Bene/Legends
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19 BBY (16:5:22), Jedi Temple, Coruscant[1] |
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Brown[2] |
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Brown[2] |
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Fair[2] |
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Bene was a female Human Jedi Padawan who served the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic as a Commander in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars.
Biography[edit | edit source]
A Force-sensitive Human, Bene was discovered by the Jedi Order and inducted into their ranks, learning the ways of the Force at the Coruscant Jedi Temple. Selected by a Jedi Master at the start of the Clone Wars, a conflict between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Bene constructed a blue-bladed lightsaber and took up the rank of Commander in the Grand Army of the Republic.[2]
In the final days of the war, Padawan Bene was stationed at the Temple when Supreme Chancellor Palpatine betrayed the Jedi Order and issued Contingency Order 66 to the Grand Army which, in essence, made it illegal to be a Jedi. As the 501st Legion marched into the Temple and opened fire indiscriminately on the Order's members, Bene joined fellow Padawans in protecting the youngest Initiates. Backed into the Room of a Thousand Fountains, Padawans Bene and Whie Malreaux stood with Temple battlemaster Cin Drallig as Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader descended on the group. As Vader slew young Malreaux, the former Jedi reached out with the Force and strangled Bene while cleaving through Master Drallig's shoulder with his lightsaber. Her death as well as the deaths of the younglings she had died protecting, was recorded on a security camera, and was viewed by Masters Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi when they searched the ruins of the Temple.[2]
Decades later, after the fall of the Sith and the resurrection of the Jedi Order, Master Luke Skywalker viewed the same holorecord as it was preserved in the memory banks of astromech droid R2-D2.[3]
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
Bene was played by Mousy McCallum, the daughter of prequel trilogy producer Rick McCallum.
Bene appears in the first four episodes of LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles, voiced by Tabitha St. Germain. In the show, she is depicted as one of the four Padawans taught by Yoda, yet her role can be considered non-canonical as her confrontation with Vader in Escape from the Jedi Temple contradicts her death in the Room of a Thousand Fountains.
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith novelization (First appearance) Template:Hologram
- Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith Template:Hologram
- Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen (Mentioned only) Template:Hologram
Non-canon appearances[edit | edit source]
- The Phantom Clone Template:Nc
- Menace of the Sith Template:Nc
- Attack of the Jedi Template:Nc
- Escape from the Jedi Temple Template:Nc
Sources[edit | edit source]
- Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars
- Star Wars Chronicles: The Prequels
"Order 66: Destroy All Jedi"—Star Wars Insider 87
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
Bene in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link not verified!)
"Rogues Gallery: The Last Stand of the Jedi!"—Star Wars Insider 137
- Template:SWE
Notes and references[edit | edit source]
External links[edit | edit source]
Caught on the Cam: Mousy McCallum on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org) (First mentioned)
Training Trio on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
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