This briefly strained his apprenticeship with Jarrus, who was blinded by Maul on Malachor, but the two repaired their relationship and continued to progress as Jedi.
He also encountered the former Sith Lord Maul, who hoped to make Bridger his apprentice-particularly once Bridger used the dark side to open the holocron. The young Jedi, already having struggled with his dark side, became more conflicted, coming to a head on the ancient Sith world of Malachor where he recovered a Sith holocron in the hopes of destroying the Sith. In 4 BBY, Bridger learned that his parents were killed while attempting to escape from prison. Bridger's abilities grew quickly, and a message of hope he broadcast in the Lothal sector inspired a number of rebel cells to begin working together to fight the Empire. He joined the rebel crew of the Ghost in 5 BBY and was trained in the ways of the Force by Kanan Jarrus. His parents' public criticism of the Empire led to their imprisonment, leaving Bridger an orphan on the planet Lothal as a child.
He was born on Empire Day in 19 BBY to Ephraim and Mira Bridger. Fighting for you." ―Ezra Bridger Įzra Bridger, a Force-sensitive human male, was a Jedi Padawan, a freedom fighter, and a revolutionary leader in the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire. " We have been called criminals, but we are not.