With Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 3 releasing, Obi-Wan was taken to a location on the underground
Jedi railroad where he saw that a variety of other Jedi had survived the purge, including
Quinlan Vos.
When he realized that Quinlan had survived, Kenobi was extremely happy and even allowed
a small smile to wash over his face, something which was very difficult for him by this point
in the time line.
He was a broken.
But there’s actually another reason that Obi-Wan was so happy about this, one that
goes back way further in the timeline.
So hit that subscribe button and lets break down the real reason why Obi-Wan was so happy
that Quinlan Vos survived specifically.
So the main reason that when Obi-Wan viewed the names on the wall in the Jedi safehouse,
he called out Quinlan’s with such joy was because they were incredibly close friends
during their time in the Jedi Order.
They went through some absolutely terrifying and amazing experiences together, even having
to be rescued by Qui-Jinn together a few times…
Coming into the Jedi Order, Quinlan Vos was one of the few Jedi who already had a strong
connection to his parents.
They were named Quian and Pethros Vos, and they were members of Clan Vos, who was the
ruling clan of the planet Kiffu.
Initially, because of these deep ties to his family and homeworld, Vos’ parents completely
refused to give him up to the Jedi Order, because that would cut him off from the responsibilities
on his homeworld, and send him off to live in luxury on Coruscant.
Because of this, the Jedi agreed to a compromise, where Jedi Master Tholme would become Quinlan’s
new Master, but he would have travel to Kiffu to train him there for the early part of his
life.
Unfortunately, this agreement came to and end when both of Quinlan Vos’ parents were
violently murdered by Anazati, one of the most terrifying and scary species to ever
grace the galaxy.
Being the next in line to the planet Kiffu, Quinlan’s aunty became the new ruler and
as her first act, she forced the young child to use his psychommetry power on his Mother’s
medallion…
This caused the young Quinlan to experience absolutely horrifying and traumatic images
of his parents being killed, and he was left in a state of shock for a very long time…
Only his Master Tholme was eventually able to calm the boy down, but it was not easy.
Knowing that Quinlan would never again be safe on his homeworld, especially with his
aunty now being the ruler, he rushed the boy back to the Jedi council, and they agreed
that he should go into regular Jedi training.
Now as a youngling, Quinlan trained alongside Jedi like Bant Eerin, Shylar, Siri Tachi and
most importantly of all, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The two soon became extremely good friends, when Quinlan Vos fought in the Stark Hyperspace
War and alongside Kenobi, getting into very dicey situations together, but always figuring
a way out.
After the war came to and end, Master Tholme left Quinlan Vos for a while, leaving Quinlan
and Obi-Wan with Qui-Gon Jinn on the planet Ragoon VI.
There they had to complete a survival-training mission together, which as you can guess was
not going to be easy at all.
As the mission went on, the two were acting like typical young boys, showing off and trying
to one-up each other.
During this little contest between the two, Quinlan accidently sent himself tumbling down
off a cliff into water, and Kenobi, being the good man he is, jumped into to rescue
him…
This was a horrible idea though because Kenobi was also now in big trouble, and the water
was only moments away from swallowing both of the boys up…
Thankfully for both of them, Qui-Gon Jinn rushed onto the scene and called upon the
force to lift the two from the rapidly spiralling vortex which was taking them both under…
this was yet another horribly traumatic experience for Quinlan Vos and it even deeply affected
Obi-Wan for quite a while after it happened.
Shortly after this, Vos even admitted that as he was in the process of drowing, it seemed
easier for him to just let go and to surrender himself to a “a comfortable and very familliar”
darkness.
This obviously connects back to that horrific experience where he was forced to use his
psychometry to view his mother’s death.
To him, this was just another chapter in that same script, all over again.
Kenobi was likely reminiscing on these past events when he read Quinlan’s name on the
wall and how much they went through together as friends.
To him, it was just a little glimmer of hope that the light in the galaxy hadn’t yet
fully gone out, and that there could be others out there to continue on the Legacy of the
Jedi if he couldn’t.
As you can tell by now, Quinlan was a very Dark and troubled Jedi, but he never let those
past experiences consumer him.
Later on, Quinlan was actually asked to participate at the Battle of Geonosis to rescue Master
Obi-Wan Kenobi, but even despite his long lasting and very close friendship with Kenobi,
he declined to do so.
