was arrogant, which could work to his advantage. He also realized that he had both Gar and Benubi on his side, and so he used the Force to pull Qui-Gon's lightsaber to him while he performed a flip over the Sith. Maul was frozen in place by other-worldly powers (Benubi), which allowed Kenobi to successfully land behind Maul and slice him in half, sending his body tumbling down the reactor shaft. He then sped to his dying master, whose final words to Obi-Wan were a request that he train Anakin to be a Jedi. Obi-Wan promised Qui-Gon that he would.

#### **Aftermath**

The Battle of Naboo was ended by nine-year-old Anakin when he successfully piloted his ship into the hull of the blockade ship and blew it up. On the ground, the droids had been locked in a fierce battle with the Gungans, and the Gungans found themselves outmatched and at their mercy, but they were saved when the Fedeeration ship exploded. Gunray was captured by the Queen and imprisoned on a transport ship to Coruscant when the Republic arrived to the scene, with the newly-elected Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine (secretly Darth Sidious, unbeknownst to the Jedi).

Obi-Wan later spoke to Yoda, insisting that Anakin become his student, and that he would go against the Jedi in order to train him if need be. Yoda agreed to allow Kenobi to train Anakin, and later hat night at Qui-Gon's funeral, Obi-Wan told Anakin that he was to become a Jedi. After the celebration on Naboo that signified peace between the Naboo and the Gungans, the Republic forces returned to Coruscant, and Obi-Wan faced the trials that would initiate him into knighthood so that he could officially take Anakin as his Padawan.

### **Knighthood**

As a Jedi Knight, Obi-Wan instructed a new lightsaber, after using that of his fallen master's for several years after Qui-Gon's death.

#### **Outbound Flight**

In 27 BBY, Master Windu sent Kenobi and Skywalker on a secret mission to Barlok to monitor the overbearing Jedi Master, Jorus C'baoth, and his Padawan, Lorana Jinzler. Unbeknownst to them, Kinman Doriana, on behalf of Darth Sidious, had planned the negotiations to work splendidly in C'baoth's favor, gaining him enough prestige to go ahead with his Outbound Flight Project. Kenobi and Skywalker did rescue Jinzler after she was captured by malcontents, but their opponents were able to acquire the components they needed to create a missile and attack the negotiations. Kenobi tried to stop the missile, but was unsuccessful. However, C'baoth used the Force to crush the missile and that gave him the impetus he needed to quickly conclude the negotiations, as well as receive support for Outbound Flight. Unknown to C'Baoth, Doriana sabotaged the missile. Following the go-ahead for the project by the Senate, Master Windu tasked Kenobi with accompanying the mission at least part of the way out to keep an eye on the headstrong, arrogant C'baoth.

While they were on the expedition, Kenobi often butted heads with C'baoth over C'baoth's running of the *Outbound Flight*, especially when the Jedi Master began taking prospective Jedi children away from their parents in the middle of the night. It was only when Supreme Chancellor Palpatine himself asked Kenobi and Skywalker to settle a dispute on a world near Outbound Flight's final stop in Republic territory that the two would leave the expedition.

#### **The School of Fear**

Not long after, Kenobi and his Padawan, along with Siri Tachi, a former peer and love interest to Obi-Wan in their childhood, and her apprentice, Ferus Olin, were given another mission to investigate the disappearance of a Senator Berm Tarturi's, son, Gillam Tarturi. In order to infiltrate a band of renegade students at an Elite Leadership School on Andara, Skywalker proposed that he and Ferus Olin would penetrate the school by posing to be Senators' sons. Kenobi and Tachi's part of the mission involved posing as parents who were enrolling their *children* in the school.

Skywalker, having infiltrated the renegade squad of students, had agreed to participate in a mission that would logically start a war. Soon after Anakin told Ferus about this and he was astonished that he had not contacted Kenobi before making a decision. He agreed to meet Ferus later that day to contact Kenobi. When Olin was captured, Skywalker decided not to tell Kenobi, instead hoping that he would find him if he continued with the mission. When Kenobi learned of his Padawan's actions, he and the High Council were furious. Soon after they escaped, Kenobi told his apprentice that it was not easy being a Master and said: "If you do that every time we go on a mission we won't last."

### **Assassination Plot**

#### **Bounty Hunter Pursuit**

Ten years after the Invasion of Naboo, Kenobi and Skywalker would once again cross paths with Padme Amidala, now a Senator representing Naboo rather than the planet's queen. After settling a border dispute on Ansion with Luminara Unduli and her Padawan, Barriss Offee, the duo were called back to Coruscant to protect Padme from an assassination plot against her, as per request from Chancellor Palpatine himself. When they arrived, they reunited with Jar Jar, who they also had not seen in the ten years since, and met Captain Panaka's nephew, Gregar Typho, who in place of his uncle, was no leading Padme's security detail. Anakin was anxious to find who wanted Padme dead, though Obi-Wan tried to remind him of the Council's mandate, which was simply that they protect the senator, not open an investigation.

