Jan Ors Jan Ors was a Human female Alderaanian intelligence operative who began her work as an agent for the terrorist organization Justice Action Network . As the undercover agent Jan Strange , she then shifted to helping the Alliance to Restore the Republic , becoming one of their trusted operatives . Ors was instrumental in recruiting Kyle Katarn to the Alliance and together they worked on many missions for the Alliance and later the New Republic . The two would later become romantically involved . Ors continued her work for the New Republic by joining Alpha Blue , a secret intelligence organization , that she eventually took over from Hiram Drayson . There she worked for the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances against the Yuuzhan Vong . Biography . Youth . Jan Ors ' mother was a choreographer for Alderaan ' s premier ballet company , and her father was an aerospace engineer ; Ors learned both of these arts . Her parents also were instrumental in Earnst Kamiel ' s establishing of the Justice Action Network , an anti - Imperial terrorist organization whose initials ( JAN ) were partly chosen to honor the Ors ' daughter . However , Ors did not stay with the JAN , instead striking out on her own path . Alias and espionage . She began her career by infiltrating Imperial Intelligence under the pseudonym Jan Strange . Once she was well placed in the Surveillance section of Intell , she contacted the Alliance Intelligence , providing them with invaluable counterintelligence and performing sabotage and covert extractions . She first encountered the Imperial cadet Kyle Katarn while working in Intell , though neither left an impression on the other at the time . She maintained a very delicate balance of providing intelligence to the Alliance while simultaneously performing her duties as an Imperial Intelligence officer . Surveillance section came to value her ability to pinpoint the right subjects for observation , and often sent her to the Core Worlds where corruption was rampant . This " talent " was the result of Ors arranging to have targets planted by the Alliance , whom she would then observe , capture , and interrogate ; they would then be set free , and she would fake a " termination during interrogation " to cover their escape . Unfortunately for the Alliance , her cover required her to sometimes act against them , even sometimes going so far as to sacrifice clumsy and careless agents . Despite having never worn the uniform of the Alliance to Restore the Republic , her difficult assignment earned her a Captain ' s rank and a Nebula for Bravery " in absentia " , along with an almost legendary stature among other Rebels . Rebel Alliance . Ors did not remain in her Jan Strange guise for long , and was soon performing missions as part of the Rebel Alliance itself . In 1 BBY , she participated in a mission to steal prime - grade fuel slugs from Imperial forces in the jungles of Oulanne . In the course of the mission , her leg was injured , and it became infected . Her teammates fled with her to Pellezara station in the Duro system , where they hid her beneath the deckplates of their freighter while they all disembarked in search of medical supplies . Tarrin Datch , a seventeen - year old son of the owners of the station , found her while replacing the ship ' s gravity disk s during routine restocking . In a delirium brought on by the strange alien infection , Ors told the boy her name and the cargo the ship was carrying . When Imperial forces entered the Duro system , Datch , an accomplished pilot , took action to save the strikingly beautiful woman , undocking the ship , and proceeding to fly it in a manner more befitting a starfighter than a freighter , outmaneuvering the " Gamma " - class assault shuttle that was pursuing them . When he made it to open space , he hypered to an outer - system station that was equipped with a well - equipped medicenter , where he stabilized Ors . Unable to return to Pellezara station , and knowing the fuel slugs needed to be delivered to the Alliance , Ors disclosed the location of the Dantooine base to Datch , who took them both there . There , Datch joined the Rebellion and began training to become a fighter pilot , while Ors went on to other missions ; one of them stationed her at a Rebel base on the asteroid AX - 456 . It was not long before the Empire located the AX - 456 base and invaded ; coincidentally , Kyle Katarn was the cadet commander in charge of the mission . At one point , Ors and Katarn saw each other , and though neither remembered their brief past encounters , both felt a spark of distant