Rahm Kota

"My records recall Kota as a blind drunk. But according to Imperial records, he was a respected general in the Clone Wars."

- PROXY

Rahm Kota was an elder Human male Jedi and general during the Clone Wars. His lack of faith in the clone troopers allowed the general to escape Order 66.

Early life
Prior to joining the Jedi Order, Kota fought in the trench warfare that plagued his homeworld. While negotiating a peaceful resolution to a brutal conflict, Mace Windu befriended the then-eighteen-year-old Kota. Once the mission was completed, Mace sought to bring Kota to Coruscant to begin training in the Jedi arts with Jedi Master Yoda as tutor. He gained few friends due to his outward hostility, but his courage was known to all. Kota always opted for the most hazardous missions. He became a tough, grizzled general and participant in many combat sorties during the Clone Wars.

The dark times
"Months of attacking Imperial targets, and Vader sends a boy to fight me?"

- Rahm Kota

After escaping Order 66, Kota disappeared into the Outer Rim territories. During the Great Jedi Purge, he and his followers took over a TIE fighter construction yard over Nar Shaddaa, and were hunted down by Galen Marek, an apprentice of Darth Vader who operated under the codename of Starkiller.



"Vader thinks he's turned you. But I can sense your future. And Vader won't always be your master."

- Rahm Kota tells Marek of his possible future

Kota believed that Galen had a far greater calling than just as Darth Vader's servant. During Kota's duel with the aspiring Sith, Kota used the Force to split the Construction Facility in half, and flipped it over making what was the ceiling the floor. At the climax of their duel, before the apprentice could finish off the Jedi, Kota said in a rather cryptic manner that he could see the young man's future, and in it all he could see was himself, and that he would not always be Vader's servant.

Starkiller badly injured Kota, and finished the duel by using the Force to push him through a glass floor, sending him to free fall to Nar Shaddaa.

However, Kota survived, and at some time later, Galen helped Kota rekindle his connection to the Force, which he had lost earlier in his life.

Behind the scenes
Kota is voiced by Cully Fredrickson, whose likeness was also used for the character.

Leaked Hasbro toy catalogs were the first sources to hint at Kota's character as a "Samurai Jedi."

Kota's character was originally going to be the disembodied spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn.

Appearances

 * The Force Unleashed novel

Notes and references
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