Jenna Zan Arbor

Jenna Zan Arbor was a deranged scientist of the planet Ventrux who had numerous confrontations with the Jedi Knights, Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Anakin Skywalker. During the Clone Wars, she was a leading scientist working for the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

Early Career
At the beginning of her career, Jenna Zan Arbor was a famed scientist and the head of Arbor Industries. She was known for saving a planet from a pandemic after creating a vaccine for a deadly virus. Zan Arbor was also known to help planets with little technology such as Melasaton overcome their burdens. However, nobody knew that it was her who started the problems in the first place, to gain credits and improve her reputation.

Force Experiments
Zan Arbor became interested in how the Force worked and began conducting experiments. She had connections to the Senator of Belasco, Uta S'orn who kept her dark deeds quiet in the Senate. Unbeknownst to Senator S'orn, her son Ren, who was Force-sensitive (though was forbidden to train with the Jedi) was being studied by Zan Arbor. These experiments lead to Ren's death. Zan Arbor felt she needed a subject stronger in the Force, so she captured Qui-Gon Jinn from Didi's Cafe and took him to her research facility on Simpla-12. She tortured him to the point of near death. However Qui-Gon was rescued by Obi-Wan and a number of other Jedi. Zan Arbor fled to Belasco, but the Jedi caught up to her. Both Zan Arbor and Uta S'orn were sent to a penal colony for life.

Galactic Criminal
Around 25 BBY, Zan Arbor somehow escaped the penal colony. She settled on the planet Vanqor and began perfecting a drug known as the Zone of Self-Containment. With this drug she was able to capture Anakin Skywalker and many other innocent people, however she was forced to flee Vanquor when Obi-Wan Kenobi, Siri Tachi and Ferus Olin came to rescue Anakin. Fleeing Vanqor, Zan Arbor teamed up with Granta Omega who agreed to fund her next project. She went into hiding on Romin, under the protection of Roy Teda and her Phlog bodyguard Hue. When Teda was overthrown, the Jedi came to capture them, but they escaped yet again.

In 24 BBY, Zan Arbor then instituted the Blackwater Systems facility on Falleen to create machines that would be used to spread the Zone of Self-Containment. The Jedi once again foiled her plot and she was forced to destroy the facility. The Jedi chased her to Coruscant, where she and Granta Omega orchestrated a failed attempt to poison the Galactic Senate, and finally to Korriban where she and Omega were cornered by the Jedi. When the Jedi killed Omega, Zan Arbor fled. She wasn't seen again by the Jedi or the Republic. That same year, when Count Dooku publicly declared the formation of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Zan Arbor was hired to be one of their leading scientists.

The Clone Wars
As a Separatist scientist, Zan Arbor created devastating agents of biological warfare. A number of months before the Battle of Geonosis, she worked with Arkanian genetic researchers to create the stone mites, insects that could devour entire buildings in mere hours. These stone mites were unleashed on a number of worlds.

Two months into the Clone Wars, Zan Arbor successfully perfected a deadly gas poison that was used to wipe out the entire Gungan colony on the Naboo moon of Ohma-D'un. A form of this same gas was incorporated into the defense mechanism of Viceroy Nute Gunray's mechno-chair.

Early Empire
One year after Order 66 was carried out Zan Arbor was spotted on Korriban by Ferus Olin and Trever Flume followed by a high-ranking Imperial Officer. She commanded the officer to bring her to the Valley of the Dark Lords. Her final fate is unknown.

Appearances

 * Jedi Apprentice: The Deadly Hunter
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Evil Experiment
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Dangerous Rescue
 * Jedi Quest: The Moment of Truth
 * Jedi Quest: The Changing of the Guard
 * Jedi Quest: The False Peace
 * Jedi Quest: The Final Showdown
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Ghosts of the Sith