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"We are the Jedi, the ultimate power in the universe. We will do as we choose. And we will destroy any who dare stand in our way."

- Jorus C'baoth

Jorus C'baoth was a male Human who served as Jedi Master during the decades before the Clone Wars. Like fellow Master Dooku, C'baoth was arrogantly sure of his own skills and talents, believed himself to be a peerless warrior and philosopher, and viewed non-Force users as inferior.

He was the main proponent of the Outbound Flight project, which he envisioned as being the precursor to the discovery of unknown species who could be taught the ways of the Jedi. However, C'baoth, like Outbound Flight, was ultimately doomed by his arrogance and events outside of his control. With the failure of his vision and the destruction of Outbound Flight at the hands of the Chiss Expansionary Defense Force led by Commander Mitth'raw'nuruodo, C'baoth eventually fell to the dark side of the Force when he submitted to his anger and attempted to kill Thrawn. He himself died when a Chiss radiation bomb exploded inside of Outbound Flight.

Later, Darth Sidious would use recovered samples of C'baoth's DNA as the template for the insane clone named Joruus C'baoth. This clone became the guardian of Emperor Palpatine's private treasury, and later worked with Grand Admiral Thrawn during his campaign against the New Republic.

Early life
"ATTENDED JEDI TRAINING CENTER ON KAMPARAS 2\15\90 TO 8\33\8 PE. PRIVATE JEDI TRAINING BEGUN 9\88 PE; INSTRUCTOR UNKNOWN."

- Galactic Senate records on Jorus C'baoth

A male Human, Jorus C'baoth was born in 70 BBY in Reithcas, capital of the planet Bortras, a fertile world located within the Reithcas sector. He showed much potential with the Force, and his powers were quickly remarked by the Jedi Order, who eventually selected him for training. C'baoth was thus sent to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to join the other younglings. At the age of seventeen, he added to his Jedi studies with an education from Mirnic University, and upon his graduation he traveled to the Jedi Training Center on Kamparas to continue his instruction in the ways of the Force. After training on Kamparas for two years, an unknown Jedi Master took him on as a private student.

Jedi diplomat
"MEMBER OF ANDO DEMILITARIZATION OBSERVATION GROUP 8\82 TO 7\81 PE. MEMBER OF SENATE INTERSPECIES ADVISORY COMMITTEE 9\81 TO 6\79 PE"

- Galactic Senate records on Jorus C'baoth

Two more years of training would see C'baoth attain the rank of Jedi Knight. As a Knight, C’baoth became a firm supporter of the Galactic Republic, and served it well in a number of ways, most notably as a negotiator and mediator for many of the galaxy's racially-charged conflicts. He notably served as part of the Demilitarization Observation Group stationed on Ando, where the native Aqualish subspecies endlessly feuded with each other over mineral rights. A primary observer within the group, the Jedi from Bortras encountered another member of the task force, the ambitious Senator Palpatine from Naboo. After both returned to Coruscant, C'baoth and Palpatine established a long-standing friendship. A few years later, the Council of Reassignment appointed Jorus C'baoth as Palpatine's personal adviser on Jedi-related matters. During his tenure as a member of Palpatine's staff, the Jedi discussed the Extragalactic Society, a community of scientists devoted to the search for life outside the galaxy.

A few years before the Battle of Naboo, C'baoth chose to leave the service of Palpatine when he received visions of the dark side of the Force growing stronger. He was reassigned once again and began searching for the sources of his premonitions, which led him to the Elrood sector. In this remote area of the galaxy, C'baoth discovered a group of marauding Dark Jedi who brought terror to the sector. With the help of a small strike team of fellow Knights, C'baoth vanquished the darksiders. Following this most brilliant feat, he bestowed the title of Jedi Master upon himself. The Jedi High Council was pleased with C'baoth victory in the Elrood sector, so they recognized his self-imposed promotion to masterhood as valid.

