Shaak Ti/Legends

Shaak Ti (59 BBY – 19 BBY, ) was a Togruta Jedi Master hailing from the planet Shili. Shaak Ti replaced Yaddle as a member of the Jedi Council in the years leading up to and during the Clone Wars, in which she served as a General. It is thought that she was a Makashi practitioner.

Biography
Shaak Ti was an exotic alien female with decorated lekku, a Togruta. The hollow spaces in her montrals allowed her to ultrasonically perceive her surroundings, especially in bustling crowds. Unlike most members of her communal species, she was solitary by nature.

Her Jedi sense of detachment allowed her to hide her pain of the deaths of her two padawans, who were murdered by vicious killers just after passing the trials. One of those students was Fe Sun. She met her untimely end at the hands of the Zeltron criminal Lyshaa.

Master Ti was a very cunning warrior. She was among the Jedi sent to rescue Obi-Wan Kenobi on Geonosis which led to the Battle of Geonosis and the start of the Clone Wars. Unlike many Jedi who fell that day, Shaak Ti managed to survive.



Shaak Ti became, like many other Jedi, a General in the Grand Army of the Republic, leading clone troopers on the battlefield. She fought at the Battle of Kamino, working with Lama Su to protect the adolescent and fetal clones of Jango Fett and was among the first to fight alongside the ARC Troopers.

Master Ti was one of the Jedi to confront General Grievous on the planet Hypori, alongside Ki-Adi-Mundi, Aayla Secura, K'Kruhk, Daakman Barrek, Tarr Seirr and Sha'a Gi. Though critically wounded, she managed to survive the deadly attack of the General.



Five months into the war, Shaak Ti and Master Shon Kon Ray led a strike force on Brentaal IV. Shaak commanded the ground forces and helped to free the prisoners of Shogar Tok, one of whom was Lyshaa, her former Padawan's slaughterer. Shaak attempted to work together with Lyshaa to take out Tok, but this only led to Lyshaa's siding with the Separatist leader and her ultimate suicide. Ending the battle, Brentaal IV was freed of the Confederacy.

Later on in the Clone Wars, Shaak Ti participated in countless other battles. After a successful mission on Ando, she was given recognition by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. She also became one of the eighty-two Jedi with bounties put on their heads by Asajj Ventress.



In the final days of the war, the Jedi were recieving more and more information regarding the supposed "second Sith", Darth Sidious. They traced information to the abandoned industrial sector of Coruscant known as The Works. Along with Master Windu and a group of highly trained clones they arrived at the reported lair of the Sith lord. Though they found no trace of Sidious' presence, they discovered a network of tunnels leading straight to 500 Republica, confirming Dooku's claims of ties between the Sith and the Galactic Senate.

However, before being able to investigate further, the unthinkable happened. Out of nowhere, Seperatist forces led by both Count Dooku and General Grievous attacked Coruscant.

Along with Stass Allie, Ti helped evacuate the Senate Rotunda before heading with Jedi Masters Foul Moudama and Roron Corobb to get Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to safety. Upon arriving in his office, Grievous broke in. Barely managing to save the Chancellor, the three Jedi led Grievous and his MagnaGuards on a chase through Galactic City.

Arriving at the underground pod that would lead to Palpatine's hidden bunker, Shaak Ti remained behind to fight off more MagnaGuards. However, she realized that Grievous already made his way to the bunker. When she arrived there Shaak Ti her two Jedi comrades were killed in combat.

As General Grievous made off with Palpatine, Shaak Ti was bound with a "force-field rope" and was left behind to send a message to any would-be rescuers. Mace Windu fortunately found her in time to save her from near death.

Portrayal
Shaak Ti was played by Orli Shoshan in Attack of the Clones and voiced by Grey DeLisle in the Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoon.

Death
Shaak Ti had two different death scenes at various stages of Revenge of the Sith's development, but they were both deleted.

This scene is not canon, as Shaak Ti is later seen alive (though in hologram form) during a Jedi Council meeting, and is presumed to be at all meetings in the film, albeit off-screen.
 * The first version was leaked to many Star Wars fan sites and described in the Hyperspace article "Into The Fuel Chamber" and the book The Making of Star Wars Revenge of the Sith. In various forms of this scene, General Grievous stabs her in the heart on the Invisible Hand with Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi looking on. This was Lucasfilm's original idea, and appeared in storyboards and early drafts of the screenplay. This scene is in the Episode 3 DVD.

When it was planned for her to die onboard the Invisible Hand, her seat on the Council was going to be given to Tsui Choi, an expanded universe Jedi.
 * Another version, which was scripted, moved Shaak Ti's death to the Jedi Temple. Here, Darth Vader walks in her room, finds her meditating, and stabs her in the back. This scene was deleted, possibly because it seemed illogical that she would be meditating and not feeling the resonation of the carnage in the Temple through the Force. Variations of this scene were described in the Hyperspace article "The Cruel Fate of Shaak Ti". It was also the way Shaak Ti appears to have died in the novelisation of the film. The scene of the death itself is not described, but Vader asks the Gate Guard Jurokk where Shaak Ti is. According to her article at the Databank, she is officially "believed to be killed" during the temple assault, but her fate has not yet been canonically established.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Clone Wars Volume 1: The Defense of Kamino
 * Clone Wars Volume 2: Victories and Sacrifices
 * Star Wars: Clone Wars
 * Jedi: Shaak Ti
 * Reversal of Fortune
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith