Ghaa Tabbak

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- Ghaa Tabbak on his special connection with the Force.

**Ghaa Tabbak** was a Jedi Knight and Jedi Seeker active during the days of the Galactic Republic. The former padawan of Jedi Knight Valo Sindar, Ghaa learned the ways of the Force during the dark days of the Clone Wars. Upon protecting Roalia from its third attack, Ghaa was ordered to Coruscant with Valo to conduct his Trials, eventually passing and becoming a Knight of the Jedi Order.

Ghaa Tabbak was a young teenage Mon Calamari, not quite reaching the standard height of the males of his species yet. He had brown mottled skin and large, bulbous eyes, and could breathe underwater due to his species underwater origins. He was famously known for creating the Tabbak Twist.

## **Biography**

### **Early life**

Ghaa Tabbak was born on Myrkr, and raised by a group of nomadic herdsman after being left by his mother for unknown reasons. Growing up, he had a special connection with the natural world, able to feel a bond with all things natural; whether it be beasts, different environments, or people. Even growing up on Myrkr, a world of dangerous Force-sensitive animals such as vornskrs and ysalamiri, he still felt the Force in subtle ways, ever-increasing as he became older.

After a Jedi Master escaped captivity from Trandoshan slavers on Myrkr, Ghaa helped him escape through the dangerous swampy terrain of the planet and reunite with a Jedi task force sent to rescue him. Feeling the Force flow through Ghaa very strongly, the Jedi convinced Ghaa to come with him and learn the ways of the Jedi. Ghaa agreed, and they ventured to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. There the Council allowed Ghaa to enter the Order, and Ghaa received only a years worth of training before being assigned to Jedi Knight Valo Sindar at the beginning of the Clone Wars.

### **Taking on Baku**

Immediately after Ghaa and Valo were introduced, both the two Jedi and Valo's friend and fellow Jedi Knight Heyvis Trockz were assigned the mission to locate a Separatist spy in Coruscant's underworld. Travelling down to the underworld, Ghaa and the Jedi Knights were nearly killed after surviving a speeder accident, where Ghaa saved Valo's life by using the Force to move Heyvis' body, strapped firmly in the other landspeeder's cockpit, to drag the landspeeder over to the inoperable speeder truck that was plunging through the sky tunnels down the underworld's levels.

Now at Level 5, the three Jedi met with a Republic contact to find the Separatist spymaster Baku Task. Following a lead provided to them by an Ithorian merchant in a seedy cantina, the Jedi tracked down Baku to his cover business, a weapons shop just down the street from his apartment. After a brief fight with Baku, Ghaa threw him down on the ground with the Force while Heyvis and Valo fought Baku's two MagnaGuards. Ingesting a cyanide tablet hidden in a breakaway pouch in a fake tooth, Baku was instantly killed, forever hiding the secrets of the Separatist's plans for Coruscant's underworld. After searching the shop and apartment, the three Jedi recovered a manifest showing the movements of coaxium from Savareen to the various Separatist fleets across the galaxy.

### **Mission to Savareen**

Leaving Coruscant with Chalkurra, a Wookiee warrior spying on Separatist agents for the Republic in Coruscant's underworld, as well as CT-8192, or Lieutenant "Cara", a clone ARC trooper assigned to their team, the three Jedi ventured to Savareen, a remote planet in the Outer Rim. After being dropped off by Cara and Chalkurra roughly five kilometers from the village the coaxium was being refined in, Ghaa and his fellow Jedi set off on foot to the village under the cover of darkness.

After a brief scuffle with a pair of aggressive banthas, one of which Ghaa was able to secure transport on, the Jedi arrived at the outskirts of the village in the early morning hours. Taking out a B1 battle droid patrol near them, the Jedi decided to conceal their weapons and approach the Separatists as local traders.

Entering the town, the Separatist T-series commander saw through their disguise, opening up on the Jedi with his AAT. Ghaa and Heyvis, attempting to commandeer the tank for their own, were thrown to the sand below them as the battle droids opened fire on them, destroying the tank. Following Valo down the hill and putting up a last stand, they were shocked when a Corellian YT-1300f light freighter, clearly piloted by Chalkurra and Cara, lifted up from the cliff face to rescue them. Knocking off the tactical droid's head with his staff, Ghaa and the other Jedi raced up the YT-1300f's extended boarding ramp, escaping before being forced off the cliff.

As Chalkurra and Cara attempted to evade the eight *Vulture*-class droid starfighters now pursuing them and run the Separatist's blockade of the planet, Ghaa and Valo entered the freighter's gun turrets, destroying two fighters. Ghaa and Heyvis, seeing an opportunity to ditch a vial of raw coaxium that was about to explode, ejected the vial out of the airlock of the freighter, watching it explode against none other than General Grievous' flagship, destroying several battle droids inside the ship and causing massive damage to it. Jumping to hyperspace at the last second, the victorious heroes named the ship the *Shadow's Scepter*, deciding to keep it for future undercover missions.

## **Personality and Traits**

Ghaa had a very sarcastic nature, often joking too much and not taking his assignments too seriously, much to the annoyance of his master Valo, who was a more serious individual. This same free-spirit attitude often bled over to his approach on life experiences, in which Ghaa would become so enamored with discovering new locations and sources of knowledge that he would often become distracted and focused on what was immediately before him.

Coming from a background in which he fended for himself in the wilds of his homeworld Myrkr, Ghaa had a special connection to the Living Force, being able to understand the needs of other creatures and navigate landforms and the depths of space.

By the time of the Roalia Defense Force, Ghaa had become a good leader, able to command and inspire the troopers under his command with great effect. During the Incursion of Roalia, the Mon Calamari made many good strategies and tactical decisions, and was able to think on his feet quite quickly, helping the Roalians defeat the Black Diamonds.

## **Skills and Abilities**

Ghaa Tabbak was very strong in the Force, able to move objects and beings with the Force and even being able to alter his physical environment around him to ensnare and trap opponents. He was also very skilled in multiple survival skills and navigating the vast reaches of space, as well as any landforms he found himself on, whatever planet it may have been. Ghaa was a fairly competent pilot as well, as seen when flying the *Shadow's Scepter* through the Great Range, and was decent at utilizing the gun turrets onboard the *Shadow's Scepter* to destroy several fast-moving Vulture droids. Under Valo and Heyvis' instruction, Ghaa became an excellent lightsaber duelist, putting great emphasis on Form VI, otherwise known as Niman. With this Form Ghaa was able to think more creatively and adapt to sudden concerns in combat, which was one of the most notable aspects of Niman and a key character trait of the young Jedi.

## **Equipment**

Ghaa carried a simple staff for navigating and travelling across a world, which he also used to fight opponents when he didn't want to use lethal force. He wore a simple Jedi tunic, with brown leather boots, and wore a tracker's vest, in which he carried small amounts of survival and medical equipment for emergencies. Ghaa's travels and adventures also required him to utilize a navigator's satchel, in which he carried his lightsaber and any ancient texts he recovered, such as the ancient Sith scrolls found in the Badlands. Finally, Ghaa had claim to his own blue-bladed lightsaber, with which he did battle against spawns of the dark side and the droid armies of the Separatist Alliance.

## **Appearances**

*Force and Destiny*

* Episode I: Padawan Learner (First appearance)
* Episode II: Bounty Hunters
* Episode III: Jedi Night
* Episode IV: Return to Depths
* Episode V: Guardians of Peace
* Episode VI: Son of Royalty (Part I)
* Episode VII: Padawan's Path (Part I)
* Episode VIII: Battle of Roalia
* Episode IX: Warrior of Light (Part I)
* Episode X: Farewell to Peace
* Prelude: Shadow of the Ancients
* Episode XI: New Beginnings
* Episode XII: Son of Royalty (Part II)
* Episode XIII: Black Diamonds' Revenge
* A Knight's Journey (Mentioned only)
* Episode XIV: Padawan's Path (Part II)
* Episode XV: Incursion of Fate
* Episode XVI: Warrior of Light (Part II)
* Episode XVII: Hunt for the *Tythos*
* Episode XVIII: End Times
* The Return
* Episode XIX: Wealth of the Daring

*Age of Rebellion*

* Episode II: The Rancors of Bestine (Mentioned only)
* Dead in the Water, Part Two (Mentioned only)