What You Need to Remember About Obi-Wan Kenobi Before His Show Starts

Okay so we know Obi-Wan is already very depressing by the point he’s on Tatooine—he left Anakin for useless on Mustafar, most of his associates have been worn out, and the Republic has been remodeled right into a horrifying galactic Empire. He’s going by means of it! But it’s in all probability price noting that Obi-Wan has a little bit further grief you may not be conversant in if you happen to haven’t watched Clone Wars coming into the brand new present.

In the ultimate days of the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan participated within the defense of the impartial planet Mandalore, after a returned Darth Maul (that’s a protracted, completely different story, and extra on that later!) and his burgeoning crime syndicate staged a coup to overthrow the planet with the assistance of the rogue Mandalorian traditionalist faction, the Death Watch. Maul, being Maul, double-crossed the Death Watch to take the planet for himself, deposing, and in the end executing in entrance of a horrified Obi-Wan, Mandalore’s ruler, Duchess Satine Kryze.

Obi-Wan and Satine knew one another once they had been youthful, when Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon had been tasked with defending Satine in the course of the Mandalorian Civil War. They had fallen in love, and Obi-Wan very practically left the Jedi Order to be along with her earlier than they in the end parted methods. They reunited in the course of the Clone Wars after Satine turned the chief of a gaggle of impartial techniques advocating for peace, however Obi-Wan’s love died in his arms due to Maul’s need for revenge. We know, due to this week’s launch of the novel Star Wars: Brotherhood, that it’s Satine who gave Obi-Wan the nickname “Ben” a while up to now—so the truth that he adopts that identify on Tatooine once more signifies that she and her absence are seemingly not removed from his ideas.