Who was Actually the Smartest Jedi in the Clone Wars? - The Definitive Guide to Rahm Kota 

The Jedi: “A free army given to us by a mysterious benefactor? Sweet!” Kota: “You guys are idiots.”

Rahm Kota was a vastly underrated Jedi. The fact that the guy never got a solo novel or comic detailing his time in the Clone Wars or appearing in TCW for an episode or two is not only a missed opportunity but a crime on the writers.

Clone fans: *Angry screeching.* Rahm Kota: “It looks like we angered the locals.”

The Jedi: Let's fight the Sith alongside this army that conveniently showed up right when we needed it. Rahm Kota: Are you blind?!

It's impressive how Rahm Kota's men were so loyal to him, they would willingly betray the Empire and risk their lives for their general. It reminds me of how a good chunk of the Republic Navy decided that their loyalties lied with Revan and Malek, not the republic during the Jedi Civil War.

I like to think its because of his discipline that he was allowed to be trained, as dicipline is key to staving of the dark side.

Kota ironically could have been what Jedi should have been doing, helping outer rim worlds build up militias to defend themselves against any threat that could pose a threat to their home.

If during his youth Kota had somehow awakened himself to the Force, then Mace and the council might have thought that leaving him in a war zone would inevitably lead him to the Dark Side on his own. They probably thought better late than never to start training him in the ways of the Jedi, choosing the possibility that he could become a fallen Jedi over the certainty that he would become a dark warlord, like Ventress.

3:44 In another timeline, Rahm Kota wouldn't have been accepted into the Jedi Order but instead joined the Republic Military where he would have made them into the best fighting force in the galaxy just like the Republic Troopers in the past.

I love the fact Kota's overall mindset of the Jedi was "we are peacekeepers and should be proactive, not reactive".

Rahm kota: "we're at war and you want a quiet place to think."

Kota is easily my favorite Jedi, followed closely by Katarn and Kenobi. The man was a Warrior, in fact he reminded me a lot of Lord Hoth. A gifted-if reckless- tactician, he was a brilliant Jedi, though unpopular for his unorthodoxy.

Rahm Kota and his private militia were one of the strongest Rebel cells that opposed the Galactic Empire and they managed to capture Darth Vader at one time.

0:16 When you bring your snacks to the classroom:

7:05 It would have been interesting if Rahm Kota had met and interacted with Anakin Skywalker during the Clone Wars as both of them were too old to join the Jedi Order yet managed to get in anyway respectively.

Kota: I hate clones. Tarkin: Really, same here! Pong Krell: I too, dislike clones.

1:00 Mace Windu: "Anakin Skywalker shall not join the Jedi Order. He's too old." Also Mace Windu: *allows Rahm Kota to join despite he is already too old*

I wish kota was canon again. I’d love a book on his adventures or comic with his militia. How they were formed, how they fought and how they interacted.

The most likely reason for Kota being trained is that he had developed rudimentary foece abilities as a child soldier (as was the case with e.g. Darth Bane) and the council didn't want hin to run around unsupervised.

6:31 Rahm and Galen doing the Spider-Men Pointing at Kanan and Ezra doing the same.

I love kota he is a great character, I'm glad he hasn't been brought into disney cannon they would wreck his character.

The Jedi Council with an 18 year old man: Well, we can bend the rules a little for this one. The Jedi Council with a nine year old boy: He is too old, send him away.

The main issues with Kota lore can be fixed by having Mace find him during the clone wars as a sagent and taking him back as way to bolseter Jedi forces and as a secert weapon like Star killer.

Rahm Kota was playing 4D chess without even knowing

Just finished reading TFU novel. It is definitely much better than the game story wise. Galen is powered down quite a bit but still strong if a little lucky. Tweak his story a little bit and you'll get a canon worthy character (which isn't saying much)

Can we please talk about the powerhouse in the force that is Vaylin of the royal family of zakuul. She was so strong in the force she moved objects while SHE WAS INSIDE THE WOMB.

The Council when Qui-Gon wants to train a 9 year old, ex-slave, droid mechanic and pod racer to be a Jedi: "Hes too old and has seen too much. It would be dangerous." The Council when Windu wants to train an 18 year old, ex-child soldier and war veteran to be a Jedi: "Sounds good!"

Kita was fun, and really Starkiller would have been fun as just an inquisitor. It's a shame the weirdness about powerlevel led so many to overlook it.

Windu when having to admit a... 9-year-old Anakin: "Nah, he's too old" 18-year-old Kota: "Sure, welcome to the order"

Nice to know Master Rahm Kota is getting more attention and respect. And I don’t care what anyone says. He will always be one of the founders of the Rebel Alliance to me

I never heard of this badass before. Thank you.

1:07 Sounds like Cadia and Krieg rolled into one world in a nutshell.

If Rahm Kota is to be canonized, the Siege of Onderon during the Outer Rim Sieges would be the right moment where he and his militia should be.

I’ve always loved kota, he’s always been so intriguing to me, and as I love the clones he was right to not trust them not through their own will do he may have been biased against them which just ain’t ok, but he was right lol

I will love to see this smart jedi in the clone wars even his own army was so cool to fight against the empire

Mace Windu- 8-year-old Anakin is too old to be trained! Also, Mace Windu- 18-year-old Rohm Kota needs to be trained at once.

The Jedi Order: Yo dudes Kamino and the Clone Army are pretty chill Kota: Bruh what!

Ah Rahm Kota finally is being given a video at last. Soon you got to bring an extensive video on the legend himself.....you know his name.

I miss Kota. He was a hardass and a likable one

Mace Windu about Rahm Kota, 18-year old man who had been a soldier since he was 10: "We're happy to welcome you into the Jedi Order : )." Mace Windu about Anakin, who was 9 and was worried about his enslaved mother: "hE'S tOo oLd. wE CAnNOt AcCEpT hIm."

Master Aqinos. The open-minded Jedi who founded the Iron Knights.

Even though he was the invention of a game that sits in a weird corner of canon and is a bit inconsistent with the Jedi lore, Rahm Kota was easily one of the best characters in Legends and shows a road not taken. If only more characters were as perceptive and distrusting as he was, the Jedi Order and maybe even the Republic might have survived. While an okay character in the context of Rebels, Kanan Jarrus was nothing but Disney's pale imitation of Kota.

Mace to Anakin: no the little boy will not be trained, he's too young.... take a seat young skywalker Mace to this 18 year old guy: I found this old ass man, we gonna train him... take a stand, old guy

In my mind Koda is 100% cannon and will always have a place in starwars only a shame disney didn't take advantage of such an incredibly written character and gave him even more depth

7:35 omg now that I see how built different kota is I can no longer fathom how starkiller won that duel lmao

I think that the Jedi order pre-clone wars should have done was to have a set of assignments that the order could have sent Jedi on to act like pressure valve. Windu enjoyed combat, but channeled that passion into creating a new lightsaber form. If there could have been a way for experienced Jedi, like Windu, to take Jedi who were close to the dark side, to more secret or aggressive missions. They may have not lost so many Jedi to the dark side. The key would be to have them teamed up with someone who understands their feelings, like Windu and I must imagine Plo koon as well. That way they can learn to see the light side as the answer to all their frustrations. Obi-wan never dealt with/struggled with the feeling like you need to do something. Where you are going to be obsessed about something until you can make some progress. I think that is 1 reason that Anikin fell. That and the force itself knew that the clone wars Jedi were as bad as the sith when it came to following the will of the force, so they needed to be eliminated

Okay, the dude gets a major point by the fact that in Legends his choices not only allowed him to survive, but basically created an early Rebel Alliance cell which got experience in war during the Clone Wars. I wouldn’t be surprised if his cell in legends was one of the most successful. Heck, they may have even had minimal casualties thanks to their experience and unique leadership in the form of a Jedi General. However I wonder what his personal opinions of the clones are. His basis for not leading clones was because he didn’t trust them. Now this doesn’t say anything about him looking down on them like Imperials as the circumstances of the clones clearly would raise eyebrows. A Jedi made the order for the clones in secret and just happened to be killed the same year which was also the year when the first Sith remerged and killed a Jedi? And the first generation of clones just happen to be ready only a few years after the CIS is created and just when it’s revealed they have a droid army. Suspicion is completely justified. However the fact that he doesn’t have a single clone in his unit does suggest his personal opinions of clones aren’t good. Sure, he doesn’t trust him but the fact he doesn’t have at least one trooper in his unit? And the fact that he doesn’t trust the clones, but does nothing on the matter? After all it was Fives who actually discovered the chips and their true purpose and it was thanks to him that the Jedi looked further into the army’s origins, though they still made some wrong moves. Overall, I be wrong to not praise the Jedi for surviving Order 66 because of his wits and for how he basically created a Rebel Cell years before the Empire was created. However as a clone lover, I question if his feelings about the clones were really as professional as Legends claims or if he didn’t see them as people worthy of respect. This would end up putting one of the most heroic Jedi and Rebel leaders in a bit of a mindset like Imperials such as Tarkin and Rampart, though thankfully this would be the only ideological similarity between Kota and the Imperials.

