Joruus C'baoth

Joruus C'baoth (16 BBY–9 ABY) was the sole known surviving clone of the Old Republic Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth.

About
It is believed that a tissue sample was procured from Jorus C'baoth during his tenure as Senator Palpatine's personal Jedi advisor (it has been conjectured that the Outbound Flight Project was a personal project of Palpatine intended to easily eliminate some Jedi Masters and discourage exploration since it was first proposed after C'baoth's period as advisor; but this can be neither proven nor disproved) prior to Anakin Skywalker's appointment to that position. Sometime after Palpatine procured his Spaarti cylinders early in the Clone Wars, several clones were grown from that tissue sample. Cloning techniques, and especially techniques early in the war or techniques intended to rapidly grow clones, tended to produce clones that were spectacularly mentally unstable&mdash;the Joruus C'baoth clones would prove to be no exception (it should be noted that the clone troopers produced during the Clone Wars did not manifest these problems as they were grown slowly, over a number of years, and were cloned with different technology). Only one clone would have a command of the Force comparable to the original, and be mentally stable enough that Palpatine would twist it into a Dark Jedi and entrust to him the responsibility of guarding the Mt. Tantiss storehouse on the planet Wayland.

This at least, is the most probable story; the sequence of events that Coruscant's archives and Thrawn's researches lead one to believe; there seems little reason to believe the later, mad Joruus C'baoth's assertions that he killed the Dark Jedi guardian of Wayland himself and took over, as this account offers no explanation of who cloned him or why. However, the inhabitants of Wayland remember a duel between C'baoth and another Force-user.

In any case, several years after the Battle of Endor, when Grand Admiral Thrawn finally tracked down the location of the Emperor's private storehouse (the Mt. Tantiss facility), intending to use the cloaking shield and the Spaarti cylinders there to prosecute his war against the New Republic, he discovered that Joruus C'baoth had gone completely insane; only the Grand Admiral's ysalamiri precautions saved him from the death that had found all previous off-worlders since the death of the Emperor. Thrawn managed to enlist the mad dark Jedi Master into his cause by promising him Luke Skywalker and his sister, as well as his sister's twins to be his to mold to whatever his whims desired.

Drawing deeply on the Dark Side, and honing his skills at Battle Meditation, C'baoth greatly increased the efficacy of Thrawn's forces, and he could use his mastery of the Force to penetrate cloaking shields, rendering them of practical use, or for devastating precision timed attacks. That same mastery of the Force alerted him when Luke and Mara Jade plotted the destruction of Mt. Tantiss- he was there and ready for them. Thrawn had ordered him imprisoned in the Royal Chambers of Mt. Tantiss due to his realization that the clone was both too powerful, power-hungry, and unstable to be safely used any longer, but the clone had out thought even Thrawn- en route to Wayland, he corrupted the minds of the reinforcements for the garrison. Those reinforcements planted explosives on the yslaamiri within Mt. Tantiss, the very yslaamiri that were making it possible to grow clones in a score of days rather than months, and incidentally, blocking C'baoth's powers. When they distracted the garrison after their sabotage, C'baoth prophesied that Jade and Skywalker would infiltrate the warehouse and come to the throne room where he awaited them.

Detonating the explosives and restoring his dark power, C'baoth made a second attempt at turning Skywalker, but like his first on the plant Jomark, this one failed. After a brutal prolonged fight, during which Mara Jade killed Luuke Skywalker, a clone that C'baoth had ordered grown from the hand that Luke had lost on Bespin, Joruus C'baoth was slain by a kneeling Mara Jade, and detonated in an explosion of blue Dark Side energy.

Appearances

 * Heir to the Empire
 * Dark Force Rising
 * The Last Command