Adi Gallia/Legends

"Adi Gallia of Corellia&mdash;Jedi Master and Chief Negotiator for this treaty. My parents longed for a settlement between your government and the rebels. I've come to finish their work."

- Adi Gallia

Adi Gallia was a female Tholothian Jedi Master during the twilight years of the Galactic Republic. Gallia was a respected member of the Jedi High Council, who served on that august body in the years leading up to the Clone Wars, as well as some time into that devastating conflict. Though the daughter of Corellian parents, Master Gallia was notable for wearing a traditional Tholoth headdress, suggesting she had ancestors from the planet Tholoth.

As a revered Jedi Master of the High Council, Gallia was naturally an exceptionally skilled member of the Order, who completed several notable assignments during her service to the galaxy. Gallia was a key player in the Stark Hyperspace War and served as the chief negotiator during talks aimed at mending ties between warring factions on Malastare. Gallia also participated in the opening battle of the Clone Wars, where her actions saved countless lives.

Despite her undoubted skill, Master Gallia eventually fell to the blade of the feared Separatist General Grievous, during the Battle of Boz Pity, after the treacherous cyborg surprised the Jedi Master by revealing an extra pair of hidden limbs, using the shock it caused Gallia to stab her through the torso with his lightsabers.

Early life
"Better a few faithful supporters than a wealth of false friends."

- Adi Gallia

Born more than six decades before the Battle of Yavin, on Coruscant, to diplomats from Corellia, Gallia first had experience with the Jedi when her parents went to negotiations at Lannik. While there, the Red Iaro launched an attack. Gallia's life was saved by Lannik Jedi Even Piell. Gallia felt a debt of gratitude to the diminutive Jedi, and it inspired her to become a Jedi herself, after it was discovered she was Force-sensitive.

Naboo Crisis
Eventually, Gallia earned a seat on the Jedi High Council by 42 BBY. She was the first to hear of the Trade Federation's suspicious movements in the outlying regions through her carefully cultivated network of contacts. Having close ties to Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, she informed him of her findings, and Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi were sent to deal with the blockade around Naboo. Jinn later informed the Council that he had found a young boy called Anakin Skywalker who had a great connection to the Force, greater than even Yoda's, and brought him before the Council. The Council saw that Anakin had great skill, but felt his training would be too dangerous and would deside after Qui-Gons mission was complete. After his death on Naboo, Adi Gallia travelled to Naboo in order to attened the maverick Jedi's funeral, along with more than half of the Jedi High Council.

Jedi missions
As a Council member, Adi Gallia succeeded in many assignments, including those undertaken during the Stark Hyperspace War. Gallia and her Padawan Siri Tachi went on many missions with Gallia's close friend Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi. On their first mission together, the two pairs of Jedi traveled to the world of Kegan where they were tasked to recover a Force-sensitive baby girl. Though they initially received difficulty, Gallia and Jinn, along with their apprentices, managed to pull off the mission. Gallia and Tachi would then team up with Kenobi to rescue Jinn when the Jedi Master was captured by the insane scientist Jenna Zan Arbor.

On one of their last missions together before Jinn's death, they had to protect a boy named Talesan Fry who had overheard a plot against twenty senators. The Jedi succeeded and saved Fry, but during the mission Tachi and Kenobi fell in love, despite the Jedi Code that forbade attachments. Gallia did not realize this, but Jinn did. He, however, decided not to tell her.

Emissaries to Malastare
After the Battle of Naboo, Adi Gallia traveled with fellow Council members Mace Windu, Even Piell, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Plo Koon, Yaddle, and Ki-Adi-Mundi's Padawan A'Sharad Hett to Malastare to supervise a peace treaty between warring factions. As the Jedi made thier way to thier destination Gallia, Piell and Yaddle sensed they were being followed. Adi and Piell fell behind and ambushed a Lannik and a man, who opened fire to Adi Gallias surprise. They then ran away, the two Jedi pursued but quickly lost track of them. Upon arriving at the meeting between the Lannik Prince R'cardo Sooflie IX and the Red Iaro, Sooflie enraged Gallia, who declared that she was here to finish her parents' work. After the first part of the negotiations finished the Jedi were offered a lift to their quarters by the Lannik advisor Hutar Zash. They were betrayed by Hurtar and the Lannik bodyguards attempted to kill all the Jedi. Even Piell sliced the speeder in half causing himself, Gallia, and Windu to fall into a podrace below. They were rescued by the other Jedi and speculated that the Red Iaro were going to kill the Prince and hurried to his building. However, when they arrived the terrorists had set Akk dogs on Sooflie IX. Adi Gallia was distracted by one and attacked by the other, but was saved by Yaddle who stabbed the beast in the eye. Mace Windu befriended the other through the Force and brought the negotiations to an end, but succeeding in the mission.

