Kit Fisto/Legends

"Master Fisto, in these matters, trust your insight we do."

- Yoda, briefing Kit Fisto before the Battle of Mon Calamari

Kit Fisto was a renowned male Nautolan Jedi Master in the waning years of the Galactic Republic. During the Clone Wars, he served as a High Jedi General in the Grand Army of the Republic, as well as a member of the Jedi High Council.

Biography


Fisto was born on the planet Glee Anselm, in the Sabilon region. He was known for his trademark smile and his unusually close relationship with fellow Jedi Aayla Secura, a relationship that occasionally pushed at the boundaries of the portions of the Jedi Code that forbade attachments.

His distinctive head tentacles contained highly sensitive olfactory receptors that allowed him to detect pheromonal expressions of emotion and other changes in body chemistry. This was indeed a unique attribute not afforded to any other Jedi, naturally, or through the power of the Force. As such, he had hoped to be assigned to the Council of Reconciliation, but was instead elected to the Jedi High Council.

Fisto was a master of Form I lightsaber combat, which he mastered to a degree that made him one of the finest swordsmen in the Order. Kit was also an extremely skilled swimmer, and honed his Jedi abilities to take advantage of his amphibious origins, making him a deadly foe underwater as well as on land. For instance, he was capable of manipulating water movement through use of the Force for both offensive and defensive purposes. Kit even created his own Force power, called Force water orb. His lightsaber had two crystals employing a bifurcating cyclical-ignition pulse that allowed the blade to be used underwater.

In 41 BBY, Kit took over the training of then-Padawan Bant Eerin, when her original Master, Tahl, was killed.

Clone Wars
"Here we go again."

- Kit Fisto

Fresh off from dispatching the Pirates of Iridium early in 22 BBY, Kit was later chosen as one of the two hundred Jedi that accompanied Mace Windu to Geonosis to rescue Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Senator Padmé Amidala from the Separatist leaders. He fought against hundreds of B1 and B2 battle droids in the Petranaki arena, and even disabled a droid that was accidentally built with the head of C-3PO, grinning the entire time.



Kit survived the arena battle&mdash;escaping in the same LAAT/i gunship as Masters Yoda, Mace Windu, and Ki-Adi-Mundi&mdash;and then, along with the other Jedi survivors, led the new Grand Army of the Republic in the Battle of Geonosis, the start of the Clone Wars.

In one of Kit's first Clone Wars campaigns, he led the Galactic Republic's forces in defeating the Quarren Separatist league on the watery world of Mon Calamari and later forged a new accord on the world that led to joint Quarren-Mon Calamari representation in the Galactic Senate.

Kit Fisto later went back to Mon Calamari when he found out that there were still enemies there. Also, strange individual jellyfish-like creatures joined together to become one being with great intelligence and telepathy. Kit defeated this being by scattering the individual creatures throughout the ocean.

Some months later, he would travel to Devaron with fellow Jedi Tholme, Aayla Secura, Tr'a Saa, and the Dark Woman. Their mission was to locate and destroy a Separatist base launching raids on Republic supply convoys. While Tholme and the Dark Woman were injured and Aayla was battling Aurra Sing, Kit and T'ra attacked and captured the Separatist base.



During the height of the Clone Wars, Fisto was the first Jedi to fight and defeat a new type of droid that was given the name "Jedi Killer". With Fisto went Obi-Wan Kenobi, one ARC trooper, four clone troopers, and Barrister Doolb Snoil, a representative from the Galactic Senate, to Ord Cestus to negotiate an agreement to sell the "bio-droids" to the Republic. While en route to Ord Cestus, Obi-Wan constructed a lightwhip, which Kit wielded skillfully during the mission. During this mission Fisto took on the alias of a Dark Jedi named Nemonus to trick the Five Families. Near the end of the Ord Cestus mission, he battled Asajj Ventress in a fierce duel and lost. Luckily, Obi-Wan stepped in before she could finish him.

