Agen Kolar/Legends

"Always the diplomat, Agen."

- Quinlan Vos

Agen Kolar was a Jedi Master and a member of the Zabrak species from Iridonia. He spoke in a "gentle Zabrak baritone." Kolar was loyal to the Jedi Order, and often favored aggressive negotiations over more traditional diplomacy. He became known as someone prone to "strike first, and ask questions later." Mace Windu considered him one of the Order's finest members. This, along with his skill as a master swordsman, is what made Windu elect him for their final mission.

Biography
Agen was a Jedi Knight at the time of the Battle of Geonosis. He and his Padawan, Tan Yuster, traveled as part of the task force sent to rescue Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Padmé Amidala, and though he survived the conflict, Tan fell in battle.

Agen Kolar became a member of the Jedi High Council and replaced fellow Zabrak Eeth Koth on the council. To honor this assignment, he built a new lightsaber, now with a blue blade, as opposed to the one he used during the Battle of Geonosis. After the eruption of the war, he became a High General in the Army of the Republic, he eventually led a legion of clone troopers on Brentaal IV. He attempted to apprehend the rogue Jedi Quinlan Vos on Nar Shaddaa, but the fallen Knight gave Kolar the slip.

Later, Agen, alongside Mace Windu, Kit Fisto, and Saesee Tiin, infiltrated the Crimson Nova bounty hunter's guild aboard the Rig, and brought an end to the recent slew of Jedi bounties. He was disguised as a bounty hunter in order to wreak havoc to the organization from the inside.

During the Second Battle of Coruscant, he piloted a Jedi interceptor against the Separatist fleet in an attempt to recover the shuttle that had abducted Chancellor Palpatine.

In the final days of the Clone Wars, Agen Kolar again accompanied Masters Windu, Fisto, and Tiin on a most important mission. It had been revealed that Chancellor Palpatine was actually the Sith Lord Darth Sidious that had orchestrated the war they had been fighting in the last three years. Immediately after learning the shocking truth, the Jedi raced to his office to confront the Sith.

Sidious proved more than a match for the Jedi though, and within a second, transformed from a seemingly unassuming politician into a terrifyingly efficient killer. Agen tried to strike, but the Dark Lord's intimidation factor was great, as he had weakened the Jedi with fear before he struck, and the stunned Zabrak was killed with a single stab in the stomach by the lightsaber the Dark Lord revealed.

Agen Kolar had become the first victim of the Great Jedi Purge.

Behind the scenes

 * Agen Kolar was originally intended to be Eeth Koth, first seen in The Phantom Menace, but when the original actor, Hassani Shapi, was unavailable for filming, Tux Akindoyeni was brought in to play the part. However, Tux's facial characteristics, skin tone, makeup and hairstyle were all noticeably different from Hassani Shapi's version of the character (in particular, Hassani's Koth had noticeable lined facial tattoos which Tux's lacked), and so Tux's Eeth Koth was thus deemed an entirely new character: Agen Kolar.




 * Kolar apparently changed lightsabers, or possibly just lightsaber crystals, between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, as he wields a green blade in the former but a blue one in the latter. It would appear that this was a comparatively last-minute change, as the novelization of the film describes his lightsaber as still producing a green blade. Since Saesee Tiin and Kit Fisto (the other two Jedi who accompanied Kolar and Windu to arrest Palpatine) both had green lightsabers as well, it is possible that George Lucas may have decided that having only green blades flanking Windu's purple one looked unintentionally uniform. Additionally, Kolar briefly used a scarlet-colored blade, possibly in the interim between his green and blue lightsabers, as he is shown (albeit with the misattributed likeness of Eeth Koth) wielding one during his appearance in Clone Wars Chapter 22.


 * In the novel of Episode III, Agen was not the first to die. He and Master Saesee Tiin walked to the desk of the Chancellor to arrest him. Masters Windu and Fisto waited at the door. Palpatine caught Master Tiin off guard and beheaded him. Agen barely had time to absorb the scene before Palpatine pierced his lightsaber through his head. Agen Kolar dropped his lightsaber and fell dead to the floor.


 * Although Eeth Koth canonically died at the Battle of Geonosis, a Zabrak Jedi High Council member that appears in two scenes of Star Wars: Clone Wars vol. 2 who is officially credited as Agen Kolar was animated instead with the unmistakable likeness of Eeth Koth. It is unknown if the character was originally intended to be Eeth Koth (in ignorance of his canonical death) and then retroactively credited as Agen Kolar to avoid a continuity problem, or if the Zabrak was always intended to be Kolar and the animators accidentally used the wrong reference photographs. Although the character is canonically identified as Agen Kolar, the discrepancy of his appearance has confused some fans into believing that the character actually was Koth, coupled with the fact that Eeth Koth's death has as yet not been depicted or even directly referenced in any in-universe sources. Although some fans cite this would-be appearance as proof of Koth's survival of Geonosis, his death there remains canonical.


 * In the illustrated screenplay of Episode III, Agen Kolar was identified as Eeth Koth when Anakin Skywalker attended his first High Council meeting. All subsequent appearances were correctly identified as Agen Kolar. The Making of Star Wars Revenge of the Sith also mistakenly identified Kolar in several photo captions.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Jedi: Shaak Ti
 * Star Wars Republic 54: Double Blind
 * Star Wars Republic 61: Dead Ends
 * Star Wars Republic: Show of Force
 * Star Wars: Clone Wars
 * "Chapter 21"
 * "Chapter 22"
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 3