Rosh Penin (Obi-Wan Kenobody)

"The one thing that I have learned is that cheating hurts those whom have been cheated."

- Rosh Penin talking to fellow students at the Jedi Academy

Rosh Penin was a Human male Jedi Knight born on the unspoiled planet Naboo in 9 BBY. Rosh spent most of his life on the Capital planet Corellia which was the Capital planet of the Corellian system. Rosh Penin was trained in the ways of the Force at the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin IV. Rosh’s career as a Jedi was not what his former master had forseen. Rosh always wanted to have his way, even if it meant cheating as seen when he set loose an ASP-19 battle droid on Jaden Korr. Rosh traveled on missions that were assigned to him by Luke Skywalker. However, while on a mission to Byss, Rosh was seduced to the dark side by Tavion Axmis and sent to the acidic planet Vjun to drain the dark force energy that resided there after the occupation of Darth Vader. After Rosh was defeated by his former friend Jaden, Tavion took her former apprentice Rosh and ordered her other apprentice Alora to take Rosh to the planet Taspir III which was covered with mountainous crags divided by lava as a captive in order to seduce Jaden. When Rosh saw his friend Jaden, he started to plea with him. However, Rosh was unable to convince Jaden to let go of his anger. It was then that their master Kyle Katarn was able to convince Jaden that Rosh was telling the truth. Alora, looking with disgust, attacked Jaden, leaving Rosh minus a left arm. After Alora was slayed, Rosh was taken to the bacta tank at the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV. Immediately after Luke Skywalker had talked with Rosh, Jaden got permission from Luke Skywalker to retrain Rosh, not only through lightsaber training and retuning his Force Powers, but also through discipline. Rosh Penin’s training ended the year prior to the Yuuzhan Vong War. However, Rosh decided to fight along side his friend during the war with the Yuuzhan Vong. The only notable battle against the Yuuzhan Vong that Rosh fought in was the first battle of Coruscant. However, Rosh fought against the Yuuzhan Vong until the end of the war.

Rosh Penin later participated in the raid on Centerpoint Station disguised as a GAG trooper. Rosh matured into a wise Jedi as he continued to walk on the path of the light side of the Force until he was later slayed by Darth Caedus in 40 ABY.

Rough road to Adulthood
Rosh's childhood is not clearly known, not even to the New Jedi Order. In 9 BBY, Rosh Penin was born on the unspoilt planet of Naboo. Rosh grew up to be a person that was considered by people who knew him to be too self-centered. However, Rosh was too late to fix that problem that made him not liked by his friends. In 14 ABY, Rosh was picked up by the shuttle that was bound for the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV. Rosh's ego problem changed when he met fellow Jedi initiate Jaden Korr aboard a transport shuttle that was carrying not only Rosh and Jaden but also other fellow Jedi initiates.

Broken friendship
Fourteen years after the battle of Yavin, Rosh Penin was transported along with fellow Jedi initiates to the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4. On the way to the Praxeum, he introduced himself Jaden Korr, and the two eventually developed a friendship. While heading to the Praxeum on Yavin 4, the shuttle was attacked by the Disciples of Ragnos, though the attack was merely a distraction so they could access Luke Skywalker's personal records. After recovering from the shuttle crash, Rosh and Jaden teamed up in order to reach the Massassi Temple. Jaden went on ahead after spotting stormtroopers patrolling the area of the Temple and quickly slayed them, along with a Force-sensitive Sith cultist. Jaden was then knocked unconscious with the Scepter of Ragnos by Tavion Axmis. Rosh saw Jaden fall to the ground, and then he went for help and came back with Luke Skywalker and Kyle Katarn, who afterward took Rosh and Jaden back to the Praxeum. After arriving, Rosh and Jaden were assigned to Kyle as his students. During a training exercise, Rosh set loose a lightsaber training droid on Jaden in order to slow him down so that he would be able to complete the course before Jaden. When Jaden reached the end of the course, Kyle chastised Rosh, saying the droid would have killed Korr had it been set to Luke's training regiment. Rosh apologized to Jaden, an apology which Jaden paused before accepting Rosh's apology.