Plans changed when the assassin sent venomous worms into her room via probe droid and nearly succeeded in killing her had the two Jedi not sensed what was happening and stormed into the room. Anakin sliced the worms before they could bite Padme, and without a second thought, Kenobi launched himself through the window and caught the probe droid before it could escape, riding it in hopes of being brought back to its leader. The bounty hunter that sent the droind shot it down with a sniper rifle, causing Obi-Wan to plunge into a free-fall toward the Coruscant underworld hundreds of feet below. He was caught in a speeder by his Padawan and the two chased the assassin through the city.

Obi-Wan believed they had lost the bounty hunter after Anakin took a "short cut" but amidst his lecture, Skywalker jumped out of the speedster into a freefall and caught himself on the assailant's. Obi-Wan followed the speeder while Anakin tried to get him to stop, and he caused the speeder to crash outside of a nightclub called The Outlander. Skywalker continued to pursue, but lost the hunter in the crowd, and was caught by Obi-Wan, who returned to him his lightsaber, which had gone airborne during the chase. Anakin then informed his master that he believed the bounty hunter they were pursuing was a female changeling, so Obi-Wan offered himself up as an easy target by going for a drink at the bar. He turned away Elan Selsebaggano, who was trying to sell him death sticks.

The clawdite bounty hunter came up behind Kenobi with her blaster in hand, which Obi-Wan swiftly disabled by chopping off her arm. Anakin calmed the bar down and told them to go on about their business, and the Jedi carried her outside of the club. The hunter, Zam Wesell refused to give them any information until Anakin yelled at her, but she was shot with a toxic dart by an unknown, jetpack-wearing assailant, who flew away before Obi-Wan and Anakin could catch him. The Jedi returned to the Council with news of what had happened, and so they tasked Obi-Wan with investigating the matter, while sending Anakin to continue his assignment in protecting Padme.

#### **Investigation on Kamino**

Kenobi tried to decrypt the the various symbols that were inscribed onto the toxic dart, but none of the Jedi analyst droids could figure out their origin or meaning. Seeking help elsewhere, he made contact with an old buddy in the form of Dexter Jettster, who he knew was knowledgeable about these things and now ran his own diner on Coruscant. He paid his friend a visit, and Dexter recognized the inscriptions from his prospecting days on Subterrel. He told Obi-Wan that the dark was Kaminoan and that was where he should search for the bounty hunter.

After thanking Dex, Kenobi searched the Jedi Archives in the library, but found no trace of the planet to which Dexter had referred. The librarian, Jocasta Nu assured him that if an item did not appear on their records, it did not exist, but Obi-Wan trusted his friend, and so he spoke to Yoda about it. Yoda and a youngling student proposed that the planet had been erased from the archives, and so Kenobi went off in search of where Kamino should have been. He found the stormy planet right as it was, and so he landed on a structural platform and met with the world's inhabitants. Representative Taun We escorted Kenobi to the Kaminoan Prime Minister, Lama Su.

Obi-Wan became extensively confused when Su continued to boast that their product was nearly ready, and when they read that on his face, they reminded him of the clone army that had been ordered by the Jedi Council nearly ten years prior. They explained that Master Sifo-Dyas was the one who placed such an order on behalf of the Council, to which Kenobi informed them that Sifo-Dyas had been killed around the same time the supposed order was placed. They then explained to him that the clones were genetically altered to age twice the rate of a normal human, and the DNA template they had used was of bounty hunter Jango Fett, who, in turn was paid in five million Republic credits, as well as granted his own unaltered clone, Boba who he treated as a son.

Obi-Wan met with Fett, interrogating him in regards to the assassination attempt on Amidala, of which Jango insisted that he knew nothing. He also told them that he was recruited by a man calling himself "Tyranus" on one of the moons of Bogden. After determining that the bounty hunter was certainly involved, he left him to consort with Masters Yoda and Windu, who assured him that they never sent Sifo-Dyas to place such an order, and told him to bring Fett in for questioning. When he returned to Jango's chambers, he found that he and Boba had packed their things and were planning to leave. He raced down to the docking bay on which their ship, the *Slave I* was landed and caught them just before they took off.

