Shaak Ti (Jedi Renaissance)

{{Jedi character infobox {{Quote|&hellip;and Shaak Ti's the most cunning Jedi I've met. She's even taught me a few tricks.|Obi-Wan Kenobi}} Shaak Ti was a female Togruta Jedi Master, hailing from the planet Shili, serving the Galactic Republic as a member of the Jedi Order in the final decades of the Republic Classic era. Joining the Jedi High Council in the years before the Clone Wars, she took up the ranks of General within the Grand Army of the Republic and was tasked with the oversight of clone trooper training on the ocean world Kamino.
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 * name=Shaak Ti
 * homeworld=Shili
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 * death=
 * species=Togruta
 * gender=Female
 * height=1.78 meters {{C|not including montrals}}
 * mass=57 kilograms
 * eyes=Black
 * skin=*Red
 * White and blue stripes
 * era=*Rise of the Empire era
 * Jedi Renaissance era
 * affiliation=*Jedi Order
 * Galactic Republic
 * masters=Mas Missur
 * apprentices=*Ori Vid
 * Fe Sun
 * Har Hurrrsks

As a Jedi Councilor, Master Shaak Ti was involved in many epic conflicts during the Clone Wars, including planning and engaging in the opening salvo on Geonosis. In addition, Master Ti was instrumental in the First and Third Battles of Kamino, where she helped to protect the future generations of clone troopers growing at the facilities, as well as during the Battle of Hypori, where she became one of the few Jedi to survive an encounter with the feared General Grievous. Master Ti was known to have dueled and defeated one of Count Dooku's Dark Acolytes, Artel Darc, before which she served with distinction during the conflict on Brentaal IV.

Following the Clone Wars' sudden end, Ti was assigned to oversee the downsizing of the Grand Army's clone forces and their retirement as well as bringing in new recruits and volunteers to fill out the military. Following the completion of this task, Ti traveled to Ossus where she began training a young Felucian named Har Hurrrsks in the ways of the Force with the hopes of sending him back to his homeworld to harness his people's potential and lead them into an era of civilized peace.

Early life
Shaak Ti was discovered on her homeworld Shili as an infant when doctors identified her as Force-sensitive. Taken to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, Ti entered into the academy there and spent the next decade studying the ways of the Force and the Jedi Code. After graduating from the academy, Ti was selected as a Padawan by Jedi Master Mas Missur and traveled the galaxy to complete her training. Venturing into the galaxy on long journey missions, Ti constructed a blue-bladed lightsaber on Ilum and was successful in passing her Trials of Knighthood. Raised to the rank of Jedi Knight by the Jedi High Council, Ti met her the challenges of becoming a Consular with enthusiasm and dignity.

Pursuing the path of the diplomat, Ti sought to strengthen her connection to the Force and worked under the Council of Reconciliation. Like many of the Order, Ti was permitted to travel back to her homeworld and connect with her roots. Undergoing a traditional Togrutan right of passage, Ti tracked and killed a wild akul beast and crafted an elegant headdress from its teeth. During her early career Ti took her first student, Ori Vid, and choose to train him on her birth planet, Shili. Among the vast, dry scrublands Ti taught Vid the ways of the Jedi, eventually raising him to Knighthood. Parting ways, it wasn't long before Shaak Ti got word that he had been killed by a criminal on one of his first missions.

Having failed her first student, Ti decided to try again when she chose the Initiate Fe Sun as her second apprentice. Once more traveling to Shili and training her student in a slightly unorthodox manner, Ti did not believe in the traditional application of skills through the acceptance of missions from one of the Jedi Councils. Training Sun to the rank of Knight, Ti suffered the loss of the girl when she was killed by the Zeltron criminal Lyshaa. While struck by grief, Ti was dedicated to the Jedi way of detachment and allowed herself to come to terms with both her students' deaths. This did not prevent some on the High Council from questioning her methods of training students. Ti took it upon herself to track down Lyshaa and bring her to justice, seeing her imprisoned for countless years on the planet Brentaal IV.

