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===Early life=== [[File:Young qui-gon.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Jinn as a [[Padawan]].]] {{Quote|Do not defy the Council, Master, not again.''"<br />"''I shall do what I must, Obi-Wan.|Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn|audio=IShallDoWhatIMust-TPM.ogg|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace}} Born almost a century before the [[Battle of Yavin]], Qui-Gon Jinn was taken as an infant to [[Coruscant]] to train and become a Jedi. He maintained some ties with his planet of birth, and even once obtained a special worn stone from his homeworld's [[River of Light]].<ref name="The Phantom Menace novel">''[[Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (novel)]]''</ref> At the age of eight, Jinn befriended a fellow trainee, [[Tahl]]. Over the years the two became the best of friends, along with other students including [[Clee Rhara]].<ref name="SotJ">''[[Secrets of the Jedi]]''</ref> At ten years old, Jinn participated in the [[Jedi Temple Apprentice Tournament|Exhibition Day Tournament]], where young students are encouraged to perform their skills so that they may be taken as an apprentice to one of the Knights or Masters. It was at this exhibition that Dooku first saw Jinn's [[lightsaber]] [[Form IV: Ataru|skills]]. It can be presumed that Dooku was impressed with what he saw, for he took Jinn as his Padawan a short time afterward. [[File:Youngdooku.jpg|thumb|225px|Jinn as a Padawan, with his master [[Dooku]], and Masters [[Yoda]] and [[Tyvokka]].]] Together, Dooku and Jinn went on numerous missions across the galaxy. On one notable mission, the two were sent to accompany [[Senator]] [[Blix Annon]] on a diplomatic assignment. However, space pirates infiltrated their ship. Their leader turned out to be [[Lorian Nod]], a failed Jedi with whom Dooku was once close friends. The two battled and Dooku let his anger get the best of him. When it seemed that he would give the deathblow to a helpless Nod, it was Jinn's words that stopped him from doing so.<ref name="LotJ">''[[Legacy of the Jedi]]''</ref> Some time following this assignment, Dooku and Jinn were given their final mission as master and apprentice, which would last two years. Upon returning from this mission, Jinn was reunited with Tahl, whom he hadn't seen in a long time. As his final words for Jinn as a student, Dooku told him that he had one weakness and that it was his compassion for all life. Dooku warned him that it is an inevitability that betrayal would come from a friend.

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