Malinza Thanas Malinza Thanas was a Human female born on Bakura to Gaeriel Captison and Pter Thanas , who were respectively the planet ' s Prime Minister and Defense Fleet Commander . Her father passed away from Knowt ' s Disease when she was three years old , and her mother was killed during the Corellian Crisis two years later . Thanas was adopted by a well - placed Bakuran family and was sponsored and frequently visited by Jedi Master Luke Skywalker , who had drawn her mother into the Corellian insurrection and felt responsible for the young Thanas . She became very fond of Skywalker , but harbored a deep hatred for the New Republic , the galactic government that he had acted on behalf of . As she grew up , she developed a strong belief in the Cosmic Balance religion , and at the age of fifteen , she formed a resistance movement known as Freedom and began peacefully protesting Bakura ' s role in the Galactic Alliance , the New Republic ' s successor state . Thanas lobbied for Bakuran independence but took a firm stand against Freedom ' s members use of violence to get their voices heard due to her fear of backlash from the Cosmic Balance . She was nevertheless arrested on charges of disturbing the peace and conspiracy , and was brought to a prison in Salis D ' aar , Bakura ' s capital city . Several members of Skywalker ' s family came to Bakura at the time of Thanas ' s arrest , and when his niece Jaina Solo visited her in prison , Bakuran authorities engineered her escape in order to follow the two of them to Freedom ' s headquarters . As security officials closed in on them , Thanas and her closest friends fled and appealed to Bakura ' s Deputy Prime Minister Blaine Harris , who had been covertly funding their organization , for help . However , he planned to kill Thanas and to use her status as a martyr to unite Bakura behind him as he seized power within the government . Harris brought Thanas , Solo , and Vyram , another member of Freedom , to a stadium where Bakura ' s new allies , the P ' w ' eck Emancipation Movement , were performing a Consecration Ceremony to signal the beginning of the partnership . The ceremony was in fact a ruse organized to allow the expansionist Ssi - ruuvi Imperium , who had enslaved the P ' w ' eck , to attempt to invade Bakura , and Thanas and her friends fled from the invaders into tunnels beneath the stadium after they escaped from Harris ' s clutches . Several Ssi - ruu k warriors followed them , but were subdued by P ' w ' eck who began to actually revolt . The mutiny curtailed the invasion , and Thanas and Vyram were subsequently hired by the Bakuran government to trace a trail of credits that had been laundered offworld . The investigation was an effort to both expose senatorial corruption and to demonstrate the good intentions of Freedom to a skeptical public . Biography . Losing her parents . Malinza Thanas was a Human female born on Bakura in 13 ABY to Gaeriel Captison , the planet ' s Prime Minister ; and Pter Thanas , the commander of the Bakuran Defense Fleet . When Thanas was three years old , her father contracted Knowt ' s Disease , and Captison neglected her re - election campaign in order to care for him . Her party was defeated in an election , and Pter Thanas passed away from his illness two days later . Captison then retired from politics to spend more time with her daughter . In 18 ABY , mother and daughter were visited by Captison ' s old friend Luke Skywalker , a Jedi Master of the New Republic . Skywalker approached Captison and requested the use of four of the Bakuran Defense Fleet ' s capital ships to break through an interdiction field in the Corellian sector , and was able to secure the warships from Bakura ' s government after two days of negotiations . Despite having retired , Captison was appointed to the ships as a representative of the Bakuran Senate , and invited Skywalker to her home on the morning of her departure so that he could meet Thanas . Thanas was sad to see her mother go , but asked Skywalker to promise to take care of her . The Jedi agreed , and Captison left her daughter in the care of two friends , Madame Boble and Lady Corwell , as well as Thanas ' s extended family . Captison was drawn into the Corellian conflict , and was killed during its climactic battle between the New Republic and the power - hungry Sacorrian Triad . Thanas ' s family attempted to explain to her why her mother was not going to return to Bakura . Although the infant girl did not fully comprehend the situation , she did begin to resent the New Republic , an ire that lasted for at least another ten years . A woman named Laera , who came from a well - placed family , adopted young Thanas and raised her . Skywalker felt very responsible for and protective of Thanas and pledged to keep her safe , visiting her frequently on Bakura and helping sponsor her education . He once showed her a hologram of his niece and nephew , Jaina and Jacen Solo . After he wed a woman named Mara Jade , he began to bring his new wife with him on visits . Thanas became very fond of Skywalker and began to refer to him as " Uncle Luke " ; she considered him and Laera to be the only family she had left . As she grew up , she developed a firm belief in the Cosmic Balance , a religion that claimed that all forces of good in the universe produced counterbalancing forces of evil . She also became a musical prodigy and earned a place