Shaak Ti

Shaak Ti was a female Togruta Jedi Master, hailing from the planet Shili, serving the Galactic Republic as a member of the Jedi Order. Joining the Jedi High Council in the years before the Clone Wars, she took up the ranks of General within the Grand Army of the Republic and was tasked with the oversight of clone trooper training on the ocean world Kamino.

As a Jedi Councilor, Master Shaak Ti was involved in many epic conflicts during the Clone Wars, including planning and engaging in the opening salvo on Geonosis. In addition, Master Ti was instrumental in the First and Third Battles of Kamino, where she helped to protect the future generations of clone troopers growing at the facilities, as well as during the Battle of Hypori, where she became one of the few Jedi to survive an encounter with the feared General Grievous. Master Ti was known to have dueled and defeated one of Count Dooku's Dark Acolytes, Artel Darc, before which she served with distinction during the conflict on Brentaal IV.

While on Kamino, Ti was a close mentor and protector of the clone army, additionally serving as the commanding officer of the garrison stationed on-world, which she led in the defense of Kamino from an attack by Confederate General Grievous. Her compassion for the clones clashed with the Kaminoan's cold view of them as products, and for much of her time on Kamino, Ti had a strained working relationship with the Kaminoan government.

Shaak Ti was a female Togruta who stood at 1.87 meters (6 feet, 2 inches)[4] with dark eyes and red and white skin. Like all her fellow Togruta, Ti's white pigmentation, which covered much of her face around her eyes, was unique to her. She wore a jewelled headdress adorning the border between her face and her montrals, which, along with her lekku, were marked by blue stripes.[17] Ti's colorful features, though unique, were a hereditary pattern that evolved in all Togruta to confuse the predators that could be found on their homeworld of Shili.

Widely regarded as wise and patient, Ti was a devoted believer in the ways of the Jedi. As one of the foremost and distinguished Jedi of her time, Ti served on the Jedi High Council from the retirement of Master Yaddle. She often remained silent during Council meetings, showing emotion through calm expressions, though she did sometimes interject into debates to voice her opinion. Amid the tenuous years of the Clone Wars, as some of her peers advocated harsh punishment for transgressive Jedi, Ti argued for more compassionate treatment, such as in the case of Quinlan Vos. Ti's commitment to the Jedi made her willing to act against the orders of others, for instance arranging for the data from the investigation of clone trooper Tup's breakdown to be sent to the Jedi Temple before the Republic Medical Facility, which went against the direct command of the Supreme Chancellor.

During the Clone Wars, Ti was sent to Kamino to oversee the cloning initiative. While stationed on Kamino, Ti struggled with her duties and found herself caught between her compassion for the clones and the need to produce capable soldiers for war. Ti was empathetic to the clones' experiences and became a trusted and respected mentor to the soldiers. She did not see the clones as battlefield assets or products like the Kaminoans, instead seeing them as individuals full of potential. Although she was a devotee of the Jedi Order, Ti's relationships with the clones and protective affection for them strayed close to breaking the Jedi Code. Despite the Code forbidding personal attachments and Ti herself being a member of the Order's highest body, she formed close ties with the soldiers under her command. Even though she cared for them, she could be tough on her students to bring out the best in them. She was a hard judge of capability and expected the best from the clones, though she was not callous like some of those she worked with on Kamino.

Because she valued the clones' lives as individuals and not as objects, Ti faced difficulty in her relationship with the Kaminoans, who regarded them as intellectual property. Ti openly opposed the Kaminoans' preferred methods of treatment, such as hyper tests and systematic termination, as well as the general mistreatment of the soldiers. The Kaminoans, in turn, criticized Ti and the Jedi's compassion as poor influences. Ti had a particularly difficult relationship with Chief Medical Scientist Nala Se, who had little regard for Ti's moral and spiritual values.

As a Force-sensitive, Shaak Ti was skilled at using telekinesis during battle due to her Jedi training. During the Battle of Kamino, Ti demonstrated her telekinetic powers when she used the Force to lift two aqua droids, then slammed them into two other droids hard enough to destroy all four. Ti's Force abilities went beyond just telekinesis, as she was also able to perform remarkably high jumps using the Force. When chasing after Fives as he escaped the Grand Republic Medical Facility, Ti easily leaped over a large crowd to catch up, causing an audible gasp from onlookers at the feat.

As a Togruta, Ti's hollow montrals could sense the movement of objects ultrasonically through a limited type of echolocation. This echolocation, which could reach up to 82 feet, granted Ti a sharpened spatial awareness. Because of the advantage given to her by the heightened perception of her surroundings, Ti was among one of the finest Jedi fighters in group combat. Where others struggled with the complexity of movements, Ti was able to engage in battle with ease and proved a formidable foe when surrounded by multiple enemies. She was also skilled in lightsaber combat and could wield two melee weapons at once, as she did during the Battle of Coruscant. In addition to her martial prowess,[4] Ti was also a capable pilot.

Though an excellent fighter in her own right, Ti showed a great affinity for teaching, often with a specialty in combat instruction.

Shaak Ti wielded a blue-bladed lightsaber. Like many of her fellow Jedi, Ti was the owner of an Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor. Her starfighter was adorned with red markings and made use of an R2-series astromech droid.

Proud of both her Togruta heritage and of her life as a Jedi, Ti's outfit combined clothing traditionally worn by both. Underneath her standard Jedi robe, she wore a traditional Togruta dress, a long flowing skirt with an intricately designed tabard and scarf. At some point during the Clone Wars, she acquired a wrist comm similarly designed to her tabard.

The Clone Wars, also known as the Clone War and the Great Clone War, was the name given to the major galactic conflict fought between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The war was named after the clone troopers utilized by the Republic against the battle droid forces of the Separatists. These armies, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Separatist Droid Army, were two of the largest ever pitted against each other in galactic history, and the fighting between them rapidly spread to countless inhabited worlds.

Clones refers to Jedi as "General".

The Venator-class Star Destroyer, also known as the Venator-class cruiser, was a class of more than 1,000 meter-long attack cruiser of the Star Destroyer design family that was operated by the navies of the Galactic Republic.

The Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry (LAAT/i), also referred to as the Republic Gunship, was one of the several models in the Low Altitude Assault Transport line of starships that mainly served as gunships and troop transports for the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. Its role was to transport clone troopers as well as offering air-to-ground and air-to-air support for the Galactic Republic against the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

Native to the Expansion Region planet Shili but later found throughout the galaxy, the Togruta were a species of sentient humanoids whose skin spanned a vast array of colors, including, but not limited to, orange, red, white, and yellow. Their most notable features were the large organic head formations upon their heads: two large cone-like horns called montrals atop their skull; and three lekku, also known as headtails, that sprouted downward. Both a Togruta's lekku and montrals tended to grow until they reached maturity, with females generally having longer lekku than the males. The male's montrals, however, were more branched than the females.