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Oppo Rancisis, an adept strategist and tactician, was a Thisspiasian | ThisspiasianSentient Species |
male who abdicated the throne of his homeworld in favor of becoming a Jedi Master. Offered to the Jedi Order | Jedi OrderOrganizationGalaxy-Wide Organizations |
as an infant by his mother, the Blood Monarch of Thisspias, Rancisis was apprenticed to Master Yaddle | YaddleCharacterSupporting Characters |
, training to become a Jedi Knight almost two centuries before the Battle of Yavin | Battle of YavinEventGalactic Civil War |
. In 186 BBY, Rancisis' sister was killed by terrorists, and he was offered the throne; he declined, instead preferring to continue on the path of the Jedi. After achieving the rank of Master and being given a place on the Jedi High Council, Rancisis served as one of the Jedi's top military advisors due to his tactical nous. He was also a member of and often led the Council of Reconciliation. Rancisis served the Jedi Council through the re-emergence of the Sith, the Separatist Crisis, and the Battle of Geonosis | Battle of GeonosisEventThe Clone Wars |
, and when the Clone Wars began, he became a Jedi General. Along with Yoda | YodaCharacterMajor Characters |
, Rancisis spent much of the war on Coruscant | CoruscantPlanet |
, organizing and coordinating Republic forces through the galaxy, such as during the defense of Kamino and the Battle of Zaadja, conferring with Supreme Chancellor Palpatine | Palpatine(Human)CharacterMajor Characters |
, and serving on the Council of Reconciliation. Near the close of the war, Rancisis learned of a Separatist operation on the planet Saleucami; Dark Acolyte | Dooku's Dark AcolyteOrganizationTrade Federation & Separatist Alliance |
Sora Bulq was overseeing the creation of a cloned Morgukai | MorgukaiOrganizationPlanetary and Sector |
"Shadow Army," which Rancisis feared would prove a match for the Jedi. The Thisspiasian Jedi Master led a team of Jedi and three battalions of clone troopers to Saleucami | SaleucamiPlanet |
, and besieged | Siege of SaleucamiEventThe Clone Wars |
the planet for five months. Rancisis used his battle meditation to aid Republic forces during the conflict, to the point of exhaustion. Sora Bulq | Sora Bulq(Weequay)CharacterSupporting Characters |
used this to his advantage, sending a group of Anzati assassins to slay Rancisis, but the Jedi Master was able to fend them off and defeated his attackers. However, the attack had in fact been a ruse orchestrated by Bulq, who used the distraction to enter Rancisis' chamber unnoticed and stab the Thisspiasian in the back, killing him.Read more... |
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