He was dealing with too much at the time of the incident and had to keep his mind on other
business…
Although, because of his friendship with Obi-Wan, he did send his apprentice Aayla Secura to
the arena.
Now after this, Quinlan was transitioned into the role of a full time spy, a double agent
and a saboteur, which he had plenty of experience with over his time in the order.
In fact you can even see Quinlan Vos on a spy mission on Tatooine in the Phantom Menace,
and the reason he wasn’t able to help Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan there was because he was on a
mission and could not afford to blow his cover.
Regardless, on one of these missions he was tasked with tasked with becoming the fake
apprentice to Count Dooku and spying on him, so that he could get vital information about
the Separatists back to the Republic…
During the mission however, Quinlan actually fell to the Dark Side for real because Dooku
played into Vos’ troubled and dark past.
He knew it was a weakness of Vos, and pushed the right buttons to get him to release his
rage and anger.
During this time as a dark acolyte, Vos met up with his old friend Obi-Wan on the derelict
space ship known as the Titavian IV, and they found themselves on the opposite sides of
a raging conflict.
Kenobi was extremely worried about his old friend and how far he had fallen, but by helping
Kenobi to escape from Asajj Ventress, he proved that he did still serve the Republic.
Now the two fought their way off the dereleict ship together like old times, and the two
Jedi jumped to the Rendili system in the core…
What Quinlan Didn’t know though was that Master Saesee Tiin was waiting in the Rendili
system for him, and imprisoned Quinlan as soon as he arrived there…
In a way, Obi-Wan had just betrayed his oldest friend.
thsi moment again probably weighed on his mind when he saw Quinlan’s name on the wall.
Luckily for Quinlan Though, the power to the prison hold where he was being held was lost,
so he managed to escape and steal a starfighter, and instead of retaliating against the Jedi
for taking him prisoner, he actually did something awesome.
He joined up with his old friend Kenobi once again in order to help rescue Plo Koon and
Jan Dodanna from their capture.
Now after this, Quinlan Returned to Coruscant and begged the Jedi council for their forgiveness
and to believe that he really was still a servant of the Republic, and not a chess piece
of Count Dooku.
Eventually, the council believed Quinlan and they gave him some time to recover, before
reinstating him as a full General of the Grand Army of the Republic.
At that point Quinlan then does the mission we saw in the Clone Wars series to track down
Ziro the Hutt.
As you could probably tell from the episode, their relationship was more of a sarcastic
and colder one than before, and Quinlan was more laid back than he ever was…
As for how he actually survived the Jedi Purge, well we don’t actually know in Canon, but
in legends, he was left stranded in the harsh jungles of Kashyyyk when the Order was given.
His clone Commander Faie eventually tracked him down and blasted him in the chest at point
blank range, but Quinlan was still able to survive.
Thankfully, he was then able to meet back up with his Son and Wife and ensure that they
were also safe…
The same could not be said about many other Jedi in the galaxy sadly…
All we know in Canon is that he was on a list put together by the Grand Inquisitor and Darth
Vader of the top priority Jedi Targets that needed to be hunted down and killed.
And considering Quinlan’s name was on that wall, that may unfortunately be how they knew
he was still alive…
He left clear evidence that he wasn’t swept up by the Clones during Order 66 like all
of the Other jedi.
We also know that he is currently helping the Safehouses across “The Path” to take
in younglings and other force sensitives, to keep them away from Palpatine’s Project
Harvester, which was his program started in the Clone Wars that Captured force sensitive
kids to turn them into Inquisitors…
Maybe he’s also helping Cid from the Bad Batch, since she is known to have regular
contact with a Jedi…
But tell me how you think he survived ORder 66 in the comments down below.
Maybe we’ll even see something like in Star Wars: Jedi Survivor which is the follow up
to Jedi fallen ORder.
So that is the story of why Obi-Wan Kenobi was so happy to see Quinlan Vos’ name specifically
on the wall in the Jedi safehouse in the obi-Wan show.
Their long lasting friendship over the years and the fact that there were still good people
out there looking to restore light to the galaxy.
HOpe you enjoyed that brekadown of Quinlan and Obi-Wan’s friendship over the years,
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Thanks so much for watching guys, hope to see you in the next one!