in the Bakuran National Symphony . Her family ' s house was prepared to be given to her when she was deemed old enough to take it . Peaceful protests . By the year 28 ABY , the New Republic had reorganized itself into a Galactic Federation of Free Alliances in order to better resist the Yuuzhan Vong , an extra - galactic species of religious zealots bent on conquering the galaxy . Bakura remained untouched by the invaders and fell out of contact with the Galactic Alliance amidst the chaos of the war . While the rest of the galaxy fought the Yuuzhan Vong , Thanas organized an anti - New Republic resistance movement on Bakura called Freedom . Sixteen people strong , Freedom protested what they saw as Bakura ' s constant kowtowing to the New Republic ; they believed that the planet needed to remain independent from the new Galactic Alliance and govern itself . Thanas refused to allow members of Freedom to use violent means to get their voices heard , and chose instead to capitalize on her late parents ' reputations through the organization of public protests in Bakura ' s capital , Salis D ' aar . The group was covertly funded by Bakura ' s Deputy Prime Minister Blaine Harris , who , although he believed in their cause , secretly wanted to seize power within the government . When the Bakuran Senate was approached by the P ' w ' eck Emancipation Movement and was offered an alliance against the Ssi - ruuvi Imperium , Freedom supported the idea . With the P ' w ' eck as their slaves , the Ssi - ruu k of the Imperium had unsuccessfully attempted to invade Bakura twenty - four years prior . The P ' w ' eck had since organized an emancipation movement to attempt to win their liberty , and Freedom saw them as a viable alternative to the Galactic Alliance in helping defend Bakura from a potential Yuuzhan Vong attack . However , many Bakuran citizens who opposed the P ' w ' eck alliance joined Freedom and began to violently protest in the streets of Salis D ' aar . Public opinion of Freedom plummeted , and Thanas and her closest friends opted to proceed more quietly toward their goals as they sliced into government files and uncovered evidence of senatorial corruption . Their hope was to blackmail Bakura ' s senate into governing honestly . Thanas and her friends began to trace a financial deal that sent millions of credits offworld through several intermediaries shortly after the P ' w ' ecks ' arrival on Bakura , but an alarm was tripped during their investigation , and Thanas was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace and conspiracy . Many within the government also suspected that she was responsible for the kidnapping of Bakura ' s Prime Minister , Molierre Cundertol , who had disappeared shortly after he had personally invited the P ' w ' eck ' s Keeramak leader to Bakura to consecrate the planet . The day that Thanas was taken into custody , several representatives of the Galactic Alliance arrived at Bakura after they received a tip from a member of the information - gathering Ryn Network that something bad was soon going to happen on the planet . Among them were Luke Skywalker ' s sister Leia Organa Solo , brother - in - law Han Solo , and niece Jaina Solo . When the group was tipped off by the Ryn Goure Conor that Thanas had information they would need to solve their mystery , Jaina ventured to the Salis D ' aar Penitentiary and was permitted to visit the prisoner in Cell Twelve - Seventeen . Despite Solo ' s ties to the Galactic Alliance , Thanas found that she easily trusted Skywalker ' s niece and told her about Freedom ' s goals and recent history , although she left out any mention of Harris ' s involvement . Solo revealed that Cundertol had resurfaced , had claimed to have escaped from his kidnappers , and was skeptical that Thanas was in league with them . When the young Jedi Knight rose to leave , she and Thanas discovered that the prison was devoid of guards . Thanas suspected that one of her friends had sliced into the facility ' s systems to help her escape , and eagerly followed Solo into the slums of the city . Maze of deception . The two young women leapt across deserted rooftops until Solo sensed danger and shielded Thanas with her body . When several voices from a nearby tree addressed the Jedi , Thanas identified them as her comrades Vyram , Jjorg , Salkeli , and Zel , and assured them that Solo was a friend . The five members of Freedom led Solo to the Stack , a building that served as their headquarters , and began to posit theories on who had broken Thanas out of prison . While Vyram showed Solo the mysterious financial deal they had been tracking , he detected some electronic interference and discovered a homing beacon that had been stitched into Thanas ' s pants . The Stack ' s perimeter alarm was tripped as Bakuran security officials moved in on their location , and Solo fled with the beacon , bringing Salkeli along to navigate the city for her . Thanas and the others escaped in another direction , but were pursued by security officials who shot and killed Zel . Thanas , Vyram , and Jjorg made their way to Harris ' s private chambers , hoping that the Deputy Prime Minister could help to clear them of criminal charges . Harris had plans of his own , however , and had employed the equally duplicitous Salkeli to capture Solo and bring her to his chambers . He hoped to prevent the Galactic Alliance from interfering with