Fall to the Dark Side
Rosh was often frustrated that Kyle was delaying his training, and as a result he became arrogant and impatient. Eventually, Penin was given orders to investigate Byss, where he was later captured by the Disciples of Ragnos. At first, he was scared he would be slayed by the cult, but instead of slaying him, they took advantage of his fear to seduce him to the dark side. Rosh's naiveté attitude and crave for power made it easy for the Cult to turn him, and he became an apprentice to Tavion, leader of the Disciples of Ragnos. On Vjun, Rosh, Tavion, and the Kothos Twins led the cult into Bast Castle in order to drain the Force energies that were stored there. Kyle and Jaden arrived on Vjun, with the intent to stop the cultists, but were separated when Kyle fell unharmed but unable to catch up to Jaden. Jaden later located and confronted Rosh in Vader's throne room, where Rosh, with the aid of the Twins, attempted to slay Jaden. Rosh and Jaden were on par with each other until Jaden found a way to defeat his old friend and killed the Twins. He overpowered and disarmed Rosh just as Kyle arrived. Before they were able to capture Rosh, Tavion intervened. She stunned Kyle and Jaden with Force lightning, and afterward proclaimed that she had taken Rosh as her new apprentice. Tavion pulled Korr's lightsaber from him with the Force, threw it at the ceiling and brought the weakened structure down on the Jedi with the Scepter of Ragnos. She then escaped with Penin in her arm. Katarn used the Force to prevent the ceiling from crashing down on top of them while Korr used his master's lightsaber to create a hole as a means for escape.

Redemption
Some time later, Rosh regretted what he had done and tried to turn from the dark side while on Taspir III with Alora, Tavion's other apprentice. He sent a distress signal to the Jedi Praxeum. Kyle and Jaden arrived on Taspir III and decided to separate to make it easy to search for Rosh. Jaden eventually located Rosh, who begged for forgiveness for attacking Jaden on Vjun. Jaden's anger at Rosh returned once again, and he came close to slaying his friend. Kyle telepathically communicated with Jaden and pleaded with him to deactivate his lightsaber. Jaden released the stress that was burning in him, though Alora, who had been watching from a distance, attacked Jaden. During the battle, Alora managed to incapacitate Rosh by cutting off his left arm due to his disloyalty to the cult, after which Jaden struck her down. Kyle arrived soon after and brought Rosh back to a medical facility where he was given a prosthetic arm to replace the one that Alora severed on Taspir III.

Attack of the Peace Brigade
After the Disciple of Ragnos crisis, Rosh completed his training a year prior to the most devastating war which was the Yuuzhan Vong War. In 26 ABY, Jaden and Rosh were assigned to help defend the Jedi children as they were being evacuated off of Yavin IV. Jaden and Rosh ignited there lightsabers and helped fend off the ominous Peace Brigade which was an elite Yuuzhan Vong force, but as they saw that the Peace Brigade was overrunning the Jedi Praxeum,they were told by fellow Jedi, that were escaping the eminent doom, that there was no hope in defeating the huge and ominous presence. Rosh and Jaden listened to Luke Skywalker as he briefed them on their assignment; their assignment was to defend Coruscant.

Defending Coruscant
In 27 ABY, arrived on Jaden's home planet Coruscant in order to prevent the Yuuzhan Vong from capturing and terraforming, which was what happened. Rosh and his master Jaden Korr ignited their lightsabers and fought against groups of Yuuzhan Vong warriors. Rosh, realized as he fought with the warriors, that the staff that the warriors utilized could not be damaged by a single lightsaber blade. He decided to try to outmaneuver the warriors with the skills that Jaden had taught him. Hours passed, Rosh and Jaden, realizing that the planet was doomed, made their escape by utilized Force Wave and Force Speed in order to get to their personal transportation and fly away from what could have been their death. Two years later, Rosh and Jaden returned to Coruscant to recapture the planet.

