Djinn Altis

"Every student is obliged to make one-thousand-eighty major mistakes. The sooner you make them, the sooner you will not have to make them anymore. Thinking there's a list of mistakes is mistake number four."

- Djinn Altis

Djinn Altis was a male Human Jedi Master who served the Jedi Order during the waning years of the Galactic Republic. During the Clone Wars, Djinn headed the Altisian Jedi sect, a split faction of Jedi who did not follow the Jedi High Council but continued to serve the Republic.

Biography
Altis was a maverick, allowing Jedi Padawans to become romantically attached, and he taught techniques&mdash;such as the ability to preserve one's consciousness after death by transferring it to an inanimate object&mdash;which were lost to, or condemned by, the mainstream Jedi Order. He operated his Jedi academy on a praxeum ship named Chu'unthor after the original and better-known praxeum ship which crashed on Dathomir. He kept Chu'unthor hidden near the gas giant of Bespin.

Altis had arrived on Bespin as of 118 BBY and stayed there at least as of 18 BBY. There, in contrast with the normal Jedi process of separating trainees from their parents and training them at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, he recruited and trained multiple Padawans as adults, most of them from worlds outside the Galactic Republic, including Chadra. Although cast out from the main body of the Jedi Order, Altis led his trainees in the Clone Wars, an act which the Jedi Council appreciated.

Djinn was married to Margani Altis. Notable Jedi trained by Altis included Geith Eris and Callista Ming, who was with him for five years.

Behind the scenes
The reference to Altis's death on Dathomir is based on a somewhat confusing passage in Darksaber where Luke refers to the original Chu'unthor as though it was Altis's ship. His "maverick" behavior is largely a retroactive continuity fix to explain why Callista's Jedi training differed from the norms established in the prequel trilogy.

Appearances

 * The Clone Wars: No Prisoners
 * Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel
 * Imperial Commando: 501st
 * Children of the Jedi
 * Darksaber
 * Planet of Twilight