In the later days of the Republic, the ranks of the Jedi Order were commanded by a High Council of Jedi Masters who met in a towering temple on the planet Coruscant. These twelve Jedi sat in a circle to contemplate matters of the Force and dispatch Knights to scattered crises across the galaxy.
One of these Jedi Masters was Plo Koon. Koon was an alien Jedi whose face wascovered with a forked facemask. His well-muscled humanoid form filled out the traditional Jedi robes. Koon was present on the Council when Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn presented Anakin Skywalker as a prospective Jedi candidate. He also served the Council a decade later when the Jedi faced one of their greatest conflicts: the Clone Wars. Plo Koon was present at the first battle site of the Clone Wars, fighting against Geonosians and battle droid forces in the middle of the Geonosian arena. Koon served faithfully as a general on many battlefronts in the years that followed.
