Jenna Zan Arbor

Jenna Zan Arbor
Biographical information
Homeworld	Moeseum
Born	Before 68 BBY, Moeseum
Died	18 BBY, Coruscant
Descriptive information
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Hair color	Blonde
Eye color	Gray
Chronological and political information
Affiliation(s)	Arbor Industries Blackwater Systems Confederacy of Independent Systems Galactic Empire

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"You are a subject of a scientific experimentation. You will not be hurt, only studied."

―Jenna Zan Arbor to Qui-Gon Jinn.

Jenna Zan Arbor was a Human female, and a deranged scientist from the planet of Moeseum. Throughout her career, she had numerous confrontations with the Jedi Knights Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Anakin Skywalker. During the Clone Wars, she was a leading scientist working for the Confederacy of Independent Systems. When the war had ended, she had been drafted into working for the new Galactic Empire.

Biography

Early career

"When famine struck Rend 5 and I bio-engineered a new food to feed the entire planet, did I get a reward? When the Tendor Virus struck the entire Caldoni system and my vaccine cured millions, what did I receive in return? Not enough. I learned my lesson."
"What did you learn?"
"That I must not depend on the galaxy to recognize my greatness. I must depend on myself to raise the funds I need."

―Zan Arbor explains her past conflicts to Qui-Gon Jinn.

At the beginning of her career, Jenna Zan Arbor was a famed scientist and the head of Arbor Industries. She was known for saving a planet from a pandemic after creating a vaccine for a deadly virus. Zan Arbor was also known to help planets with little technology such as Melasaton overcome their burdens. However, nobody knew that she actually started the problems in the first place, to gain credits and improve her reputation.

Force experiments

"I am monitoring your bodily functions. When you access the Force, your body temperature drops. Your heartbeats slows. So strange. Once I thought the Force would have the opposite effect. But it works mysteriously. That is why it is so interesting to study."

―Zan Arbor studies the captive Qui-Gon.

Zan Arbor became interested in how the Force worked and began conducting experiments. She had connections to the senator of Belasco, Uta S'orn who kept her dark deeds quiet in the Galactic Senate. Unbeknownst to Senator S'orn, her son Ren, who was Force-sensitive (although his mother had taken him away from the Jedi Order when she was unable to cope with losing him) was being studied by Zan Arbor. These experiments lead to Ren's death, something Zan Arbor didn't expect. Feeling somewhat remorseful, she felt she needed a subject stronger in the Force, so she hired a bounty hunter, Ona Nobis, to capture the "retired" Jedi Master Noor R'aya and bring him to her research facility on Simpla-12. Then, weeks later, another Jedi named Qui-Gon Jinn was knocked out by Nobis in the Cascardi Mountains on Duneeden. He was taken to the laboratory, where Zan Arbor tortured him to the point of near death.

However, Qui-Gon was rescued by Obi-Wan Kenobi, along with Astri Oddo, who was disguised as Ona Nobis. Yet Zan Arbor warned the Jedi that she had another in custody—Noor R'aya—and threatened to inject him with poison should Qui-Gon leave the building. She killed her assistant, Nil, as he was a liability. Zan Arbor then made plans to leave the planet, contacting Cholly, Weez and Tup, who were droid dealers to arrange shipment of battle droids. But the trio were helping Obi-Wan, Siri Tachi and Adi Gallia get into her lab.

Belasco

"After all your experiments with the Force, in the end you failed to understand its power."
"I should have killed you when I could."
"That was your mistake."

―Zan Arbor is captured by Qui-Gon Jinn.

With the droids all destroyed, Zan Arbor escaped the planet with Noor. She fled to Belasco, where she engineered a virus from natural waterborne organisms on the planet. She planned to infect the populace through their water supply, designing the bacteria to proliferate if threatened. With S'orn's help, she was able to infiltrate the containment facilities to introduce the bacteria. The Jedi caught up to her, with the data to cure Belasco. As Qui-Gon trapped her under a tapestry, she deeply regretted that she didn't kill him when she had the chance. Both Zan Arbor and Uta S'orn were sent to a penal colony for life. The solution for the bacteria Zan Arbor introduced was found on her datapad and the water was fixed.

Galactic criminal

Jenna Zan Arbor

Around 25 BBY, Zan Arbor somehow escaped the penal colony. She settled on the planet Vanqor and began perfecting a drug known as the Zone of Self-Containment. With this drug, she was able to capture Anakin Skywalker and many other innocent people; however, she was forced to flee Vanqor when Obi-Wan Kenobi, Siri Tachi and Ferus Olin came to rescue Anakin. Fleeing Vanqor, Zan Arbor teamed up with Granta Omega who agreed to fund her next project. She went into hiding on Romin, under the protection of Roy Teda and her Phlog bodyguard Hue. When Teda was overthrown, the Jedi came to capture them, but they escaped yet again.

In 24 BBY, Zan Arbor then constructed the Blackwater Systems facility on Falleen to create machines that would be used to spread the Zone of Self-Containment. The Jedi once again foiled her plot and she was forced to destroy the facility. The Jedi chased her to Coruscant, where she and Granta Omega orchestrated a failed attempt to assassinate Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, and finally to Korriban, where she and Omega were cornered by the Jedi in the 23 BBY. When the Jedi killed Omega, Zan Arbor fled. She went into hiding and went unnoticed by both the Jedi and the Republic. That same year, when Count Dooku publicly declared the formation of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Zan Arbor was hired to be one of their leading scientists.

The Clone Wars

Now a scientist for the Separatists, Zan Arbor created devastating agents of biological warfare. A few months before the Battle of Geonosis, she worked with Arkanian genetic researchers to create the stone mites, insects that could devour entire buildings in mere hours. These stone mites were unleashed on a number of worlds.

Two months into the Clone Wars, Zan Arbor successfully perfected a deadly gas poison that was used to wipe out the entire Gungan colony on the Naboo moon of Ohma-D'un. A form of this same gas was incorporated into the defense mechanism of Viceroy Nute Gunray's mechno-chair.

Early Empire

"Lord Vader. I didn't realize I had the honor of your personal reception. I would have emerged sooner."
"Do not start our acquaintance with a lie."
"All right. I made you wait to establish power. It's something I'm in the habit of doing. From now on, let us agree to be honest throughout our dealings. It is more efficient."
"Precisely."

―Zan Arbor meets Darth Vader.

A year after Order 66 was carried out, Zan Arbor was spotted on Korriban by Ferus Olin and Trever Flume followed by a high-ranking Imperial Officer. She commanded the officer to bring her to the Valley of the Dark Lords.

Later, on Bellassa, Olin discovered evidence possibly linking her to a secret Imperial project. Zan Arbor was working with scientists who had been forcibly taken from their homeworlds to help with this operation, though weapons systems weren't in her repertoire. She had been working to create a memory serum that would completely remove specific unpleasant memories. Scientist Linna Naltree was with her when the Sith Lord Darth Vader came to call for the serum, seeking to eliminate his memory of Padmé Amidala. In return for her services, she would have an apartment in 500 Republica, a personal visit to and starship designed for her by Raith Sienar, and a high level security pass.

After Vader left, Zan Arbor and her assistant ran into fugitives Trever Flume and Ry-Gaul. As the two attacked the scientist, Linna administered the serum via syringe to Zan Arbor, wiping her memory slowly. As she screamed over her fading formulas and fifty years of work, Trevor Flume destroyed her personal datapad, eliminating the threat of Jenna Zan Arbor once and for all. Now an empty shell of her former self, Zan Arbor was left with no identity and a vague sense that she had once been a brilliant genius.

Later, when Vader visited Zan Arbor after she failed to respond to any of his messages, he found out what happened to her and killed her in a flash of anger.

Appearances

• Jedi Apprentice: The Deadly Hunter (First appearance)
• Jedi Apprentice: The Evil Experiment
• Jedi Apprentice: The Dangerous Rescue
• Jedi Quest: The Moment of Truth
• Jedi Quest: The Changing of the Guard
• Jedi Quest: The False Peace
• Jedi Quest: The Final Showdown
• Labyrinth of Evil (Mentioned only)
• "Ghosts of the Sith" — Star Wars Insider 88
• The Last of the Jedi: Secret Weapon (Mentioned only)
• The Last of the Jedi: Against the Empire
• The Last of the Jedi: Master of Deception
• The Last of the Jedi: Reckoning

Sources

• Power of the Jedi Sourcebook
• The New Essential Chronology
• Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena on Hyperspace (article) (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
• Arbor, Jenna Zan in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
• The Essential Reader's Companion

Notes and references

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