Satine Kryze/Legends

Satine Kryze was the pacifist Duchess of Mandalore, head of the New Mandalorians and leader of the Council of Neutral Systems during the Clone Wars. During his training, Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi had to protect Satine from insurgents and the civil war they caused. Satine and Obi-Wan became attached but he was reassigned. The Duchess rebuilt her government and was opposed by the splinter organization Death Watch.

Obi-Wan was sent to Kalevala by the Jedi High Council to investigate rumors of the Duchess creating an army for the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Duchess Kryze informed him of the band of "hooligans" known as the Death Watch. A bombing occurred and the two went to the moon of Concordia where the Death Watch was located. They discovered that the Death watch was in league with Count Dooku and were attacked by Governor Pre Vizsla. Obi-Wan gained the upper hand in the fight but was attacked with missiles. Satine and Kenobi escaped and left for Coruscant.

Onboard the starship Coronet, Satine and Jedi's Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker were attacked by three Assassin probes. All three were destroyed at the cost of a few Clone troopers lives. Obi-Wan hatched a plan and found that Senator Tal Merrik had programmed the droids to kill the Duchess. He took Satine hostage and called the Death Watch Command for reinforcements. B2 super battle droids boarded the ship but were destroyed by Skywalker and his troops. Obi-Wan soon found Merrik but he threatened he would blow up the ship. Satine ten expressed her true feelings toward Obi-Wan that he also shared. She then freed herself from Merrik's grasp and stole his blaster. Merrik began to say that if one of them killed him they would break their beliefs. Skywalker then stabbed Merrik from behind.

Early life


During Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobis training, he and his Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, were sent on an extended mission to Kalevala. They spent a year on Kalevala protecting the young Duchess, Satine Kryze, from Hostile insurgents threatening her world. During that time Satine and Obi-Wan grew close to each other. After a devastating civil war, Satine was left to rebuild her world and, despite his feelings toward her, Obi-Wan continued with his training and was reassigned. He would later admit to her that, had she asked him to stay with her, he would have left the Jedi to be with her.

Satine became a staunch pacifist and led the New Mandalorians, a reformist political faction on the planet Kalevala. Eventually, Satine rebuilt her world, but her pacifist government was opposed by a group of militarists she thought to be 'hooligans', known as Death Watch. Duchess Satine and several other Mandalorian officials worked to root out the Death Watch, and eventually ascertained that they were based on Mandalore's moon of Concordia.

Search for the Death Watch
With the outbreak of the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Satine formed and led a political organization known as the Council of Neutral Systems that spoke for one and a half thousand systems that sought to stay out of the devastating conflict. However, the pacifist stance adopted by the Duchess caused an increase in terrorist activity performed by the Death Watch, who felt she disrespected the ancestral warrior ways of the Mandalorians, whilst rumors reached the Galactic Senate that she was raising an army to help fight on the behalf of the Separatists.

To investigate these rumors of sedition, Obi-Wan Kenobi, now a Jedi Master, was sent to Mandalore by the Jedi High Council. She greeted Obi-Wan, and promptly invited him on a walk through the capital city of Sundari. They then expressed their happiness at seeing each other again. While they debated about what a peacekeeper was, a member of the Death Watch blew up a memorial shrine. After that, Obi-Wan decided it wasn't safe there. However, when the member of Death Watch attempted to flee, Obi-Wan pursued. Satine reached the two in time to see the member of Death Watch throw himself over a railing. She spoke to the man, and when Obi-Wan reminded her he was innocent, she remarked that was why she was still talking to him.

They then traveled to Concordia and when Obi-Wan decided to open an investigation in the mines, that were supposedly abandoned but, she opposed his move. Satine and Obi-Wan were greeted in the hanger of a Concordian governmental complex by Governor Pre Vizsla and a few of his guards. Vizsla left his guards to take care of the bomber, while he and Satine wrote the family a letter of condolence on his datapad. Obi-Wan then handed the Duchess a small ear comlink and departed on a small speeder bike. While the Jedi began his investigation, Vizsla questioned where he had gone but Satine replied that he was "meditating". After receiving refreshments, Duchess Kryze began to discuss with Governor Vizsla that someone was misinforming the Republic that the Death Watch was "taking over Mandalore". She also discussed that an external force had to be assisting the renegade group. Vizsla began to speculate that such a force had to be "among the highest influence" in the Separatist Alliance. He then joked that a powerful being working towards the down-fall of Kryze was a compliment.

