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The Open are overarching antagonists of the 2016 canon comic book miniseries Star Wars: Obi-Wan and Anakin. They are a group of humans who immigrated to Carnelion IV, and often sport red facial tattoos. Mother Pran, one of the miniseries' main antagonists, is the leader of the Open.
History
At an unknown point in time, a group of humans immigrated to Carnelion IV alongside an unnamed near-human species, and together, they formed an advanced society, although they remained outside of Republic jurisdiction. Generations before 32 BBY, for reasons unknown, civil war broke out between the human colonists, who formed a faction known as the Open, and the near-humans, who became known as the Closed. The war destroyed their civilization and filled their cities with toxic gases, which became known as the Celadon Sea, driving survivors to the mountains. Ever since, the Open and Closed continued to fight, and blamed each other for the war. While the Closed claimed the Open created the Celadon Sea, the Open blamed the Closed for it, and claimed that the Closed were driving the planet to ruin. As the Open had lost all advanced technology in the war, they resorted to using primitive ballistic weaponry and gasbag-powered airships, and soon discovered a number of small artifacts of the pre-war civilization, dubbed "skygifts" being sent by a lone human survivor in the ruins. Seeking to rid themselves of the previous civilization, the Open destroyed all skygifts they came across, but unlike the Closed, they kept stashes of inactive pre-war technology, such as mechs and speeders, within their base, a fortress dug into a mountain. By 29 BBY, an Open warrior known as Mother Pran became the leader of the Open.
In 29 BBY, the lone survivor, Sera, managed to send a message to the Galactic Republic, and two human Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi and his padawan Anakin, crash-landed on Carnelion IV to investigate. They soon came across an airship battle between Pran and a Closed warrior named Grecker, who shot Pran's airship down, although Pran and her assistant Kolara managed to bail out in time. Grecker's airship was then brought down by Obi-Wan when he came back to attack, although the Jedi saved Grecker from falling to his death. Grecker and Pran immediately drew weapons on each other, but after Obi-Wan and Anakin managed to briefly pause the hostilities between the two sides to demand answers, they managed to get Grecker and Pran to work together upon telling them of receiving a message, as both realized it could've only been sent by Sera, and both sought to kill her. Eventually, Pran betrayed Obi-Wan and Grecker by kidnapping Anakin for his technological expertise after seeing him repair a mech control unit, abandoning the airship with him and Kolara while leaving Obi-Wan and Grecker to fight an onslaught of Fishers, mutated survivors who were stranded in the Celadon Sea.
Pran and Kolara managed to get Anakin back to the Fortress-Home of the Open, where Pran used the remote to reactivate mechs. Now with a massive advantage over the Closed, Pran managed to coerce Anakin into revealing Sera's location, the same coordinate as the distress signal, by telling him that Grecker was plotting against Obi-Wan. Deciding to keep Anakin to rebuild more technology, Pran and adult Open warriors set off to destroy Sera and the Closed, leaving Kolara and the Open youth to guard Anakin. However, Anakin managed to speak with Kolara and the other youth, finding that they had secretly kept skygifts, enjoying the beauty in them, knowing Sera sent them, and that they realized that Sera must have also been the one who sent the distress signal. Now knowing that their warriors were going to kill Sera, Kolara freed Anakin, and let him rebuild speeders. With the speeders, they took off to Sera's fortress. However, Pran beat them there, surprising a group of Closed soldiers who Grecker had called to the area. Pran and the Open warriors promptly began slaughtering the Closed with their mechs, also killing Grecker, with Open warriors who lacked mechs engaging other Closed soldiers in close combat. In the midst of the battle, Anakin flew in and saved Obi-Wan from being shot by Pran's mech, getting to the roof of Sera's fortress with Kolara and the other Open youth. Sera, while angry that the Jedi were unwilling to stop the conflict themselves, decided to wait out the battle with the Open youth, hoping that the Open and Closed adults would destroy each other and allow her to rebuild the Carnelion civilization with the youth. However, Kolara and the other youth refused to let the adults kill each other, and joined the battle despite Sera's protests.
However, Anakin and Obi-Wan managed to repair Sera's distress beacon and sent a message to the Republic claiming that the planet's atmosphere had a high supply of valuable tibanna gas. Shortly afterwards, ships of the Republic Judicial Forces arrived in the sky, quickly stopping the battle outside, deploying officers and Jedi to deal with the wounded. Obi-Wan explained to Anakin that while the Republic probed the atmosphere for the gas, they would ensure all fighting on the ground was halted, and hoped that the forced standstill would make the Open and Closed decide if they preferred peace or war. It is unknown what became of the Open or their relation to the Closed after the Republic personnel left, or during the Imperial era.