Jango ordered Boba to get the ship in the air and, now fully equipped in his Mandalorian armor, engaged in a duel with Kenobi. Obi-Wan found the bounty hunter to be more than a match, and was nearly killed in their battle several times before Fett managed to get onto the ship and escape, thanks to Boba firing a shot at the Jedi with the laser turrets on the ship. Before their escape, Kenobi was able to throw a homing beacon onto the ship, and he used it to follow them. Fett nearly shook him in an asteroid field outside of Geonosis, using seismic charges in a nearly successful attempt to destroy Obi-Wan's ship. He allowed them to think he was dead while he rested on an asteroid, and then followed them down to the planet.

Obi-Wan landed near a set of caverns and explored them, learning many things. He found out that the InterGalactic Banking Clan, led by San Hill, the Techno Union, led by Watt Tambor, the Trade Federation, led by Nute Gunray and several other factions were meeting there to negotiate a treaty unifying them in a confederacy that would wage war on the Republic, and at the helm of this was former Jedi Master (who had trained Qui-Gon as a Padawan learner) and current Count of Serenno, Dooku. He also learned that inside of these caverns, a factory was creating hundreds of thousands of battle droids identical to those that had opposed them in the Battle of Naboo ten years prior.

He went to his Jedi starfighter and ordered his astromech, R4-P17 to make contact with Coruscant, but they found that Geonosis was too far in the outer rim to get a signal, especially with whatever frequencies existed on Geonosis that were jamming them. He told R4 to reach out to Anakin on Naboo, and R4 showed that Anakin was no longer on Naboo, but instead was on Tatooine. Obi-Wan was furious that Anakin was not where he was supposed to be, but set that aside as he made contact with Padme's ship and transmitted a message to R2-D2 explaining to the Council everything that he found, before being attacked by droidekas and captured.

In his prison cell, he was confronted by Dooku, who was trying to assure him that this was all a misunderstanding that he was taking care of, though Kenobi did not believe him. Dooku then told Obi-Wan that there were things he was yet to understand, including the fact that the Sith Lord that had trained Darth Maul was a man who called himself Sidious, who was currently in the highest rankings of the Republic's senate. Obi-Wan once again did not believe Dooku, and declined Dooku's offer to join him, telling him that, just as well, if Qui-Gon were there, he would not join him either. Dooku left him at that.

#### **The Battle of Geonosis**

Obi-Wan was brought out to the Geonosian arena and bound to a post, where he found his Padawan and Senator Amidala in chains being placed in the same position. Anakin explained that they had come to rescue him after transmitting the message to Coruscant, and Kenobi sarcastically assured him that he'd done a good job. The trio were then joined by three monsters, an Acklay, a Reek and a Nexu, that the Geonosians planned to watch devour the three of them for their entertainment and execution. Padme, however, had already managed to free herself from her chains and climb to the top of her post, and he and Anakin were able to break out as well when their monsters attacked them. Anakin mounted the Reek and used it to kill the Nexu, rescuing Padme.

It was during the commotion that a sea of lightsabers ignited from all around the arena, as hundreds of Jedi, led by Windu, had come to stop this plot and were at their rescue. The Jedi were greeted by thousands of battle droids, and the Battle of Geonosis commenced. The Jedi tossed Anakin and Obi-Wan a pair of lightsabers so that they could fight, and Padme used the blaster of a fallen battle droid for her own defense. The Acklay continued to persist Kenobi until he was finally able to sever two of its legs and stab it in the head. Soon after, Jango Fett flew into the arena to join the battle, but was attacked by the Reek. Though he managed to overpower and kill the beast, it caused him to become disoriented, and allowed Windu to decapitate him.

Not long after the demise of Jango Fett, the Jedi and Padme found themselves vastly outnumbered by their droid opponents and were eventually surrounded and at the mercy of Dooku, who offered them only one chance to surrender. Windu told Dooku that they would not become hostages to be bartered with, and would rather accept their deaths. Dooku ordered their executions, but the Jedi were saved last minute by Yoda, who flew into the battle in a gunship, accompanied by a full battalion of clone troopers decked in full Phase 1 armor. The arrival of the clones turned the tide of the battle in favor of the Republic, and the leaders of the newly formed Separatist movement all fled.

Obi-Wan, Anakin and Padme were picked up in the same gunship and raced in pursuit Dooku, while the other masters led their clones to destroy the droid factories. Anakin ordered the clone pilot to fire on Dooku so that they could end the war before it even began, but their cannons had run out of fire, and they were forced to continue the chase. Dooku, on the other hand, sent his droids to fire on the gunship, knocking Padme out of the ship to fall into the sandy planes below. She survived, but Anakin ordered the clones to lower the ship, and Obi-Wan belayed him, telling Anakin that he needed his help if he was to defeat Dooku, and eventually convinced Anakin to stay on task.

