Obi-Wan Kenobi
Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi (57 – 0 BBY) is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. He was a Jedi Master of legendary status, who played a very large role in the fate of the galaxy.
Born in 57 BBY, Kenobi became the apprentice of Qui-Gon Jinn at the age of thirteen. Initially a rebellious, headstrong Jedi Apprentice, he grew into a powerful, wise Jedi Master, who went on to lead both Anakin and Luke Skywalker in the ways of the Force.
Kenobi is one of the most prominent characters in the Star Wars saga, along with Anakin Skywalker, R2-D2, and C-3PO; as they are the only major characters to have appearances (in some form or another) in each of the six Star Wars films. He was portrayed in Episodes I-III by Ewan McGregor, and in Episodes IV-VI by Sir Alec Guiness.
Early life
Kenobi was trained as a youngling in the Jedi Temple under Yoda. Without a Jedi teacher at the age of thirteen, however, Kenobi would have been appointed to work in agricultural labor, where he would never have reached his full potential. Eventually he was accepted by Master Qui-Gon Jinn as a padawan learner. These accounts and more may be found in Jude Watson's Jedi Apprentice series.
Little is known of his birth family. According to the series Jedi Apprentice and the novelization of Return of the Jedi, Obi-Wan does remember a brother named Owen (Attack of the Clones established the fact he is not related to Owen Lars, although in the Jedi novelization he is.) It is indicated in the novelization of Revenge of the Sith that he speaks with a Coruscanti accent, although, as he was trained at the Jedi Temple on that planet, that may not be a clue as to his homeworld.
During his early years, Obi-Wan fell in love with fellow Jedi Siri Tachi. Obi-Wan and Siri mutually decided to suppress their love so they could continue the Jedi path, a decision explored in the Jude Watson book Secrets of the Jedi. Throughout their lives they remained close, and Obi-Wan openly admitted that no one knew him better than Siri.
Personality
In his youth (circa The Phantom Menace), the loyal and dedicated Obi-Wan Kenobi possessed a dry sense of humor and sarcastic wit. Yoda said that he sensed Jinn's defiance in him; nonetheless, he spoke very highly of him. Jinn himself praised Kenobi's considerable knowledge and potential. As a Jedi Knight, he was cynical, though wise beyond his years. His humble and soft-spoken demeanor belied his warrior prowess. A skilled pilot, Kenobi carefully measured his actions in any situation, giving him the nickname "The Negotiator" during the Clone Wars.
In the original trilogy, he appeared as a kindly and eccentric old hermit of the Jundland Wastes, and wizard to those not familiar with the ways of the Jedi. It is interesting to note that Kenobi lost some of his youthful audacity that was seen in Episode I and assumed the role of a stricter, more cautious mentor in Episode II. Some may even argue that Kenobi saw to an extent what was happening to Anakin and thought he could stop it with discipline.
OBI-WAN : I'm...I'm sorry for my behavior, Master. It is not my place to disagree with you about the boy. I am grateful you think I am ready for the trials.
QUI-GON : You have been a good apprentice. You are much wiser than I am, Obi-Wan... I foresee you will become a great Jedi Knight.''
Appearances
The Phantom Menace
At the beginning of The Phantom Menace, Kenobi accompanied Jinn to Naboo, a planet ruled by Queen Padmé Amidala. After making an unscheduled landing on Tatooine, his master stumbled upon Anakin Skywalker, a young slave who showed tremendous potential with the Force. Believing the boy to be the prophecized "Chosen One" who would bring balance to the Force by destroying the Sith, Master Jinn wanted the boy to be trained as a Jedi. Kenobi was also amazed in Anakin's unprecedented midiclorian count and strong force potential, but initially disagreed on the need to train him, believing the boy was already too old and had acquired too many emotional attachments to become a Jedi. The Jedi Council agreed with Kenobi, and forbade Qui-Gon from taking Anakin as an apprentice.
