Obi-Wan Kenobi

Biography

Early life

Obi-Wan Kenobi born on the planet Stewjon in 57 BBY. Although he was very young when he was separated from his family, he retained fleeting memories of his father's hands, his mother's shawl, and a baby he believed to be his brother, though his memory of him was faint.

Joining the Jedi Order

Upon the discovery of Kenobi's Force-sensitivity, he was taken from his homeworld to the Jedi Temple on the Core Worlds planet Coruscant to be trained as a Jedi within the first six months of his life. In the Jedi crèche, he joined other Jedi younglings in the Kybuck Clan during his early years, which included his friends Gehren and Prie. Kenobi began basic Initiate training alongside his peers in the Jedi Order's Temple and started learning several simple Force techniques by the age of three in 54 BBY.

Kenobi studied the ways of the Force and Jedi traditions under Grand Master Yoda, eventually developing great respect for him and the Jedi Council. He also received instruction in lightsaber combat from Jedi Master Cin Drallig, learning basic lightsaber forms and techniques. Before becoming a Padawan, Kenobi attended a class focused on meditation. Unlike his later behavior, Kenobi was known for breaking rules and having a rebellious nature as a youngling, leading to few Masters willing to train him as their Padawan. To address this, Yoda sought a teacher with unorthodox methods to mold Kenobi by making him rebel through duty.

Qui-Gon Jinn's Padawan

Initial endeavors

Around 44 BBY, Qui-Gon Jinn chose Kenobi, then thirteen, as his Padawan learner. During his apprenticeship, he befriended Jape, a fellow Padawan with whom he corresponded, and maintained contact with crèche-mate Prie and the Mon Calamari Bant Eerin. In their first months together, Jinn tried to adapt his teaching to Kenobi's strengths but felt he did not succeed adequately. During his training, Kenobi built his first lightsaber, modeled after Jinn's lightsaber hilt style and his own personality. As they struggled to establish a workable affinity, Jinn continued to train him in basic cadences of lightsaber combat, preventing him from specializing. Jinn was proud of Kenobi's skills and sparred with him at the Temple between missions. Kenobi spent much time in training dojos to hone his techniques.

Jinn taught Kenobi the strength and nobility of restraint. Over time, Kenobi became more serious and respectful of the Council, contrasting Jinn's maverick approach based on instincts, even against the Council's wishes. They held differing philosophies on focusing on the future versus the present and interpreted the Force differently. Despite their differences, Kenobi strived to be a good student and supported Jinn's research into ancient Jedi prophecies. Kenobi spent most of his free time in the Temple gathering information from the Jedi Archives and the holocron of prophecy under Jocasta Nu's watchful eye. He learned Old Alderaanian, the language of many holocron prophecies. To escape the workload, Kenobi played dejarik in Coruscant's lower levels after finishing his Master's research.

Early travels and visit to Kashyyyk

The pair's training issues were discussed with Jedi Councilors Depa Billaba and Mace Windu to find a solution, but without success. During his Padawan years, Kenobi and Jinn visited a fortress on Lah'mu, Alderaan's royal palace, and Ryloth and Gatalenta. While training, he met Siri Tachi and developed feelings for her, but did not act on them. Soon after becoming Jinn's Padawan, Kenobi was eager to prove himself on a mission, but Jinn was absent when they were to leave. Angered by his master's abandonment, Kenobi went to Lenahra alone on the mission. There, he found teenagers and datachips hidden by Orla Jareni long before. He met Dexter Jettster, a Besalisk who became a close friend.

During training, Kenobi traveled to Kashyyyk with his Master for Life Day. Jinn taught him about the Wookiee's way of life and harmony, connecting it to their Force connection. Although slightly overwhelmed, Kenobi took the lessons to heart and met Brennonn, a Wookiee acquaintance of Jinn. However, their gathering was interrupted by Trandoshans who captured Wookiees for a hunt. Despite Kenobi's efforts, Jinn was also captured.

Though captive, Jinn trusted his Padawan to rescue him. Kenobi, hesitant to endanger more Wookiees, planned with Brennonn to free the prisoners. He surrendered to the Trandoshans, claiming to be a simple student. While speaking with the hunters' leader, Kenobi used the Force to subtly open Jinn's cage. As both Jedi brandished their lightsabers, other Wookiees helped free their friends. After the situation, the Wookiees chose to leave the group in peace, citing Life Day as a reason to avoid violence. Back at the festivities, Kenobi was confused why Jinn did not free himself. Jinn explained it was a learning experience to gain insight from Wookiee perspectives on life.

Protecting Satine Kryze

Between 41 BBY and 39 BBY, Kenobi and Jinn spent a year on Mandalore protecting Satine Kryze from insurgents threatening her world. Bounty hunters pursued them, forcing them to live as fugitives. This mission forced them to work together, forging a close bond.

Kryze called Kenobi "Ben." During an incident with venom-mites on Draboon, Kenobi carried Kryze to safety, but he fell and dropped her, resulting in a scar. Kenobi fell in love with Satine, but he continued his training and was reassigned after completing his objectives, following the Jedi Code. Satine stayed to lead her people, not asking Kenobi to remain, knowing it would be a difficult choice.

Incident on Teth

In 40 BBY, Kenobi and Jinn were sent to Teth to investigate missing agricultural shipments on the Triellus trade route. They struggled to find information, arousing the suspicions of those responsible. As the situation turned violent, Kenobi and Jinn stormed a building, using their lightsaber skills to force their way through. Jinn felt Kenobi was not following instructions well and chose to escape.

Jinn instructed Kenobi to find a ship, but he failed when stopped in a hangar. Kenobi was briefly held hostage by Wanbo the Hutt's majordomo, Thurible, but released in exchange for Wanbo, captured by Jinn. Eventually, the Jedi left the planet after making a tenuous peace with Wanbo. Despite attempts to remain lighthearted, Kenobi felt he had failed his Master.

On Coruscant, Jinn told the Jedi Council about their communication issues on Teth, suggesting they might not be meant to be a pair. Jinn received an invitation to join the Council after the mission, which displeased Kenobi upon learning of it during a meeting with Supreme Chancellor Kirames Kaj. Jinn decided to consider the invitation after meditation, knowing acceptance would result in Kenobi's reassignment.

Mission to Pijal

Days after the mission to Teth, a political dispute on the Inner Rim planet Pijal caught Kaj's attention. Reports suggested a performance troupe called the Opposition was protesting the signing of the Governance Treaty, which would end the absolutist monarchy. Jinn and Kenobi were informed that Lord Regent Rael Averross requested their aid to curb the attacks, learn about their origins, and ensure the opening of the Pijal Hyperspace Corridor hyperspace route. They were also instructed to protect the Pijali Crown Princess Fanry until she could sign the treaty at her coronation on behalf of the Republic.

Kenobi and Jinn were dispatched, and Jinn informed his Padawan about Averross's training under Dooku. Upon arriving in the Pijal system, they saw soulcraft vessels under plasma attacks and rescued the ships. With an antiplasma charge, Kenobi and Jinn rescued several soulcraft and the slaves inside. They were greeted by Fanry upon arriving at the Pijali palace. After being briefed, they used a shuttle to meet with gemstone thieves Rahara Wick and Pax Maripher on the moon. After negotiation, the thieves agreed to assist in finding the Opposition and its leader, Halin Azucca.

Kenobi and Jinn made trips to the moon, but scans for the Opposition were unsuccessful. On the palace grounds, Kenobi participated in the ritual Grand Hunt riding a Pijal varactyl. During the hunt, the crab droid prey attacked Fanry, prompting Kenobi to destroy it. Upon investigation, they concluded the sabotage came from within the palace, not the Opposition.

Eventually, Kenobi and Jinn met Azucca on Pijal's moon, who claimed her performance artists were framed for the attacks. Jinn refused to ratify the Governance Treaty at Fanry's coronation after a violent Force vision. Azucca later provided evidence that the attacks on Czerka facilities originated from blackguards, a division of the Pijali royal guards secretly under Captain Deren and Fanry's orders.

Kenobi, knowing Jinn would refuse, was appointed by the Jedi Council to ratify the initiative. However, at Fanry's coronation, the princess seized power as an absolute monarch to prevent the treaty, decrying democracy. Kenobi tried to protect the Skykeeper leader when Fanry ordered the death of those she perceived as traitors. Kenobi listened to Fanry's speech about her elders' greed and used his kohlen crystal sabotaged lightsaber to attack Deren. After her captain was injured, the newly crowned queen escaped the Celestial Chalice with her confidante Cady, leaving the Skykeeper, the jeweler, and Kenobi behind.

While Jinn negotiated with Fanry over hologram, Kenobi helped the slaves aboard the Czerka cruiser, Leverage revolt with Maripher's help. Eventually, Cady ended Fanry's rule by holding her at blaster-point until she surrendered. Because Fanry threatened Kenobi while he was a Republic representative, the crowning was deemed illegitimate. Kenobi and Jinn helped the planet establish a democratic Assembly after Fanry's abdication and reported back to Coruscant. Kenobi felt this mission was one of the first where he and Jinn worked well together. However, he also realized that his pairing with Jinn had strengthened his resolve to be a "Perfect Jedi" and follow the Jedi Code in all aspects, if only to be rebellious towards an unorthodox teacher.

Saving Th'er

The Jedi Order later dispatched Kenobi and Jinn to the world of Bri'n to mediate a dispute there. On Bri'n, the head of the Metal Clan made an attempt to seize the priestess Th'er with the intention of using either her statements or her life force to obliterate her plants. Surrounded by Metal Clan forces, Jinn opted to flee with Th'er aboard an Eta-class shuttle, heading back to Coruscant. Once they arrived, Kenobi observed, without interfering, as Th'er tried to persuade Qui-Gon to get involved in her conflict. Ultimately, however, she decided to seek allies on Coruscant itself.

Operations in the Botor Vicinity

Sometime before 32 BBY, Jinn and Kenobi were active near a planet that was used as a base by the Flesh Mongers piratical organization, piloting a couple of Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptors. The pair received a request for assistance from Jedi Master Yoda, who was on the planet's surface. After landing, Jinn and Kenobi found that Yoda had neutralized the entire pirate group to rescue a Force-sensitive youth named Lo, whom the pirates intended to sell due to his Force abilities. After entrusting the child to Kenobi and Jinn, Yoda departed to pursue his next objective.

Naboo Invasion

Envoys to the Supreme Chancellor

In 32 BBY, when Jinn believed Kenobi was ready for his trials, Galactic Republic Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum dispatched them to negotiate with the Trade Federation, which had established a siege around the planet Naboo. Recognizing the importance of the mission, both Jedi thoroughly studied political documents and trade relationships between the involved parties. The Jedi duo were charged with brokering a resolution with Trade Federation officials.

The two journeyed to the system aboard the Consular-class space cruiser Radiant VII and arrived at the modified Lucrehulk-class LH-3210 cargo freighter Saak'ak, the command ship of the blockade. Once there, Kenobi and Jinn were escorted to a conference room, where protocol droid TC-14 informed them that a Trade Federation representative would join them soon and invited them to relax. However, upon TC-14's discovery that the pair were Jedi, Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray instead instructed the droid to return to the room to create a distraction, offering Kenobi and Jinn refreshments. Gunray then commanded his security forces to eliminate the Jedi and their transport, with an overhead weapon destroying the Radiant VII and its crew.

Sensing the destruction of their vessel, the two Jedi stood up and ignited their lightsabers, only to notice toxic dioxis gas being released into the room, prompting them to hold their breath. OOM-series security droids were then deployed to confirm the Jedi's demise, but Kenobi and Jinn escaped into the corridor and destroyed the combat droids before heading towards the Saak'ak's bridge. Kenobi fended off the battle droids while Jinn attempted to breach the doors to the bridge. However, droidekas summoned by Gunray arrived, forcing the two Jedi to retreat into a nearby ventilation shaft, using Force enhancement to accelerate their escape. The two fled to Naboo's surface by concealing themselves on separate C-9979 landing crafts in the Saak'ak's vehicle bay, and in the process discovered a droid military preparing to invade Naboo.

Rescuing Queen Amidala

Upon reaching Naboo, Kenobi was attacked by a pair of Federation Single Trooper Aerial Platforms while on his way to Jinn's location. His Master, accompanied by Jar Jar Binks, a member of Naboo's indigenous Gungan race, rescued him. After some deliberation, Binks consented to guide the two Jedi to Otoh Gunga, a concealed submerged Gungan settlement, where the group was brought before the Gungan leader Boss Nass. Although unable to persuade the Gungans to aid the humans of Naboo, Jinn used the Force to persuade Nass to provide transportation, enabling them to reach Naboo's main city Theed. Navigating the transport through the planet's inner regions, the trio was attacked by an Opee sea killer at one point, which caused damage to the ship and shut down electronic systems. Kenobi swiftly resolved the issue with some rewiring, and after a brief encounter with a Sando aqua monster, Kenobi, Jinn, and Binks arrived in Theed.

Upon their arrival, the group realized that the Trade Federation had already seized control of Theed, finding deserted streets. The two Jedi encountered a group of battle droids escorting Queen Amidala and several others to a detention camp, and promptly engaged the droids, liberating the queen and her companions. Following this, the Jedi moved to a nearby hangar, intending to use a Naboo starship to transport the queen to Coruscant. Kenobi moved to free several pilots who were being held captive by battle droids, while his master led the rest of their group to a ship. After a brief engagement, the group departed Naboo in the queen's spacecraft in an attempt to reach Coruscant with news of the Trade Federation invasion. During the escape, the ship's faster-than-light drive was damaged by droid space superiority fighters, preventing them from jumping directly to Coruscant and forcing them to instead land on Tatooine for repairs.

Sith Return

After landing on the arid planet, Kenobi remained on the ship while Jinn, Binks, the droid R2-D2, and Amidala, disguised as a servant, went to look for a new hyperdrive unit. While searching, Jinn discovered Anakin Skywalker, a young enslaved human from whom he obtained a blood sample for analysis, believing the child possessed a strong connection to the Force. Jinn transmitted the data to Kenobi on the ship, instructing him to analyze it. Kenobi's analysis revealed that the boy's Force-sensitive cellular organisms count was higher than that of any Jedi. When Jinn arrived, accompanied by Skywalker, Darth Maul, a Sith apprentice, attacked Jinn, prompting Kenobi to order the ship to take off, with Jinn leaping aboard as it ascended. The group then proceeded to Coruscant.

Upon arriving on the planet, Jinn and Kenobi went directly to the Jedi Council to report on the mysterious attacker, whom Jinn believed to be a Sith Master. After being briefed on how to respond to their mysterious assailant, Jinn discussed Skywalker with the Council, believing him to be the prophesied one. However, the Council was determined that the boy not be trained. Nevertheless, Jinn persisted, informing them that he would take the boy as his Padawan, despite the Jedi Code's limitations, but Kenobi insisted he was ready to take the trials, and his master agreed. Instead of discussing the matter further, Mace Windu sent the pair back to Naboo to protect the Queen and also as an attempt to lure out the mysterious assailant.

After returning to Naboo, Binks located the Gungans, and Amidala, revealing her true identity as the Queen, pleaded with Boss Nass to provide assistance in combating the droid armies of the Trade Federation. Boss Nass agreed to engage in combat with the droids as a diversion, while the Queen's forces infiltrated Theed and captured Gunray. However, they soon encountered Maul once again and engaged in a duel with him, stalling for time while Amidala and her forces reached the throne room. During the duel with Maul, Kenobi was separated from his master and forced to witness Maul impaling Jinn with Maul's dual lightsaber. When the opportunity presented itself, Kenobi, consumed by rage, retaliated against the Sith. However, the Dathomirian Zabrak gained the advantage and knocked Kenobi into a nearby shaft, where he barely managed to grasp a knob protruding from the side before falling to his death. Maul seized this opportunity to kick his lightsaber into the shaft. Despite his predicament, Kenobi was able to use Jinn's lightsaber to sever the Sith in half, whose body plummeted down the shaft, presumably dead. Kenobi then rushed to his master's side and promised a dying Jinn that he would train Skywalker.

Master of the Chosen One

Early Years

Following the conclusion of the Battle of Naboo, Kenobi was elevated to the rank of Jedi Knight by the Council, with Yoda reluctantly accepting his decision to train Skywalker. Kenobi was later present during Jinn's memorial service, where he informed the boy that he would become a Jedi. Along with Amidala and her court, Kenobi and Skywalker remained at the funeral long after the Jedi Council had departed, waiting until every last ember had extinguished. Although he deeply mourned the loss of his teacher, Kenobi also felt that Jinn had abruptly dismissed him in favor of prophecies and unwavering belief in Skywalker as the Chosen One. Nevertheless, as he watched his mentor's body in its final moments, he promised that he would chose to believe the prophecies. Later on, Kenobi, alongside his new Padawan and several members of the Jedi Council, took part in a victory celebration in Theed.

During his initial year as Skywalker's Master, he occasionally awoke at night to find his Padawan sleeping on the floor next to his bed; he realized Skywalker, having lost both his mother and Jinn, was clinging onto him, desperate to ensure his new master did not vanish one night. During one of their many adventures, Kenobi fell into a nest of gundarks, prompting Skywalker to rescue him. At the Jedi Temple, Kenobi trained Skywalker in meditation and levitating rocks. Though Skywalker wished to know more about his mentor's early life, he did not remember much of it by that point. Kenobi had several misgivings toward taking on Skywalker as his Padawan, but stuck to his firm commitment of honoring his late master's dying wish. But Kenobi was still mourning Jinn, and he began to have the perspective that Skywalker got a very raw deal being forced to be with a master who was hardly fit to be a teacher and had just barely got beyond the Jedi trials himself.

Dallenor Assignment

Kenobi received an assignment to travel to the planet Dallenor, where an archaeology team had unearthed a Jedi archive device. Kenobi chose to bring Skywalker with him as part of his training. Kenobi went to the Temple Archives to find information on Dallenor and about any Jedi that went there, to no avail. He told Master Yoda that he would bring his apprentice with him, to which Yoda surprisingly agreed. Kenobi and Skywalker took a T-6 shuttle to Dallenor.

Upon their arrival, Kenobi met mistress Clatriffe, who told of her troubles with the local pirates. Kenobi was told of Clatriffe's discovery of centuries-old droids and how she had to hire several of the locals for protection. Kenobi examined the Holocron, but did not open it due to the arrival of the Krypder Riders and their leader, Hudso Shaku. Kenobi attempted to convince them to leave, but Shaku and the riders demanded the artifacts and Kenobi's weapon. Kenobi fought the riders and subdued them. Kenobi then saw that Shaku had taken Skywalker hostage and demanded his lightsaber. Before Obi-Wan could give a reply, Anakin was able to knock Shaku out with rocks.

Other adventures with Skywalker and a crisis of faith

A few years later, Obi-Wan and Anakin journeyed to the planet Ilum so that Skywalker could construct his first lightsaber; after its construction, Kenobi said to him, "Anakin, this weapon is your life." When Skywalker was twelve years old, Kenobi was assigned a mission to study a stellar system that revolved, seemingly impossibly, around a dormant star. Upon realizing Skywalker had secretly snuck aboard his starship, Kenobi elected to turn the mission into a teaching experience, telling Skywalker of the dead celestial body as a metaphor for how Jedi needed to learn to let go of their attachments. Despite his initial misgivings about Skywalker, having once believed him to be dangerous and would do more harm than good, Kenobi soon grew to view the boy as a his equal, finding a partner in their missions, and came to see him as his brother.

At some point, Kenobi and Skywalker, during a mission in which they were they were joined by Jedi Master Shaak Ti, were involved in complicated business on the terrestrial astronomical object of Naran-Shiv. In 29 BBY, Skywalker sought to impress his peers at the Jedi Temple. During a training session, he defeated a droid used for combat training, which he had programmed to mimic the appearance of the Sith of Naboo. All the while, Mace Windu, Kenobi and Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine watched—the latter of whom was impressed.

Sometime later, Skywalker struggled to learn the skill of creature domestication when Kenobi told him that the Chancellor wanted to see him. The two arrived at Palpatine's office, where Palpatine requested that Skywalker accompany him on an errand, declining Kenobi's company. Upon Skywalker's return to the Jedi Temple, he confided in Kenobi that he wished to leave the Order, feeling uncomfortable at the prospect of his entire life being decided when he was only nine years old, and surrendered his lightsaber to his master. Though Kenobi took the weapon, he pleaded Skywalker to reconsider.

Kenobi later confided to Yoda about Skywalker's thoughts about leaving the Jedi Order and that he himself thought he had failed Skywalker despite doing the best he could to teach him, that Skywalker belonged with the Jedi Order and that he was too young not ready to be out on his own. Yoda confirmed that Kenobi himself was still young as well and that Skywalker was still a child and that it was natural for him to have questions. Yoda then asked if Kenobi would be breaking his vow to Qui-Gon Jinn by allowing Skywalker to leave, but Kenobi asserted that he would still train Skywalker in the Force in case the dark side found him. Yoda reminded Kenobi that Jedi training was exclusive to the Jedi Order, to which Kenobi responded that if Skywalker left, so would he.

Carnelion IV Assignment

Before Skywalker could give his definite answer, at Yoda's behest, both student and master answered a mysterious distress call from the supposedly-dead world of Carnelion IV that specifically called for Jedi intercession. They began their journey to the coordinates, but their shuttle was damaged due to the planet's air debris field and the two had to eject from the doomed vessel, landing below the Celadon Sea. Not too long afterwards, they came to be aware of there being life on the planet as a sky battle raged over them, and Kenobi returned his lightsaber to him so that he could defend himself. As one of the combatant airships began to fall, Skywalker and Kenobi saved its two-person crew by delaying the crash.

The survivors, Kolara and Mother Pran, were unaware of the distress signal and who the Jedi were. Kenobi was then able to use a mind trick on Pran to lower her weapons. However, they came under attack by the other airship. Kenobi then used his lightsaber to destroy the airship. Kenobi then stopped the pilot, Grecker from shooting at Skywalker, Pran, and Kolara. After Skywalker destroyed their blasters, Kenobi then pulled their knives away. Kenobi reasoned with Grecker, Kolara, and Pran that they needed to get to safety. As they made their way, they came across Corpse-leeches. Kenobi and Skywalker then drew their lightsabers and tried to use the force to connect with them to no avail. Kenobi and the others then boarded an airship.

Kenobi then refused to give them the location of the distress signal. He also told Grecker that Skywalker was not his son, but his Padawan at the dying request of his master. Kenobi and Grecker then defended the airship against the corpse-leeches. However, Pran and Kolara took Skywalker with them and abandoned the airship. Kenobi was then left behind on the airship as Pran destroyed it.

Kenobi and Grecker were then able to jump off the airship before it crashed. Kenobi was then able to use the force to make the creatures understand him. Kenobi then asked Grecker to tell him where Skywalker was taken to. Grecker told him that he did not know where the open was. Kenobi then decided to go after him with Grecker after getting air masks on. Kenobi and Grecker then found the location of the distress signal. They then came under attack by a creature. Grecker then fired a flare. Kenobi and Grecker then fought until a masked man came out and let them in. Kenobi was able to get inside before Grecker closed the door. The man, Sera, then showed Kenobi his collection of his world's remnants. Kenobi was then told that Sera was the one who sent the distress signal. He then told Kenobi about his collection of relics and how both the open and closed wanted him dead.

Kenobi then learned about how Sera sent the signal and learned about both the Jedi and Sith. Kenobi and Sera then went to the roof to watch as Grecker's forces attacked his fortress. Despite Sera's pleas for Kenobi to kill them, Kenobi told her that the Jedi spare everyone. Kenobi then spoke with Grecker and convinced him to stop their attack. However, Mother Pran attacked with her machines. Kenobi was then saved by Skywalker. Kenobi then took Skywalker to the Sera's communication unit. There, Skywalker was able to send out a signal off-planet. Republic and Jedi forces arrived where they ended the conflict.

Glee Anselm Assignment

Grand Master Yoda was taken by battle droids and taken to the planet Glee Anselm. Kenobi and Skywalker were sent to rescue him. Whilst on Glee Anselm, they located Yoda in an underwater base, where they learned that the Grand Master had never really been captured. In reality, the operation was a test for Kenobi and Skywalker, which they passed. The adventure marked the start of Kenobi and Skywalker coming to view each other as brothers. Kenobi and his Padawan were also dispatched on a mission to Taris at one point.

Apprehending a thief

While visiting Dex's Diner, the Pa'lowick thief Tri Tellon pilfered an item from Kenobi. She fled through the world's lower levels, through CoCo Town and to her den, which she shared with the old rogue Magreda. Expecting to find Magreda, she instead found Kenobi who explained that the object she had stolen was just a tracking device wrapped in some paper. In came Dexter, who had asked Kenobi to trick Tellon as she had stolen a lot of goods from his customers. Dexter thanked him and told Kenobi he owed him one, which the Jedi accepted.

Subduing the Chosen One

Sometime after Skywalker reached adulthood, Kenobi and Skywalker would engage in a lightsaber sparing session in the Jedi Temple. After Skywalker thought he was victorious, Kenobi told him that despite his victory, his need to win blinded him, and Kenobi was able to overpower Skywalker and take Skywalker's lightsaber away from him.

Separatist Crisis

Safeguarding Senator Amidala

In 22 BBY, Kenobi and Skywalker found themselves entangled in an Ansion border dispute, a situation that involved Presidente Shu Mai from the Commerce Guild. Following their successful resolution of the Ansion matter, the Jedi Council, prompted by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, dispatched the pair to safeguard Senator Amidala from potential future harm after an assassination attempt targeted her. Kenobi and Skywalker proceeded to Padmé's Apartment, and as they ascended in a turbolift, Kenobi detected Skywalker's unease and cautioned him against exceeding their responsibilities. However, Amidala later revealed her plan to use herself as bait.

That very night, Zam Wesell attempted to assassinate the Senator by deploying venomous kouhun from a probe droid. However, her scheme was thwarted when Kenobi and Skywalker sensed a disturbance within the Senator's chambers. While Skywalker dealt with the creatures, Kenobi leaped through the window, clinging to the droid as it attempted to escape into Coruscant's skylanes. The probe droid maneuvered rapidly through the expressways, attempting to dislodge the Jedi, but failed. As the droid approached Wesell's location, the assassin fired upon it with her rifle, destroying it and causing Kenobi to plummet towards the planet's surface. Skywalker, arriving swiftly in a speeder, positioned himself beneath Kenobi to catch him. Together, they pursued the bounty hunter through Coruscant's skyways, navigating traffic lanes and industrial zones, until Skywalker jumped onto her speeder and disabled it, leading to a crash outside the Outlander Club.

Entering the club, the pair realized she was a changeling, capable of altering her appearance. Kenobi approached the bar and was offered death sticks by Elan Sel'Sabagno, an offer he refused. Using the Force, Kenobi urged Sel'sabagno to reconsider his life and return home. Sensing Wesell's presence, he severed her arm with his lightsaber before she could fire upon him. Before she could disclose her employer, Jango Fett fatally shot Wesell with a toxic dart.

Following these events, the Council assigned Kenobi and Skywalker to separate missions. Kenobi continued investigating Amidala's attackers, while Skywalker was tasked with protecting her on Naboo. Despite his reservations about his Padawan's readiness for a solo mission, he complied with the Council's decision. Kenobi then presented the toxic dart to his friend Dexter Jettster, who identified it as a Kamino saberdart. Using Dex's information regarding Kamino, Kenobi attempted to locate the system in the Archives, but was unsuccessful. When he questioned Jocasta Nu, she suggested that the system might not exist since it was not listed in the archives. Still unconvinced, Kenobi consulted Master Yoda, who was instructing the Bear Clan, and they both concluded that someone had erased the files on Kamino from the Archives, necessitating Kenobi's visit to the lost planet's location.

Discovery of the Clone Army

Upon his arrival on Kamino, Kenobi was welcomed by the Kaminoan Taun We, who informed the Jedi that they had been anticipating his arrival. She escorted Obi-Wan to Prime Minister Lama Su, who stated that Sifo-Dyas would have been pleased with the clone army they had created according to his request for the Republic. Kenobi was then shown the clones' capabilities and development, and learned that Jango Fett was the original template. After requesting to meet Fett, Taun We led Kenobi to Fett's quarters, where the Jedi Knight inquired about any recent visits to Coruscant.

After their discussion, Jango and his clone son, Boba Fett, attempted to escape Kamino in the bounty hunter's ship, Slave I. Obi-Wan confronted Jango, and they engaged in combat on the landing platform. During the fight, Obi-Wan fell off the platform, leading Jango to believe he had fallen into the sea. However, Obi-Wan managed to grab onto a bridge and returned to the platform just in time to attach a homing beacon to Jango's ship.

Capture on Geonosis

Kenobi pursued Slave I in his starfighter to Geonosis, surviving Fett's attacks with seismic charges. Deceiving Fett into thinking he was dead, Kenobi landed on the planet and discovered numerous Trade Federation ships. He also infiltrated and overheard Count Dooku addressing the Separatist Council, revealing that the attempts on Senator Amidala's life were at Nute Gunray's request. Realizing the significance of his findings, Kenobi sent a message to Skywalker on Tatooine, as his signal could not reach Coruscant directly. However, before he could finish his message, the Separatists captured and imprisoned Kenobi.

While inside the prison tower, Dooku visited him and revealed that the Republic was under the control of a Sith Lord named Darth Sidious. Dooku attempted to persuade Kenobi to join him in destroying the Sith, but Kenobi refused. Kenobi did not believe Dooku's claims about the Sith controlling the Republic, which was exactly what Dooku had anticipated.

The Clone Wars

First Battle of Geonosis

Sentenced to execution in Geonosis' Petranaki Arena, Kenobi was joined by Skywalker and Amidala, who had been captured while attempting to rescue him. Although he was relieved that his message had been re-transmitted, he expressed disappointment that Skywalker had come and failed to free them. The trio worked together to subdue the three creatures sent to kill them—a reek, an acklay, and a nexu. After freeing themselves, Kenobi fought the most formidable creature, the acklay. Kenobi, Amidala, and Skywalker were rescued by the arrival of a Jedi task force led by Mace Windu, who refused to surrender to Dooku and intended to complete their rescue. The Jedi fought against the overwhelming droid armies, but soon only a few survivors remained in the center of the arena, surrounded by battle droids. When Windu rejected Dooku's offer for the Jedi to surrender, Kenobi stood in solidarity, prepared to fight to the end.

Just before their execution, clone army forces arrived in transports led by Master Yoda. The clones fought back against the droids and rescued the Jedi and Amidala, forming a perimeter around the survivors. Kenobi then boarded the same Republic LAAT/i transport with Skywalker and Amidala while the rest of the Jedi task force also escaped. As they flew, Skywalker instructed their clone pilots on how to shoot down enemy forces, which Kenobi complimented. Soon, they spotted Dooku fleeing on his speeder with a droid escort. Kenobi felt that there was not enough time to pursue reinforcements, assuring Amidala that he and his Padawan could handle the situation alone. When Dooku's escort rattled their LAAT/i, the Senator fell out of their vehicle, causing Skywalker to panic.

