Lux Bonteri/Legends

"I've already made contact with a group on Carlac who are noble and are allied with my cause.''" "And what cause is that?" "''To kill Dooku."

- Lux Bonteri and Ahsoka Tano

Lux Bonteri was a Human male member of the Confederacy of Independent Systems who was orphaned by the Clone Wars. Hailing from Onderon, Bonteri's family was originally loyal to the Galactic Republic, but they sided with the Confederacy following its establishment in 24 BBY. After his mother, Mina Bonteri, became the senator of Onderon in the Separatist Parliament, Bonteri moved with his parents to the Separatist capital of Raxus. Reaching adolescence in a time of war, Bonteri took on many idealistic views and hoped, like his mother, for a peaceful resolution to the conflict. However, his father, a Confederate military officer, was killed by clone troopers from the Grand Army of the Republic during a battle on Aargonar. Over a year into the war, Bonteri was forced to rethink his views on the Republic and the Jedi Order after meeting a Jedi, Padawan Ahsoka Tano, for the first time. Yet he shortly thereafter lost his mother due to the machinations of Count Dooku, who ordered her death to terminate the peace proposal that she had introduced with the help of Republic Senator Padmé Amidala.

Bonteri briefly took over his mother's place in the Separatist Parliament as the representative of Onderon, but he soon resigned his seat. Seeking to avenge his mother's death, Bonteri renounced his Confederate ties and began a campaign to kill Dooku. He thus fell in with the Death Watch, a Mandalorian splinter group that had been abandoned by Dooku and shared Bonteri's desire for vengeance. While working to determine Dooku's exact location for the Death Watch, Bonteri inadvertently involved Tano in his search for justice, which took them from a peace conference on Mandalore to the Death Watch's camp on Carlac. Despite Tano's admissions that the Death Watch was an ignoble group of terrorists and murderers, Bonteri refused to believe her claims until the group's leader, Pre Vizsla, had his charges raze an entire township of Ming Po. After escaping from the Death Watch, Bonteri parted ways with Tano, though he promised that they would meet again someday.

Orphaned by war
"Well, I mean, you think we're all the bad guys. But how many of us have you actually met? And droids don't count.''" "Well, other than military officers like Grievous and Ventress&hellip;none, I guess. You and your mother are the first." "''Well, look at me. Am I so bad?"

- Lux Bonteri and Ahsoka Tano, in a discussion of perspectives

A Human male, Lux Bonteri was born to Mina Bonteri and her husband in the years preceding the galaxy-wide Clone Wars. Their family hailed from Onderon, a world in the Inner Rim that was affiliated with the Galactic Republic. Bonteri's mother, a prominent and experienced politician who represented Onderon in the Republic Senate, acted as a mentor to Padmé Amidala, an aspiring politician growing up on the planet Naboo. Bonteri became acquainted with Amidala during his early life, though his high-standing family's life itself was to soon change. When the former Jedi Master Count Dooku formed the separatist Confederacy of Independent Systems in 24 BBY in opposition to a Republic that was seen as increasingly corrupt, Bonteri's family was among those who joined the Separatists, as did their homeworld. They were thus distanced from Amidala, who had become a representative of the Republic Senate. Continuing to represent Onderon, Bonteri's mother became a distinguished senator in the Separatist Parliament, which was headquartered on the Separatist capital of Raxus. Their family consequently moved to a large estate in a city on Raxus.

Following the outbreak of full-scale conflict between the Confederacy and the Republic in 22 BBY, Bonteri was forced to grow up in a time of war. Though he made several friends, his original views on the Republic and the Jedi Knights who served it were challenged. After his father, who worked as a military officer for the Confederacy's armed forces, was killed in battle by the Grand Army of the Republic's clone troopers while setting up a base on the planet Aargonar, Bonteri became increasingly withdrawn, to his mother's concern. Around 21 BBY, nearly a year after his father's death, Bonteri's mother was contacted by an old friend: Amidala, who sought an audience with her former mentor. Although the Republic Senate had outlawed contact with the Separatists to avoid legitimizing them as an official state, Amidala, hoped, with the help of Bonteri's mother, to promote a peace accord between the two governments, as the Republic Senator believed that the war had already consumed enough lives throughout the galaxy. Accompanying Amidala to Raxus was Ahsoka Tano, a Jedi Padawan of Bonteri's age who hoped to gain greater insight into the nature of the ongoing conflict. Once Amidala and Tano arrived at the Bonteri family estate aboard his mother's H-2 executive shuttle, Bonteri welcomed their guests and helped them with their luggage, though Tano, who did not trust the Separatists, responded rather coldly to his offer of help.

