Shaak Ti article, dedicated to Ms Kitti Keri, and Ms Orli Shosan, the Hungarian and the US actors, who played the Togruta Jedi. Both of them gave voice samples for CustomStarWars, which exclusive friendly messages can be listened by opening the articles with Internet Explorer.

Battle of Hypori

When Master Daakman Barrek reported intelligence he had gathered on Hypori to the High Council, a task force was dispatched to take the large droid factory Barrek had discovered offline. The task force, consisting of Councilors Shaak Ti and Ki-Adi-Mundi, along with Jedi Aayla Secura, K'Kruhk, and Tarr Seirr, joined with Barrek and his Padawan, Sha'a Gi, in leading a ground assault on the planet. Out-maneuvered by droids, the Jedi's clone army was defeated, with reinforcements being destroyed as soon as they emerged from hyperspace. Rushing for the shelter provided by the wreckage of a downed Acclamator-class assault ship, Barrek covered his fellow Jedi and engaged the leader of the droid army in the process: General Grievous.
The six remaining Jedi were left surrounded by the hordes of Super Battle Droids produced by the factory. As the Jedi prepared for the inevitable standoff, Grievous dove down from above, making the clearing amidst the wreckage his arena. Engaging the cyborg, the Jedi were defeated one by one; Padawan Gi's fear overwhelmed him, quickly leading to his death, Jedi Sierr's head was crushed under the cyborg's heavy durasteel talons, while K'Kruhk was left for dead after a seemingly mortal blow from one of the General's two lightsabers. Secura was easily batted aside during the fighting, with Ti and Mundi holding their own the longest. While using her telekinetic abilities to distract Grievous, Ti was caught off guard by revealing his second pair of limbs, sending the Togruta Jedi hurtling into a pile of debris. With Mundi the last Jedi standing, the Cerean began to fence with the General, but was rescued by a group of ARC troopers aboard a Republic gunship. Outgunned by the firepower of the Gunship, and clone heavy gunners, Grievous retreated, allowing the troopers to load up the dead and injured Jedi and retreat back to Coruscant.

Battle of Brentaal IV

Five months into the war, the Galactic Republic had received information that a Separatist stronghold would be lying dormant for a few weeks, opening a window of opportunity for a decisive strike to cripple the fortress of a potentially secessionist planet. Because this planet, Brentaal IV, was a vital link in the Perlemian Trade Route connecting the Core Worlds and the Tion Cluster, the Republic dispatched a large task force to hold the planet and overthrow General Shogar Tok on the planet's surface. Leading the mission from orbit, Master Plo Koon coordinated Masters Ti, Shon Kon Ray and Agen Kolar on the ground. Leading three separate groups up to the fortress in a massive assault, each team was met with heavy resistance, suffering substantial casualties including Master Ray, whose Gunship was shot down. Rallying her remaining troops for a final push towards the fortress, Master Ti charged into the structure to find many freshly killed beings. As she and her only one surviving clone trooper surveyed the building they discovered it was truly a prison, and a recent uprising left many of its prisoners and guards dead. After a brief fight with a group of prisoners, Ti managed to convince them to aid her in destroying the facility in exchange for their freedom. The small band of outlaws consisted of renegade Senate Guard Sagoro Autem, the Wookiee Ryyk, rogue Jedi Quinlan Vos, and Lyshaa, the Zeltron responsible for Padawan Fe Sun's death. Putting aside her dislike of Lyshaa, Ti decided to split the group into three parts; She and Lyshaa searched the facility for General Tok, Vos and Autem should disable the weapons system, and the lone clone trooper would take out the shield generator alone, because the wookie has been killed by a Skrak monster previously. Once all was said and done, Ti planned for Master Koon to execute a bombing run on the structure and decimate the Separatist army surrounding it.
Setting out to find Tok, Ti refused to be goaded into a confrontation with Lyshaa; but the Zeltron girl remained suspicious against Shaak Ti, her paranoia did not let her stay calm, she did not dare to turn her back, because afraid of Shaak Ti's revenge. She did not understand, Shaak Ti does not hate her, she has forgave, because she is a Jedi, a child of the Light. It does not changed this matter, when Shaak Ti saved Lyshaa's life lightstorm trap, Force Pushing Lsyhaa out from the chamber, while she tried to somersault amongst the deadly rays. Getting out finally, Lyshaa jelled the Jedi in rage, thinking that was an assassination attempt of the Jedi. Shaak Ti told she does not want the blood of Lyshaa, and if she had wanted to kill her, it has been already happened. Lyshaa did not believed this, and even planned a trait, when the perfect time comes, she wanted to strike down the Jedi. The Jedi did not know that, so she convinced the Zeltron to use her innate ability to manipulate pheromones in order to distract Shogar Tok long enough for Ti to arrest him. While the pair searched for the elusive warlord, Tok had in fact captured Master Kolar and was in the process of interrogating him before the holoimage of Count Dooku. Kolar falsely informed the Count that Ti had in fact perished in the fighting; however the Sith Lord did not believe these claims and ordered Tok to find the Togruta's body. Heading back to his private chambers, Tok encountered the Zeltron bounty hunter in his sleeping chambers. Lulled by her power over emotions, Lyshaa seduced him into bed while Ti maneuvered herself to arrest the warlord. Before Ti could do so, Lyshaa betrayed the Jedi and warned Tok of the threat. Blasting Ti in the chest, the pair left her for dead and continued to make their way for the bed.
Slowing her metabolism so she could quickly heal herself, Ti sensed the other two teams destroy both the weapons and shielding equipment in the levels below her. With Lyshaa and Tok distracted, Master Ti sprung up and slew Tok after a brief but fierce firefight. Not trusting Ti's promise of mercy, Lyshaa ran for her life, only to activate a hidden lightstorm chamber. The room filled with beams of coherent light, eviscerating Lyshaa's body, killing her. With Tok dead and the fortress disabled and vulnerable, Shaak Ti rendezvous with her comrades and was shuttled back to the Halls of Healing on Coruscant.

Battle of Coruscant

Shaak Ti was stationed on Coruscant as the High Council obtained more and more leads regarding the existence of the mysterious "second Sith," Darth Sidious. When SBI agents traced information to the abandoned industrial sector known as The Works on Coruscant, where the Sith Lord met Count Dooku after his missions, Shaak Ti accompanied a group of ARC troopers and Master Mace Windu to the abandoned LiMerge Power building and separated into Teams Aurek and Bacta to search the network of tunnels covering the planet's surface. After a mass search, the SBI agents discovered that one tunnel led directly into the subbasement of 500 Republica, a massive residence tower home to many Senators and the Supreme Chancellor. As they raced to the Tower, a massive Separatist fleet appeared in Coruscant's orbit, forcing Windu and Ti to withdraw from the search. While Windu traveled to the Temple to coordinate the counter assault, Shaak Ti was dispatched to protect the Chancellor. Meeting up with Masters Foul Moudama, Roron Corobb they were in demanding that the Chancellor evacuate to the shelters. As he lectured the Jedi and his advisers on his symbolic importance to the Republic and his ensured safety because of his position, General Grievous and several MagnaGuards infiltrated the suite and attempted to capture the Republic's leader.

So Shaak Ti has no other choice then to take away Palpatine with force, to save his life. Fleeing the room with the Chancellor while clone troopers and senate guards stalled Grievous, with no chance of success. They only could gains time for the fleeing, while Grievous slaughtered them all. The Jedi descended through the Tower, reaching the lower level mag-train station where they joined up with Masters Windu and Kit Fisto. Safely on board with the Chancellor, Windu and Fisto were able to destroy the MagnaGuards and dislodge Grievous from the train. Grievous was not destroyed however, commandeering a Republic gunship to chase down the train. The Jedi, believing themselves to be in the clear, arrived at the bunker's turbolift station and bid Master's Windu and Fisto farewell. While the four Jedi protectors escorted the Chancellor to the bunker, Ti stayed behind in the tunnel to hold off dozens of oncoming Magna Guards. As Moudama and Corobb escorted the Chancellor down the lift, Ti and Allie were forced to stay behind to engage the newly caught-up Grievous. Opening fire on the Jedi, the Kaleesh General cut down the clone escort and bypassed the unconscious Jedi. Descending into the bunker, Grievous slaughtered the Chancellor's Jedi bodyguards and captured the man, retreating with his prize back to his ship.
A battle-weary Ti sensed them, and rushed to the plot, confronting Grievous as he fled, but was too weak to defeat him. After a brief fight, she was quickly subdued. Gripping her by the throat and arms Grievous took her lightsaber as a trophy and trussed the Togruta in a stun-net so that she could tell anyone who found her what had happened. When Windu and Fisto discovered the dead Jedi and heard Ti's tale, they sent her back to the Temple to recover as they chased Grievous into space. This time Shaak Ti told again that ominous I failed sentence, which was heard from her before General Grievous killed her on aboard the Invisible Hand. This sentence is kind of Shaak Ti specific, that is the reason we chose it with Ms Orli Shosan, when finding out a good sentence for this article, which can open this section as a friendly message. Namely she failed the Jedi master(s), because she hasn't read CustomStarWars this morning, but she will make up for this right away. And as an extra gift, as a kind of "compensation" of that morning mistake (namely not reading CustomStarWars) she dedicated a Revenge of the Sith series Shaak Ti action figure for me.  I hope the Reader won't do this mistake, and won't forget to read CustomStarWars regularly, unless her/his signature is the same valuable as Ms Shosan's. ;)

Defending the Jedi Temple

Unknown to Shaak Ti, Mace Windu, Kit Fisto, Saesee Tiin and Agen Kolar had been killed by Darth Sidious. Also unknown to her was that Anakin had been seduced to the dark side of the force by Sidious and had become Darth Vader, and the 501st Legion of the Grand Army of the Republic, led by Darth Vader, is descending on the Temple. Some sources tell us Shaak Ti rallied her fellow Jedi in an attempt to repulse the Sith and his minions. The Shaak Ti ensured that many Initiates, Padawans their way into the bowels of Coruscant before she reluctantly made her own escape. Other sources tell us Shaak Ti died here, as Ti was meditating in her chamber, Interrupting her trance, Jedi Skywalker or now rather Darth Vader killed her. He stabbed her in the back, and cut her head off then took the head back to the Chancellor as a prove executing Order 66, and a terrible memento of the Fall of the Jedi.

Those sources, that state Shaak Ti has escaped the Temple, give new life for her, and new adventures, which are mostly in the comics, novels, and also can be seen in the game Force Unleashed. Again, her death is not clear, and depicted different ways. In the N-Gage/iPhone version of The Force Unleashed, Shaak Ti's death is portrayed differently. During her duel with Starkiller, she calls upon Felucia's plants to fight him. When Ti charges in attack herself, Starkiller uses the Force to make a Felucian carnivorous plant attack her. After several such attacks, Ti is killed. Or she was killed by Galen Marek by a Sarlacc pit, despite the Sarlacc protects her.

Shaak Ti's name possibly derived from the female Hindi deity of strength Shakti, is shared with an in-universe beast native to Naboo, the shaak. Given life by Orli Shoshan, she had no spoken lines but posed for promotional pictures which appeared on action figures and in guidebooks. Shoshan was asked to reprise her background role as Shaak Ti during the filming of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, though all of her scenes were cut from the finished product. In the deleted scenes she talks, has some lines, (I failed) but the Jedi is mostly in the background. (Jedi Archives, Geonosis arena) She has much more significant roles in both Clone wars cartoons. Aside from the movies, Shaak Ti also has appeared in several other media including graphic novels, television series, and books. Also, promotional images were taken with slight differences in her make-up, and used in guidebooks and on other products.

This kind of mess portraying of her death is not a single matter, unfortunately her voice is also a weird thing, many actress gave her voice for the very character. The character was voiced by Grey DeLisle in the Star Wars: Clone Wars 2D-animated series (she was Brianna the Handmaiden in KotOR2), by Tasia Valenza in the 2008 Clone Wars TV series (as "very calm" and "subdued" with a "Spanish flavor, maybe something on the Brazilian side"), and by Susan Eisenberg in the video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed while model Mia Kelly was used to form the character's game model. The Hungarian dubbing also a bit weird, in the Clone Wars cartoon she was voiced by Nora Kovacs, and the TV series of animated Clone Wars series she was voiced by Kitti Keri.

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 written and translated by: Norbert Rostas 2014.08.19.