Skywalker pleaded to rescue her, but Kenobi insisted that catching up to Dooku was the priority and that if the Padawan stayed behind, he would be removed from the Jedi Order. Once they landed, Kenobi and Skywalker pursued Dooku as he prepared to flee the planet. After confronting him about the Jedi he had killed earlier that day, the pair engaged in a lightsaber duel with Dooku. The former Jedi's use of Force lightning revealed his fall to the dark side, prompting Kenobi to be cautious when his apprentice was downed by it. Now realizing that he had underestimated Dooku's skills, he dueled Dooku, but was eventually disarmed and injured on the shoulder and thigh. Kenobi tossed his lightsaber to Skywalker so that he could continue the fight.

However, after Dooku's lightsaber severed the Padawan's arm, he too was thrown to the floor beside his Master. Dooku moved toward them both, but Yoda arrived shortly after to fight his former apprentice in a lightsaber duel. However, he was forced to focus on saving Skywalker and Kenobi from being crushed to death by falling debris caused by Dooku. As a result, the Separatist leader escaped in his ship, leaving the three Jedi behind. Amidala arrived with a group of clone troopers shortly afterward, embracing Skywalker as Kenobi stood nearby.

Promotion to Jedi General

Following the Geonosis battle, Kenobi returned to Coruscant while his Padawan escorted Amidala to Naboo. Vice Chancellor Mas Amedda noticed Skywalker's absence and informed Chancellor Palpatine of his whereabouts after seeing he did not return with Kenobi. In the Temple on Coruscant, Kenobi met with Mace Windu and Yoda in the Jedi Council room to discuss the recent confrontation. He informed the Councillors that his apprentice was escorting Amidala back to Naboo before returning to the Temple, which they accepted. Although Kenobi noted that the Geonosis battle would not have been a victory without the clones, Yoda did not consider it a victory, as it marked the beginning of the Clone Wars. Though Kenobi passed on Dooku's warning about a Sith controlling the Senate to his peers, they mostly dismissed it due to the former Jedi's actions and fall to the dark side. However, the trio resolved to continue monitoring the Senate.

While Skywalker was on Naboo escorting Amidala home, he wondered how his Master was doing after the battle. Additionally, the Padawan reflected on their responsibilities in the upcoming war while having to collaborate with clone troopers in battle. However, he firmly chose to keep his relationship with the Senator secret from Kenobi despite the strain of the deception. Skywalker married Amidala, knowing his Master would disapprove. As days passed, Skywalker eventually chose to return to Coruscant, citing that he had not informed his Master of a reason to remain on Naboo. After meeting with their superiors, both Kenobi and Skywalker were sent on their first deployment.

Now greatly respected both in and outside of the Jedi Order, Kenobi was promoted to Jedi General like many of his colleagues and was later bestowed the rank of High Jedi General while he led the Third Systems Army and commanded the Open Circle Fleet in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. While deployed, he held command of the 7th Sky Corps and often led its 212th Attack Battalion into combat personally until the war's end. The Clone Marshal Commander Cody served as his second-in-command, accompanying him on many missions against the Separatist Droid Army and other Separatist targets. Kenobi's military engagements, often alongside Skywalker, led to many famed victories that he was praised for by the Republic.

Due to his diplomatic skills, he became known as "the Negotiator"— a title reflected in the name of his flagship, the Venator-class Star Destroyer Negotiator. Early in the Clone Wars, Kenobi encountered General Grievous, the Supreme Martial Commander of the Separatist Droid Armies. The two developed a rivalry and fought each other numerous times during the war, with Grievous wanting to kill Kenobi "face to face." Their skills were evenly matched, and they quickly became mortal enemies, with Grievous harboring a deep animosity for Kenobi. At some point during his travels, Kenobi visited the planet Gazian, which had a strong connection to the Force. The planet, with its Force vergence, captured an imprint of those who traveled there, including Kenobi. After his last lightsaber was destroyed, Kenobi constructed a new lightsaber that he used throughout his service in the conflict and for the remainder of his life.

Initial engagements

Shortly after the battle on Geonosis, Kenobi was sent to a rocky planet alongside his Padawan, Commander Cody, and several troopers, including a clone soldier named Sister, to eliminate Separatist forces. Kenobi was disturbed by Skywalker's apparent enjoyment of combat and questioned him about it. After receiving a response, Kenobi collaborated with his student to achieve their objectives and decided to find better cover for their future engagements. The general engaged in several skirmishes with droids on the world and mourned the four clone troopers their team had lost during the mission alongside Sister.

Believing that the Jedi needed more generals, he decided to suggest to the Jedi Council that Skywalker undergo the Jedi trials after observing him in combat. He reasoned that it would allow them to work together while also granting the younger man the freedoms of a higher rank and his own command. Not long after on Coruscant, the handmaiden Sabé initially worried that Kenobi would notice her impersonating Amidala at a meeting in the Jedi Temple. When Skywalker left the gathering, Sabé noticed Kenobi attempting to persuade his former apprentice to speak with the Alderaanian Senator Bail Organa. Skywalker's time as a Padawan ended, and he was promoted to Jedi Knight for the war not long after. As a result, Kenobi was promoted to Jedi Master after his apprentice's knighting.

After Skywalker had already been promoted, Kenobi attended his former apprentice's official Knighting Ceremony, which was being officiated by Master Windu. Kenobi had recently become the next of many Jedi to rotate into the council seat of the late Coleman Trebor, and it was uncertain if this arrangement would be permanent. Kenobi approached the tasks presented to him in this role with seriousness and treated the ceremony as if it were a war decision. As Windu gave his speech, Kenobi stared at Skywalker, who could feel the weight of the stare. When Windu raised the possibility of the recently-knighted Jedi receiving Padawans of their own, Kenobi caught Skywalker's eye, smirking at the thought of an apprentice irritating Skywalker.

Following the conclusion of Windu's speech, Kenobi glanced around at the other Jedi Masters present, confused. Despite his usual skill with improvisation and negotiations, Kenobi found himself flustered by scheduling problems. Skywalker was amused by Kenobi's confusion as his former master ran his fingers through his now-longer hair. Upon noting that the Chancellor, various senators, and multiple clone commanders were still not present, Kenobi commented that their guests were late, but he was certain they would arrive shortly. However, the Chancellor's attendance was not in person, but via a holo-transmission. Addressing Yoda and Windu, Palpatine announced that the Purse World Cato Neimoidia had been bombed. As Yoda instructed the Padawans and younglings to leave, Kenobi grabbed Skywalker's shoulder, assuring him that they were equals and he was welcome to stay. Skywalker then asked if he still had to call Kenobi "Master," and Kenobi jokingly replied that it would only be the case if he knew his place.

As the group was informed that the Cadesura district of Cato Neimoidia's capital city, Zarra, had collapsed, Kenobi stood side by side with Skywalker. His thoughts lingered on his former apprentice for several seconds, pondering how his emotional transition into a Jedi Knight had been rougher than expected. He believed that, while Skywalker had made progress in coming to decisions confidently, he often reverted into deference, unsure of what his place was. It reminded Kenobi of his own ascension to the rank of Jedi Knight, thinking about how long it had taken for him to feel as though he had earned his title, in contrast to his peers who had taken their promotions in stride. Remembering Jinn's advice to not dwell on his anxieties, Kenobi exhaled, focusing his mind on the moment.

Kenobi was then sent to look into the explosion, which the Purse World Cato Neimoidia, the headquarters of the Trade Federation, blamed on the Republic. As Kenobi investigated with the help of a Neimoidian guard named Ruug Quarnom, the newly-knighted Skywalker disobeyed orders and joined him. During their mission, events transpired that led to a situation where the two Jedi were in danger. Skywalker believed that he had saved his former mentor from the danger, while Kenobi believed the action did not count towards the ever-growing total of times his former apprentice had saved his life. For his actions on Cato Neimoidia, it was decided Kenobi's council seat would be permanent. Skywalker and Kenobi also returned to Cato Neimoidia shortly thereafter to rescue Quarnom. With the passage of the Jedi Military Integration Act, Kenobi was provided with body armor to wear over his robes, but he did not immediately adopt that gear, much like Skywalker.

At some point that year, Kenobi and his battalion were sent to the planet Krystar to rescue several clones being held captive. Though hesitant to pursue an assault on the planet, which was aligned with the Republic, he agreed with Cody that saving the hostages was important. After meeting with Amidala, he was made aware of intelligence gathered from Senator Vishar Koss of Krystar. Using this, Kenobi helped form a plan for the operation to infiltrate a compound rumored to be built near the Krystar palace with Amidala's assistance. Escorted to the planet's surface by Amidala under the guise of an aid mission, Kenobi and his troopers investigated the claims of the captured clones.

Although his soldiers wanted to take immediate action to free their brothers, the Jedi insisted on having adequate proof before responding accordingly due to the planet's Republic affiliation. Kenobi's men were able to confirm the claims made by Koss when they found trapped troopers in the compound and contacted their commanding officer about it. Kenobi then received a transmission from Amidala, who informed him that Krystar's Regent Queb was selling the captured clones to Trandoshans. Kenobi instructed his men to free their brothers, which they did successfully before returning to their ship. Although a Trandoshan hunter was upset at the recapture of the clones, Kenobi faced his fury by throwing him out of range with the Force. The general then allowed Koss and Amidala to travel off the planet with them, with the former seeking protection until Queb was taken care of. After the event, Kenobi vowed to protect his allies until the end of the war as much as possible—despite the political challenges—and promised that Queb would be arrested.

Kenobi and his troopers were present on the Outer Rim moon Caliban and were captured by General Grievous. Although the Jedi attempted to argue that prisoners of war cannot be forced into labor due to a provision in the Galactic Accords war statutes, Grievous insisted that they build a lunar ice bridge for him. Grievous claimed he would kill them if they did not complete the task and that they would be lucky to leave alive. Despite the frigid temperatures, Kenobi devised a plan to construct a sabotaged project to replace the bridge the Separatist leader had originally destroyed and instructed the clone troopers with him to assist.

Near the build site, the Jedi and his men climbed a rise and met a qubey native of the world trapped on one side of a ravine, attempting to reach its parent on the opposite end. After Kenobi saw this, he decided to rebuild the bridge out of compassion and relayed this order to his troopers. Further observation of the creatures showed indication of their displeasure with the Separatist presence on their world, leading to Kenobi counting them as allies. As the structure was being made, the qubey distracted Grievous enough for Kenobi to retrieve his lightsaber when the enemy leader came to inspect its construction in a surprise ambush. After the bridge's completion, Kenobi implored the general to let his men leave the planet. When Grievous declined, the qubey attacked him and his droids while the Jedi also engaged the Separatist in lightsaber combat. Kenobi goaded the general into stepping onto the sabotaged new bridge, then used the Force to start an avalanche. Grievous fell into the ravine after being swept away, allowing Kenobi to escape the planet with his men in a ship and destroy the bridge after takeoff.

Kenobi journeyed to the world of Hisseen and, together with Skywalker, Jedi Master Plo Koon, and their respective clone battalions, participated in the siege that was unfolding there. After quickly dismantling a droid battle encampment, Koon informed the three Jedi that their mission was to stop the Hisseenian premier from divulging the locations of his fellow parliament members to Dooku and his apprentice, Asajj Ventress, who intended to either kill or threaten them. Leaving their clone troopers to contend with the Separatist ground assault, the Jedi departed and ventured into the mountainous region. Their initial search for the parliament's location proved fruitless. However, they soon encountered Dooku and Ventress, and a lightsaber duel ensued, preventing the Sith pair from finding the parliament. While Kenobi and Skywalker battled the Separatist darksiders, Koon attempted to contact their clone commanders to inform them of the worsening situation, but the mountainous terrain disrupted the transmission.

Koon then transmitted the coordinates of the Hisseenian government members to Wolffe, entrusting him and the other commanders with their rescue while he assisted Skywalker and Kenobi. As Dooku continued to engage the Jedi trio, their clone troopers liberated the parliament members by destroying the droids guarding them, an event that reminded them of the similar circumstances of Kenobi's mission to Krystar. The siege of Hisseen persisted, with successive waves of droids launching attacks, an event that reminded Cody of the mission to Caliban. As the clone troopers braced themselves for battle, Kenobi, Skywalker, and Koon returned, cutting down the Separatist reinforcements. Although Ventress and Dooku managed to escape, Kenobi commended the soldiers for their success in rescuing the parliament. He then announced that Yoda had summoned them back to Coruscant for their next assignment.

During the Battle of Corvair, Kenobi accompanied Skywalker to the Corvair sector, observing the conflict from aboard a Venator-class Star Destroyer. Following the battle's conclusion, they were tasked with investigating reports of a droid foundry being established on Kudo III, a moon within the sector. Kenobi urged his former Padawan to rely on the Force during their investigation, and despite Yularen's skepticism, he supported Skywalker's instincts regarding the matter.

While sharing a meal, Kenobi echoed Skywalker's concerns about civilian involvement in the events unfolding on Kudo III. He encouraged Skywalker to prioritize the protection of any innocent individuals while addressing the Separatist threats they encountered. Ultimately, Skywalker discovered that the Separatists had intentionally misled the Republic into attacking the facility by providing false information, with the goal of killing the innocent slaves held within and using the attack as anti-Jedi propaganda. Kenobi praised Skywalker for his handling of the situation and for uncovering the Separatist plot. Subsequently, Kenobi and Yularen discussed the potential ramifications of attacking a neutral party and whether the planet Kudo might consider joining the Separatists as a result of the discovery on its moon.

Kenobi and Skywalker were dispatched on a mission to deliver essential supplies to Senator Organa and the Republic forces stranded on Christophsis due to a Separatist blockade of thirty ships commanded by Admiral Trench. Kenobi, arriving after his former apprentice, brought with him a Republic-supplied stealth ship prototype. He instructed Skywalker to withdraw from his current position and meet him on his cruiser, where he unveiled the stealth ship and its capabilities. Kenobi then directed Skywalker to secretly navigate past the blockade and deliver the supplies to Organa's encampment, a task that Skywalker considered akin to a simple errand. Despite Skywalker's desire for more prototypes, Kenobi clarified that only one was available and that it was not to be used for a solo attack on Trench's ship.

Skywalker, confident in his abilities, further tested the ship's capabilities and discovered that Trench's initial missiles were unable to detect it. After contacting Organa's bombarded command center and hearing the senator's desperate pleas, Kenobi, with increasing urgency, attempted to order his former apprentice to cease his testing and proceed to Christophsis' surface, but was ignored. Disconnecting communications with his former Master, Skywalker proceeded to attack Admiral Trench's flagship with the stealth ship, successfully breaking the blockade. Afterward, Kenobi congratulated Skywalker on the successful delivery of supplies to Organa on the planet's surface. Following the space battle, the two Jedi Generals and their clone troopers were deployed to the planet's surface to combat the droid army seizing control of the world.

After arriving on Christophsis' surface via gunships, he and his accompanying troopers established a base of operations. Subsequently, Kenobi and Skywalker devised a plan to launch a surprise attack on Separatist forces in Chaleydonia, the planet's crystalline capital city, with their troops. However, a large droid ambush forced them to abandon their mission. Skywalker led his troopers to Kenobi's besieged location, and together, they and their soldiers escaped into a ship from the roof of a double-towered building. One of the troopers retrieved the severed head of a T-series tactical droid.

Following analysis of the droid head, Cody and Clone Captain Rex, Skywalker's clone officer, informed the Jedi that the enemy had precise knowledge of their planned ambush location. Kenobi, while leaving the base with Skywalker to investigate further, ordered them to identify the spy within the Republic's ranks and emphasized the need for secrecy. As the Jedi traveled behind enemy lines on BARC speeders, Separatist forces jammed their transmissions, preventing Rex and Cody from contacting them. Acting on their generals' orders, the clone officers discovered that the clone trooper Slick was the traitor and apprehended him, but not before he destroyed the majority of the Republic base's weapons depot. As Kenobi and Skywalker continued toward the Separatist headquarters, they deduced that a trap awaited them, given the numerous droids observing them from a distance.

Upon entering the headquarters, the Jedi encountered minimal resistance on the lower level. However, after encountering Ventress within the building, Kenobi and Skywalker engaged her in a lightsaber duel. Kenobi exchanged taunts with Ventress during the fight, but eventually, they were forced to escape on stolen droid STAPs following an ambush. Upon returning to the command center, Rex and Cody presented the apprehended Slick. Kenobi and Skywalker expressed their disappointment in Slick and the destruction of the weapons depot. Fearing further defections, they decided to keep Slick's actions a secret. The Jedi Master informed Rex and Cody that they should prepare for a large-scale droid assault, with limited heavy cannons available for defense. As Republic forces prepared to engage the droids, the blockade above Christophsis began to reform.

Kenobi and Skywalker briefly maintained control of the planet, reporting its capture to the Jedi Council. The Jedi Master then dispatched a ship back to the Republic fleet above Christophsis to replenish supplies, a decision he soon regretted. Shortly thereafter, Palpatine requested that Jedi be sent to return Rotta, the son of the Hutt crime lord Jabba, to his father in exchange for access to Outer Rim trade routes. Consequently, Windu and Yoda, through Admiral Wullf Yularen, ordered that the new Padawan Ahsoka Tano be sent to Christophsis to inform Kenobi and Skywalker of their next rescue mission, assuming that the Jedi pair had completed their current assignment. However, on Christophsis, the Jedi continued to battle waves of enemy Separatist droids. While deflecting blaster fire alongside Cody, Kenobi concluded that reinforcements would soon be necessary.

Kenobi, along with his men, defended the Republic's defensive positions, assisting Skywalker with a plan to eliminate droids in a large avenue while heavy cannons provided covering fire. Whorm Loathsom, the Separatist General, surprised the Jedi by ordering his forces to execute a tactical retreat. Noticing a Republic ship overhead, they presumed that reinforcements or assistance had arrived. However, Kenobi and Skywalker were then greeted by Tano, who had arrived alone in the ship. Kenobi and his former apprentice used the ship to contact Yoda, who instructed them to return to Coruscant for a new mission. Upon learning of the impending Separatist threat preventing their departure from Christophsis, Yoda promised to send reinforcements, but the transmission was abruptly cut off. Although Kenobi assumed Tano would be his new apprentice, she corrected him, stating that Skywalker was to be her teacher.

While awaiting assistance, Loathsom employed a deflector shield to protect his droids from attack while steadily advancing on the Republic's heavy cannons. Kenobi used a holographic display to brief others on the location of the shield generator, after which Skywalker and Tano devised a plan to destroy it while the Jedi Master and Rex remained behind as a diversion. As the shield boundary expanded, Kenobi ordered his men to retreat to a position further within the city. Meanwhile, he ventured under the shield with some of his troopers and began engaging enemy forces. Recognizing that their efforts were futile, Kenobi instructed Rex to have his men guard the heavy cannons while he delayed the droids. The Jedi Master then offered himself up in defeat to Loathsom, claiming that there were terms of surrender to discuss.

After Kenobi spent a prolonged period stalling by delaying the setting of surrender terms or offering a flag of truce, during which he was held at blasterpoint, Skywalker and Tano destroyed the shield using explosive charges. His refusal to stand down his forces angered and distracted Loathsom, who had Kenobi seized and threatened to destroy him. With the shield's destruction, Kenobi freed himself and swiftly restrained the Separatist general as Republic reinforcements arrived on the planet. Upon landing in a gunship before Kenobi, Yoda greeted the Jedi Master to begin informing him of Rotta's capture. While he managed to provide Tano and Skywalker with sufficient time to secure a Republic victory, his capture and subsequent stalling proved advantageous to Separatist propaganda, which portrayed Kenobi's ruse as a false surrender and evidence of Republic treachery. Ultimately, this ensured that very few peace talks occurred throughout the war, and Kenobi indeed came to regret the ongoing bloodshed of the conflict.

After greeting Yoda on Christophsis, Kenobi offered parting advice to Skywalker regarding Tano's training before departing for Tatooine to negotiate with Jabba. The Jedi Master assured the Hutt that Republic forces would successfully rescue his son and listened to the Hutt's additional demands regarding the capture, dead or alive, of his son's kidnapper. Kenobi then informed Skywalker that he had one planetary rotation to return Rotta—and also privately reflected that his meeting with Jabba had made him believe the Hutt had never bathed in his life due to the smell. The Jedi Master ordered his troops to depart for Teth next in an effort to reinforce his former Padawan's forces. After Skywalker and Tano rescued Rotta from Teth's B'omarr Order Monastery, Kenobi arrived and engaged a fleet of fighters in Teth's atmosphere, but was unable to contact the other Jedi due to jammed transmissions.

From the skies, he observed a battle unfolding on a building's rooftop and followed his men down to the surface to find Skywalker. Kenobi discovered Ventress inside the monastery and engaged her in a brief lightsaber duel, exchanging taunts during the fight. As Skywalker and Tano escaped the planet with Rotta, he eventually forced Ventress to flee after disabling one side of her lightsabers. Once the fight concluded, Kenobi contacted his former apprentice and informed him that he would arrive on Tatooine to assist as soon as the situation on Teth was resolved. After Skywalker and Tano successfully returned Rotta to Jabba and cleared their names from the framing schemes orchestrated by the Hutt Ziro and Dooku, Kenobi and Yoda met the Jedi pair on Tatooine to negotiate a treaty with the crime lord.

Sometime after the negotiation of the Hutt Clan and Republic treaty, the Jedi Council became aware of Lannik Senator Zast Tri'vak's intention to defect to the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Recognizing the risk that Tri'vak's defection posed to vital Republic supply routes, the Council intervened. Skywalker and Senator Amidala were sent aboard the Hutt-owned MPO-1400 Purgill-class star cruiser known as the Halcyon to apprehend the rogue senator, while Kenobi, along with a unit of clone troopers, staked out the Halcyon's planned arrival port. As events unfolded on the star cruiser with the arrival of Asajj Ventress to extract Tri'vak, the Dark Acolyte taunted Skywalker, asserting that he was not much of a challenge without Kenobi by his side. Ultimately, the threat of Tri'vak's defection was neutralized by his death, as Ventress killed him to prevent him from divulging Separatist secrets to the Hutt Clan.

On one occasion, Kenobi participated in a hologram call with members of the Jedi Council, connecting with Admiral Dao from his position in orbit around Ryloth. Dao was requesting assistance on behalf of Jedi General Ima-Gun Di. Dao informed the Council that his fleet was unable to continue supporting Republic forces on the planet's surface due to the Separatist blockade, and his plea for help was abruptly cut off when his flagship was destroyed. Following this, Kenobi and his colleagues dispatched a CR90 corvette blockade runner loaded with relief supplies to Toydaria, accompanied by Representative Jar Jar Binks of Naboo.

Kenobi and his colleagues then reached out to Senator Bail Organa, requesting his assistance in negotiating with King Katuunko of Toydaria. Kenobi explained that this would enable Republic relief supplies to transit through the planet, serving as a staging ground. Moved by Kenobi's words, Organa agreed to travel to the negotiations to aid the starving citizens of Ryloth. Ultimately, the Senator succeeded in delivering some of the supplies and gaining the favor of the Toydarian king.

Missions across the galaxy

When Master Plo Koon's fleet was annihilated during the campaign of the Malevolence, a clandestine Separatist superweapon, at the Battle of Abregado, and Skywalker reported the interrupted message and loss of contact from the Kel Dor from the Abregado system, Kenobi, along with Chancellor Palpatine, Windu, and Yoda, observed his report. Kenobi remarked that the Separatist operations were unusually meticulous in maintaining the secrecy of their weapon. During the meeting, Skywalker was ordered to reinforce Kenobi's fleet to safeguard supply convoys and to refrain from launching a rescue mission for the possible survivors of the attack in the Abregado system. Despite Tano's disagreement, her opinion was overruled, with Kenobi playfully noting that her outspokenness was likely a trait learned from her Master.

Kenobi's forces were augmented by Admiral Yularen, who commanded Skywalker's fleet. Upon inquiring about his former apprentice's whereabouts, Yularen explained that the other general had redeployed himself to search for survivors in the Abregado system, defying orders. Kenobi subsequently confronted Skywalker about his insubordination in a holographic call, urging the wayward Jedi to rendezvous with the Republic fleet as soon as possible. Although Tano claimed the idea as her own, the Jedi Master expressed skepticism and ordered them back to defensive escort duty upon learning that no survivors had been found. In a meeting with Palpatine, Windu, and Yoda, Kenobi relayed Skywalker's detour and his hope of finding Koon and his troopers alive. Despite Yoda deeming the decision reckless, Kenobi assured the group that his former apprentice's fleet was positioned defensively as required, as he had only taken a small ship and his Padawan. Shortly thereafter, Skywalker and Tano successfully rescued Koon and some of his men from the wreckage of their destroyed ships, evading Separatist pursuit. As the first survivors of the superweapon, they were able to report the capabilities of the Malevolence, including its ion cannons, to the Jedi Council.

Upon learning of the Malevolence's next target, the Kaliida Shoals Medical Center in the Outer Rim, Kenobi and Skywalker devised a daring plan to engage and destroy the Malevolence's ion cannons using his Shadow Squadron clone pilots. While Skywalker and his squadron navigated the nearby Kaliida Nebula, Kenobi led the Republic fleet through hyperspace to the medical station. As his former apprentice engaged the enemy vessel, Kenobi entered the system and began destroying the massive warship using the combined firepower of his fleet as the enemy vessel fled. Along with Wullf Yularen, Kenobi helped organize the evacuation of the medical center with Yularen, dispatching medical frigates. While Skywalker's task force succeeded in destroying the cannons, the Malevolence's defenses withstood Kenobi's fleet's fire for some time. After thanking Skywalker for his assistance, Kenobi ordered the ships under his command to continue pursuing the Malevolence as it fled to Separatist space with a damaged hyperdrive.

During the pursuit, Kenobi discussed contacting additional reinforcements with Koon, but decided to proceed with the ships he had due to a lack of available forces in the area. The Master concluded that this could be the Republic's chance to eliminate Grievous by targeting the enemy ship's bridge, having deduced that the Malevolence's hyperdrive was damaged because the vessel was not fleeing. Shortly thereafter, in a trap orchestrated by Dooku and executed by Palpatine, Amidala arrived at the battle's scene, having been fed false information about a diplomatic mission in the system. Using her as a hostage, Grievous compelled the Republic fleet to halt their attack, further encouraged by Skywalker's insistence on mounting a rescue.

Kenobi joined Skywalker in a small ship, intending to infiltrate the Separatist warship by slipping past its damaged sensors and docking at an emergency airlock. Although the older Jedi was skeptical of the plan and his former apprentice's flying skills, Skywalker argued that the enemy forces were preoccupied with repairs rather than watching for intruders. After successfully boarding the Malevolence, the pair swiftly eliminated the battle droids that greeted them. Kenobi and Skywalker were connected to Amidala, who informed them of her location and also criticized them for attempting to rescue her instead of continuing to destroy the warship. Tano suggested that the best meeting point would be a large, open area in the center of the ship, toward which the Jedi and Senator began to proceed.

After the Jedi rescued Amidala from droids at their rendezvous, Kenobi used the Force to levitate C-3P0 toward him, but the droid was swept away by a rail jet hovertrain. He informed Skywalker of this and left his former apprentice to retrieve the droid while he sabotaged the hyperdrive. Grievous intercepted Kenobi's transmission and challenged the Jedi's skills in front of the droids on his bridge. The Jedi Master then made his way to the ship's hyperdrive, but was ambushed by numerous battle droids and Grievous himself. After escaping by destroying most of the droids, Kenobi fled to the rail jets on the Malevolence, pursued by Grievous. He and the cyborg engaged in a brief lightsaber duel that ended when the Jedi landed on a lower platform and made his way to Skywalker's escape ship.

Amidala, Skywalker, Kenobi, and their droids fled the Malevolence and contacted the Republic fleet as Grievous pursued them in a personal starship. As they escaped toward safety, the droids aboard the enemy warship completed repairs to its hyperdrive. Grievous ordered the Malevolence to flee, which resulted in the warship crashing into the nearby Dead Moon of Antar due to the sabotaged coordinates in its navi-computer. Kenobi was surprised by this, and Skywalker informed him that it had always been part of their plan. After the destruction of his warship, Grievous fled in his ship while the Jedi and their fleet celebrated.

As the weeks went by, Kenobi and Skywalker pressed on in their quest to locate Grievous and his forces, dispatching Cody and Rex to conduct a reconnaissance mission across their designated sector of space. The two briefly touched upon the intelligence at their disposal, with Kenobi expressing confidence that they would eventually locate the enemy general. Both he and his former apprentice were present when Cody delivered his report on the inspections to a tracking station at Pastil, where the commander further stated that his subsequent inspection would take place at a listening post station within the Rishi system. This outpost was vital for providing Kamino with early warnings of potential Separatist incursions. After expressing his gratitude to Cody for his efforts, Kenobi commended the clone's work to Yularen and Skywalker, before suggesting that his former Padawan should rest.

While stationed at the Rishi Moon outpost, which had fallen under the control of droid forces, Cody and Rex's vessel was destroyed and they lost communication with Kenobi's fleet. Several hours after their scheduled check-in, Yularen attempted to reach them, but without success. Despite Kenobi's initial suspicion that Rex might be responsible for the delay, Skywalker countered that Cody could be the cause. Both then decided to develop a more effective strategy for locating Grievous, delegating the responsibility of contacting the clone officers to Yularen. Shortly thereafter, Yularen received notification that the all-clear signal on Rishi had been deactivated, prompting Kenobi to trigger an invasion alert and order his fleet to the Rishi system. The Jedi's fleet arrived just in time to drive Grievous' ships out of the system, thwarting the cyborg's scheme to launch a surprise assault on Kamino. In the aftermath, Kenobi expressed his appreciation to the surviving clones who had defended the station—Echo and Fives—during a medal ceremony.

After his escape, Grievous launched a series of ambushes against Republic fleets during the Skytop Station campaign and defeated Republic forces on the world of Falleen. Both the Jedi Order and the Republic military struggled against Grievous, who secured numerous victories for the Separatist cause, demonstrating that he was a formidable and resilient adversary, leaving a path of conquest and devastation across the galaxy. Kenobi advised Skywalker to withdraw from his position at the gas giant of Bothawui, explaining that Grievous' fleet had superior numbers. Tano concurred with the Jedi Master's assessment, but Skywalker insisted on remaining to protect the sector. Skywalker was able to destroy the cyborg's flotilla, but at the cost of losing his astromech droid, R2-D2.

The captured R2-D2 managed to transmit the coordinates of Skytop Station—a clandestine Separatist listening post—to Skywalker and Tano. After relaying this information to Kenobi using scramble code 1477, Kenobi instructed them to await reinforcements. Despite Skywalker's desire to rescue his droid, Kenobi ordered him to destroy the station instead. Following the mission and the unauthorized rescue operation, an exasperated Kenobi reluctantly accepted Skywalker's retrieval of the droid, offering only a brief reprimand for the reckless behavior. While Tano agreed with Kenobi's reasoning, Skywalker explained that he knew she could complete the mission on her own, so he could rescue R2-D2.