recognition . Katarn spared the lives of the Rebel group she was in , which fled the asteroid . It would not be their last encounter . During a mission aboard the " Star of Empire " , Ors again encountered Katarn , to whom she revealed that it was the Empire , not Rebels , who killed his father Morgan Katarn . She established a relationship with the already ambivalent Katarn , and when spies uncovered the presence of Rebels aboard the " Star " , he defected with Ors . Sometime between her service as Jan Strange and the mission to Danuta , Ors lost the use of her right hand and had it replaced with a cybernetic prosthesis . Jan Ors met with Mon Mothma and persuaded her to hire Kyle Katarn as a mercenary and commando , going so far as to lie in her reports to give credence to her faith in Katarn ' s trustworthiness . Ors provided briefings from Alliance Command to Katarn and served as pilot of their ship , the " Moldy Crow " , in their pivotal missions to capture the plans for the first Death Star on Danuta and later to thwart the Dark Trooper Project . Dark Trooper campaign . By that time she became one of the few people Katarn trusted , and also one of the few people he could count on to help him get out of sticky situations ; Katarn requested to Mon Mothma that Ors accompany him for the campaign . Ors , providing the intelligence for Katarn and guiding him during his missions , traced Moff Rebus based on an Imperial Repeater Rifle found by Katarn while investigating the massacre on Talay . She later found out that phrik that Katarn found on Fest originated from the Gromas Mines . Ors flew Katarn to Gromas 16 where he managed to destroy the facility . After a brief delay , having to drop Katarn to Orinackra in order to free Crix Madine from the prison , Ors was informed that the Dark Trooper project was financed by smugglers and an unidentified kingpin who was no other than Jabba the Hutt . Ors suggested to Katarn that he should put a tracking device on a smuggler ship on Cal - Seti , which led them to Anteevy . There Katarn destroyed the robotics facility . Ors investigated flights to and from Gromas 16 and Anteevy and found that they were all led to Nar Shaddaa . Ors thought that there would be found some Imperial Navigational devices or charts that the smugglers hired by the Empire used , which would help Katarn and her find the location of the " Arc Hammer " . During their adventures while on Nar Shaddaa , Katarn found a nava card but the " Crow " was captured and both were brought onto the " Star Jewel " . Ors was held as a bargaining chip against the Alliance by Jabba , until she was again rescued by Katarn , who had to go through many extremes to save her , including defeating a Kell dragon with his bare hands . Once free , Jan Ors realized that only the Imperial Security Operations building in Imperial City hosted a reader that could interpret the nava card Katarn obtained . Jan Ors approached with the Moldy Crow in a plaza where she left Katarn . While Katarn managed to reach the ISO building Jan Ors was spotted and attacked by TIE Fighters . A distress call reached Katarn ' s comlink on his way back and ran to see what happened . Ors was gone when Katarn returned to the place he was landed , instead finding Boba Fett waiting for him . After both Katarn and Ors were finished with their , encounters , Ors approached Katarn and the two left Coruscant . Jan Ors , based on the output of the nava card , understood that only " Executor " knew the " Arc Hammer " location at each given time since it was making leaps to hyperspace to keep its status secret . The only way to reach the factory was via the " Executor " which was supplied from Ergo . Ors ' s final part on the campaign was to leave Katarn on Ergo , and from that point , Katarn single - handedly finished his mission , boarding " Executor " , the " Arc Hammer " and putting an end to the Dark Trooper threat . New Republic . Ors and Katarn ' s relationship continued to deepen , but Ors feared allowing Katarn to get too close . This changed as she accompanied Katarn on their quest for the Valley of the Jedi on Ruusan , where she was captured by the Dark Jedi Jerec . Jerec asked Katarn ( who came very close to the dark side of the Force ) to execute her . He refused , defeating Jerec and sealing the Valley . Ors and Katarn then declared their love for one another . She later continued to turn down Katarn ' s proposals of marriage , however , not wanting to get married simply because of the fear that each day could be their last . On Mon Mothma ' s recommendation , Ors joined Admiral Hiram Drayson ' s secret Alpha