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At the beginning of The Phantom Menace, Obi-Wan Kenobi is a 25-year old Padawan to Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. He accompanies Jinn to Naboo, a planet ruled by Queen Padmé Amidala. After making an unscheduled landing on Tatooine, his master stumbles upon Anakin Skywalker, a young slave who shows tremendous potential with the Force. Believing the boy to be the prophesied "Chosen One" who would bring balance to the Force by destroying the Sith, Jinn asks the Jedi Council that the boy to be trained as a Jedi. Kenobi is also amazed in Anakin's unprecedented midi-chlorian count and strong Force potential, but initially thinks he should not be trained, believing the boy is already too old and had acquired too many emotional attachments to become a Jedi. The Jedi Council agrees, and forbids training for Anakin, in whom they see a great deal of fear and anger.During the Battle of Naboo, Queen Amidala and her entourage of guards split up from her Jedi bodyguards when the Sith Lord Darth Maul arrives to eliminate the Queen. Wielding a double-bladed lightsaber, Maul simultaneously battles both Jinn and Kenobi. After being separated from the lightsaber duel via holo-shields, Kenobi watches in horror as Maul impales his master. Enraged, Kenobi engages Maul in a fierce duel, cutting Maul's lightsaber in half. Maul knocks Kenobi into a reactor chasm and kicks his lightsaber into the depths below. Kenobi grabs onto an extending pole, breaking his fall. He then calms himself and reconnects with the Force, utilizing it to hurl himself into the air and simultaneously bring his master's lightsaber into his hand, startling Maul and giving him just enough time to slice the Sith Lord in half. The dying Jinn tells Kenobi to train Anakin to be a Jedi, and Kenobi promises that he will.For his heroics in defeating a Sith (making him the first Jedi in 1,000 years to do so), Master Yoda personally bestows the rank of Jedi Knight upon Kenobi, who then says that he would take it upon himself to train Anakin whether the Council allowed him to or not. Yoda reluctantly agrees, but warns Kenobi to be careful with the troubled boy. Ten years later, in Attack of the Clones, Kenobi has become an experienced Jedi Knight. He and Anakin are tasked with protecting Padmé, now a Senator, after an attempt is made on her life. Kenobi tracks the mysterious assassin to Kamino, and learns about a massive clone army that the planet's inhabitants are building for the Galactic Republic. He then meets with the bounty hunter Jango Fett, the template for the clones, and figures out that he is the one responsible for the assassination attempts on Padmé.Attack of the Clones reveals that Kenobi's relationship with Anakin is, by now, strained; over the years, Anakin has become a headstrong and arrogant young man, and is beginning to chafe under Kenobi's tutelage. More dangerously, he has begun to ignore Kenobi's teachings in favor of the advice of Chancellor Palpatine, who feeds the young man's fragile ego and subtly undermines his faith in the old Jedi ways. Anakin and Padmé have also fallen in love, an emotional attachment forbidden to Jedi Knights by the Jedi Code.Kenobi attempts to apprehend Fett, who escapes to Geonosis with his unaltered clone Boba. Kenobi follows them by placing a homing beacon on Fett's ship, Slave I.On Geonosis, Kenobi learns of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, also known as the Separatists, a conspiracy of star systems that wants to secede from the Republic. The renegades are led by rogue Jedi Count Dooku, who was once Qui-Gon Jinn's master. Kenobi is captured shortly after sending a message to Anakin. While in captivity, Dooku reveals that the Senate is under the control of a Sith Lord called Darth Sidious.Later, Anakin and Padmé arrive on Geonosis to rescue Kenobi. They are themselves captured, however, and all three are sentenced to death by the Geonosians. The executions are prevented by the timely arrival of Jedi and clone reinforcements, led by Jedi Masters Mace Windu and Yoda. Kenobi and Anakin confront Dooku and engage him in a lightsaber duel. Dooku strikes Anakin with Force lightning, then turns the deadly barrage onto Kenobi, who easily blocks the attack with his lightsaber. The two duel and Dooku outmaneuvers Kenobi, striking him on both his left arm and leg. Dooku is about to deliver a killing blow when Anakin recovers from the lightning and blocks Dooku's attack. Dooku and Anakin fight a short duel, and Dooku cuts off Anakin's right arm (which was later replaced by a robotic prosthetic). Yoda arrives and fights Dooku as well, but the Sith escapes; he creates a distraction by nearly killing Kenobi and Anakin. At the beginning of Revenge of the Sith, Kenobi (now a member of the Jedi Council) and Anakin board Separatist warlord General Grievous' flagship, the Invisible Hand, and fight their way to the Chancellor. There, they find Dooku, who engages them both in a duel. During the duel, Kenobi is rendered unconscious, leaving Anakin to face Dooku alone. Anakin defeats Dooku and, at Palpatine's urging, executes the defenseless Count, in violation of the Jedi Code.When Palpatine appoints Anakin to the Jedi Council as his representative, Kenobi (with the rest of the Council) disapproves, considering Anakin too young and headstrong, and reasons that his membership gives the Chancellor a vote in Jedi affairs. Anakin protests when the Jedi Council denies him the rank of Master and orders him to spy on Palpatine, but Kenobi talks him into accepting it, warning Anakin of his "dangerous" friendship with the Chancellor.Kenobi is called away to Utapau to confront General Grievous. This leaves Palpatine, who is secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, free to continue corrupting Anakin. The Sith Lord eventually manipulates the young Jedi into embracing the dark side as the Sith Lord Darth Vader.Kenobi engages Grievous in combat and, after an exhausting battle, shoots and kills him with a blaster. Moments later, however, Kenobi's own clone forces turn on him; Unbeknownst to Kenobi, Palpatine had issued Order 66, directing clone troopers to turn on their Jedi generals. Kenobi survives the attempt on his life and escapes by stealing Grievous' star fighter and rendezvousing with Senator Bail Organa and Yoda aboard Organa's ship, the Tantive IV.Along with Yoda and Organa, Kenobi returns to Coruscant, where he and Yoda discover that every Jedi in the Jedi Temple has been murdered, even the children. They kill the clones remaining at the Temple, and discover that the clones were led there by Anakin. Kenobi reprogrammes a beacon, which had been instructing all remaining Jedi to return to Coruscant (where they surely would be slain), by instructing them to scatter across the galaxy and remain in hiding.Subsequently, Kenobi and Yoda split up to confront the two Sith Lords, Vader and Sidious. Kenobi wishes to fight Sidious, hating the thought of having to kill his friend and pupil. Yoda, however, insists that Kenobi is not strong enough to fight Sidious, and that he will have to accept that Anakin had been "consumed by Darth Vader."Before going to fight his former Padawan, however, Kenobi goes to visit Padmé, who by now is Anakin's secret wife and is pregnant with his child. He mournfully tells her what Anakin has done, and reveals that he knows about their marriage. A horrified Padmé refuses to accept what Kenobi tells her, but is brave enough to go out and confront Anakin herself. Kenobi stows away in her ship. Kenobi finds Vader at the volcanic moon of Mustafar, and attempts to reason with his former student to pull him away from the dark side. When he emerges from Padmé's ship, however, Vader immediately suspects that Padmé has betrayed him, and uses the dark side to choke her into unconsciousness. Vader reveals himself to be mad with power and corrupted (seemingly) beyond redemption. Kenobi has no choice but to engage him in a long and epic duel, which ranges through the Mustafar mining complex, the lava rivers, and finally the black sand. Kenobi tries to persuade Vader to relent, but Vader ignores his warnings and leaps forward to deliver the killing blow. Kenobi sees an opening and severs Vader's legs and remaining arm with one stroke. Kenobi refuses to inflict the coup de grace on his former apprentice, however, and leaves him burning on the volcanic slopes, taking Anakin's lightsaber with him. Vader sustains near-fatal third-degree burns and severe lung and throat damage. He survives long enough to be rescued by Palpatine, and is later saved via extensive medical prosthetics and an artificial respirator, transforming him into the cyborg depicted in the first trilogy.Kenobi assists in hiding Anakin's children after Padmé dies in childbirth. Luke is put on Tatooine with Owen Lars, so that Kenobi can look after him in secret, while his twin Leia was put on Alderaan in Organa's care. Yoda then tells Kenobi that he has more training for him: the spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn would teach him how to retain his identity through the Force and commune with the living after death.I recently lost my hand to Asajj Ventress while rescuing Siri Tachi and her baby girl Canbu from the clutches of Count Dooku.I had been given a new one by the medics at Polis Massa.Get your layout at TweakingMySpace.com