While attempting to ascertain Dooku's whereabouts, Kenobi assisted in devising a scheme to lure the Sith into revealing his location. As part of this plot, Skywalker feigned the immobilization of his Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptor, prompting the Count to have it towed aboard a Separatist Munificent-class star frigate to determine its point of origin. Kenobi then journeyed to his friend's last known location—an ice field in proximity to the Outer Rim planet Vanqor—utilizing an enviro-suit and jetpack for traversing the vacuum of space. After infiltrating the frigate, Kenobi successfully liberated Skywalker from his confinement and returned his lightsaber. The younger Jedi expressed annoyance at being the one captured, prompting Kenobi to jokingly remark that he could devise the plans himself once he became a Jedi Master.

Kenobi and Skywalker confronted Dooku within his meditation chamber, displaying an arrogance that irritated the older man. The Sith quickly utilized an escape chute to reach the vessel's hangar and board his Punworcca 116-class interstellar sloop, followed by Skywalker. After Dooku successfully launched his escape craft, Kenobi and Skywalker pursued him in a commandeered Sheathipede-class transport shuttle and contacted Tano to summon Republic reinforcements. The Jedi scored a direct hit on Dooku's sloop, disabling its engines and forcing him to execute a crash landing on Vanqor. However, the damage inflicted upon Kenobi and Skywalker's stolen shuttle by the Sith's escort also necessitated their own emergency landing on the same planet. As their ship landed, the two Jedi engaged in playful banter about piloting skills and destroyed the homing beacon on Dooku's crashed ship.

The Jedi duo surveyed the surroundings, deciding to initiate their search for the Sith within Vanqor's cave systems. Dooku manipulated the Force to subtly amplify his presence within the caves, as he had planned for the Jedi to detect. Upon Kenobi and Skywalker's entry into the caves, Dooku employed telekinesis to collapse the loose rock above the entrance, trapping them inside. Although both survived, Skywalker lost his lightsaber, prompting a reprimand from Kenobi as he cleaned his own weapon. The Jedi Master watched with amusement as a large gundark attacked his former apprentice, but eventually assisted him in repelling the creature by throwing rocks. As the caves began to fill with poisonous gas, Tano rescued the pair—although both indignantly maintained that they had not required assistance and were actively tracking Dooku. After escaping, Kenobi and Skywalker contacted the Jedi Council.

After discovering that Captain Hondo Ohnaka's pirates had captured Dooku on Vanqor and transported him to the planet Florrum, intending to exchange him for a substantial ransom from the Republic, the Jedi Council agreed to dispatch Kenobi and Skywalker to verify his capture, following Amidala's suggestion. Windu informed the Jedi of their upcoming assignment, stipulating that they arrive unarmed. Despite Kenobi and Skywalker's apprehension about the potentially hostile situation, Windu emphasized the mission's importance. Upon landing in a small vessel, they were escorted to the pirates' stronghold cells and observed Dooku suspended in restraints. Although the Sith attempted to warn them that the pirates would betray them, both dismissed his concerns with sneers and derision. After the two Jedi reported in after speaking to Ohnaka, Palpatine had Binks and Senator Kharrus lead a diplomatic mission to negotiate a ransom for the Count.

Kenobi and Skywalker attended a feast following the conclusion of their negotiations, accepting offered refreshments. However, prior to a toast, both surreptitiously exchanged their cups with their pirate neighbors and soon discovered that Ohnaka had attempted to poison them, as they both collapsed. After consuming their drinks, both awoke restrained and connected to Dooku's bindings. Following a brief argument with the Sith, Kenobi and Skywalker agreed to collaborate on an escape plan. When Dooku used the Force to levitate a knife and open their cell, Kenobi reluctantly instructed his former apprentice to allow the Separatist to focus. Although the trio escaped from their initial confinement, they were quickly recaptured by Ohnaka's pirates.

Ohnaka confronted Kenobi, Skywalker, and Dooku, warning them against further escape attempts that would jeopardize his potential profit. After the captain departed, Kenobi employed a mind trick on a guard, compelling him to unlock their cell. The trio stealthily navigated the pirate compound, engaging in tense banter. Eventually, Dooku breached a wall, and they raced toward the compound's perimeter. However, Ohnaka intercepted them and returned them to a cell, ultimately separating them from Dooku and suspending them in restraints before a group of pirates. The captain informed them that the Republic had not arrived with Dooku's ransom and proceeded to electrocute the pair. When Dooku escaped the compound and disabled the area's electrical supply, Kenobi and Skywalker were freed, holding Ohnaka hostage with their lightsabers. Binks and his clone escort arrived, providing the Jedi with transport off Florrum. Although it surprised Ohnaka, Kenobi ordered Skywalker to release him, emphasizing that Jedi do not seek revenge—while cautioning that Dooku did not share their principles.

Summoned to the frigid planet of Orto Plutonia to investigate the Republic's loss of contact with a clone outpost, Kenobi and Skywalker, accompanied by Pantoran Chairman Chi Cho and Senator Riyo Chuchi from the neighboring moon of Pantora, journeyed to the Republic base. They discovered it to be devoid of life, with all clones stationed there having been killed—and a monument of their helmets erected in their memory. After inspecting a nearby Separatist base, they found similar destruction, leading Kenobi to suspect that a third, unknown party was responsible for the murders at the Republic's base. Log records indicated that mysterious warriors had eliminated the Separatist droids while investigating the world's southern canyon, which Kenobi determined would be a suitable starting point for their investigation.

As Skywalker and Kenobi proceeded to the designated location, they encountered Thi-Sen, the leader of the Talz people, and his companions, communicating with the natives through rudimentary hand gestures and drawings. The Jedi learned that battle droids had attacked the Talz, and the clones had been inadvertently caught in the crossfire. The pair returned to the Republic base and, recognizing the Talz's desire for peace, arranged a diplomatic meeting between the Pantorans and the Talz. However, Chi Cho vehemently rejected any peaceful resolution and instigated a war between himself and Thi-Sen's people, disregarding the protests of Chuchi and the Jedi. He declared the matter an internal Pantoran affair to exclude the Jedi, demanding their submission to his authority as they were under the Senate's jurisdiction.

When Skywalker and Kenobi appealed to Chuchi to find a diplomatic solution to the political crisis, she contacted the Speaker of the Pantoran Assembly, who granted her the authority to negotiate peace and declared the Chairman out of order. Although Chuchi desired the Jedi to represent Pantora's interests in the negotiations, they declined, as it was her people who were at war with the Talz. However, the resolution came too late as Chi Cho was attacked before Kenobi, Skywalker, and Chuchi landed and halted the Talz's assault. To resolve the conflict between the Pantorans and the Talz, Chuchi met with Thi-Sen, establishing an agreement that allowed the Talz to live peacefully on the planet. As the Senator and the Jedi boarded a gunship to depart the world, Kenobi congratulated the Senator on establishing peace and urged her to ensure its longevity and serve as an example to others. The Jedi Master believed that the peace achieved through balancing both sides had been a unique challenge.

The Jedi Council subsequently agreed to dispatch Kenobi, Skywalker, and Tano to Naboo in response to intelligence suggesting that a Separatist bio-lab had been established on the planet, at Amidala's suggestion. When Amidala and Binks lost contact while searching for the lab, Skywalker sent Tano, along with the Gungan native Peppi Bow, to locate them. Meanwhile, Kenobi and Skywalker arrived on Naboo and learned from new information discovered by Captain Gregar Typho that Separatist scientist Nuvo Vindi was using the lab to perfect the deadly Blue Shadow Virus in order to release it into key Republic star systems. Kenobi and Skywalker then planned an infiltration of the facility to prevent the virus from being spread across the galaxy.

While awaiting in the hangar bay, Kenobi observed Skywalker's heightened agitation during the mission. After receiving contact from Tano, Kenobi and Skywalker instructed her to create a diversion. On the opposite side of the lab, the pair entered and met with her before commencing a search for Vindi's viral bombs. Kenobi located the room containing the bombs with his clone troopers, instructing his men to deactivate them all. Although Vindi attempted to release the virus, the Jedi were able to apprehend him and rescue Amidala and Binks.

As Kenobi and Skywalker prepared to transfer Vindi to Coruscant for trial, Tano, Amidala, and several clones discovered that a vial of the virus was missing. Although the alarm was activated before the vial's detonation, the virus was released throughout the lab. Tano, Amidala, and the clones with them were compromised and infected by the virus. As they worked to prevent droids from escaping the facility, Skywalker and Kenobi questioned the Naboo officials regarding the cure for the virus. Upon learning of it, the Jedi then traveled to the planet Iego to search for the reeksa root antidote found there.

While on Iego, Skywalker destroyed several reprogrammed battle droids belonging to the local native Jaybo Hood, for which Kenobi reprimanded him. Hood then informed the pair of the location of the antidote they sought, while warning of the dangers involved. The young man also told the Jedi that the phantom leader of Iego, Drol, would not permit anyone to leave the planet. Kenobi and Skywalker rode a xandu to the bottom of a ravine and quickly gathered some reeksa root before escaping from the carnivorous plant. Upon attempting to depart Iego, the two Jedi discovered that "Drol" was actually a Separatist laser security system surrounding the planet and enlisted Hood's assistance in destroying it, despite the skepticism of the other natives. When successful, Kenobi and Skywalker traveled back to Naboo and delivered the antidote that saved Tano, Amidala, and the clone troopers. Kenobi also offered Binks blaster training to improve his skills, which the Gungan enthusiastically accepted. After the event, the Jedi Master became more acutely aware of Skywalker's emotional attachment to Amidala and resolved to monitor the pair more closely as the war continued.

After Wat Tambor, the leader of the Techno Union, seized control of the planet Ryloth and its inhabitants, he established a blockade around the world using his Lucrehulk-class Battleship and two Munificent-class frigates. The Jedi Council formulated a plan for Kenobi and Windu to lead a ground assault to invade and liberate the planet after the Senate requested their intervention. Skywalker and Tano were dispatched to destroy the Separatist blockade surrounding the planet to support their effort.

The initial attempt to breach the blockade was unsuccessful, which Skywalker reported to Kenobi and Windu via hologram as a heavy loss, considering the deceased clone pilots and the sacrifice of the Venator-class Star Destroyer Redeemer. Kenobi advised him to allow Tano time to grieve the loss of her squadron, but added that he would require her assistance to achieve their objectives. Windu informed Skywalker that he needed to break the blockade within the next planetary rotation for the invasion to proceed. When Skywalker and Tano's second attempt proved successful, Kenobi arrived with the remainder of the invasion forces in the planet's vicinity. Kenobi contacted Tano, and she cleared them to commence their ground assault.

In preparing their assault, Windu suggested that Kenobi consider capturing the city of Nabat first to secure a landing zone, to which he agreed. Kenobi then boarded a small transport with some of his men from Ghost Company and instructed them to minimize damage to the local environment and avoid harming the natives. In space, the rest of Windu's fleet came under attack by Separatist forces. Windu contacted Kenobi and informed him that the Republic would be unable to use Acclamator-class transgalactic military assault ships and other gunships from Crumb Bomber until the Separatist surface proton cannons were eliminated.

Kenobi and his men landed and steadily advanced toward the outskirts of the city, eliminating droids as they progressed. Using telekinesis, the Jedi assisted in levitating the droid poppers thrown by his troopers Waxer and Boil to destroy a bunker. After securing the wall perimeter, Kenobi ordered Cody to dispatch his best men to scout ahead, and the commander ultimately selected Waxer, Boil, and Wooley. Scouting yielded valuable intelligence, leading Cody to report the placements of the gun encampments and the Separatists' use of living Twi'lek shields to Kenobi and Windu. However, one of the tactical droid commander TX-20's probe droids recorded their strategy session and provided it to the leader. When Waxer and Boil failed to report in from scouting after meeting the Twi'lek child Numa, Kenobi became concerned.

The general and his troops decided to advance without the missing troopers, entering the village outskirts. They soon encountered starved native gutkurrs that began to attack them. The Jedi lured the creatures into an alley using the Force so that the clones could trap them by collapsing a bridge between them. Shortly after, a pothole near them began to rattle, though Kenobi ordered his men to hold fire. When Waxer and Boil then emerged out of an underground tunnel with Numa, Kenobi talked to the girl in Twi'leki and learned that she could lead them to the prisoners. Tasking Cody with creating a diversion for the droids, Kenobi went with Waxer, Boil, and Numa to the underground passages and freed the Twi'lek hostages who fled into the tunnels.

Then, the general proceeded to take control of a proton cannon and managed to take out their cannons with the help of Waxer and Boil loading fuel cartridges in. However, TX-20 blasted the three aside and threatened Kenobi, who was holding Numa in his arms. Before the droid could blast them, other Twi'leks rushed the droid and protected Kenobi, with the Jedi attempting to shield Numa's eyes from the violence. As Windu's transports from the Acclamator landed, Windu commended Kenobi on his victory and they continued with their next mission.

As the Republic's forces departed for the capital city of Lessu, Waxer and Boil inquired Kenobi about the meaning of "nerra," which the Jedi General translated as "brother." After Windu and his forces reached Lessu, Kenobi led his contingent to capture the southern hemisphere of Ryloth and was able to successfully capture the Jixuan desert. With Windu taking Lessu and capturing Wat Tambor, the two Jedi Generals freed the planet from Separatist rule.

During the First Battle of Felucia, Kenobi was dispatched alongside Skywalker and Tano to the Separatist-invaded planet of Felucia. While Kenobi remained with the main body of troops to defend their clearing-based emplacement of AT-TE walkers, Tano led two AT-TE walkers and a Juggernaut tank on a patrol of the dense jungle. Kenobi realized that they were outnumbered, observing that droids would soon outflank their position. He ordered an immediate retreat as soon as General Koon arrived to assist them, prompting clones to prepare gunships for evacuation. The Jedi Master contacted Tano to do the same, but the Padawan refused to retreat—claiming her foes were retreating. When Skywalker and Kenobi arrived to retrieve her, she refused to withdraw until Skywalker convinced her that the battle was lost. As their gunship departed, Kenobi, Skywalker, and Tano observed the position she had been at erupt in flames.

Once they were back at the Jedi Temple, Kenobi informed the Jedi Council about Tano's imprudent actions during the conflict. Consequently, she was given the task of guarding the Jedi Archives under Jocasta Nu's guidance. After the meeting, Kenobi and Skywalker met for a strategy session to analyze the ramifications of the defeat on Felucia. As their conversation progressed, Yoda sensed a disturbance in the Force, alerting them that intruders would soon infiltrate the Temple. Kenobi and Skywalker deduced that the intruders were likely aiming to pilfer Jedi transmitter codes and classified military data, so they resolved to safeguard the communications center. However, with the assistance of the helper droid Todo 360, the bounty hunter Cad Bane successfully infiltrated the Temple. The Jedi pair noticed irregularities in their system's performance, including reboots, and Yoda advised them to investigate disturbances within the Temple's ventilation system.

Kenobi and Skywalker discovered the vent Bane had used to gain entry, but despite their efforts, they failed to locate the criminal. Yoda revealed that the intruders had penetrated deep into the Temple and likely had external support. From the Archives, Tano apprehended Bane's changeling accomplice Cato Parasitti and informed Kenobi and Skywalker. They speculated that Bane would attempt to access the communications tower via the Holocron Vault and proceeded towards the tower. While Kenobi and Skywalker narrowly evaded a bomb detonated by Todo 360 in the ventilation shafts, Bane seized the opportunity to abscond with a Jedi holocron. Parasitti disclosed that Bane's subsequent target was the Jedi Bolla Ropal, the custodian of a kyber memory crystal containing the identities of all Force-sensitive children in the galaxy. Subsequently, Kenobi led Parasitti away, while Skywalker and Tano departed to warn Ropal.

Bane managed to capture Ropal and subject him to torture, ceasing only when Jedi forces arrived on his vessel. Despite Skywalker and Tano's valiant efforts, the criminal managed to escape aboard his ship. Afterward, both reported back to Kenobi and Yoda, who expressed concern regarding the potential harm to the children listed in the crystal. Kenobi, along with other Jedi, entered a meditative state to discern, through the Force, which children were at immediate risk. This process yielded a concise roster of locations, including a child on the planet Rodia sensed by Kenobi. Kenobi then journeyed to Rodia, where he encountered Mahtee Dunn, a Rodian and the child's mother. He informed her that her child Wee Dunn had been abducted by a bounty hunter masquerading as a Jedi. Shortly thereafter, he intercepted Bane, who was concealing the child while disguised in a Jedi cloak.

Employing a grappling hook, Kenobi relentlessly pursued Bane across rooftops, only to witness the bounty hunter's escape aboard the Rogue-class Porax-38 starfighter Xanadu Blood. While the bounty hunter successfully delivered two children to Mustafar, Skywalker and Tano apprehended him on Naboo during his third abduction attempt. Kenobi interrogated Bane on a Venator-class Star Destroyer, employing a combined Force mind trick with Skywalker and Windu to coerce him into revealing the holocron's location. Despite Windu's inclination to handle the matter internally, Skywalker insisted on informing Palpatine of their discovery, a decision to which his former Master eventually acquiesced.

Subsequently, Kenobi and Windu, accompanied by a restrained Bane, traveled to Black Stall Station and recovered the missing holocron. However, they were compelled to allow Bane to escape via an escape pod after becoming ensnared in the station's traps. After Tano and Skywalker rescued the two abducted children, they reported to the entire Jedi Council. The Rodian Chekkoo clan remembered Kenobi's aid to the stolen child. Soon after, stories of the event circulated, and many on Rodia regarded him as a hero.

The Jedi Council dispatched Kenobi, Skywalker, and Tano to investigate the disappearance of a medical station orbiting Felucia. Upon entering the system, Separatist vulture droids launched from an automated vulture droid deployment station shot down their ship. The trio ejected moments before the ship's explosion, resulting in a forced crash landing. Kenobi and Skywalker engaged in a debate regarding their course of action but ultimately deferred to Tano's judgment after spotting smoke indicative of civilization. They soon encountered a seemingly deserted nysillin farm village.

Upon learning that the village had been targeted by pirate raids, the three Jedi met the four bounty hunters hired by the local Felucian farmers for protection: Sugi, Embo, Rumi Paramita, and Seripas. The village elder, Casiss Midagatis, detailed their predicament, imploring the Jedi for assistance. However, Kenobi declined, insisting on reporting the missing medical station, a decision Tano opposed. Shortly after, Ohnaka's pirates arrived at the village, and Kenobi engaged in conversation with their leader while the rest of the gang observed, recalling their prior encounter on Florrum.

The Jedi Master proposed a trade to the pirates, offering a substantial sum of credits in exchange for transportation to the nearest Republic outpost. Ohnaka rejected the offer, asserting his intention to remain for his share of nysillin. While hesitant to directly engage in combat with the pirates, Kenobi and the other Jedi agreed to assist in training the Felucian farmers to defend themselves. Kenobi expressed reservations regarding Sugi's methods but reluctantly hoped for her success. Skywalker struggled to effectively train the civilians under his former Master's observation but eventually aided the villagers in acquiring essential skills.

After Embo eliminated a pirate scout near the village, Kenobi noted that the spy's failure to report would alert Ohnaka. A skirmish ensued shortly thereafter, culminating in a victory for the villagers, Jedi, and bounty hunters. Sugi then extended an offer to Kenobi, Skywalker, and Tano for a ride back to the nearest Republic outpost, which they accepted.

Following the discovery of the Zillo Beast during the Battle of Malastare and its subsequent relocation to Coruscant, Windu shared his concerns with Kenobi within the Temple. Agreeing with Windu, Kenobi suggested that Skywalker attempt to persuade Palpatine to return the beast to its place of origin. Kenobi then approached Senator Amidala for assistance, who in turn helped him convince Skywalker to reason with Palpatine. However, the Chancellor had already instructed Doctor Sionver Boll to eliminate the beast using poison to extract its scales. The poison's administration agitated the creature, causing it to break free from the laboratory and rampaged across Coruscant, heading towards the Senate building where Palpatine was located.

Deployed to contain the beast, Kenobi and Windu successfully rescued the Chancellor using the Force. Subsequently, alongside Yoda and the Jedi Aayla Secura, they commanded gunships to divert the beast while the Chancellor escaped with Skywalker, Amidala, R2-D2, and C-3PO. Kenobi and Windu exerted their Force abilities to prevent the escape ship from plummeting off the edge of a rooftop, saving Palpatine. As the gunships arrived and terminated the creature by firing poison gas bombs into its mouth, they and the others watched with regret. The Zillo Beast succumbed to the poison and fell from the Senate's roof, meeting its end below.

The war drags on

Many meetings

Kenobi later participated in a meeting in which he and the council tasked Amidala with spying on Rush Clovis, who they suspected of being a Separatist spy. Alongside Masters Yoda and Windu, he was also present to assign Billaba and her battalion to engage the enemy on Mygeeto.

Second Battle of Geonosis

Kenobi, along with Ki-Adi-Mundi, Luminara Unduli, Skywalker, and Tano, was assigned to capture Geonosis and participated in a conference to outline the invasion plans aimed at destroying Poggle the Lesser's primary droid factory, which was protected by a massive ray shield. With the shield generator at the Ray Shield Fortress as their primary target, the Jedi launched a three-pronged assault on the Geonosian defenses. Kenobi and Cody spearheaded the central advance, while Mundi and Skywalker led the northern and southern assaults, respectively. Although Kenobi reached the landing zone, known as Point Rain, he sustained injuries and awaited the arrival of Skywalker and Mundi. Despite their crashes, they fought their way through and joined Kenobi. In a collaborative effort, they destroyed the shield generator, after which Kenobi and Mundi returned to the fleet with the other wounded for medical attention.

Following the Republic's hard-fought victory, solidified by Skywalker, Tano, Unduli, and Unduli's Padawan Barriss Offee's destruction of the factory, Kenobi returned to Geonosis and initiated an intensive campaign to locate Poggle. Unduli spearheaded the search, eventually tracking Poggle to the Progate Temple, where she was captured by the Archduke and taken to the lair of Geonosian Queen Karina the Great in the catacombs below. Tracking Unduli's last known location, Kenobi and Skywalker set out with a clone platoon to rescue her. They entered the catacombs, only to find themselves before the Queen and her "undead" servants. Thanks to Kenobi's plans, they freed Luminara, captured Poggle, and escaped the temple, destroying much of the Queen's lair during their escape and burying Karina the Great and her warriors. Kenobi, Mundi, Unduli, and Skywalker then took Poggle to Coruscant for interrogation, while Offee and Tano brought supplies to Windu and Kit Fisto on Dantooine.

Saleucami

Soon after Jedi Master and Council member Eeth Koth was captured by Grievous, Kenobi, Skywalker, and Adi Gallia volunteered to engage the Confederacy at Saleucami, rescue Koth, and capture General Grievous.

General Kenobi was the first Jedi to arrive at Saleucami, engaging Grievous's forces with a fleet commanded by Admiral Yularen. Early in the battle, Kenobi's light cruiser, the Surrogator, was ensnared in a tractor beam from Grievous's warship and boarded by the cyborg himself. After Skywalker and Gallia rescued Koth, Grievous dueled Kenobi until he realized that the Jedi Master had the advantage. As the cyborg retreated to his destroyer, he ordered his ship to destroy Kenobi's. However, Gallia's assistance enabled Kenobi to board Grievous' ship with Cody and two other clones before it was too late. Afterwards, they reunited with Skywalker on the hangar so that they could escape from Grievous' ship. Meanwhile, Grievous was forced to flee in an escape pod and landed on the planet.

While his fellow Jedi generals continued the battle in orbit, Kenobi led a force of clone troopers to the planet's surface to hunt down Grievous. The cyborg general evaded and fled from the Republic forces, hoping to reach an escape pod with a functioning transmitter to call for an evacuation transport. When Kenobi caught up with and engaged Grievous, the cyborg fled the battle once a shuttle arrived to ferry him away. Recognizing the mission's failure, Kenobi contacted Rex and instructed him to meet them for departure from the planet.

Mandalore's Death Watch

When rumors circulated that Duchess Satine Kryze, the new leader of the Council of Neutral Systems, was secretly amassing her own army to fight for the Separatist cause, Kenobi was sent to Sundari by the Jedi Council to investigate. There, he met Prime Minister Almec and re-encountered his old friend, Kryze, who assured him that she was not responsible for an attack on a Republic cruiser. Offended by the accusations, she asserted that the Senate was eager to intervene in the planet's affairs, a point Kenobi corrected by stating that he was there on behalf of the Jedi Order. Reassured, the Duchess took Kenobi for a walk in Peace Park and informed him about a renegade group of warriors known as Death Watch, just as a terrorist blew up the Memorial Shrine where they were walking. When Kenobi instructed the guards to round up everyone at the scene, a man fled, with Kenobi in pursuit. The man committed suicide rather than be captured. As the Duchess spoke to the dying man, she realized he came from Concordia and helped Kenobi reach the moon, where the Jedi Master met its Governor, Pre Vizsla.

Kenobi investigated the mines and discovered that Death Watch was using one of the facilities as a base. Taken hostage by Death Watch, he contacted Kryze, who freed him. Together, they attempted to escape but were attacked, and the Commander of Death Watch arrived. Vizsla revealed himself, returned Kenobi's lightsaber, and dueled him with the Darksaber until he ordered his warriors to kill Kenobi with missiles. Kenobi and Kryze managed to escape, barely surviving, and returned to Mandalore. The following day, Kenobi told the Duchess that he believed the Separatists were involved, which angered her. The Jedi Master was then joined by Skywalker to bodyguard her during her and other senators' trip to Coruscant onboard the Coronet.

On their way to the Republic's capital, Kenobi engaged in a heated debate with the Duchess regarding the best course of action to address the conflict until they paused. Then, Skywalker inquired about Kenobi's past, and Kenobi explained that he and his master, Jinn, had protected her during a year-long, dangerous mission during a civil war on Mandalore. It was then that assassin droids were activated, prompting Kenobi to defend Kryze. After the droids were stopped, Skywalker reported to Kenobi that one of the senators was a traitor, and Kenobi devised a plan to uncover the traitor's identity using the last active droid.

The traitor turned out to be Tal Merrik, who took Kryze hostage and headed to the cockpit to jump out of hyperspace, allowing droid reinforcements to board the ship. While Skywalker engaged the droids, Kenobi found and followed Merrik, who intended to blow up the ship, as he approached the escape pods, unable to make a move on the senator. Fearing she might not see Kenobi again, Kryze confessed her feelings for him, to which Kenobi replied he would have left the Order if she had told him earlier. Kryze then seized the opportunity to escape a disgusted Merrik and take his blaster. However, neither Kenobi nor Kryze moved to stop him, leaving Skywalker to sneak up from behind and stab him in the back, branding himself as a "cold-blooded killer." After arriving on Coruscant, Kenobi and Kryze reflected upon the situation, and the Duchess flirted with him, commenting that his beard concealed too much of his "handsome face."

When Kryze's pleas to the Senate to refrain from interfering in Mandalore's internal affairs were ignored, Kenobi reunited with the Duchess, advising her against rash actions, which angered her. Soon enough, she fell victim to another terrorist attack and barely survived, prompting the Senate to expedite the vote, with the Republic deciding to occupy Mandalore. Despite Kenobi's plea to help her, Kryze took matters into her own hands, only to be framed for murder by Death Watch.

Seeking his assistance, Kenobi met her and agreed to provide Senator Amidala with the disc she had obtained from his contact. Despite an attack by a Death Watch assassin and Kryze turning herself in, Kenobi delivered the disc to Amidala, who then played the complete recording from Deputy Prime Minister Jerec before the Senate. This prompted the Senate to vote against Mandalore's occupation. When the Duchess received apologies and thanks from the Chancellor and Mas Amedda, Kenobi received her gratitude, although the two pondered who had attempted to drag Mandalore into war and frame the Duchess for murder.

Kamino under attack

Following the destruction of the Rishi Moon tracking station, Kenobi and Skywalker intercepted a coded message between Ventress and Grievous regarding an impending attack on the clone homeworld. Generals Kenobi and Skywalker, Commander Cody, Captain Rex, and troopers of the 501st Legion subsequently hastened to Kamino to assist in its defense. As their ship docked and hundreds of clones disembarked, Kenobi and Skywalker met with Shaak Ti and Lama Su to warn them of the attack. When the Battle of Kamino commenced, Kenobi and Cody joined Shaak Ti in the command center, while Skywalker flew up with a squadron to participate in the space battle.

As the battle raged in space above Kamino, Kenobi noticed something amiss as the Separatist transports sustained heavy damage. As debris rained down into the seas on Kamino, Kenobi cautioned Skywalker against attacking, believing that even Grievous would not attack so recklessly and that the enemy was planning something. He took a submarine and discovered Ventress's forces preparing their assault crafts underwater. Several AQ-series battle droids attacked his submarine, forcing him to eject, but he escaped thanks to a passing aiwha. Rejoining the fight, which had now reached Tipoca City, Kenobi worked alongside Skywalker again and determined that the sparse Separatist forces must be a distraction. He directed his former Padawan to defend the clone DNA room while he sought out Grievous. Inside the city, he found the cyborg general and engaged him in a duel.

Using the Force to his advantage, Kenobi chased Grievous outside, where he was surprise-attacked and knocked off the platform by a Trident-class assault ship. However, he was once again rescued by an aiwha. As the clone forces won the battle, Kenobi recovered, and the Republic prevailed. However, Grievous and Ventress managed to escape once again. At some stage of the war, Kenobi was involved in another incident on Kamino; amid a rainstorm, he wielded his lightsaber and deflected a blaster bolt as he led clones in battle.

Ziro hunted

Later in the conflict, following the Senate hostage crisis, Kenobi received orders to locate both Ziro the Hutt and Cad Bane alongside his longtime comrade, Jedi Master Quinlan Vos. Together, they journeyed to Nal Hutta, where they delivered news to Gardulla the Hutt and the rest of the Hutt council regarding Ziro's breakout and Bane's complicity. Despite the Hutt Council's denials of any involvement, Vos utilized his psychometric abilities on a drinking vessel, revealing to both him and Kenobi that Ziro had indeed been present. Upon reaching the prison level, they discovered that Ziro had already been liberated with assistance from his romantic partner, Sy Snootles. Subsequently, Kenobi and Vos tracked Ziro to the swamp, where they observed Bane tailing Ziro. They also encountered Ziro's mother, who disclosed that her son had traveled to Teth to secretly retrieve the Hutt Council records.

Kenobi and Vos then proceeded to Teth, where they discovered Ziro deceased from a blaster wound at his father's burial site, and were subsequently confronted by Bane. Although Bane attempted to flee, Kenobi sought to apprehend him for his involvement in the Senate hostage situation, leading to a duel with the bounty hunter. In spite of the Jedi's valiant efforts, Bane employed his flamethrowers to dislodge them from a cliff, leaving them clinging precariously while he made his escape.

