Plo Koon/Legends

Plo Koon (&mdash;19 BBY) was a Jedi Master and member of the Jedi Council from before the Battle of Naboo to the end of the Republic and later, a General of the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. He was a close friend of Qui-Gon Jinn, and fought along side him during the Stark Hyperspace War. He was also a good friend of Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi.

Plo Koon was trained by the Wookiee Jedi Master Tyvokka, and he replaced his master on the Jedi Council after the latter's death. In most meetings he was a silent, enigmatic figure who rarely joined in the debates.

In his career, Plo trained many padawans, including a female Trandoshan who was his apprentice during the Battle of Naboo.

Like all Kel Dor, Plo hailed from the planet Dorin, and required a mask to protect himself from the air of oxygen-rich atmospheres, which he sometimes complained about since the air in the Jedi Council chamber was rich with oxygen.

An adept warrior, Plo came from a long line of Kel Dor Jedi, including an uncle and Plo Koon's own niece, Sha Koon. His martial talents, and that of his family, were employed in a range of disputes and conflicts from the Stark Hyperspace War to the Clone Wars. He was one of the Jedi who fought at the Battle of Geonosis in 22 BBY, joining with Ki-Adi-Mundi and Aayla Secura in a mission to deactivate the Droid Control Ship on Geonosis. He was one of the few that survived the battle.

Like many of his kind, Plo had a strong sense of justice, as well as extrasensory organs that enhanced his mental powers. His species tended to see issues in black and white, and favored what was termed "rough justice", a method of solving disputes that to non-Kel Dor seemed overly retributive and too close to vigilantism.

Plo Koon possessed an extensive knowledge of the physical sciences. In particular, he used his expert knowledge of physics along with the the Force to alter the environment: the resourceful Jedi could create small whirlwinds as well as a dense fog over a limited area, freeze tiny rivers and lakes, and raise or lower the temperature of his surroundings enough to incapacitate an opponent.

He wore talons over his fingertips, allowing him to further augment his already prodigious Force powers.

Somewhat controversially, Plo Koon employed a Force technique that he called Electric Judgement. To many Jedi, this seemed to be too close to the Force lightning employed by the enemies of the Jedi: the fearsome Sith.

At the end of the Clone Wars, Plo Koon was leading a starfighter battle above the Neimoidian purse world Cato Neimoidia when Supreme Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine activated Order 66. The clone trooper pilots in an ARC-170 starfighter nearby shot his starfighter near its engines, making the Jedi lose control. Then, another blast at his starfighter caused it to break into two pieces. The cockpit section of the starfighter crashed into a building on one of the planet's city-bridges, killing the Jedi Master instantly.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
 * Jedi Power Battles (videogame)
 * Jedi Council: Acts of War
 * Star Wars Republic: The Stark Hyperspace War
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars: Clone Wars
 * One Battle
 * Star Wars Republic: The Dreadnaughts of Rendili
 * Reversal of Fortune
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Behind the scenes


In Jedi Power Battles, Plo's saber is yellow, and the Plo Koon Episode I Action Figure has a yellow saber. Therefore, in Episode I Plo had a yellow lightsaber, but 10 years later, in Episode II, he had a blue lightsaber. What happened to his yellow lightsaber is unknown. Since the colors of the lightsabers that appeared in the comics before Episode II were retconned into blue or green, the lightsaber he carried before Episode II was probably not actually yellow, and if it was, it was one of the rare exceptions like Mace Windu's purple saber.

Originally, Plo Koon was to be named Plonkoon, after the character's creator's son. But it was later changed just before filming by George Lucas to the Plo Koon it is today.