Although Bonteri had heard mixed perspectives about the Jedi, Tano was the first one he met in person, and they both played a key role in making the other reconsider his or her outlook on the war. While his mother explored with Amidala the possibility of Republic–Confederate peace negotiations, Bonteri waited outside in the estate's private garden, where Tano eventually joined him to get some air. Recognizing Tano as a Jedi from her lightsabers, Bonteri was initially hesitant to admit to his biased view of the Jedi and the Republic, he also questioned Tano's equally contained view of the Separatists. Of the Separatists, Tano had only encountered military officers like General Grievous and the Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress, so Bonteri and his mother were the first civilians whom she had met in person. From their conversation, Bonteri and Tano realized, respectively, that the Jedi and the Confederacy were not quite what they had been led to believe, and they grew in understanding of each others' positions. They quickly became friends despite being on opposite sides of the war. At a following session of the Separatist Parliament, Bonteri's mother introduced a motion to open peace negotiations with the Republic, and she was able to win enough support from her colleagues to ratify the measure. With the Separatist Parliament suing for peace, Bonteri shared his mother's and friends' hope that the Republic would subsequently vote to open negotiations to end the war.

Their work on Raxus done, Amidala and Tano prepared to return to the Republic capital world, Coruscant. Bonteri and his mother saw them off from a spaceport on Raxus; in parting, Tano stated that she hoped not to meet Bonteri on the battlefield, for his sake. Yet despite Amidala's best efforts, the Confederacy's peace proposal was defeated in the Republic Senate when Count Dooku, secretly a Sith apprentice to the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious, organized a Separatist bombing of Coruscant's power generator, ensuring that the war would continue to serve its purpose for the Order of the Sith Lords. Shortly thereafter, Bonteri's mother was killed on Dooku's orders, as the Count sought to further his plans for warfare against the Republic. Although Dooku publicly attributed her death to a Republic attack and used the incident as an excuse to formally withdraw the Separatist Parliament's peace proposal, the newly orphaned Bonteri did not believe that the Republic was responsible for his mother's death and discovered the truth.

Turning on Dooku
"You know what you did, Dooku.''" "Do I? I have done a lot of things, young man, and choose to remember them in order of importance. The death of your mother seems to have&hellip;escaped me." "I will have my revenge!" "''I think it is time we reacquaint the young Senator with his mother. Kill him."

- Lux Bonteri confronts Count Dooku

Driven by a desire for justice and revenge, Bonteri sought to kill Dooku for the Count's part in his mother's death. He briefly took over his mother's Senatorial seat, continuing her representation of Onderon in the Separatist Parliament. Yet he later renounced his affiliations with the Confederacy and departed from Raxus to search for a way to have his vengeance on Dooku. He eventually made contact with the Death Watch, a Mandalorian splinter group based on the planet Carlac that strove for a return to the warrior culture of the Mandalorians over the currently dominant pacifistic regime of Duchess Satine Kryze and her New Mandalorians. Led by the hardened warrior Pre Vizsla, the Death Watch had once been backed by the Confederacy but had been abandoned by Dooku on the eve of a planned invasion of Mandalore, leading to their exile from the Mandalore system and their subsequent desire to murder Dooku. Sharing their objective, and being blind to their murderous nature, Bonteri believed that the group had honor and applied for membership. For admission, Bonteri was ordered by Vizsla to obtain Dooku's exact location so that the Death Watch could target him. Bonteri developed a plan to openly accuse Dooku of murdering his mother, and when he would be subsequently brought before the Count, he would use a holotrace device to determine the Confederate Head of State's whereabouts via the holotransmission. With this information, he hoped that the Death Watch would be able to assassinate Dooku.