In 33 BBY, C'baoth got involved in the Esseles droid starfighters affair, due to his privileged relationship with Palpatine. The High Council had received an anonymous datacard, alerting the Order that a factory named Trinkatta Starships had started building fifty experimental droid starfighters. Worried that these new ships were commissionned by an ally of the Republic plotting a civil war, the Councilmen sent Adi Gallia to ascertain the identity of the one who paid for the starfighters. Master Jorus C'Baoth was summoned by the Council, who asked him not to notify Palpatine or any other Senators of Galia's secret mission until they have solid evidence identifying the buyer.

During his diplomatic career, Jorus C'baoth became a member of the Senate Interspecies Advisory Committee, was appointed as the ambassador-at-large to the Xappyh sector, and helped Jedi Master Tra's M'ins mediate the Duinuogwuin-Gotal conflict. In 32 BBY, as Jedi Watchman of the sector, he also mediated the Alderaan Ascendancy Contention, where he requested that the House of Organa and House of Antilles join together in an arranged marriage. The same year, Finis Valorum's second four-year term as Supreme Chancellor came close to its end, and C'baoth offered his support to Senator Bail Antilles of Alderaan, a potential nominee for the impending election. The Jedi Watchman was seen in the company of the senator during a political gathering on the Perlemian Orbital Facility.

At some point, the Jedi diplomat took a female Human named Lorana Jinzler as his Padawan to train. C'baoth's relationship with his good-natured an humble apprentice was unusally tense. His attitude that Jedi were superior to non-Force users disturbed Jinzler, but she was too timid to confront him or say anything to address the issue.

Birth of the Outbound Flight Project
"HIGHLY INSTRUMENTAL IN CONVINCING SENATE TO AUTHORIZE AND FUND OUTBOUND FLIGHT PROJECT. ONE OF SIX JEDI MASTERS ATTACHED TO PROJECT 7\7\65 PE."

- Galactic Senate records on Jorus C'baoth

Around 29 BBY, C'baoth was inspired by the Extragalactic Society's example, and he conceived the idea of a massive expedition beyond the Galactic Rim. He gained support from his friend Palpatine, now Supreme Chancellor of the Republic. At first, the project excited both C'baoth and Palpatine, and the Jedi played a highly instrumental role in convincing the Republic Senate to authorize and fund what became known as "Outbound Flight Project". As time went by, the enthusiasm of the political class about C'baoth's brainchild began to weaken. Both the Jedi Order and the Senate slowly stepped back from the project, and a series of budget cuts put a strain on the planned expedition. But Master C'baoth had not yet said his last word, and he was ready to spitefully fight back and raise a fuss in front od the Chancellor himself.

Mission to Barlok
"Actually, it was an inspired suggestion. Master C'baoth is quite good at the sort of mediation the Barlok situation so sorely needs. I should have thought of it myself."

- Palpatine

When C'baoth and his Padawan, Lorana Jinzler, met with Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to discuss the Outbound Flight project, Palpatine told them that if C'baoth settled a dispute on the planet of Barlok, he would do all he could to make Outbound Flight possible.

After the first day of mediation, they met Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan, Anakin Skywalker, who had been sent by Mace Windu, who was suspicious of C'baoth. C'baoth sent them away with Jinzler while he went to mediate. After Kenobi, Skywalker and Jinzler had discovered a terrorist threat, C'baoth had them stationed with Jerv Riske, a bodyguard hired by Passel Argente of the Corporate Alliance. They failed to stop the remote missile that targeted all the people involved in the meeting. C'baoth caught the missile in a Force grip and convinced the assembly to resolve their differences for the people of Barlok.

Following this mission, much to her own surprise, C'baoth asked the Jedi High Council to promote his Padawan Lorana Jinzler. She was knighted shortly before the departure of the Outbound Flight, which C'baoth forced her to board.

