Tunenep

Mother Tunenep was an Atriik female who lived during the final years of the Clone Wars and the early Imperial Era. She was a follower of the Path of the Open Hand, a belief system that held that the Force should remain free and that the Jedi were disrupting its balance. Tunenep believed she was one of the last followers of the sect.^[2]

Biography

During the Clone Wars, Mother Tunenep was present on the planet Amaltanna when it became a battlefield between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. She met a young human woman named Jesha Cour in a refugee camp after Jesha's family was killed during the conflict. Tunenep introduced Jesha to the tenets of the Path of the Open Hand and became a mentor figure to her.^[2]

Tunenep carried a jogan fruit pit filled with Synox, a lethal poison, which she intended to use against the Jedi to restore what she believed to be balance to the Force. After the Republic's victory on Amaltanna, Tunenep and Jesha were relocated to Coruscant, where they lived in poverty and continued to promote their beliefs.^[2]

During the Battle of Coruscant, debris struck their residential tower, killing Tunenep. Jesha survived and took the jogan pit from Tunenep's body, vowing to continue her mission.^[2]

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Behind the scenes

Tunenep appeared in "Galactic Tales: The Failing of the Light," a short story by Adam Lance Garcia that was published in issue 233 of Star Wars Insider magazine^[2] on August 19, 2025.^[3] According to Garcia, he believes Tunepep knew the survivors of the Path of the Open Hand. He originally chose a different species for Tunepep, but was told Tunepep would not be able to live that long as a member of that species, which led Garcia to create the Atriik. He also shared his "headcanon" regarding the building collapse that killed Tunepep, saying it was intended to be from caused by a part of the Invisible Hand crashing into the planet during the Battle of Coruscant.^[4]

Appearances

• "Galactic Tales: The Failing of the Light" — Star Wars Insider 233 (First appearance)

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