Siri Tachi

"No one owns me, Krayn."

- Siri Tachi

Siri Tachi was a female Human Jedi Master, apprentice of Adi Gallia and master to Ferus Olin. She was a talented pilot who served in the Clone Wars, and helped to overthrow the operations of the notorious slave trader, Krayn. She was one of Obi-Wan Kenobi's closest friends, and at one point they were romantically involved.

After Ferus resigned from the Jedi Order, Tachi never took on another Padawan. She went on many other missions, particularly against the Trade Federation. In 20 BBY, she met an early death on Azure while on a mission with Obi-Wan.

Padawan
"If the order were made up only of those invulnerable to love, it would be a sad group altogether.''" "''Does that mean there is a woman to be discovered in even Master Obi-Wan's past?"

- Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker



Though two years younger than Obi-Wan, Tachi was just as powerful in her skills with lightsaber and the Force. As an adolescent, she had a very tomboyish attitude, even while considered attractive by her male peers. As with Obi-Wan, Tachi had a rivalry with fellow Jedi trainee Bruck Chun.

The first time Tachi spoke to Obi-Wan, she had already learned of his temporary leave from the Jedi Order to help with the crusade of the adolescents on Melida/Daan, and was angry with him, calling him an embarrassment to all potential Padawans (this was before she was chosen as a Padawan herself). Later on, she helped him trace Bruck Chun's connection in Xanatos's infiltration of the Jedi Temple.

A few months following the Xanatos incident, Adi Gallia chose Tachi to be her Padawan learner. The two accompanied Obi-Wan and his master Qui-Gon Jinn on several missions to planets such as Kegan, Simpla-12, and Sorrus. With Adi Gallia, Tachi helped Obi-Wan rescue Qui-Gon from Jenna Zan Arbor. Later, Obi-Wan saved her from the bounty hunter Ona Nobis. Before this mission, Tachi was a headstrong and impatient Padawan, having difficulty understanding when to refrain from a fight, but learning from Obi-Wan's example, she became more patient and prudent.



It was not until a few years into their friendship that Tachi and Obi-Wan realized their true feelings for each other. Along with their masters, the two were again sent on a mission together: this time to save a boy, Talesan Fry, from bounty hunters on the planet Cirrus. After crashing on the planet Quadrant Seven, the masters sent the Padawans to hide in the nearby caves in order to protect Talesan. During the time they spent in the caves, Tachi and Obi-Wan's bickering briefly allowed them to express their feelings for each other, but they decided to put their focus on the mission. At one point in the mission, the Padawans and Talesan were on board a ship rigged to blow up if it exited hyperspace. It was during this time of potential death that Tachi and Obi-Wan truly recognized their feelings and after finding a way to land the ship safely, they confirmed that they were in love. They agreed to discuss their situation more in depth after the mission was over. After putting Talesan into safe hands (following the death of his parents at the hands of the bounty hunter Magus), the two agreed to abandon their love, after a talk with Qui-Gon and Yoda about the consequences of Qui-Gon's love for the late Tahl. Tachi and Obi-Wan vowed never to speak of their love again. However, this decision led to the gradual drifting of their friendship.

Shortly after the Invasion of Naboo, Tachi and Adi Gallia had a major disagreement, which led to Gallia dismissing her informally as Padawan, and Tachi leaving the Jedi Order. She joined the slave trader Krayn and renamed herself Zora. Tachi remained a part of his operations as his right-hand person until she briefly encountered Obi-Wan and his new apprentice, Anakin Skywalker. Obi-Wan, like most other Jedi, had believed that Tachi was a traitor. But after the encounter with Zora and lashing out at her, he later searched his feelings and realized the truth that Tachi would never willingly betray the Jedi. This was confirmed by the Jedi High Council, revealing that Tachi's "disagreement" with Adi Gallia and her "dismissal" from the Jedi Order were all part of an intricate plan set up by the Council to overthrow Krayn's slave operations. Soon after this revelation, Anakin, who was captured earlier and made a slave, inadvertently disclosed the true identity of "Zora", and Krayn imprisoned her with Skywalker. Working together, the two Jedi convinced the slaves to organize a revolt. With Obi-Wan's help from the outside, they succeeded in destroying Krayn's operations, ending with Anakin killing the slaver. Her undercover mission finished, Tachi was welcomed back to the Jedi Order.

Jedi Knight
Upon her return, Tachi became a Jedi Knight, and she took Ferus Olin as her Padawan learner. They went on a number of missions together, along with Kenobi and Skywalker, to places such as Radnor and Euceron. One mission was when Tachi and Obi-Wan's apprentices infiltrated and posed as students at the Leadership School on Andara in order to discover the background behind the kidnapped son of a Senator. Tachi and Obi-Wan's part of the mission involved them posing as the king and queen of Cortella considering the enrollment of their "children" at the school.



