Serifa Altunen

Serifa Altunen was a Force-sensitive female Arkanian who trained in the ways of the Force under the Jedi Order. Ascending to the rank of Jedi Knight after completing her trials, Altunen went on to become well respected within the Order. When negotiations between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems broke down and the Clone Wars erupted across the galaxy.

As the war dragged on, Altunen became disenchanted with the Order's role in the war and the corruption in the Galactic Senate. Departing Coruscant, Altunen returned to her homeworld of Arkania where she began encouraging the Arkanian government to declare neutrality during the Clone Wars. When the Jedi High Council heard of this, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker were dispatched to persuade her to return to the Order and the war. Rendezvousing with Altunen on a watery tundra plain thirty months after the start of the war, Master Kenobi pleaded with the woman to return to the Jedi Temple. Taking off her Jedi robe and folding it, Altunen officially resigned from the Order, citing that she served the Force, and that she believed that the Jedi no longer did. With the conversation over, Altunen departed the company of her fellow Jedi and returned to her people.

Altunen received training from the Jedi Order and was able to pass the trials to become a Jedi Knight. Having earned a stature of respect, her opinion carried a strong weight towards the government of her homeworld.

Serifa Altunen wore a Jedi cloak during her service to the Jedi Order. She gave it back to Obi-Wan Kenobi when she left the Order.

Serifa Altunen is a character created by author Sean Stewart for the 2004 novel Yoda: Dark Rendezvous.

In The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, published in 2008, it is stated Altunen is a Jedi Master. However, in Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, she is labeled as a Jedi Knight only.

• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia