Ninth Sister
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Ninth Sister
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- "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[7]
TheNinth Sister, formerly known asMasana Tide, was afemaleDowutinInquisitor who once served as aJedi Knight in theJedi Order during theClone Wars before being captured by theGalactic Empire. After her capture, she was subjected to torture and mutilation before falling to theDark Side and undergoing training byThe Grand Inquisitor, and briefly byDarth Vader, to become a skilledJedi hunter. One of her first missions during the earlydays of theImperial Era, the NinthSisteraccompaniedDarth Vader, theSixth Brother, and theTenth Brother to theplanetMon Cala tohunt theJediPadawanFerren Barr. Later, she accompanied theSecond Sister tohunt down the fugitive PadawanCal Kestis, whodefeated her in aduel onKashyyyk. She survived the duel and went on tohunt downTensu Run with theSeventh Sister, but was ultimately killed by Kestis in9 BBY during abattle on Coruscant.
Biography[]
Fallen Jedi[]
- "Just wait 'til the isolation! Torture! Mutilation!"
- ―The Ninth Sister[7]

The Ninth Sister was a part of the Inquisitorius
ADowutin from the[1]planet[10]Dowut,[1] Masana Tide was aJedi Knight[3] of theJedi Order,[11] and was trained by aMaster.[9] In19 BBY,[12]Darth Sidious enactedOrder 66,[13] a directive in thebehavioral modification biochips within theGalactic Republic'sclone troopers[14] to wipe out theJedi.[13] Tide was one of the few survivors of the event,[8] however[7] she[4] was captured by Sidious'Galactic Empire and wastortured until she cracked. Indoctrinated into the teachings of thedark side of the Force[7] as part of the Empire'sInquisitorius program, she was given the position ofInquisitor and retitled as the NinthSister.[6]
That sameyear,[15] the Ninth Sister was trained alongside theSeventh Sister,Fifth Brother,Sixth Brother, andEighth Brother bythe Grand Inquisitor in theInquisitorius Headquarters on the planet[6]Coruscant.[16] They soon fell under the command ofDarth Vader whenDarth Sidious introduced the Inquisitorius to Vader, who continued their training in the ways of the dark side.[6] During one training session with Vader, theSith Lord[8] took out the Ninth Sister's lefteye,[5] as a lesson of loss.[8]
Assassination attempts[]
- "I should be here by myself, checking it out, sending back a report."
- ―The Ninth Sister questions Vader's presence for the mission[5]
Sometime later, the Ninth Sisteraccompanied Vader to[5] the planet[17]Cabarria, in order to investigate claims that an individual had utilizedthe Force and alightsaber to get out of a fight within one of the planet'sbars. Before entering the establishment, she read Vader the report from adatapad. She questioned Vader on his presence for the matter, as there had been many recent Jedi reports that had turned out as misjudgments. She exclaimed that she should have been the one checking it out and sending back a report. Vader told the Ninth Sister that she should be pleased with his assistance and in their following trade of words, she deduced that Vader was there in case they got lucky and found a Jedi.[5]
Vader told the Ninth Sister to remain outside thebar unless he called upon her, and the Sister quietly stated her thoughts that Vader was a "sadistic monster." Once Vader entered the bar, a family ofbounty hunters known as theChasattacked theDark Lord. They had taken abounty on Vader unknowingly placed by someone from the very heart of theRepublic Executive Building on Coruscant. They set off anion grenade to disable everyone weapons but their own and destroyed his lightsaber, leading Vader to contact the Ninth Sister to request her to bring himher lightsaber. However, the Ninth Sister ignored the call, blaming the ion pulse for frying hercomm.[5]