Launch of the Outbound Flight
Jorus C'baoth was the main champion of the Old Republic's Outbound Flight project&mdash;a survey which had been commissioned to begin the search for intelligent life outside the galaxy proper. C'baoth was one of the six Jedi Masters aboard the project when it departed from Yaga Minor in 27 BBY. Although the Republic had its official policy regarding the mission of Outbound Flight, C'baoth had his own designs for the project &mdash; he envisioned it as being the catalyst for the discovery of other Force-sensitive species who might be taught the way of the Jedi.



Unfortunately, it soon became apparent that the Outbound Flight project was in jeopardy of being sidelined by the Republic's bureaucracy. That was, however, until C'baoth thwarted the assassination attempt on Barlok, prompting Palpatine and the Galactic Senate to give the project the support that C'Baoth believed it would need. C'baoth, though, did not suspect that Palpatine would also be the one to secretly sabotage the project. As the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, he had C'baoth cloned shortly in the disguise of a blood test before the launch of the Outbound Flight project, knowing he would be of later use. Sidious also sent Kinman Doriana ahead of the Outbound Flight with the purpose of destroying it, thus effectively killing several dozen Jedi in one fell swoop.

Once the Outbound Flight was launched, C'baoth increasingly took control over all of the ship's aspects, even going so far as to take Force-sensitive children away from their parents in the middle of the night to be trained as Jedi. By establishing himself as the de facto leader over all aspects of the ship, even out ruling the captain of the vessel, he earned the resentment of the colonists who had initially joined the Outbound Flight to seek a better life.

When the Outbound Flight entered the Unknown Regions, it was encountered by the Vagaari as well as the Chiss. Mitth'raw'nuruodo, the leader of the Chiss picket force, contacted C'baoth and boarded the Outbound Flight to meet with him, but C'baoth refused to comply with Thrawn's request to leave Chiss space. As the Vagaari fleet stormed towards the Outbound Flight, C'baoth performed a Force meld to trick the enemy. At that moment Thrawn launched Vulture droids to engage the confused Vagaari, creating a large disturbance in the Force which overwhelmed the meld participants.

During the disturbance, C'baoth and his fellow Jedi failed to detect the Chiss forces that were sneaking in, and Thrawn managed to systematically destroy the weapon clusters of the Outbound Flight, killing almost every Jedi aboard. Enraged, the Jedi Master gave into his anger and succumbed to the dark side and Force-choked Thrawn across space from Outbound Flight bridge itself. His apprentice sensed his fall, and tried to reach her former master in time to help him, but it was too late. However, before C'baoth could kill Thrawn, Doriana saved Thrawn's life when he activated the secondary command layer pre-set in the Vulture droids, which then rammed and blasted open the Outbound Flight. The final wave of Vultures employed a radiation bomb of Chiss design on the ship. C'baoth, along with all but fifty-seven of the passengers and Lorana aboard, perished.

It was due to C'baoth's arrogance and draconian behavior that the survivors of Outbound Flight, who were discovered in 22 ABY, had such a resentment and hatred for the Jedi.

Legacy
"Who is it we've brought aboard the Chimaera? I should have thought that obvious. Joruus C'baoth&mdash;note the telltale mispronunciation of the name Jorus&mdash;is a clone."

- Grand Admiral Thrawn

In 9 ABY it was discovered that a clone of C'baoth, Joruus C'baoth, had been living on the world of Wayland since the time of the Clone Wars. He had inherited much of C'baoth's personality, including his desire to arbitrate disputes; he also inherited the original C'Baoth's substantial ego.

Given that the Great Jedi Purge had destroyed most records relating to the Jedi and that Wayland itself was a carefully hidden secret, almost no one knew that Joruus C'baoth was a clone, except for Thrawn, who had killed the original when destroying Outbound Flight. Due to deteriorating sanity from the unstable Spaarti cloning cylinders as well as a long isolation, even Joruus C'baoth forgot his true origins and believed himself to be the original Master C'baoth.

Without formal Jedi training, Joruus openly used the dark side of the Force in his rule of the mixed population of Wayland. After being discovered by Grand Admiral Thrawn, he used his skills to coordinate Imperial attacks in an effort to ultimately find an apprentice of his own. Joruus met his death at the hands of Luke Skywalker and the former Emperor's Hand, Mara Jade.

In 22 ABY, a Chiss expedition to the remains of Outbound Flight occurred. This was partially a historical expedition &mdash; thus invitations were extended to the Jedi Masters Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker, as well as Dean Jinzler &mdash; and partially a ploy to lure Thrawn's old enemies, the Vagaari, into going on the offensive.

Personality and traits
"Let's dispense with the pleasantries, Chancellor. This isn't a social visit."

- Jorus C'baoth to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine.

Jorus C'baoth was a very talented and gifted Jedi. It was known early on, even when Jorus was just a young child, that he was powerful in the Force. His skill with the Force eventually culminated in an act which very few Jedi Knights dared to do: Jorus believed that he had moved beyond the talents of being a Knight, and therefore promoted himself to the rank of Jedi Master. Even though his promotion was self-imposed, it was a claim that no one objected to.

C'baoth was known to have believed that the Jedi were above normal non-Force users and therefore had the right-to-rule. His attitude of superiority caused several Jedi to be disturbed by his views, including his own Padawan Lorana Jinzler, to whom he was especially brutal, considering he was her Jedi Master. However, due to his abrupt and often harsh attitude, it was a trait that very few individuals dared bring to C'baoth's attention.

He was also extremely arrogant in his dealings, not only with non-Force users, but also with his fellow Jedi. His arrogance, combined with his often severe attitude, divided many Jedi on their stance of the Jedi Master. Some believed that he was a model example of what it meant to be a Jedi, while others disagreed with his methods and instead chose to remain wary of him and his views.

C'baoth was one of those few Jedi Masters who had taken a great admiration to Anakin Skywalker, as the boy was to him in return.

Behind the scenes
"JORUS C'BAOTH. HUMAN. BORN IN REITHCAS, ON BORTRAS, ON 4\3\112. PRE-EMPIRE DATE."

- Galactic Senate records on Jorus C'baoth as shown in Dark Force Rising

Jorus C'baoth was first mentioned in the 1991 novel Heir to the Empire, the first entry of the "Thrawn Trilogy" written by Timothy Zahn. While the Jedi Master didn't appear himself in the book, a mad clone of C'baoth served as one of the novel's main antagonists.

The second installment in the trilogy, Dark Force Rising, included a very thorough biography of C'baoth, complete with a "Pre-Empire" dating system using a month\day\year notation. However, Zahn's original dating was based on when he believed the Clone Wars took place. With the release of the Prequel trilogy between 1999 and 2005, the dates featured in the Thrawn Trilogy were rendered erroneous.

C'baoth's birth date was retconned to 70 BBY in the Roleplaying Game Revised Core Rulebook. This dating, however, is still a few years off. In order for the math to work (simply by subtracting 64 P.E.- 27 BBY=37 and 112 P.E.-37=75 BBY), his birth date should be five years earlier, in 75 BBY.

Jorus C'baoth was originally named as the Jedi who quelled the insurrection of several Bpfasshi Dark Jedi during the Clone Wars. After the exact date of the Clone Wars was revealed, this became impossible, as C'baoth had died five years earlier. Yoda was then named as the Jedi Master responsible for opposing the insurrection some time after the end of the war.

C'baoth's last name is pronounced "Sub-Bay-Eth."

Appearances

 * ''Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
 * Cloak of Deception
 * Episode I Adventures 1: Search for the Lost Jedi
 * Outbound Flight
 * Star Wars: Rebellion
 * Heir to the Empire
 * Dark Force Rising
 * The Last Command
 * Survivor's Quest
 * Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial
 * Crosscurrent
 * Crosscurrent