The Togruta Force sensitive Shaak Ti, was a Jedi master and Council member during the
latter days of the Galactic Republic. Born on the planet of Shili like most other Togruta,
the Jedi took the place of Yaddle after the battle of Naboo, and fought alongside the
other Jedi in the Battle of Geonosis, as a war with Count Dooku and his Separatist alliance
had begun. Master Ti was deployed by the Council to oversee the training and the production
of the clone army, but like the other Jedi, she had been oblivious to its true intention.
The Jedi Council member had been the closest to uncovering the deception, as she had been
alerted to the escape of ARC Trooper Fives. Upon his return to Coruscant, Master Ti missed
the Kaminoan Doctor Nala Se injecting the clone trooper with a mind clouding drug, and
no one would believe the aggressive clone until his death, at the hands of Commander
Fox. By the end of the war, the Jedi Council member had been in the Temple, and after the
failure to kill the Sith Lord that had been Chancellor Palpatine, he executed Order 66.
Although there are many versions of her death, from falling at the blade of General Grievous,
to losing a duel to Starkiller on Felucia, Master Ti officially died at the hands of
Darth Vader as she meditated in her quarters. But what if Shaak Ti had survived Order 66?
How would she able to escape the hunting Empire? Could she change the history of the Jedi?
In this episode of what if Order 66, that is going to be answered…
As the Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker chose the side of darkness, master of the Order
Mace Windu fell into the streets of Coruscant, and bowing to Palpatine, he was anointed as
the new Sith apprentice Darth Vader, soon to be feared by all across the galaxy. His
first order had been to kill those at the Jedi Temple, aided by the execution of Order
66, and he marched to the Temple footsteps with the clone troopers, seeking blood on
his old blade. In her quarters Master Ti, could sense that the Jedi order beginning
to crumble, but rather than saving her knowledge in a future holocron, she decided to try and
save as many of the Jedi as possible. The dark side of Vader and the clones had already
entered, so she rushed to find the battle master Cin Drallig, and together, they began
to help the masters, knights, younglings and initiates out from a secret passageway, as
the Temple guards stalled the relentless Sith. But the Jedi were not free to leave, as Palpatine
had deployed more garrisons of Republic gunships, and the clones were swarming all around them.
As they move to the lower levels, they are soon forced to split up, and Master Ti takes
a group of Jedi through the shady parts of Coruscant, until they hear the name of the
Jedi echoing across the walls of the area. The Jedi master orders all of the others to
hide in a cargo warehouse, as she stealthily moved to the voices, and found that it was
a pair of mechanics, and outside of their workshop, it was clearly named as that of
the Martez sisters. The sisters had thought from a distance that Master Ti had been Ahsoka,
but the Jedi master had been gratefully for their intervention, as she used her connection
to the former Jedi, to borrow the Silver Angel. But as she runs back to fetch the group of
the other Jedi, she senses a darkness in the air, and a hooded figure moved in a blur.
The Jedi master Forced pushed a group of boxes to the opposite side of the level, hoping
to distract the darkness, and the trick worked, as she ran to gather the other Jedi, before
they could be caught by what she saw was Palpatine. The Sith Lord had found out about the fugitives
from one of the members of his guard, and decided to join in the Jedi purge himself,
as he sent Vader to Mustafar, tracking down Cin Drallig to his death, then to Master Ti.
As he watched the Nebula Class freighter slip away, he ordered all of the hyperdrive docking
rings to be locked down, and the entire Republic fleet above the planet, had been diverted
to tracking the ship. The Silver Angel had just left the underworld of Coruscant, when
the Togruta sensed the change in plans from Palpatine, and ordered for the Martez sisters
to change course. There was little time for debate, as gunships and the Coruscant police
surrounded them, and they flew upwards into the sky, hoping for survival. Before entering
the airspace, the deflector shields had been destroyed and the ship began to shake, as
one of the Jedi used the turret to take out the pursuing pack. Despite some heavy fire,
they managed to escape into hyperspace, relieved that they had managed to survive. Not concerned
about their destination, the Jedi master used the communication system on board the ship,
and searched for any other Jedi, eventually reaching the senator of Alderaan Bail Organa.
The politician had been occupied with rescuing other Jedi, and had just allowed for the Jedi
master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda to change the signal from the Jedi Temple on Coruscant,
so requested for the Jedi master to wait for further instruction, depending on the fate
of the other Council members. The Jedi master agreed, until she looked at the navigational
computer in front of her, and they saw that the sisters had diverted them to the planet
of Kessel, so their safety was far from guaranteed. That is it for part 1 what if Shaak Ti survived.
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