Serra Keto

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

- Darth Vader

Serra Keto was a human female Jedi, and Cin Drallig's most trusted and gifted of students.

Biography
Master Drallig was renowned for his formidable lightsaber skills and as Serra's Master, Cin Drallig passed on everything he knew of lightsaber technique to his young Padawan, Serra. In time, as Serra became a Jedi Knight herself, 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 several times, was close to being removed from the Jedi Order because of it.

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 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.

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 Darth 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, Darth Vader crushed her with a force-manipulated stone pillar. While she fought valiantly as a Jedi Knight, in the end, Serra Keto was one of the many Jedi to fall at the hands of the Sith's revenge.

Serra could have been a descendant of Aleema or Satal Keto.

Traits


While Cin Drallig developed his own unique style of lightsaber combat, relying on enhanced speed and unconventional and unpredictable movements, so did Serra develop her own unique style. Her combat style was fast, dynamic and acrobatic. Her unique attack pattern, wielding two green lightsabers, was unpredictable and dangerous. Just like other dual lightsaber practitioners, she used Niman / Jar'Kai. Serra often used both lightsabers to strike harder and perform more powerful attacks, while other 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 from Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 4
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (video game)
 * The novel version of Star Wars: Episode III.