Ashka Boda

Ashka Boda was a Jedi Master during the Clone Wars and a member of the Librarian's Assembly.

Biography
"Leia escaped with a Jedi Holocron&mdash;by all appearances a milky jade crystal block&mdash;that Palpatine claimed had been given to him by an aged Jedi Master. Subsequent research eventually determined that the Jedi Master was Ashka Boda, who was slain by Palpatine during the Jedi Purge at the end of the Clone Wars."

- Tionne Solusar

Ashka Boda was a long-lived male Jedi Master from around the time of the Clone Wars. Boda was a revered member of the Jedi Order's Librarian's Assembly and worked alongside Jedi Council member Yaddle in maintaining the Jedi Temple's vast collection of holocrons, scrolls and tomes. In the weeks leading up to the outbreak of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY, Count Dooku, former Jedi Master and leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, traveled to the isolated Gree Enclave to purchase a special pre-Republic era solar sail for his personal solar sailer. Reports of his presence in the Enclave reached the Galactic Republic as well as the Jedi, but only after his departure from the Gree worlds. Ashka Boda and fellow Jedi Master Jabidus Inspra led an investigative task force of five Jedi from the Jedi Temple into the Enclave to determine the purpose of Dooku's visit.

Shortly after the formation of the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY, Emperor Palpatine initiated the Great Jedi Purge, an effort to hunt down and exterminate all Jedi who had escaped the assassination attempts of Order 66. Palpatine arranged to have captured Jedi Masters brought before him where they would be questioned and tortured for any information which might help him in his quest for eternal life. One such victim was Bodo Baas, an ancient Krevaaki Jedi Master who possessed the famed Tedryn Holocron which stored the teachings and experiences of Jedi Masters long past. Baas was executed by Palpatine near the beginning of the Purge, however the Tedryn Holocron eventually found its way into the possession of Ashka Boda along with a belt once owned by Baas.

Boda collaborated with Jedi Knight Halagad Ventor in an effort to establish a network of Jedi from the Cularin system's Almas Academy who had survived Order 66. Boda informed Jedi Master Denia of the creation of this network, however these Jedi were nearly all hunted down and killed in the Purge after Ventor was forced to reveal their location in an interrogation by Darth Vader. Boda too was captured along with several other Jedi at the scene of another battle. A group of Imperial Sentinels, towering mutated warriors created by Palpatine's Dark Side Adepts, possessed cryptic yet authentic datachips which gave them disposition over Boda. The Sentinels formed a praetorian guard around Boda as he was escorted back to their dungeon ships and summarily transported to Imperial Center. Once there, Palpatine murdered and tortured the Jedi Master and discovered the Tedryn Holocron among his belongings. Palpatine used the knowledge he gained from the holocron to learn the secret of spirit transference, allowing him to transfer his essence into clone bodies. Other information he used in the creation of the The Book of Anger, the first volume of his Dark Side Compendium.

Six years after the the Empire's crushing defeat at the Battle of Endor, a reborn Palpatine initiated a military campaign to retake the galaxy. Amidst the chaos New Republic Princess Leia Organa Solo was captured by Palpatine's forces. The dying Emperor introduced the Princess to the Tedryn Holocron, claiming to have been given the device by Ashka Boda before his disappearance. The holocron soon fell into New Republic hands but the truth about Ashka Boda's fate was not revealed until a report on the history of the holocron was recorded in 40 ABY by Jedi Master Tionne Solusar of the New Jedi Order.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Galaxies
 * Dark Empire 5: Emperor Reborn
 * Star Wars: Dark Empire audio drama
 * Dark Empire 5: Emperor Reborn
 * Star Wars: Dark Empire audio drama