Vader used the Ninth Sister's lightsaber to kill the Chas parents.
Eventually, the family was forced to withdraw from the fight as theirray shields would eventually run out, and Vader had begun killing the patrons of the bar to prevent the family from attacking him. As theassassins fled the bar, they held the Ninth Sister atblaster point until family memberRamat Cha acquired and started up aspeeder bike. After the family escaped, Vader arrived and accused the Ninth Sister of attempting to have him killed. The Ninth Sister told Vader that she had not been the one to place the bounty, suggesting to Vader that one of the other Inquisitors may have done so. Vader used the Force to take her lightsaber and ordered the Ninth Sister to remain outside the bar until he returned from dealing with the bounty hunters, stating that he wouldkill her if she attempted to flee. Vader then piloted a nearbyspeeder, chased down, and interrogated the Chas family. He used the Ninth Sister's lightsaber to kill Ramat andBhada Cha, but spared their daughterChanath Cha.[5]
The Ninth Sister then traveled with Vader back to Coruscant aboard hispersonalstarship, when theirtransmitter was jammed, halting their ability to send clearance codes to the surface. This caused Coruscant's defenses to mobilize and firemissiles at their ship. The Ninth Sister was unable to shake them off, so Vader took control of the ship. They were hit by one of the missiles, and they managed to crash land on Coruscant. Vader then ordered Ninth Sister to stay with the ship whilst he dealt with the matter at hand. Vader uncovered ImperialcolonelBarokki as one of the individuals who placed the bounty on him, and executed him and four others in front of the other high ranking Imperials.[18]
Mission to Mon Cala[]
Battle of Dac City[]
- "Landing pad clear, Lord Vader."
"Good." - ―The Ninth Sister and Darth Vader[19]

The Inquisitors assist Vader during the battle of Dac City
In18 BBY,[20] a large group of Imperials was sent to the[21] planet[22]Mon Cala, also known as Dac, in order to assist Darth Vader in an investigation, seeking to discover whether apossibleJedi had been influencingKing of Mon CalaLee-Char's negotiations. Arriving in aZeta-class shuttle, the Ninth Sister, Vader, the Sixth Brother, and theTenth Brother landed inDac City. Alongside the three Inquisitors, were fourteenPurge Troopers,[21] aspecialized force ofstormtroopers who worked alongside the Inquisitorius.[23]
Upon their exiting of the ship, Ninth Sister was confronted by theking'sChief of Security,Gial Ackbar. Ackbar asked of their business and Ninth Sister gave him a writ that legally protected the Inquisitors from harm. Ackbar told her it was an outrage and she told him to take it up with Vader as he departed from their ship. TheMon Calamari continued questioning the Imperials for their business on Mon Cala, until Vader explained to him they were searching for a possible enemy of the Empire on Mon Cala. Ackbar denied the possibility but as he said that, ashuttle carrying the Empire'sambassador to thewaterworld,Telvar exploded, killing all on board. Vader and the Inquisitors passed Ackbar and walked down from the landing pad.
The ambassador's death promptedGovernorWilhuff Tarkin to sendImperial forces down to Mon Cala.[21] As ImperialTIE fighters, theMon Calamari Guard began defending theircities, and theBattle of Dac City begun. The Inquisitors, Purge Troopers, and Vader struck down the Mon Calatroops present on a landing pad and secured the area. Ninth Sister asked Vader where they were to go next and he told her that they were heading to thecity's palace. She then asked him if why they would find the Jedi there, to which Vader said they were there for Lee-Char, hoping they could obtain the Jedi's location from him.[19]
After slaying several more guards, the group entered the palace where they found Lee-Char. Under Vader's command, the Ninth Sister used the Force to attempt toextract the Jedi's location from the King. Before long however, a school oflarge creatures rose through thesea level, generating a wave large enough to rip through the city. The other two Inquisitors attempted to hold it thewater, and Vader joined them, but the wave was too strong.[19] The Ninth Sister and the others were swept away[24] and Vader fell into the waters below.[19]
Hunting the Jedi[]
- "The King, then. Is Lee-Char dead?"
"We…don't know. The King was swept away when the tidal wave hit. But it's not all bad. I got Lee-Char to give me the Jedi's location. We know exactly where he is." - ―Darth Vader and the Ninth Sister[24]
The Ninth Sister survived the wave, as did the Inquisitors and all but two of theirtroopers. They took anImperial submarine and found Vader in the ocean'sGreat Ungeness Trench as he fought a largesquid-like creature. Vader asked of Lee-Char and the Ninth Sister said they didn't know but then told him that she had obtained the Jedi's location. They set a course for the location immediately.[24]

Barr turns the Purge Troopers' against the Ninth Sister.
As they reached the location, they caught the Jedi and his six disciples evacuating theirrefuge, having known that Vader and the Inquisitors were on their way. The group of them scattered, excludingone who attacked thesubmarine with his blaster. Vader crushed the acolyte'shelmet and they began pursuing the others.Another disciple sacrificed himself to slow them down. The submarine kept going despite this and soon reachedBel City where two more disciples waited to slow the group down. As they marched down the corridors, Vader received a transmission from Tarkin, with a request to capture the King in return for a favor at some later date. Vader acquiesced and ordered the rest of the squad to continue as planned while he went to find the King. The Inquisitors did as instructed and continued to find the Jedi and his last two disciples at a dead end. Sixth Brother cutone of them down and the Jedi came forward to confront them.[25]

The Purge Troopers' attack caused the Ninth Sister to lose a leg to the Sixth Brother due to his cowardly betrayal.
After an exchange of words with the Jedi, whom the Ninth Sister identified as Ferren Barr, he revealed that he not only knew that they were all former Jedi but knew the role the clones played in the destruction of the Jedi Order. The Ninth Sister rebuffed all of this saying that their past no longer affected them. Barr stated otherwise, saying that despite their turn to the dark side they were still Jedi underneath. Barr then used amind trick on the clones, telling them to execute Order 66.[25]
Barr's mind trick worked and the clonesturned on the three Inquisitors. After Tenth Brother was shot fatally in the chest, BarrForce jumped over the fight between the Inquisitors and clones with his acolyteVerla, escaping through the only exit. Wanting to chase after them, Ninth Sister and the Sixth Brother used their combined strength toForce push the clones out of the way, with most of them falling off the deck. As the two began to make their way out, Sixth Brother betrayed Ninth Sister,severing her leg and leaving her behind as a distraction for the remaining clones so he could escape. As the Sixth Brother ran off mockingly wishing her good luck, Ninth Sister swore she would get her revenge on him.[26] However, the Ninth Sister never got the chance as the Brother was killed by the former JediPadawanAhsoka Tano on themoon ofRaada during the latter's quest forpower sources for hernew lightsabers.[27]
Hunting Cal Kestis[]
First encounter on Bracca[]
- "I found the Jedi."
- ―The Ninth Sister[7]

The Ninth Sister accompanied the Second Sister to Bracca seeking a Jedi.
Having survived her fight on Dac, the Ninth Sister was given acybernetic rightleg.[7] Four years later, in14 BBY,[28] an ImperialViper probe droid on theScrapper Guild'sShipbreaking Yard on the planetBracca, captured apotential Jedi posing as ascrapper using the Force to save afellow scrapper. The event came to the attention of the Inquisitorius, and the Ninth Sister traveled to the planet alongside theSecond Sister and a group of Purge Troopers.[7]
Halting atrain carrying members of the Guild, the Second Sister confronted the passengers. Landing in herTIE/rp Reaper attack lander, the Ninth Sister watched as the Second Sister told the scrappers of the Jedi fugitive and threatened theexecution of the whole group if the Jedi was not turned over. As the Purge Troopers took aim at the group, theAbednedo Prauf, whom the Jedi had saved, spoke out, shaming the Empire as a whole for overworking the Scrapper Guild. The Second Sister then stabbed Prauf with herlightsaber, and scrapper Cal Kestis reacted by trying to cut her down with hislightsaber, revealing himself as the Jedi. She blocked the Jedi's attack andlifted him with the Force, throwing him to the Ninth Sister. The Ninth Sister then held him above a ledge, proclaiming that she found the Jedi, before Cal ignited his lightsaber and lashed out, causing her to drop him in surprise.[7]
Kestis, however, survived the fall and landed onto another train. As he proceeded towards the front of the train, the Ninth Sister, in her ship, shot at the tracks, causing the train to fall. After Kestis was able to find safety on the platform of aRetired Control Tower, the Second Sister confronted him and the twodueled, but he escaped when former JediCere Junda, aboard theStinger Mantisluxury yacht, intervened and extracted him before the Second Sister could finish him off.[7]
Duel on Kashyyyk[]
- "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[7]
Since the encounter on Bracca, the Second Sister dedicated her time to hunting Kestis while the Ninth Sister struggled to see why she found him so important. After his rescue by Junda, Kestis and the fellow members of theStinger Mantis crew began asecret mission to rebuild the Jedi Order. This led the Jedi to thejungle planetKashyyyk in order toseek out theWookieechieftanTarfful. Unexpectedly, Kestis found himself fighting alongside resistance fighterSaw Gerrera's rebel cell of thePartisans in an assault on the Imperial holding of the planet. After having set up a later meeting with Tarfull, Kestis left the planet and the Second and Ninth Sisters took part in a counter attack to drive Gerrera off-world. The Ninth Sister toldthe Grand Inquisitor that she did not believe Kestis would return to the world. She was proven wrong when Kestis returned and began climbing the sacred WookieeOrigin Tree, after Tarfful notified Kestis of the presence of anastrium at the top, objects created by the ancientZeffonianspecies which Kestis had been seeking out.[7]
From the ramp of herTIE Reaper, the Ninth Sister confronted Cal within adeserted Wookiee village at the top of the tree, expressing her feelings of his return to Kashyyyk. She then proceeded to chase him in her ship, shooting at the Jedi Padawan periodically with the ship'sL-s9.3 laser cannons. However, a member of the endangeredShyyyo bird appeared and attacked the Ninth Sister's ship, driving it away from Kestis.[7]

The Ninth Sister attacks Kestis atop the Origin Tree.
After having driven the Ninth Sister away, the Shyyyo bird began helping Kestis climb the OriginTree after he tended to one of its wounds. When they were at the bird's nest, however, the Ninth Sister attacked, injuring the Shyyyo bird and confronting Kestis. Jumping onto the tree, she expressed her desire to kill him quickly, believing him to be an unworthy opponent. The pair then engaged in a fierce duel, the Ninth Sister using just one blade. Kestis was able to slash the visor of the Sister'shelmet, temporarily disorienting her. She thenpushed him away as she jumped back. Feeling her visor to check its state, she remarked to Kestis that he wasn't bad for "trash," before igniting the second blade of her saber. The two continued dueling until Kestis finally gained the upper hand in a bladelock and severed the Ninth Sister's right hand. While initially stunned by the loss, the Ninth Sister quickly rallied and attempted to distract Kestis with a monologue over how the loss of a limb was nothing to an Inquisitor who had already lost themselves while secretly levitating her lightsaber behind him.
The Ninth Sister continued to fight Kestis, expressing her wish to turn Kestis into an Inquisitor through torture like she and the other former Jedi while also threatening to kill his friends and admonishing him for even thinking he was capable of stopping the Empire. The attempt at vocally breaking the young Jedi failed, however, as Kestis swiftly leapt over her and slashed her in the back. The Dowutin quickly turned and made to charge him only for Kestis to knock her back with a Force push, sending her falling out of the nest,[7] though she ultimately survived.[3]
Whilst atop the Origin Tree, Kestis communicated with Junda back on theMantis, asking her if she had known the Ninth Sister before the Jedi Purge. Cere responded in the negative, stating that she could only guess what she had been like before. Kestis then discussed the Ninth Sister's perspective on fighting the Empire and how hopeless it would ultimately turn out. Junda then mentioned her theory that most Inquisitors were former Jedi who had been turned via fear and torture, emphasizing the temptation of giving into absolutes under the suffering caused by the Empire. Kestis acknowledged the possibility of her theory, mentioning the Ninth Sister's enthusiasm in making others suffer.[7]
This section of the article assumes 100% game completion ofStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Any alternate stories may be noted in the "Behind the scenes" section. The events in this section may or may not have been confirmed ascanon. |
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When Kestis spoke toGreez Dritus while standing just outside theMantis on Kashyyyk, Dritus brought up Kestis' impressive feat in outrunning a TIEfighter. Kestis then mentioned that it had carried the Ninth Sister, a revelation which horrified Dritus who brought up the ramifications of more Inquisitors like the Second Sister coming after them.[7]
Upon Kestis' return to the Mantis directly after his fight with the Ninth Sister, Kestis sat down with the crew and discussed the results of his mission, believing he had killed the Inquisitor. He talked about how the Second Sister had left the planet and how he had defeated the Ninth Sister. Kestis also discussed the Ninth Sister's view that becoming an Inquisitor was practically inevitable. Kestis pointed out that Cere's experience in going through the same scenario that the Ninth Sister had undergone, yet still refusing to join, clearly disproved the Ninth Sister's hypothesis.[7]
Hunting a new Jedi[]