Making a Discovery
"We'll have to stand and fight. Or in your case, just stand."

- Obi-Wan to Satine

While Satine was occupied, Obi-Wan reached the mines he was searching for. He entered one to discover that it was being used to create Mandalorian armor and jetpacks for the Death Watch. Two warriors noticed and apprehended him. He was then put onto a conveyor belt that led to a rock crushing machine. He called Satine on a comlink when he was about to be crushed by the machine in the mines. She hurried to him, and shut down the machine just before he was crushed. The two Death Watch members returned and began to attack the Duchess. Obi-Wan quickly disabled them with the Force. The two of them then took a service elevator to the surface of the moon. They continue to struggle with more Death Watch members until the leader confronted Satine and Kenobi. She then found out her governor was a leader of the Death Watch. Satine then helped Obi-Wan defeat a few terrorists. The Duchess then watched as Vizsla and Obi-Wan fought in a lightsaber duel. As Obi-Wan gained the upper hand, Vizsla ordered his men to fire the missiles from their jetpacks. The Jedi and Duchess jumped down an elevator shaft and safely got away. The next day, Obi-Wan is still convinced the Separatists are backing the Death Watch but Satine disagrees. Satine snapped at him for suggesting that peace may not be an option. Satine, along with her Jedi escort, then left for the Capital of the Republic to make her position known that she does not want the Republic affiliated with Mandalore's affairs.

Aboard the Coronet
"Senators, I presume you are acquainted with the collection of half-truths and hyperbole known as Obi-Wan Kenobi?"

- Duchess Satine on Obi-Wan Kenobi

After the discovery of the Death Watch, Satine Kryze, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and numerous clones left Mandalore onboard the Coronet for the planet of Coruscant. Shortly after entering Hyperspace, the Duchess called up Anakin and Obi-Wan to her throne room. Once they arrived, Satine began to verbally sparr with Obi-Wan about how she finds the notation of fighting for peace distasteful. As the discussion became more and more heated, Satine dropped it as dinner was prepared.

During dinner an Assassin probe droid burst into the room and began to attack the guards. Obi-Wan quickly disabled the droid but it relased smaller assassin droids. Satine then pulled out a small droid deactivator and began to blast at the tiny droids. They destroyed all but one of the droids which Kenobi hatched a plan to expose who activated the assasin probes. He put the small droid under a lid and began to walk around the table. The droid began to jump at the Duchess and the Senators in the room but stood still for it's master Senator Tal Merrik. Merrik then drew a blaster and held up Satine as a hostage.

Merrik preceded up to the bridge of the Coronet and killed all of the crew at their stations. Kenobi then radioed Anakin who was preoccupied with a third droid. The Coronet then dropped out of hyperspace and Merrik called three Droch-class boarding ships loaded with B2 super battle droids. Anakin and the clones attacked and destroyed the droids. Meanwhile, the Jedi Master confronted Merrik on the bridge who had wired the engines to explode. Satine began to beg Obi-Wan not to risk anymore lives on her behalf. Merrik began to back down the corridors of the ship with Kenobi waiting for an opening. Duchess Kryze then professed her love for Obi-Wan, which he expressed too.

Merrik let his guard down at the statements of love which Satine used to her advantage and slammed her heel into his foot. While Merrik was in pain, she grabbed his blaster and pointed it at him with her trembling finger on the trigger. Merrik then began to say that in Satine killed him, she would be a hypocrite and undermine her pacifist ideals. Obi-Wan began to move in but Merrik proved him to be a cold-blooded killer in the eyes of the woman he loves. Merrik then was killed by a stab from the back by Skywalker who stated that he killed a bomber set to destroy the ship. The Coronet then landed on Coruscant and the senators, along with the Duchess, met with Chancellor Palpatine.

Personality and Traits
"War is intolerable. We have been deceived into thinking that we must be a part of it. I say the moment we committed to fighting, we already lost."

- Duchess Satine Kryze

Duchess Satine Kryze was a staunch pacifist who would not commit to war as she found fighting for peace to be distasteful and contadicting. She was devoted to peace and was apposed to the Death Watch, the War, and even some of the Jedi's beliefs. Though she was a pacifist, she was not afraid to defend herself, carring a small deactivator on her body.

Behind the scenes
Duchess Satine Kryze was based on an illistration of Queen Padmé Amidala by Iain McCaig and her guards were a Sith concept also by McCaig. Satine Kryze was portrayed by Anna Graves.