Mace Windu

Mace Windu, a Force-sensitive human male, was a revered Jedi Master and member of the Jedi High Council during the last years of the Galactic Republic. During his time in the Jedi Order, he once served as elected leader of the Jedi and, during the Clone Wars, as a Jedi General in the Grand Army of the Republic. He was the greatest champion of the Jedi Order and promoted its ancient traditions amidst the growing influence of the dark side of the Force in the corrupt, declining days of the Republic.

When the Separatist Crisis spawned the birth of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and sparked the Clone Wars, Windu and the Jedi rallied to the defense of the Republic and became the leaders of the Grand Army of the Republic. Throughout the war, Windu served the Jedi and the Republic in various capacities—on the battlefield in command of the clone army, on Coruscant as an overseer of the war effort and an advisor to Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, and even as a diplomat to contested worlds, despite his disdain of politics. His exploits on the frontline served as a reminder of his reputation as a renowned Jedi warrior.

As the war drew to a close, Windu became increasingly suspicious of the chancellor's motives, as Palpatine had amassed near-dictatorial control over the Galactic Senate, and sensed the rising power of the dark side in the galaxy. His suspicions were confirmed when Anakin Skywalker, a Jedi Knight and the Chosen One of ancient prophecy, discovered that Palpatine was Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith who manipulated the Republic and the Separatist Alliance into war. Windu, along with Jedi Masters Kit Fisto, Agen Kolar, and Saesee Tiin, confronted Palpatine with the intention of arresting him. Instead, the Dark Lord attacked them, striking them down one by one until only Windu was left. Windu bested Palpatine in the confrontation and—deciding the chancellor was too dangerous to be left alive due to his influence over the government—prepared to strike him down, but the intervention of Anakin Skywalker, who saved the chancellor's life, led to what many believed was Windu's death. As a result, Skywalker fell to the temptation of the dark side and was renamed as the Sith Lord Darth Vader.

Windu's actions led Palpatine to brand the Jedi as traitors to the Republic. The Chancellor executed Order 66 and clone troopers across the galaxy turned against and killed their Jedi leaders, marking the fall of the Jedi Order. Palpatine transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire and the Emperor's new regime promoted anti-Jedi sentiment across the galaxy. Through propaganda, the Empire portrayed Windu as the leader of a criminal gang of Jedi who caused the outbreak of the Clone Wars. In spite of the propaganda, some of Windu's actions were remembered with fondness; General Cham Syndulla, who served alongside Windu during the Battle of Ryloth, remembered Windu with great respect and told the tale of how Windu helped him liberate Ryloth during the war.

Windu himself eventually fled Coruscant and made his way to Earth where he decided to begin a family hoping to one day find a descendant worthy enough to take on the legacy of the Windu name. During this time, he settled in Chicago, Illinois although parts of his family found their way to New York City. While living in Chicago, Windu trained a single Padawan Marcus Jacobs after encountering the boy while shopping and realizing the boy's potential as none of his offspring had proven themselves worthy of becoming a Jedi and some were doing all they could to sever their connection with The Force. Windu took Jacobs to the as Jacobs' family was  and wished for him to be trained near or within their Holy Land. Windu and Jacobs eventually settled in the country of where Windu began training Jacobs. Windu and Jacobs were eventually taken captive when Kuwait was invaded by their neighboring country with the Iraqis ordering that Windu be executed and Jacobs presented to their leader Saddam Hussein who trained Jacobs to serve him in a manner similar to how Vader had served Palpatine/Sidious. Although his body was gone, Windu had become one with The Force and his spirit remained on Earth to provide advice to other Jedi such as in 1998 when he directed Bryan Khayman to where Jacobs was in hopes that Khayman could bring Jacobs back to the United States.

In 2002, one of Windu's grandchildren in New York fathered a son named Darius Carpenter. Darius grew up with his mother Bianca Carpenter and her stream of criminal boyfriends who tolerated Darius to varying degrees until Darius mouthed off to one of them and was injured in a manner that was noticeable to Spectres member Sabine Wren who was serving as a substitute teacher at Darius' High School for her fellow Spectre Ezra Bridger after Bridger had been kidnapped and tortured over the summer by agents of Grinta the Hutt. Eventually with the help of New York City Police Department Detective Jamal Wilkins who was also a member of the Spectres and Remnant General Tevin Felth as well as the spirit of Bridger's own Jedi Master Kanan Jarrus who Windu knew as Caleb Dume among others, Darius was rescued from near-death in his mother's home. Windu watched with a feeling of happiness as his Great-Grandson made a complete turnaround beginning a relationship with Felth's daughter Lucy and becoming a member of the Spectres himself. With his connection to The Force severed as a result of the abuse, Windu watched as Darius began to pull off his own stunts across The Galaxy such as summoning Grand Admiral Thrawn on the First Order which was being overseen by Darth Sidious. As 2019 came to a close, Windu felt his Great-Grandson's connection to The Force re-establish itself and then reveal itself after members of the gang his mother's last boyfriend had been a member of attacked him. Windu soon joined Jarrus and the spirit of Bryan Khayman who had been killed by Sidious in 2010 in watching over both the Spectres and the team of Remnant officers Khayman and Michael Myers had assembled with some concerns about who would be Darius' Master as he joined the Jedi Order of Earth of which Windu had been made an honorary member of by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker who were resurrected by The Force in 2013 along with Skywalker's wife Padme in response to Sidious' murder of Khayman. Windu objected to Skywalker training Darius who grew stronger in The Force by the day, although he was reassured by Khayman and Jarrus that that the top two candidates for the job were Ezra Bridger who already had developed a good teacher-student relationship with Darius and Jarrus' own son Jacen Syndulla although Jarrus admitted that Jacen might have an issue with that due to Darius' summoning of Thrawn on the First Order and his experience in teaching Josh Myers. Eventually, Kenobi decided that the younger Myers was ready for his Jedi Trials and assigned Bridger to teach Darius anything that Windu hadn't shown him or that Darius hadn't figured out on his own already. With this, Windu instructed Jacobs to send Darius the Windu Lightsaber which Jacobs had taken when he and Khayman had escaped from Iraq in 1998.

During the 2020s, Windu watched as Darius and Josh took down Sidious once and for all taking some pleasure in seeing the look on Sidious' face when Darius revealed the Windu Lightsaber and began to overpower the Sith Lord. Windu also watched as Darius and Lucy got married along with the birth of the couple's son Caleb who was named after Jarrus' real name. This also made Windu an honorary member of the Felth Family. Windu then watched over the Carpenters as Lucy rose through the ranks of the Remnant herself while the family settled into their new home in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Darius after releasing a long-awaited music album and a movie telling the story of three pilots one of which was Lucy's commanding officer Typher Marlion went to college and became a teacher himself. By 2030, Windu's spirit had become enough of a fixture in the home due to Caleb's own growing Force powers (Caleb at Age 5 was strong enough in The Force to lift the family's astromech R9-D2 off the floor during dinner one night) that the boy included Windu's spirit in a family drawing created for a school assignment along with the spirits of Jarrus and Khayman. When Darius found one of his own students (Keisha Banks) in a similar situation, Windu kept watch over her when Darius couldn't and provided Darius with emotional support that included having Jarrus ask Bridger who by this time was the President of the Remnant to visit Darius (which Bridger did) and sending Khayman packing for making an unhelpful suggestion that could have turned Darius into another Vader or worse.