his plans to kill Thanas and turn her into a martyr that would unite the Bakuran people behind him . As Salkeli moved to secure stun cuffs around the wrists of all of Harris ' s guests , Thanas kneed him in the groin , which prompted Harris to shoot Jjorg dead . Thanas and Vyram were then fitted with binders , although Solo kept hers from locking by using a mind trick on Salkeli . Harris and Salkeli then led their prisoners to the stadium where the Keeramak ' s Consecration Ceremony was underway . Harris ushered his prisoners into one of the stadium ' s equipment lockers , sealed the door , and coerced Solo into pressing a remote detonator by holding Thanas at blasterpoint . The bomb ' s timed detonation would kill Cundertol , much of the senate , and Solo ' s parents ; Harris intended to himself murder both Solo and Thanas . He planned to claim that Solo had attempted to derail the treaty between Bakura and the P ' w ' eck , and that Thanas had sacrificed herself to foil the Jedi Knight . As he prepared to use Solo ' s lightsaber to inflict realistic - looking wounds on Thanas , Solo loosed her binders , retrieved her lightsaber with the Force , and bludgeoned Harris unconscious with it . Thanas sprang into action as well and pinned Salkeli to the floor , twisting one of his arms behind his back . Solo freed Thanas and Vyram of their binders , but the trio discovered that a stray laser blast from Harris had melted the remote detonator . Solo seized Salkeli ' s comlink and instructed her ally Tahiri Veila to attempt to disarm the bomb , but the detonation occurred and knocked everyone in the locker to the floor . After the explosion , Goure Conor broke into the equipment locker . Thanas rushed out to expose Harris ' s plot to the public , only to discover that the consecration ceremony had been a ruse to allow the Ssi - ruuk , disguised as P ' w ' eck , to launch a full - scale invasion of Bakura . She rejoined Vyram in the locker , and the two brought their prisoners into an underground tunnel where the Solos and Conor were leading survivors of the invasion ' s initial attack away from the stadium . Cundertol was not far behind , having survived the bomb ' s detonation . He began to interrogate Harris about escape routes , and fired a blaster shot into his subordinate ' s head when the Deputy Prime Minister claimed that their only choice was to hide in equipment lockers . Cundertol then turned his blaster on Thanas , and began to whistle in the Ssi - ruuvi language . The Keeramak and a group of Ssi - ruuk warriors approached , and called on the ring of survivors to surrender and accept their forthcoming entechment — the draining of their life - energy to power Ssi - ruuvi machinery . Cundertol had betrayed his own people after having been promised immortality by the invaders . The Keeramak ordered his P ' w ' eck slaves to attack the prisoners , but was shot dead by the paddle beamer of the P ' w ' eck Lwothin , who led his brethren in an actual revolt against their masters . Jaina Solo and her lightsaber aided them in the ensuing firefight , and although the P ' w ' eck were victorious , Cundertol escaped . Concurrent P ' w ' eck mutinies aboard Ssi - ruuvi cruisers in Bakuran space brought a swift end to the invasion , and the P ' w ' eck Emancipation Movement formally allied with Bakura . The kidnapping charges leveled against Thanas were overturned , and the government hired her and Vyram to finish tracing the missing credits they had earlier discovered in a demonstration of Freedom ' s good intentions . The credits had in fact been laundered offworld by Cundertol in order to have a Human replica droid of himself built , and the Prime Minister had voluntarily undergone the Ssi - ruuvi entechment process in order to have his soul transferred into the droid ' s body . Jaina Solo was later able to track the missing credits to Onadax , where the droid had been built at the headquarters of Onadax Droid Technologies . Personality and traits . At the age of four , Malinza Thanas was a spritely infant who enjoyed bouncing down stairwells and singing songs to herself . She loved her mother deeply and did not want her to leave for the Corellian sector . When Captison died , Thanas did not fully understand why her mother would not return to Bakura . As she grew up , she retained very few memories of either of her parents . Although Luke Skywalker blamed himself for Captison ' s death , Thanas did not , and harbored no resentment toward the Jedi Master . She did begin to despise the New Republic , however ; she blamed them for Captison ' s passing and hated them for dragging Bakura into their struggles . It similarly vexed her that Bakura acquiesced so readily to their requests . To Thanas , the New Republic was a cruel mistress that held Bakura in chains and dragged it into wars and galactic affairs with no regard for the well - being of its people . As a teenager , Thanas organized Freedom , a resistance movement , and began to actively protest against the New Republic and lobby for Bakura ' s independence . Her belief in the necessity of independence and autonomy extended to Freedom ' s principles as well ; the organization made every effort to remain out of debt to others due to the members ' belief that independence was a necessary element of objectivity . Thanas hoped to objectively evaluate the honesty of Bakura ' s senators , and felt that blackmailing