The Ninth Sister hunted Tensu Run with the Seventh Sister.
After her encounter with Kestis on Kashyyyk, the Ninth Sister was outfitted with a cybernetic right hand to replace the one he had cut off and continued her work as an Inquisitor, all the while boiling inside with a desire for revenge against the young Jedi for her defeat on Kashyyyk. In the meantime, she was reassigned by Darth Vader to aid Seventh Sister in hunting downTensu Run, who had made a name for himself by freeing the prisoners from anImperial outpost onRegis Kor and had recently sliced off Fifth Brother's left arm onGerrigon.[29]
Reencounter with Kestis and death[]
- "Your name was Masana Tide. It's time to set you free."
- ―Cal Kestis moments before decapitating the Ninth Sister[3]

The Ninth Sister killed Imperial Senator Daho Sejan for allegedly betraying the Galactic Empire.
In the time since her fight with Kestis, the Jedi had begun acrusade against the Empire.[3] In9 BBY,[2] Kestis embarked on amission to the Imperial homebase ofCoruscant, and allowed himself to be captured so his crew could extract confidential information from the Ramsidianyacht ofUtapausenatorDaho Sejan. After the crew had completed their mission and exited the yacht, the Ninth Sister shot the platform where the crew stood, from aLAAT/le patrol gunship. Backed by two othergunships, the Ninth Sister telekinetically impaled Sejan with her lightsaber and pulled him into her grip, accusing him of harboring a traitor before yanking her blade out of him and disdainfully tossing his corpse to the side. Apoplectic with fury at the sight of her nemesis, the Ninth Sister ordered her gunships to open fire on Kestis. The resulting laserfire left Kestis' crew memberGabs dead, and the Sister killed membersKoob andLizz. In a fit of rage, Cal tried to duel Ninth Sister atop the yacht, but a damaged gunship knocked him off its fuselage and intoUndercity Meats.[3]
The Ninth Sister then boarded another gunship and searched for Kestis, finally finding him as he exited Undercity Meats shortly before the crippled yacht crash landed in front of him. Determined to stop her, he fired anascension cable to board her gunship and used telekinesis to over-steer the ship so that it would roll and crash land. She then exited the ship, using her spinning lightsaber to slow her descent, and engaged Kestis in a rematch. After trading blows, she pushed him back with the Force and commented on his much-improved skill and conduct. With her remarkable ability to sense the emotions of others, she claimed to feel the pain Kestis was feeling for leading his allies to their deaths in the fight against the Empire. The duel resumed, with the Ninth Sister using her empathic powers to read Kestis' mind and predict his moves, but the Jedi Knight caught her by surprise with hisnew lightsaber's split-saber feature and slashed her across the torso. As the Ninth Sister reeled in pain from the wound, Kestis took the opportunity to call out to her by the name she had gone by when she was a Jedi Knight, something that visibly struck a nerve within the Dowutin. Kestis continued to press this, reminding her of how she was once a Jedi Knight named Masana Tide before she betrayed the Order and became an Inquisitor as the Ninth Sister became visibly more and more agitated, stalking back and forth angrily until her rage got the better of her. Roaring in anger, the Ninth Sister charged Kestis and slashed at him but he easily parried the attack and struck a blow of his own that decapitated the Inquisitor, killing her, and setting her free from her tormented existence according to Kestis.[3]
Legacy[]
In theyears following the fall of the Galactic Empire,Jedi MasterLuke Skywalker traveled the galaxy to rediscover the history of the Jedi Order that had been suppressed by the Empire.[30] In his search for knowledge, Skywalker became aware of the Ninth Sister's existence. During his self-imposed exile onAhch-To, Skywalker wrote a book he titledThe Secrets of the Jedi, which chronicled the information he had learnt on his travels. The Ninth Sister was one of several Inquisitors who were depicted in the book as illustrations, alongside information pertaining to the Inquisitorius. She was remembered in the hearts of the few Jedi that survived her rampage.[31]
Personality and traits[]
- "Not bad for trash."
"What about for a Jedi?"
"Is there a difference?" - ―The Ninth Sister and Cal Kestis during their duel on Kashyyyk[7]