Recapturing Coruscant
In 29 ABY, Jaden and Rosh, along with their landing party, arrived at the gate of the Yuuzhan Vong Citadel which was the gate to the palace that had the capability of returning to space if need arose. Once they stood in front of the gate, they were confronted by Slayers who then showed them into the Citadel, not knowing that the Slayers, who were created by the Yuuzhan Vong, were used to terminate the landing party. As they were attacked, the Jedi ignited their lightsabers and held their ground. Rosh saw his master being apprehended by a small group of Slayers, and he attempted to rescue Jaden, but he found himself laying on the ground on his back, Rosh and his master Jaden continued to fight against the Yuuzhan Vong until the peace between the Yuuzhan Vong and the galaxy was announced.

Jedi Knight
The war with the Yuuzhan Vong was indeed the most devastating war that the New Republic had seen, and the cost of lives were high, it also had cost a few of the Jedi the opportunity to protect the New Republic as Jedi Knights of the New Jedi Order. As for the friendship between Rosh and his friend and master Jaden, their friendship held fast against the tides of the war with the Yuuzhan Vong. Rosh achieve the rank of Jedi Knight, and he also received new Jedi attire.

Fate met at the hands of Darth Caedus
Ten years after the war with the Yuuzhan Vong, as the funeral for Luke Skywalker's wife Mara Jade Skywalker proceeded, the funeral was interrupted as Darth Caedus, formally known as Jacen Solo, was battling a small group of Jedi including Kyle Katarn, Rosh rushed and helped fend Caedus off, but Caedus' blade met its mark. Rosh passed on into the Force after watching for a few brief seconds of his old friend Jaden confronting Caedus.

Legacy
Even though Rosh Penin had a brush with the dark side, Rosh's peers saw how he had matured into a wise Jedi. The story of Rosh's life was later written down by the Jedi historian of the New Jedi Order Tionne Solusar which was then read by Jedi initiates decades after Rosh's death. Rosh left behind his lightsaber which was later destroyed during the attack of the Jedi Academy on Ossus in 66 ABY.

Personality and traits
Rosh Penin was at first considered by his peers to be a person that had too much pride. However, after his brief alliance with the Disciples of Ragnos and his rough road to redemption, Rosh was once again considered by his peers to be understanding and less full of pride.

Powers and abilities
Rosh Penin was a powerful Force user. Under Jaden Korr's teaching, Rosh mastered all of his core Force abilities and other Force powers. He demonstrated a remarkable level of telekinesis when he used the Force to repel Yuuzhan Vong warriors during the first battle of Coruscant, and showed strong abilities in the areas of Force speed when he and Jaden ran to their personal transports. But perhaps the most incredible of his abilities was maturing into a wise Jedi after he learned his lesson in controlling his emotions. This can be in part attributed to the teachings of his master, Jaden Korr, who also displayed similar feats. Throughout his lifetime, Rosh learned Force powers ranging from Force Protection, Force Healing, Mind trick, and Force Absorb to Force drain, Force Rage, Force choke, and Force lightning.

He was highly skilled with a lightsaber, repeated his master's swordsmanship; he utilized the medium, the fast and strong styles.

Behind the scenes
In the game Star Wars Jedi Knight:Jedi Academy, Rosh Penin's voice is provided by Jason Marsden. Rosh starts out in the beginning of the game with a yellow-bladed training lightsaber. But later on in the game, Tavion seduces Rosh and gives him a red-bladed lightsaber. After the Disciples of Ragnos crisis, Rosh decided to stick with a yellow-bladed lightsaber because he had yet to show the confidence needed that both the New Jedi Order and Luke Skywalker were wanting.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Jedi Knight:Jedi Academy