Koffi Arana

"Perhaps to destroy the Sith, one needs to go to the dark side! Has not the dark side proven stronger, after all? To save the Galaxy from the Sith, do we dare not use any weapon?"

- Koffi Arana

Koffi Arana was a male Human Jedi Master and a Senior General during the Clone Wars. At some point, he visited Tatooine.

Biography
Duering the final days of the Clone Wars, Arana, one of the Jedi between assignments, attended the briefing on the Outer Rim Sieges at the Jedi Temple where Obi-Wan Kenobi learned that Quinlan Vos had gone to Boz Pity. As he was leaving the Briefing Room, he was ignorant of that the young Jedi rushing past him, Anakin Skywalker, would be the death of him, as well as of Shadday Potkin, a Jedi leaving the room with him. Koffi was sent, along with six other Jedi (four Humans and two Nikto) as reinforcements to Boz Pity.

Arana was one of the few Jedi to survive Order 66. Sadly, his companion Jedi were less fortunate, slain on Boz Pity. Koffi's escape was known to the Galactic Empire, and published in HoloNet News. Unbeknownst to the Empire, Koffi returned to Coruscant shortly after Order 66 and joined the crowds at the base of the Jedi Temple, where he watched the Temple burn. Shadday and a few other Jedi were also standing in the crowd, sharing the sad moment.



He was one of eight Jedi summoned by Master Shadday Potkin to a secret meeting on Kessel to discuss the future of the Jedi Order. Arana advocated taking the fight to the Sith even if it meant using falling to the dark side, a chance he got all too soon when the meeting was ambushed by Darth Vader. After losing his lightsaber, Koffi Arana slew fellow Jedi Bultar Swan for hers. He flung himself at Vader in fury, and was killed mid-leap by the Dark Lord.

When the Galactic Empire emerged, official records compiled by Sate Pestage stated that Arana was killed by his fellow Jedi in a power struggle.

Behind the scenes
Joe Corroney's depiction of Arana in Star Wars Insider 84 was originally identified as Qu Rahn, a similar-looking Jedi from the same time period. The name of the character was later changed to Koffi Arana, a reference to portraying actor Gervais Koffi, who is seen very briefly in Revenge of the Sith exiting a briefing room in the Jedi Temple. The name could also be seen as a reference to the former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Republic HoloNet News Special Inaugural Edition 16:5:241
 * Star Wars Republic: Into the Unknown
 * Star Wars: Purge