The Ninth Sister after she lost her eye
A hulking individual, the Ninth Sister was a femaleDowutin[4] withbrown skin and whiteeyes, the left of which was lost during a training session with Darth Vader.[5] She had two smallhorns on her chin and her fingers had black claws on the ends. As an Inquisitor, the Ninth Sister was dangerous and imposing.[4] She was good at reading people with the Force, being able to deduce Vader's intentions of joining her on Cabarria. She later refused to assist Vader when he asked for her help in a fight with bounty hunters.[5]
Much like her fellow Inquisitorius, the Ninth Sister was a Jedi hunter who hunted down the remaining members of the Jedi Order.[8] She went to refuse any kind of remembrance and connection to the very same order to which she once belonged, believing herself to not be one of those who kept memories[7] and that the past no longer affected her.[25] The Ninth Sister was also arrogant and overconfident, as shown when she fought against the fugitive Padawan Cal Kestis on Kashyyyk, taunting him that she wouldn't like to fight herself as well and that he wasn't worthy of her time.[7]

The Ninth Sister did not give much importance to losing her right hand to Cal Kestis's blade, as Vader's brutal training taught her the lesson of loss.
Her training to become an Inquisitor was a time of torture, as she described to Cal Kestis what it was like while also pointing out her role as an Inquisitor had taught her that no setback was too great. After Kestis cut off her hand, the Ninth Sister shrugged it off after the initial shock, claiming that after one loses themself, a limb is easy, and considered taking him and threatening that he would be broken down just as she and the other Inquisitors were.[7]
Immersed in the dark side of the Force and her role as an Inquisitor, the Ninth Sister was unsettled by any reminder of her previous identity as a noble Knight of the Jedi Order, verbally lashing out at those who pushed that particular button[25] and becoming visibly agitated and angry if persistently reminded of it.[3]
Powers and abilities[]
- "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[5]

The Ninth Sister wore black armor with the Imperial logo on it.
The Ninth Sister was powerful in the Force and was a competent combatant in battle; initially she lacked the strength in combat that some of the other Inquisitors possessed although she managed to outlastTenth Brother during the fight inBel City, where she managed to fend off Purge Troopers despite losing a leg.[5] Overtime, her abilities made her distinctive in the Inquisitorius as being among the most deadliest of Inquisitors.[3]
Through the Force, she possessed extraordinarily empathic abilities to read minds, which further enhanced her mastery on the Force.[4] This ability became even more potent when she converted to the dark side of the Force. However, she lacked the strength in combat that some of the other Inquisitors possessed,[5] although her life surpassed the Tenth Brother during the fighting in Bel City.[25] She was able to successfully fend off a group of Purge troopers despite losing a leg.[26] Overtime, her abilities became powerful enough to be considered among the most deadliest inquisitors.[3]
While less agile than other Inquisitors, the Ninth Sister utilized her brute strength, massive size andJedi training to gain any advantage over her opponents.[4] She was able to put up a considerable fight against the more agile Cal Kestis on Kashyyyk, and kept on fighting despite the loss of her right hand and lightsaber wounds to her limbs and back, showing that she had high tolerance for pain.[7]
Being a skilled interrogator, Ninth Sister was able to successfullymind probe King Lee-Char of Mon Cala, for the location of a hiding Jedi, in time as a large wave swept them away soon after.[19]
Equipment[]
- "So kid, heard you outran some fancy looking TIE. Not a ship I'd want to run into outside the Mantis."
"Worse—it carried an Inquisitor. The Ninth Sister." - ―Cal Kestis and Green Dritus, on the Ninth Sister's TIE Reaper[7]

