Grandmaster Yoda

Yoda was a Jedi Grandmaster, sometimes considered the greatest of his kind. Famous for his unimaginable battle skills, and his wise words, Yoda is arguably the greatest jedi of all time. Born on a distant, unknown planet in the outer rim, Yoda had a harsh childhood. After about 12 years of living on tis planet, Yoda and a friend set off in a brokendown shuttle en route. to Coruscant. They felt that it was worth the possibly fatal trip just to get off of the foresaken planet. They didn't make it even halfway to Coruscant though. The old shuttle broke down, and crash landed on a remote, foggy swamp planet, now suspected to be Dagobah. As the limited food supply dwindled, they began to grow weak, and sick. The two friends would have died, had it not been for a Jedi master who happened to be travelling in the area. Master Gormo sensed the presence of Yoda and his friend, and could tell they were both force-sensetive. Mater Gormo revealed to them that they were force-sensetive, and began their training immidietly. Yoda progressed quickly, and when he and he friend were ready to become Jedi knights, Maste Gormo flew them to the Jedi Temple where they passed the trials, and soon after both became masters. Not much is known about Yodas middle life. He joined the Jedi council in 796BBY, and, sometime around this point, began to train Younglings and padawans. Yoda would take great interest in young Jedi throughout his life, and would go on to train thousands of Padawans and younglings. Around 500BBY, Yoda, and several other Jedi Masters confronted the witches of Dathomir. In a compromise, the Jedi left the witches tapes of unknown (yet probably important) information. The witches were unable to find a way to read these tapes, and in 8ABY, the Jedi retreived them. In 200BBY, Yoda and the other masters felt a rise in Dark side power. The council virtually ignored this increase. If they had acted sooner, the Jedi might have been saved. It is for this reason that Yoda is sometimes blamed for the fall of the Jedi. Like the other council members, Yoda strongly disagreed in allowing Anikan to train, because of his age. However, there was evidence that Anikan could be the chosen one, and in the end, the old Jedi agreed. By this time, Yoda had finished the training of his last direct Padawan, Ki-Adi-Mundi, who would go on to become one of the most respected Jedi ever. Like most other Jedi Masters, Yoda was made a general of the republic army during the clone wars. Yoda Protecting Padme on her ship when he receivedword that Luminara Unduli and her Padawan Baris Offee were being attacked by Chameleon droids on Ilum, Yoda made the captain fly there. Yoda managed to rescue the two Jedi, and all of them got home safely. Aother incident occured when Yodas former frien withdrew his planet from the republic to join the seperatists. When Yoda tried to talk to his friend, he pulled a blaster on the Jedi master. Yoda was forced to deflect the bullet in to the chest of his friend with his ligtsaber. Yoda never liked to take out his lightsaber, and he worried that this was not going be the last time he was forced to do so. During the battle of Geonosis, when Mace windu and the other 200 Jedi were quickly outnumbered by the seperatist army of battle droids, Yoda brought reinforcement too the battle. Yoda and the clone army quickly won the battle soon after. Yoda also came to the aid of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenbi and his apprentice Anikan Skywalker when they wer defeated, and nearly killed by Count Dooku. Yoda challenged the Sith Lord to a duel, and Dooku tried to overpower Yoda using the force to drop stones on the Jedi Master. Yoda easily repelled them though, and drew out his lightsaber. Although Dooku was powerfull, Yoda complex system of spins and slashes overpowered the count. Finding no other way to escape the battle, Dooku distracted Yoda by dropping huge crane on Anikan and Obi-Wan. Yoda was forced to use the force to stop the crane from crushing the two Jedi, while Dooku made a quick escape. Three years later, when Anikan confided in Yoda that he was afraid to lose Padme, Yoda began to worry about Anikans fear of loss, and his close friendship with the suspicious chancellor Plalpatine. Yodas suspicion grew when Anikan was appointed to the Jedi council as a representative of Palpatine. Therefore, the Jedi Master seemed only slightly surprised when he learned of Anikans treachery. Just days after the defeat of Count Dooku, the seperatist army launched an attack on Kashyyk, the home planet of the wookiees. Due to his good relationship with the species, Yoda was sent to lead a retalliation against the battle droids. He, and a group of clones flew to Kashyyk, and led he attack on the seperatists, aided by thousand of howling wookies, whos great strengh proved useful in the battle. Still skilled at the ancient art of battle meditation, Yoda put hope in his soldiers, inspiring them to fight even more fiercly. It seemed everything was going well, util Yoda eflt a huge tremor in the force, causing him to drop his cane and wonder what terrible thing had happened. seconds later, after order 66 had been issued, a pair of clones attempted to shoot Yoda in the back. Despite his age, Yoda still had exellent reflexis. Withdrawing his lightsaber, he leapt up and sliced off the heads of his attackers in one smooth motion. He then clambered onto the back of his friend tyvokka, andset off for an escape pod. after saying goodbye to his wookiee friends, Yoda boarded the Tantive IV, and met with senator Bail Organa, and fellow Jed Obi-Wan Kenobi. There he learned that the Jedi temple had been attacked by stormtroopers, leaving nearly all of its occupants dead. The temple itself had been set on fire, andall of Coruscant was in a panic. The three allies discussed the possibility of reentering the Jedi temple to dismantle to signal telling all Jedi to come to the temple. They were interrupted by a message from the senate requesting all senators to report to the senate building for an emergency meeting of congress. It was then that Yoda decided to enter the temple. Obi-Wan and Yoda easil fought their way inside, and lokked with horror at the Jedi bodies strewn about the temple. After dismatling the code, Obi-Wan discovered a security hologram of Anikan killing younglings. It was him who had led the attack. Yoda decided that the sith had to be killed. Despite protests, Obi-Wan was sent to kill Anikan. Yoda traveled to Palpatines office in the senate building to confront the Sith Lord. Yoda knocked the door gaurds down with the force, and confronted Palpatine: "I hear a new apprentice you have, Emporer. Or should I call you DARTH Sidious." The emporer seemed surpried that Yoda had survived, but was not caught off gaurd. He sent a wave of force lightning at the old Jedi Master, who was thrown back, and smashed a gainst a wall. yoda played dead as the Emporer walked towards him, but then stood up and hurled the emporer towards the wall with a uge amount of the force. The emporerconfronted Yoda yet again, and this time, they drew their lightsbers, and launched into a whirling furious duel that led them onto the Emporers podium in the middle of the office. As the podium rose though the ceiling and into the senate chamber, the duel gathered speed, and Yoda started to lose control of his anger. Palpatine was forced retreat, and abandoned the duel, insted sending senatepodiums flying at Yoda. The Jedi master dodged several of them, and stopped one sending it flying at the emporerr, who jumped down a step and a wave of force lightning at Yoda who lost his lightsaber, but was able to deflect the energy with his bare hands. The pressure sent both battlers flying backwards. Palpatine was able catch himself, but Yoda, after briefly graspinga senate pod, fell 300 feet to the ground, where he climbed through a pipe and out of the senate building to where senator Organa was waiting to take him into hiding. yoda had failed. Yoda died 23 years later after completing the training of Luke Skywalker.