Jedi Master
Eventually, Shaak Ti was recognized by the High Council as a highly trained Jedi and raised her to the rank of Master. As a Master, Ti went on to complete many assignments, gaining great respect from her peers. When High Councilor Yaddle was killed during an incident on Mawan in 26 BBY, Master Ti was nominated to the august body to replace the diminutive Master. Accepting the appointment, Ti would contribute her insight to the governing Council for decades to come. As tensions between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems threatened to split the galaxy in two, the Dark Jedi Granta Omega, Master Yaddle's murderer, reemerged and arranged an assassination plot on Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. Along with fellow Councilor Jedi Master Coleman Trebor and several other Jedi, Shaak Ti defended the Chancellor, foiling the plot. As the Separatist Crisis continued to gain momentum, Ti issued an official statement from the Temple supporting the actions of Jedi Sarrissa Jeng's team on Antar 4. The team had attempted to negotiate peace without a standoff but were forced to engage a band of activists after hostages were taken.

In 22 BBY, Ti was stationed on Coruscant when an assassination attempt was made on the life of Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo hours before the vital vote on the Military Creation Act that set before the Galactic Senate. While the assassination was foiled by the Jedi, the High Council assigned Padawan Anakin Skywalker to escort her back to her homeworld while Skywalker's master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, tracked the being who put the hit on the Senator. Shaak Ti occupied the next few days with study and research at the Temple, spending many hours in the Temple Archives.

Battle of Geonosis
When the High Council was notified that Kenobi had been captured and sentenced to death on the desert world Geonosis, Master of the Order Mace Windu rallied all Jedi present at the Temple and rushed to Kenobi's aid. Shaak Ti became one of the nine Jedi Masters to lead the striker team which consisted of over two hundred Jedi, Ti and her comrades landed on the dusty plains outside the Petranaki arena and rushed on foot to storm the structure. Once inside, the Jedi simultaneously ignited their sabers and set to freeing Kenobi, as well as the chained Padawan Skywalker and Senator Amidala. Shaak Ti entered the arena alongside her close friend Luminara Unduli and they remained close together for the remainder of the battle. Fighting through the hundreds of Techno Union battle droids, the Jedi who did not fall were herded into a tight circle at the center of the arena. Count Dooku, the leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, offered an ultimatum to Windu and the Jedi: join him, or die. Refusing, the Jedi were prepared to fight to the death when Grand Master Yoda arrived with the clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic. While deflecting blasterfire, Master Ti boarded a Republic gunship with fellow Jedi Luminara Unduli, Plo Koon, Agen Kolar, Stass Allie, Saesee Tiin and Roth-Del Masona. Setting the gunship down in the plains outside the arena, Ti and her comrades raced into battle, leading their new soldiers from the front lines.

Returning to Coruscant, Ti took up the rank of General and began helping coordinate war strategy for the Republic. Ti was known to lead Republic forces against the Separatist horde on many fronts, including during the battles of Centares and Ando. Because of the need for more Knights, Master Shaak Ti suggested that the Council forgo the typical Trials of Knighthood and reconstitute the method of war-time promotion; a practice which had not been permitted since the New Sith Wars. When Jedi Kenobi suggested that his Padawan be promoted, Master Ti joined Masters Oppo Rancisis and Even Piell in their hesitancy, proposing that Skywalker face the Trial of the Spirit before being knighted. When Skywalker completed the Council's test, Ti met with her fellow Councilors in the Hall of Knighthood to raise the boy to the ranks of Knight. Two months into the war, Master Ti accompanied Grand Master Yoda in an assault on a distant world. While Master Saesee Tiin led an aerial assault with the Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Ti joined another Jedi Knight in taking the planet in the name of the Republic.

Duties on Kamino
As the war began to gain momentum, the Jedi High Council decided to dispatch one of their own, Master Shaak Ti, to safeguard the clone production facilities and oversee the training of the clone cadets training there. Serving as adviser to Prime Minister Lama Su, Ti worked with the Cuy'val Dar trainers at Tipoca City to administer the tests that each clone squad had to pass before they saw battle. One squad in particular, Domino Squad, seemed to lack what it took to ever see battle, disappointing even their teachers. Bounty hunter Bric deemed them a failure; hunter El-Les wanted to be sympathetic. Shaak Ti initially failed the group, but after giving them some motivational advice, the four clones passed their final test and were deployed.