I guess It would be interesting to see a video on Rahm Kota’s apprentice Falon Grey, as well as his clones X1 and X2 which to this day I’m still trying to wrap my head around since it isn’t really explained/explored how those two were exactly made by the kaminoans despite healthy/stable force-sensitive clones being a rarity; doesn’t help that all 3 of them only had one appearance in a PSP/DS game.

“Threw a wrench in canon” that’s putting it lightly. And I mean that’s the exact reason people love it, it’s such a ridiculous, hyper star wars, big boom, super smart rebel general Jedi, major story... just a wild affair, though in my opinion, that’s also why it should remain not canon, and just a fun side story, a What if, if you will

What if General Kota was at the Battle of Umbra with his recruited militia instead of Anakin ( and later his replacement who shall not be named ) and the 501st?

Awesome character, and well presented. I felt like I was listening to your BRAVED channel about total battlefield beasts. On a related matter, if Yoda trained Kota, since he was accepted out of age-sequence, why didn't Yoda do the same for Anakin, half the age of Kota upon acceptance?

God Rahm Kota is so cool. I wish we could get him back in canon.

I feel like Disney got their ideas for Kanan Jarrus from Rahm Kota

Clones Less creative, yes true. Recruits have actually live life and learned things through being raised. Information and understanding through the generation's. People in general, the economy,politics the clones know nothing of.

One of the best star wars games if not arguably the best one, to play as a sith, making a sacrifice and renouncing the sith in the end. Best than the recent games for sure, the only ones I can think that can compete are the kotors.

Id imagine the order decided to train Kota because the only other good option would be too kill him. Just leaving him on the planet to potentially to dark isnt much of an option, espically if Mace realized he was open to Jedi training.

Kota “Why does no one else see that the clones are clearly suspicious!?”

Would have Def been qui gon if it wasn't for his death. The man literally took it as an offence when a princess that he was rescuing called him a cunning warrior, despite her also calling him a coward, which he ofc did not mind. He did not see the jedi order as most of his fellow jedi did, he saw it the way it was supposed to be seen.

Rahm Kota is my absolute favorite Jedi and I think he is the best Jedi of all time. His character development is great! From a proud general of the Republic, to an Rebel Commander, a broken man and at the end, a hero of the Rebelion. So I think that Rahm Kota is a underrated character and I think that he becames a Jedi. The reasons are simple, Rahm Kota was as child forced into a civil war. He last his entire family, was forced to fight as a child soldier... And in all this time he didn't fall to the dark side. We all actually know, that the most characters would and that's the point where Kota makes sense to became a Jedi at the age of eighteen. As a child soldier he must learnd that attachments in a war are really dangerous and so his only attachments based on respect for the soldiers who fight side by side with him. So as Mace Windu finds him I think he was actually a little bit sceptical of Kota. But this man has no attachments, he is really disciplined and he has combat experience. He goes through a bloody and moderous war without falling to the dark side. I know this is really speculative, but in my head Canon it makes in this way more sense

I wish this dude became canon and was part of SWR

Another great underrated Jedi, for all his legends importance, Master K’Kruhk needs some love.

At this point, I'm pretty sure 95% of ALL Jedi were "too old" to begin their training, and the Jedi just said that to keep trainees in line by making them feel like they were getting a rare exception to the rule...

Love your content bro it's very interesting and high quality nice one

Hands down one of my favourite jedi masters ever canon or otherwise.

Why didn't we see anything detailing his Militia actions during the Clone Wars? Also a few years ago, some idiot commented about wanting to see Kota's Militia betray him for money.

This dude is the ultimate Chad in the series.

Maybe they took him in as a way to see if early intervention in troubled force sensitives could potentially help curb a path to the Dark Side back towards the Light Side of the Force? Tempering the internal horror before it led the boy to discover what he could do in the worst backdrop possible. Yes young force sensitives are awakened to their potential by older, trained force sensitives (Jedi and possibly Sith) in the modern galactic age, but SURELY it can’t be impossible for a Force Sensitive to tap into their innate potential without it being unlocked by another Force Sensitive? If it was only possible to be open to the Force by being awakened by an older person who in turn had to be awakened as a youngling, then the Force could NEVER have been discovered by any species.

There were two force unleashed books as well

This would of been an awesome Arc in the Clone Wars series.

Still can’t forgive him for stopping starkiller from killing the emperor only to get starkiller killed and then say that he’s one with the force..... really makes you wonder how Kota could be so dumb

Rahm Kota is my favorite Jedi by far. Thanks to Force Unleashed and his awesome lore.

My theory on why they trained him is that he was quite strong in the Force without knowing it and was in danger of falling to the dark side. They kept him close at hand in order to nip a potential problem in the bud. Their justification for breaking the age and emotional turmoil rules could be that it was a way to bring him inner peace and understanding of himself. Rather than have him as a weak enemy, they wanted to make him an ally.

There's X2, a Force sensitive clone of Jedi Knight Falon Grey who took part in Order 66 and then became a Jedi. He would have been the protagonist of Battlefront III until it was cancelled and the plot reused for Battlefront Elite Squadron. Then there's Voolvif Monn, whose a voiceless character in Star Wars: Clone Wars.

You could maybe tell the story of another Jedi who waged a war against the Empire, Dass Jennier.

Kota was very lucky. I don’t know if that qualifies as smart, but that was a fantastic video, anyhow.

I feel Kota could most definitely still be canonized by altering his backstory a bit and even aiding Saw Gurerra’s Partisans in the background before “mysteriously” going MIA around 3BBY. Then it could lead to Starkiller (albiet weaker in canon) to be in the canon as well with a more background role

Mace Windu: "Anakin is too old to be a Jedi He will not be trained!" Also Mace Windu: "Yo Kota, wanna be a Jedi?" Ah... once again, total hypocrites. No wonder they're seen as a joke.

I imagine his training must have been because his powers were already manifesting, the dangers of leaving him alone were likely greater then the risk of training him

Rham Kota was a SAVAGE JEDI MASTER having his own private militia apart from The Jedi Order and Temple so he must've been ready when Order 66 took place in his timeline that's why Darth Vader sent Galen Marek after him.

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Mace Windu to Anakin: He's too old. Also Mace Windu: Here's an 18-year old veteran I plucked from the front lines of his civil war I kinda stopped. Let's make him a Jedi.

you forgot to mention that Kotor kinda knew Galen was full of shit when Galen said he wasn't apart of the Empire anymore, but anyways great video

Easily one of the most underrated Jedi ever, also in my Top 3. Love Rahm Kota. Wish he was cannon so he can get the highlights that he deserved

These are the best recruit for the Jedi order

Kota's greatest force power was actually Force Rule, a force power that despite its name allowed one to ignore rules making others see that nothing is wrong

Excellent breakdown

Great video!!

Imagine if Mace Windu survived the fall in episode 3 and went to find Yoda after his Evenly Draw Fight/Battle with Darth Sidious. They and Obi-Wan could plan a counterattack on Vader and Sidious possibly!

Idea for future video? How did the clones know not to be hostile towards anakin and later Did they know who dearth Vader was after order 66?

More then likely no one was going to say no to Mace

He also trained a padawan named Falon Grey. During a mission, Falon was injured and the pair landed on Kamino to get help. The Kaminoans healed Falon Grey, but they also took a sample of his DNA and created two clones of him- X1 and X2. Kota later found X2 on Dantooine living the life of farmer. He had thought that he sensed his former padawan’s presence. Unbeknownst to Kota, Grey had died years earlier. He was killed by X1! When he found out that X2 was merely a clone he was disappointed. He then lambasted X2 for “tending the land” while the galaxy suffered. X2 agreed to join him in the Rebel Alliance.

Realistically Rahm Kota had something very valuable most Jedi did not at the outbreak of the Clone Wars, actual military experience. I think that's why he made a better officer and tactician than most other Jedi. Coming into the Order he already had eight years of fighting experience, and probably one or two years of experience as a combat leader. Many people forget that while there were a few exceptions, the vast majority of the Jedi Order had no experience or training as military officers. They were a peacekeeping force. That's not the sa.e thing as a military.

6:35 that is a sight I want to see canonised someday

Loving the Forced Unleashed lore content getting more spotlight

my fellow semite rahm kota who we talkin ab right?

He was also going to be in the original Battlefront 3, and ended up in Battlefront: Elite Squadron, in the same storyline.

The force unleashed had some of the best characters in any star wars game. The second one... exists I guess?

Growing up before Disney take over until this painting🤯 6:30

They really need to make a comic of him or book as well as make him cannon. Hell he should make an appearance in a future Star Wars series

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