They finally caught up with Dooku in a tower, where he was preparing a shuttle to depart the planet. Kenobi began to tell Skywalker of his plan, but Anakin rushed into the heat of it and was subdued by a barrage of Force lightning that momentarily knocked him out. Obi-Wan was forced to go at Dooku alone, and it ended with him becoming injured and knocked down. Before Dooku could kill him, Anakin returned to the fight and caught his lightsaber with his own. The two fought for another minute, before Dooku chopped off Anakin's right arm and Force-pushed him into his master. They were both defeated, awaiting death when Master Yoda entered the scene and engaged in a ferocious battle with his former apprentice. Dooku knew that he could not best Yoda, so he used the Force to pull a structural beam out of its integrity and threw it in the direction of Kenobi and Skywalker. This forced Yoda to catch it before it could crush the two Jedi, and Dooku was able to escape.

### **The Clone Wars Begin**

#### **Durge and Ventress**

The Battle of Geonosis was the first battle in what soon became known as the Clone Wars, now that the Republic was militarized by the clone army under the leadership of Chancellor Palpatine. Jedi Knights and Masters became Generals in the new army, and Obi-Wan was given a battalion of his own called the 212th Legion led by clone commander CC-2224, self-nicknamed Cody. One of the very first battles that Kenobi and Skywalker would journey on was to the planet Muunilinst to capture San Hill, leader of the IGBC. They accompanied several other Jedi Masters in the Battle of Muunilinst, led by Commander Fordo.

They infiltrated Hill's hideout, and Obi-Wan and the clones were attacked by a bounty hunter on the Separatist's payroll, Durge, who Obi-Wan had previously faced during the battle and had sliced in half, but thanks to Durge's regenerative abilities, he had survived the encounter. During their second fight, the Gen'Dai bounty hunter through his monstrous, wormy body on top of Kenobi, absorbing the Jedi into his stomach. Commander Fordo then shot a grapple-taser at Durge's face and sent an electrical shock wave throughout his body. This simply angered Durge, who charged at Fordo with all of his race. However, he was stopped by Obi-Wan, who was using the Force to send a bubble outward that upset Durge's body and caused him to explode.

In the aftermath of the battle, the Republic forces were successful in capturing Hill, who immediately surrendered after the defeat of Durge and was placed in Obi-Wan's custody, leaving the remains of Durge behind to reform to wreak further havoc later. During the battle, Anakin had recklessly gone off in pursuit of some expert pilot who had been baiting him to follow. When Anakin returned, he informed Kenobi that he had followed the pilot to the fourth moon of Yavin and dueled a Dark Acolyte, who he was sure he had killed, though this would also not be the case.

Immediately afterward, Obi-Wan received a call from Master Daakman Barrek, who was calling for reinforcements to Hypori to save them from the droids, as their battle had gone sideways against a new General. Kenobi sent Fordo and his squad to pick up the Jedi Masters who had been cornered by General Grievous and saved their lives, all with the exception of Barrek's Padawan, Sha'a Gi, who was murdered by the cyborg.

#### **Battle of Jabiim**

Kenobi also led troops during the infamous Battle of Jabiim. The Republic suffered heavy casualties and weren't prepared for the atrocious conditions on the planet. The Republic forces made great gains in the first weeks of the fighting until the commander, General Norcuna, was killed. Soon after, Kenobi himself was believed dead after being caught inside an exploding walker. In reality, Kenobi and Alpha-17 had been captured by Asajj Ventress, who was the Dark Acolyte that Anakin had faced on Yavin and had survived, and taken to her fortress on Rattatak. There Kenobi was tortured using a Sith torture mask that obscured his connection to the Force in an attempt to break the Jedi and show his uselessness to Count Dooku. Kenobi’s ingenuity, however, eventually led to the pair's escape.

Throughout their captivity, Kenobi had used what little Force power he had to bend the pipes in the wall of his and Alpha's cell until they eventually burst. In the confusion, they liberated many of the prisoners before running into Ventress.

After a brief lightsaber fight in which Kenobi made use of Ky Narec's lightsaber, he and Alpha escaped the planet in a stolen Fanblade fighter. Flying to Riflor, they were briefly forced to hold off an army of bounty hunters hired by Ventress before being rescued by Anakin Skywalker and Ki-Adi-Mundi. Mundi had been assigned as Skywalker's master after Kenobi's presumed death. After the skirmish, Skywalker was given back over to Kenobi, with Master Mundi relieved to no longer have to train such a headstrong student. Kenobi never forgot his captor, the deadly Asajj Ventress.