Not long after Master Ti was notified of a potential Separatist attack on the cloning facilities. Reinforced by Master Oppo Rancisis' battle group and several Jedi Knights, Ti joined Prime Minister Su in the Tipoca City command center to coordinate the defense of the facilities. As the CIS Commander Merai began the battle, Jedi defended the facility from the skies over the vast oceans of Kamino. When the Separatists broke through and began landing troops in the city, Ti began to order the evacuation of the adolescent clones. In desperation, Su opted to activated the Advanced Recon Commandos, ARC troopers who had remained in stasis tubes since the beginning of the war. Fighting alongside the ARCs, Ti made her way to the laboratory housing the third generation of fetal clones with trooper A-17. Chased by dozens of battle droids, Ti and the trooper were joined by Jedi Kenobi and Skywalker, both following along as the team crossed the narrow transparisteel connector-bridge that attached to the underwater lab. Prepared to destroy the fetal clones to avoid them falling into the hands of the CIS, A-17 eventually accepted the Jedi's plan of destroying the bridge to the lab until help could arrive. With the bridge and the droids destroyed, Ti used the Force to plug the hole and keep the ocean at bay, waiting out the rest of the battle until help could rescue her and her comrades.

It wasn't long before the Separatists planned another strike at Kamino, this time led by General Grievous and Commander Asajj Ventress, two of the highest ranking members in the Separatist Droid Army. Reinforced once more by Jedi Generals Kenobi and Skywalker, Ti and Su coordinated the defenses until aqua droids breached the control center. As Skywalker and Kenobi engaged Ventress and Grievous respectively, Shaak Ti led clones against the droid army and was successful in repelling them from the planet once again. Despite a few more smaller attempts, Shaak Ti's strategy proved successful in preventing another full-scale assault on the planet throughout the rest of the war.

Battle of Hypori
When Master Daakman Barrek reported intelligence he had gathered on Hypori to the High Council, a task force was dispatched to take the large droid factory Barrek had discovered offline. The task force, consisting of Councilors Shaak Ti and Ki-Adi-Mundi, along with Jedi Aayla Secura, K'Kruhk, and Tarr Seirr, joined with Barrek and his Padawan, Sha'a Gi, in leading a ground assault on the planet. Out-maneuvered by droids, the Jedi's clone army was defeated, with reinforcements being destroyed as soon as they emerged from hyperspace. Rushing for the shelter provided by the wreckage of a downed Acclamator-class assault ship, Barrek covered his fellow Jedi and engaged the leader of the droid army in the process: General Grievous.

The six remaining Jedi were left surrounded by the hordes of B2 super battle droids produced by the factory. As the Jedi prepared for the inevitable standoff, Grievous dove down from above, making the clearing amidst the wreckage his arena. Engaging the cyborg, the Jedi were defeated one by one; Padawan Gi's fear overwhelmed him, quickly leading to his death, Jedi Sierr's head was crushed under the cyborg's heavy durasteel talons, while K'Kruhk was left for dead after a seemingly mortal blow from one of the General's two lightsabers. Secura was easily batted aside during the fighting, with Ti and Mundi holding their own the longest. While using her telekinetic abilities to distract Grievous, Ti was caught off guard by revealing his second pair of limbs, sending the Togruta Jedi hurtling into a pile of debris. With Mundi the last Jedi standing, the Cerean began to fence with the General, but was rescued by a group of ARC troopers aboard a LAAT/i gunship. Outgunned, Grievous retreated, allowing the troopers to load up the dead and injured Jedi and retreat back to Coruscant.