Mission to Kiffex
Along with Plo Koon, Adi Gallia was chosen by Mace Windu to come with him to Kiffex to stop a powerful Dark Jedi, called Volfe Karkko, from escaping the planet. After leaving Saesee Tiin on Coruscant the three Jedi Masters were contacted by the great aunt of Quinlan Vos, Tinte Vos, telling them not to come and that things on the planet were under control, but Mace made it clear they were still coming. Upon arrival however, Quinlan Vos had alredy managed to kill Karkko and saved his Padawan, Aayla Secura.

The hunt for Aurra Sing
In 30 BBY, Adi Gallia was sent with Master Mundi and A'Sharad Hett to track down the deadly bounty hunter Aurra Sing, an infamous killer of many Jedi. Piloting a Consular-class space cruiser, they eventually found her in the Kamdon system. They were nearly killed in a space battle with the assassin, but were able to eject in an escape pod.

The three Jedi were taken in by a nearby Quarren ship, which Senator Tikkes was onboard. The ship landed on a planet in the Kamdon system, following Aurra Sing. Senator Tikkes's scientists investigated the planet, most getting caught up in rope traps or mines. They spotted An'ya Kuro and, assuming she was the one behind it, shot her. With that, Aurra Sing appeared on her speeder bike.

Tikkes ordered his men to kill her, but, after blocking some blaster bolts with her lightsaber, Gallia called upon the Force to throw a large bolder at Sing. Mundi, unsure that Sing was dead, sent Adi Gallia to reassure. Just as Mundi had suspected, Sing survived, and escaped. As Gallia was searching around, she found a case, and decided the case probably belonged to Sing and was of great importance to her. So she decided to open the case and discovered that the stories were true, Sing had killed Jedi and realized that she was heading for Senator Tikkes, and Padawan Hett was the only one standing in her way. Gallia started to head to Tikkes ship, but in doing so, stepped on one of Sing's planted mines. Gallia survived, and Aurra Sing was defeated by Hett, though she managed to escape once again.

Early stages of the war
Not long after the Jedi High Council had sent Anakin Skywalker on his first official mission, Adi was to test a new Jedi starship, Delta-7 Aethersprite under training from the Jedi ace and Jedi Council member, Saesee Tiin. After she had completed the training exercises, she was sent to help a Feeorin called Nym in the Karthakk system by Mace Windu. Adi first met with a friend of Nyms, a Toydarian called Reti at the Ruby Nebula, who unknowingly was followed by the Trade Federation. Adi and Reti fought off waves of Droid Starfighters and destroyed the ship which was deploying them. Adi then assisted Nym on Maramere, after which he allowed her to help him on his missions. During these missions, Adi Gallia helped to destroy the Hex factory producing the deadly trihexalon poison for Cavik Toth.

Battle of Geonosis
With the assistance of her former apprentice, Siri Tachi, she escorted clone troopers in gunships to help the Jedi and destroyed Toth's Hex equipped fleet before it could reach Geonosis. After she had sent her forces to the battle, Toth tried to murder Gallia. The two skilled pilots then engaged in a vicious dogfight. Adi gave Toth several chances to surrender but was forced to kill him. Undoubtedly, Gallia's actions prevented the death of many clone troopers and Jedi. Also, Adi Gallia helped provide air cover for Republic ships descending to Geonosis. Her next mission was with Siri Tachi, A'Sharad Hett, and other members of a Jedi strike team sent to rescue Obi-Wan Kenobi, his apprentice Anakin Skywalker and Senator Padmé Amidala from the Separatist leaders. They participated in the air assault and succeeded. That was the beginning of the Clone Wars. In recognition for her actions on Geonosis Mace Windu sent Adi Gallia on a brief suspence, which she spent on Karthakk with Nym. During the war, Gallia engaged Separatist forces on the planet of Agomar.

Adi Gallia continued her service to the Jedi Council and the Republic during the Clone Wars. She met for many council meetings including the meeting where the council discussed what their plan was for destroying General Grievous. Gallia suggested that the council promote more Padawans to Jedi Knights. The council agreed to her idea. With Ki-Adi-Mundi, Anakin Skywalker, and Plo Koon, she helped save Obi-Wan Kenobi and the ARC trooper Alpha-17 from their refuge after escaping the clutches of Asajj Ventress.

Rescuing a Master
At some point during the war, General Grievous had captured Master Eeth Koth. Grievous, proud of his capture of Master Koth, sent a message to the Jedi Council daring the Jedi to find their comrade, and Gallia, along with Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, volunteered to lead the rescue mission. After one of Plo Koon`s clone troopers discovered a hidden signal, and Kenobi interpreted it revealing Koth's position that the captured Council Member had left, the three Jedi discovered that Koth was being held on Saleucami. Gallia was initially confused on whether or not it was an accurate report, given that Republic Intelligence had not specified the planet as one controlled by Grievous.

