Maythe Force Be With You
Original generated catalogue card for Kelleran Beq

Catalogue entryHumanFall of the Jedi

Kelleran Beq

The host of a children’s game show who turned out, three years later, to be the Jedi who saved Grogu.

Species
Human
Homeworld
Coruscant
Affiliation
Jedi Order
Rank
Jedi Master
First appearance
Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge, episode 1 (2020)
Played by
Ahmed Best
Known as
The Sabered Hand
Rescued
Grogu, during Order 66

Kelleran Beq is a human Jedi Master from Coruscant, known as the Sabered Hand, played by Ahmed Best. He was created for Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge (2020), a StarWars.com game show in which children competed at Jedi training — a piece of Lucasfilm output nobody expected to become canon-relevant.

In 2023 the third season of The Mandalorian revealed him as the Jedi who carried Grogu out of the Temple during Order 66. The casting is the point: Ahmed Best played Jar Jar Binks in 1999 and was driven off public platforms by the abuse that followed, and Lucasfilm brought him back as the Jedi who saves the most beloved character in the current era. It is one of the few pieces of franchise housekeeping that is genuinely moving.

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