#### **A Flame Dies Out**

After many years, Obi-Wan reunited with Siri Tachi while he and Anakin were on a mission to the planet Genian to recover a codebreaking device that was invented by Talesan Fry, who Kenobi and Tachi had met twenty years earlier on a mission to protect him from bounty hunters. The Separatists were also in search of the device, which put them in a race against the clock to find it first. Fry, who was now an entrepreneur and founder of a successful business on the planet was pleased to see them, though seeing him bought up old feelings between Siri and Obi-Wan that had presumably long died out.After they convinced Fry to give the device over to the Republic, they were attacked by Magus, the bounty hunter who had killed Fry's parents many years ago.

Fry accompanied the Jedi and Senator Amidala to Azure, where the Republic was fighting off more Separatists. While Kenobi, Skywalker, and Fry fought off the attack led by Magus (who was working for the Corporate Alliance), Tachi and Amidala took a starfighter of their own to go after Magus himself. Upon reaching Magus' starfighter, Tachi made a desperate leap and landed on it. She was able to break into his ship and fight him off, which resulted in the ship's crash landing, but in the process she was shot by Magus.

Kenobi found Tachi and tried to save her, but she stopped him knowing she was dying. Tachi handed him the blue warming crystal she had from that earlier mission together, telling Kenobi that she would always be with him, and then passed on. Her death devastated Kenobi, bringing him close to the dark side as he held his lightsaber blade to Magus' throat. However, he regained control, sparing the merciless bounty hunter. Skywalker thought this indicated that Kenobi did not truly love Tachi, because he couldn't imagine not avenging Amidala's death, had she died. Kenobi later realized he had learned to love with an open heart, a lesson Jinn had long tried to teach him. He could live with losing Tachi.

#### **Promotions**

It was shortly after this that Kenobi was appointed the rank of Master and given a seat on the Jedi High Council. Further, he called upon Anakin, who, after a great amount of debate among the council, and to the vehement protests of Master Oppo Rancsisis that Anakin was dubbed a Jedi Knight and became a General in the Grand Army of the Republic and gifted his own clone battalion, the 501st Legion.

### **The Battle of Christophsis**

Kenobi and Skywalker's first mission with Anakin as Jedi Knight was the Battle of Christophsis. They had gone in pursuit of Asajj Ventress, but after she engaged in a duel with the two of them and escaped, she fled the planet, and the Republic forces were left on the defensive to battle her droids. Not only were they vastly outnumbered, but they were unable to call for reinforcements, as they could not make contact with Coruscant thanks to the reigning battle in space above, led by Admiral Wulf Yularen. After they managed to draw the Separatist forces back (a tactical strategy that the droids had only done so that they could regroup and topple their adversaries with a shield impervious to heavy cannon fire), they sent a ship back for supplies and to tell the Jedi that they were in need of backup.

The droids returned when their supply ship was still gone, but the Jedi and their clones, while taking a heavy loss, were once again able to hurt their opposers and forced Commander Whorm Loathsom to draw back his Confederate forces. After the assault was finished, the supply ship returned, though not with the reinforcements the two Jedi had been expecting. A female Togruta stepped out of the shuttle and introduced herself as Ahsoka Tano, who had been sent by Yoda to become Anakin's new Padawan learner. Skywalker immediately protested, but Obi-Wan told them both that they would sort the matter out later, and that they desperately needed to contact Yoda for the aformentioned reinforcements. They called Yularen, who was able to get their signal to the Jedi Temple. and explained the situation.

After, they devised a plan to deal with the droids' third wave, and Anakin's clone captain, Rex explained that the Separatists had a deflector shield that would render their firepower obsolete. Ahsoka volunteered herself and Anakin to make their way into the shield undetected and take it out from the generator. Anakin became frustrated with her, but Kenobi and Rex actually found it to be quite amusing. When the third wave hit, Obi-Wan let the 501st and 212th legion against them while Anakin and Ahsoka managed to get inside of the shield. When Kenobi became outnumbered, he surrendered to Loathsom and sat down with him to discuss the terms of surrender over a cup of tea.

Obi-Wan stalled for as long as he could, but Loathsom eventually saw through his lies, and a pair of B2 Super Battle Droids grabbed the Jedi by his arms. It was just as he was sure he was going to die that the shield came down and he easily freed himself from the grip of the droids, holding his lightsaber around Loathsom's neck so that the droids would be ordered to cease fire. The gunships from the reinforcements Yoda sent arrived overhead, and Yoda himself arrived to give the Jedi a new mission. Yoda also assured Anakin that he had made no mistake in assigning Tano to be his apprentice, but offered to revoke the order if Skywalker felt that he was ready. Anakin then protested, and decided to keep her as his student.

