Cere Junda, Star Wars: Jedi Survivor
To be a Jedi in the Rise of the Empire era feels like having a death mark perpetually on your back in the first place—to be a Jedi openly and defiantly resisting the Empire more so. So perhaps it was always a little bit of grim inevitability Respawn’s Star Wars: Jedi Survivor series would one day have fate come calling for Cere Junda. And yet Survivor’s framing of that calling couldn’t have been a more perfect way to send off Cal’s would-be master in the ways of the Force, and in the ways of survival against such a dominant foe.
Getting to step into her shoes as she rallied to save her burgeoning archives of Force Knowledge on Jedha from betrayal, Cere’s final hours play out in Survivor as this incredible contrast of the game’s power fantasy—although Survivor had moved her in the direction of more of a sage than a warrior, getting to see that side of her unleashed through the player is a potent reminder of her capability—along with that grim inevitability of her fate, especially so when it puts you up against none other than Darth Vader himself. There was no way of her making it out, but Cere goes out on a high in spite of that.
