Serra Keto

"Serra. Cin Drallig's greatest pupil has come to greet me."

- Darth Vader

Serra Keto was a female Human Jedi Knight and General in the waning years of the Galactic Republic and Cin Drallig's most trusted and gifted student.

Early life
Master Drallig was renowned for his formidable lightsaber skills and as Serra's Master, he passed on everything he knew of lightsaber technique to his young Padawan. In time, Serra became a Jedi Knight herself. Like her Master, she also became known for her skills with a lightsaber. As a Jedi, Serra was not shy about expressing the confidence she had in her abilities. Keto was known for her rebellious nature and was several times close to being removed from the Jedi Order because of it.

Clone Wars


Some time during the Outer Rim Sieges, a ship carrying Serra and a unit of her clone troopers was attacked by a mysterious species able to combine and morph into machinery. Serra managed to survive the terrible assault and sent out a distress signal in the Outer Rim Territories that caught the attention of Anakin Skywalker. Leaving his ally, Obi-Wan Kenobi, for a heroic purpose, the "Hero With No Fear" traveled to the nearly desolate vessel where he encountered Serra who demanded immediate transport off the facility. Anakin, however, refused in order to find out what happened to Serra's unit. Because of his desire, Anakin and Serra were forced to fight the dangerous creatures who enigmatically shaped themselves into two Separatist spider droids. They were eventually defeated, but it unfortunately involved the breaking of a wall of protection from space. In order to prolong the ship's existence, Anakin activated the emergency ray shields. Anakin and Serra quickly rushed to the hangar and barely escaped with their lives in Anakin's Jedi Interceptor.

Raid on the Jedi Temple
During Darth Vader's ruthless execution of Order 66 in the third year of the Clone Wars, Serra and Cin Drallig fought together, side to side, through the many Jedi Temple corridors, fighting off countless clone troopers until they were separated by All Terrain Recon Transports. Finally, Keto faced off against Vader in the Jedi briefing room.



Despite her emotion-laden dual lightsaber attacks, she deemed Vader to be stronger. During the fight, Serra taunted and provoked Vader, hoping that his annoyance might lead to a mistake and give her an advantage. She moved down corriders until reaching a training room at the base of the Tower of First Knowledge. Unfortunately, her efforts proved fruitless as Vader backed her into the corner of the room. She felt that she was destined to lose and used the Force to throw a huge pillar between her and her attacker to make an escape. She jumped at a balcony, but Vader followed her and the battle continued. After a furious one-on-one battle against the young Sith, she pinned Vader to a pillar and attempted to behead him, much in the same fashion that Anakin had beheaded Count Dooku. Vader managed to get his saber in the way however, and ducked away from the strike, causing Serra to instead cleave the pillar. Before she could attack Vader again, he casually used the force to cause the pillar she had cut to crash into her, knocking her off the balcony and crushing her in the courtyard below. Serra Keto was one of the many Jedi to fall at the hands of the Sith's revenge.

Serra Keto may have been related to Satal and Aleema Keto.

Powers and abilities


While Cin Drallig developed his mastery of Form VI, his student developed her knowledge of the double lightsaber variant of Juyo. Her combat style was fast, dynamic and acrobatic. Her unique attack pattern, wielding two green lightsabers, was unpredictable and dangerous. Like some other dual lightsaber practitioners, she utilized a rarer form of wielding two lightsabers, a Juyo variant that was broader and more aggressive than Jar'Kai. Serra often used both lightsabers to strike harder and perform more powerful attacks, while Jar'Kai practitioners used one lightsaber to attack and the other to parry.

Behind the scenes

 * Serra was created for the Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith video game.
 * Her voice was performed by Kari Wahlgren.

Appearances

 * The Brink
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith video game