Eventually, the Jedi learned of a bounty that had been placed on the heads of all Jedi. To stop this threat, Kit traveled with fellow Jedi Masters Mace Windu, Agen Kolar, and Saesee Tiin to the Rig&mdash;the base of operations of the Crimson Nova chapter of the Bounty Hunters' Guild. The four made quick work of the bounty hunters, forcing them to drop the job of hunting Jedi.



For years, Fisto's name had been suggested as a candidate for the Jedi High Council. Humble, and not feeling that he had the skills for such an appointment, Kit would always dismiss such offers, feeling he was better suited to the Council of Reconciliation. Eventually, however, Kit's exploits in the Clone Wars answered any lingering doubts to his suitability, and he ascended to a seat on the august body.

At some point during the war, Fisto traveled with fellow Jedi Master Plo Koon to quell an uprising of inmates at an underwater prison. There they encountered the infamous Gen'Dai bounty hunter Durge, whom they eventually trapped in the catacombs beneath the prison with the aid of an inmate. Fisto did remark that he would surely escape, though reinforcements would most likely have arrived by then. Plo Koon then decided to defer to Fisto's judgment on the fate of the inmate who aided them, whom Kit decided to trust. He even determined to petition for a reduced sentence for "good behavior", provided the inmate watch their backs while they continued to put down the uprising.

During the Second Battle of Coruscant, Fisto, along with Mace Windu, initially provided help with the Red Guards in defending Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. He even battled some of General Grievous's IG-100 MagnaGuards atop a speeding mag-lev train while Windu battled Grievous, but they were still unable to save the Chancellor. After Palpatine was kidnapped, Windu and he piloted a cruiser in an attempt to recover the shuttle that contained the captive Chancellor.

Death


After Chancellor Palpatine revealed himself to be the Dark Lord of the Sith that had been operating under the Jedi's noses, Kit Fisto once again accompanied Mace Windu, Agen Kolar, and Saesee Tiin to confront him. Kit had a short chat with Agen and Saesee before their gunship departed to the Chancellor's office. He said he would have been much calmer if Yoda or Obi-Wan Kenobi had been with them. Saesee scolded him for this: he deemed they were sufficient to defeat the Sith Lord without the aid of any other Jedi. The discussion ended when Mace embarked the gunship and immediately ordered the clone pilot to set course for the Chancellor's office.

In the duel, and despite his prowess, Kit Fisto's Shii-Cho fighting style could not handle Sidious's superior knowledge of Ataru and mere seconds after he had crossed sabers with the Sith Lord, only momentarily blocking his barrage of attacks, he died when Sidious cleaved into his waist. The man he had "protected" a few standard days before now took his life. Kit Fisto met an ignominious end with his signature smile on his face, much to the disgust of Anakin Skywalker when he arrived.



Behind the scenes

 * Kit Fisto first appeared in Attack of the Clones. Originally, the initial design for the character had him as a Sith, but since the movie did not call for a Sith of a species other than Human, this was changed.


 * Zac Jensen played Fisto in Attack of the Clones, but did not replay Fisto in Revenge of the Sith. The role went to Ben Cooke.


 * Like Boba Fett, Kit is disproportionately popular among Star Wars fans as a minor character, mainly because of his distinct smile, seen during the Battle of Geonosis (after he Force-pushes C-3PO and traps him underneath a super battle droid) and the Battle of Mon Calamari.


 * In the novelization of Revenge of the Sith, Kit was beheaded by Palpatine, not cleaved into the waist. His death was not described first hand&mdash;instead Anakin found Fisto's head on the Chancellor's table with the Nautolan's typical smile on it.

Appearances

 * Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: The Followers
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Tides of Terror
 * Jedi: Aayla Secura
 * The Cestus Deception
 * Star Wars: Clone Wars
 * "Chapter 1"
 * "Chapter 5"
 * "Chapter 21"
 * Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 1
 * General Grievous
 * Star Wars Republic: Show of Force
 * Means and Ends
 * Star Wars: Obsession
 * Sithisis
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Empire: "General" Skywalker
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II