Dathomirian threat

During the Battle of Sullust, Kenobi found himself pursued by Asajj Ventress piloting her Ginivex-class fanblade starfighter. Skywalker successfully neutralized the tri-fighter dispatched by the assassin to target him and rushed to the aid of his former mentor. He managed to cripple Ventress's spacecraft, but not before she managed to shoot down the Jedi Master. The two adversaries crash-landed within the hangar bay of the Separatist command ship, and Kenobi and Skywalker promptly engaged Ventress in lightsaber combat. Count Dooku, acting on instructions from his master, intervened in the duel by ordering the destruction of the Separatist command ship to ensure Ventress's demise. The two Jedi escaped in their interceptors, believing Ventress to be dead, but she survived, and Dooku commanded the remaining Separatist forces to withdraw, assuming her demise.

Following the massacre on Devaron, Kenobi and Skywalker were dispatched to Dathomir, prompted by footage indicating the involvement of a Dathomirian's in the Devaron attack. Upon arriving on Dathomir, they proceeded to a village, where they were ambushed by the Nightbrothers until Skywalker apprehended their leader as a hostage. The Zabrak then informed the Jedi that a Nightsister had claimed one of their fortress, leading the Jedi to investigate. Kenobi and Skywalker interrogated Mother Talzin, who revealed the individual's name—Savage Opress—and his whereabouts. The two Jedi then traveled to Toydaria, where they confronted Opress but failed to prevent him from assassinating Katuunko. Utilizing the king's vessel after their own was destroyed, Kenobi and Skywalker pursued their target to Dooku's Separatist flagship; however, Opress overwhelmed them, forcing the two to retreat and abandon the ship.

Horain

At one juncture, Kenobi and Rex participated in a conflict on the planet Horain. During this engagement, the battle droid B1-0516 sustained damage, resulting in the development of sentience, and subsequently aligned itself with the Republic. Kenobi and his partner were perplexed, seizing the opportunity presented by the resulting confusion to extricate themselves from the situation. They later rescued the droid, which had been scheduled for reprogramming due to its malfunction. The trio successfully repelled several waves of droids and reached a Republic checkpoint, where Kenobi introduced the droid, now nicknamed "Bats," to Skywalker.

Mortis

Upon the Jedi Council receiving a distress signal originating from 2,000 years prior, Kenobi, along with Skywalker and Tano, were sent to the Chrelythiumn system, with instructions to rendezvous with Captain Rex and an armed cruiser. Although they arrived at the designated location, neither Rex nor the Jedi's ship could establish visual contact. Instead, the Jedi's vessel was guided to a mysterious planet, where they encountered a mysterious figure known as the Daughter, who sought to lead them to The Father. Shortly thereafter, Skywalker and the Daughter became separated from Kenobi and Tano.

Seeking to return to the ship, Kenobi and Tano encountered the Son, who advised them to seek shelter from an approaching storm. Within a cave, while Tano slept, his deceased master, Qui-Gon Jinn, manifested before him, elucidating the purpose of the planet and explaining that the three beings they had encountered, like Jinn, believed Skywalker to be the Chosen One. As Jinn vanished, Kenobi awakened Tano, and they resolved to locate Skywalker together, only to be captured by the Daughter and the Son for Skywalker's trial. Facing imminent death at the hands of the Daughter, Kenobi was rescued when Skywalker subdued their captors, affirming his status as the Chosen One, and the three Jedi endeavored to depart from the planet.

However, Tano was abducted by the Son, prompting Kenobi and Skywalker to separate. Kenobi sought assistance from the Father—believing he possessed the necessary knowledge—while Skywalker pursued the Son, fearing for Tano's life. Upon reaching the monastery, he witnessed the Son fatally wounding the Father and appealed to the Daughter for aid. She directed him to the Altar, where he acquired a dagger capable of slaying the Son, and together they confronted the Son at his cathedral, only for the darksider to reveal Skywalker and corrupted Tano's duel. Kenobi then assisted Skywalker in subduing Tano, until the Father's arrival interrupted them.

As the Son prepared to kill the Father, Kenobi attempted to pass the dagger to Skywalker, but Tano seized it and delivered it to the Son, who killed her as her usefulness came to an end. The darksider then slew his sister as she intervened to protect her Father. Subsequently, Kenobi witnessed the Daughter channeling the last of her life force into Tano through Skywalker, resurrecting her. The Father then commanded Kenobi, Skywalker, and Tano to depart from the planet before the Son could utilize their ship; however, repairs to their vessel necessitated a brief delay, during which Kenobi allowed Skywalker to seek guidance from the Father.

The Father then appeared before Kenobi, informing him that Skywalker had ventured to the Well of the Dark Side to confront the Son, only to be shown his future and succumb to the influence of the dark side of the Force. Kenobi, who had followed to the well, was abandoned there by Skywalker. Concerned, Kenobi contacted Tano and instructed her to disable the ship, retrieve him from the well, and rendezvous with Skywalker—whose memories had been erased—and the Father at his Monastery. There, they confronted the newly arrived Son with the Dagger, but only the Father's sacrifice could halt the Son, with Skywalker ultimately slaying the now-vulnerable darksider. As the conflict on Mortis concluded, Kenobi, Tano, and Skywalker awoke on the ship, as if nothing had transpired, and reunited with Captain Rex at the rendezvous point.

The Citadel

Following the capture of Jedi Master Even Piell and his imprisonment in the Citadel one year and nine months into the Clone Wars, Kenobi, Skywalker, Commander Cody, Captain Rex, and other troopers were dispatched to liberate the incarcerated Jedi. Joined by a rebellious Tano, who defied Skywalker's orders to participate in the mission, Kenobi and the others froze themselves in carbonite to evade detection by the prison's life scanners and infiltrated the facility. During their ascent to the entry point, surrounded by electromines, Tano infiltrated a ventilation duct to disable the ray shield protecting their entrance. However, the fall of one trooper alerted the prison to their presence. Nevertheless, the team proceeded to locate Piell and secure his release.

Piell then revealed that following the ship's crash, he and one of his Captains, Wilhuff Tarkin, had each memorized half of the intelligence regarding the Nexus Route, ensuring that the information would be useless without both halves. Adjusting their strategy, the team successfully rescued the other officers, with Piell introducing Tarkin to Kenobi and Skywalker. Subsequently, Kenobi proposed a division of labor—Tarkin would accompany Skywalker and Tano, while Kenobi and Piell would create a diversion to enable R2-D2 and his droids to extract them from the planet. However, Kenobi and his team were captured before reaching the rendezvous point and encountered the prison's commander, Osi Sobeck, until R2-D2 and his squad liberated them, allowing them to reunite with Skywalker's team at the shuttle, which was destroyed during the ensuing battle, seemingly claiming Echo's life. Forced to escape, Kenobi and Skywalker contacted the Jedi Council to request a rescue force for extraction and continued their escape through tunnels surrounding the tower.

After Piell contacted the Council to ascertain the precise location of their extraction point and Sobeck dispatched anoobas to track them, Kenobi, Skywalker, and R2-D2 acted as bait to allow the rest of the team to ambush them. Despite their success, Piell perished during the confrontation, after imparting the Intel to Tano. She then rejoined the rest of the team, and they collectively paid tribute to his sacrifice, as Kenobi and Skywalker used the Force to lower his body into a river of lava. Despite this, they managed to reach the extraction point on time, even with Sobeck's intervention, and fled aboard Plo Koon's rescue shuttle, with Saesee Tiin providing cover fire to facilitate their escape back to Coruscant.

Mon Cala and Umbara

When the Jedi Council sought an aquatic species in close proximity to reinforce the Republic forces fighting on the planet of Mon Cala, Kenobi proposed that Naboo might be sufficiently close to offer assistance.

Kenobi, along with fellow Jedi Tiin, Skywalker, Skywalker's Padawan Ahsoka Tano, Padawan Barriss Offee, and Pong Krell, was deployed to retake the planet of Umbara. Kenobi's battalion was tasked with capturing the capital and encountered formidable resistance from the Umbaran militia. Kenobi then contacted Krell and the 501st, instructing them to secure a Umbaran airbase that was resupplying the capital.

After his battalion was repelled from the capital due to the Umbaran's long-range missiles, Kenobi commended Krell on his success in capturing the airbase and informed him that the capital was still receiving supplies, this time from a Separatist supply ship in the atmosphere. He also notified Krell of impending, but delayed reinforcements, only for the Besalisk to declare his intention to assault the city regardless of the capital's defenses. Kenobi's transmission was then disrupted by the Umbarans. Despite Krell's attempts to undermine the Republic's efforts by manipulating the 501st and the 212th battalions into attacking each other, Kenobi successfully seized the capital and routed the remaining Umbaran forces, securing all sectors of the planet for the Republic.

Zygerrian slave crisis

Ten rotations after Master Yoda's last communication with the Togruta colony of Kiros, Kenobi, Skywalker, Tano, Captain Rex, and Commander Cody arrived on the colony, discovering no inhabitants and fought their way through droid contingents on BARC speeders to the governor's tower. Once they had encircled the Separatist headquarters within the governor's tower, Cody presented Kenobi with a message from the Separatist commander, Darts D'Nar, requesting his presence at the tower to negotiate terms of "surrender." When Skywalker became enraged upon recognizing D'Nar as a Zygerrian slaver, Kenobi instructed his former apprentice to search for the colonists while he engaged in negotiations with D'Nar, explaining Skywalker's history with slavery to Tano, who assured Kenobi that she would monitor him.

Kenobi then entered the tower and interrupted D'Nar's meeting with Dooku and Zygerrian Prime Minister Atai Molec to negotiate terms of surrender—the Republic's surrender. Kenobi then activated his comlink so that Skywalker and Ahsoka could overhear the Zygerrian's admission that he had planted several bombs throughout the city. Kenobi then surrendered but challenged D'Nar to a duel in the Zygerrian tradition (without weapons) to distract him while Skywalker and Tano disarmed the bombs. Despite enduring a severe beating from D'Nar, Kenobi successfully deceived the Zygerrian, who detonated his last bomb located on his tactical droid and escaped from the Jedi Master. Unable to pursue him, he informed Skywalker and Tano of his departure. After Skywalker captured D'Nar and his ship, Kenobi, Skywalker, and Tano contacted the Jedi Council, informing them of the Zygerrians' abduction of the colonists.

Utilizing D'Nar's ship, Kenobi, along with Skywalker, Tano, Captain Rex, and R2-D2, traveled to Zygerria. Upon arrival, they formed two teams; Skywalker and Tano proceeded to engage with Queen Miraj Scintel disguised as master and slave, respectively, while Kenobi and Rex, disguised as Zygerrian traders, attempted to locate the kidnapped colonists from Kiros. The two ventured to the Royal palace's slave pits, where they discovered the Togrutan Governor of Kiros, Gupat Roshti, weakened and traumatized by his ordeal. With Rex, Kenobi decided to escort him to safety on a brezak, only for Kenobi to be shot in the shoulder and captured along with Roshti, with Rex safely escaping. Chained to a wall and subjected to torture for information, Kenobi was identified as a Jedi by Prime Minister Atai Molec and prepared for sale at that night's auction block.

At the auction, Roshti and Kenobi were the first slaves to be presented, and Queen Scintel commanded Skywalker to torture Kenobi with a shock whip before the assembled bidders. However, upon Skywalker entering the arena, he signaled to R2-D2, who launched Kenobi's, Skywalker's, and Tano's lightsabers to their owners, while Rex provided assistance with a blaster. Despite their efforts, the entire team was soon captured and separated. While Skywalker and Tano were detained on Zygerria, Kenobi, Rex, and Roshti were transported to Kadavo, where the remaining Kiros colonists were held. There, the Jedi General was coerced into submission by the center's warden, Agruss, who emphasized his point by causing the deaths of several Togrutan prisoners and threatening further harm to the others should Kenobi contemplate rebellion.

On Kadavo, Kenobi and Rex were soon compelled to work in the mines, where Kenobi struggled to maintain any semblance of hope for himself or the unfortunate prisoners, as each time he attempted to do so, one of the Togrutans was punished in his stead to amplify his despair. Following the Queen's demise at the hands of Dooku and her final words directing Skywalker to Kenobi's location, Kenobi participated in a conference with Count Dooku in the facility's control room. Despite Dooku's desire to execute Kenobi, Skywalker arrived on Kadavo with Jedi reinforcements. During the battle that ensued, Kenobi and Rex fought within the room, killed Agruss, and escaped the facility, while Tano and troopers rescued the Togruta prisoners before the Republic forces destroyed the labor facility.

Plot to kidnap the Chancellor

Following Moralo Eval's capture by the Republic and his imprisonment in the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center, Kenobi became involved in a scheme with Yoda and Mace Windu to thwart Eval's plans to abduct Chancellor Palpatine. To achieve this, he allowed himself to be shot by a sniper, Rako Hardeen, in the presence of Skywalker and Tano, who were led to believe that he was dead.

After his funeral, Kenobi assumed the identity of his apparent assassin and underwent a facial alteration to match Hardeen's appearance. Additionally, after Kenobi and Windu recorded a sample of Hardeen's voice in Trueping's, Kenobi ingested a vocal emulator to perfectly replicate Hardeen's voice. Kenobi operated under the alias "Ben," the same name Kryze had used to address him years earlier, for the duration of the mission. Kenobi was then dispatched to the detention center, where he forged a partnership with Eval, who trusted Kenobi and believed him to be useful, and Cad Bane, who remained skeptical. When a prison riot erupted, orchestrated by Boba Fett and Bossk, Kenobi worked to escape alongside Bane and Eval. Kenobi subtly employed the Force to aid in their escape, unlocking a lock that Bane had failed to bypass. Bane harbored suspicions towards Kenobi due to his reluctance to kill the prison staff, but despite this, they departed Coruscant for Nal Hutta.

Upon arriving on Nal Hutta, Kenobi deliberately crashed their ship to conceal their trail. The trio then attempted to procure supplies and a new ship in the town of Bilbousa. Bane's distrust of Kenobi intensified after Kenobi's considerate treatment of Pablo, the proprietor of the pawnshop that the trio visited. Kenobi, suspecting betrayal, planted a tracking device on the new ship he purchased, so that when Bane abandoned Kenobi to be apprehended by the local authorities, the Jedi transmitted the frequency of the tracking device to his captors, who subsequently shot down Bane and Eval's ship. Kenobi, meanwhile, escaped from captivity and acquired another ship, and when Bane and Eval discovered him smugly awaiting them, they agreed to accept him as a partner in their scheme. When the trio reached Orondia, Skywalker and Tano intercepted them. During a brief confrontation, Kenobi grappled with Skywalker, whispering "Anakin, don't follow me," just before rendering him unconscious and escaping with Bane and Eval.

Eval, Bane, and Kenobi journeyed to Serenno to confer with Count Dooku, where Bane and Kenobi were among the twelve notorious bounty hunters invited to participate in the test of skill known as the Box, conceived by Eval. "Hardeen" consistently outperformed Eval in these trials, fueling the Phindian's growing resentment with each passing challenge. The fourth and final trial assessed their marksmanship, requiring them to hit a moving target on the wall. Failure meant plummeting into a pit of flame emitters. Following Sixtat's failure, Kenobi stepped up to take his shot. However, Eval had set a trap for Kenobi, causing his rifle to run out of ammunition before he could strike the final target. Eval then deactivated the platforms in an attempt to eliminate Kenobi, but Bane, now respecting Kenobi and disgusted by Eval's treachery, intervened to save him. Dooku, deciding Eval was not exempt from the contest, dropped him to the now-cooled floor to battle Kenobi. Despite Dooku's desire for Kenobi to kill Eval, Kenobi refused, disappointing the Sith Lord. Dooku then appointed Bane to lead the operation to kidnap the Chancellor. The team departed for Naboo a few hours later.

The team planned to abduct Palpatine during Naboo's Festival of Light. They seized a warehouse in Theed, assigning each member a specific role. Kenobi was designated as the sniper responsible for firing stun blasts at the Chancellor. Once in position, Kenobi contacted Windu to relay the details of the plan. Later that night, despite the efforts of Skywalker and Windu during the skirmish, Bane and Eval successfully kidnapped the Chancellor. Kenobi, with Windu and Skywalker in pursuit, followed them, leading to the arrest of the criminals and the Chancellor's recovery at the rendezvous point.

However, agreeing with Skywalker's suspicion that they didn't have the full story, Kenobi returned to the apartment where he had been positioned as a sniper. There, he discovered an activated comlink in his rifle case. Realizing Dooku's involvement, Kenobi hurried back to the Royal Palace, where he found Skywalker engaged in a duel with Dooku, while Palpatine was held captive by a MagnaGuard. After Kenobi rescued the Chancellor and Dooku fled, Palpatine expressed his gratitude to the Jedi for their bravery.

The return of Maul

Similar to Master Yoda and Skywalker, Kenobi detected a disturbance in the Force, signaling the return of his old adversary, the former Sith Lord Maul. Kenobi had believed he had killed Maul on Naboo, but Maul had survived and found his way to a junkyard on Lotho Minor. Rescued by Savage Oppress and having his sanity restored by Mother Talzin, Maul sent a message to the Jedi Council, threatening to execute innocent people on Raydonia unless Kenobi faced him.

Kenobi arrived in a burning village where Maul awaited him. Although Kenobi was uncertain if the figure was truly Maul, the Dathomirian confirmed his identity by recounting their shared experience during the Battle of Naboo. The two engaged in a fight, and Kenobi was overpowered by Maul, who was aided by Opress. Kenobi was then taken aboard the brothers' ship, where they intended to keep him conscious so that his death would be as agonizing as his life had been for the past decade. However, Asajj Ventress, seeking the bounty on Opress' head, rescued Kenobi. After being freed, Kenobi used one of her lightsabers to duel Maul in the ship's cargo hold. Despite nearly succumbing to rage, Kenobi gained the upper hand with Ventress's help. Together, they trapped Maul and Opress in the ship's rear, leaving the brothers stranded, but alive, in space.

Assisting the Onderon rebels

Kenobi was present at a Jedi Council session when rebels Saw Gerrera and Lux Bonteri contacted them, requesting assistance in their struggle against the Separatist forces on Onderon, led by King Sanjay Rash. Kenobi noted that Onderon had declared its intention to join the Separatists at the war's outset, but Gerrera claimed that their true king had been silenced by the imposter. The Council declined direct involvement but agreed to send advisors to train and guide the rebels. Kenobi, along with Skywalker, Tano, and Rex, went to Onderon.

On Onderon, Kenobi met the rebels and their charismatic leader Steela Gerrera, as well as her comrades. Together, they began training the rebels in combat. When the Separatists discovered and attacked their outpost, Kenobi and the other Jedi assisted in the battle, taking care not to be directly involved. After the skirmish, they devised a plan to infiltrate the capital city of Iziz. Once inside, Kenobi, Skywalker, and Rex decided to return to Coruscant to report to the Council, leaving Tano as a liaison to the rebels. However, they made sure Tano would not reveal her Jedi identity, while allowing her to accompany the rebels on strike missions. After that, they maintained regular contact with her. Kenobi attended the funeral for Steela after her death in the final battle.

Younglings in danger

While aboard his flagship, the Star Destroyer Negotiator, Kenobi received a communication from Jedi initiates aboard the transport Crucible. They informed him that their guardian, Ahsoka Tano, had been kidnapped by Hondo Ohnaka's pirates. The younglings expressed their desire to rescue Tano, but Kenobi instructed them to remain on the Crucible for their safety.

Kenobi planned to dispatch Commander Cody to rescue the stranded Jedi, but his plans were disrupted by an unexpected attack by General Grievous on his fleet. Grievous's ships quickly gained the advantage, destroying several of Kenobi's vessels. Upon learning that Grievous had dispatched a boarding party to his ship, Kenobi and the clone forces stationed themselves in the hangar to repel the attack. Grievous himself led the boarding party, and Kenobi engaged him in a duel while the clone troopers and battle droids clashed. Realizing he could not win the battle, Kenobi retreated through the Star Destroyer's passageways, ordering the crew to abandon ship and initiating the ship's self-destruct sequence. When Grievous reached the bridge, he found a hologram of Kenobi. Through the hologram, Kenobi conceded victory to Grievous but warned him that the ship was about to explode. Kenobi escaped the destruction in an escape pod, as did Grievous, who evacuated Kenobi's ship on a shuttle just before it exploded.

Soon after, Kenobi joined Tano, the younglings (who had disobeyed Kenobi's orders to rescue Tano), and members of the pirate gang, including Ohnaka himself. Following Grievous's victory over Kenobi, he had attacked the pirates' stronghold, and the Jedi and pirates had joined forces against Grievous, barely escaping with their lives.

D-Squad's assignment

Kenobi was present when the Jedi Council dispatched Colonel Meebur Gascon and a team of droids to infiltrate a Separatist dreadnought located deep within Separatist territory. Their mission was to recover an encryption module that was scrambling Separatist communications in the region.

Expedition to Bray

Kenobi, accompanied by Gallia, Cody, and other soldiers, went to Bray in response to a distress signal. Upon their arrival, the locals informed Kenobi about a Dark Lord who was terrorizing their village and desecrating the Citadel of Light. Kenobi was initially skeptical, but his doubts were dispelled when the power went out and they were attacked by several mynocks. Kenobi and Gallia decided to investigate the Citadel. They discovered that the mynocks had infected trooper Peel, transforming him into a creature. Kenobi was attacked by Peel until Cody stunned him and locked him away.

Kenobi and Gallia entered the Citadel in search of a cure. Inside, they found Dooku and the Dark Lord Ravna. Kenobi attempted to attack Ravna with his lightsaber, but it was ineffective. Ravna subdued Kenobi, while Dooku used his lightning to subdue Gallia. Kenobi tried to dissuade Dooku from using Ravna's powers. However, Ravna betrayed Dooku and infected him. Kenobi managed to reach Dooku by provoking his anger and inciting him to attack Ravna. As Dooku unleashed his lightning on Ravna, Kenobi and Gallia used the Force to collapse the Citadel, entombing Ravna.

Approaching the war's conclusion

Combating Oppress and Maul

When the two brothers attacked the Cybloc Transfer Station in the Meridian sector, the space station sent out a distress signal, prompting Kenobi and Gallia to investigate the two brothers, who were now operating under Maul's singular vision. The Jedi discovered that they were headed to Florrum. There, Kenobi contacted Hondo Ohnaka to inquire about the situation. Hondo reported that "two horned men" had appeared and threatened to attack his stronghold with pirates who had betrayed him. Kenobi told him he could not help him with his men, but that he could help stop the Sith.

Kenobi and Gallia engaged Maul and Opress just as they began their attack on Florrum. During the battle, Gallia was killed by Opress. Kenobi, taking up Gallia's lightsaber to defend himself, was forced to retreat and reunite with Ohnaka. Inside a cave, Ohnaka decided to ambush the men, while Kenobi decided to confront Maul and Opress. With great skill and Gallia's lightsaber, Kenobi violently fought the pair, changing to Ataru and demonstrating mastery of his former fighting style. Eventually, he injures Opress' knee and cuts his left arm off. However, before Kenobi could continue the fight, Maul Force-pushed him into another part of the cave, bringing the fight to an end. Realizing their plan had failed, the Dathomirians left and headed off-planet to try again another time. Their ship, however, was shot down and the two were forced to head for an escape pod. As the ship fell, Kenobi went with Hondo to see "what riches [had] fallen from the sky," but there were no signs of Maul nor Opress, leaving Kenobi to doubt their demise.

Following the confrontation, Kenobi returned to Coruscant where he explained to Chancellor Palpatine about the situation regarding Maul, but Palpatine dismissed the Maul's threat, saying that the Jedi needed to focus on the Separatist threat, despite Kenobi's fears of the criminal underworld being a place where Maul could flourish.

Mandalore's downfall and the loss of Satine Kryze

Following Maul's takeover of Mandalore, Kenobi was summoned to meet with Yoda and Ki-Adi-Mundi in the communications room. The two showed him a transmission that had been sent by Satine Kryze from Mandalore. In the message, she stated that her government had been overthrown by rogue criminals, only for the transmission to be abruptly cut. Kenobi noticed the super commandos surrounding his friend, wanting to go to Mandalore to help her. However, he simply chose to tell the Masters that the Death Watch was most likely responsible for any hostile takeover that took place.

Yoda and Mundi expressed reluctance to take part in the internal affairs of Mandalore without Senate approval, despite Kenobi's protests. Kenobi chose to go to Mandalore anyways, borrowing the Twilight vessel with Skywalker's blessing and heading to Sundari. Though Skywalker wished to come as well, Kenobi insisted that one Jedi would be easier to hide than two. Kenobi brought the armor of Rako Hardeen, which he had saved from that previous mission, to use in the endeavor. The Master, who despised the way the Twilight flew, was happy to leave it behind once on the planet.

Kenobi proceeded to trick a guard and took his armor. Disguised, he entered the prison complex using a stolen code cylinder, wandering through a maze of cells. When he freed Kryze from her cell, she expressed her relief to see him, despite their grim circumstances. Kenobi admitted that the Senate nor the Council had approved their mission, which could prove to make their escape more difficult. The Jedi acted as if Satine was his prisoner, transferring her through a turbolift until being questioned about the prisoner transfer. Kenobi responded to the query by knocking the asking commando out, hurriedly ushering Satine onto a speeder to make their escape.

However, the pair was chased, leading them to quip about their many memories together. After rushing up the ramp of their ship, Kenobi realized that his borrowed ship could not withstand an attack, and agreed to contacting Satine's sister, Bo-Katan, for help. The ship quickly took damage from enemy fire, resulting in Kenobi and Satine being forced to leave it behind. The Jedi used the Force to break their falls, but then crashed to the platform when their ship came down on top of them. Realizing who was on planet, Maul personally hunted down Kenobi and managed to ensure that the Twilight was shot down before it could leave. Maul captured the now-dizzy and injured Kenobi as Opress lifted an unconscious Kryze, and ordered them taken back to the royal palace.

In the palace, Maul, realizing Kenobi's feelings for Satine, decided to execute her with Kenobi watching, hoping that he would feel the same pain Maul did when he was forced to live in exile after being brutally injured by Kenobi on Naboo. Maul again attempted to sway Kenobi to the dark side, but the Jedi Master refused, saying those who oppose it were more powerful than those use the dark side could ever be. Kenobi instead talked about the Dathomirian's own past, recognising that Maul had his future stolen and was groomed to become the creature of anger and vengeance who stood before him. He hoped that by matching the Sith's fury with understanding and sympathy he could reach Maul and both save Satine's life and turn the Dathomirian away from the dark path he had been forced on. But Kenobi's fear for Satine's life and anger towards Maul made his words more venomous than the Jedi intended.

Angered by Kenobi's statements, the commandos forced Kenobi to his knees. Maul let Satine go briefly, but stabbed her with the Darksaber. She ultimately died in Kenobi's arms saying with her last breath, that she always loved him and always would. Maul taunted Kenobi, but Kenobi replied that only the weak embraced the dark side. Maul, then, had his guards escort Kenobi to a cell where he could "drown in his misery" and "rot." Kenobi deeply grieved her death, feeling strong anger after it as he envisioned revenge. However, he decided not to act on his emotions and betray what he had worked to become as a Jedi, and Maul had him imprisoned again.

Satine's sister Bo-Katan and her renegade Nite Owls team, however, intercepted Kenobi as he was being transferred to the prison area. Katan freed Kenobi and gave him his lightsaber back, informing the Master that she was there to rescue him. In return, she had him help her find Maul and kill him. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, Darth Sidious appeared and engaged Maul and Opress in a duel, defeating the former and killing the latter. As the conflict escalated, Kenobi made his way to his ship and was told by Bo-Katan to warn the Republic of what had happened. Kenobi told her that it would lead to an invasion of Mandalore, but she said that Maul's death would be worth it, and that they would survive. Kenobi, before leaving, asked Bo-Katan if Satine was her sister, and apologized for her loss.

Returning to Coruscant, Kenobi reunited with Skywalker, who asked his former master what had happened. Though his words came as a struggle, Kenobi admitted he had lost "someone important" to him. He also revealed that he understood anger in a new way and that he now knew how difficult it was to not give into the emotion. Skywalker held Kenobi's gaze for sometime before the two left for the Jedi Council together, as Kenobi knew he had to report what had happened.

Crisis of the Temple bombing

Following the bombing at the Jedi Temple, Kenobi was part of the Jedi Council meeting, where Yoda and Windu requested that Skywalker and Tano investigate the incident and find the culprit, even if it meant suspecting their fellow Jedi. Kenobi was present as a hologram when Tano and Skywalker updated the Council on their progress after following a lead to Jackar Bowmani. Kenobi also attended to the funeral for the victims of the bombing.

Later, Kenobi learned of a Separatist attack on Saleucami. He alerted his fellow Jedi in the Jedi Temple's war room, suggesting that their fleets move to the Anoat system and then to Saleucami. Admiral Tarkin interrupted, informing the Council that Letta Turmond had requested Tano.

After Tano's escape from authorities to prove her innocence, Kenobi, along with the rest of the Jedi High Council and Skywalker, held an emergency meeting with Tarkin, who declared that Tano was now accused of sedition. While Skywalker and Plo Koon doubted her guilt, Grand Master Yoda sent them to find her. Windu attempted to exclude Skywalker, believing his emotional connection to Tano would worsen the situation. However, Kenobi convinced the Council otherwise, stating that Skywalker knew Tano best and that it would be foolish to remove him from the mission.

After her capture, Kenobi listened to Tarkin inform the Council that the Senate had requested Tano's expulsion from the Jedi Order and her transfer to the Republic military for a more "impartial" judgment. Kenobi tried to persuade his fellow Council members to support Tano, but they refused, fearing that protecting her would damage their relationship with the Senate. Despite his reluctance, Kenobi participated in Tano's trial in the Chamber of Judgment, where the Council stripped the young Togruta of her rank and status as a Jedi.

Like other members of the Council, Kenobi was present during Tano's military trial, presided over by Chancellor Palpatine, and during Barriss Offee's confession, which confirmed Tano's innocence. Along with the Council, Kenobi agreed that Tano should rejoin the Order and was present when Windu and Yoda proclaimed her a true Jedi, worthy of becoming a Jedi Knight, only for her to refuse readmission. When Skywalker ran after Tano, Kenobi started to follow, but Plo Koon placed a hand on his shoulder, silently advising him not to. Despite Skywalker's attempts to convince her to reconsider, Tano parted ways with the Jedi. Following the event, Skywalker's regret at her departure soured his mood, which he reflected on to Amidala. Hesitant to lose more people close to him, Skywalker was reluctant to leave on his next mission, but eventually went with Kenobi on an assignment that ended successfully.

Conspiracy on Kamino

After clone trooper Tup murdered Jedi General Tiplar during a battle on Ringo Vinda and was sent to Kamino for examination, Jedi Master Shaak Ti held a meeting with the Jedi Council, which Kenobi attended. Amid her desire for an atomic brain scan on Tup and Nala Se's desire to terminate the clone and perform an autopsy, Kenobi asked what the Kaminoan thought of her and advised that Tup be brought back to the Jedi Temple, where he could be examined through the Force. However, the full extent of the Kaminoans' plot was only discovered by Fives, who died before he could warn the Jedi of Order 66.

The return of Clovis

Following Senator Amidala's mission to Scipio, where she cooperated with Rush Clovis to expose the InterGalactic Banking Clan, and Skywalker's continued animosity towards Clovis, Kenobi visited Skywalker in his quarters to discuss his and Yoda's concerns that his judgment regarding Clovis was "clouded" after the event on Cato Neimoidia. Kenobi told Skywalker that he could not let his feelings for Amidala get in the way of his judgment. He tried to resonate with his former padawan by mentioning how he had similar feelings for Satine as Anakin did for Padmé, but Anakin was not receptive and Obi-Wan left after reiterating that he could not let his feelings get in the way of his decisions. Nevertheless, Skywalker was right to distrust Clovis, as his actions not only endangered Senator Amidala's life once again, but also put the Banking Clan under the direct control of Chancellor Palpatine, thus giving Darth Sidious more power in his quest to form a New Order.

The secret of Sifo-Dyas

After Jedi Master Plo Koon intercepted a distress call from a shuttle once thought to have been lost and discovered Sifo-Dyas's lightsaber, he took of the meeting in which Plo Koon informed the Jedi Council of his findings, and Kenobi reminded them that Sifo-Dyas had spearheaded the creation of the Clone Army. Relaunching the investigation of the Jedi Master's death, Kenobi and Skywalker were sent to Felucia to find out what happened to Sifo-Dyas, where they spoke to the tribal leaders. Kenobi was told that the Felucians had cremated his body and that another Jedi had been with him when he was killed, and reported their findings to Master Yoda.

The pair were subsequently dispatched to Oba Diah when Finis Valorum, the former Chancellor, informed Yoda that Sifo-Dyas had been sent to negotiate with the Pyke Syndicate in order to prevent an impending underground conflict. However, Valorum stated that Syfo-Dyas was not accompanied by another Jedi, but rather by his personal assistant, Silman. Upon arriving on Oba Diah, Kenobi and Skywalker encountered Lom Pyke, who initially denied any involvement until Kenobi noticed him wearing Valorum's crest. Skywalker then seized Lom's necklace and demanded that the Pyke cease "playing games." Eventually, Lom relented and confessed to the Jedi that they had been paid by a man named Tyranus to destroy Sifo-Dyas's shuttle. However, fearing the individual who commissioned the assassination of a Jedi, they had kept Silman imprisoned for a decade as a safeguard.

Upon finally meeting Silman, they discovered that his prolonged confinement had driven him insane, rendering him unable to provide much information. Suddenly, Dooku appeared and murdered Silman before Kenobi and Skywalker's eyes. After engaging Dooku in combat, they realized that the man known as Tyranus was, in reality, Count Dooku himself. Following his escape, they informed the Council of their discoveries, prompting them to question Dooku's involvement in the creation of the clone army, and the motives of the still-unidentified Dark Lord of the Sith.

Yoda's journey

During a meeting of the High Council, Kenobi, along with his fellow Jedi, observed that Grand Master Yoda seemed preoccupied after his communication with Qui-Gon Jinn, Kenobi's deceased master. Later, Windu privately expressed his concern about Yoda's inner turmoil to Kenobi, requesting that he monitor the elderly Jedi Master. Soon after, Yoda revealed to the Council that he had heard a voice from beyond, prompting Kenobi and the entire Council to meditate collectively with him, but they heard nothing. While Master Mundi suggested it could be a Sith deception, Kenobi dismissed the notion, believing Yoda to be impervious to such manipulation. However, Windu countered that, despite his wisdom and age, Yoda was not immune to the dark side's influence.

After undergoing a medical examination, Kenobi, Windu, and Mundi were informed by Rig Nema that Yoda was in perfect mental condition, even as he approached his nine-hundredth year. Although Mundi proposed that the Dark Lord of the Sith might be exploiting Yoda's connection to Dooku, Kenobi vehemently rejected the idea, pointing out that they had all been Yoda's apprentices at some point. Before the discussion could continue, Nema suggested a deprivation ritual for Yoda to reach Jinn's voice. During the procedure, Kenobi, Skywalker, Mundi, and Plo Koon oversaw the small Jedi. Yoda managed to hear Jinn's instruction to go to the Dagobah system before Kenobi noticed his vital signs were dropping dangerously low and halted the test. When questioned about the procedure by Windu, Kenobi reported that Yoda was certain he had contacted the dead. Like most, Kenobi was skeptical of the entire ordeal, leading Windu to assign guards to monitor Yoda. The small Jedi Master then escaped with Skywalker's assistance and R2-D2's companionship, embarking on a journey that would lead him to Dagobah, a mysterious planet and Moraband.

Upon Yoda's return to Coruscant, Kenobi and Windu greeted him. Windu inquired if he had gained any insight into how to win the war, but the elderly Jedi Master replied that he no longer believed the Jedi could win the Clone Wars. However, he added that through hope and perseverance, the Jedi would ultimately triumph over the Sith.

Crystal crisis on Utapau

In the final months of the war, Kenobi and Skywalker were dispatched to Utapau to investigate the perplexing death of Jedi Master Tu-Anh. After landing in Pau City, they were immediately introduced to Inspector Jen June, who escorted them to the morgue where the Jedi's body was located. The two Jedi examined her remains and then visited the location where she had been discovered, concluding that she had been struck in the optic nerve by a precision laser dart fired by a sniper. Upon discovering the sniper's position, they found slime on the floor and interrogated the building's owner, Garri, from whom the two Jedi learned of the involvement of MagnaGuards. Subsequently, they requested Inspector June to analyze the slimy substance, and she concluded it was the secretion of an Amani's skin. She also informed them that Governor Torul Blom wished to meet with them.

Despite the Governor's request for them to leave Utapau, Kenobi and Skywalker persisted and rented two dactillions to travel to the city's lower levels and speak with the leader of an Amani tribe there. They were informed that an Amani outcast had been seen entering a cave nearby. Kenobi thanked him, and he and Skywalker proceeded to the cave, where they encountered the MagnaGuards, leading them to suspect a Separatist conspiracy. Despite some resistance, they managed to extract information from the droids that implicated the Sugi and returned to see Inspector June. After she identified the Amani as originating from the plain, Kenobi contacted the Council to inform them of their findings and later, along with Skywalker, attended the funeral of Tu-Anh.

Soon after, they arrived at the Amani settlement they had been searching for, only to have their dactillions killed and the Amani scatter in all directions during the ensuing confrontation. Skywalker and Kenobi followed the tracks of one that appeared to be their leader. During the hunt, Skywalker mentioned Tano for the first time since her departure, and Kenobi inquired if he wished to discuss it, but Skywalker declined. Kenobi then suggested they set up camp and rest. However, he persisted on the subject, prompting Skywalker to express his longing for Tano and his anger at the High Council for abandoning her. In response, Kenobi asserted that it had been Tano's decision to leave, and that she had allowed her emotions to cloud her judgement, which was against the Jedi way. Then, Kenobi suggested he rest, but Skywalker declined so that he could keep the first watch. Finally, he questioned Kenobi on what would happen if he had turned out to be a "major disappointment," but Kenobi wanted to believe it would never happen.

However, they both fell asleep and were captured by a group of Sugis led by Chong, who brought them before Endente as Kenobi told Chong of their "intention" to buy weapons. However, they learned Endente was, in fact, selling a kyber crystal and Skywalker prompted him to show it before they made the deal. The two Jedi were then brought to the starship where the crystal was being kept and escaped from their captors. Once Skywalker took out all the Sugi and recovered their lightsabers from Chong, they were unable to capture Endente and discovered the massive kyber crystal inside the ship. Despite being attacked, the two Jedi managed to transport the crystal through Utapau's plains until they reached Pau City, where Governor Blom revealed his true allegiance and had the two Jedi surrounded by his men and Grievous's droids. As the kyber crystal was loaded onto a shuttle and sent to ship on orbit, Kenobi and Skywalker took June and Blom as hostages, so that their underlings stopped shooting at them, and stole a freighter to recover the crystal.

During the pursuit, Kenobi contacted the High Council to inform them of their current situation, and Grievous soon damaged their ship, forcing them to, performing a number five special, crash the ship to damage the hyperdrive and board the ship where the crystal was then held. However, they got separated, and Kenobi landed in a hangar full of droids, where he was soon confronted and captured by Grievous. Following Dooku's orders to execute him, Kenobi was being escorted to the execution room until Skywalker rescued him. Together, their made their way to the kyber crystal at the vault, where they were temporarily trapped until a squad discovered them. Using the crystal and the Force to knock them out, he managed to get to a hangar where Skywalker got a shuttle for them to escape. Meanwhile, Kenobi set several AATs to shoot and overload the crystal, destroying the crystal and the ship, and escaping from the explosion in the nick of time.

Back on Coruscant, Kenobi and Skywalker reported to the Council about the outcome of their mission, when Yoda told them of the use of kyber crystals on weapons of unimaginable power in ancient times.

The dark disciples

Following the fall of Mahranee and the destruction of General Chubor's refugee-carrier Republic frigate by Dooku's command, Kenobi, along with Skywalker, participated in a council meeting where the decision was made to assassinate the Count, as they had concluded that Dooku was the cause of all that had transpired in the war. Although Kenobi opposed the idea, he suggested Quinlan Vos be deployed for the mission.

Upon Vos's return to Coruscant from his covert mission in Otor's Hub after dismantling Sheb Valaad's black market operation, Kenobi greeted him at the Jedi Temple and escorted him to the Jedi Council Chamber. There, Vos was informed of his mission and Ventress's role in it, which he accepted. At the conclusion of the session, Kenobi met Vos at the dining hall and provided him with additional details about Ventress's character. Subsequently, Kenobi and Vos arranged to meet at a bar in Level 1313 at regular intervals so that Vos could keep him informed of his progress. Vos's absence from their third and fourth scheduled meetings prompted Kenobi to report to the Council.

During one such meeting, Ventress appeared at the bar instead. After her mission to rescue Vos from Serenno after he had been captured following their failed attempt to kill Dooku, she informed Kenobi that they had lost Vos to Dooku and the dark side. The two sat there, together, for a long time. Kenobi would later mention their encounter to his fellow Jedi, including Akar-Deshu.

On Maul's tail

Following the Battle of Ord Mantell, Kenobi, along with Jedi Masters Tiplee, Mace Windu, and Aayla Secura, was dispatched to Ord Mantell to investigate who the Separatist forces had been fighting. Although the Shadow Collective had managed to remove most traces of their presence in the city, Wolffe and his men discovered a Mandalorian helmet outside the town, which led the four Jedi on the trail of Maul.

Knowing of the Black Sun's presence in the system, and the location of Vizsla Keep 09, a Mandalorian supply outpost suspected to be Maul's hideout, Kenobi and Tiplee led an assault to secure the location until reinforcements arrived. Tiplee expressed concern that Obi-Wan's feelings for Satine would cloud his judgement when facing Maul, but he assured her that he would remain in control and would not fail the mission. As the two Jedi attempted to reach the command center, Maul and Count Dooku appeared to duel them, with Windu and Secura joining them shortly thereafter. Despite their advantage over the Sith, Tiplee was killed by Dooku, and a Mandalorian assisted Maul by triggering an explosion that injured Windu and Secura. The Sith then managed to escape, with Maul telling Kenobi not to worry, as they would be seeing each other again soon. His alliance with Dooku left the Jedi perplexed as to what had just occurred.

Vos' rescue

After Akar-Deshu's meeting with Asajj Ventress, Kenobi and Skywalker met with them and Kenobi promised her that she would come to no harm within the Temple, and brought her to the Council chambers. Despite Windu's open disapproval, Yoda allowed Kenobi and Skywalker to go with Ventress to rescue Vos. Soon enough, Kenobi, Skywalker, and Ventress were on the cockpit of her ship, the Banshee, to infiltrate the Separatist dreadnought where Vos, or rather "Admiral Enigma," was issuing orders from.

Stealthily, the three made their way to the bridge where Skywalker dueled Dooku, while Kenobi and Ventress discovered Vos was still being held captive by the Count. However, Ventress saw through his ruse and tried to relieve Vos from an existence consumed by hatred, but Kenobi convinced her to escape before taking such an extreme action. Barely escaping on the Banshee, they made their way back to Coruscant, and Kenobi saw as the Council welcomed Vos and pardoned Ventress.

Redemption of the fallen

A month later, Kenobi was sent alongside Skywalker, Vos, and Akar-Deshu in a mission to take over a Separatist supply storage base and redistribute the supplies to worlds in need of them. However, their mission went awry when Vos, unbeknownst to them, arranged the base's destruction. Later on, Kenobi and Vos would be deployed to a listening post on Vanqor, but their second fruitless campaign in a row made Kenobi suspicious of a leak. He confided his feelings to Yoda and Windu, leading them to suspect Vos was the leak. Kenobi would later be summoned by Yoda to tell him that he had sensed concealed darkness in Vos' soul, and the Council arranged an emergency session, in which they entertained the option of executing Vos. Kenobi, however, protested against the idea, and suggested sending Vos again to assassinate Dooku to test his allegiances.

Afterwards, Vos had Ventress tell the Council of the Count and Grievous' presence on Christophsis, and the two set out on their mission aboard the Banshee. Kenobi and Skywalker followed suit and spied on Vos, who reunited with Dooku; they observed as the two dueled, when Vos gained the upper hand just as he let Dooku live as long as he told him about his Master's whereabouts. It was then that Kenobi and Skywalker intervened, taking the pair by surprised, and placed them under arrest. The two soon escaped from the Vigilance, causing the death of Akar-Deshu and the Chagrian Kav Bayons, and boarded the Banshee, but Skywalker's quick thinking forced the renegades to crash land on the planet.

The two Jedi pursued the three injured renegades to a Separatist tower, where they surrounded them. There, Kenobi and Skywalker witnessed what appeared to be Ventress' last moments before finding Vos. They transported Vos back to Coruscant where the fallen Jedi confessed all his crimes and Kenobi defended Ventress. After being placed under Yoda's supervision for some time, Vos was released to Kenobi's care so he could take Ventress' body back to Dathomir, where she would be finally reunited with her sisters.

Attack on the Jedi temple

Kenobi was present when Jedi Master Depa Billaba emerged from a six-month coma. Pleased to see her recovery, he welcomed her back to her duties. Kenobi participated in the Initiate Trials at the Temple, as well as in an evaluation of Billaba's mental state, meant to clear her for service. Though she was unsure of her past failures, Kenobi assured her that success is has never been a prerequisite for service before offering her his council seat. Nevertheless, Kenobi remained a member of the Council and worked alongside her.

Sometime after Billaba grew interested in making the youngling Caleb Dume her apprentice, Kenobi gave a lecture in the Jedi Temple central security station for younglings to learn about the Jedi recall signal, when Dume asked whether the same system could be used to warn Jedi away. Kenobi was intrigued by the possibility, and the idea would later prove essential. Kenobi was later present at the temple when it was attacked by Separatist general Rackham Sear. However, the attack was foiled by Depa Billaba just as he and Windu arrived on the scene.

Struggle for Anaxes

Following an assault on Cato Neimoidia, Kenobi became involved in the Battle of Anaxes. After the Republic suffered heavy losses, Captain Rex successfully infiltrated a Separatist Cyber Center with the help of Clone Force 99 to determine if General Trench possessed Rex's battle strategy algorithm. Skywalker and Rex were then assigned to a mission to Skako Minor, with Clone Sergeant "Hunter" stating that Clone Force 99 would also be heading to the planet. Skywalker believed Kenobi would approve the mission.

While Rex was eager to go, believing ARC trooper Echo was still alive, Skywalker reminded his Captain that they had a "thing" to do: Skywalker was to contact his secret wife, Senator Amidala. Skywalker spoke to her via hologram inside the barracks with Rex keeping watch outside, but Kenobi approached Rex to ask where Skywalker was. Rex attempted to cover for his friend, but Skywalker soon exited, and the two began to depart for the Marauder. However, Kenobi called after Skywalker and revealed he knew his former Padawan had been speaking with Amidala.

After their success, Kenobi took part on Windu's debriefing on the strategy to take the Separatist assembly complex by air, when Echo posed his plan to be escorted by the Bad Batch into Trench's new comm vault on a dreadnought on the planet's orbit and plug himself to feed the Separatist's strategic movements. Kenobi took part on the assault and the combined efforts managed to take the complex under their control and, with all other fronts falling to the Republic, Trench initiated a countdown for an explosion that could destroy most of Anaxes. While Windu deactivated the bomb, Kenobi assisted in the evacuation efforts; with Trench's death at the hands of Skywalker and his fleet's destruction, the battle was won. Thanking Captain Rex, Corporal Echo, and the Bad Batch, Kenobi told the clones they would receive medals for their actions, but the Bad Batch intended to leave before the ceremony. Additionally, Echo decided to leave with the batch.

Battle of Yerbana

A short while after embarking on a mission to Cato Neimoidia, Kenobi and Skywalker received new orders, directing them to Yerbana. Their objective: to liberate the planet's inhabitants from the oppressive Separatist forces. As the battle unfolded, Kenobi commanded his 212th Attack Battalion on one battlefield, while Skywalker spearheaded his 501st Legion in a separate assault. The conflict proved more challenging and intense than anticipated for Kenobi, whose clone troopers endured significant damage from the relentless droid attacks, hindering their ability to eliminate the commander droid. After rescuing Cody from an incoming missile, Kenobi instructed his troops to seek cover, his thoughts turning to his missing Padawan and the assistance he desperately needed. Fortunately, Skywalker, having successfully routed the Separatist army in his sector, arrived and convinced Kenobi to trust his plan. Recognizing Skywalker's unwavering resolve, Kenobi relinquished command of the battle to his apprentice. Skywalker then feigned surrender to lure the droid commander into the open. Employing his Force abilities, he swiftly destroyed the commander, prompting him to order his 501st Legion, under the leadership of Captain Rex, to overwhelm the remaining droid forces.

Subsequently, Kenobi authorized Cody to lead the 212th Attack Battalion in support of the 501st. Approaching Skywalker, Kenobi commended him for his invaluable assistance, to which Skywalker expressed his gratitude for Kenobi's staged defeat. Kenobi responded that he was always happy to help. Their conversation was interrupted by a communication from Admiral Wullf Yularen, who alerted them to a transmission coded as "Fulcrum." Skywalker speculated that it might be Saw Gerrera, causing Kenobi to express concern about the ongoing siege at Onderon. Yularen clarified that it was not Gerrera and requested the Generals to join the call.

Locating Maul

Upon entering Yularen's ship, Kenobi and Skywalker discovered that Ahsoka Tano and Bo-Katan Kryze were the source of the transmission. Kenobi questioned Tano about the nature of her information. Tano revealed that Maul's location had been pinpointed on Mandalore, presenting an opportunity for his capture.

As they approached Tano and her allies, Skywalker, visibly moved by the reunion with his former apprentice, suggested that Tano's departure from the Jedi Order had ultimately led to the discovery of Maul's whereabouts. Kenobi, ever cautious, adopted a more reserved stance, choosing to observe the unfolding events with cautious optimism.

Following a brief exchange of greetings, Kenobi escorted Tano, Kryze, and her Mandalorians to a private chamber to discuss the details of Maul's location. However, Kenobi hesitated to offer assistance without the Jedi Council's approval, citing the Republic's policy of non-interference in Mandalorian affairs. Kryze argued that bureaucratic delays could allow Maul to escape before they could launch an offensive. She reminded Kenobi of Maul's murder of Satine and questioned his reluctance to capture him, given his supposed feelings for her. Kenobi assured Bo-Katan that he still held Satine in high regard, but he could not allow his emotions to compromise his judgment. Kenobi then proceeded to consult the Jedi Council.

Rescue of the Chancellor

During Kenobi's communication with the Council, he learned that General Grievous had launched an attack on the Republic's capital and that contact had been lost with Shaak Ti, Chancellor Palpatine's assigned protector. He immediately relayed this information to Tano and Skywalker, ordering their fleet to proceed to Coruscant, assuring Anakin, who was concerned about Palpatine, that they would arrive within the hour. This decision angered Tano, who accused her former masters of abandoning Mandalore. Taken aback by the accusation, Kenobi implored Tano to understand the gravity of the situation, as the heart of the Republic was under attack. Tano countered that Kenobi was prioritizing politics, demonstrating how the Jedi Order had lost its way by prioritizing politicians over the people they were meant to serve.

Hearing Tano's explanation for the erosion of faith in the Jedi, Kenobi countered that the people of Coruscant were in dire need of their help, but Tano believed that the true objective was to rescue the Chancellor. Kenobi urged Tano to be fair, but Tano retorted that she wasn't trying to play fair. Skywalker intervened in the argument and weighed in. To assist Tano in the upcoming siege without compromising Mandalore's neutrality or the mission to rescue the Chancellor, Skywalker promoted Rex to Commander, tasking him with leading the mission, with Tano serving as an advisor. Upon Kenobi's agreement, Tano accepted the proposal. Seeking to end the meeting on a positive note, Kenobi advised Tano to capture Maul, joking that the former Sith had a habit of defying death, before departing to prepare the troops, leaving Skywalker and Tano alone.

After Skywalker and Tano wished each other luck on their respective missions, Kenobi and Skywalker journeyed to Coruscant to rescue the Chancellor. Braving a Separatist blockade, the two Jedi managed to board the Invisible Hand, only to discover the Chancellor imprisoned atop the ship's observation spire. Shortly after their arrival, Count Dooku appeared before them, initiating a duel between the Jedi and the Sith Lord.

Although Dooku initially gained the advantage and incapacitated Kenobi, Skywalker ultimately defeated the Sith Lord, executing him at Palpatine's urging. He then rescued Kenobi, carrying him until he regained consciousness while suspended in an elevator. After escaping the elevator and traversing hallway 328, Grievous trapped them within a ray shield and transported them to the Invisible Hand's control room. The cyborg General personally mocked them, inadvertently providing R2-D2 with the opportunity to free them, allowing Kenobi and Skywalker to confront Grievous. However, the General escaped in an escape pod, forcing the two Jedi to pilot the ship and execute a safe landing on Coruscant. Following the ordeal, they escorted the Chancellor to the Senate building, where they parted ways, with Kenobi returning to the Jedi Temple to report Dooku's death and its implications for the Clone Wars to the Council.

Dividing friendship

Later, Kenobi attended another meeting, focusing on updates regarding the Outer Rim Sieges, including the fall of Saleucami and the relocation of Quinlan Vos' troops to Boz Pity. At the conclusion of the session, he spoke with Skywalker, cautioning him about Palpatine and informing him that Palpatine had requested his presence for undisclosed reasons. Soon after, Kenobi and the Council learned that the Chancellor had appointed Skywalker as his Personal Representative on the Jedi Council. While the Council approved of the appointment, they denied Skywalker the rank of Jedi Master, a decision that deeply angered Skywalker, leading him to question the Council's judgment. Kenobi remained silent. After receiving a reprimand from Windu, Skywalker reluctantly accepted his position and took his seat on the Council. During the same meeting, Kenobi and Master Mundi emphasized the strategic importance of Kashyyyk, prompting Master Yoda to personally assist the Wookiees.

At the meeting's end, Kenobi acknowledged to Skywalker that his appointment was intended to allow him to spy on the Chancellor on behalf of the Council, an assignment that Anakin refused to accept, viewing it as an act of treason. He attempted to persuade Anakin that Palpatine's extended term in office and accumulation of executive powers suggested something amiss, but Anakin remained unconvinced. Later, before Yoda's departure to Kashyyyk, Kenobi discussed Skywalker's reluctance with Windu and Yoda, hearing Windu's distrust of the Jedi Knight and Yoda's doubts regarding the prophecy of the "Chosen One."

Following the Chancellor's revelation of General Grievous' location on Utapau to Skywalker, who then relayed the information to the Council, Kenobi was dispatched to capture the fugitive General. Immediately before departing for Utapau, Kenobi contacted Tano and the Mandalorians on Mandalore via hologram. Kryze reported that the clones had proven highly effective against Maul's forces. During the conversation, Tano mentioned that Maul had uttered the name Darth Sidious during their confrontation, prompting Kryze to inquire about his identity. Kenobi admitted that the Jedi possessed limited knowledge of him, but revealed that he was the orchestrator of the Clone Wars, manipulating both sides of the conflict. He then informed them of Count Dooku's death during the Battle of Coruscant after Tano asked why they would no longer be able to get anymore information from him about Sidious. With this, he asked them once again to capture Maul so that they may finally be able to put an end to the mystery of Sidious. Tano requested reinforcements, but Kenobi was forced to decline, explaining that he was being sent to capture Grievous on Utapau and could not spare any support. Tano then inquired whether Skywalker could provide assistance, prompting Kenobi to request a private conversation with Tano.

After Rex and Kryze excused themselves, he informed Tano of Skywalker's assignment to spy on Supreme Chancellor Palpatine on behalf of the Jedi High Council. As Tano questioned the rationale behind such an assignment, Kenobi explained that the Council sought to uncover Palpatine's true intentions, given his extended tenure as Supreme Chancellor. Tano argued that Skywalker would likely be unhappy with the burden placed upon him by the Council. Kenobi acknowledged this, asking her to speak with him after their meeting ended to help him with his burden. Tano became increasingly agitated with the Council, but Kenobi revealed that he knew the Council wasn't correct in every one of their decisions and that if Tano communicated with Skywalker, it could help them. Before Tano could respond, Rex rushed in, alerting them to an attack, prompting Kenobi to dismiss her. Before departing, Tano asked him to convey an unspoken message to Skywalker. Kenobi assured her that he would and, with this, ended the transmission.

Following the destruction of R4-P17 and his Jedi interceptor during the Battle of Coruscant, Kenobi was assigned astromech droid R4-G9, whom he had previously worked with during the search for Asajj Ventress, and a blue Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor before his search for Grievous. Before Kenobi's departure to engage Grievous, Skywalker apologized to Kenobi, who told him that he needed patience and that he would soon become a master. The two exchanged goodbyes in what would be their last meeting as friends and allies, a fact neither was aware of, before Kenobi departed for Utapau.

Final clash with Grievous

Kenobi's arrival on the planet was marked by a substantial fleet of Star Destroyers and clone trooper battalions, exceeding the typical force deployment for a minor star system. As Obi-Wan approached Pau City, the capital of Utapau, he dismissed his earlier thoughts. During his final approach, he noticed a peculiar anomaly: a Separatist core ship sphere seemingly integrated into the sinkhole's rock face. Upon landing on Utapau, Kenobi learned from Pau City Port Administrator Tion Medon that the inhabitants were secretly held captive by thousands of battle droids occupying the city's tenth level. Heeding this information, Kenobi concealed himself after instructing R4-G9 to depart from the spaceport in his Jedi interceptor, deceiving the spying droids into believing he had left. Guided by the living Force, Obi-Wan sought out the holding areas where Utapaun wranglers captured native winged and wingless lizards for transportation. He then approached the Utai varactyl tamers, seeking a swift route that would minimize disruption to city life. Riding the varactyl Boga, Kenobi advanced toward the Separatist stronghold, awaiting the Separatist Council's departure. He then descended from his concealed position on the scaffolding, echoing his actions years prior on Geonosis, and greeted General Grievous amidst a throng of battle droids. Grievous ordered his MagnaGuards to eliminate Kenobi, who skillfully crushed them beneath a section of the ceiling without engaging in direct combat.

However, Grievous instructed them to retreat, choosing to confront Kenobi personally, as Obi-Wan had anticipated. The cyborg was determined to avenge his previous defeat on Utapau and prove Sidious's worth by personally killing Kenobi. Having fought Grievous on numerous occasions, Kenobi was well-prepared, and both were aware of the other's capabilities. While their previous encounters had been inconclusive, both recognized that this might not always be the case; it would not be an easy fight, but the Jedi was not willing to allow him to escape this time. Obi-Wan stood there watching Grievous shrug off his cloak, being told that he had been trained in the Jedi arts by Count Dooku himself. He extends his four menacing arms, ignites a lightsaber in each mechanical hand, laughs, and then the two engage in one final duel. Grievous has taken the lightsabers from his exploits against the Jedi, Shaak Ti's lightsaber being one of his four primary weapons. Kenobi would not allow him to do the same with his lightsaber; he learned patience, confidence in the Force, and lightsaber training from Grand Master Yoda and his late Master, Qui-Gon Jinn. The two engaged on a walkway suspended above the hanger's lower levels. Grievous moved closer and closer, whirling two of his lightsabers above his head and the other two dragging along, burning the floor behind him, surprising Kenobi with his maneuver. Initially, Obi-Wan slowly retreated and let go of his fear. Waiting for the right moment, he stab his lightsaber between Grievous' flashing blades. Grievous then straightened up and struck Obi-Wan with both lightsabers, but the Jedi parried. With the other two stabs narrowly missing Kenobi, he leapt over him and attacked him from the side. The Jedi take advantage of Grievous's surprise to slip through his defense, leaving him striking where he once stood. The cyborg continued to fight back, but Obi-Wan's lightsaber remained.

By confining the battle to the catwalk, Obi-Wan effectively limited Grievous's typically expansive fighting style. Kenobi maintained close proximity to the cyborg, having grown familiar with his tactics through numerous encounters. He remained composed and strategically targeted Grievous's vulnerable wrist, severing his hand instead of intercepting his blade. Moments later, a mechanical hand, along with its lightsaber, clattered onto the deck. Enraged, Grievous launched a reckless attack, his focus shattered. Shortly after, Kenobi severed another hand and weapon, maintaining a solid defense against his relentless assaults. The droids observed their leader's diminishing advantage, but before they could intervene, the 212th Attack Battalion arrived and engaged Grievous's forces. As the battle intensified, Kenobi hurled Grievous against a wall, dislodging his remaining sabers and forcing him to flee on his wheelbike. Obi-Wan had just made the jump to the lower level when Grievous fired it up and tore back into the hanger in an attempt to crush him. Amidst the chaos of laser fire and explosions, Grievous charged forward, seemingly oblivious to the carnage, dodging collisions or unleashing devastation upon any clone soldiers in his path. Kenobi pursued the fleeing cyborg on Boga, though his lightsaber was knocked out of his hand and recovered by Commander Cody hundreds of meters below. Obi-Wan would lose his chance to capture Grievous if he stopped to retrieve it, but the thought of going up against the cyborg without his lightsaber was frightening. Trusting in the Force, the Jedi raced after him, leaving his lightsaber behind.

