Mace Windu

Key events in Mace Windu's story

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72 BBY - Birth on Haruun Kal

Born to the most powerful members of his tribe. Like other toddlers on Haruun Kal, he gets an inoculation that leaves a small scar.

~71 BBY - Orphaned

Garu-bears kill his parents, but his mother hides him in a tree first. The tribe notices how strangely calm he is, and a visiting Jedi recognizes that he is Force-sensitive.

~71 BBY - Taken to the Jedi Order

In a tribal ritual he picks the shell of a lightsaber over a lushfruit and a puzzle pyramid. With the tribe's blessing, he is sent to the Jedi Temple to train.

~65 BBY - Youngling Trials

He struggles to build his first lightsaber around an amethyst kyber crystal until Professor Huyang teaches him patience. He spars with T'ra Saa and becomes friends with Sora Bulq.

60 BBY - Mission to Mathas

As Cyslin Myr's Padawan he helps capture Drooz, a con man posing as a Jedi prophet. Myr teaches him to rein in his anger and leave Drooz's punishment to the courts.

~50 BBY - Knighted

Finishes his training under Yoda and becomes a Jedi Knight. His early missions include protecting a kidnapped alien king, investigating Warden Mattis Coto at Devshi, and recovering the coaxium ultra formula on Ro Mira.

~50 BBY - Rescue of Depa Billaba

Rescues Depa Billaba and Sar Labooda from pirates and brings them to the Temple. He later trains Billaba all the way to knighthood.

~49 BBY - Jedi Master

Reaches the rank of Master in his early twenties, somewhere between 50 and 48 BBY. He creates the Vaapad fighting style with help from Sora Bulq.

~49 BBY - Incident on Raxus Secundus

He and Dooku recover the body of Master Katri and discover that her own Raxian guards killed her. After her funeral, Windu is given her seat on the High Council.

~45 BBY - Master of the Order

Becomes an elected leader of the Jedi, serving alongside Yoda, and carries a new electrum-finished lightsaber that marks his rank.

41 BBY - Ontotho Uprising

Helps end the conflict between the Daa Corporation and the Fylari, then knights Cere Junda for her heroism.

34 BBY - Mission to Oosalon

Lets himself be captured so he can find the warlord Guattako's hidden base. He puts his broken lightsaber back together with the Force and helps rescue 26 kidnapped children.

32 BBY - The Return of the Sith

Doubts Qui-Gon Jinn's report of a Sith warrior and turns down the request to train Anakin Skywalker. After Jinn's funeral on Naboo, he accepts that the Sith have survived.

~29 BBY - Watching Over Skywalker

Keeps a close eye on Anakin's training and reluctantly agrees to let Chancellor Palpatine mentor the boy.

26 BBY - Testing Kenobi and Skywalker

Helps stage Yoda's fake kidnapping to test Obi-Wan and Anakin as a team.

22 BBY - Separatist Crisis

Warns Palpatine that there aren't enough Jedi to protect the Republic. He assigns Kenobi and Skywalker to guard Padmé Amidala and follows Kenobi's discovery of the clone army.

22 BBY - First Battle of Geonosis

Leads a Jedi strike team into the Geonosian arena and beheads Jango Fett. This battle starts the Clone Wars.

22 BBY - Hammer of Ryloth

As a Jedi General, he frees Ryloth from Separatist occupation alongside Cham Syndulla.

~21 BBY - General of the Clone Wars

Leads clone troopers on the front lines, oversees the war effort from Coruscant, and serves as a diplomat and adviser to the Chancellor.

19 BBY - Suspicion of the Chancellor

Grows wary of Palpatine's increasing power and of Anakin's closeness to him, and senses the dark side gaining strength.

19 BBY - Death on Coruscant

After Anakin reveals that Palpatine is Darth Sidious, Windu leads Kit Fisto, Saesee Tiin and Agen Kolar to arrest him. Windu alone survives the fight and overpowers Sidious, but Anakin cuts off his hand and Sidious throws him to his death.

19 BBY - Legacy

Palpatine uses Windu's attempt to justify Order 66 and the Jedi Purge. Imperial propaganda brands him a criminal, but people like Cham Syndulla still remember him with respect.