Battle of Brentaal IV
Five months into the war, the Galactic Republic had received information that a Separatist stronghold would be lying dormant for a few weeks, opening a window of opportunity for a decisive strike to cripple the fortress of a potentially secessionist planet. Because this planet, Brentaal IV, was a vital link in the Perlemian Trade Route connecting the Core Worlds and the Tion Cluster, the Republic dispatched a large task force to hold the planet and overthrow General Shogar Tok on the planet's surface. Leading the mission from orbit, Master Plo Koon coordinated Masters Ti, Shon Kon Ray and Agen Kolar on the ground. Leading three separate groups up to the fortress in a massive assault, each team was met with heavy resistance, suffering substantial casualties including Master Ray. Rallying her remaining troops for a final push towards the fortress, Master Ti charged into the structure to find many freshly killed beings. As she and her surviving troops surveyed the building they discovered it was truly a prison, and a recent uprising left many of its prisoners and guards dead. After a brief fight with a group of prisoners, Ti managed to convince them to aid her in destroying the facility in exchange for their freedom. The small band of outlaws consisted of renegade Senate Guard Sagoro Autem, the Wookiee Ryyk, rogue Jedi Quinlan Vos, and Lyshaa, the Zeltron responsible for Padawan Fe Sun's death. Putting aside her dislike of Lyshaa, Ti decided to split the group into three parts; She and Lyshaa would search the facility for General Tok, Vos and Autem would disable the weapons system, and the lone clone trooper would take out the shield generator alone. Once all was said and done, Ti planned for Master Koon to execute a bombing run on the structure and decimate the Separatist army surrounding it.

Setting out to find Tok, Ti refused to be goaded into a confrontation with Lyshaa; instead, the Jedi convinced the Zeltron to use her innate ability to manipulate pheromones in order to distract Shogar Tok long enough for Ti to arrest him. While the pair searched for the elusive warlord, Tok had in fact captured Master Kolar and was in the process of interrogating him before the holoimage of Count Dooku. Kolar falsely informed the Count that Ti had in fact perished in the fighting; however the Sith Lord did not believe these claims and ordered Tok to find the Togruta's body. Heading back to his private chambers, Tok encountered the Zeltron bounty hunter in his sleeping chambers. Lulled by her power over emotions, Lyshaa seduced him into bed while Ti maneuvered herself to arrest the warlord. Before Ti could do so, Lyshaa betrayed the Jedi and warned Tok of the threat. Blasting Ti in the chest, the pair left her for dead and continued to make their way for the bed. Slowing her metabolism so she could quickly heal herself, Ti sensed the other two teams destroy both the weapons and shielding equipment in the levels below her. With Lyshaa and Tok distracted, Master Ti sprung up and slew Tok after a brief but fierce firefight. Not trusting Ti's promise of mercy, Lyshaa ran for her life, only to activate a hidden lightstorm chamber. The room filled with beams of coherent light, eviscerating Lyshaa's body, killing her. With Tok dead and the fortress disabled and vulnerable, Shaak Ti rendezvous with her comrades and was shuttled back to the Halls of Healing on Coruscant.

Battle of Dagu
Four months later, Master Ti was accompanying a large group of clones when they were captured and imprisoned on the swamp world, Dagu. While one of Count Dooku's most cunning Dark Jedi Acolytes, Artel Darc, controlled the Separatist prison, Shaak Ti was able to disguise her identity as a Jedi and laid low among her fellow prisoners. In the depths of the prison, Ti began a revolt against the Separatists, aided by clones and the enslaved natives, the Rybet. As the clones overthrew their droid captors, Shaak Ti engaged Artel Darc in battle, eventually striking him down and freeing the prisoners.

Year Two
As the war entered into its second year, General Ti led a group of clones in engaging a squadron of droid starfighters over an uncharted world. Loosing at least one LAAT/i gunships, Ti was forced to withdraw, unable to search for survivors. Indeed at least one trooper survived the crash, Clone Trooper-1707, a trooper who would survive in the forests of the world through the Galactic Civil War. Master Ti received special honors for her efforts in the war from the Supreme Chancellor. Among these medals and awards was a grove of ch'hala trees, a gift which she in turned gave to the Jedi Temple for placement in one of its vast hallways.