### **Battle of Teth**

Kenobi, Skywalker and Tano were assigned a new mission to rescue Rotta, the kidnapped son of Jabba Desilijic Tiure. Yoda explained to them before they departed from Christophsis that it was crucial to winning the war for the Republic to form an alliance with the Hutt clans so that they would be allowed to operate in Hutt Space. And so while Anakin and Ahsoka were sent to the jungle world of Teth, where Jabba had sent a group of bounty hunters to find his son and their severed heads were returned to him via delivery, Obi-Wan was sent to Tatooine to negotiate terms with the Hutt. Jabba agreed to them, but he told Kenobi that he had made the same deal with Count Dooku, and if the Separatists returned his son to him first, access to the space lanes would go to them.

Kenobi contacted Skywalker and informed him of the deal Jabba had made with Dooku, and Anakin told him that they had just been attacked by battle droids, which confirmed that Dooku had been behind Rotta’s kidnapping. Obi-Wan boarded his starfighter and made his way to Teth to join the ongoing conflict. When he arrived, the planet was under a very heavy battle, which Kenobi joined, aiding Captain Rex so that Anakin and Ahsoka would be able to escape with the Hutt aboard the *Twilight*. Obi-Wan confronted Asajj Ventress, who had been tasked by Dooku to oversee the imprisonment of Rotta and was angry that Skywalker and Tano were able to escape her with him.

She and Obi-Wan locked into a duel, during which he taunted her in order to further make her mad. The duel led them to a bridge, where he knocked one of her lightsabers over the edge and told her that she was finished, though she managed to escape Kenobi by landing on a ship piloted by one of her droids, and she fled the planet. Kenobi finished the battle alongside the clones, and was afterward informed that Anakin and Ahsoka were able to get the Huttlet back to his father, even with some altercations against Magnaguards and even a duel between Skywalker and Dooku himself.

Despite this, Jabba tried to kill both of the Jedi, as Dooku had manipulated him into believing they had been the ones who kidnapped Rotta. They were saved by Senator Amidala, who, during all of the commotion, uncovered a plot on Coruscant regarding the involvement on Jabba’s uncle, Ziro, in helping Dooku kidnap Rotta. Ziro was arrested and transferred to the Republic prison, and Jabba agreed to sign the accordance to officiate his alliance with the Republic.

### **Hunt for Ziro**

Very soon after his arrest, Ziro was broken from prison when a team of bounty hunters led by Cad Bane and Aurra Sing held a building full of senators, including Amidala and her friend, Bail Organa, hostage and forced the Republic to concede in releasing the Hutt into their custody. Because of this, Kenobi was assigned with Master Quinlan Vos to track down Bane and the escaped Hutt, which led them to Nal Hutta, homeworld of the Hutts, to see if the Hutt clan knew of his whereabouts. The Hutt Council informed the Jedi that Bane had brought Ziro to them and, until recently was imprisoned in their dungeon, before he was freed by Sy Snootles, a woman who had an apparent history with Ziro.

Kenobi and Vos were later attacked by Cad Bane before they could get off of Nal Hutta, and though they survived the ambush, Bane was able to get away. They tracked him to Teth, which was where they found the corpse of Ziro, and Snootles in the wind. They encountered Bane once again, who was disappointed that his bounty had been robbed of him now that the Hutt was dead. The two Jedi fought Bane, who was able to get the better of them both and escape once again. Despite this failure, Vos seemed to find the situation amusing, while Obi-Wan was annoyed.

### **Dooku Captured**

Kenobi and Skywalker later spearheaded an attempt to capture the head of the Confederacy, Count Dooku himself. While the Jedi's attempts to capture the Count aboard his flagship proved unsuccessful, Tano successfully commanded a Republic force against it, forcing Dooku to crash land on Vanqor during his escape from the doomed vessel. While Kenobi and Skywalker searched for the Count in a cave nearby to the wreckage of his personal craft, Dooku used the Force to cause a roof collapse, trapping the Jedi and securing his escape.

After making contact with a nearby group of pirates Dooku secured himself a route offworld; only to find himself captured by the wily gang of pirates who hoped to trade him for a hefty ransom from the Republic. After being rescued by Tano, Kenobi and Skywalker were sent to the pirates' stronghold to ensure they had indeed captured Dooku, and after he received confirmation from him, Chancellor Palpatine had Representative Binks and Senator Kharrus lead a diplomatic mission to trade a ransom for the Count.

Hondo Ohnaka, the leader of the pirates, however, proved treacherous and captured Skywalker and Kenobi, hoping to gain an additional ransom for them. Fortunately, Representative Binks was able to rescue them, though the mission did come at the cost of Senator Kharrus' life, and Dooku managed to yet again evade the clutches of the Republic.

