Jocasta Nu

"If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist!"

- Jocasta Nu

Jocasta Nu was a female human Jedi Master who served as the Chief Librarian of the Jedi Archives during the Clone Wars. In this role, Nu would assist fellow Jedi in finding information they needed from the Jedi Archives, and controlled access to the restricted Holocron Vault. Sometime prior to the Invasion of Naboo, Nu sat on the Jedi Council. Shortly before the war, she assisted Obi-Wan Kenobi in his attempt to locate the planet Kamino in the Archives. After not finding any information, and Nu's insistence that any item that did not appear in the Archives did not exist, it was determined that information about Kamino had been erased from Jedi records. During the war, Nu was attacked by bounty hunter Cato Parasitti, who was helping Cad Bane steal a holocron from the Holocron Vault. She later assisted Ahsoka Tano in finding the thief who stole the Padawan's lightsaber.

After the fall of the Jedi Order and the Republic, and the rise of the Galactic Empire in their place, Nu survived the purge of the Jedi unlike many of her fellows and went into hiding, all the while attempting to preserve what she could of the Jedi. Determined to put a permanent end to the Jedi, the newly crowned Emperor dispatched his agents in the form of Darth Vader and the Inquisitorius to hunt her down.

Biography
When Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi was looking for the planet Kamino in the archives based on information from his friend Dexter Jettster, Jocasta was not familiar with Kamino and noted that it was not in the archives. Kenobi wondered if the archives could be incomplete, which annoyed Jocasta, who informed him that his information may be out of date and that if the information was not in the archives, it did not exist.

Clone Wars
Following the First battle of Felucia, Nu was assigned Anakin Skywalker's Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, to serve as the Jedi Archives new security officer after the young Togruta was assigned to Temple duty for disobeying orders. She took Tano on a tour of the archives, and showed her the entrance to the Holocron Vault, explaining that only members of the Jedi Council were allowed access due to the sensitive information contained inside. When the Jedi Temple was put on high alert due to Cad Bane's efforts to break into the Temple, Nu informed Master Ord Enisence of this after noticing him in the archives working at a terminal seemingly unconcerned. However, she was then knocked out by Enisence, who was actually the Clawdite bounty hunter Cato Parasitti in disguise and working as Bane's accomplice in the heist. Nu was then dragged away and relieved of her lightsaber by Parasitti, who shapeshifted to impersonate the Master Librarian. Tano subdued the bounty hunter after determining that she was an imposter. After Nu recovered, she and Ahsoka then took Parasitti away and brought in more security, but were unable to prevent Bane from escaping with a holocron. Following that incident, Nu assisted Tano when she came to the library to examine criminal records to locate the thief who stole her lightsaber. Nu suggested that Tano admit to Skywalker that she had lost her lightsaber, but the Padawan refused due to how often her master told her to never lose her weapon. Nu admitted that finding thieves was not her area of expertise, and recommended that Ahsoka seek the help of Jedi Master Tera Sinube, an expert on the Coruscant underworld, to find the thief. She led Tano to the elderly Cosian, who was sleeping at a table in the archives. They woke the sleeping Master, and Nu left the two to begin their search.

After Master Plo Koon discovered the wreckage of a vessel on the desert moon of Oba Diah that was identified as the ship of former Jedi Council member Sifo-Dyas and which still contained his lightsaber, Nu was asked to brief the Jedi Council on the events surrounding the Jedi Master's demise. She informed them that Sifo-Dyas' last assignment was to Felucia, where he was killed attempting to negotiate a peace treaty between two tribes. Plo Koon inquired about the status of Sifo-Dyas' body, and Nu informed him that she did not know as further records on the mission had been ordered sealed. Master Mace Windu asked who had sealed them, and Nu revealed that the Office of the Supreme Chancellor was responsible. Windu thanked Nu for her briefing and she took her leave to allow the Jedi Council to discuss the situation.

Near the end of the Clone Wars, Nu explained to Caleb Dume, Sammo Quid, and Tai Uzuma, three Jedi Initiates who had passed their Initiate Trials, how Jedi Knights chose Padawans. Dume questioned how and why the Jedi settled on that method to chose their Padawans and if anyone had ever questioned it. Nu noted that Dume was questioning it now, but he protested that he simply wanted to know how that method had been developed.

Preserving the Order
Sum-Ting-Wong. She a dead bitch.

Behind the scenes
Jocasta Nu was played by actress Alethea McGrath in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones and voiced by Flo DiRe in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
 * Kanan 7: First Blood, Part I: The Corridors of Coruscant
 * Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith 6: The Chosen One, Part VI
 * Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith 9
 * Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith 10
 * A New Dawn
 * Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith 6: The Chosen One, Part VI
 * Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith 9
 * Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith 10
 * A New Dawn