Adi Gallia/Legends

"Adi Gallia of Corellia&mdash;Jedi Master and Chief Negotiator for this treaty. My parents longed for a settlement between your government and the rebels. I've come to finish their work."

- Adi Gallia

Adi Gallia was a Human Jedi Master during the final decades of the Galactic Republic.

Gallia's cousin, Stass Allie, was also a Jedi. Both wore traditional Tholoth headdresses as part of their Jedi attire. As Allie was from the planet Tholoth, it can only be assumed that one or both of Gallia's Corellian parents were immigrants from that world as well.

Early life
"Better a few faithful supporters than a wealth of false friends."

- Adi Gallia

Born more than six decades before the Battle of Yavin, on Coruscant, to diplomats from Corellia, Gallia first had experience with the Jedi when her parents went to negotiations at Lannik. While there, the Red Iaro launched an attack. Adi's life was saved by Lannik Jedi Even Piell. Gallia felt a debt of gratitude to the diminutive Jedi, and it inspired her to become a Jedi herself, after it was discovered she was Force-sensitive.

Eventually, Adi earned a seat on the Jedi Council by 42 BBY. She was the first to hear of the Trade Federation's suspicious movements in the outlying regions through her carefully cultivated network of contacts. Having close ties to Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, she informed him of her findings, and Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi were sent to deal with the blockade around Naboo.

Jedi missions


As a Council member, Adi Gallia succeeded in many assignments, including those undertaken during the Stark Hyperspace War. Adi and her Padawan Siri Tachi went on many missions with Adi's close friend Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi. On one of their last missions together before Qui-Gon's death, they had to protect a boy named Talesan Fry who had overheard a plot against twenty senators. The Jedi succeeded and saved Fry, but during the mission Siri and Obi-Wan fell in love, despite the Jedi Code that forbade attachments. Adi did not realize this, but Qui-Gon did. He, however, decided not to tell her.

Emissaries to Malastare
After the Battle of Naboo, Adi Gallia traveled with fellow Council members Mace Windu, Even Piell, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Plo Koon, Yaddle, and Ki-Adi-Mundi's Padawan A'Sharad Hett to Malastare to supervise a peace treaty between warring factions. They were attacked by terrorists, but succeeded in their mission.

The hunt for Aurra Sing


In 30 BBY, Adi Gallia was sent with Ki-Adi-Mundi and A'Sharad Hett to track down the deadly bounty hunter Aurra Sing, an infamous killer of many Jedi. Piloting a Consular-class space cruiser, they eventually found her in the Kamdon system. They were nearly killed in a space battle with the assassin, but were able to eject in an escape pod.

The three Jedi were taken in by a nearby Quarren ship, which Senator Tikkes was onboard. The ship landed on a planet in the Kamdon system, following Aurra Sing. Tikkes's scientists investigated the planet, most getting caught up in rope traps or mines. They spotted An'ya Kuro and, assuming she was the one behind it, shot her. With that, Aurra Sing appeared on her speeder bike.

Tikkes ordered his men to kill her, but, after blocking some blaster bolts with her lightsaber, Sing escaped. Adi Gallia gave chase, but in doing so, stepped on one of Sing's planted mines. Gallia survived, though Aurra Sing escaped once again.

Clone Wars
"You'd better hope they gave you deflector shields."

- Adi Gallia to General Grievous before attacking



Just before the Battle of Geonosis, Adi was to test a new Jedi starship, Delta-7 Aethersprite. During the training exercises, she was sent to help a Feeorin called Nym in the Karthakk system. During these missions, Gallia helped destroy the Hex factory producing the deadly trihexalon poison for Cavik Toth. With the assistance of her former apprentice Siri Tachi, she also destroyed Toth's Hex equipped fleet before it could reach Geonosis. Undoubtedly, Gallia's actions prevented the death of many clone troopers and Jedi. Also, Adi Gallia helped provide air cover for Republic ships descending to Geonosis. Her next mission was with Siri Tachi, A'Sharad Hett, and other members of a Jedi strike team sent to rescue Obi-Wan Kenobi, his apprentice Anakin Skywalker and Senator Padmé Amidala from the Separatist leaders. They participated in the air assault and succeeded. That was the beginning of the Clone Wars.