To obtain Dooku's attention, Bonteri traveled to the neutral world of Mandalore, where Duchess Kryze was hosting the first ever peace conference between delegations from the Republic Senate and the Separatist Parliament. Although not invited to the meeting by Separatist Congress Leader Bec Lawise and Senator Voe Atell, who spoke on behalf of their Senate, Bonteri proceeded to the Royal Palace in the capital city Sundari and interrupted the proceedings just as Atell was demanding that Padmé Amidala, as a representative of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, declare the Republic's legitimization of the Confederacy. Making a dramatic entrance, Bonteri was escorted into the palace by Kryze's Mandalorian Royal Guard and caused a significant stir among the Republic and Separatist delegates, particularly for Ahsoka Tano, who had accompanied Amidala to Mandalore. After bowing to Kryze and receiving permission to speak, Bonteri wasted no time in accusing Dooku of being responsible for his mother's murder in cold blood. The Separatist senators reacted with outrage to his claims, and Lawise, labeling him a traitor, immediately ordered him to be removed from the room by his delegation's security droids.

Although Kryze opposed the Separatists' forceful apprehension of Bonteri, Atell stated that the matter was strictly a Separatist affair and asked that they be allowed to deal with the situation themselves in keeping with protocol. As he was dragged out of the throne room by a pair of BX-series droid commandos, Bonteri warned the Separatists that they would all be betrayed by Dooku, as his mother had been. Bonteri was escorted by the security droids to a C-9979 landing craft docked at the city spaceport, where he was brought before a holotransmission of Dooku. Discreetly activating his holotrace device, Bonteri repeated his accusations directly to Dooku, who was hardly impressed by the young man's bravery. Dooku did not openly admit to arranging Mina's death but nevertheless ordered the security droids to execute the young Bonteri, ending the holotransmission signal as he did so. Before the droids could carry out their orders, Tano, having followed Bonteri to the docks out of care for her friend, stormed into the hold. Being bereft of her lightsabers as per Mandalorian law, Tano used the Force to destroy one of the droids and kicked the other aside. Taking Tano's hand, Bonteri joined his friend in escaping from the Separatist troopship, though they were pursued by a trio of security droids that had been guarding the vessel. En route to the Phoenix, a Republic diplomatic starship, elsewhere at the docks, Bonteri attempted to tell Tano that her assistance was appreciated but unnecessary. Before he could finish, Tano hurriedly urged him to the Phoenix, which they could use to safely escape the pursuing security droids.

While Republic Captain Taggart and his retinue of Senate Guards held off the Separatist security droids, Tano and Bonteri departed from Sundari aboard the Phoenix, with Tano's astromech droid, R2-D2, piloting the vessel. Just as they were leaving Mandalore, they were contacted by Tano's Master, Anakin Skywalker, who had just been informed by Amidala that the peace negotiations on Mandalore had collapsed. Although Bonteri apologized to Skywalker for any trouble that he had caused, he was surprised when Tano revealed her intentions to bring him into the Republic. Skywalker agreed with his Padawan and told her to bring Bonteri to Coruscant, where they could discuss giving him amnesty. However, Bonteri had no intention of joining the Republic and went so far as to draw a deactivator hold-out pistol on Tano once the transmission with Skywalker ended. Shocked by his show of force, Tano disarmed him of his pistol. Revealing that he was no longer a Separatist, Bonteri refused to join the Republic, as he saw the Death Watch as a more noble and effective group. Upon learning that Bonteri sought to kill Dooku, Tano did not wish for him to proceed down a path that would surely result in his own death and took control of the Phoenix, intending to take him directly to Coruscant. Yet Bonteri, resolute with his decision, stunned Tano and commandeered the vessel, traveling through hyperspace to Carlac to deliver his information to the Death Watch.

Dealings with the Death Watch
"I believed you had honor. But you're just murders! No better than Dooku.''" "You call us murderers, and it was your own lust for revenge that made you seek us out." "I wanted justice for my mother's death." "And you shall have it. But the Jedi are no different from Dooku, and this one shall pay in part for their crimes against Mandalore. So, you see, it's not murder at all&mdash;it's like you say. It's justice!''"

- Lux Bonteri and Pre Vizsla

En route to Carlac, Bonteri hid Tano's lightsabers in one of the Phoenix storage pallets. Upon landing at a grove on the icy Carlac, Bonteri left Tano and R2-D2 aboard the starship and set off to rendezvous with the Death Watch. Just as an irate Tano joined him at the meeting ground, they were greeted by group of six Death Watch soldiers led by Bo-Katan, a lieutenant for Pre Vizsla. Surrounded by Bo-Katan's troops, Bonteri reported that he had gathered Dooku's exact location, though Tano was forced to lie that she was Bonteri's betrothed when Bo-Katan inquired after her identity. Tano was rather alarmed that her friend had fallen in with the violent Mandalorian faction, but Bonteri ignored her concerns and made to join the Death Watch at their camp, boarding the group's RGC-16 airspeeder. While R2-D2&mdash;who had arrived with Tano's lightsabers but was unable to return them to her in front of the Death Watch&mdash;was carried into the airspeeder, Tano, compelled to join her compatriot, rode with one of the soldiers on a Balutar-class swoop. At the Death Watch camp, Bonteri and Tano were brought by Bo-Katan to the main tent, where they were to meet with Vizsla.

Bonteri revealed to Tano that he had pinpointed Dooku's exact location with his holotrace device and was pleased with his successful plan. He still did not believe Tano's continued concerns about the Death Watch, but when Vizsla entered the tent with Bo-Katan, Bonteri impulsively kissed Tano to silence her objections. After sending Tano away with Bo-Katan, Vizsla wasted no time in demanding that Bonteri hand over Dooku's whereabouts. Although Bonteri attempted to verify that Vizsla would use the information correctly, the Death Watch leader threatened to give him a scar like his own from Dooku&mdash;a "parting gift" from the Count&mdash;if the young man questioned his resolve to kill Dooku. A convinced Bonteri handed over his holotrace device to Vizsla, who was pleased to receive the information and ordered that a feast be held to celebrate the milestone. That evening, Bonteri sat with Vizsla during the celebration, being served by Tano, who had joined the Death Watch's captured Ming Po women as a server. The meal was eventually interrupted by Chieftain Pieter, the leader of the nearby Ming Po village from where the female servants had been taken. No longer tolerating the Death Watch's exploitation of his tribe and their resources, Pieter demanded that Vizsla and his comrades relocate from Carlac, to which Vizsla surprisingly agreed, giving his word that he would return Pieter's people at sunrise the next day.

Bonteri took Vizsla's promise as a sign of good faith on the part of the Death Watch and said so to Tano, who remained unconvinced of the group's honor. Tano was proven right the next morning, when she and Bonteri accompanied the Death Watch to the Ming Po village to witness the rendezvous with Pieter. Although Vizsla released the Ming Po women as he had promised, he immediately thereafter killed Tryla, Pieter's granddaughter, with his Darksaber and then ordered his troops to raze the village to the ground. Horrified by the display of cruelty, a shocked Bonteri was welcomed into the Death Watch by Vizsla, who told the young man never to let the weak order him around. No longer able to maintain her cover with the lives of the Ming Po at stake, Tano revealed herself as a Jedi, attacking one of the soldiers who was using a flamethrower against the innocent villagers. She was just as quickly captured and subdued by the Death Watch troops, and Vizsla had his men drag her back to camp via their cables. As a snowstorm brewed, Bonteri was detained for bringing a Jedi into the camp, and both he and Tano were brought into the main tent to face Vizsla, who refused Bonteri's request for Tano to be released. Realizing that Tano had been right about the Death Watch all along, Bonteri denounced them as murderers, though Vizsla called out his own hypocrisy of wanting to murder Dooku, which had brought him to them in the first place.

Vizsla intended to execute Tano for the Jedi Order's alleged crimes against Mandalore, but before he could do so, R2-D2 entered the tent and made a loud distraction by activating all of his extended tools and gadgets. While Bonteri pushed Vizsla off balance and escaped from his captors, R2-D2 returned Tano's lightsabers to her, allowing Tano to break free from her bonds. Beheading the four troopers who had been restraining her, Tano told Bonteri to return to the Phoenix while she faced Vizsla in lightsaber combat. Outside of the tent, Bonteri was greeted by a strange sight: having been reassembled by R2-D2, the Separatist battle droids that had been previously used by the Death Watch for target practice were preparing to turn on their masters. While Tano dueled with Vizsla and the battle droids occupied the rest of the Death Watch soldiers, Bonteri and R2-D2 made for the group's RGC-16 airspeeder, commandeering the vehicle and preparing to return to the Phoenix landing site. Once Tano joined them after cutting through Vizsla's jetpack, Bonteri piloted the speeder back to the Phoenix, though they were pursued through the snowstorm by Bo-Katan and two other soldiers via jetpack. Tano managed to defeat the two soldiers with some help from R2-D2, but she encountered difficulties while fighting Bo-Katan, who landed on the speeder and nearly threw her off.

Just as Bo-Katan prepared to shoot Tano, Bonteri jerked the speeder to the side, causing Bo-Katan to momentarily lose her balance and giving Tano enough time to jump back onto the vehicle. After brawling with the Mandalorian warrior, Tano finally Force-pushed Bo-Katan off the speeder, and she, Bonteri, and R2-D2 made it safely to the Phoenix. Although Tano piloted the starship bound for Coruscant, Bonteri, determined to follow his own path, headed for the ship's secondary pod and prepared to part ways with Tano to go into hiding. Just as he was about to detach from the Phoenix, Tano arrived on the other side of the airlock. She tried to convince him not to leave, and although he knew he could not accompany her to Coruscant, he admitted that they made a good team. Bonteri parted with Tano on good terms, her wishing him well and him promising that they would meet again someday.

Personality and traits
"I can't go with you, Ahsoka. You&hellip;you know that.''" "But&hellip;but we can try. Try to change things&hellip;together." "''We make a pretty good team, don't we? Don't worry. We'll meet again, I promise."

- Lux Bonteri and Ahsoka Tano, in parting

A fair-skinned Human male, Lux Bonteri stood almost two meters tall, and he had brown hair and dark green eyes. Being the son of a well-known politician in a high-standing political family, he dressed formally, even for daily activities around his family's estate. On Raxus, he wore a collared, embroidered lavender suit made of cloth, complete with a neck pin, metal shin guards, and black leather boots. Following his mother's death, he began to sport darker, more all-purpose clothes, including gloves, a coat complete with shoulder guards, and even a deactivator pistol, though he was not a fighter. In icy conditions, he donned a headcap as protection from the cold. Idealistic from a young age, Bonteri was brought up in the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars, though he eventually lost both of his parents to the war. Born to a prominent Separatist senator, Bonteri shared some of his mother Mina's views, including her frustration and sadness with the war's never-ending casualties. Following the death of his father, a fervent supporter of the Confederacy, Bonteri became increasingly withdrawn, to his mother's concern.

A polite and well-mannered host, Bonteri obediently offered to relieve his family's house guests, Padmé Amidala and Ahsoka Tano, of their luggage when asked by his mother to do so. Bonteri became acquainted with Amidala during her studies under his mother's charge. Like his mother, he wanted for the war to end and for the Confederacy and the Republic to open peace negotiations, though their campaign for peace did not succeed. Bonteri was perturbed but not outright offended when Tano, who harbored a distrust for all Separatists, curtly refused his offer to help her with her luggage. Prior to the war, Bonteri was taught that the Jedi Knights of the Republic were good, but that mindset was challenged after his family joined the Confederacy. The people whom he befriended in the following months blamed the Republic and the Jedi for the war's bloodshed, and he subsequently became skeptical of the aims of the Republic and the Jedi Order, though he did not condemn them as his acquaintances did.

Upon meeting a Jedi, Tano, for the first time, Bonteri initially did not know what to make of her. After speaking with her, he realized that the Jedi were not as bad as he had originally believed, though when asked what he thought of her, he used the opportunity to flirt with her. While conferring with Tano, Bonteri played a significant part in helping her see that the war was not as black-and-white as she presumed. He caused her to think twice about the Separatists and enabled her to see that they were not inherently evil, as she had at first contended. Tano and Bonteri grew in understanding of each other as time went on, each revisiting ideas of what had been a faceless enemy. They fostered a friendship that began to develop with stronger feelings. Although his friendship with Tano did not change following the death of his mother, many other parts of his life did. After his mother was killed, the orphaned Bonteri did not believe that the Republic was responsible as Dooku claimed. When he discovered that Dooku had ordered his mother's assassination, Bonteri swore vengeance against the Count and vowed to bring him to justice. By that time, he had gained enough political acumen to replace his mother as the senator of Onderon in the Separatist Parliament, though he eventually resigned his seat in favor of his bid for revenge.

