Maris Brood

"She hasn't been corrupted. Not yet. She's just afraid. May the Force be with you, Maris Brood."

- Shaak Ti

Maris Brood was a female Zabrak Jedi Padawan, alive after the beginning of the Great Jedi Purge.

Biography
"Maris, we are among the last of the Jedi. While we live, the Order survives. I cannot allow you to be captured or killed by the Empire."

- Master Shaak Ti to her apprentice.



Maris Brood was found as an infant by the Jedi Order, and taken into training. Trained by her master on the starship Gray Pilgrim, she was distanced from the rest of the order during the Clone Wars. Due to their isolation, Maris and her master did not experience the execution of Order 66 first hand. Feeling the death of many Jedi, Brood's master set out to recover evidence of their fate.

He was able to inform Maris of the destruction of the Jedi and Darth Vader's role in their deaths before going missing. Bent on revenge, Maris set out to hunt and destroy Darth Vader. Being intercepted by surviving Jedi Master Shaak Ti, Maris was persuaded away from the dark side of the Force and went into hiding in the forests of Felucia. When Galen Marek, Vader's secret apprentice, visited the planet for the first time, hunting down Shaak Ti, Ti denied Brood the right to confront him alongside her, sending her instead to the rancor graveyard, despite Brood's protestations that she was strong enough to stand alongside her master. After Ti was eventually defeated and killed by Marek, Brood was left without a master once more on Felucia. When Marekvisited the planet for a second time, in a mission to rescue Senator Bail Organa, he discovered Brood.



When Organa had come to Felucia in search of Shaak Ti, not knowing she was dead, hoping she would rescue his "daughter," Brood had taken him captive. However, Galen Marek had killed Ti during his first visit to the planet, which had plunged Maris deeper into darkness. She kept the senator as her prisoner, and planned to offer him to Vader should he ever find her in exchange for her freedom. On his second visit, Marek was confronted with Brood and her pet Bull rancor.

Galen killed the rancor and defeated Maris, severely injuring Brood with Force lightning. Begging for her life with the claim that, if he let her live, she'd turn her back on the dark side, Galen decided to let her go, despite Bail's protests, recalling Vader's fall to the dark side. Marek argued his actions by saying that she was not really free, and that she would carry the memories of what she had done with her forever.

Background
"Oh, we're not crazy. We've just embraced the power of the Dark side."

- Maris Brood to Starkiller.

During the time of the Empire's rule across the galaxy, Brood and her master lived a life of hiding. Maris herself was keen to fight her enemy though she was held back by Shaak Ti, which gave the impression that Maris had fallen to the more primal emotions of the dark side though her master believed that it was because she was afraid.

After her master's death, Maris felt betrayed for being left alone on Felucia which resulted in her falling to the Dark side of the Force though she would later claim that this was because of the dark nature of the planet itself. She was willing to take hostages and trade them to the Empire in exchange for her life, such as she planned to do with the captive Bail Organa.

She wielded twin red guard shotos during her time on Felucia, and used them against Marek when he fought her, and also seemed to have some skill in Force Cloak, using the technique in an attempt to defeat the secret apprentice.

Behind the scenes
Leaked Hasbro toy catalogues were the first sources to reveal Maris's name. Her name was later confirmed by the March 2008 issue of Game Informer.

Early images of the Force Unleashed figures in both the 2" and 3.75" scales showed Maris wielding twin green-bladed lightsabers with tonfa-shaped hilts. However, in later promotional artwork and in Hasbro's figure, Maris Brood is depicted with red-bladed sabers. The handles on the final production figure are in the wrong place, forcing Maris to hold them near the blade rather than at the far end.

Maris Brood was voiced and portrayed by actress Adrienne Wilkinson.

Maris can be selected as a playable skin in The Force Unleashed video game through the cheat code MARISBROOD. When selected, however, cutscenes are disabled.

Appearances

 * The Force Unleashed novel
 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed comic
 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video game

Notes and references
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