Training Sun to the rank of Knight, Ti suffered the loss of the girl when she was killed by the Zeltron criminal Lyshaa. Once more traveling to Shili and training her student in a slightly unorthodox manner, Ti did not believe in the traditional application of skills through the acceptance of missions from one of the Jedi Councils. Having failed her first student, Ti decided to try again when she chose the Initiate Fe Sun as her second apprentice. Parting ways, it wasn't long before Shaak Ti got word that he had been killed by a criminal on one of his first missions. Amongst the vast, dry scrublands Ti taught her student the ways of the Jedi, eventually raising him to Knighthood. During her early career Ti took her first student, choosing to train him on her birth planet, Shili. Undergoing a traditional Togrutan right of passage, Ti tracked and killed a wild Akul beast and crafted an elegant headdress from its teeth. Like many of the Order, Ti was permitted to travel back to her homeworld and connect with her roots. As a Knight Ti pursued the path of the Jedi Consular, strengthening her connection to the Force and working under the Council of Reconciliation.

After passing her Trials of Knighthood Ti was raised to the rank of Jedi Knight by the Jedi High Council. After graduating from the academy, Ti was selected as a Padawan by a Jedi Master and traveled the galaxy to complete her training. Taken to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, Ti entered into the academy there and spent the next decade studying the ways of the Force and the Jedi Code. Shaak Ti, like most Jedi of the era, was discovered on her homeworld Shili as an infant when doctors identified her as Force-sensitive.

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