The Ninth Sister's lightsaber in crescent formation
The Ninth Sister had adouble-bladed spinning lightsaber, a type which all the Inquisitors, excluding the Tenth Brother, utilized. She wore a black helmet with two red visors covering each of her eyes. The Ninth Sister wore a black, skin-tight body suit which had silver lines trailing vertically down her chest, back and limbs. Around her waist was akama of six metal armor plates which protected her thighs. On her back, she could attach her lightsaber to keep it within arm's reach.[25] She was given a cybernetic right leg after the Sixth Brother's betrayal,[7] as well as a cybernetic right hand after her defeat against Kestis on Kashyyyk.[3] She utilized aTIE/rp Reaper attack lander as a personal transport on both Kashyyyk[7] and Coruscant.[3] The Dowutin[4] also carried aHush-98 comlink, which she once falsely claimed was fried by an ion pulse.[5]
Behind the scenes[]

Art by Jordan Lamarre-Wan forStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
The Ninth Sister first appeared, albeit unnamed, inDarth Vader (2017) 6, acomic book written byCharles Soule, illustrated byGiuseppe Camuncoli,[6] and released onOctober 4,2017.[32] Her design was credited to the aforementioned penciller Camuncoli, the inkerCam Smith, and the coloristDavid Curiel.[7]
The Ninth Sister was identified inDarth Vader (2017) 11.[5] InDarth Vader (2017) 16, the Ninth Sister and Sixth Brother's former names are revealed to be Masana Tide and Bil Valen, although the comic did not specify which character had which name.[25] The2018 reference bookStar Wars: The Dark Side later confirmed the Ninth Sister to be Masana Tide.[11] Although her former name is never mentioned directly in the2019video gameStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, an achievement is entitled "Her name was Masana Tide!" which is automatically awarded and displayed on the screen upon defeating the Ninth Sister on Kashyyyk. InFallen Order, she was voiced and motion-captured byMisty Lee.[7] Lee later reprised the role in the2023 sequelStar Wars Jedi: Survivor.[3]
Although she already had a design, the Ninth Sister's appearance was updated for the video gameJedi: Fallen Order to accommodate for the finer detail needed in the game. Efforts were made to include the features that made her design recognizable, including the raised shoulder pads, the red visor, the three chest stripes, and the layered skirt. The base material used in the design was referenced from theImperial military uniforms seen in theStar Warsoriginal trilogy. The final concept design was created byJordan Lamarre-Wan, the lead concept artist for the game. The Ninth Sister's in-game model was created by senior character artistVince Rizzi.[33]
In "Darth Maul and Other Followers of the Dark Side,"[1] a booklet in a series of reference booklets titled theStar Wars Encyclopedia, published byDe Agostini onJuly 13,2021,[34] the Ninth Sister is stated to have been killed in her fight against Cal Kestis on top of the Origin Tree on the planet Kashyyyk.[1] However, inStar Wars Jedi: Survivor, she is shown alive.[3]
Appearances[]
- Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade(andaudiobook)
- Darth Vader (2017) 6(First appearance)
- Darth Vader (2017) 7
- Darth Vader (2017) 11(First identified as Ninth Sister)
- Darth Vader (2017) 12
- Darth Vader (2017) 13
- Darth Vader (2017) 14
- Darth Vader (2017) 15
- Darth Vader (2017) 16(First identified as Masana Tide)
- Darth Vader (2017) 17
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Jedi: Battle Scars(andaudiobook)(Mentioned only)
- Inquisitors 1(Cover only)
- Inquisitors 3
- Inquisitors 4
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Star Wars (2020) 5(In flashback(s))
- Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes