Grand Inquisitor (Star Wars)

The Grand Inquisitor is a male extraterrestrial character who features in Star Wars.

Biography

The Grand Inquisitor was a male Force-sensitive Pau'an who was born a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. By the time of the Clone Wars, he had served as a Sentinel in the Jedi Order and protected the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. This was until the culmination of the war when the Sith enacted their plans to take over the galaxy. As a result, a purge was conducted by the Clone Troopers who turned against their Jedi superiors in order to kill them all. In this time, a Pau'an Jedi was captured and fell to the Dark Side of the Force in the time the Galactic Republic had ended. The resultant first Galactic Empire was created where the Jedi Temple Guard came to agree to serve in it as an Inquisitor.

He came to be tasked by Darth Vader to hunt down any surviving Jedi Knights.

The Grand Inquisitor later personally travelled to Tatooine with the Fifth Brother and the Third Sister to take part in a hunt. They soon landed in Mos Eisley and the three Inquisitorius began to seek out a Jedi they were hunting. The Grand Inquisitor and his fellow Inquisitorious walked into a saloon and asked the establishment's owner if he knew who they were and what they did. The owner recognized them as Inquisitors and that they hunted Jedi, leading the Grand Inquisitor to express his point of view that actually the Jedi are the ones who "hunt themselves down," since they left a trail of compassion. He went on to inform the saloon's owner that the Inquisitorius had heard rumors about a Jedi hiding in the saloon, musing if that Jedi had come there to help with the owner's tensions with the locals in exchange for food and shelter. Just as the Grand Inquisitor began to conclude his speech, the Third Sister got tired of waiting and threw a patron's knife towards the saloon's owner. This made Nari, the Jedi they were seeking out, save him with the Force. Discovered, Nari tried to run away, but the Third Sister and the Fifth Brother cornered him. As the Grand Inquisitor ordered the Inquisitorius to prepare Nari for interrogation, the Third Sister tried to cut the Jedi down, leading the Inquisitor to stop and knock the Sister aside with the Force, enabling him to escape. As the Fifth Brother pursued Nari, the Grand Inquisitor reprimanded the Third Sister for her carelessness, warning her that if she didn't quit her fixation with finding Obi-Wan Kenobi—whom she deemed a bigger prey than 'scraps' like Nari then she would be relieved of her duties. As the Grand Inquisitor strode off into the desert, the Third Sister retorted that she considered Kenobi forgotten.

After the Third Sister hired Vect Nokru and his mercenaries to kidnap the Alderaanian Princess Leia Organa and bring her to Daiyu in hopes that Obi-Wan Kenobi would be contacted by Leia's adoptive father, Bail Organa, to rescue her, the Grand Inquisitor went to Daiyu accompanied by the Fifth Brother and the Fourth Sister so they could capture Kenobi. They met up with the Third Sister, and the Inquisitor chastised her for kidnapping a senator's daughter and for not informing him. Feeling that the Third Sister wanted to capture Kenobi to gain favor within the Inquisitorius ranks, the Grand Inquisitor reminded her how they rescued her from the 'gutter' and that she would always be the 'least' of them, leading the Sister to insult him. Unamused, the Inquisitor asked the Fifth Brother to secure the city and informed the Third Sister of his intentions to deliver Kenobi himself, dismissing her from the hunt by saying that she was no longer required and that he would deal with her once he returned from hunting Kenobi. As they secured the city, the Grand Inquisitor requested the Fifth Brother to shut down the planet's port and request a garrison within an hour. The Fourth Sister then came to him and showed him a bounty hunter alert advertising a bounty placed on Kenobi's head, leading the Grand Inquisitor to deduce that the Third Sister had once again acted behind his back. Soon afterward, two stormtroopers brought Nokru to his presence, and the Grand Inquisitor activated his lightsaber to threaten Nokru if he did not tell him where Kenobi was, knowing that he had put the bounty on Third Sister's behalf. However, Nokru knew nothing, leading the Inquisitor to kill him for his uselessness.

Not long after, the Grand Inquisitor intercepted the Third Sister as she taunted Kenobi, wishing him to come out from where he was hiding so she could deliver him personally to Lord Vader. The Inquisitor stated that he would not tolerate the 'reek' of her ambition any longer and ordered her to move aside, not wanting to lose Kenobi again, thanks to the Third Sister's recklessness. He then instructed her to watch and learn as he used the Force to move aside the crates which Kenobi was using to hide, but the Third Sister instead used her lightsaber to stab the Grand Inquisitor, mockingly asking him if he thought that she would let him take all the credit, before letting him drop to the ground. Following the purported death of the Pau'an, the Third Sister communicated with Vader via hologram. There, Reva asserted that Kenobi would pay for the Grand Inquisitor's a assumed demise, but Lord Vader responded that the Grand Inquisitor no longer meant anything. He went on to promise her the position of Grand Inquisitor to the Third Sister should she prove herself, though the Fifth Brother, who was next-in-line for the position, contested her claim. Due to her success in placing a tracker to uncover the location of the Path network and Kenobi, the Third Sister was granted the title of Grand Inquisitor. However, due to his desire for revenge, the Pau'an was able to survive his wound and recover from Reva's attack. After the Third Sister betrayed Vader during their mission on Jabiim, she was struck down by her former master. As she lay weakened on the ground, the Grand Inquisitor reappeared and revealed his survival to Reva. He told Sevander, since her rage had become tiresome, the Inquisitorius would abandon her in the gutter. He then took the pin signifying the rank of Grand Inquisitor from her, reclaiming his rank, before he and Vader left Reva for dead.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, the Grand Inquisitor was a Pau’an male with him possessing a long bald head with no hair on it. Due to his rank, he was also known as the Master of the Inquisitorius.

Through the dark side, the Grand Inquisitor was able to learn about individual Jedi and use their secrets against them.

Powers and abilities

Grand Inquisitors were also known to be skilled dark side adepts with specialized skills recognized to be above ordinary Inquisitors: the first Grand Inquisitor specialized in understanding his Jedi opponents by studying the records of the Jedi Archives from the Imperial Palace[

The weapon featured dual modes, crescent and disc, in addition to some deadly surprises. In its crescent setting, the lightsaber had a single red blade; in disc mode, a second blade emerged, and a spin feature turned the lightsaber in a blindingly fast killing tool. The Grand Inquisitor relished combat, and his weapon proved very effective at intimidating, disorienting, and dispatching his enemies.

The Inquisitor was given access to the Empire's latest technologies. The Inquisitor's TIE Advanced prototype was superior to typical TIE fighters, featuring faster engines, S-foils with more efficient solar gather panels, upgraded laser cannons, and a projectile launcher that fired Imperial XX-23 S-Thread Tracers.

Notes

• The Grand Inquisitor was created by Dave Filoni and Charles Murray where he featured in the setting of the Star Wars universe.
• The concept of a Grand Inquisitor originated from the 1987 Star Wars Sourcebook by Bill Slavicsek and Curtis Smith where the death of "Torbin, the Grand Inquisitor" was mentioned in passing.

Appearances

• Star Wars: Rebels:
• Obi-Wan Kenobi:

External Links

• Star Wars Databank Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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