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'SPOILER ALERT: contains spoilers for A New Dawn and Star Wars Rebels''. Read at your own risk.''' ---

"It was instantly clear that Kanan was in charge of the group, that he was the guy who called the shots. He's smart, like some sort of battlefield general. He's a crack-shot gunslinger and a born leader."

- Ezra Bridger

Kanan Jarrus was a Human male resistance fighter and former Jedi Padawan during the time of the Galactic Empire. He was born Caleb Dume and served the Jedi Order during the Clone Wars, when he was trained by Jedi Master Depa Billaba. Dume survived the execution of Order 66 while his master fell, and he went into hiding to avoid Imperial detection, forsaking the Force and his lightsaber. After changing his name, Jarrus took a number of jobs that would allow him to keep a low profile. He later met Hera Syndulla and joined her rebel cause against the Empire, taking part in a rebel movement on the planet Gorse.

After the rebellion on Gorse, Jarrus and Syndulla formed a team aboard Syndulla's starship, the Ghost, that took on the Empire in minor engagements. This team included the droid C1-10P, the Mandalorian explosive expert Sabine Wren, and the Lasat warrior Garazeb Orrelios. By this time, the once-reluctant Jarrus was eager to fight against the Empire. Five years before the Battle of Yavin, the crew was joined by a Force-sensitive boy from Lothal named Ezra Bridger, who Jarrus decided to take on as a Padawan.

Early life
Caleb Dume, a Human male, was born fourteen standard years prior to the fall of the Jedi Order. As a boy, one eager to someday fight for the Galactic Republic in the Clone Wars, Dume became a Padawan in the Jedi Order, where he was trained by Jedi Master Depa Billaba. While a student, Dume and fellow Padawans were told about a signal within the Jedi Temple that could call all Jedi to Coruscant in times of great need. Dume asked Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, who presided over the lesson, if the signal could be used to warn Jedi away from Coruscant, much to the shock of his fellow students. Kenobi told him that it could.

At the end of the Clone Wars, Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine&mdash;secretly Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith&mdash;issued Order 66, a command given to all clone troopers in the Grand Army of the Republic to kill the Jedi as traitors. When the clones turned against Dume and his master, Billaba and Dume fought to protect one another against the onslaught. Billaba was killed by the clones and Dume fled, surviving the attempted execution. He soon heard a signal sent by Obi-Wan Kenobi warning all surviving Jedi to avoid detection and stay away from Coruscant&mdash;the very signal that Dume had inquired about in the Jedi Temple. Taking the warning to heart, Dume feared that the Galactic Empire, which now-Emperor Palpatine had declared after the execution of Order 66, would be able to identify him. He chose to lay low and give up using the Force and his lightsaber, and took on a new name: Kanan Jarrus.

Appearances

 * A New Dawn
 * Chopper Saves the Day
 * Zeb to the Rescue
 * Ezra and the Pilot
 * Rise of the Rebels
 * Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
 * Star Wars Rebels
 * A New Hero
 * The Inquisitor's Trap
 * A New Hero
 * The Inquisitor's Trap