[ WP ] A story of how I got my username .

A long time ago, I heard a story about the origin of Obi Wan. A few Star Wars fans had noticed a similarity between the sound of his name and that of some of the other characters. 
 
 A couple of examples are C3PO and R2D2. They're also call Artoo and Threepio for short. Now take Obiwan's name and run this idea in the other direction Obi Wan could also be OB1. It was theorized that this might indicate some kind of as-yet-unrevealed backstory that Obi Wan was a clone of some sort. 
 
 So I ran with the idea. And it started to make it's own kind of sense the more I thought about it. It goes something like this. 
 
 Once upon a time, a small group of Jedi got an idea. Let's take advantage of this new cloning technology and try and clone ourselves. Just as was done later with Jango Fett, the clones were to be based on a superior example. The Jedi selected a young Jedi Master named *Ben* Kenobi. 
 
 The location for the cloning facility was an obscure planet just south of the Rishi Maze named Kamino. There, the Jedi requested the clones to be produced in batches of 100 clones each. Each clone would have it's own unique alphanumeric designation according to it's unit number within each batch. The very first clone to be produced in this fashion would therefore be known as Original Batch, number one. Or OB1, for short. 
 
 Ben Kenobi gave his DNA sample to the Kaminoans and the process got underway. Unfortunately for the Jedi, there was a problem. It was the midichlorians. In a totally unforeseen turn of events, the midichlorians did not replicate along with the rest of the body's cell during the cloning process. There was only one single multiplication instead of the hundred that was expected. 
 
 What's more, only one of the clones received the these midichlorians. The first clone, OB1. The rest of the clones came out of the process physically complete and perfect in every way except the one that mattered most. They had not one single midichlorian amongst the lot. Ninety-nine clones of Ben Kenobi, completely lacking in any Jedi powers whatsoever. It was a disaster and the whole project was immediately canceled.... never to be mentioned again. Even the location of Kamino itself was deleted from the Jedi library. The 99 powerless clones were quitely relocated. Each one to a separate planet, scattered across the far reaches of the Republic. 
 
 There was one small success though. OB1. Based on an already powerful Jedi, but with twice the level of midichlorians. The young OB1 was renamed Obi Wan and entered into Jedi training at the earliest possible age. As young Obi Wan progressed through his training the Jedi council came to realize that he would soon be a very powerful Jedi. 
 
 When OB1 became the Paduwan of Qui Gonn Jinn, Ben Kenobi retired to a far off world called Tatooine. This was done in order to avoid the rest of the Jedi from noticing that he had been cloned. 
 
 Eventually OB1, now known as Obi Wan, came to fulfill his potential. He was in fact, a type of super Jedi. A few years passed and the time came when the Sith chose to reveal themselves. When he first faced the Sith Lord, Darth Maul..... Qui Gonn barely managed to escape unharmed by retreating into Queen Amidala's ship. At their next encounter he was killed. Yet Obi Wan, even as a paduwan, was quickly able to defeat the Sith and avenge his master's death. 
 
 A few years later, during the clone wars, General Grievous was killing one Jedi after another. His cyborg body was so powerful, he proved capable of facing several Jedi at a time in direct combat.... and defeating them! But he met his match when he faced Obi Wan. The last of Obi Wan's great duels came not long afterward, when he had to face his old friend Anakin on the world of Mustaphar. Not even the man who would become Darth Vader could defeat Obi Wan. The duel lasted just a few short minutes. In the end, Anakin lost both his legs and one of his arms. 
 
 Nobody knows what ever became of OB1. His last known location was Tatooine, where he took Anakin's son for safekeeping. Ben Kenobi was living not far off and would see over the boy as he grew up. For all we know, OB1 might still be out there somewhere..... in a galaxy far, far away. 
 