### **Terror on Mandalore**

Later in the war, the Jedi Council sent Kenobi to investigate rumors stating that Mandalore was forming an army to help the Separatists. Arriving at Sundari on Mandalore he was reunited with the Duchess Satine,  Kenobi showed Duchess Kryze, Prime Minister Almec and Senator Merrik of Kalevala the hologram of a Mandalorian warrior sabotaging a Republic cruiser. Almec and Satine assured the Jedi that Mandalore was not involved in this attack and only wanted to stay out of the devastating conflict. On a walk through Peace Park, Kryze told Kenobi of a rogue Mandalorian group of *hooligans*, known as Death Watch, which were opposed to her peaceful ways. She claimed she has worked to root out these criminals; at that moment a terrorist bomber blew up the memorial shrine where Satine and Obi-Wan were walking. As they rushed in to rescue the injured, Obi-Wan then had the guards round up everyone at the scene of the bombing. Then a manfled from from the scene and Kenobi pursued the bomber and cornered him with his lightsaber. After a brief firefight and struggle, the man jumped off a balcony, preferring suicide to interrogation by the Jedi. However, Satine and Obi-Wan managed to reach the dying man on the lower floor, where the Mandalorian whispered his last words to the Duchess in Concordian, the dialect of Mandalore's moon.

Kenobi and Kryze then traveled to the moon, Concordia, to find more about the terrorists. There they met Governor Vizsla who had been trying to hunt down the members of Death Watch; the Jedi then went out to investigate the Concordian mines. Unfortunately, he was captured by Death Watch warriors and almost killed as they put him on a conveyor belt that led to a rock crushing machine. Luckily Kenobi managed to contact Kryze back at the local governmental complex and was saved by her. The two then escaped the mine but were confronted by the Death Watch warriors and their commander. The commander removed his helmet and revealed himself to be Pre Vizsla, which completely shocked the Duchess; Vizsla, using a Darksaber, dueled against Obi-Wan briefly but as the Jedi gained the upper hand, Vizsla ordered his men to fire missiles on him. However Kenobi and Kryze managed to escape and returned to Sundari. When Obi-Wan tried to convince her that Death Watch was being backed by the Separatists, she vehemently disagreed. She also restated her neutral stance in the war, even though Kenobi stated that it may not be possible to stay neutral, which slightly angered her. Satine, along with her Jedi escort, then left for Coruscant.

### **Ventress' Fall From Grace**

#### **First Battle of Sullust**

Some ways into the Clone Wars, Kenobi and Skywalker were participants in the first Battle of Sullust, during which they locked in a duel with the fiend, Asajj Ventress. When the ship the three were on became under siege, the two Jedi fled, and Ventress was left aboard, as her ship had been crashed. Dooku had evidently withheld rescue from assisting her, as per request from Darth Sidious, and so she was seemingly killed during the explosion. It was not until weeks later that Obi-Wan was summoned by Yoda, who showed him holographic footage of a Zabrak warrior slaughtering Jedi Master Hasley and his Padawan, Knox.

Due to the warrior's usage of both the Force and a duel, bladed lightsaber, Kenobi believed him to be Darth Maul, who had somehow survived his injuries on Naboo. Yoda informed him that this was a separate individual, and then sent him and Anakin to Dathomir, where the Zabrak nightbrothers were native to. The nightbrothers surrounded them, but Kenobi swiftly resolved the confrontation and asked them about the mysterious warrior. They told them about a witch (Ventress) who had visited them and taken one of theirs, Savage Opress to be transformed into a brute powered by the nightsisters' magicks.

#### **The Pursuit of Savage Opress**

They paid a visit to Mother Talzin of the nightsister clan, who told them that she knew nothing of the matter. Although the Jedi were fully aware of her deception, they left her at that, and followed Savage's trail to Toydaria where he, now apparently an apprentice of Dooku had been sent to capture King Katuunko. Catching up with Savage, they battled him in defense of the king, however, Katuunko was killed before they could save him. He managed to subdue the Jedi and raced off in his ship, knocking theirs off of the platform, but the two stole the transport of the now late Katuunko and used it to follow Savage back to Dooku's ship.

After facing off with a sea of battle droids, they once again found themselves facing Savage, but he blew past them and was able to escape. They chased him to the hangar, where they watched Dooku fly away, as well as Ventress. Unsure of what had just occurred, they decided they had little reason to remain surrounded by enemy droids, so they fled aboard their ship and returned to Coruscant. The hunt for Opress came to a halt soon after, and the two Jedi had to go back to the war. At some later point, Anakin and Ahsoka were sent to look into a lead where a diner was attacked by somebody fitting Savage's description, but for the moment, nothing came of the investigation.