Imprisonment on Metalorn
In 19 BBY, Shaak Ti was captured by the Confederacy of Independent Systems and transported to a maximum security prison facility in Metalorn's Unreal City. The facility's lone prisoner, it was guarded by soldiers of the Separatist Droid Army and overseen by Techno Union Foreman Wat Tambor. Once the head of the Republic Security Committee, Viceroy Bail Organa, discovered Ti's situation, he contacted Foreman Tambor, citing interest in applying Metalorn's infrastructure template to his homeworld. Meeting with Organa and his aides on Metalorn, Tambor began giving the Viceroy a tour of the planet, including the prison. Locating Ti's cell, Organa managed to pass along her lightsaber so that she could free herself. Outside her cell, Ti was able to protect Organa and escape to the landing platform where the Viceroy's ship, the Sundered Heart lay waiting.

Battle of Coruscant
"I failed…" ―Shaak Ti laments over the capture of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine

Not long after being freed from Metalorn, Ti was stationed on Coruscant as the High Council obtained more and more leads regarding the existence of the mysterious "second Sith," Darth Sidious. When SBI agents traced information to the abandoned industrial sector known as The Works on Coruscant, Ti accompanied a group of ARC troopers and Master Mace Windu to the abandoned LiMerge Power building and separated into Teams Aurek and Bacta to search the network of tunnels covering the planet's surface. After a mass search, the SBI agents discovered that one tunnel led directly into the subbasement of 500 Republica, a massive residence tower home to many Senators and the Supreme Chancellor. As they raced to the Tower, a massive Separatist fleet appeared in Coruscant's orbit, forcing Windu and Ti to withdraw from the search. While Windu traveled to the Temple to coordinate the counter assault, Ti was dispatched to protect the Chancellor. Meeting up with Master Stass Allie, the Jedi searched the Republic Executive Building and the Senate Building for Palpatine with no success. As the massive battle increased in intensity in the skies of Coruscant, the Senate was in the process of evacuating. Drilling several Senators for information on the Chancellor's location, the two Jedi were directed back to 500 Republica. In the Chancellor's chambers, Ti and Allie joined with fellow Masters Foul Moudama, Roron Corobb, Roth-Del Masona, and B'ink Utrila in demanding that the Chancellor evacuate to the Sah'c District shelters. As he lectured the Jedi and his advisers on his symbolic importance to the Republic and his ensured safety because of his position, General Grievous and several MagnaGuards infiltrated the suite and attempted to capture the Republic's leader.

Fleeing the room with the Chancellor while clone troops and senate guards stalled Grievous, the Jedi descended through the Tower, reaching the lower level mag-train station where they joined up with Masters Windu and Kit Fisto. Safely on board with the Chancellor, Windu and Fisto were able to destroy the MagnaGuards and dislodge Grievous from the train. Grievous was not destroyed however, commandeering a Republic gunship to chase down the train. The Jedi, believing themselves to be in the clear, arrived at the bunker's turbolift station and bid Master's Windu and Fisto farewell. While the four Jedi protectors escorted the Chancellor to the bunker, Ti stayed behind in the tunnel to hold off dozens of oncoming Magna Guards.

As Moudama, Masona, Utrila, and Corobb escorted the Chancellor down the lift, Ti and Allie were forced to stay behind to engage the newly caught-up Grievous. Opening fire on the Jedi, the Kaleesh General cut down the clone escort and bypassed the unconscious Jedi. Descending into the bunker, Grievous slaughtered the Chancellor's four Jedi bodyguards and captured the man, retreating with his prize back to his ship. A battle-weary Ti confronted Grievous as he fled, but was too weak to defeat him. After a brief bout, she was quickly subdued. Gripping her by the throat and arms Grievous took her lightsaber as a trophy and trussed the Togruta in a stun-net so that she could tell anyone who found her what had happened. When Windu and Fisto discovered the dead Jedi and heard Ti's tale, they sent her back to the Temple to recover as they chased Grievous into space.

Defending the Jedi Temple
"Anakin, should your place not be here, to help with our forces, if Palpatine retaliates?" ―Shaak Ti

After her recovery, Shaak Ti was able to sit in on the meeting of the High Council that saw the acceptance of Jedi Skywalker's appointment to the august body to replace Even Piell. Over the course of several days, the Council decided it was time to remove the Chancellor from office; as both Grievous and Count Dooku had been killed. As Master Windu left the Temple with three other Council members, Ti was appointed to join Gatemaster Jurokk in the defense of the ancient edifice and the children living within. As all senior Padawans and Knights were armed and the Temple secured, Ti took to meditating outside the entry door to the hangars in the High Council Tower. Interrupting her trance, Jedi Skywalker demanded that she let him pass into the hangars so that he could travel to the Chancellor's office. Believing that he intended to help Windu defeat the Sith, Ti let him pass before retiring to her quarters. Within the next hour, Ti felt an intense terrible shudder in the Force and began to prepare for an assault by the Sith.

As Ti and Cin Drallig prepared the Temple, Master Windu sent an emergency mission declaring also Republic officials in the Temple a possible threat to security as Palpatine was in fact Darth Sidious' alter ego. Alerting Temple Security, Ti and Drallig ordered all clone troopers stationed at landing bays and hangars to be escort out of the Temple Precinct and for the Temple to be prepared for the mass influx of all Jedi recalled from battle. As the week following Sidious' death rushed by the entire Order assembled on Coruscant for a conclave in which the war was announced to be officially over and the appointment of Tomac Moorcé as the new Grand Master revealed. Under Moorcé's orders, Ti was to assist in the retirement of the clone army as agreed upon by the Republic's acting Triumvirate.

Jedi Renaissance
Working closely with Master Arligan Zey to oversee that the clone troopers were given the retirement they wanted and their lifespans returned to average levels, Ti was also tasked with advising the military as they restructured the Grand Army to fill out the ranks vacated by clones. While some clones did elect to continue service as paid soldiers of the Republic, the rest of the Army was populated by volunteers from across the galaxy. Ti's efforts were largely supplemented by Master Glynn-Beti, who helped with the restructuring of the Naval and military academy systems.

When her duties were complete with the Grand Army, Ti gladly departed Coruscant and traveled to the newly restored Jedi fortress world of Ossus to continue her service on the High Council. Retaining her seat over the next few decades, Ti elected to take a new Padawan, a Felucian from the fungus planet Felucia brought into the Order by Master Aayla Secura after her time there during the Clone Wars. The young Har Hurrrsks' species was a primitive one which was universally attuned to the Force. Interested in taming the world and establishing a Jedi academy there to train the natives how to harness the Force and create a civilized society, Ti took Hurrrsks deep into the jungles surrounding the city of Knossa on Ossus to train in solitude.

Out in the wilderness, Ti constructed a small camp where she could instill in Hurrrsks the skills he would need to harness the Force and to pass on her knowledge to his species in the time to come. As a senior Padawan, Hurrrsks was finally ready to travel to Felucia and begin the process Ti had longed to start. Along with members of the Service Corps, Ti and her student landed on Felucia and approached the natives with ceremonial gifts and offerings. Welcomed into the camp of the Felucian Primary Council, Ti and Hurrrsks proposed guidance in the Force and the assistance of the Service Corps in society building without need for payment. Eagerly accepting the foreigners' gifts, the Felucian Primary Council worked from 1 ABY to craft a new societal structure which would respect the environment of their world and focus on their species-wide connection to the Force. Devoting themselves to the Jedi Code and using it as a basic structural skeleton for their constitution, the Felucians constructed a single permanent settlement in the capital of Ti-Arastiks which would be home to the Primary Council's governing hall and the sprawling Jedi Temple which consisted of a central pyramid building for the training of Jedi Knights and several other structures which served as alters and educational facilities for the non-Jedi Forceful citizens of the planet. When Ti stepped down from the High Council in 5 ABY to spend her time strictly on Felucia, she took up the title of headmaster of the Felucian Temple and brought in hundreds of Felcuians to the ranks of the Order and trained them as Guardians and Consulars. Within the ensuing years, Felucia became one of the most prominent Jedi-controlled worlds in the galaxy; a place of learning and spiritual energy which attracted many Jedi and non-Jedi alike.