Tarados Gon was a Force-sensitive Klatooinian who served as a Jedi Knight in the Jedi Order. In 22 BBY, Gon was part of the assault team led by Jedi Master Mace Windu that traveled to the planet Geonosis to save Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi from execution by the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
The Jedi engaged the Separatist forces in the Petranaki Arena but sustained heavy casualties, with Gon and the other survivors eventually finding themselves surrounded. After refusing to surrender to the Separatist Count Dooku, the Jedi were rescued by the arrival of an army of clone troopers led by Grand Master Yoda, which turned the battle around and defeated the Separatists.
Tarados Gon fought in the Geonosis arena.
Tarados Gon was a Klatooinian member of the Jedi Order who served as a guardian of the Galactic Republic. By the year 22 BBY, Gon had risen to the rank of Jedi Knight and was part of an assault team made up of 212 Jedi led by Jedi Master Mace Windu that traveled to the planet Geonosis in order to rescue Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Kenobi had been captured by the Confederacy of Independent Systems, a group of political entities and companies seeking to separate from the Republic. He was due to be executed in the Geonosian Petranaki Arena alongside his Padawan, Anakin Skywalker, and Senator Padmé Amidala, both of whom had been captured trying to rescue Kenobi.
Tarados Gon (far right) was amongst the final surviving Jedi in the arena on Geonosis.
Gon and the other Jedi infiltrated the arena while the three prisoners fought to avoid death. The group of Jedi revealed themselves when Windu confronted Separatist leader Count Dooku. The Jedi then engaged an army of battle droids deployed to the arena, with Gon fighting on the arena floor.
The Jedi sustained heavy casualties, and soon Gon and most of the other survivors found themselves surrounded in a circle at the center of the arena. Dooku called for his droids to cease firing and commended the efforts of the Jedi, before offering them a chance to surrender.
The arrival of the clone army saved the Jedi on Geonosis.
Windu refused the offer, and Dooku gave the order for Gon and the others to be killed. However, before the battle droids could begin firing, Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry gunships descended on the arena carrying an army of clone troopers led by Jedi Grand Master Yoda.
As the droids began firing, the gunships landed in a perimeter around the surviving Jedi in order to rescue them. The Jedi then boarded the ships, which left the arena and carried their occupants to join the wider battle outside. The arrival of the clones ultimately turned the battle in the Jedi and Republic's favor, allowing them to defeat the Separatist forces and force them to flee Geonosis. The battle marked the start of the galaxy-wide Clone Wars.
In the year 3 ABY, the aspiring Jedi Luke Skywalker engaged the Sith Lord Darth Vader, the Sith identity of Anakin Skywalker, in Cloud City on the planet Bespin. During the lightsaber duel, Skywalker used a Force jump to escape a carbon-freezing chamber laid out as a trap by Vader. His jump was as high and quick as those once performed by Gon. Gon was mentioned in an artist's journal, which was restored, expanded, and displayed at the Graf Archive at some point after 34 ABY.
Tarados Gon was a Force-sensitive Klatooinian with brown skin.
Gon was a noted and skilled user of the Force jump power, which he could perform with speed and to achieve great heights.
Gon wore a light-brown tunic with dark-brown pants and used a blue-bladed lightsaber.
Tarados Gon and Saesee Tiin shake hands in a deleted scene.
Tarados Gon first appeared in the 2002 prequel trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, played by an uncredited actor. The character was first identified by name in the new Star Wars canon in the 2018 reference book Star Wars: Alien Archive.
The Jedi battle in the Geonosis Arena scenes were filmed on Stage 3 at Fox Studios, Sydney, between August 10 and August 15, 2000. In an unused and unfinished alternate cut of the Battle of Geonosis in which a group of Jedi board a Droid Control Ship during the arena battle, Tarados Gon can be seen shaking hands with Saesee Tiin in the circle of surviving Jedi after they seemingly manage to shut down the droids attacking them. The droids then reactivate, leaving the Jedi surrounded once more.
Although Gon's lightsaber is primarily shown as blue in color throughout Attack of the Clones, it is erroneously green in color during the shot in which Mace Windu refuses to surrender to Count Dooku. The character's name originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first used in the 2003 reference book Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, written by Curtis Saxton and Simon Beecroft.
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