However, Republic Intelligence proved inaccurate and the three Jedi led Republic forces to the planet where they engaged Grievous's fleet in battle. The objective- capture Grievous and save Eeth Koth. As Kenobi lured Grievous onto his vessel over Saleucami, Gallia and Skywalker rushed the bridge of Grievous' flagship, confronting a host of commando droids. Despite the droids' best attempts to halt the two Jedi, Koth was successfully freed after Gallia and Skywalker destroyed all of the droids. Later on in the skirmish, as Koth was being escorted back to a Republic vessel, Kenobi reported that Grievous had defeated him and escaped. Gallia left Skywalker and Koth in order to find and help Kenobi, flank Grievous and capture him once and for all. Meanwhile Kenobi was engaging Grievous. Grievous managed to get the upper hand but became unsuccessful and fell into a docking tube. Kenobi managed to get a grip and was about to be killed by Grievous but Adi Gallia then arrived and engaged Grievous in a brief duel. The fight stopped short though due to the distraction of the docking tube being ruptured, allowing Grievous to flee to an escape pod and, from there, the surface of the planet. Gallia rescued Kenobi and several Clone troopers and then closed the tube. She then escorted Koth to a medic.

Battle of Boz Pity
"You'd better hope they gave you deflector shields."

- Adi Gallia to General Grievous before attacking

After Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker discovered the survival of Asajj Ventress and the location of a Separatist base on Boz Pity, Mace Windu dispatched a group of Jedi led by himself to capture multiple key Separatist leaders- and Adi Gallia was selected as a member of the team. During the Battle of Boz Pity, Gallia confronted General Grievous again while directing her troops as a General alongside Mace Windu.

Gallia engaged Grievous in combat, but the cyborg general used his extra arms to surprise the Jedi Master. He grabbed her neck, then plunged two lightsabers into her chest before dropping her lifeless body to the ground.

Legacy
Mace Windu witnessed Gallia's murder and attempted to avenge her, though Grievous managed to escape before he was eventually hunted down and killed by Gallia's old friend, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Her place on the council was filled by her cousin, Stass Allie, until the execution of Order 66 in 19 BBY where she was murdered on Saleucami.

In honor of his fallen friend, the pirate, Nym, named a volcano on the planet of Lok, Adi's Rest.

Personality and traits
Adi Gallia was very proud of her family heritage, if she was ever mocked in any way she would tell the person about who she and her family were. She was not as traditional as many Jedi Masters as it is known she supported Anakin Skywalker's acceptance into both the Jedi Order and his later elevation to the rank of Jedi Knight, altough she felt he was reckless with his gifts. She was opposed to tyranny such as the Gran dictatorship over the Dugs on Malastare. She believed that in many cases that peace could only be attained through battle.

Powers and abilities
As a skilled pilot, Adi Gallia was among those who tested the new Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor and flew air support above Geonosis at the start of the Clone Wars. While on missions for the Jedi Council, Gallia went under the callsign "Shooting Star".

Gallia was also a very skilled warrior with her blue lightsaber, which she wielded with an unorthodox reverse one-handed grip, resulting in long, wide swings. She was a practitioner of the rarely used Shien style of lightsaber combat, holding her lightsaber horizontally. She also used her lightsaber in the standard grip, using the standard grip in her mission to rescue Eeth Koth. Master Gallia proved capable of holding her own against General Grievous on two occasions though she didn't survive the second one.

Her skills as a Jedi were excellent, but her greatest attributes were her intuition and research skills. She was the daughter of a high ranking Corellian diplomat, which gave her a good understanding of the complexities of the Republic's politics.

Behind the scenes
In The Phantom Menace Adi Gallia is played by the model Gin Clarke, who was made famous for her French work. "Gallia" is the Latin name for France. Though she did not return to film Attack of the Clones, she is credited for appearing in the Jedi Council scene, which recycled footage from Episode I. She was replaced by Lily Nyamwasa for other scenes, but this eventually became the character Stass Allie. Adi Gallia was voiced by Masasa in the games Star Wars: Obi-Wan and Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter. In Jedi Power Battles, she was voiced by Nancy Giles. In Star Wars: Clone Wars she was voiced by Grey DeLisle, but was mistakenly credited as her cousin, Stass Allie; Angelique Perrin lent her voice to Gallia for the 2009 series.

In Star Wars: Episode I Jedi Power Battles and Star Wars: Republic: Emissaries to Malastare, Adi Gallia has a crimson lightsaber, as does her Episode I action figure. It could therefore be assumed that around the time of The Phantom Menace, Adi was using a crimson lightsaber. Other sources that take place in different time periods suggest that at other times, Adi used orange and blue lightsabers.

The New Essential Guide to Characters mistakenly identifies Adi as near-Human.

Adi Gallia's appearance in "The Clone Wars" was first rumored when a computerized Clone Wars style head bust of Adi was seen in a behind the scenes look of the show by ABC's Good Morning America. The bust can be seen siting on the desk next to a model of Ahsoka Tano.

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