During the Battle of Naboo, Queen Amidala, and her entourage of guards split up with her Jedi body guards, Kenobi and Jinn, when the Sith Lord Darth Maul arrived to eliminate the Queen. Wielding a double-bladed lightsaber, Maul simultaneously battled them both. Kenobi, separated from the battle via holo-shields, watched in horror as his master was impaled by Maul's double-bladed saber. Enraged, Kenobi attacked the Sith Lord, fiercely and rapidly engaging Maul in a lightsaber duel, even cutting Maul's lightsaber in half. But Obi-Wan's anger made him focus entirely on attacking and paid no attention to self-defense. Maul caught this weakness and force-pushed Obi-Wan into a reactor chasm. He was saved only by an extending pole that he barely grabbed hold of. Unfortunately for Kenobi, Maul also kicked his lightsaber into the far depths below. Maul moved forward and created sparks by scraping his lightsaber continuously on the edge of the chasm, trying to make Obi-Wan lose his grip. However, Obi-Wan noticed Jinn's lightsaber still next to his master's body. Utilizing his skills with the force, Kenobi hurled himself into the air and simultaneously brought his master's saber into his hand, startling Maul and giving him just enough time to slice the Sith Lord in half. Maul's body fell lifelessly into the chasm. The dying Jinn told Kenobi to train Anakin Skywalker to be a Jedi. Before his Master died, Kenobi agreed to this request and took the boy back to Coruscant.
For his heroics in defeating a Sith Lord, Master Yoda personally bestowed the rank of Jedi Knight upon Kenobi, who then said that he would take it upon himself to train Anakin whether the council allowed him to or not. Yoda reluctantly agreed, but warned Kenobi be very careful with the troubled boy.
Attack of the Clones
Ten years later, in Attack of the Clones, Kenobi had became an experienced Jedi Knight. He and Anakin were tasked with protecting Padmé, now a Senator, after an attempt was made on her life. Kenobi tracked a mysterious assassin to Kamino, and learned about a massive clone army that the Kaminoans were building for the Galactic Republic.
The situation was further complicated by Kenobi's tumultuous relationship with his young Padawan: by now a headstrong and arrogant young man, Anakin was beginning to chafe under his leadership and, more dangerously, to ignore his teachings in favor of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's flattery and subtle denunciations of the old Jedi ways. Anakin and Padmé had also fallen in love, an emotional attachment forbidden to Jedi Knights by the Jedi Code.
Kenobi attempted to apprehend bounty hunter Jango Fett, but Fett escaped to Geonosis with his son/clone Boba. Kenobi followed them.
On Geonosis, Kenobi learned of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, also known as the Separatists, a conspiracy of star systems that wanted to secede from the Republic, led by rogue Jedi Count Dooku, who was once Qui-Gon Jinn's master. Kenobi was captured shortly after sending a message to Anakin, who arrived with Padmé on Geonosis to rescue him afterwards. They too were captured, however, and all three were sentenced to death by the Geonosians. The executions were prevented by the timely arrival of Jedi and clone reinforcements, led by Jedi Masters Mace Windu and Yoda. Kenobi and Anakin confronted Count Dooku and fought him. Dooku defeated both of them and cut off Anakin's right arm (which was later replaced by a robotic prosthetic). Yoda arrived and fought Dooku as well, but the Sith Lord managed to escape.
Revenge of the Sith
By this time, Kenobi was a storied general, a galaxy-renowned hero of the Republic, who had won many battles while in charge of Republic Clone forces. Additionally, Kenobi had been given the rank of Jedi Master, as well as a seat on the Jedi Council. He was also known as one of the greatest swordsmen the order had ever seen, and the definitive master of Form III (Soresu) lightsaber combat. In fact, in the novelization of Revenge of the Sith, Mace Windu commented that Kenobi is not merely a master of lightsaber combat, he is the master.
Shortly prior to the Battle of Coruscant, Kenobi and Anakin had been leading a regiment of clones in the Outer Rim sieges, battling the Separatist armies far away from the core worlds (an account of which may be found in James Luceno's Labyrinth of Evil, the prequel novel to Matthew Woodring Stover's novelization of Revenge of the Sith. Because of this, they were far from Coruscant when General Grievous swept in and kidnapped Palpatine; however, the Council recalled them to rescue the Chancellor when battle erupted in orbit above Coruscant.
In an audacious move, the pair of Jedi boarded Grievous' flagship, the Invisible Hand, and fought their way to the Chancellor. In the process, the two fought with Dooku, who managed to render Kenobi unconscious during the fight before being slain by Anakin. Unfortunately, Grievous was able to escape.
Back on Coruscant, Palpatine appointed Anakin to the Jedi Council as his representative, a move that the Council, especially Kenobi, disapproved of; not only was Anakin too young and headstrong, Kenobi reasoned, but his membership essentially gave the Chancellor a vote in Jedi affairs. To counteract this, the Jedi Council denied Anakin the rank of Master and ordered him to spy on Palpatine, further alienating the young Jedi. When Kenobi was called away to Utapau to confront General Grievous, Palpatine used his absence to finish corrupting his apprentice. Sensing Anakin's anger with the Council (as well as his fear for the life of Padmé, now his wife and pregnant), Palpatine manipulated him into embracing the dark side and becoming his new Sith apprentice, Darth Vader. He then transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire, declared himself Emperor, and issued Order 66, directing clone troopers to kill their Jedi generals.