them was in the best interests of the Bakuran public . She supported the idea of an alliance with the P ' w ' eck , and was very adamant that violence not be on Freedom ' s agenda , as she did not want Bakura ' s former regime to be replaced with one that she saw as equally bad . She and her friends thought of Freedom as Bakura ' s conscience , keeping things in balance . Thanas ' s belief in the Balance dictated many of her actions . The Cosmic Balance claimed that any great force for good needed a counterbalancing evil force to exist , and that good works for some unintentionally led to evil results for others . As such , Thanas was reluctant to take a stance against others out of fear of backlash from the Balance , and she did not force violent citizens to disassociate themselves from Freedom . She did not encourage them to stay , however . Thanas accepted that the Balance had been behind her mother ' s death , but was nevertheless unhappy about having been on the receiving end of its actions . She was also initially hesitant to aid Jaina Solo out of fear of the Balance ' s backlash . Thanas was very determined in her efforts to resist the New Republic , and impressed Solo with her ability to rise to a cause despite having lost both of her parents so early in her life . She resisted the attempts of Bakuran police to arrest her , and was only brought down by the combined efforts of four officers and two security droids . She was an able leader of Freedom , remaining calm and directing the actions of its members while their headquarters were being approached by Bakuran police . Solo saw a maturity in her face that was at odds with her young age , and found her gaze piercing . However , Solo also suspected that Thanas fought because she had nothing left to lose , and , although Thanas was proud of her resistance efforts , Solo observed that some of her fire had gone out . As she wearily sat in a prison cell , Thanas resigned herself to the idea that she would not receive a fair trial , and took some small comfort in the idea that any wrong done to her would ensure that some good came to somebody somewhere in the future . Despite her resignation , she was eager to escape from her cell when she found the coast clear . A romantic spark existed between Thanas and Vyram that was noticed by Solo on more than one occasion . The two kept their relationship strictly professional in public , however . Thanas was also close with several more of her friends , and was deeply hurt by the deaths of Zel and Jjorg . Although she believed that her allies one day could turn into her enemies the next , the betrayals of Salkeli and Blaine Harris similarly cut her deep . She fought to keep control of her emotions after she discovered their treachery , but broke down after Jjorg ' s death , openly crying and blaming Solo for not having prevented it . In the ensuing moments , her eyes betrayed her hatred of Salkeli and her fear of death threats issued by Harris . Thanas was thin and very agile , able to leap across rooftops and swing hand - over - hand across power lines . She often proceeded through such dangerous situations without hesitation . Her black hair was complemented by different - colored eyes — Thanas sported a green left iris and a gray right , although they were both brown in her infancy . Behind the scenes . Malinza Thanas was created by author Roger MacBride Allen for the novel " Assault at Selonia " , the second installment of 1995 ' s " Corellian Trilogy " . She briefly appeared in the book , and was mentioned as being orphaned following the death of her mother in the trilogy ' s conclusion , " Showdown at Centerpoint " . Her fate was left unaddressed until James Luceno mentioned her in his 2000 novel " " , stating that Luke Skywalker had sponsored her and often visited her on Bakura . Kathy Tyers reaffirmed that information in the novel " " , which was released and took place shortly after " Jedi Eclipse " . Tyers , who had herself created Thanas ' s parents and home planet , considered giving Thanas a minor role in the book , but felt that it would have distracted from the main plotline . She also did not want to place the character in danger , and felt creatively stifled by previous authors ' non - use of the character , which left her with very little to draw from . Tyers thus resigned herself to addressing Thanas ' s fate by mentioning her status as Skywalker ' s sponsor child . " Jedi Eclipse " and " Balance Point " were both entries in " " book series , and nearly three years later , another volume in the series gave Thanas a starring role . She was featured heavily in Sean Williams ' and Shane Dix ' s " " , which saw one of its three major storylines take place on Bakura . " Refugee " developed Thanas ' s character and personality as a teenager , fleshing her out considerably from what had previously been established . In a minor error , the book noted that her eye color was the same as her mother ' s , although the 1993 novel " The Truce at Bakura " stated that Gaeriel Captison ' s right iris was green and her left grey , the opposite of Thanas ' s . In addition to her roles and mentions in novels , Thanas has been discussed in several sourcebooks , including 1997 ' s " Cracken ' s Threat Dossier " and 2002 ' s " The New Essential Guide to Characters " . She received her own entry in 2008 ' s " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " .