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"I saw amazing things. Traveled the stars with my master, before a darkness took me. But that was long ago…"
―Barriss Offee reflects on her journey
Barriss Offee, also known under the titles of "the healer" and "wise mother" later in her life, was a Force-sensitive Mirialan female and a Jedi Knight that fell to the dark side of the Force during the period of the Clone Wars. Trained as a Padawan under Jedi Master Luminara Unduli, Offee wielded a blue lightsaber that she used when participating in the First Battle of Geonosis. She preferred studying ancient Jedi texts to fighting. During her time as a Jedi Padawan, Offee forged a friendship with Ahsoka Tano, the Padawan of Anakin Skywalker. Though rather different in personality, the two bonded through their shared experience in combat, including at the Second Battle of Geonosis.
As the Clone Wars continued, Offee grew disillusioned with the Jedi's role in the conflict, believing they had strayed from the ideals that the Jedi Order was supposed to represent, becoming particularly wary of the Jedi Council. Deciding to act on her concerns, she orchestrated the bombing of the Jedi Temple as a means to foment further distrust of the Jedi. Despite their previous friendship, she allowed Tano to be framed for orchestrating the bombing, even going as far as impersonating former Sith apprentice Asajj Ventress to frame her former friend. Skywalker ultimately ended up catching Offee and bringing her to justice. Offee finally confessed just moments before Tano was convicted of the crime, clearing the Togruta's name. Offee expressed her views of the Jedi Order in front of the tribunal, showing that she had been corrupted by the dark side before being taken away.
Early life
"My time as a youngling seems so far away, although it has not been that many years ago. I am sorry I had to leave your lesson before speaking with you. My master called for me." ―Barriss Offee, to Tutso Mara Some time prior to the border dispute on Ansion, Barriss Offee, a female Mirialan, was born on the planet Mirial. She was found to be Force-sensitive and was brought into the Jedi Temple to train as a Jedi. During her time as part of an Initiate clan, Offee and her clan wandered through the high archways and manicured courtyards of the Great Hall, which Offee marveled at. She became Padawan to Jedi Master Luminara Unduli. At some point, she studied lightsaber techniques with Tutso Mara, and the two grew to become close. At one point she was sent by Unduli to retrieve an old book. During the mission, she encountered a creature and many traps. When she finally reached the location of the book, she picked up the book and it turned to sand. Later, she returned and told her master that she had failed. Unduli told Offee that she did not fail because she never expected Offee to actually bring it back, that it was about the journey and everything she did to find the book.
The Secessionist Movement
"The arena on Geonosis was a lot to deal with and I am not too proud to admit that I was scared." ―Barriss Offee, to Sabé on her experiences of fighting in the Battle of Geonosis Offee, along with Unduli, sat in on a meeting between the Jedi Council and Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, who discussed the growing influence of the Secessionist Movement, and the threat of an imminent war between them and the Galactic Republic. After, Offee was present in Chancellor Palpatine's office with other senators and Jedi as the issue of whether Palpatine should take emergency powers was debated. Later, Offee, along with her master, were part of the Jedi assault team sent to rescue Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, and his Padawan Anakin Skywalker from the execution arena on Geonosis. The Mirialan survived the battle, as did her master, though the Clone Wars had only just begun. After the battle, Offee had trouble sleeping and volunteered to watch over several injured Jedi in the Temple clinic, and due to what Jedi Master Depa Billaba later described as Offee's special attention, the injured were able to recover.
Life as a healer
Years later, having left the Empire behind, Offee became known as "the healer," and was known to assist travelers in need of help with her inherent abilities from a small encampment on a snowy world. She became close friends with a small, ragtag group who followed her with great respect and admiration. After she was visited by a mother and father with a small child with Force abilities, which the Empire sought, Offee told them about her own experiences as a Jedi and how the order would take in young children to train them in the ways of the old. Offee sent them in her starship to an old friend following the sudden arrival of Rakish, who had been tracking the child. Offee allowed her old colleague to pursue her target into a nearby cave, where she kept the Inquisitor at bay by probing her with doubts about her loyalty to the Empire. Lyn swung wildly at the walls of the cave with her lightsaber in frustration but was unable to find the path out. In her anger, she impaled Offee through the stomach. The Mirialan fell to the ground, wounded. Promising to save her, Rakish held her injured friend, and only then was she able to exit, carrying her body outside.
"I've learned that trust is overrated. The only thing the Jedi Council believes in is violence!―Barriss Offee, to Anakin Skywalker
Barriss Offee was a Mirialan female who had brown hair, blue eyes, yellow skin with black diamond shaped tattoos, and a height of 1.66 meters. Offee was considered a seemingly ideal example of a Jedi Padawan by some members of the Order. She was an intelligent, daring and studious individual, able to memorize the entire layout of the system of Geonosian catacombs when her master asked her to. She was also quite selfless as she pleaded with her friend Ahsoka Tano to kill her when she was being mind-controlled by a brain worm, though Tano refused.