On Utapau, meanwhile, Kenobi engaged Grievous in combat and, after a grueling battle, killed the general by shooting him in the heart. Moments later, however, Kenobi's own clone forces turned on him. He escaped by stealing Grievous' starfighter and rendezvousing with Bail Organa and Yoda aboard Organa's ship, the Tantive IV.
Along with Yoda and Organa, Kenobi returned to Coruscant, where he and Yoda discovered, to their horror, that every Jedi in the Jedi Temple had been murdered, even the children (who are called Younglings). They killed the clones remaining at the Temple, clones led there by none other than Kenobi's former partner and apprentice, Anakin Skywalker. Kenobi reprogrammed a beacon which had been instructing all remaining Jedi to return to Coruscant (where they surely would be slain) to instruct them to scatter across the galaxy and remain in hiding.
Subsequently, Kenobi and Yoda split up to confront the two Sith Lords, Darth Vader and Palpatine. Kenobi hated the thought of having to fight his beloved pupil, but Yoda insisted, saying, "Powerful enough to defeat Sidious, you are not... Twisted by the dark side, young Skywalker has become. The boy you trained, gone he is... consumed by Darth Vader."
Kenobi found Vader at the volcanic moon of Mustafar, and attempted to reason with his former student to pull him away from the dark side. That was not to be, however, as Vader revealed himself to be mad with power and corrupted (seemingly) beyond redemption, leaving Kenobi no choice but to engage him in a long and epic duel. As the lightsaber duel spanned through the Mustafar mining complex, the lava rivers, and finally the black sand, Kenobi tried desperately to persuade Vader to relent. Vader ignored his warnings and leapt forward to deliver the killing blow, leaving him open for Kenobi to carve off his legs and remaining arm with one swift flash. Kenobi refused to inflict the killing blow to his former apprentice, partner, and friend, and so left Vader burning on the volcanic slopes, carrying Anakin's lightsaber with him. While Vader sustained near-fatal third-degree burns and severe lung damage, he survived and was later saved by Palpatine via extensive medical prosthetics and an artificial respirator, transforming him into a fearsome cyborg.
This fight not only failed to halt the rise of the Empire, it actually strengthened it. Kenobi and Yoda were forced into hiding and go their separate ways in remote and hostile planets. Kenobi fled to Tatooine, where he went by the name of Ben Kenobi, while Yoda disappeared to the swamp-filled Dagobah. In accordance with a secret counsel with Senator Bail Organa and Yoda, Kenobi assisted in hiding Anakin's children after Padmé died in childbirth. Luke was put on Tatooine with Owen Lars, so that Kenobi could look after him in secret, while his twin Leia was put on Alderaan with Organa. During this time, Yoda told Obi-Wan that he had more training for him: the spirit of Qui-Gon would teach him how to retain his identity through the Force and commune with the living after death.
Last of the Jedi
For two years of solitude on Tatooine, Obi-Wan heard that a former Jedi apprentice, Ferus Olin, was still alive. He had to make a painful choice on whether to find him and leave Luke or stay behind. Qui-Gon contacted him and told him he will watch over Luke and that Ferus was the key to the future of the Jedi. He headed to the planet Bellasa to find him. He ran into a boy named Trever Flume and asked many people on Ferus's whereabouts. He came in contact with the Eleven, a group Ferus and his friend and business partner Roan Lands founded. Obi-Wan crashed landed in Bellasa's polar region and found Ferus. Ferus chose to return to Ussa because the Empire was plotting to kill many civilians if he didn't hand himself over on request of Inquisitor Malorum. Obi-Wan pointed out that Malorum was not a Sith, but the dark side was part of him. And then they ran in Boba Fett. They managed to escape but Trever tagged along. Kenobi then found that his friend Garen was still alive on the caves of Ilum. He then returned to Tatooine and kept in close contact with Ferus who was searching for remaining Jedi on Holo-Net.
A New Hope
Unbeknownst to young Luke, a few years later Ben Kenobi returned to the Lars farm carrying Anakin's lightsaber, as he now felt Luke was old enough and should be allowed to have his father's lightsaber. Owen, refusing to allow it, confronted and berated Kenobi, telling him how he didn't want Luke to make the same mistakes Anakin did, stating how he felt Anakin should have never left his mother and gotten involved with the "foolish idealistic Jedi crusaders" in the first place. He vehemently told Kenobi to leave and to stay away.
Kenobi continued to watch Luke from a distance, sometimes seeing Luke pilot his Skyhopper very skillfully.
Nineteen years after the events of Episode III, Kenobi rescued Luke Skywalker from Tusken Raiders while Luke was in the wilderness of Tatooine looking for a droid named R2-D2 that had an important message for the old Jedi Knight, as chronicled in Episode IV: A New Hope. Kenobi eventually heard R2-D2's message from Princess Leia Organa asking for his assistance in delivering the schematics of the Death Star to Alderaan. Kenobi was willing to help, and took young Luke Skywalker under his wing in order to teach him the ways of the Force with the intention of fully training the boy later, on Alderaan. When Luke asked Kenobi about his father, Kenobi disguised the truth from him, saying, "A young Jedi named Darth Vader... betrayed and murdered your father." (In Kenobi's way of thinking, this was not entirely untrue: Anakin Skywalker died the moment he betrayed the Jedi, completely becoming Darth Vader.)
Throughout Episode IV, Kenobi is constantly referred to as "old man," and Grand Moff Tarkin states that "surely, he must be dead by now," despite being only 57 years old. It may be that Tarkin thought he was killed in the Great Jedi Purge or in the duel with Vader.
Kenobi and Luke bought passage to Alderaan on smuggler Han Solo's ship, the Millennium Falcon. Before they could reach their destination, however, Alderaan was destroyed by the Death Star under Tarkin's orders. The Millennium Falcon was captured by the Death Star's tractor beam. Fate would have it that Princess Leia Organa was onboard, and her rescue was gallantly executed by Han and Luke. Kenobi, meanwhile, fully aware of the importance of the stolen plans hidden inside R2-D2, set off to disable the tractor beam so that escape could be possible. Kenobi was probably aware of Vader's presence, and knew he wasn't coming back, as he told Luke that "Your destiny lies upon a different path from mine," and bravely went forward. He did manage to deactivate the tractor beam, but en route to his own escape he was confronted by Vader, and they engaged in a lightsaber duel. Upon seeing Luke about to be caught by stormtroopers, Kenobi deliberately left himself open to attack as a distraction. As Vader struck him down with his lightsaber, Kenobi's physical body vanished in a form of ascension, and instantly he became one with the Force in the hopes of teaching Luke secretly later on.
The Empire Strikes Back
As it turns out, Kenobi did not vanish entirely. Rather, he became a supernatural figure (known as a Force ghost in the Star Wars universe) who advised Luke as a mentor whom the Sith could not touch. Most importantly, he told Luke to use the Force to destroy the Death Star.
In Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Kenobi told Luke to go to the Dagobah system for further training with Yoda. After Luke had been trained as a Jedi, Kenobi appeared in Dagobah to try and dissuade him from going to Cloud City, where Vader was holding Han and Leia hostage, as he felt his young apprentice was not yet ready to face Vader one-on-one. After Luke insisted on facing Vader, Kenobi said sadly that he couldn't help him.
Luke was nearly killed in a lightsaber duel with Vader, who revealed to him that he was his father and tried to enlist him into the dark side of the Force. Luke escaped, but was haunted by the truth Kenobi withheld from him.
Return of the Jedi
In Return of the Jedi, Luke learned from a dying Yoda that Vader was indeed his father. After Yoda's death, Kenobi appeared on Dagobah to explain to a heartbroken, troubled Luke why he did not tell him the truth about his father, and to confess that Leia was his sister. Kenobi admitted that his own pride was partly to blame for Anakin Skywalker's fall from grace: "I thought I could instruct him just as well as Yoda. I was wrong." He then tried to explain to Luke that killing Vader was the only way to destroy the Empire and save the galaxy, even if it meant committing patricide.
Luke tried to persuade Vader to denounce the dark side, but Vader and Palpatine nearly succeeded in converting him by appealing to his anger and fear for his friends' lives. At the last minute, when an out-of-control Luke was about to kill Vader, which would have turned him to the dark side and made him Palpatine's apprentice, Kenobi's teachings returned to him and he refused, proudly proclaiming himself a Jedi. Palpatine then viciously attacked him with Force lightning. As Luke cried out to his father to help him, Vader returned to his old, pre-corrupted self, giving him the strength to destroy Palpatine and return to the light side of the Force as he died in his son's arms.
