The Jedi Council consisted of 12 wise and powerful
Jedi Masters who convened within the towering
Jedi Temple on
Coruscant to contemplate matters of the Force and dispatch Knights to scattered crises across the galaxy. The faces on the Council would change to meet the increasing needs of the Republic. During the events precipitating the start of the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Shaak Ti sat on the Council. She was an exotic alien female with colorful patterning decorating her flexible lekku. Shaak Ti was one of the 200 Jedi that traveled to
Geonosis on a mission to rescue captives from the growing Separatist forces. She was regarded as one of the most cunning warriors in the Jedi order.
Shaak Ti continued to serve on the Jedi Council throughout the Clone Wars. She was in the Jedi Temple the night that Darth Vader descended upon the sanctuary with a phalanx of clone troopers. The temple was gutted with laser fire as agents of the newly proclaimed Emperor brought the "treasonous" Jedi to justice. Shaak Ti was believed to be killed in the onslaught.