Obi-Wan and Boga finally caught up with Grievous, he intended to reach his personal starfighter, the Soulless One, stationed at a landing platform distance from the main Separatist base he was aiming for as a backup plan. As they ventured deeper into the city, the tunnels became increasingly congested. Obi-Wan smiled, recognizing that the General was forced to slow down to avoid a swarm of droids, his mount capable of achieving things that the General's speeder-wheel cannot. He directs it to the tunnel's ceiling, where he will no longer be disturbed by traffic congestion. The Jedi quickly gains ground on Grievous, while the tunnel in front of him leads to a small landing perform. He accelerates once more, catching up to the general. Obi-Wan had just pressed the general when the Separatist leader, able to control his bike and battle, used the electrostaff that he stored on the wheelbike and began attacking him, eventually being pulled onto the vehicle itself along with him. Reaching a landing platform, Obi-Wan seized the electrostaff, clutching it as Grievous raised the blaster, the Grievance Striker. He knocks the weapon out of Grievous's hand and lands a few solid blows on the General himself, his first to the chest, the second to the arm, the metal bends, but does not break. Obi-Wan knocked Grievous to the ground and plunged the shaft into his abdomen, but the cyborg kicked him away with such speed that the Jedi cannot.

Lacking weapons, they engaged in a swift hand-to-hand combat, a contest Grievous confidently expected to win. Grievous closed in on Kenobi, engaging him in a brawl, swinging his arm against him. Kenobi avoided his first swing but missed the second, backhanded across the platform, and bounce off the parked fighter, putting him at a disadvantage. The cyborg general's physical strength appeared to give him the advantage. Continuing his assault, Grievous lifted him and nearly punched his head out. Instead, he punched his own starfighter, leaving a huge dent in it. However, noticing that one of Grievous's plates was loose, Kenobi took advantage of his new action, grabbing the metal plates and pulling with all his might, managing to partially tear open Grievous's chest armor, exposing his gutsack. Alarmed, Grievous tossed Kenobi aside. Grievous laughed, he advanced on Obi-Wan, wounded but far from defeated. Grievous attempted to crush Kenobi with his mechanical feet, but he avoided. With the Force, the Jedi attempted to knock down Grievous with a sweeping kick to the leg, but Grievous, whose metal body was stronger than any droid's shell, hardly felt it and only feeling great pain in his own shin. Kenobi was eventually thrown to the edge of the platform, but was able to summon Grievous' blaster, abandoned a few meters from him, forgotten by its owner, and turned it against him in defense of his own life, just before Grievous could finish him off, firing five shots into his gut sack, igniting it and burning Grievous from the inside-out. Screaming in pain, letting out a sound that was halfway between a gasp of suffocation and a metal rustle. Then, a sequence of explosions ripped his body apart, bursting into flame and erupting from his helmet's eye slits. Grievous was already dead; his charred metal body slumped lifelessly and hit the ground over the hangar with a clang. With his long-time rival and the Supreme Commander of the Droid Army slain, Kenobi headed off to rejoin his troops.

Kenobi informed the clones that the general was dead but didn't have time to elaborate; victory looked inevitable. The battle of Utapau was one of the Clone Wars' last battles, and with Grievous' death, the conflict that had claimed countless lives seemed to be coming to a conclusion, but the Jedi did not suspect it was also the beginning of the end.

Order 66

Following Windu's and other Council member's duel against Chancellor Palpatine, revealed to be Darth Sidious, and the issue of Order 66, Kenobi met up with Commander Cody and ordered him to contact the troops to move to the higher levels of the city. The clone then returned him his lightsaber, and Kenobi proceeded to climb with Boga, just as Cody received a direct message from Sidious, ordering him to execute the order. Before Kenobi went too far, Cody ordered his men to shoot at the Jedi Master, bringing his fall to the water below. Obi-Wan had no time or inclination to comprehend why his own men had turned against him. Hearing Boga's heartfelt tears, he felt a moment of sadness that he couldn't help her. Commander Cody, who was torn, saw Obi-Wan Kenobi as a threat to his operation. He knew from previous experience not to presume a Jedi was dead until he saw the body. Time and again, Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka, not to mention the other Jedi he'd seen in action, had beaten seemingly impossible odds to come through. However, unlike many others, he survived and swam towards a cave, fumbling his breather into place, then surfacing, stowing the breather, and managing to climb on his own while evading troops, only to discover the attack had been intentional. He knew his best chance of escaping lay with the ship Grievous had escaped from so many times.

Fortunately, the clones were unaware of Grievous' escape ship's existence. Even if the cruisers orbiting the planet see him, they will believe he is a Separatist trying to escape from the fight. Of course, he still has to make his way past tens of thousands of clones to reach the ship's platform, but at least his enemies won't be waiting for him there. Kenobi took to the darkness of the caves, using his lightsaber as a torch, knowing he was still being pursued. At one point, he noticed approaching searchlights at one point. Before the Prowlers discovered him, they woken a nos monster, a gigantic predatory reptile that was protecting its nest. As the creature dealt with the droids, Obi-Wan slipped through. Sneaking through Utapau's tunnels was difficult; not only did he have to avoid being discovered by the clones, but he also had to avoid the wild monsters that swarmed there. Kenobi avoided the clone troopers, battle droids, and even the Utapau locals by using all of his abilities. Arriving at the main staging area, he witnessed with horror his former troops rounding up Pau'ans and Utai and overheard Cody asking if his search teams had discovered the fleeing Jedi. His worst fears confirmed, Obi-Wan headed for his escape route. Carefully, the Jedi made his way back and arrived at the site of his final battle with General Grievous, he was relieved to find the small, flat-landing form deserted. Grievous' starfighter, the Soulless One, sat waiting near his former foe's smoking remains. He rushes into the fighter, running past the remains of his cyborg rival one final time without even sparing a passing glance at Grievous's body, and fires up the engines and takes off as quickly as possible, relying on the element of surprise to fly past his old flagship and away.

Taking control of Grievous' fighter craft, he departed from Utapau. Subsequently, he established communication with Senator Bail Organa, who personally witnessed the Jedi Temple siege and was actively searching for surviving Jedi. Upon their reunion aboard the Tantive III, Kenobi convened with the Senator and Master Yoda. Yoda informed him about the recall message, instructing all Jedi to return to the Temple, signaling the war's conclusion. Kenobi then proposed the deactivation of the signal to prevent further entrapment, a suggestion to which Yoda concurred.

During their journey to Coruscant, Organa received a communication from Vice Chancellor Amedda, alerting him to an emergency Senate session. Kenobi and Yoda entered the Jedi Temple, where they directly observed the recent massacre. Meanwhile, Chancellor Palpatine addressed the Senate, accusing the Jedi of "sedition" against the Republic and announcing the formation of the Galactic Empire. Sabé, Amidala's former handmaiden, believed Kenobi had perished alongside the other Jedi during the Empire's rise.

The Empire Era

A Fallen Padawan

With the intent of entering the Temple to deactivate the Jedi recall beacon, Kenobi and Yoda approached the still-smoldering structure. They discovered clones disguised in Jedi robes, attempting to deceive any surviving Jedi into a false sense of security. The two Jedi engaged the 501st patrols outside before entering, where they encountered the aftermath of a brutal slaughter. This sight distressed Kenobi even more than the smoke and the robe-wearing clones. Upon reaching the Jedi Temple's central security station, Kenobi recalled Caleb Dume's suggestion that the signal could serve as a warning. Instead of disabling the recall signal, he transformed it into a holographic message from himself, urging any surviving Jedi to avoid the Temple and the planet, to endure for the future, and to trust in the Force. Copies of this message would persist and be discovered by Jedi in hiding in the years to come.

Driven by a need for answers, Kenobi, despite Yoda's warning that he would only find pain, reviewed the security recordings. He discovered that Skywalker had led his clone battalion in an assault on the Temple, where he battled the Jedi and their Younglings and knelt before the newly-proclaimed Emperor, who expressed pride in his apprentice, now known as "Vader." Overwhelmed with horror, Kenobi was informed by Yoda that they had to destroy the Sith. However, Kenobi refused to fight Vader, requesting instead to be sent to kill the Emperor. Yoda denied this request, asserting that Kenobi was not strong enough to face Sidious alone. Kenobi expressed his brotherly affection for Skywalker and his inability to kill him. Yoda explained that the boy he had trained was gone and needed to be stopped, instructing Kenobi to trust his instincts in finding Vader.

Following this, he visited Senator Amidala, hoping she might know Vader's location. He revealed his discovery of Skywalker's betrayal of the Jedi and the revelation that the Clone Wars were orchestrated by Palpatine. Amidala vehemently rejected Kenobi's accusations, suspecting that he intended to kill Anakin if she revealed his whereabouts. Realizing that Anakin was the father of Amidala's child, and understanding their relationship, he apologized for everything, regretting his lack of support and acknowledging his unavoidable duty, before leaving her apartment.

Showdown on Mustafar

Unbeknownst to Amidala, Kenobi secretly boarded her star skiff as she and C-3PO departed for the Mustafar system to meet with Vader, who had already eliminated the Separatist leaders who had sought refuge there. Emerging from his hiding place, Kenobi was immediately perceived by Vader as a betrayal by Amidala, leading Vader to choke her in a fit of paranoia. As Kenobi checked her condition, Vader accused him of turning her against him. However, the Jedi Master countered that Anakin had betrayed her himself, driven by his anger and lust for power, and that he had allowed Sidious to corrupt his mind into becoming a Sith.

Unmoved by the Jedi's "lies" and embracing the dark side, Vader proclaimed that he had brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to "[his] new Empire." He declared to Kenobi, who affirmed his allegiance to the Republic and its democratic ideals, that if he was not on his side, he was his enemy. Realizing that his former apprentice was beyond reason, Kenobi vowed to stop him at any cost, initiating a fierce duel that caused extensive damage to the facility, mirroring the duel between Yoda and Sidious in the Senate. Ultimately, Kenobi and Vader found themselves hovering over the lava sea. The Jedi Master reflected on his failure, while Vader accused him of concealing the Jedi's lust for power and domination. Kenobi made a final, futile attempt to persuade Vader to return to the light, revealing Sidious's true nature as an evil mastermind. However, Vader continued to denounce the Jedi as the true evil.

Eventually, Kenobi secured the high ground on the lava river's embankment, gaining an advantage over Vader. Despite Kenobi's warning, the Sith apprentice ignored him and attempted a jump, allowing Kenobi to sever his remaining natural arm and both legs in a single strike. Heartbroken by his former pupil's fall to the dark side, Kenobi retrieved Vader's lightsaber and tearfully expressed his disgust and sadness over Vader's betrayal of the Jedi Order. He declared that his destiny was to restore balance to the Force and defeat the Sith, not to join them and plunge the Force into darkness. Vader responded with a scream of hatred towards his former master, his voice filled with rage and despair. This statement further crushed Kenobi, who responded that he had loved him like a brother.

Vader's garments then ignited from the lava, along with his exposed flesh, causing severe burns. Unwilling to either help his former friend or commit cold-blooded murder, Kenobi left him to his apparent fate and returned to Amidala's ship, where C-3PO had already brought her back on board. When she inquired about Skywalker's well-being, Kenobi remained silent, allowing her to rest as they departed the planet. Kenobi was left with the belief that his former apprentice had died, while thinking of how he's partly to blame for Anakin and Padme's relationship ending, unaware of the Emperor's arrival and his intervention to save Vader's life by providing him with a life-support armor suit.

The Skywalker Twins' Arrival

Simultaneously with the Emperor's rescue of Vader from the lava beach and his provision of prosthetic limbs and the life-support suit, Kenobi, C-3PO, and R2-D2 transported Amidala to Polis Massa. There, he, along with Bail Organa and Yoda, learned that the dying Amidala was pregnant with twins. Kenobi was present in the birthing room as Amidala gave birth to her two children, Luke and Leia. With her last breath, Amidala told Kenobi she knew there was still good in Skywalker.

Following their arrival on Naboo for Amidala's funeral, Yoda suggested that the children be hidden and separated until the opportune moment. Organa would adopt Leia and raise her on Alderaan, fulfilling a long-held desire of him and his wife, Queen Breha, to adopt a baby girl and promising Leia would be loved. Kenobi volunteered to take Luke to Tatooine, where the boy would reside with Skywalker's stepfamily, Owen and Beru Lars. Kenobi also vowed to watch over him. As the trio prepared to part ways, Yoda requested a moment alone with Kenobi, revealing that he had training for him during his solitude on Tatooine and that Qui-Gon Jinn had achieved immortality by returning from the Netherworld of the Force. Yoda committed to teach Kenobi how to communicate with Jinn.

Concealment on Tatooine

Upon his arrival on Tatooine, Kenobi acquired an eopie he named Akkani. As the twin suns set, Kenobi reached the Lars moisture farm to entrust Luke to his uncle, Owen, and aunt, Beru. At the door, Kenobi explained the situation and requested their assistance. Similar to Kenobi, Owen believed his stepbrother had perished and held the Jedi Master responsible for his fate. Owen agreed to raise Luke, but he forbade Kenobi from playing any role in his upbringing. Fearing that the boy would follow in his father's footsteps, Owen wanted to prevent the Jedi Master from seeing or training Luke, instructing Kenobi to stay away and avoid contact, hoping that Luke would remain ignorant of his father's past.

After entrusting Luke to them, Kenobi departed on Akkani, embarking on his exile. He discovered a dwelling nestled within the Western Dune Sea. Kenobi knew immediately after finding this building, which was actually a long since abandoned prospector's hut, that it would serve him well. He established his living quarters in a cave, with only a few essential items and keepsakes. To conceal his identity, he reverted to the alias "Ben Kenobi," which he had previously used with Satine Kryze and during the Clone Wars. He also abstained from using his lightsaber for many years. He avoided the cities, preferring solitude and spending most of his time observing young Skywalker, whom he hoped to eventually train. To avoid drawing attention, Kenobi took on temporary jobs, including farmhand, barback, custodian, mechanic, and laborer.

Despite having taken the Barash Vow, he struggled to suppress his Jedi sense of duty and spent years battling monotony and inactivity. He was haunted by the horrific events of the Clone Wars, with no amount of soothing able to stop his recurring nightmares. Throughout his exile, he gained extensive knowledge of Tatooine's wilderness, including how to imitate the call of a krayt dragon. While Kenobi remained on Tatooine to watch over Luke, Leia's adoptive parents told her numerous stories of the Jedi Master during her youth. Over time, Leia cherished the memories of Bail Organa's Clone Wars adventures with Kenobi, viewing them as exciting and heroic, but she wouldn't learn his name until she was ten.

Within the first year of the Imperial Era, Kenobi visited the grave of Shmi Skywalker Lars, Anakin's mother, expressing his sorrow for the fate that had befallen her once innocent and promising young son. During the early years of his exile, Kenobi began meditating deeply on the Force. On one of these occasions he began to experience visions of the past causing the Force spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn to counsel him to let go of his attachments.

Determined to remain hidden, Kenobi buried his lightsaber, along with Anakin's blade, in a box in the desert. He also had Qui-Gon Jinn's lightsaber on-world. Meanwhile, Anakin continued his path as the Sith Lord Darth Vader. During his attempt to bleed the Kyber crystal from Kirak Infil'a's lightsaber, the Kyber crystal gave Vader a vision where Vader renounced the dark side, killed Darth Sidious, and then tracked down Kenobi to an unknown world, where he pleaded for forgiveness. However, Vader rejected the vision and remained on the path of the dark side, becoming obsessed with finding his former master and inflicting the pain he had received onto Kenobi.

One morning, Kenobi awoke with a sense of danger surrounding a young 3-year-old Luke Skywalker and his family. He arrived to find a group of bandits attacking the Lars homestead, and he quickly started defending them. After successfully defeating the last of the bandits, he was punched to the ground by Owen for his interference and his influence on Luke getting involved. Out of fear that the boy could become like his father, Owen shouted for Kenobi to never come back.

Kenobi came to consider that morning the moment he had failed the young Skywalker. Both he and Owen had seen the defiance and bravery in the boy's eyes, yet Kenobi listened to Owen, staying away instead of training Luke.

Pursuit by the Inquisitorius

In 9 BBY, the Inquisitorius—including the Grand Inquisitor, the Fifth Brother, and the Third Sister—arrived in Tatooine's Mos Eisley in search of a fugitive Jedi rumored to be hiding on the planet. By that same year, Kenobi had come to reside in a cave in the Dune Sea desert. Working at Tibidon Station, a sand whaling station, he rode a hovertrain into Anchorhead with his co-workers, continuing on his eopie Akkani to his cave. One day, Kenobi was visited by the Jawa Teeka, who presented the Jedi with several spare parts for a toy T-16 skyhopper. Teeka also offered to sell spare parts to Kenobi's malfunctioning moisture vaporator, but the Jedi realized that the Jawa had been stealing his parts and chastised Teeka. Before departing, the Jawa showed spare parts from an alleged Jedi starship that had crashed in the Dune Sea to Kenobi, who remarked that the Jedi were believed to be extinct.

That night, Kenobi was haunted in his dreams by memories of Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala, Qui-Gon Jinn, and Yoda. The following day, Kenobi rode his eopie to the Lars homestead, where he observed with macrobinoculars the young Luke Skywalker and Owen Lars from a distance. While riding his eopie through the desert the following night, Kenobi was confronted by the fugitive Jedi, a human male named Nari, who had managed to escape the Inquisitors earlier and pleaded for the Jedi Master's help. However, Kenobi urged the Jedi to bury his lightsaber and flee, much to the disappointment of Nari, who still believed in the fight—which Kenobi believed to be over and lost.

In Anchorhead, Kenobi met with Lars to hand over the toy parts he had acquired from Teeka earlier, but the farmer refused to accept the presents and asked Kenobi to stay away from his family. After arguing with Lars about the future of Skywalker, Kenobi hid nearby as the Fifth Brother and the Third Sister arrived to address the inhabitants regarding the fugitive Jedi they were looking for. The Third Sister took a particular liking to Lars and threatened to kill his family unless information about the fugitive was brought forward, but the farmer stayed quiet until the Fifth Brother intervened. Afterward, Kenobi thanked Lars for not revealing anything about him or his whereabouts.

Obsessed with finding Kenobi, the Third Sister plotted to lure out the fugitive Jedi Master and arranged for the kidnapping of Leia Organa on Alderaan. As she suspected, Kenobi received a distress call from Bail and Breha Organa, who pleaded with the Jedi to help retrieve their daughter. However, Kenobi—intent on protecting Luke and believing himself to have been out of the game for too long—declined the request. Later, after witnessing the dead body of Nari in Anchorhead, Kenobi was visited in person by Bail Organa, who again pleaded with the Jedi to help him. After relenting, Kenobi retrieved his lightsaber from the desert and headed for a spaceport, where be boarded a freighter to depart Tatooine in a commercial transport.

Arriving on Daiyu, the planet to where Bail had tracked the mercenaries who had kidnapped Leia, Kenobi first encountered a homeless veteran clone trooper and gave him some change, and then a female spice dealer named Tetha Grig. Eventually, Jayco, a young boy, encouraged Kenobi to seek out Haja Estree, supposedly a Jedi who helped people, and took him to his lair, where Kenobi overheard Estree helping a mother and her Force-sensitive son, Corran, by mind tricking a spaceport worker to let the two leave the planet. However, Kenobi correctly suspected that Estree was nothing more than a con artist and confronted him at gunpoint. Pressuring Estree into locating Leia, Kenobi was advised by the con artist to look in the Spice Den.

Infiltrating the Spice Den in a stolen cape and mask, Kenobi used the chaos brought on by the explosion of a small vat to steal a keycard from an employee and access a closed-off area of the laboratory complex. Confronted by two employees, a Zabrak and a human, he managed to overpower both, before finding a room with a small human-like figure with a cloak. As Kenobi entered the room, Vect Nokru—who had kidnapped Leia from Alderaan—and two companions ambushed the Jedi, but he was able to defeat the trio with the help of a vial of red spice. Checking another room, Kenobi found Leia and told her he was sent by her father, Bail, to rescue her.

As the two changed clothes to avoid detection and started making their way to a port on the other side of the city, the Third Sister arranged for Kenobi to be hunted by bounty hunters and criminals throughout the planet. However, Leia eventually became suspicious of Kenobi and his intentions, not believing him to be a real Jedi. After Kenobi knocked down a bounty hunter in pursuit, the two saw a hologram of the Jedi Master, leading Leia to believe that Kenobi lied to her and correctly deducing that the kidnappers used her as bait. As Leia tried to flee through the streets and to a rooftop, Kenobi attempted to catch her, only for the two to be ambushed by bounty hunters looking for the Jedi. As Kenobi returned fire, Leia attempted to make the jump to another building, but fell short; as the Jedi used his Force powers to stop her from falling to her death, Leia finally believed he was a real Jedi.

Realizing the spaceport of Daiyu was closed for travel, Kenobi and Leia made their way to a cargo port on the recommendation of Estree, who confronted the two in an alleyway after having a change of heart. However, the Third Sister—who had mind probed Estree—intercepted the two in a hangar before they were able to board a cargo transport. Telling Leia to go for the transport, Kenobi prepared to confront the Third Sister, who informed him that he was to be taken to Lord Vader, only to realize that Kenobi was not aware of the fact that Vader survived their duel on Mustafar. Kenobi was horrified when she revealed Vader was indeed alive and has been hunting for him ever since. Before a confrontation could occur, however, The Grand Inquisitor arrived in the hangar and ordered the Third Sister to stand down; unwilling to let her superior take the credit for catching Kenobi, the Third Sister stabbed him while Kenobi used the ordeal to make his way to the cargo transport where Leia was waiting. As the transport departed, Kenobi was shaken by the revelation of Vader's survival.

While cargo shuttle transported Kenobi and Organa to the planet Mapuzo, the Jedi reflected on the news of his former apprentice's survival. As he repaired the princess' smashed toy droid, Lola, the two conversed about the nature of the Force, with Kenobi comparing it to the feeling of safety lights were turned on in a darkroom. After the shuttle landed on Mapuzo, Kenobi and Organa began traveling to a rendezvous point to meet a contact of Haja Estree. Walking across the barren desert planet, Kenobi told the princess of Mapuzo's past as a lush planet filled with life, before the age of the Empire. As the two continued toward the rendezvous point, Kenobi spotted a hooded figure on the horizon—a vision of Anakin Skywalker. To avoid attracting any unwanted attention, he fabricated a cover-up story, where the Jedi was a traveling farmer and the princess was his daughter.

The two eventually reached the rendezvous point, but the contact was nowhere to be found. As they noticed a vehicle on the horizon, Organa waved it down despite Kenobi's protests. When the driver, Freck, offered the two a ride to the nearest spaceport, Kenobi reluctantly followed Organa on the back of the vehicle. During the ride, Freck made conversation, revealing that he was a staunch supporter of the Empire; noticing a squad of stormtroopers, he pulled over and offered them a ride. The Imperial soldiers disclosed that they were searching for a nearby Jedi, and as they questioned Kenobi and Organa over their presence on Mapuzo, the Jedi accidentally used Organa's real name, instead of the fabricated name. However, Kenobi was able to cover up the mistake by claiming that his daughter reminded him of his late wife; satisfied with the explanation, the stormtroopers got off Freck's vehicle.

After the near disaster, the princess inquired of Kenobi if he recognized her biological mother or if he was her actual father, but the Jedi denied both, stating to Organa that he had little memory of his own family before his Jedi Order induction. As they approached an Imperial checkpoint, Freck disembarked and suggested the stationed stormtroopers inspect the two travelers. The stormtroopers, upon asking Kenobi and Organa to exit the vehicle, deployed a probe droid for a facial scan. Just as the probe droid identified Kenobi, he brandished a blaster and swiftly eliminated the droid and the stormtrooper squad before rendering Freck unconscious. After deactivating the checkpoint barrier, a stormtrooper squad led by Imperial officer Tala Durith intercepted them; however, Durith eliminated the troopers, revealing herself as Estree's contact.

Durith escorted Kenobi and Organa to a nearby settlement, explaining that they would need to wait several hours for one of her pilots to transport them off-world. They sought refuge in Durith's workshop, where she disclosed her efforts to aid surviving Jedi and other Force-sensitives in escaping the Empire as part of an underground network known as the Hidden Path. Kenobi was pleased to discover that Quinlan Vos had previously passed through Durith's sanctuary. Stormtroopers raided the hideout but failed to locate the fugitives, prompting Durith to expedite the plan to evacuate them from Mapuzo. As they prepared to depart for the spaceport, Kenobi sensed a sudden disturbance in the Force: Darth Vader, accompanied by Inquisitors and stormtroopers, had arrived in the settlement, alerted by the probe droid Kenobi had destroyed. Hoping to lure out Kenobi, Vader traversed the town, randomly terrorizing and executing civilians. To divert Vader, Kenobi implored Durith to get Leia off-world and back to Alderaan.

Kenobi fled into a nearby quarry, wandering aimlessly until Vader confronted him and activated his lightsaber. The Jedi, however, retreated further into the quarry without igniting his own lightsaber, only to be intercepted by Vader once more. Evading again, Kenobi was ambushed by the Sith Lord, leading to a brief but intense duel with his former apprentice. Overwhelmed, Kenobi was forced back by Vader, who toppled a container of flammable rocks. Vader cast Kenobi into the flames, dragging him across the burning rocks before ordering a stormtrooper to capture the wounded Jedi. However, Durith, witnessing the scene nearby, shot the trooper and reignited the rocks before Kenobi was captured by the Empire. Impeded by the wall of flames, Vader couldn't apprehend Kenobi, who escaped with Durith, albeit injured.

Following his second battle with his former apprentice, Durith transported the barely conscious Kenobi to Jabiim, a world where the Path assisted hunted Jedi in finding safety. He was placed in a bacta tank to heal the burns he sustained when Vader dragged him through the flames, but the mental link between him and Vader jolted Kenobi back to consciousness. Durith then took him to Kawlan Roken, a rebel aiding Jedi and Force-sensitive individuals across the galaxy. Initially hesitant to help Kenobi rescue the young Organa, Roken eventually agreed and assisted Kenobi in the operation. They utilized Durith's Imperial security clearance to travel to Nur, a water moon in the Mustafar system, where the Fortress Inquisitorius was located. Durith landed her Imperial ship in the hangar, informing security that she was reporting classified intelligence. She then located a control room from which she guided Kenobi through the stronghold via an underwater hatch.

Once inside, Kenobi avoided seeker droids and stormtrooper patrols to eventually locate Organa, who was about to be tortured by the Third Sister. With Durith's assistance, he created a diversion that drew Third Sister away, eliminated the stormtroopers on guard, and rescued Leia to escape. Meeting up with Durith, he donned a gray Imperial trench coat to blend in with the Imperial forces as they headed back to the shuttle in the hangar. However, Third Sister awaited them with a platoon of stormtroopers. Heavily outnumbered, the trio nearly surrendered, but Sully and Wade arrived in two T-47 airspeeders, eliminating most of the Imperial ground forces in the hangar. Kenobi, Durith, and Organa boarded Sully's airspeeder, though Third Sister destroyed Wade's airspeeder as they retreated, resulting in his death. They boarded Roken's ship and departed Nur, mourning Wade's loss.

After their departure, an enraged Vader nearly executed Reva for disobeying his directives until she revealed that she had planted a tracker that would lead them to Kenobi and the Path, disclosing that she had modified Lola.

After arriving with Organa and Durith on Jabiim, Kenobi reflected on a past duel with Skywalker when the latter was a padawan. Despite Skywalker being the stronger duelist with skills matching his master's, Kenobi prevailed due to his padawan's overwhelming desire to win. However, his reflections were interrupted by an attack on the Path's base by Reva, now promoted to Grand Inquisitor, who locked their escape routes using Lola, modified with a restraining bolt to obey the Inquisitor's commands. This initiated the attack on Jabiim, as Reva and Vader's troops commenced bombarding the doors.

To buy time, Kenobi parlayed with Sevander, deducing her origins; she had been a padawan during Vader and the 501st's assault on the Jedi temple, becoming an Inquisitor to hunt Vader down and avenge the slaughter of her friends and fellow Jedi. She revealed her hatred for Kenobi stemmed from her quest for vengeance, blaming him for Vader's fall to the Dark Side. Distrustful of the Jedi Master for not being at the Temple to aid her and her "family" in escaping the massacre, she rejected his help, highlighting that the Dark Lord had been his own Padawan and questioning why he had failed to stop him.

Following a brief but intense exchange of fire between Imperial troops and the Path's members, during which Kenobi fought alongside the defenders, Kenobi was forced to watch Durith sacrifice herself against the advancing troops after explaining her reasons for betraying the Empire to aid the Path after being mortally wounded. Kenobi then opted to surrender, intending to bring Reva to Vader himself, questioning if she would allow him to slaughter more civilians, including children, and offering her the chance to stop him again. When asked if the Dark Lord would anticipate it, the Jedi Master assured her that he would be too preoccupied with settling the score with his former teacher to detect her deception.

Soon, Kenobi managed to escape with the Path and Organa, leaving Vader, who had just arrived at the fortress, vulnerable to Sevander's attack. Exploiting Vader's desire to win the battle, he and the Path used an empty decoy ship to conceal their escape. Vader predictably fell for the ruse as Kenobi, Organa, and the Path retreated into space. With their hyperdrive damaged, Imperial forces would soon catch up to them. Beyond this, Kenobi sensed something amiss but was forced to disregard it for the moment, unaware that Reva, after being defeated by Vader and mortally wounded, had discovered his communicator with Bail Organa, learning of Luke's location on Tatooine.

The Second Rematch

With Vader aboard the Devastator pursuing the Path's freighter, Kenobi knew he had to act to protect the Path from the Sith Lord's wrath. After consulting with Roken, Kenobi decided to take a starship from the hangar and use it to draw Vader's attention, knowing that his former apprentice would be too fixated on pursuing him to continue following the Path. Kenobi departed the Path's freighter on a drop ship with Lola, whom he had brought to aid him by calming his spirits. After landing in the dry lands in an Imperial shuttle, Vader located Kenobi nearby and inquired if he had come to destroy him. Kenobi responded that he would do what he must before igniting his lightsaber. Vader vowed that Kenobi would perish, and the two engaged in a lightsaber duel, with Vader employing a combination of one-handed and two-handed combat. During the duel, Kenobi lured Vader in with his signature Soresu before transitioning to the more aggressive Ataru to launch an attack and catch Vader off guard. As the battle moved into the nearby labyrinth of rock pinnacles, Kenobi also attempted to collapse a pinnacle on Vader, who halted it with the Force. Remarking that Kenobi's strength had returned since their last duel but that his weakness persisted, Vader hurled the pinnacle at Kenobi before resuming their duel.

Vader collapsed the ground beneath Kenobi and hurled rocks to keep him pinned. Before departing, Vader taunted Kenobi for believing he could defeat him. However, Kenobi, fueled by his desire to protect Anakin's children, managed to break free and charged at Vader again. On the offensive, Kenobi utilized his superior command of Soresu and Ataru to overwhelm the Sith Lord before employing the Force to hurl Vader against a rock. With Vader stunned, Kenobi then bombarded him with a barrage of stones, briefly overwhelming the Sith Lord. Kenobi then resumed his lightsaber duel with Vader, critically damaging Vader's chest plate with multiple strikes from his lightsaber's pommel, pummeling him with a boulder, and slashing him across the back before pushing him back with the Force again, and then leaping at him, striking Vader's helmet with his lightsaber and revealing Anakin's scarred face beneath. Horrified, Kenobi addressed him as Anakin Skywalker, prompting Vader to reply that Anakin was gone and that he was what remained. Kenobi was visibly distraught and apologized to Anakin. Vader retorted that he was not Kenobi's failure and that Kenobi did not kill Anakin: instead, Vader replied that he killed Anakin and vowed to destroy Kenobi as well.

Kenobi responded that his friend was truly dead before bidding Vader, whom he simply called "Darth," farewell. As Kenobi departed, Vader called out to him while attempting to rise to his feet. As Kenobi fled off-world, he sensed Luke was in immediate danger and jumped into hyperspace towards Tatooine.

Return to Tatooine

Upon arriving on Tatooine at the Lars homestead, Obi-Wan discovered Owen and Beru frantically searching for Luke, who had fled after Sevander, still severely wounded from her duel with Vader, had attacked the homestead, overpowering both adults and pursuing Luke when he escaped into the desert. Kenobi promptly inquired about Luke's whereabouts and joined the search, prepared to venture out into the Dune Sea. Suddenly, Beru called out to Kenobi, spotting Sevander returning, Luke unconscious in her arms. As she laid him on the sand before him, Kenobi and the Lars feared the worst, only for their fears to be allayed by Luke stirring as he tried to awaken. Scooping him into their arms, they swiftly carried him away from Sevander.

As Sevander broke down in tears, Kenobi approached, now assured she posed no further threat. Stating that she had attempted to kill the young Skywalker but couldn't bring herself to do it, she lamented that she had failed all of her friends whom Vader had murdered. Kenobi, kneeling beside her, assured her she had not failed her fellow padawans, stating that through her mercy, she granted her deceased friends peace and honored them. When asked if she had become like Vader, Kenobi assured Sevander that through her refusal to further embrace the dark side, she had redeemed herself and that her future choices were now her own. Rising to her feet, Sevander discarded her Inquisitor lightsaber, and was helped to stand by Kenobi, who stated they were both free from their grief before they parted ways. Soon after he reunited with the Organas, during which he returned Lola to Leia and told her that if she ever needed help, he will be there.

After departing from his cave, Kenobi journeyed to the Lars Homestead to converse with Owen. After being permitted to see the boy, Kenobi approached Luke with his customary greeting of "Hello there." Later, as Kenobi continued through the Dune Sea, he finally witnessed the Force Spirit of his former master, Qui-Gon Jinn, manifesting before him. After Jinn revealed he had always been with his former Padawan, they ventured deeper into the Dune Sea together, and Kenobi established himself in the hut he had discovered years prior.

Continued exile on Tatooine

The Journals of Ben Kenobi

In preparation for Luke's future training, Kenobi penned a set of journals and placed them in a box labeled "For Luke." In one of his journals, Kenobi recounted how he prevented Jabba the Hutt's men from collecting their "water tax" on the local farmers during the Great Drought. He prevented Jabba's thugs from extorting the Lars family into paying their water tax; following an action which involved subtle use of the Force to cause the thugs' firearms to misfire with the intention of preventing harm from coming to the townspeople, he decided not to go into town anymore.

That same night, he sensed Skywalker was in danger, for the boy had gone to take the water back from Jabba's men and give it back to the farmers. Kenobi went to the encounter, but blew their vehicle's lights with the Force to hide his identity and proceeded to disable all of Jabba's henchmen with the Force. One of them became startled and pushed Skywalker to the ground, causing him to hit his head and pass out. Once Kenobi handled all the thugs, he carried Skywalker to the Lars' homestead and left before he woke up. Luke's courage assured Kenobi that it wasn't the end of the Jedi and renewed his up-until-then waning hope.

A year later, the Great Drought had ended, and Kenobi found himself observing a young Luke piloting a T-16 skyhopper through Beggar's Canyon. Kenobi noted how similar Luke was to his father Anakin, and expressed worry at the prospect. While attempting to impress his friends with an ostentatious maneuver through the canyon, Luke badly damaged the skyhopper and was subsequently grounded from flying by his uncle. Kenobi, feeling sympathy for the boy, took a job protecting a Jawa sandcrawler that had been experiencing troublesome raids by Tusken Raiders. That night, Kenobi meditated outside of the sandcrawler, communing with Qui-Gon and expressing his hope in Luke's abilities. Soon the Tusken Raiders arrived and Kenobi was able to easily dispatch the party with a disarmed raider's Gaderffii stick. He used whatever payment he earned from the job to hire the Jawas to deliver the necessary parts to fix the skyhopper. At a droid auction at an unidentified outpost, Luke received the the parts Kenobi had provided for him. Luke believed the parts had been a gift from his uncle and thanked Owen, as he eagerly rushed back home. Deriving pleasure from the boy's enthusiasm, Kenobi grinned fondly as he observed from behind a nearby tent.

Later that day in his hut, Kenobi was cooking dinner when he was interrupted by a visit from Owen. Owen had put two and two together and sternly demanded that Kenobi have no part in his family's life. He had brought back the box of tools that he presumably confiscated from Luke, and dumped it on the floor of the hut. Kenobi responded back with several snarky replies before finally relenting and saying he that he only ever wanted to help. Owen continued to berate him, calling him dangerous and troublesome. As Owen departed, Kenobi regretfully admitted to himself that danger did in fact seem to follow him, remembering his confrontations with Count Dooku, General Grievous and Darth Maul. But he steeled his resolve and claimed that no danger would come to the young Skywalker boy as long as he lived. Coincidentally, Jabba the Hutt chose this time to send a Wookiee bounty hunter Krrsantan after Owen, who he believed was responsible for roughing up his tax collectors during the Great Drought.

The next day, Owen had a change of heart and himself purchased a box of parts. He searched through the Lars homestead looking for Luke, hoping to fix the skyhopper with the boy as a way to apologize for his coarse actions the previous day. However, he was ambushed by Black Krrsantan and kidnapped. Luke, in childish defiance, was running away from home. He made it a short distance out before sensing – likely through the Force – that something had gone awry at the homestead. Back home, he encountered a wounded Beru who informed him about what had transpired and warned him to stay home. She ran out of the house armed with a rifle, leaving Luke with the discarded pile of tools Owen had earlier dropped.

While meditating in the Dune Sea among a herd of Banthas, Kenobi felt a disturbance in the Force. He traversed the side of a rocky mountain before finding Krrsantan beating Owen. In the ensuing conflict, Kenobi was trapped under a mesh of stun net that was dispatched by the Wookiee. Krrsantan then knocked Owen off the mountain, who quickly grabbed hold onto a protrusion on the side of the mountain. Kenobi escaped the net and stunned the Wookiee, sprinting over to Owen to grab him back up. However, Krrsantan intervened and threw an enormous boulder at Kenobi. Kenobi used his lightsaber to split the rock in two, also blinding Krrsantan in one eye during the process. The debris from the rock crashed into Owen's ledge and he nearly fell if not for Kenobi's use of the Force. Kenobi held Owen in place using the Force before losing focus as a result of Krrsantan's constant attacks. Owen fell, but was deftly saved by Luke, who used the repaired skyhopper's turret to break Owen's fall.

Kenobi then used this opportunity to disarm the Wookiee, who plunged off the side of the mountain. He did not die, however, and proceeded off-world to escape Jabba's wrath. Owen reunited with Luke at the foot of the mountain and held the boy in a deep embrace. He cast a knowing glance up toward Kenobi who looked on in triumph. There were no words of thanks exchanged between Owen and Kenobi, but Kenobi was simply happy to see the family reunited. Kenobi then returned to his family, which was what he fondly called his herd of Banthas. Among them, he looked up into the sky to see Luke's skyhopper, soaring off into the sunset.

Kenobi was later visiting Mos Eisley for supplies when he experienced a vision of a mysterious man. Kenobi recognized the man as Garro from a tale Jedi Master Yoda had told him. He would go on to recount this in his journal.

Introducing himself once again

When Skywalker was twelve years old in around 7 BBY, he went on an adventure with his friend Windy, riding a dewback, but they soon encountered a sandstorm and both lost consciousness. When Skywalker awoke, there was a krayt dragon nearby sneaking up on him. Just as the dragon attempted to attack, Kenobi, his hood over his face, appeared and beheaded the giant creature. When Skywalker asked who the hooded figure was, Kenobi answered that his name was "Ben Kenobi" and revealed that he was an old friend of Skywalker's father.

Kenobi took Skywalker and Windy back to their village, meeting with Skywalker's uncle, Owen Lars. Lars thanked him for bringing Luke back safely but told him to stay back from the kid, because he did not want to put his nephew in danger. In return, Kenobi said he was observing Skywalker and claimed that the Force was strong in him, telling Lars that he would leave the farm one day. Lars responded that the Jedi were done since the Republic had fallen, warning him once again to never visit their homestead again.

The knight and the dragon

At some point in time, a story was spread on Tatooine of an altruistic knight, once a mighty warrior who had made the desert his home while guarding a treasure in solitude. The knight learned of the actions of a tribe of Sand People that had been raiding other settlements and capturing prisoners. Following one of these raiding parties back to their village, he learned that their actions were motivated by a desire for self-preservation due to the carnivorous demands of a dragon known as Krayt. Upon being discovered, the knight was held in captivity with the others which gave him the opportunity to break out all of the other prisoners while he stayed behind. Angered by his actions, the nomadic tribe placed him in view of the dragon, offering him up in sacrifice. Slipping free of his bonds, the knight produced a glowing sword of light which he used to hold back the flying dragon for a time.

For more than an hour, he and the dragon engaged in a sort of dance, with neither one able to wound the other. Finally, the dragon sensed an opening when the knight seemed to tire. Just as the dragon was about to pounce, the knight held up his hand which seemed to put the dragon under a pacifying spell. Upon seeing the knight exercise control upon the creature, the nomads cheered. The knight, however, chastised them for their actions. He stated that while the dragon would no longer bother them, any whisper of wrongdoing from their end would lead to him and the dragon returning to punish them. The knight thus led the dragon away, never to be seen again. His actions eventually led to the nomadic tribe forever ceasing any attempts to raid or kidnap from other settlements, a trait which became unique to them.

The Oil-Bringer and aid to needy

At some point, Kenobi took actions to aid and repair the droids of Tatooine. His efforts resulted in his earning the moniker Oil-Bringer. Tales passed around said that his heroics took place on a single night once a year, and that he traversed the entire galaxy. Kenobi rescued one such droid, LA-R1, and its companions from the clutches of Jawas. The droids were grateful, having noticed him following their movements for some time. LA-R1, upon meeting Kenobi, felt that he matched the description of the Oil-Bringer legends. At some point after, he escorted a lost Tusken home, out of compassion.

Encountering Maul

In 2 BBY, Maul arrived on Tatooine in search of Kenobi, following his vision of the twin suns. Kenobi managed to keep Maul from tracking him until Maul used a Sith holocron to lure Rebel Padawan Ezra Bridger from his base on the planet Atollon to Tatooine, hoping the young Jedi's pain would be enough to draw Kenobi out. Kenobi found Ezra unconscious in the Dune Sea and sheltered him from the storm. Ezra regained consciousness and, knowing of Maul's hatred towards Kenobi from his own encounters with the former Sith, tried to warn Obi-Wan of Maul's presence. Kenobi calmly replied that he knew of it already and that he hadn't gone into hiding unprepared. He told Ezra that it was Ezra's responsibility to help the Rebellion; not to handle Maul. That burden fell upon Kenobi himself.

After a short time, consumed by fury, Maul found his way to Kenobi, his old adversary, after all these years. Kenobi then instructed Bridger to depart on a dewback, heading towards Maul's ship, the vessel Bridger would pilot back to Atollon. With scorn, Maul commented on Kenobi's humble abode, pondering if it would be more cruel to simply abandon Kenobi to what Maul perceived as a pathetic existence. However, instead of responding with the sarcasm he might have displayed in his youth, Kenobi calmly communicated to Maul that the former Sith Lord was defined by his futile desires for murder, ownership, and control, rendering him devoid of true substance.

This enraged Maul, causing him to ignite one of the blades of his saberstaff, striking the ground near Kenobi's small campfire, extinguishing it with a shower of sand. Maul probed Kenobi about his reasons for being on Tatooine, asserting that it was more than just hiding. He then began to speculate, quickly deducing that Kenobi was there to safeguard someone. Provoked by the threat Maul posed to Luke, Kenobi activated his lightsaber, assuming his signature Soresu defensive posture. As Maul gripped his saber tighter, igniting its second blade, Kenobi mirrored the stance of his former master, Qui-Gon, during their duel in the Theed power generator on Naboo.

Observing Kenobi's altered stance, Maul launched an attack after a few intense moments. Their blades clashed twice before Maul attempted the same hilt-strike that had resulted in Qui-Gon's death. However, Kenobi had anticipated this move, countering by striking downwards at Maul's hilt as Maul struck upwards, severing Maul's lightsaber and inflicting a fatal wound to the former Sith Lord's chest. Maul dropped his destroyed weapon, collapsing to one knee, but Kenobi caught him before he fell completely. As Maul lay dying, he inquired whether the person Kenobi was protecting was the Chosen One, destined to destroy the Sith. Kenobi, who at that moment believed that Vader would never turn from the dark side, confirmed that he was. Maul seemed to find some solace in this information, appearing confident that he and Kenobi would ultimately be avenged.

Subsequently, Kenobi traveled via dewback to the Lars' Homestead. Reaching his destination, he overheard Beru Whitesun Lars calling to Luke and watched the teenager running towards home against the backdrop of a binary sunset. After the former Sith's death, Kenobi constructed a funeral pyre for Maul, paying respects to his old rival.

Final days on Tatooine

In the time leading up to the Battle of Scarif, Kenobi occupied himself during a Tatooine storm by writing a series of journals, recounting his service to the Jedi Order and the Republic during the Clone Wars and before. During his last days on the desert planet, Kenobi came across and rescued an injured stormtrooper, whom he called JM-909 "Jim", taking him to his dwelling. Although Jim eventually escaped, he remembered Kenobi's kindness after being reprimanded by his commanding officer upon his return to the Empire. Following this event, Kenobi declared that he knew his time on Tatooine was nearing its end, and that despite having felt isolated for many years, he had come to the understanding that he was never truly alone.

Galactic Civil War

Coming out of exile

As the Alliance to Restore the Republic anticipated that open war with the Empire was becoming increasingly likely, they resolved to seize every possible advantage. In 0 BBY, shortly before the Battle of Scarif, Kenobi's longtime friend Bail Organa, by then a prominent leader within the Alliance, decided to enlist the exiled Jedi Master into their cause, prompted by Chancellor Mon Mothma. Unable to personally attend to the matter due to his need to travel to Alderaan to warn his people of the impending war, Organa dispatched his daughter, Princess Leia Organa, to request Kenobi's assistance. Having narrowly escaped the battle at Scarif after successfully acquiring the schematics for the Empire's planet-destroying Death Star, she was captured in a battle above Tatooine. Leia transferred the plans into R2-D2's memory banks, sending the droid to locate Kenobi, setting R2-D2 and C-3PO on a journey that resulted in their capture by Jawas and subsequent sale to Owen Lars and Luke Skywalker.

R2-D2 fled the Lars homestead, venturing into the Jundland Wastes in search of Kenobi. C-3PO, unaware of Princess Leia's mission for R2-D2, urged Skywalker to pursue the runaway astromech droid, but before they could return to the homestead, they were ambushed by Tusken Raiders. It was at this moment that Kenobi appeared, frightening the Tusken Raiders away by mimicking the cry of a krayt dragon. Upon turning to identify the source of the call, the Tuskens recognized Kenobi and remembered Chieftain A'Yark's warning about a mysterious "shaman" residing in the area. Heeding their chieftain's warnings, they swiftly retreated, although the young Tusken A'Koba intended to return with greater numbers to eventually hunt down the hooded figure. Indeed, Kenobi knew the Tuskens were likely to return in greater numbers if they stayed in the canyon for too long, meaning he had to awaken Skywalker but also lead him to safety.

With the Tuskens gone, Kenobi approached the unconscious Skywalker and checked that he was still alive before greeting R2-D2. However, Kenobi acted as though he did not know the droid for Luke's benefit. Restoring Skywalker to consciousness, the boy told him that R2-D2 was looking for someone named "Obi-Wan Kenobi," to which Kenobi replied that was, in fact, his real name. To avoid more Tusken Raider attacks, Kenobi brought the two droids and the farm boy to his home. There, Kenobi revealed that he had known Skywalker's father, and that he'd been a Jedi Knight during the Clone Wars, choosing to talk about him before his turn to the Dark Side.

He then gave Skywalker his father's lightsaber, which he claimed that Anakin would have wanted Luke to have it. When Luke asked about how his father had died, Kenobi was careful not to tell him that Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader were one and the same; instead he twisted the truth, claiming that Vader, his former apprentice, had fallen to the dark side of the Force and helped the Empire hunt down and kill the Jedi, including Anakin. Though he wasn't technically lying to Luke - the man who Anakin Skywalker had been had died when he became Darth Vader - he wasn't being directly truthful either, and Luke would not learn the whole truth for another several years. Afterward, Luke decided to show Kenobi the partial message from Leia Organa. The message finally played in its entirety, stating her father's request for him to aid the Alliance and that R2-D2 contained information vital to the survival of the Alliance. After the message concluded, Kenobi requested Skywalker's help to see the mission through and learn the ways of the Force, but Skywalker refused to get involved as he believed his duties at home were more important, but he offered to take Kenobi as far as Anchorhead. At the age of 57, and after more than nineteen years of exile, Kenobi was done hiding and being cautious, regardless of Luke's answer he needed to leave Tatooine and confront the Empire by aiding the princess who had begged for his help.

En route to the city, they discovered the destroyed skiff that had sold R2-D2 and C-3PO to Skywalker and his uncle, along with the slain Jawas. Initially attributing the attack to Tusken Raiders, Kenobi correctly inferred that it was the work of stormtroopers searching for the droids. Concerned that the stormtroopers might target his aunt and uncle next, Skywalker rushed home, despite Kenobi's warnings about the danger. While Skywalker found that the Imperials had attacked the homestead, killing both Owen and Beru, Kenobi arranged a small funeral pyre for all the Jawas killed by the Empire's soldiers.

It was at this time that Kenobi was visited by the Force Ghost of Jinn. Kenobi's old master helped ease his anxieties about Luke, specifically his fear that Luke would suffer a tragic fate such as Anakin's. Qui-Gon marveled at how Obi-Wan had remained so steadfast and resilient after suffering through years of war and losing everyone he ever truly loved to a terrible end: Anakin, Satine, Padmé, and Jinn himself. Qui-Gon reassured Kenobi that he was making the right decisions with Luke. Sensing that Luke was returning from the remains of the Lars homestead, Qui-Gon bade his former student farewell and told him that they would see each other again, though kept to himself that Obi-Wan only had a short time to live. Upon Skywalker's return, the young man agreed to accompany him to Alderaan and train as a Jedi.

Leaving Tatooine

The group of four made their way to Mos Eisley, seeking a pilot at Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina – a place Kenobi had visited sparingly during his exile – who could transport them to Alderaan. During their journey, they were stopped by stormtrooper Foot Patrol 7, as Commander TD-110 had spotted R2 and 3PO and thought they could be the droids they needed. One of his subordinates, trooper TD-7556, privately disagreed, thinking that the boy and whom he assumed to be his grandfather would never be chosen by the Rebel Alliance to protect their secrets. Claiming ownership of the droids for several seasons, Kenobi used a mind trick to prevent the stormtroopers from checking their identification, ensuring their passage. The ruse succeeded, even convincing TD-7556 that Kenobi had been an Imperial. TD-110, however, was left with a severe headache from the trick.

Explaining to Skywalker that he had used the Force to ensure they made it past Foot Patrol 7, the four made their way to the cantina. Skywalker was skeptical about the prospect of finding a pilot in the cantina, but Kenobi assured him that the best pilots could usually be found there, but warned him that the cantina could "be a little rough." They encountered a minor conflict when wanted criminals Cornelius Evazan and Ponda Baba began harassing Skywalker, but Kenobi diffused the situation by severing Baba's arm in defense of the young man. Despite the whispers about the lightsaber, Kenobi continued his search for transport.

Kenobi soon encountered a Wookiee named Chewbacca, the first mate aboard the Millennium Falcon, a freighter captained by a Corellian smuggler named Han Solo. Solo touted his ship's speed to attract Kenobi. While Solo initially demanded 10,000 credits upfront, Kenobi negotiated a compromise: 2,000 credits upfront, with an additional 15,000 upon reaching Alderaan, totaling 17,000 credits. Solo agreed, accepting the offer to transport them to Alderaan. Kenobi and Skywalker then left the cantina when they saw stormtroopers, actually the very same troops Kenobi had mind tricked, who had entered to investigate the earlier disturbance caused when Baba lost his arm. Having been saved by Jedi during the Clone Wars, Wuher—the cantina bartender who had previously written Kenobi off as an old hermit—chose to lie to the soldiers, keeping the Jedi's presence a secret.

As they departed, the two were confronted by another stormtrooper, who demanded to see their identification. In response, Kenobi cut the trooper's blaster and killed the soldier by throwing pieces of metal at them with the Force. Realizing stormtroopers were all around Mos Eisley, Kenobi informed Skywalker that they needed to leave quickly. However, they had been spotted by an Imperial spy named Garindan ezz Zavor, who had entered the cantina after hearing Baba and Kenobi's fight, enabling the Kubaz spy to overhear Kenobi's discussion with Solo. Waiting until he could see Kenobi and Skywalker with the droids, Zavor notified Imperial stormtroopers of their location at Docking Bay 94. Fortunately, the Millennium Falcon successfully escaped Tatooine. As Solo checked his ship's controls, Kenobi assured R2-D2 that he still remembered him and commented that it was good to fly with him again.

While awaiting the Falcon's arrival at Alderaan, Kenobi initiated an exercise for Skywalker to learn to sense through the Force and deflect blaster fire from a training remote, when the Jedi Master sensed a disturbance in the Force caused by the Disaster. Soon after, the Falcon exited hyperspace, revealing that the planet had been destroyed and replaced by an asteroid field. As a TIE fighter approached, Solo prepared to engage, but Skywalker noticed that the fighter was originating from what initially appeared to be a small moon – the Death Star. As the space station's tractor beam pulled them in, Kenobi instructed Solo not to resist, suggesting there were alternatives to fighting.

Duel on the Death Star and death

As the Millennium Falcon was forced to land on Bay 327, Solo prompted everyone to hide on the ship's sensor-proof smuggling compartments, with Kenobi hiding alongside the two droids, to trick the Imperials into thinking they had abandoned the ship. As the Imperial scouts got off the ship, Kenobi told Solo he would take care of the tractor beam, which prompted Solo to call him a "damn fool"; soon enough, with Skywalker and Solo disguised as stormtroopers, they took control of the hangar's control room, where Kenobi learned the location of a terminal that, should one cut its power, it would allow the ship to leave. He decided to go alone, despite Skywalker's protest, to whom he told that his destiny lay on a different path than his own, and reassured Skywalker that the Force would be with him always.

While Skywalker, Solo, and Chewbacca discovered Organa's presence on the station and embarked on a rescue mission, Kenobi successfully disabled the tractor beam. However, on his way to the Falcon, he encountered Vader, leading to a final confrontation. Vader asserted his mastery of the Force, but Kenobi, refusing to acknowledge Anakin's name and instead referring to Vader as "Darth," claimed that he was merely a "master of evil." During the duel, Vader commented on Kenobi's weakness due to age, but Kenobi countered that he would become more powerful than Vader could imagine, even in death.

The two fought their way to Bay 327 just as the team reunited to board the Falcon, only for Kenobi to see the young Skywalker and give Vader a mysteriously knowing smile. As he raised his blade in surrender and took a deep breath, Vader struck him down and his body disappeared, for he had become one with the Force, with only his Jedi robes and lightsaber left behind on the Death Star. Unable to attend to the body of his master, Skywalker was forced to escape on the Falcon with everyone else. Vader, meanwhile, stomped upon his former mentor's cloak and collected his lightsaber.

Post-mortem

Communion with Luke Skywalker

Kenobi's communion with Qui-Gon was successful as Kenobi did not vanish completely but instead became a Force spirit. As he did, he felt past, present, future collide, seeing the eventual death of Solo on Starkiller Base, and his apprentice's self-imposed exile on Ahch-To. Harnessing his newfound abilities, he guided Skywalker during the Battle of Yavin, enabling him to successfully destroy the Death Star with proton torpedoes.

Approximately five days later, Kenobi's spirit traveled to Dagobah, where he consulted with Yoda concerning Skywalker. Kenobi listened as Yoda explained that Leia was by far the best candidate to pick up the mantle of Jedi, as Luke was impetuous, headstrong, unruly, and inattentive like Anakin. Nevertheless, Kenobi remained steadfast in his resolve that Luke be trained and was successful in gaining Yoda's approval to bring the boy to him.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Yavin, Luke deeply mourned the loss of his mentor, having anticipated a longer training period. He questioned whether he had truly heard the Jedi's voice during the battle, wondering if it was merely his imagination. While sent to the planet Rodia on an Alliance mission, Luke often contemplated what Kenobi would think of his surroundings, and told the Rodian Taneetch Soonta that he considered the Jedi Master the personification of honor. While on Rodia, Luke did his best to learn more about the Jedi from Soonta, whose uncle was the Jedi Huulik. With his extremely limited training, Luke struggled to move objects with the Force, and felt dismay when recalling how easily Kenobi had mind tricked individuals on Tatooine. By repeating the few lessons about the Force he had received from Kenobi, the Alliance pilot became more determined to retain and build his knowledge base. After acquiring Huulik's lightsaber from his mausoleum with Soonta's help, Luke documented its inner workings, hoping to build another that would honor the Jedi that came before him.

When Skywalker was about to confront Darth Vader in the Weapons Factory Alpha on the assault of Cymoon 1, Kenobi reached out to Skywalker through the Force and told him to run. After he recovered Kenobi's journal, which the Jedi Master had left behind to help Skywalker, Skywalker tried to gain passage to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant by going to the "Smuggler's Moon" of Nar Shaddaa, only to be captured by Grakkus the Hutt, who forced the young Jedi into an arena battle against the roggwart Kongo. Although he tried to call upon the lessons Kenobi had taught him, Skywalker was outmatched, so he tried to call upon his mentor for help. Instead, his friends arrived to rescue him, while Grakku's gamemaster fought the Hutt, having secretly been an Imperial spy.

Later, while Luke was stationed above Vrogas Vas, he was attacked by Vader and crash-landed near an abandoned Jedi Temple he had read about in one of Kenobi's journals, however while searching for something to use in the temple, he was contacted by Kenobi's voice, which told him to abandon the place, as he did not believe Luke was ready. As Luke asked how he should get ready, he was attacked and captured by General Karbin's stormtroopers. When Vader entered the temple, Kenobi called out to him, stating that Luke was the Chosen One and once again expressed his regret for Vader's fall; Vader dismissed Kenobi's presence as a delusion.

Three years later, Kenobi reappeared to Luke on the ice planet of Hoth, where he instructed Skywalker to go to the Dagobah system to seek out Kenobi's former master, Yoda, for further Jedi training. Yoda once again expressed doubts concerning Skywalker, still believing him to be too old, impatient and reckless, as much as he had anger in him like his father once had. However, Kenobi reminded Yoda that he had been once similar to Luke, back when Yoda taught him.

Over the weeks of Skywalker's training on Dagobah, Kenobi had needed to appear in six of Yoda's dreams to again and again convince him to continue the training, telling the old master that training the young Skywalker would be different from how Anakin's path had gone. Additionally, he needed to appear on Dagobah several times to serve as a mediator between Yoda and Skywalker. Throughout Luke's training, Kenobi often found himself thinking of his experiences with Anakin. Later, when Skywalker received a vision of his friends in trouble on the Cloud City of Bespin, Skywalker rushed to aid them. Appearing as a ghost on Dagobah to try to dissuade him, Kenobi, who thought to himself that Anakin would never have been able to stay on the swamp world as long as Luke had, warned him that he was at a crossroads and that his abilities were what the Emperor wanted; Kenobi did not want to lose Skywalker to the Emperor the way he had lost Vader.

He also told the Jedi apprentice that, if he was to face Darth Vader, he would do it alone as he could not interfere. Finally, Kenobi gave Skywalker some final advice that he should not give into his hate, for hate led to the dark side. As Skywalker departed from Dagobah, Kenobi was worried that the Jedi may have lost their last hope, only for Yoda to say there was another hope for the Jedi. Though Yoda was speaking of Luke's sister, Leia Organa, a long but quiet moment passed between the two Jedi as Kenobi remembered the hope was not Anakin, with Kenobi still believing that his old friend was as dead as he was and had been replaced by Vader.

Later, Luke created a projection of himself and communed with Yoda on Dagobah, believing the experience was a product of his imagination. After Luke disappeared, Yoda asked Kenobi his thoughts. Kenobi appeared, voicing a concern that despite all the boy had learned, he was "not ready." Yoda affirmed that the young Skywalker would be prepared when the time was right.

About a year after Skywalker's initial visit, Kenobi reappeared after the death of Yoda to explain why he did not tell Luke the truth about his father. Though Luke wanted to believe that there was still good in his father, echoing Padmé's belief from twenty-three years ago, Kenobi no longer held that belief. He told Luke that he must face his destiny by confronting Vader once again. When Luke asked the meaning of Yoda's final words, "there is another Skywalker," Kenobi confessed that Leia was Luke's sister, and that they had been hidden from each other to keep them both safe. He also warned Luke about the powers of the Emperor.

Amid the decisive Battle of Endor, Luke's actions led Anakin Skywalker to forsake his identity as Darth Vader, sacrificing Palpatine to safeguard his son, thus finding redemption in the light. As Skywalker's life ended, Kenobi and Yoda materialized before him, offering forgiveness to their former comrade. Kenobi stood beside the spectral forms of Anakin Skywalker and Yoda as they observed Luke and the other rebels celebrating their hard-won triumph, a sight visible only to Luke. Subsequently, Skywalker inquired of Yoda and Kenobi about his son's future well-being, to which Kenobi responded that his path thus far suggested a positive outcome.

In the years that followed, Kenobi's spirit, in conjunction with Anakin and Yoda, continued to offer guidance to Luke later in life. During a visit to the vergence on Gazian between 3 ABY and 4 ABY, Luke perceived Kenobi's essence within the planet's Living Sea. Luke held Kenobi in high regard, cherishing the memories of their brief period of training together. However, subsequent to Ben Solo's descent, he held Kenobi and Yoda accountable for his perceived lack of understanding in permanently eradicating the dark side, believing that his instructional shortcomings contributed to his student's transformation into Kylo Ren.

Leia, too, occasionally received communication from Kenobi, hearing his voice throughout her life. While on Ahch-To, after Luke Skywalker reestablished his connection to the Force, he sensed Kenobi's spirit, accompanied by Yoda and his father Anakin, finding solace in their presence. Later, as Skywalker approached death, he believed he heard Kenobi's familiar voice urging him to release his hold on life, which he did, joining Kenobi, Yoda, and his father in the Force.

Communion with Rey

Thirty years later, during a vision experienced upon touching the lightsaber that had belonged to Luke Skywalker, and previously Anakin, Obi-Wan communicated with the Force-sensitive scavenger Rey using the voice of his younger self. Obi-Wan addressed Rey, informing her that these were her first steps and that the Force would be her ally in her struggle against the dark side.

One year later in 35 ABY, during the Battle of Exegol, Rey once more heard Kenobi's voice amidst a chorus of Jedi from the past, who assisted her in the ultimate defeat of the resurrected Darth Sidious. As the first to address her, he repeated his initial message to Rey, encouraging her to rise and take the final steps toward becoming a true Jedi.

Legacy

By the time of the New Republic Era, Obi-Wan Kenobi was regarded as a figure of legend. Following the Galactic Civil War, Han Solo and Leia Organa chose to name their son, Ben Solo, in honor of the renowned Jedi Master. However, the weight of Kenobi's reputation and his heroic actions as a Jedi proved burdensome for the young Ben, who struggled with feelings of inadequacy due to the expectations placed upon him because of his lineage.

Solo developed resentment toward the deceased Jedi, particularly as he felt that everyone expected him to emulate his namesake, despite never having known Kenobi personally. This contributed to Solo's dislike of his name, as it served as a constant reminder of a legacy he perceived as built on falsehoods. Ultimately, he disavowed his connection to the Jedi and embraced a new identity as Kylo Ren, emulating the path of Kenobi's fallen apprentice—Solo's grandfather, Darth Vader.

However, in due course, Solo returned to the light, shedding the dark persona of Ren. Having once rejected his given name, he came to regret ever having done so. His redemption was realized when he gave his life to save Rey—a selfless act mirroring Anakin Skywalker's sacrifice. Upon being revived, Rey smiled at Solo and addressed him by his name, "Ben," after which he became one with the Force.

Kenobi's contributions during the Clone Wars remained memorable long after the conflict concluded, with citizens of Pau City on Utapau recalling Kenobi's name decades after the Battle of Utapau. When the Force-sensitive human Karr Nuq Sin embarked on a journey across the galaxy to broaden his understanding of the Force and the Jedi, he used his psychometric abilities to experience visions of Kenobi visiting Pau City in pursuit of General Grievous, as well as moments of him and Luke Skywalker aboard the Millennium Falcon.

Personality and traits

Kenobi was a human male with a height of 1.82 meters and a weight of 81 kilograms. He possessed [fair](/article/color] skin, gray-blue eyes, and auburn [hair](/article/hair] that transitioned to white in his later years.

During his early years as a youngling, Kenobi was known for his rebellious and headstrong nature, frequently disregarding the rules established by the Jedi. However, throughout much of his early apprenticeship under Qui-Gon Jinn, Kenobi displayed a strong inclination toward strict adherence to rules and a largely conventional approach to matters such as the Jedi Code. He often felt a lack of true understanding of his master, yet he remained eager to please him and earn his respect. He also struggled to comprehend his master's interests, such as the study of obscure Jedi prophecies. At times, he considered the possibility of Jinn being expelled from the Order and pondered the implications for himself should such an event occur. The two later realized that Yoda had deliberately assigned Kenobi to a maverick master, hoping that he would rebel by attempting to become an exemplary Jedi.

In time, Kenobi grew loyal and devoted to Jinn, developing a dry sense of humor and sarcastic wit. Yoda noted that he sensed Qui-Gon Jinn's defiance within him, and Jinn himself recognized Kenobi's extensive knowledge and potential, considering his Padawan wiser than himself, albeit somewhat headstrong. In the lead-up to his Jedi Trials, Kenobi experienced considerable anxiety and sleeplessness. Though occasionally impertinent, he was often perceived as wise beyond his years, his humble and soft-spoken demeanor masking his prowess as a warrior. Despite his frequent complaints during flight and being deeply affected by an experience involving auto-pursuit in his youth, he was also a skilled pilot. In many respects, he embodied the strengths of the old Jedi Order: steadfast, selfless, and modest. A tireless advocate for the Republic's ideals of democracy and justice, his later aptitude for resolving disputes without resorting to battle earned him the title "The Negotiator."

Over time, Kenobi shed some of his youthful boldness and assumed the role of a more cautious mentor to Anakin Skywalker, who contrasted him in personality. Their early dynamic was unusual, with Kenobi feeling protective and responsible for his young Padawan, while Skywalker harbored concerns about Kenobi's commitment to him, stemming from past abandonment. Kenobi was aware of these feelings, as evidenced by his discovery of Skywalker sleeping on the floor beside his bed. Kenobi often worried about his suitability as Skywalker's teacher and would spend sleepless nights contemplating what to impart to his apprentice. As their relationship deepened, the two found themselves easily irritating each other, with Kenobi particularly bothered by his Padawan's habit of grinding his teeth in frustration. Despite their frequent disagreements, they cared deeply for each other.

Kenobi carefully evaluated his actions in any situation, earning him the aforementioned title. Kenobi was also known for his skill as a storyteller. While in hiding in the Jundland Wastes during his later years, he presented himself as a kind and eccentric old hermit. Owen Lars described him as "a crazy old man" to those unfamiliar with the ways of the Jedi. In his final days, Kenobi retained his traits of patience and foresight, while also exhibiting some of the boldness reminiscent of his youth.

Kenobi typically formulated plans and strategies rather than acting impulsively. He would often place his hand on his chin or stroke his beard while contemplating. This was a common characteristic of the Jedi Master, one that his apprentice Anakin Skywalker did not often emulate. He would sometimes mentally recite the Jedi Code to calm himself. He also served as a mentor to Skywalker's Padawan, Ahsoka Tano. Tano recognized Kenobi's greater patience compared to Skywalker, but she also fondly recalled their frequent bickering. Tano believed Kenobi would have enjoyed the strategy game crokin.

Kenobi's respect for the lives of others prompted him to emerge from hiding to rescue Ezra Bridger and the C1-series astromech droid Chopper from the dangers of Tatooine's deserts. Kenobi then reprimanded Ezra for succumbing to Maul's manipulation and advised the young rebel to return to his place within the rebellion. When confronted with the Sith who had killed his master, Kenobi did not harbor hatred for Maul and attempted to dissuade him from violence, but when he sensed Luke Skywalker and recognized Maul's violent intentions, Kenobi was compelled to fight and kill him in self-defense. After mortally wounding Maul, Kenobi comforted the former Sith and assured him that he was watching over the "Chosen One," Luke Skywalker, though Luke was not the Chosen One by prophecy. During his confrontation with Vader on the Death Star, Kenobi struggled to accept that his foe was once his friend, even being unable to address him by his name, instead using the title "Darth," while also acknowledging his own rising anger as Vader spoke.

During his exile on Tatooine, Kenobi underwent a period of intense self-reflection that he described as agonizing. Over the years, he was compelled to dismantle systemic rituals and ingrained doctrines he had encountered during his time with the Jedi. He was left broken and unwilling to fight until his rematches with Vader ten years after Order 66, which left him with the belief that his friend had been destroyed by Vader. While he initially blamed himself for Skywalker's fall, Kenobi, after hearing Vader's proclamation, had come to believe that, while he and Jinn did have some blame, Skywalker had made his own choices and thus was at fault for his own fate. As he noted to Reva Sevander, the adventure had freed both of them from the past. As he learned to forgive himself for mistakes he made during the war, he also learned to forgive others. Nevertheless, despite finding himself unable to call Vader by his old name during their final duel on the Death Star, he did ponder if Anakin Skywalker still remained within, but he later claimed to Luke that Anakin was truly gone. Luke proved him wrong when he redeemed his father, enabling Kenobi and Skywalker to renew their friendship as Force spirits.

Romantic relationships

Siri Tachi

Siri Tachi, a fellow Jedi, trained at the Coruscant's Temple concurrently with Kenobi. In their youth, Tachi and Kenobi would hold hands beneath the table during lunch. Years later, Kenobi reflected that while the Jedi may have been eradicated, their penchant for theatrical posturing persisted in Yoda, and that he need only recall moments with Tachi to feel deserving of punishment from the Jedi Council.

Satine Kryze

During Mandalore's Civil War and his apprenticeship under Qui-Gon Jinn, Kenobi developed feelings for the young Duchess Satine Kryze. The two spent over a year as fugitives. Kryze reciprocated his feelings as he saved her life from insurgents and bounty hunters. When Kenobi's mission concluded, he chose to uphold his obligations to the Jedi Order in accordance with the Jedi Code. However, he regretted leaving the Duchess alone to rebuild Mandalore.

Years later, during the Clone Wars, Kenobi and Kryze still harbored feelings for each other, but found themselves on opposing sides. Kryze had begun advocating for a policy of neutrality for herself and 1,500 systems that wished to remain uninvolved in the war. Meanwhile, Kenobi defended the use of military action to resolve the conflict with the Separatists, including a military presence on Mandalore to protect it from the Death Watch. Consequently, their inability to express their feelings led to constant disagreements regarding their conflicting philosophies. Only when forced to act together did their camaraderie resurface. When Kryze was taken hostage by Senator Merrick, she confessed that she had always loved him. Kenobi, despite the circumstances, confessed that he too loved her and would have left the Jedi Order if she had asked him to. Despite their confessions, Kenobi and Kryze continued to fulfill their responsibilities as peacekeepers.

When Maul reappeared on Mandalore, Kenobi attempted to rescue her from him, but both were captured. Kenobi was forced to witness Maul choking Kryze and ultimately killing her with the Darksaber. Kenobi mourned her death, but refused to succumb to his anger and desire for revenge, only acting out of peace and justice nearly twenty years later.

Powers and abilities

Lightsaber abilities

Kenobi was a highly skilled lightsaber duelist, recognized as one of the greatest swordsmen of his era. Throughout his training, he mastered several forms of lightsaber combat, with a particular emphasis on Form III. In contrast to the aggressive dueling styles favored by his master, Qui-Gon Jinn, and his apprentice Anakin Skywalker, Kenobi's combat style was primarily defensive, though he would resort to aggressive attacks when necessary. He confronted some of the most formidable individuals in the galaxy, including the deadly Sith Lord Darth Maul and the infamous Jedi Hunter General Grievous, the latter of whom he battled on at least seven occasions. Although he was defeated by the cyborg in three of their encounters (the first, fifth, and sixth), he consistently survived without sustaining any severe injuries.

Kenobi managed to fight Grievous to a stalemate in their third and fourth encounters, overpowered him in their second duel, and ultimately defeated him in their final confrontation, albeit using a blaster rather than his lightsaber. However, his final victory may have been facilitated by Grievous' recent injuries, which would have impaired the cyborg's combat abilities. While Kenobi typically wielded only one lightsaber, he also demonstrated proficiency in the art of Jar'Kai, most notably during his duel with Maul and Savage Opress, where he wielded both his own lightsaber and the blade of the slain Adi Gallia. His mastery of dual-blade combat enabled him to hold his own against both Sith brothers, even managing to break Opress's left knee and sever his left arm. The duel ultimately ended in a stalemate when an enraged Maul used his Force powers to briefly incapacitate Kenobi, allowing the brothers to escape.

Kenobi also employed Jar'Kai situationally, though with less success, against General Grievous and Cad Bane. He also possessed the ability to ground Force lightning using his lightsaber, as demonstrated against Dooku on Geonosis. Kenobi also emerged victorious against his former apprentice Anakin Skywalker, then Darth Vader, in an epic duel on Mustafar. Utilizing his steadfast Form III defense throughout the fight, Kenobi eventually capitalized on Vader's aggressive nature, dismembering the hate-filled Sith Lord when he recklessly lunged toward him. While initially less skilled due to having lost his connection with the Force, Kenobi was able to get the edge once again over his former apprentice Darth Vader on another duel ten years later.

Decades later, he defeated his old nemesis Maul within seconds despite the former Sith Lord having demonstrated the ability to hold an advantage against three Inquisitors simultaneously, and duel his former master Darth Sidious for a short time. A few years later, during his rematch with Vader on the first Death Star, Kenobi proved formidable enough to hold his own against the Sith Lord for a short time. However, Vader's cautious but relentless assault ultimately overwhelmed Kenobi's defenses, and he was forced to begin retreating. Ultimately, he chose to become one with the Force rather than continue the fight and in doing this, he taught both of his Skywalker students one final lesson.

Force powers

While Kenobi primarily focused on lightsaber combat, he also possessed considerable skill and power in the use of the Force. He was trained in the use of the mind trick, employing it whenever he sought to avoid physical altercations. He also demonstrated the ability to use the Force to tame, control, and lead a group of agitated gutkurrs on Ryloth. As was typical of a Jedi, Kenobi was adept at concealing his emotions in the Force when he chose to. Kenobi was skilled in Force healing, enhancing his physical abilities, leaping around with the Force, knowing the future, and could, with great effort, make himself and his use of the Force go unnoticed by all. He also felt when Alderaan was destroyed and so many died.

He also had the ability to use telekinesis to push or levitate objects, or to crush them, as seen when he destroyed two commando droids to recover his lightsaber after a difficult hand-to-hand fight with Darts D'Nar. He would also use the Force to augment his natural leaping ability. His ability to use the Force push technique was exceptional, as he was able to use it to blast back General Grievous dozens of meters with a single push during their duel. A short time later, he was even able to hold off a Force push from Anakin Skywalker during their duel, though after a short time the resulting telekinetic struggle launched both of them across a room. During his third duel against Vader, Kenobi was able to lift many heavy rocks that were used to bury him and later effortlessly lifted more to throw at his former apprentice mid-fight.

Prior to his exile on Tatooine, Yoda instructed him on how to communicate his late master, Qui-Gon Jinn, who was unable to visibly manifest as a spirit due to his incomplete training under the Force Priestesses. Through Jinn, Kenobi eventually learned the ability to manifest his consciousness after death, a skill he would later put to good use to guide and counsel his apprentice, Luke Skywalker, during the Galactic Civil War.

Other abilities

Obi-Wan Kenobi proved to be a skilled military strategist and a highly intellectual individual, demonstrating a strong understanding of galactic history and the conventions of warfare, such as the Yavin Code. General Kenobi personally led his troops to numerous significant victories during the Clone Wars, and his persuasive demeanor earned him the title of "The Negotiator."

Despite his aversion to flying, Kenobi was an accomplished pilot. Throughout the Clone Wars, he commanded many attacks from the cockpit of his Jedi starfighter or his Jedi interceptor, proving to be an exceptional pilot when navigating through an asteroid field in pursuit of Jango Fett's ship and evading his seismic charges unscathed. In fact, Kenobi had once rather enjoyed flying, prior to an incident during and his Qui-Gon Jinn's mission to Pijal.

Kenobi was also a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, having developed enough level of skill in unarmed combat so as to compete with Pre Vizsla, leader of the Death Watch, in unarmed techniques, though he outclassed the Mandalorian in lightsaber technique. During his duel with Jango Fett on Kamino, Kenobi was briefly deprived of his lightsaber, and fought the bounty hunter in unarmed combat. Furthermore, while he preferred lightsabers, Kenobi was an excellent marksman, as demonstrated during his time as "Rako Hardeen" in Moralo Eval's Box and by his defeat of Grievous with his own blaster. While hiding on Tatooine, he carried a BR-14 blaster pistol. He manage to use it while saving young Princess Leia who was held at blasterpoint.

He understood many languages, including Galactic Basic Standard, Twi'leki, the Amani language, Felucia's tribal language, Old Alderaanian, and Shyriiwook. Though he admitted his skills were "rusty," Kenobi could read hand signals accurately enough to understand Eeth Koth's message to his location at the Saleucami system.

Behind the scenes

The Original trilogy

Obi-Wan Kenobi, initially known as "Ben" Kenobi, debuted in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, portrayed by Sir Alec Guinness, who received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (the sole acting-related Academy Award nomination for any Star Wars film). During the casting process for the part of Kenobi for A New Hope, director George Lucas sought an actor who could embody authority and project both power and gentleness. Lucas found these qualities in Guinness, who accepted the role due to the film's moral themes and the studio's doubling of his initial salary offer. Guinness acknowledged that working on the film presented numerous challenges. Lucas advised Guinness to emulate the characteristics of a samurai warrior and a wise, monk-like figure. Guinness reprised his role as Kenobi's Force ghost in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Guinness, however, held a negative view of the Star Wars universe, dismissing the film as "fairy tale rubbish." He strongly disliked being associated with the role of Kenobi.

The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film reveals that Lucas initially conceived the idea of killing off Kenobi, which Guinness initially opposed. By explaining that the character would have little to do in the story after the Millennium Falcon escaped the Death Star, Lucas convinced him to allow it. However, other sources indicate that the idea to kill off Kenobi came from Marcia Lucas, after her husband complained he was unable to find a way to generate tension in the story. In the draft script for what became Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, Kenobi, along with Yoda, would have appeared as a Force spirit during the battle between Luke Skywalker and the Emperor in defense of their pupil: both Jedi Masters would deflect the Sith Lord's Force lightning. Kenobi, Yoda, and Anakin Skywalker would have all returned to life as well.

The Prequel trilogy

Obi-Wan Kenobi's portrayal in The Phantom Menace, a 1999 film, was undertaken by Ewan McGregor. Initially, upon commencing the casting process, he felt disconnected from the Star Wars universe. He expressed doubt about taking on the role of Kenobi, remarking, "I see myself as this alternative, modern, edgy actor. I don't fit this mold." However, McGregor's initial apprehension transitioned into enthusiasm, particularly at the prospect of embodying a younger version of Alec Guinness. In December of 1996, the actor participated in an audition interview held in London. Shortly thereafter, McGregor received notification that he had been offered the part. To prepare, McGregor immersed himself in Guinness's films from his younger years, envisioning him in his youth. He also dedicated time to studying Guinness and watching the original trilogy as part of his preparation, but he didn't focus on the genre itself. Following a tour of the studio led by director George Lucas, they visited the props department, where the prop master presented him with a collection of lightsaber props. McGregor was then given the opportunity to select the lightsaber he would wield in the film. His initial lightsaber work involved training for the duel against Darth Maul. McGregor's lightsaber training was conducted under the guidance of stunt coordinator Nick Gillard.

According to McGregor, the production team sought a hairstyle for Kenobi that conveyed a military sensibility or a monastic quality. He noted that the padawan braid hairstyle bore resemblance to the hairstyles of individuals who shave their heads as part of religious orders. McGregor had a braid attached to his hair daily, a look he found appealing. Several months, specifically six to eight, subsequent to the conclusion of principal photography for The Phantom Menace, McGregor, along with other cast members, returned for reshoots. Due to his involvement in another project, he was unable to alter his hairstyle or grow a beard. Consequently, the crew created a short hair wig for McGregor, but he found it challenging to conceal his longer hair beneath it.

McGregor revisited the character in Attack of the Clones. McGregor and Hayden Christensen, who portrayed Anakin Skywalker, engaged in lightsaber practice sessions, which Christensen described as the most enjoyable aspect of his experience, likening it to "playing with your friend every day." Kenobi's hairstyle drew inspiration from the Bee Gees and was dubbed a "Jedi mullet." The updated hairstyle was intended to reflect both a warrior persona and character development. In a deleted scene, Kenobi utilized macrobinoculars on Geonosis. McGregor subsequently portrayed Kenobi in Revenge of the Sith. McGregor proposed that he and the crew examine images of Alec Guinness in A New Hope to bridge the gap between their portrayals. Additionally, his hair and beard were subtly grayed to more closely resemble Guinness's depiction. The intention behind Kenobi's hair was to convey a sense of age and to signify his role as a master or teacher.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels

James Arnold Taylor lent his voice to Kenobi in both The Clone Wars film and the associated TV series, as well as in Star Wars Rebels. However, in the Star Wars Rebels third season episode titled "Twin Suns," Kenobi's voice was provided by Stephen Stanton.

The Sequel trilogy

In The Force Awakens, Taylor reprised his role as the voice of Kenobi in a brief sequence during Rey's Force vision, although this voiceover was later substituted with one from McGregor. Guinness's voice was also incorporated, with his line "Rey" extracted from audio of him saying "afraid." Both Guinness and McGregor's voices were once again featured in Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker.

Initially, Kenobi's Force spirit was intended to appear in the early drafts of the 2017 film Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi, but director Rian Johnson ultimately opted to include Yoda instead. Johnson explained that the only version of Kenobi who had interacted with Skywalker was the older Alec Guinness version, and having Luke interact with Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan would have felt unnatural, as Luke had never encountered Obi-Wan in his younger years.

Obi-Wan Kenobi television series

In 2016, McGregor expressed that he felt no strong desire to reprise his role as Kenobi, and he admitted to lacking any particular fascination with the Star Wars franchise. He suggested that this may have stemmed from his prior involvement in the films, having "seen behind the curtain." He added that the movies no longer held the same sense of wonder for him. However, McGregor encountered numerous individuals who had grown up with the prequels and conveyed the films' significance to them. McGregor appreciated this "wave of positivity," which stirred something within him.

In various interviews, McGregor conveyed his openness to returning as Kenobi in Star Wars, although he worried that he was being too forthcoming. He openly stated his willingness to portray Kenobi if Lucasfilm desired, leading some to believe that he was "touting for work at Disney's door." Public perception suggested that McGregor was eager to reprise the role of Kenobi. In 2018, a meeting was convened to assess the actor's genuine interest in portraying Kenobi in an Obi-Wan Kenobi film, envisioned as part of a series of standalone movies separate from the Skywalker saga. Lucasfilm's then head of story Kiri Hart and others present at the meeting acknowledged McGregor's expressed willingness, but Hart sought clarification as to whether he was sincere or simply being polite. They directly inquired whether McGregor was committed to the project, to which he affirmed his involvement. Subsequently, Lucasfilm commenced active development on an Obi-Wan Kenobi film, with Stephen Daldry slated to direct. McGregor was to serve as a producer, affording him greater influence over the narrative. He envisioned Kenobi initially as a broken, faithless individual, with the film depicting his journey back to wholeness. At some point, McGregor underwent testing for the film.

When Stuart Beattie presented his three Obi-Wan Kenobi story ideas to Lucasfilm, he outlined three distinct stages of character development necessary for Obi-Wan to evolve into Ben. The initial story centered on surrendering to the will of the Force, while the second explored Kenobi's acceptance of his own mortality. Lucasfilm and McGregor endorsed the concept of a trilogy. In a subsequent meeting, Beattie articulated that his two primary ideas for the project involved Kenobi departing Tatooine and confronting Darth Vader. However, he was informed that neither of these scenarios could occur, prompting him to reference Return of the Jedi, wherein Vader acknowledges that Kenobi once believed there was still good within him. Beattie argued that this notion had not been established in Revenge of the Sith, convincing them of his point. He further asserted that audiences needed to believe that Vader had extinguished Anakin Skywalker. This persuaded the team to enlist Beattie to pen the script for the first of three Kenobi feature films. A central aim of his storytelling was to depict Kenobi's journey towards accepting that Anakin Skywalker had been consumed by Vader.

Beattie conceived of Vader as being consumed by an obsession with Kenobi and a thirst for revenge. From the outset of Beattie's narrative, Emperor Palpatine would urge Vader to disregard Kenobi and prioritize present concerns. In one scene, Palpatine dispatched Vader to quell a rebel uprising as he attempted to suppress his fixation on Kenobi. Vader asserted to Palpatine that Kenobi and Yoda posed the greatest threats, prompting Palpatine to express his displeasure and remind Vader of his subordinate position. When Cody entered a town on Tatooine, he would corner Kenobi in an alley and threaten him with a knife. Eventually, it would be revealed that Cody had undergone the removal of his inhibitor chip, enabling him to resist the urge to hunt Kenobi. Cody then evolved into Kenobi's "secret buddy," with both grappling with overwhelming guilt. Beattie's concept involved Kenobi entrusting Cody with the care of Luke Skywalker upon his departure from Tatooine. Cody was envisioned as a means of illustrating Kenobi's detachment from the Force, stemming from his imposition of his will upon young Skywalker, akin to Superman's loss of powers in the 1980 film Superman II. Beattie intended for Kenobi to relinquish control and surrender to the will of the Force, facilitating the resurgence of his powers in a climactic moment mirroring Superman's restoration of abilities in the aforementioned film.

Beattie introduced the Inquisitor Reva to provide the Jedi with an adversary to defeat or redeem, given his inability to save Vader. Kenobi revealed to the Inquisitor Reva that Vader was, in fact, Anakin Skywalker, prompting her to realize the error of her ways. Reva then falsely informed Vader that she had killed Kenobi, leading him to kill the Inquisitor. This action ultimately spared Kenobi and extinguished Vader's obsession with the Jedi. Vader and Kenobi would engage in a duel aboard a space station teetering on the brink of collapse within the atmosphere of a massive planet. The entire narrative would culminate in Kenobi removing or slashing Vader's helmet, leaving him with a scar. Vader would then force Kenobi off the station, preventing him from locating Kenobi. Witnessing Skywalker's face would solidify Kenobi's belief that Vader had extinguished Anakin Skywalker. Beattie deemed it crucial to separate the two during the duel, as he believed Kenobi would have killed Vader if given the opportunity. By the conclusion of the story, Vader would presume Kenobi to be dead, thereby explaining why Vader ceased his pursuit of Kenobi and justifying his surprise upon discovering that his former master was still alive in A New Hope. Following the disappointing box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story, the decision was made to discontinue the production of spin-off films, leading to Beattie's departure from the project.

On September 27, 2019, StarWars.com revealed that Deborah Chow would helm the Obi-Wan Kenobi television series, with Hossein Amini serving as the writer. As the production team assembled, aiming for a summer 2020 production start date, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy voiced concerns regarding the trajectory of the scripts. While the team aspired to craft a hopeful and uplifting narrative, they encountered challenges due to Kenobi's somber state following the events of Revenge of the Sith. Amini was subsequently replaced by writer Joby Harold, who expressed a long-standing fascination with Kenobi. Upon learning that the series would delve into Kenobi's character, Harold aggressively shared his ideas with the team. Harold adapted Stuart Beattie's scripts into a six-hour series. Harold and Chow devised a new narrative set a decade after Revenge of the Sith. Kenobi was depicted as a disillusioned and broken man, burdened by guilt for Anakin Skywalker's fate in Revenge of the Sith. The series aimed to chronicle Kenobi's transformation from despair to a semblance of peace. Harold sought to explore Kenobi's journey between McGregor's portrayal and Guinness's depiction of the character. Chow emphasized that the series would focus on Ben Kenobi's identity rather than his Jedi persona. Chow acknowledged that the team inherited elements of the original plot but implemented significant alterations and introduced new elements.

A primary objective was to decelerate the pace of the narrative to imbue the imagery with greater significance, particularly in articulating Kenobi's character arc. Consequently, the first episode's concluding image featured Kenobi's lightsaber on his hip. This objective also informed the second episode's ending, wherein Kenobi held his lightsaber without wielding it, underscoring the weapon's symbolic importance. Harold sought a catalyst compelling enough to prompt Kenobi to depart Tatooine, leading him to introduce young Leia Organa as a call to action for Kenobi. She was intended to evoke a maternal instinct within Kenobi, challenging his adherence to rigid principles. She was also intended to reveal his humanity and to foster his trust in others. Drawing inspiration from director J.J. Abrams' advice, Harold determined that Jedi utilizing the Force should be a momentous and earned event, resulting in Kenobi refraining from using the Force until he rescued Organa from a fall in the second episode. He drew inspiration from the films Paper Moon and Midnight Run in shaping Organa and Kenobi's relationship following the former's rescue on Daiyu. Harold envisioned the series commencing with Order 66 to remind the audience of Kenobi's origins and to underscore the stakes for all involved. During the writing process, Harold conceived of Kenobi learning of Anakin Skywalker's survival following their duel on Mustafar to heighten the series' dramatic tension. He first consulted Star Wars lore advisor Pablo Hidalgo to ascertain the extent of Kenobi's knowledge during the show's timeline, and he was granted permission to incorporate the scene. Harold included a duel between Kenobi and Vader in the series, reasoning that no line in A New Hope explicitly forbade it. He sought to explore the rivalry between the characters and to define the opportunities presented in their confrontation.

In preparation for reprising his role as Kenobi, McGregor watched all nine films in the Skywalker saga and delved into science fiction literature, including works by Iain M. Banks. To recapture Kenobi's voice, McGregor listened to a sound file containing all of Alec Guinness's lines from A New Hope. McGregor aimed for Kenobi to have a disheveled hairstyle and appearance to reflect his faithless and somewhat defeated state. In portraying Kenobi, he sought to emulate Alec Guinness, striving to capture his sound and essence without resorting to mere impersonation.

On the inaugural day of production, McGregor commenced filming his scenes on the Sandwhale Farm set. Kenobi's costume was designed by costume designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb. She sought to create a costume that was both recognizable to fans and indicative of Kenobi's status as a Jedi in hiding. To maintain narrative coherence, Kenobi's attire needed to align with that of other Tatooine residents, featuring simple construction and readily available colors. A "woady" blue top was incorporated to contrast with the shades of brown, beige, and cream typically associated with the Jedi. McGregor and Christensen engaged in lightsaber training for the flashback sequence depicting Kenobi and Skywalker training in the fifth episode. Both actors wore dots on their faces for de-aging technology.

Influence in popular culture

Meme culture

Within the Star Wars fandom, the line "hello there"—uttered by Obi-Wan Kenobi during his confrontation with General Grievous on Utapau in Revenge of the Sith—has evolved into an internet meme. The line initially appeared in A New Hope. The meme has even been acknowledged in official Star Wars content, with Kenobi uttering the line to raiders in Age of Republic - Obi-Wan Kenobi 1, to Luke Skywalker in Kenobi Part VI, and to stormtrooper JM-909 in Obi-Wan 5. The line was prominently featured in The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special, a non-canon Disney+ special in which Kenobi is voiced by Taylor.

Ulica Obi-Wana Kenobiego

Ulica Obi-Wana Kenobiego ("Obi-Wan Kenobi's Street") is a street located in the town of Grabowiec, Poland, which was named in honor of Kenobi in April 2005. The initiative to name the street was spearheaded by Leszek Budkiewicz, a Star Wars enthusiast and a member of the Community Council. His proposal was ratified by the Lubicz Community Council in resolution XXVIII/373/04 of December 30, 2004, and took effect fourteen days thereafter. Since its inception, the street has become a focal point for fan activities, hosting large-scale fan conventions drawing attendees from across Europe.

In May 2008, Polish fans received correspondence from Stephen J. Sansweet and Mary Franklin representing Lucasfilm, containing a congratulatory message and official recognition of the street. The street has been visited by Star Wars actors Gerald Home and Paul Blake in 2008.

LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures

In the non-canon series LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures Season One episode, "Crossing Paths," Kenobi's voice was provided by Michael Donovan. Kenobi later made a holographic appearance in "Duel of Destiny."