Jorus C'baoth

Jorus C'baoth (70 BBY – 27 BBY) was a Jedi Master during the decades before the Clone Wars. Like fellow Jedi Master Dooku, C'baoth was sure of his own skills and talents, believed himself to be a peerless warrior and philosopher, and viewed non force users as inferior.

Biography
Born on the planet Bortras in the Reithcas Sector, Jorus showed much potential and Force aptitude as a young padawan, and, at the age of seventeen, he attended the Mirnic University. Upon his graduation he traveled to the Jedi Training Center on Kamparas, run by the renowned Jedi Master Yaddle.

After training at the center for two years, a Jedi Master (whose identity remains a mystery) took him on as a private student. Two more years of training would see C'baoth attain the rank of Jedi Knight. Twelve years later Jorus attained the status of Jedi Master.

Jorus C'baoth was a firm supporter of the Old Republic, and served it well in a number of ways, most notably as a negotiator and mediator for many of the galaxy's racial conflicts. C'baoth served as part of a demilitarization group stationed on Ando, and was a member of the Senate Interspecies Advisory Committee, or SIAC. C'baoth was part of the Jedi task force that assembled to oppose the Dark Jedi uprising on Bpfassh. He helped the Jedi Master Tra's M'ins mediate the Duinuogwuin-Gotal conflict. Quite notably, C'baoth was also the personal advisor of an ambitious Senator from Naboo, Palpatine.

He took many padawans during his career, including his final one, a human female named Lorana Jinzler. His attitude that Jedi were superior to non-Force users disturbed his Padawan, but she was too timid to say anything to him.

C'baoth was the champion of the Old Republic's Outbound Flight Project to search for intelligent life outside the galaxy proper, going as far as being one of the six Jedi Masters aboard when it departed Yaga Minor. The project was intended by Jorus to enable the discovery of other Force-sensitive species who might be taught the way of the Jedi.

Unfortunately, his efforts were blocked by Republic bureaucracy, until C’baoth thwarted an assassination attempt on Barlok, prompting Palpatine and the Senate to give the project the support it would need. However, C'Baoth did not suspect that Palpatine would be the one to also secretly sabatoge the project. As the Sith lord Darth Sidious, he had Jorus cloned shortly in the disguise of a blood test before the launch of the Outbound Flight Project, knowing he would be of later use. Sidious also sent Kinman Doriana ahead of Outbound Flight with the purpose of destroying it, thus killing many Jedi in one fell swoop.

Once Outbound Flight was launched, C'Baoth increasingly took control over all of the ship's aspects, even going so far as to take Force-sensitive children away from their parents in the middle of the night to be trained as Jedi. By establishing himself as the de facto leader over all aspects of the ship, even outruling the captain of the ship, he earned the resentment of the colonists who joined Outbound Flight to seek a better life.

When Outbound Flight entered the Unknown Regions, it was encountered by the Vagaari and the Chiss. Thrawn, the leader of the Chiss picket force, contaced C'Baoth and boarded Outbound Flight to meet with him, but when C'Baoth refused to comply with Thrawn's request to leave Chiss space, he Force choked the Chiss, almost killing him. Thrawn, convinced by both Kinman Doriana's advice and C'Baoth's actions that the Jedi were a credible threat, then gave the order to attack Outbound Flight. C'Baoth was killed in the ensuing attack by the detonation of radiation bombs.

It was because of C'Baoth's arrogance that the survivors of Outbound Flight discovered in 22 ABY had such a resentment and hatred for Jedi.

Behind the scenes
C'baoth's birthdate was originally given in Dark Force Rising as being 131 BBY, in the archives on Coruscant. This was later retconned to 70 BBY, with the original information explained as an error made by an archivist.

Appearances

 * Cloak of Deception
 * Outbound Flight
 * Heir to the Empire
 * Dark Force Rising