### **Return of Maul**

It was not until days later that the Jedi Council received a transmission from Savage, as well as a fellow nightbrother claiming to be Maul. They held hostages on the outer rim world of Raydonia, and were requesting Kenobi alone. Ki-Adi Mundi voiced that the Republic would not be allowed to send troops to a neutral planet unless there was Separtist activity, which there was not in this case. Obi-Wan understood that he had to go alone, and was willing to do so in order to save the hostages. When he arrived, he had brief diologue with Maul, confirming that this Zabrak was, in fact, the one he had supposedly killed all those years ago.

After a swift duel, during which Obi-Wan was bested by the Sith warriors. they brought him aboard their freighter and left the planet, though not before being infiltrated by a stowaway in the form of Ventress, who, after failing to kill Dooku with the help of Opress, had turned to a life of bounty hunting to make a living. As soon as the Sith left the unconscious Kenobi alone, she woke him and handed him one of her crimson lightsabers, which he would use during their confrontation with Maul and Savage. During the fight, Kenobi retrieved his own saber from Maul and gave Ventress back her own, and the two decided they were no match for both of them and fled. They managed to jettison to safety in an escape pod before the brothers could get to them, and then Kenobi returned to Coruscant to inform the Council of the severity of the situation. His report alerted the Masters of the Order, and so they dispatched him, accompanied by Adi Gallia to hunt the brothers down.

#### **Throwdown on Florrum**

Kenobi and Gallia got wind of two Zabrak Sith brothers having attacked Cybloc Transfer Station. After questioning the station supervisor, Morlimnur Snugg, they learned that Maul and Savage had stolen a ship and were headed for the Sertar Sector, which Kenobi recognized to be where Florrum was located. He guessed that Maul would go there in order to rally the pirates together as his forces and give himself a place in the criminal underworld. Obi-Wan's prediction was correct, though when they arrived, the Jedi found themselves amid a civil war between Hondo's gang, with half of them having joined Maul, and the other half remaining loyal to Ohnaka.

Kenobi and Gallia engaged Maul and Savage, and during the duel, Savage killed Gallia. Obi-Wan retrieved her lightsaber and retreated into the pirates' stronghold, where he united with Hondo and his men. He told Hondo that he would deal with the Sith, and that it was up to him to regain the loyalty of his deserting pirates. Kenobi lured Maul and Savage away from Hondo and dueled them both, managing to sever Savage's left arm and weaken them both. Before they had a chance to kill him, he caused the area around them to collapse, separating him from his foes.

Maul and Savage realized they were outmatched with their injuries, and their pirates having turned back to serving Hondo, and so they attempted to flee. While flying away, their ship was shot at by Hondo's men, but they were able to escape in an escape pod. Kenobi and the pirates searched the wreckage of the crashed ship and did not find the Sith. Hondo considered it a victory, assuming Maul and Savage had been vaporized, and collecting the wealth that the Zabraks has amassed. Obi-Wan did not share Ohnaka's certainty that the conflict was resolved, but after returning to Coruscant and discussing the matter with Yoda, Windu and Chancellor Palpatine, he was ordered to return to his duties in the war and put Maul behind him.

#### **Assault on Mandalore**

When Duchess Satine sent word to the Jedi Council that her peaceful planet had been overtaken by the Death Watch, Obi-Wan was quick to respond, though he was warned by his fellow Jedi that he would have to deal with this matter himself, as Mandalore being a neutral system disallowed involvement from the Republic unless Separatist influence became prominent. Kenobi borrowed one of Anakin's ships, the *Twilight*, and took it to rescue Satine. Upon attempting and failing to break her out of prison, he came face to face once again with Maul.

Maul, now having usurped from Pre Viszla the role of Death Watch's leader, took Kenobi and Satine to the throne room, where he proceeded to murder the former Duchess in front of Obi-Wan. After allowing her to die in Obi-Wan's arms, Maul sent Kenobi to the dungeon to drown in his own misery. Soon after, Obi-Wan was rescued by a group of Death Watch members led by Satine's sister, Bo-Katan, who refused to submit to an outsider such as Maul. During their escape, a battle ensued between Maul's and Bo-Katan's forces, one which she would not be able to win, but she sent Obi-Wan on a ship to go back to Coruscant to plead with the Senate and allow them to aid Mandalore in overthrowing Maul.

The Republic did not listen to Obi-Wan, however the matter seemingly resolved itself when Savage Oppress was discovered having been mysteriously murdered days later, and Maul was nowhere to be found.