Obi-Wan Kenobi impersonator

"S-Surely you've realized...I'm not your old mentor...just an imposter...who came...to love tha part...only hope I played...it...well"

- At his last moments with Luke Skywalker

The impersonator of the Galactic Republic Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi was an imperial actor altered by medical surgeons to resemble him under orders of Darth Vader.

Biography
The unknown actor recruited by Lord Vader underwent medical surgery to resemble Kenobi. He also received some Jedi training under Vader and technology gimmicks were also used to make the resemblance to Kenobi more than physical.

The impersonator first appeared on the Expansion Region desert world of Aridus where he saved a Rebel Alliance agent from being apprehended by Imperial troops. Later, the Kenobi impersonator led the native reptilian Chubbits&mdash;who had long being mistreated by the Imperial colonists&mdash; in a rebellion against the local Imperial garrison. Hover trains were ambushed while Imperial military and mining posts were raided.

When news of this reached the Rebel base on the jungle moon of Yavin 4 which was under siege by an Imperial fleet, the young Rebel pilot Luke Skywalker&mdash;who had witnessed his mentor's death on the First Death Star during a fight with Lord Vader and was curious about this mysterious reappearance&mdash;departed for Aridus with C-3PO on his Rebel Smuggling Ship.

Having just landed on Aridus, they witnessed a group of poorly-equipped Chubbits attacking a heavily armoured Imperial hover train. Seeing his fellow Rebels in trouble, Luke and C-3PO threw two bags containing proton charges from their transport at the hover train, destroying it. However, Skywalker was knocked unconscious by flying debris since they were too close to the train. Luckily, the Kenobi impostor&mdash;who had been leading the Chubbits&mdash;arrived on the scene itself and attended to Skywalker.

Skywalker was fortunate to have only been knocked out by a slight concussion from the flying debris of the exploding train. Soon, Luke recovered and he and his droid joined forces with the Chubbits and Kenobi, whom he had not realised yet was an impostor. Later, they continued their journey through the deserts of Aridus on a locally-built Chubbit wind-runner.

Continuing their insurgency against the Empire, the Chubbit rebels attacked an Imperial outpost and laid waste to it. Using technological gimmicks to substitute his lack of Force power, the Kenobi imposter won the admiration of the Chubbits and Luke Skywalker. Following the raid, the Kenobi impersonator contacted Lord Vader himself by a holographic projector. He informed his master that everything was going as planned and that Skywalker had joined him, having not realised that he was an impostor. As part of the plan, the impostor was to lead Luke to the Iron Tower where Vader would be waiting. Then, Skywalker would be a prisoner of the Sith Lord.

However, the impersonator began to have doubts about his mission. The respect shown by the Chubbits and the awe in Skywalker's eyes indicated to him that Obi-Wan Kenobi had been a great Jedi Knight and that he was little more than a cowarldy actor willing to serve under an oppresive Sith-led Galactic Empire.

Later, he and Skywalker departed for the Iron Tower alone with their Droffi steeds on a mission to destroy the automated power transformer and signal implifier whose powerful ultra-strong frequency waves crippled the nervous systems of the Chubbits. On they way, the duo defeated an Imperial Patrol Speeder.

When they arrived at the Iron Tower, the pair split up as intended by Lord Vader. The Dark Lord of the Sith contacted the Kenobi impersonator and ordered him to lure Skywalker into his trap. However, having seen the Empire's true colours, he refused to obey the Sith Lord and pulled a control lever which started a power overload in the Tower's upper levels which destroyed the structure and effectively shut down most of the Imperial operations on the planet.

However, the resulting esplosion severly wounded the Kenobi impostor in the process and he died in Skywalker's arms. Before he died, he informed Skywalker that he had destroyed the Iron Tower and also confessed that he had merely been an impostor.

Appearances

 * Classic Star Wars: The Rebel Storm