Kenobi appeared alongside the souls of fellow Jedi Yoda and a redeemed Anakin Skywalker on the forest moon of Endor, watching over Luke and his comrades as they celebrated the destruction of the second Death Star.
In an early draft of Return of the Jedi, Kenobi returned from his existence in the Force to become a living human being again. [1]
Living appearances
- The Jedi Apprentice series of young reader novels by Jude Watson chronicles Kenobi's exploits with Qui-Gon Jinn. The books span from approximately 44 BBY to 32 BBY; Kenobi is twelve years old at the beginning of this series. During this time, he met many Jedi who would later be important friends, including Bant Eerin and Quinlan Vos.
- He appeared as a playable character in the game Star Wars: Obi-Wan at the same age, 25, as he was in The Phantom Menace.
- Watson's Jedi Quest series of young reader novels takes place between the events of The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones and explores the relationship between Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.
- Kenobi became a general in the Clone Wars as chronicled in the cartoon series Star Wars: Clone Wars and several books and comics of the Expanded Universe. It was during this time that he earned himself the nickname "The Negotiator" for his skill at resolving conflicts without resorting to violence.
Postmortem appearances
- Kenobi appeared briefly in the 1978 made-for-TV movie, The Star Wars Holiday Special. He was shown in flashbacks that Chewbacca was having during the Life Day ceremonies, of his former adventures that involved Kenobi from the film, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
- Kenobi spoke to Luke again in The Truce at Bakura immediately after the Battle of Endor, warning him of the threat posed by the invading Ssi-Ruuvi Imperium.
- Kenobi, Yoda, and Anakin Skywalker again appeared to Luke in spirit form a few months later to warn him of the dangers presented by the Dark Lord Flint, apprentice of Lady Lumiya, heir to the Sith legacy. Because of their warning, Luke was able to redeem Flint, leaving the reigning Sith Master without an apprentice. This is the last known time Luke saw his father and Yoda, though Anakin Skywalker spoke to Luke's nephew, Jacen Solo, decades later in the New Jedi Order novels Balance Point and The Unifying Force.
- Kenobi appeared to Luke again in 5 ABY to alert him to the presence of the Jedi Prince Ken, Palpatine's grandson, who soon became a pawn in a coup orchestrated by a group of false Prophets of the Dark Side set up by Imperial Intelligence.
- In Timothy Zahn's novel Heir to the Empire, which takes place in 9 ABY, Kenobi, still a spirit, visited Luke for the last time in a dream. Kenobi told Luke that he must move on from his spirit form to another realm. As Kenobi explained it, from the time of his death until the time of the novel, his spirit had been in an intermediate stage between life and the afterlife. This was Kenobi's final appearance in the timeline of the Star Wars universe. His final words are: "Not the last of the old Jedi, Luke. The first of the new."
- In Kenobi's Blade, a young reader novel featuring Anakin Solo, Anakin Skywalker's grandson, it is revealed that Vader hid his former master's lightsaber in a retreat on Vjun. Unsurprisingly, Solo and company recover the lightsaber from Vader's palace.
- In Edge of Victory: Rebirth, Luke's son is born and is given the name Ben, after the name Luke had always known the older man by.
Outside of Star Wars
On the BBC's radio and television show Dead Ringers, Kenobi was portrayed by Jon Culshaw, getting himself into all sorts of trouble and dueling against Vader with lightsabers or baguettes. He often employed Jedi mind tricks on other celebrities like Kirsty Wark in different skits. In one scene he is revealed to be Tony Blair's chief spin doctor during the Hutton inquiry. In another scene, Kenobi is at a car dealership, trying to buy an automobile/fast ship that would take him to Aldershot, but Vader appears and the two duel against each other with baguettes, much to the enjoyment of the car salesmen ("Darth Vader: Your bakery products are weak, old man", "Obi Wan: You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, you will lose your No-Claims Bonus.")
Kenobi became the "main character" of the "Weird Al" Yankovic spoof of "American Pie", "The Saga Begins," that retells The Phantom Menace's story.
