Depa Billaba was a Force-sensitive human Jedi Master who served on the Jedi High Council during the final years of the Jedi Order. Born on the planet Chalacta and rescued from captivity as a child by Mace Windu, she was trained as his Padawan and later ascended to the Council alongside her former master.
A respected duelist known for her skill with a lightsaber, Billaba studied the Form VII discipline of Vaapad under Windu and favored Form III in her own teaching. During the Clone Wars she served as a general in the Grand Army of the Republic and took the young Caleb Dume as her Padawan learner.
When Order 66 was issued, Billaba was killed by her own clone troopers, sacrificing herself so that Dume could escape. He survived the Great Jedi Purge and went into hiding under a new name, Kanan Jarrus, carrying forward the fragments of the training she had given him.
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