Barriss Offee

"I've learned that "trust" is overrated. The only thing the Jedi Council believes in is violence!"

- Barriss Offee, expressing her views

Barriss Offee was a female Mirialan who trained as a Jedi Padawan during the Clone Wars. She carried a blue lightsaber and trained under Jedi Master Luminara Unduli.

Offee was a a survivor of the Battle of Geonosis and was extremely loyal to her Jedi Master. Offee preferred studying ancient Jedi texts to fighting and was a bit older than most Jedi Padawans.

During her time as a Jedi Padawan, Offee struck up a friendship with Ahsoka Tano, the Padawan learner of Anakin Skywalker. Though rather different in personality, the two were bonded through shared experience in combat.

As the Clone Wars continued, Offee grew disillusioned with the Jedi's role in the wars, believing they had lost their way from the ideals that the Jedi Order was supposed to represent and wary of the Jedi Council in particular. Deciding to act on her concerns, she orchestrated the bombing of the Jedi Temple as a means to ferment further distrust of the Jedi, as clone troopers were killed during the attack. Despite their previous friendship, she allowed Tano to be framed for orchestrating the bombing, but ultimately confessed after being confronted by Anakin Skywalker, just before Tano was about to be convicted of the crime, and shared her views of the Jedi being corrupted by the dark side before being taken away.

Clone Wars
At the time of the clone wars, Barriss had the rank of padawan learner within the Jedi Order, and served loyally under her dutiful master: Luminara Unduli. Sometime before the Battle of Geonosis, Offee, along with her master, was present during a meeting between several Jedi representatives and the Supreme Chancellor Palpatine.

Battle of Geonosis
Both Barriss and Luminara were involved in the Jedi Strike Team dispatched by Mace Windu to Geonosis in order to rescue Senator Padmé Amidala and Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi from the Geonosian arena. Offee did manage to survive the battle, along with her master.

Mission to Geonosis
While her Master oversaw the captured Nute Gunray on board the Tranquility, Barriss participated in a mission to Geonosis.

Behind the scenes
Offee was portrayed in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones by Nalini Krishan. She was voiced by Meredith Salenger in the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series. Offee was introduced in the novel The Approaching Storm, which was written by Alan Dean Foster, making Offee an example of a character that was introduced within an Expanded Universe source who later became a part of the Star Wars canon. Offee was also featured widely in a number of other Expanded Universe products, in which she eventually advanced to the rank of Jedi Knight and was also a noted healer, but these have been re-branded as Star Wars Legends and details found within them cannot be considered canon. Offee was originally to have been depicted in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith being killed as part of Order 66, but this scene was cut along with the deaths of Luminara Unduli and Shaak Ti. Unused footage from Attack of the Clones was going to be used for this appearance.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones