Jinx/Legends

"We just can't sit here any longer."

- Jinx

Jinx was a Twi'lek male Jedi Initiate from the planet Ryloth. At some point during his Jedi training, he and two other Jedi younglings&mdash;Kalifa and O-Mer&mdash;went on a mission, which resulted in the trio being captured by Trandoshan hunters. Jinx, Kalifa, and O-Mer were brought to the Trandoshan moon Wasskah, where they were hunted for sport, but they developed a practice of evading their captors by remaining hidden amidst the sprawling flora on an island located on the moon's surface. Around 21 BBY, during the Clone Wars, Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano was also abducted and dropped off on the island. Her aggressive stance and urging to engage the Trandoshans boosted the confidence of both Jinx and O-Mer, and they decided to seek out the hunters' base.

When O-Mer noticed the Trandoshan floating fortress peering out of the clouds, the team came under attack by two of the latters' hover pods. Although Jinx and O-mer managed to shake off their pursuer, Kalifa was killed in the attack, and Tano assumed command of the group. The Jedi later intercepted an arriving Trandoshan slave ship, and freed its sole prisoner, the Wookiee Chewbacca. After attempting to construct a transmitter&mdash;an attempt which Jinx regarded with cynism&mdash;from the ship's wreckage, Jinx and the group acquired a hover pod through the use of a captured hunter, and assaulted the Trandoshan fortress. Despite Jinx and the team's initial successes, they were soon cornered, but the timely arrival of Wookiee General Tarfful and two bounty hunters&mdash;Sugi and Seripas&mdash;turned the tide of the battle. The remaining hunters were killed and the former captives were extracted.

Biography
Jinx, a male Twi'lek, was born on the Outer Rim Territories planet Ryloth. He became a Jedi Initiate sometime before the start of the Clone Wars. During the course of his Jedi training, Jinx, along with fellow younglings Kalifa and O-Mer &mdash;a Human female and a Cerean male, respectively &mdash;, went on a training mission. During the course of the mission, Jinx and the group was abducted and brought to the Trandoshan moon Wasskah, where they were hunted for sport by Trandoshans. The three Jedi, however, evaded their captors by hiding in the overgrown flora of Island Four, an island on the moon. Kalifa, who had assumed the position of leading Jinx and O-Mer, chose a strategy of inactivity&mdash;hiding from the hunters to avoid being revealed&mdash;, even if this would cost the lives of other captives.

Around 21 BBY, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker's Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, was brought to Island Four and encountered Jinx, Kalifa, and O-Mer. She joined Jinx and the team, and began advocating that they needed to take more action against the Trandoshans&mdash;a viewpoint which her companions were initially hesitant to accept due to Kalifa's strong opposition and the preceding death of a Padawan who had been acting similarly to Tano. Kalifa, however, eventually noted that they had been lacking strength and force, and Tano supplied them with it, so she began to accept Tano's point. After a discussion, Jinx and the group decided that they would have to seek out the Trandoshan base as their first action. The next morning, the younglings noticed the Trandoshan floating fortress appear out of the clouds by accident. An attack by two hover pods forced the Jedi to split up, and though Jinx and O-Mer escaped from their pursuer, Kalifa lost balance and fell down among the branches. Garnac, the hunters' leader, sent down his son Dar to end her life.

Following the loss of Kalifa, Jinx and O-Mer began to rely on Tano and became more confident. The trio raided an arriving Trandoshan slave ship, with Jinx engaging one of the crewmembers in unarmed combat, and freed its sole captive, the Wookiee Chewbacca. The Wookiee explained that he was capable of constructing a transmitter, which they could use to send a signal to his homeworld, the forested world of Kashyyyk, which was located in the same system as Wasskah. To acquire vital machine parts necessary for Chewbacca's makeshift communications device, Jinx and the team scavenged parts from the downed Trandoshan starship, capturing a sniper&mdash;Smug&mdash;in the process.

The next morning, Jinx used the Force to persuade the prisoner to call a transport. When the transport pod arrived, the Jedi and Chewbacca assaulted the vehicle, and O-Mer piloted it to the Trandoshan floating fortress which the hunters used as a base. They landed on an outside platform, and a firefight ensued between them and the Trandoshans present there. Despite their initial successes, Jinx and the team was soon forced to go on the defensive due to the arrival of more hunters from the fortress's interior, and sought cover behind overturned hover pods. After the speeder o-Mer had commandeered was downed, the Trandoshans cornered them, but the arrival of Wookiee warriors and bounty hunters &mdash;Sugi and Seripas &mdash;led by Wookiee General Tarfful, turned the tide, and resulted in the death of the remaining Trandoshans and the extraction of the Jedi and Chewbacca from the moon.

Personality and traits
"He thinks he can contact his home planet if we find a way to transmit a signal.''" "''Right, and how would we do that? Send smoke signals? We don't exactly have a transmitter lying around here, as you've noticed."

- Ahsoka Tano and Jinx upon Chewbacca's offer to make a transmitter

Jinx was a hairless, green skinned Twi'lek with brown eyes, standing 1.76 meters tall. He was originally optimistic, but he lost it due to the the conditions on Wasskah. Although he longed to return to the Jedi Temple, he feared that he would have to spend the rest of his life hiding from the hunters.

Behind the scenes
Jinx first appeared in "Padawan Lost," the twenty-first episode of the third season of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series, and also appeared in the following episode, "Wookiee Hunt". Both episodes aired on April 1, 2011. He also received a card in the online supplement "Clone Cards" on StarWars.com, which gave a brief description of his biography and contained data pertaining to his physical appearance. Jinx was voiced by Sunil Malhotra.

Notes and references
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