Adi Gallia
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- "Adi Gallia of Corellia—Jedi Master and Chief Negotiator for this treaty. My parents longed for a settlement between your government and the rebels. I've come to finish their work."
- ―Adi Gallia[src]
Adi Gallia was a female Human Jedi Master during the twilight years of the Galactic Republic. Gallia was a respected member of the Jedi High Council, who served on that august body in the years leading up to the Clone Wars, as well as some time into that devastating conflict. Though the daughter of Corellian parents, Master Gallia was notable for wearing a traditional Tholoth headdress, suggesting she had ancestors from the planet Tholoth.
As a revered Jedi Master of the High Council, Gallia was naturally an exceptionally skilled member of the Order, who completed several notable assignments during her service to the galaxy. Adi was a key player in the Stark Hyperspace War and served as the chief negotiator during talks aimed at mending ties between warring factions on Malastare. Gallia also participated in the opening battle of the Clone Wars, where her actions saved countless lives.
Despite her undoubted skill, Master Gallia eventually fell to the blade of the feared Separatist General Grievous, during the Battle of Boz Pity, after the treacherous cyborg surprised the Jedi Master by revealing an extra pair of hidden limbs, using the shock it caused Gallia to stab her through the torso with his lightsabers.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
- "Better a few faithful supporters than a wealth of false friends."
- ―Adi Gallia[src]
Born more than six decades before the Battle of Yavin, on Coruscant, to diplomats from Corellia, Gallia first had experience with the Jedi when her parents went to negotiations at Lannik. While there, the Red Iaro launched an attack. Adi's life was saved by Lannik Jedi Even Piell. Gallia felt a debt of gratitude to the diminutive Jedi, and it inspired her to become a Jedi herself, after it was discovered she was Force-sensitive.
Eventually, Adi earned a seat on the Jedi Council by 42 BBY. She was the first to hear of the Trade Federation's suspicious movements in the outlying regions through her carefully cultivated network of contacts. Having close ties to Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, she informed him of her findings, and Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi were sent to deal with the blockade around Naboo.
[edit] Jedi missions
As a Council member, Adi Gallia succeeded in many assignments, including those undertaken during the Stark Hyperspace War. Adi and her Padawan Siri Tachi went on many missions with Adi's close friend Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi. On one of their last missions together before Qui-Gon's death, they had to protect a boy named Talesan Fry who had overheard a plot against twenty senators. The Jedi succeeded and saved Fry, but during the mission Siri and Obi-Wan fell in love, despite the Jedi Code that forbade attachments. Adi did not realize this, but Qui-Gon did. He, however, decided not to tell her.[3]
[edit] Emissaries to Malastare
After the Battle of Naboo, Adi Gallia traveled with fellow Council members Mace Windu, Even Piell, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Plo Koon, Yaddle, and Ki-Adi-Mundi's Padawan A'Sharad Hett to Malastare to supervise a peace treaty between warring factions. They were attacked by terrorists, but managed to fight them off and succeed in their mission.[4]
[edit] The hunt for Aurra Sing
In 30 BBY, Adi Gallia was sent with Ki-Adi-Mundi and A'Sharad Hett to track down the deadly bounty hunter Aurra Sing, an infamous killer of many Jedi. Piloting a Consular-class space cruiser, they eventually found her in the Kamdon system. They were nearly killed in a space battle with the assassin, but were able to eject in an escape pod.
The three Jedi were taken in by a nearby Quarren ship, which Senator Tikkes was onboard. The ship landed on a planet in the Kamdon system, following Aurra Sing. Tikkes's scientists investigated the planet, most getting caught up in rope traps or mines. They spotted An'ya Kuro and, assuming she was the one behind it, shot her. With that, Aurra Sing appeared on her speeder bike.
Tikkes ordered his men to kill her, but, after blocking some blaster bolts with her lightsaber, Adi called upon the force to throw a large bolder at Sing. Ki-Adi, unsure that Sing was dead, sent Adi Gallia to reassure. Just as Ki had suspected, Sing survived, and escaped. As Adi was searching around, she found a case, and decided the case probably belonged to Sing and was of great importance to her. So she decided to open the case and discovered that the stories were true, Sing had killed Jedi and realized that she was heading for Senator Tikkes, and padawan Hett was the only one standing in her way. Adi started to head to Tikkes ship, but in doing so, stepped on one of Sing's planted mines. Gallia survived, and Aurra Sing was defeated by A'Sharad, though she manged to escape once again.[5]
[edit] Clone Wars
Just before the Battle of Geonosis, Adi was to test a new Jedi starship, Delta-7 Aethersprite. During the training exercises, she was sent to help a Feeorin called Nym in the Karthakk system. During these missions, Gallia helped destroy the Hex factory producing the deadly trihexalon poison for Cavik Toth. With the assistance of her former apprentice Siri Tachi, she also destroyed Toth's Hex equipped fleet before it could reach Geonosis. Undoubtedly, Gallia's actions prevented the death of many clone troopers and Jedi. Also, Adi Gallia helped provide air cover for Republic ships descending to Geonosis. Her next mission was with Siri Tachi, A'Sharad Hett, and other members of a Jedi strike team sent to rescue Obi-Wan Kenobi, his apprentice Anakin Skywalker and Senator Padmé Amidala from the Separatist leaders. They participated in the air assault and succeeded. That was the beginning of the Clone Wars.[6] During the war, Gallia engaged Separatist forces on the planet of Agamar.[7]
Adi Gallia continued her service to the Jedi Council and the Republic during the Clone Wars. She met for many council meetings including the meeting where the council discussed what their plan was for destroying General Grievous. Adi suggested that the council promote more Padawans to Jedi Knights. The council agreed to her idea. With Ki-Adi-Mundi, Anakin Skywalker, and Plo Koon, she helped save Obi-Wan Kenobi and the ARC trooper Alpha-17 from their refuge after escaping the clutches of Asajj Ventress. Adi led the Republic forces to victory during the Battle of Agamar. At the Battle of Boz Pity, Adi confronted General Grievous while directing her troops as a General alongside Mace Windu. She engaged Grievous in combat, but the cyborg general used his extra arms to surprise the Jedi Master. He grabbed her neck, then plunged two lightsabers into her chest before dropping her lifeless body to the ground.[2]
[edit] Powers and abilities
As a skilled pilot, Adi Gallia was among those who tested the new Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor and flew air support above Geonosis at the start of the Clone Wars. While on missions for the Jedi Council, Gallia went under the callsign "Shooting Star".
Gallia was also a very skilled warrior with her blue lightsaber, which she wielded with an unorthodox reverse one-handed grip, resulting in long, wide swings. She was a practitioner of the rarely used Shien form of lightsaber combat, holding her lightsaber horizontally.
Her skills as a Jedi were excellent, but her greatest attributes were her intuition and research skills. She was the daughter of a high ranking Corellian diplomat, which gave her a good understanding of the complexities of the Republic's politics.
[edit] Behind the scenes
In The Phantom Menace Adi Gallia is played by the model Gin Clarke, who was made famous for her French work. "Gallia" is the Latin name for France. Though she did not return to film Attack of the Clones, she is credited for appearing in the Jedi Council scene, which recycled footage from Episode I. She was replaced by Lily Nyamwasa for other scenes, but this eventually became the character Stass Allie. Adi Gallia was voiced by Masasa in the games Star Wars: Obi-Wan and Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter. In Star Wars: Clone Wars she was voiced by Grey DeLisle, but was mistakenly credited as her cousin, Stass Allie. In Jedi Power Battles, she was voiced by Nancy Giles.
In Star Wars: Episode I Jedi Power Battles and Star Wars Republic: Emissaries to Malastare, Adi Gallia has a crimson lightsaber, as does her Episode I action figure. It could therefore be assumed that around the time of The Phantom Menace, Adi was using a crimson lightsaber. Other sources that take place in different time periods suggest that at other times, Adi used orange and blue lightsabers.
The New Essential Guide to Characters mistakenly identifies Adi as near-Human.
[edit] Appearances
[edit] Sources
- Star Wars: Episode I toy line
- Star Wars: Power of the Jedi
- Episode I: The Visual Dictionary
- Episode I: Jedi Power Battles: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
- The New Essential Guide to Characters
- Star Wars Insider 81
- The New Essential Chronology
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 122 (GAL1-2, Adi Gallia)
- Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous
- Order 66: Destroy All Jedi
- Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
Stass Allie in the Databank
- Olana Chion in the Databank
- Felucia in the Databank
- Jedi starfighter in the Databank
- Jedi Temple in the Databank
- Adi Gallia in the Databank
- Even Piell in the Databank
- Saleucami in the Databank
- Siri Tachi in the Databank
- Finis Valorum in the Databank