Despite renouncing his ties to the Confederacy, and young and alone though he was, Bonteri had no intention of joining the Republic, which he saw as ineffective for failing to protect his mother. So focused was he on avenging his mother's death that he fell in with the Mandalorian Death Watch, to whose terrorist and murderous ways he was blind. He badly misjudged the character of the group and their potential for cruelty, instead seeing only nobility in them and their leader, Pre Vizsla. During the course of his plan to determine Dooku's whereabouts for the Death Watch, Bonteri displayed bravery in breaching protocol and openly accusing Dooku of murder. While speaking at the peace conference on Mandalore, he claimed to be a loyal Separatist, even a patriot, despite having already severed his allegiance to the Confederacy. In the face of opposition from Bec Lawise, who lambasted him as a traitor and his accusations as lies, Bonteri refused to be silenced, warning the Separatist delegates that Dooku was deceiving them and that they would soon be betrayed like his mother. Throughout the incident, Bonteri retained his friendship with Tano and appreciated her help, though he believed that he had everything under control and spurned her offer to be granted amnesty by the Republic. In spite of not being a fighter, he went so far as to turn a deactivator pistol on her when she attempted to bring him to Coruscant. Regretting the necessity of such actions, he even stunned her unconscious and hid her lightsabers aboard the Phoenix when she refused to listen to him, so that he could rendezvous with the Death Watch on Carlac.

Blinded by his desire for revenge, Bonteri stood by his plan to murder Dooku and did not wish for Tano to compromise it. He failed to heed Tano's claims about the Death Watch's cruel and violent nature, believing that she simply did not understand his situation. To prevent her objections from being overheard, Bonteri impulsively kissed her as part of her cover that she was his betrothed. Bonteri wanted for Vizsla and the Death Watch to correctly use the information on Dooku's whereabouts, though he risked raising the hardened Vizsla's ire by pushing him to do so. When asked by Vizsla about where he would fit in with the group, Bonteri replied that he, like them, simply wanted Dooku dead. Yet despite initially believing that the Death Watch had honor, Bonteri finally realized otherwise when Vizsla had his troops attack an entire village of Ming Po on Carlac. He was horrified by the display of cruelty&mdash;at the moment that Vizsla welcomed him into the Death Watch, he no longer had a desire to join. The young man thus realized that the Death Watch was comprised of murderers who were little better than Dooku. A hypocrisy in him was nevertheless noted by Vizsla, who recalled that it was Bonteri's own desire for revenge that had brought him to the Death Watch in the first place.

Once they had escaped from the Death Watch, Bonteri, electing to go into hiding for the present, was still determined to follow his own path, even if that meant leaving Tano behind. When Tano tried to convince him that they could sort matters out together, Bonteri, admitting that they made a fairly effective team, promised that they would meet again one day. He parted with her on amicable terms before setting off to find his own destiny in the galaxy.

Behind the scenes
"On this adventure, we thought it would be very exciting to start to hint at a&hellip;problem for Ahsoka, which would be contact with a boy of her age that has nothing to do with the Jedi Knights, and a boy that is very different from Anakin Skywalker in every possible way. This boy was Lux Bonteri."

- Series Director Dave Filoni, on Lux Bonteri's role in "Heroes on Both Sides" as part of the character development of Ahsoka Tano

The character of Lux Bonteri was created for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series and first appeared in "Heroes on Both Sides," an episode that aired with the series' third season in November 2010. Voice actor Jason Spisak provided Bonteri's voice in the episode, which was written by Daniel Arkin and directed by Kyle Dunlevy. Bonteri's primary purpose as a character was to challenge Ahsoka Tano's anti-Separatist perspective on the war, as she had been brought up on teachings from such figures as her Master, Anakin Skywalker. Bonteri also became a potential romantic interest for Tano, given their shared age and views. He returned to the series, again voiced by Jason Spisak, in the episode "A Friend in Need," which aired in January 2012 as part of the series' fourth season. The episode, which expanded on the alluded romance between Tano and Bonteri in "Heroes on Both Sides," was written by Series Head Writer Christian Taylor and directed by Supervising Director Dave Filoni, who took a personal interest in the story.

Bonteri received an entry in the StarWars.com Encyclopedia in September 2011, which later updated to attribute Onderon as his homeworld. Another update confirmed that he briefly took over his mother's representation of Onderon in the Separatist Parliament, something that had been referred to in "A Friend in Need" but not explicitly clarified. Filoni has promised that Bonteri will be returning in the series' fifth season, which is scheduled to begin airing in Fall 2012.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Conspiracy
 * The Clone Wars: Season Five
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Conspiracy
 * The Clone Wars: Season Five