Shadday Potkin/Legends

"Since I require a weapon, I shall take yours."

- Darth Vader to Shadday Potkin

Shadday Potkin was a female Human Jedi Master during the Clone Wars and a survivor of Order 66.

Biography
Shortly after the execution of Order 66 and the establishment of the Galactic Empire, Shadday returned to Coruscant, where she mournfully watched the Jedi Temple burn from amongst the crowd that stood outside its base. Even then, however, she retained several informative contacts.

During the next month, she joined forces with several other Jedi survivors, including Bultar Swan. She called for a secret meeting of surviving Jedi on the planet Kessel, ostensibly to discuss the future of the Jedi Order.



Secretly, however, she had another plan. She had grown disillusioned with what she saw as Jedi inaction, preferring to act rather than meditate and reflect. Through her contacts she leaked information to the Empire on the Jedi meeting, including the lie that Obi-Wan Kenobi was amongst them. Knowing that Darth Vader was obsessed with tracking Kenobi down, although not knowing the reason, she planned to ambush him with the full force of the Jedi, removing Emperor Palpatine's greatest weapon and striking fear into the Empire.

Eight Jedi in all were present in the abandoned mine when Vader arrived. Shadday believed herself prepared to fight the Sith, having acquired a cortosis sword to deactivate Vader's lightsaber. At first, her attack seemed successful. However, robbed of his lightsaber, Vader instead snapped her neck, killing her instantly. He proceeded to procure her cortosis weapon and used it against her allies.

Shadday's plan to draw out the Sith to their doom, like Atris's 4000 years before, had failed.

Behind the scenes


Shadday described Darth Vader as "Palpatine's mailed fist, Dooku's successor, Maul's inheritor". However, neither Shadday nor any Jedi should know Darth Maul's name and identity. It is possible that Nute Gunray or the Trade Federation may have leaked to the Federation about the name of the Sith or information on Maul's name could have been revealed to the Jedi through Gunray's mechno-chair, but this is unconfirmed.

This is not the first time this mistake has been made; in Rogue Planet, Obi-Wan Kenobi mentions Maul by name. Count Dooku also revealed Maul's name in the novelization of Revenge of the Sith; after Kenobi and Skywaker mention that Obi-Wan had killed a Sith before his response was "Maul was an animal."

Appearances

 * ''Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Republic: Into the Unknown
 * Star Wars: Purge