- Shaak Ti
Shaak Ti was a female
Togruta Jedi Master in the fictional Star Wars franchise created byGeorge Lucas . [http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/shaakti/index.html StarWars.com | Shaak Ti Databank entry] ] Shaak Ti replacedYaddle as a member of theJedi High Council and also served as aGeneral in the Grand Army of the Republic. Shaak Ti served as one of the last members of the Jedi High Council before the Great Jedi Purge. Shaak Ti was later able to escapeOrder 66 , despite being in theJedi Temple at the time ofDarth Vader 's attack. She fledCoruscant and traveled from world to world until finally landing onFelucia .She was featured in , protecting Palpatine and fighting
General Grevious . In a scene deleted from , she is killed by General Grevious with alightsaber through the throat. Also, inLego Star Wars she is shown in a hologram being murdered byAnakin Skywalker after his switch to the dark side. In "", [Fernando Bueno, "Shaak Ti," "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Prima Official Game Guide" (Roseville: Prima Games, 2008), 19.] she is eliminated by Starkiller. [http://www.lucasarts.com/games/theforceunleashed/index2.html LucasArts.com | Star Wars: The Force Unleashed ] ]The assassination on Shaak Ti as featured in the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video game is considered the canonical death of Jedi Master Shaak Ti, with the scene personally approved by George Lucas. The deleted scene of Revenge of the Sith is therefore obsolete. [The Art and Making of Star Wars the Force Unleashed, W. Haden Blackman & Brett Rector.]
Mythology Associations
Links between George Lucas's Star Wars trilogy and mythological archetypes have been thoroughly documented, such as in the film, "The Mythology of Star Wars with Bill Moyers and George Lucas". [http://ffh.films.com/id/11017/The_Mythology_of_Star_Wars_with_George_Lucas_and_Bill_Moyers.html The Mythology of Star Wars with Bill Moyers and George Lucas] ] The name, Shaak Ti, is a homophone for the Hindu mythological concept of
Shakti , meaning divine force or energy and the sacred feminine.References
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