Other missions that Tachi and Olin took included their rescue of Obi-Wan and Anakin from Jenna Zan Arbor on Vanqor, their investigation of Zan Arbor, Roy Teda, and Granta Omega on Romin, and their investigation of Zan Arbor's Blackwater Systems laboratory on Falleen, before a crucial mission on Coruscant.

Following Omega, Zan Arbor, and Teda to the capital world, Tachi, Olin, Obi-Wan, and Anakin discovered their plans to assassinate hundreds of Senators and dignitaries, including Supreme Chancellor Palpatine himself, using assassin droids assigned to specific targets. Tachi, Obi-Wan and Anakin went off to find the trio of criminals while Ferus valiantly protected the Chancellor and other Senators from the droids (though there were about two dozen casualties). Following the death of Teda and another escape by Omega and Zan Arbor, the two master and apprentice pairs headed for Korriban, where the two criminals were reported to have been seen.

Along with Soara Antana, Ry-Gaul, and their respective apprentices, Darra Thel-Tanis and Tru Veld, the investigation of the Jedi in Korriban's capital of Dreshdae led them to Omega and Zan Arbor in the Valley of the Dark Lords. It was during this fateful mission that Darra Thel-Tanis was killed by Omega. After completing the mission (which resulted in Omega's death and Zan Arbor's escape) and returning to the temple, Ferus expressed his guilt over Darra's death and announced that he was resigning from the Jedi Order.

After Ferus' resignation, Tachi never took another Padawan. She mostly worked on solo missions and befriended the pilot Nym and his squadron, the Lok Revenants. Tachi helped them defeat the Trade Federation numerous times, but eventually she parted ways with them. However, Tachi fought alongside them again, with Adi Gallia and a number of other Jedi pilots, using the new Delta-7 Aethersprite starfighters. She was introduced to the Galactic Republic's new Clone Army and guarded the Republic transports with Gallia in space above Geonosis, where Obi-Wan, Anakin and Padmé Amidala were being held by Count Dooku's Confederacy of Independent Systems. Prior to the battle, Tachi aided her former master Adi Gallia in thwarting Cavik Toth's fleet of Hex Deployers. This was the start of the Clone Wars.

Clone Wars


Following the Battle of Geonosis, Tachi went to Kamino to investigate the sighting of Slave I, despite its owner Jango Fett having been killed by Mace Windu in the battle. While on Kamino, Tachi almost discovered Fett's son, Boba, but having been forewarned that a Jedi was arriving, he managed to elude her.

In 20 BBY, over two years into the Clone Wars, Tachi reunited with Obi-Wan and Anakin, as well as Padmé Amidala, to go to the planet Genian. The Separatists were after an important codebreaking mechanism invented by Talesan Fry, whom Tachi and Obi-Wan had met decades earlier. Talesan was now the founder of a very wealthy business on Genian, a world that remained neutral during the war. Reuniting with Talesan brought back old memories to Obi-Wan and Tachi of the feelings that they once had for each other. After convincing Talesan to give the device to the Republic, they were attacked by someone else from the past, the bounty hunter Magus, who had killed Talesan's parents.

Talesan accompanied the Jedi and Senator Amidala to Azure, where the Republic was fighting off more Separatists. While Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Talesan fought off the attack led by Magus (who was working for the Corporate Alliance), Tachi and Padmé took a starfighter of their own to go after Magus himself. Upon reaching Magus, Tachi made a desperate leap and landed on his starfighter, leaving Padmé to fly the ship herself. Tachi was able to break into Magus’ ship and fight him off, which resulted in the ship's crash landing.

When the Jedi found them, Talesan already had Magus held at gunpoint, while Tachi was fatally injured, having been shot by Magus. Obi-Wan tried to save her, but she stopped him knowing she was dying, and the two expressed their love for each other yet again. Tachi handed him the blue warming crystal she had from their first mission with Talesan, telling Obi-Wan that she would always be with him, and then passed on. As Obi-Wan came close to the dark side, he held his lightsaber blade to Magus' throat; however, he regained control before it was too late, sparing the merciless bounty hunter. Later Anakin wondered about Obi-Wan's feelings for Tachi, but incorrectly came to the conclusion that his master did not love Tachi because he did not kill her murderer. Obi-Wan had learned to love with an open heart, and could live with losing Tachi. The memory of a dedicated Jedi and dear friend lived on with Obi-Wan and he continued to miss her just as constantly and intently as he went into exile to watch over young Luke Skywalker on Tatooine.

Personality and traits
Tachi was usually very determined and focused. As an apprentice her strong determination often made it difficult for her to avoid combat when given the choice. Her focus and self-belief also made it difficult for her to work well with others, often as she considered herself strong enough to complete things on her own. She was loyal to the Jedi Order and until after the mission to Kegan she held Obi-Wan's decision to temporarily leave the Order against him. This loyalty later allowed Obi-Wan to come to the conclusion that Tachi had not left the Jedi Order.

Behind the scenes
Siri Tachi was created by author Jude Watson.

Corie Henninger voiced Tachi in the Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter video game.

Notes and references
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