Xanatos

"You destroyed me that day, Qui-Gon. Yet I was reborn. Stronger, wiser. I have surpassed you."

- Xanatos to Qui-Gon Jinn

Xanatos was a failed Human Jedi and the second Padawan of Qui-Gon Jinn. He later became a Dark Jedi.

Early life
Qui-Gon discovered Xanatos when the boy was three years old. Impressed by his Force-potential, Qui-Gon decided, after some brief hesitation, to bring Xanatos to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant for training. In doing so, Xanatos was taken away from the two things he loved most at an early age: Crion, his father, and Telos, his home planet.

Meeting Qui-Gon Jinn
After achieving Knighthood going on solo missions in a matter of five years, Qui-Gon Jinn took Xanatos to be his Padawan. Qui-Gon trained Xanatos for a number of years going on various missions, though Xanatos tended to be aggressive, which concerned the Jedi Council. As a final test for Xanatos, Yoda sent the two back to Telos, where the planet was in a brutal civil war started by Xanatos' corrupt father Crion &mdash; governor of the planet.

Fall to the dark side
After Qui-Gon was forced to kill Crion, Xanatos turned to the dark side, picked up his father's burnt ring and pressed it to his cheek. The half-circle scar later became his "trademark" and the symbol for the Offworld Corporation, a company he took control of through deceit and conspiracy. Qui-Gon told the Council that he had died in the fighting on Telos. Xanatos would present trouble for Qui-Gon Jinn and his new apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi in the decades preceding the Invasion of Naboo.

The final campaign
As the leader of Offworld Corporation, Xanatos claimed that he desired peace between Offworld and rival company, Arcona Mineral Harvest Corporation, but secretly planned to eliminate Arcona and take their ionite mines on Bandomeer for himself. With the help of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon thwarted his plans. Xanatos fled into hiding, returning to Telos, where he planned to stripmine the planet to obtain wealth. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan tracked him down and exposed his plans.

He committed suicide on Telos by jumping into a pool of acid, rather than be captured by his former master, saying as he did, "I am your biggest failure. Live with that. And live with this."

Later, Kenobi encountered Xanatos's son, Granta Omega.

Behind the scenes



 * Xanatos and his father Crion's last name is unknown, but some fans have been known to use "Omega", from Xanatos's son Granta Omega. However, this assumption is not explicitly supported, because the surname could have been inherited from Granta's mother.


 * Though as far as names go, the name Xanatos is similar to "Thanatos", which is the Greek word for "death", and the name of his home planet, "Telos", also means "end" in Greek. Unlikely to be coincidental, "Omega" is the last letter in the Greek alphabet, implying another synonym to "end." It is also important to note that the "broken circle" emblem of Xanatos looks similar in some respect to the actual letter Omega (Ω).


 * Other implications as to this comes from the use of OC. It was believed by Qui-Gon Jinn that stood for Offworld Corporation but knowing Xanatos it could be other things.


 * He is believed to be a practitioner of Ataru by his skills in Jedi Apprentice: The Dark Rival.

Appearances

 * Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Dark Rival
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Uncertain Path
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Captive Temple
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Day of Reckoning
 * The Last of the Jedi: A Tangled Web