Firith Mobak

"You'd help me more by not giving in."

Firith Mobak was a Jedi Master stationed at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. He was a male Twi'lek in his mid-forties, with pale green skin and darker green eyes. Short and slight for a Twi'lek male, he would be the first to jokingly acknowledge his relative lack of physical prowess compared to other Jedi. Indeed, he was well known around the temple for rarely carrying his lightsaber as he went about his duties.

Character Background
Firith spent his entire life since infancy at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, where he was raised alongside Lilikai Singan. As younglings, Firith and Lilikai befriended a slightly older padawan, Damasa Kovani. Their friendship continued into adulthood as the three Jedi Knights traveled the Outer Rim hunting artifacts together. As tensions built within the group due to Damasa's visions of a doomed future and her growing philosophical differences with Lilikai, Firith often tried and failed to make peace, torn between his sympathy for Damasa's way of thinking and his loyalty to Lilikai and the Jedi Order. After Damasa predicted Lilikai's eventual fall to the dark side and the two of them stopped speaking, Firith attempted to maintain a connection to Damasa but lost touch with her as well.

Motivated by Damasa's urgings to "find what matters and make sure it survives," Firith used a variety of Force-related objects he had collected along with Lilikai and Damasa to construct the artifact. He did this despite lacking extensive mechanical skills and likely did not know what he was doing or how to replicate his own methods. The artifact eventually became the key to a full backup of everything in the Jedi Archives; it is unclear whether this is actually what he was trying to accomplish.

Firith ultimately became a Jedi Master whose primary focus was teaching and research. His notoriously disorganized office was always stuffed full of many half-completed projects. As a Jedi Consular, his duties at the Temple included instructing padawans, particularly in the history of the Jedi, the philosophy of the Force, and certain Force abilities. Vesper Syl'tine, Somi Amersu, and Efnir Kis all studied these subjects under him at various times during their Jedi training.

Nawah Masin befriended Firith after she established herself on Coruscant. He hired her to serve as a negotiator on various missions during the Clone Wars. Firith knew of Nawah's severing from the Force and was trying without success to figure out a way to restore her connection at the time of his death.

Firith also hired Brawln to investigate Nimm Sato's murder at the hands of the Mirror on Coruscant.

During the Game
Firith was fatally shot by clone troopers during the Great Jedi Purge. The fact that he had (perhaps inadvertently) sacrificed his Force abilities to the artifact in the process of its construction likely contributed to his swift death. With his dying actions, he entrusted the PCs with the artifact he had constructed and told them to give it to Damasa. Firith's body vanished when he died as he apparently became one with the Force.

Holovids of Firith were later inadvertently found recorded on the artifact by Efnir and Vic Dantor.

While Efnir, Somi, Vesper, and Rhen worked together to connect to the artifact through the Force, they made contact with an entity inside it who claimed to be Firith. The Firith inside the artifact did not initially know that he was dead. He reiterated that the PCs should bring the artifact to Damasa and only to Damasa, saying that it was unsafe for anyone else to have it (including, possibly, the PCs themselves) because "everything [Damasa] ever predicted came true." The PCs' rapid-fire questioning seemed to overwhelm him, but before they were forced to break their connection they learned that Zernvik Akawoi might know where Damasa was because "she told him things she never told the rest of us." Later interactions with this entity have suggested that it is not a true Force ghost of Firith (at least, it talks about Firith as if Firith was a separate being), but some sort of residual interface left behind in the artifact construction process.

Soundtrack
Firith's theme song is "Pushing the Needle Too Far" by Indigo Girls:

Now I met the queen and I understand Why she closed the door I'm not making excuses But you know I've been there a few times You know I was I was knocking on the door I said I think I know what's wrong... We've all been removed In one way or another We don't know our families We don't need our brothers