Powers and abilities
Despite his preference for diplomacy, Master Kenobi was known as one of the greatest swordsmen the order had ever seen, and the definitive master of Form III (Soresu) lightsaber combat. In his early years, Kenobi had become very skilled with Form IV(Ataru), as inherited from his master Qui-Gon Jinn. But the weakness of this form lay in its need for space. Ataru is a form that utilizes wide slashes and wild acrobatics to avoid injury. Kenobi saw the weakness in Ataru with the death of Qui-Gon at the blade of sith lord Darth Maul. In close quarters his master was no match for the dark lord. Upon Jinn's death, Obi-Wan embarked on a new course in Form III Soresu. This was a response to Ataru's weakness as it places one at the eye of a hurricane in combat.
Obi-Wan tried to instill his apprentice Anakin with a Soresu philosophy, which Anakin dutifully learned. But his aggresive tenendencies took him towards a Form V approach without first mastering form III. By time of the events in EPISODE II, Obi-Wan was the best practitioner of Soresu, but this served him little in his duel with Count Dooku. Soresu is traditionally meant to deflect blaster fire, not the precise lightsaber attacks that Form II affords Dooku.
But at its best, Soresu can deflect any attack, including lightsaber attacks. By Episode III, Obi-Wan is a pure master of Soresu. And its efficiency is seen in his victory over General Grievous and Anakin Skywalker. In his exile, Kenobi's skills with a lightsaber apparently declined. Whereas in reality the choreography of the swordplay in Episodes I-III was much advanced over the older films (and Ewan McGregor an extremely talented swordsman in comparison with the older Guinness), fans have retconned the explanation that Kenobi had to keep his connection to the force to a minimum while guarding Luke as a child, lest he attract the Emperor's attention. Thus, his ability to draw on the force for strength and speed was "rusty" when it came time to battle Vader in Episode IV. Also, his harsh, ascetic lifestyle for 20 years led to a physical decline. He seemingly re-focused some of his energies into better understanding the formalist sword play of Dooku's Form II.
Along with Kenobi's lightsaber mastery, he was very advanced in the art of mind trick and force persuasion. He had learned from the spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn the ability to become a Force ghost, something he later used to guide and counsel Luke Skywalker.
Portrayers and inspirations
From Episodes I to III, Kenobi is played by Ewan McGregor. In Episodes IV through VI, he is played by Sir Alec Guinness. He is voiced by Bernard Behrens in the NPR radio adaptation of Star Wars, and by James Arnold Taylor in the Clone Wars micro series and in the video game Revenge of the Sith. The role is loosely inspired by General Makabe Rokuruta, a character from The Hidden Fortress played by Toshiro Mifune, whom Lucas also considered casting as Kenobi.
Trivia
- In Grabowiec, a village in Poland, one of the streets was named after Obi-Wan Kenobi in April 2005.
- In Episode III, Ewan McGregor took special effort to make his portrayal of Kenobi similar to that of Sir Alec Guinness's.
- The line "Hello there." was delivered by McGregor in Episode III, and by Guinness in Episode IV.
- In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the action starts at a Shanghai club named Obi Wan.
- In Episode III, his callsign is Red Leader, the same as Wedge Antilles in Episode VI.
References
- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Novelization, 1st edition paperback, 1999. Terry Brooks, George Lucas, ISBN 0-345-43411-0
- Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones Novelization, 2003. R. A. Salvatore, ISBN 0-345-42882-X
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Novelization - Novelization, 1st edition hardcover, 2005. Matthew Woodring Stover, George Lucas, ISBN 0-7126-8427-1
- The New Essential Guide to Characters, 1st edition, 2002. Daniel Wallace, Michael Sutfin, ISBN 0-345-44900-2
- Star Wars Episode I Who's Who: A Pocket Guide to Characters of the Phantom Menace, hardcover, 1999. Ryder Windham, ISBN 0-762-40519-8
- Star Wars: Power of Myth, 1st edition paperback, 2000. DK Publishing, ISBN 0-789-45591-9
- Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary, hardcover, 1998. David West Reynolds, ISBN 0-789-43481-4
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: The Visual Dictionary, hardcover, 1999. David West Reynolds, ISBN 0-789-44701-0
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary, hardcover, 2002. David West Reynolds, ISBN 0-789-48588-5
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary, hardcover, 2005. James Luceno, ISBN 0-756-61128-8
- Revised Core Rulebook (Star Wars Roleplaying Game), 1st edition, 2002. Bill Slavicsek, Andy Collins, J.D. Wiker, Steve Sansweet, ISBN 0-786-92876-X
- Star Wars Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, 1st edition, 2000. Bill Slavicsek, Andy Collins, ISBN 0-786-91793-8
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