| “ | Being an Inquisitor taught me no set-back is too great. When you've already lost yourself, a limb's easy. You know, I was a Jedi. It'd be fun to bring you in. Watch you crack like the rest of us! | „ |
| ~ The Ninth Sister to Cal Kestis. |
| “ | You can't stop the Empire. | „ |
| ~ The Ninth Sister's most famous quote before being defeated by Cal on Kashyyyk. |
Masana Tide, better known as the Ninth Sister, is a supporting antagonist in the Star Wars franchise. She is a female Dowutin who served as an Inquisitor during the early stages of the Galactic Empire's reign. She accompanied Darth Vader, the Sixth Brother, and the Tenth Brother to the planet Mon Cala to hunt an enemy of the Empire.
Since her hand was severed at the beginning of the Imperial Era, she has been an enemy of Cal Kestis for 6 years until her death with Kestis' final duel in 9 BBY.
She was voiced and motion-captured by Misty Lee, who also voiced The Sorceress in Spyro Reignited Trilogy.
Biography[]
Background[]
A Force-sensitive female Dowutin served as an Inquisitor in 19 BBY. She originally had ties with the Jedi Order before falling to the dark side. As a Jedi, Masana Tide specialized in using the Force to connect with the emotions of others, but the torture and trauma that brought her to the dark side robbed her of that bliss. Shortly after the Empire began its reign, she joined the Inquisitorius program under Darth Sidious and Darth Vader. In the Inquisitorius program, she trained with the Fifth Brother, the Sixth Brother, the Seventh Sister, the Eighth Brother, and the Grand Inquisitor. She trained at the Works on Coruscant.
During her training with Darth Vader shortly after the Dark Lord learned about the Inquisitorius, she suffered severe injuries and had to be tended to by a 2-1B Surgical Droid. While many of the other Inquisitors lost limbs in their training, Ninth Sister actually lost her eye to her new master Vader. Instead, her talents became twisted toward the arts of interrogation and forcing information out of others. She was perhaps the clearest example of the twisted influence the dark side had on former Jedi.
Mission to Cabarria[]
Later, she accompanied Darth Vader on a mission to Cabaria in the Colonies Region. Vader ordered her to wait outside the bar he was going into while he investigated inside for a family of bounty hunters unless he called her. The bounty hunters had taken a bounty on Vader and soon enough, Vader had had his lightsaber destroyed, only having the crystal surviving. He ordered the Ninth Sister to bring him her lightsaber but she ignored it, staying outside.
When Vader left the bar, the Inquisitor was being held at gunpoint by Ramat Cha, who had acquired and started up a speeder. The family, however escaped, leaving the Ninth Sister there. As Vader walked out of what was left of the bar, he accused her of trying to get him killed to which she denied. She also told him that she did not place the bounty upon his head, saying that maybe one of the other Inquisitors had done so. He then told her to wait there and that if she fled, he would kill her.
Back to Coruscant[]
Later, she accompanied Darth Vader back to Coruscant. When they tried to transit their clearance codes to land, they discovered their transmitter was jammed. A missile platform then fired on them which Darth Vader was able to evade all but one with his piloting skills. The one that hit the caused them to crash land on Coruscant.
Mon Cala[]
The Ninth Sister and two other Inquisitor, the Sixth Brother and the Tenth Brother, arrived in Mon Cala.
In 18 BBY, the Ninth Sister went to Mon Cala with the Sixth Brother, Darth Vader, and the Tenth Brother. She showed Commander Ackbar the jurisdiction for her and her landing party to investigate the planet for a Jedi. Behind them, Ambassador Telvar's shuttle exploded with him in it, giving them more reason to investigate. During the Battle in Bel City, the Tenth Brother is killed by the Purge Troopers when Ferren Barr, the Jedi who chased him with his fellow Inquisitors, orders to them to execute the Order 66.
The Sixth Brother and the Ninth Sister resist them but, not wanting to die, the Sixth Brother betrays the Ninth Sister as cutting her right leg, to that she buy enough time to that he escape, claming mockingly that she has always been his favorite. Enraged, the Ninth Sister swears that she will have her revenge on him. She survives and kills all Purge Troopers (except one who is revealed to survive).
Hunting Cal Kestis[]
In 14 BBY after, the Ninth Sister succeeds to escape of Mon Cala, learning the Sixth Brother's fate, gains a cybernetic right leg and accompanies the Second Sister to chase another Jedi: Cal Kestis.
She meets him a first time on Bracca with the Second Sister but he succeesfully escaped. Later, the Ninth Sister finds Cal on Kashyyyk, chasing him down with her ship before the ship was seemingly attacked by a Shyyyo Bird. After the Padawan used the creature to reach the Origin Tree, she reappeared wounding the bird and jumping out of her ship to engage in a lightsaber duel claiming that she would be able to kill him quickly.
The battle resulted in one of her hands being cut off, however, the Ninth Sister just uses the Force to take the lightsaber into her other hand and continued fighting, while sadistically threatening to turn the young Jedi into another Inquisitor which ended with her being Force pushed off the tree branch they were fighting on.
Sometime after her duel, the Ninth Sister acquired a prosthetic arm to replace her severed one.
Last duel and death[]
In 9 BBY, the Ninth Sister would attempt to hunt down Cal on Coruscant, who had disguised as a prisoner while his team, led by Bode Akuna, disguised as Coruscant police officers in order to infiltrate Senator Daho Sejan's ship to steal classified Imperial intel. After Cal mind-tricked the Pau'an senator to give up the intel, which revealed how far the Empire has control of the galaxy, the Ninth Sister arrived and kills Sejan as punishment for giving up classified information, before ordering her stormtroopers to attack.
The Ninth Sister and Cal Kestis once again and also the last duel.
Amidst the skirmish, Cal would force the gunship the Ninth Sister was on to crash-land on a landing platform, where he and the Inquisitor engaged in a lightsaber duel. After slashing through her armor, Cal called out to the Ninth Sister using her real name, Masana Tide, trying to convince her to turn back to the light side. Unmoved, the injured and furious Ninth Sister made one last attempt on Cal's life by charging at him, only for the young Jedi to dodge her attack and brought his own blade down the Dowutin's neck, decapitating her and ending her life.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- Darth Vader
- Stormtroopers
- Inquisitorius
Enemies[]
- Cal Kestis (Killer and attempted victim)
- Cere Junda
- BD-1
- Tensu Run
- Pan Delesec
Quotes[]
| “ | One gal might be good with a lightsaber. Another could influence even the strongest of minds. Me, though? I'm the sensitive type. I was always good at reading emotions, and now that I'm touching the dark side, I'm even better. | „ |
| ~ The Ninth Sister to Darth Vader. |
| “ | What's this? A Bracca scrap rat playing Jedi? I told The Grand Inquisitor you wouldn't be stupid enough to show you're face here again. Especially after we wiped out that feeble resistance. [sigh] Love it when I'm wrong. | „ |
| ~ The Ninth Sister upon discovering Cal Kestis on Kashyyyk. |
| “ | Found you again! [Cal: You're done hurting this world.] I don't know what's got Second Sister thinking you're so important. She likes her souvenirs but... I'm not in it for the memories and honestly... you're not worth my time. So let's make this quick. | „ |
| ~ The Ninth Sister confronting Cal Kestis on top of the Origin Tree. |
| “ | Ninth Sister: Not bad for trash.
Cal Kestis: What about for a Jedi? Ninth Sister: Is there a difference? |
„ |
| ~ The Ninth Sister taunting Cal Kestis. |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- After defeating her, the player unlocks a Database entry about the duel which implies that she survived the fall from the Origin Tree. This was confirmed by her return in Jedi: Survivor.
- Due to her large size, the Ninth Sister's previous lightsaber as a Jedi would be a great lightsaber or a lightclub. Her Inquisitor lightsaber is also larger than the rest of the Inquisitor's.
- Her Legend counterpart is likely Gorc, a mutated Gamorrean who is part of the Seven Dark Jedi lead by an Inquisitor named Jerc. Gorc also carries a great lightsaber.