After her experiences in the Battle of Geonosis and not wanting to become a warrior, she did not wish to take part in the Clone Wars, yet she would find herself heading back to Geonosis, and with it the war itself, for its second battle. Afterward, she would continue to fight in the conflict. As the Clone Wars dragged on, Offee grew to believe that the Republic and Jedi Order were the ones responsible, viewing the latter's role in the war as a betrayal of the Order's ideals. Her corruption was due in part to when she touched the dark side on Drongar after intaking a substance that made her more powerful, but in a dangerous manner. Her growing disillusionment eventually led her to bomb the Jedi Temple, killing several civilians, clones and fellow Jedi, including her friend Tutso Mara. She even murdered her co-conspirator Letta Turmond to keep her betrayal a secret and framed her friend Tano for the deed. Reflecting on her former friend's actions, Tano believed Offee had been trying to convince her to have sympathy for her or outright convince her join together against the Jedi. However, she deemed the way Offee worked her into the plot, by framing her to take away her choices, to be the worst thing she could have done.
In doing all of this, however, she fell to the influence of the dark side; during her duel with Anakin Skywalker, he chastised her for not getting rid of Ventress' red lightsabers, to which she snidely responded, "I think they suit me." When taken before the court, Offee finally confessed her crimes, thereby acquitting Tano, but nevertheless maintained her belief that the Jedi and the Republic had lost their way, expressing no remorse for bombing the Jedi Temple or framing Ahsoka, although a sad look given toward her friend indicated she at least regretted the rift these actions had now created between them.
As with any other Jedi, Barriss Offee was Force-sensitive. She was skilled in the use of telekinesis, enabling her to utilize Force push during battle. She also could use the Force to strangle people, without needing to see her victim, such as she did to frame Ahsoka Tano and hide her own fall to the dark side. She was trained in Form III. She was also skilled in Jar'Kai; with Ventress' lightsabers, she was able to overwhelm Tano—who, at the time, had use of only one lightsaber. When she was against Skywalker and tapped into the dark side, Offee used her two stolen blades to duel Anakin on even footing for a time, but lost when Skywalker exploited Offee's was distraction by presence of other Jedi and put her in a Force hold, thus subduing her.
During her second match with the Fourth Sister, Offee held the Inquisitor off with unarmed combat alone. Stass Allie passed on Force healing expertise to Offee. She also had some piloting skills, which she demonstrated during the Battle of Umbara.
"Funny. Those belong to Ventress. You should've gotten rid of them."
"I think they suit me."
―Anakin Skywalker duels Barriss Offee
As a Padawan, Offee wore a hybrid Mirialan-Jedi Padawan outfit including a black robe and a dark blue cape. At one point, she wore Asajj Ventress's helmet in order to impersonate her and conceal her own identity alongside a black skin-tight outfit and a black cloak. During her time in the Inquisitorius, Barriss wore a standard black Inquisitor uniform alongside a helmet which she abandoned upon denouncing the Empire. She later went on to wear a brown fur coat while living as a healer on a snowy world.
Development
Offee was originally introduced in the Legends novel The Approaching Storm, which was written by Alan Dean Foster. Offee was portrayed in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones by Nalini Krishan, which was also her first introduction from a Canon perspective. She was voiced by Meredith Salenger in the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series. In his own words, Giancarlo Volpe, director of The Clone Wars episode "Weapons Factory," "secretly" pushed for Ahsoka Tano and Offee to enter a romantic relationship. Offee was originally written to die in "The Wrong Jedi", but Dave Filoni "had plans" for the character and cut the scene. Offee was originally meant to have been depicted in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith being killed as part of Order 66, but this scene was cut along with the deaths of Luminara Unduli and Shaak Ti. A non-canon animatic was made of Offee's death showing her on Felucia fighting battle droids at the time of Order 66 when an AT-TE walks up behind her and shoots her. Interestingly, toward the end of this animatic her lightsaber was depicted as being green. Unused footage from Attack of the Clones was going to be used for this appearance. Her scrapped death in Episode III would later be incorporated into the third issue of the Legends Revenge of the Sith comic adaptation.
Contradictions
In 2015, The Topps Company, Inc. released two cards that claimed Offee built her first lightsaber at the age of seventeen, framing it as evidence of her scientific skill. However, most sources say Jedi younglings make their first lightsabers at a far younger age after the Gathering event. Indeed, in the short story "A Jedi's Duty," Offee reflects that younglings take on the Gathering to build their first blades, with no sign she did not take on the endeavor. Additionally, Offee being seventeen when she made her first lightsaber would make her much older than Ahsoka Tano. According to Dave Filoni, Offee is only "a little bit older than" Tano. As such, this article assumes the Topps information about Offee's age and lightsaber are incorrect. The 2018 reference book Star Wars: The Dark Side later stated that Offee had been acting as a double agent for the Sith, but the episode itself established that she was acting out of a hate for the dark side, despite tapping into it herself. This article assumes "The Wrong Jedi" is correct. Additionally, a Star Wars: Card Trader Iconic Moments card about Offee's fall claimed it was a result of a serum that changed the Force inside of her. However, Leland Chee stated the card was never approved by his team. However, this idea was once more explained in Ahsoka Tano and Other Users of the Force, which notes that she was tainted by such an experience.
Non-canon appearances
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May 3, 2024 · May 3, 2024. Barriss Offee is a friend, a student, a prodigy. And to some, a traitor. First appearing on-screen in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Barriss was the young Mirialan Padawan of another Mirialan, Jedi Master Luminara Unduli.
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May 2, 2024 · Barriss Offee is finally making her long-awaited return to Star Wars storytelling after a 10-year absence, as the star of the upcoming Tales of the Empire animated mini-series.
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May 7, 2024 · Television. Meredith Salenger on Barriss' Big Moment in Tales of the Empire. The voice behind Barriss Offee gives some insight into her journey in Star Wars ' latest streaming anthology....
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