"They gave me a few arms."

- Grievous while killing Gallia

Adi Gallia continued her service to the Jedi Council and the Republic during the Clone Wars. She and Plo Koon saved Senator Bail Prestor Organa's life. With Ki-Adi-Mundi, Anakin Skywalker, and Plo Koon, she helped save Obi-Wan Kenobi and the ARC trooper Alpha-17 from their refuge after escaping the clutches of Asajj Ventress. At the Battle of Boz Pity, Adi confronted General Grievous while directing her troops as a General alongside Mace Windu. She engaged Grievous in combat, but the droid general used his extra arms to surprise the Jedi Master. He grabbed her neck, then plunged two lightsabers into her chest before dropping her lifeless body to the ground.

Traits


As a skilled pilot, Adi Gallia was among those who tested the new Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor and flew air support above Geonosis at the start of the Clone Wars. While on missions for the Jedi Council, Gallia went under the callsign "Shooting Star".

Gallia was also a skilled warrior with her red, blue, or orange lightsabers, which she wielded with an unorthodox reverse one-handed grip, resulting in long, wide swings. She was a practitioner of the rarely used Shien form of lightsaber combat, holding her lightsaber horizontally.

Her skills as a Jedi were considerable, but her greatest attributes were her intuition and research skills. She was the daughter of a high ranking Corellian diplomat, which gave her a good understanding of the complexities of the Republic's politics.

Behind the scenes


In The Phantom Menace Adi Gallia is played by the model Gin Clarke, who was made famous for her French work. "Gallia" is the Latin name for France. Though she did not return to film Attack of the Clones, she is credited for appearing in the Jedi Council scene, which recycled footage from Episode I. She was replaced by Lily Nyamwasa for other scenes, but this eventually became the character Stass Allie. Adi Gallia was voiced by Masasa in the games Star Wars: Obi-Wan and Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter.

In Star Wars: Episode I Jedi Power Battles and Star Wars Republic: Emissaries to Malastare, Adi Gallia has a dark red lightsaber, as does her Episode I action figure. It could therefore be assumed that around the time of The Phantom Menace, Adi was using a red lightsaber. Other sources that take place in different time periods suggest that at other times, Adi used orange and blue lightsabers (see talk page).

The New Essential Guide to Characters mistakenly identifies Adi as near-Human.

Appearances



 * Yaddle's Tale: The One Below
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Fight for Truth
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Dangerous Rescue
 * Jedi Council: Acts of War
 * Cloak of Deception
 * Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
 * Episode I Adventures 1: Search for the Lost Jedi
 * Episode I Adventures 2: The Bartokk Assassins
 * Episode I Adventures 3: The Fury of Darth Maul
 * Star Wars: Episode I Jedi Power Battles
 * Star Wars: Obi-Wan
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
 * Star Wars Republic: Emissaries to Malastare
 * Star Wars Republic: The Hunt for Aurra Sing
 * Star Wars Republic: Darkness
 * Star Wars Republic: The Stark Hyperspace War
 * Star Wars Republic: The Devaronian Version
 * Star Wars Republic: Rite of Passage
 * Jedi Quest: Path to Truth
 * Jedi Quest comic
 * Star Wars: Zam Wesell
 * Starfighter: Crossbones
 * Jedi Quest: The Final Showdown
 * Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars Republic 50: The Battle of Kamino
 * Jedi: Aayla Secura
 * Star Wars Republic 61: Dead Ends
 * Star Wars Republic 62: No Man's Land
 * Star Wars: General Grievous
 * Secrets of the Jedi
 * Jedi Trial
 * Star Wars: Clone Wars
 * "Chapter 21"
 * Star Wars: Obsession
 * Star Wars: Obsession