Blue organization . There , she helped expose the Yevetha ns and kept tabs on the Order of the Canted Circle , the Azurite Society of Lords , and Grand Admiral Octavian Grant , who was allegedly retired on Rathalay . She also accompanied Katarn , who had returned to his mercenary ways after slipping to the dark side on Dromund Kaas , on a number of off - the - record missions against the Imperial Remnant in their new ship , the " Raven ' s Claw " . While following up a lead on the Reborn , a deadly Dark Jedi force of the Empire Reborn faction , Ors was captured by a failed student of Luke Skywalker ' s Jedi Praxeum , Desann , and his apprentice Tavion Axmis . They pretended to kill her , and Katarn heard the lightsaber sound without being able to help her . Grieved by her apparent loss , he returned to the Valley of the Jedi to regain his Jedi powers , allowing Desann to find the Valley ' s location and use its powers to fuel the Reborn . It was only much later that Axmis confessed to Katarn that they only feigned Ors ' execution , and the couple was ultimately reunited before Desann met his doom . Yuuzhan Vong War and beyond . Eventually , Admiral Drayson retired , and Ors took over Alpha Blue just before the Yuuzhan Vong War . In the desperate circumstances the invasion engendered , Ors looked back to her terrorist roots and , with the help of the Chiss , Lurrian genetic engineers , and others , concocted the genocidal bioagent Alpha Red . Fortunately , the invasion was halted before Alpha Red had to be put to widespread use . In addition to her work with intelligence , Ors still performed some field missions during the war . On one such occasion on Ord Sedra , Ors and Katarn teamed up with a local Imperial stormtrooper unit under the command of Lieutenant Pallin . A force of Yuuzhan Vong warriors and Peace Brigadiers had captured an entire village and taken them as slaves . While being transported , Katarn infiltrated them , while Ors and Pallin orchestrated an ambush of the patrol . The ambush was successful and resulted in the freeing of the slaves and the capture of the enemy forces which were left under the guard of the Imperial troops . They proved unable to contain them , however , and in her rush to aid them , Ors was captured by the Yuuzhan Vong . Only the timely arrival of Katarn saved her life . After that , Katarn asked her to marry him , but she refused . Following the end of the invasion , Katarn disappeared while investigating rumors of Sith activity . Ors , along with Katarn ' s former apprentice Jaden Korr , used every free moment to track him down . Eventually , she teamed up with Jedi Master Mara Jade Skywalker in forming an elite team of Alpha Blue agents and Jedi Knights to find him . The trail led to the Cloak of the Sith , where the cyborg Jedi Daye Azur - Jamin held Katarn captive . Katarn was freed and Azur - Jamin , redeemed from the dark side of the Force , revealed the existence of a Force - strong female Yuuzhan Vong . Personality and traits . Ors was a brave woman . Even from a young age she would not let the Empire intimidate her into submission As an Intelligence officer she was thorough , and had a plan every step of the way for her double agent operations . . When she worked with Katarn her detailed oriented nature and ability to gather intelligence greatly aided Katarn on his missions although they came into conflict on occasion due to Katarn ' s more chaotic , straightforward approach . Despite their differences they maintained a friendly and playful relationship and Ors was quick to crack a joke or sarcastic remark at Katarn ' s expense . She was extremely dedicated to both the Rebellion and the New Republic being one of their first members and continuing to serve for over thirty years . She was also very loyal to her friends willing to face extreme danger in order to help Katarn on his personal mission . Behind the scenes . Portrayal . In " " , Jan Ors is voiced by Julie Eccles , who also plays Ru Murleen in " " . She appears only in stills . In " " , she is played by model Angela Harry , whose likeness has been used in subsequent portrayals of Ors . In " " , she is voiced by Vanessa Marshall . In the " Dark Forces " audio dramatizations she is portrayed by actress and comedian Mo Collins , best known for her work on . Continuity . Jan Ors was created as a supporting character for the game " " , and reappeared in its sequels , excluding " " ( beyond a brief mention ) . " Jedi Knight " comes with an alternate ending where Kyle Katarn fell to the dark side and , when prompted by Jerec , killed Ors . The light side ending has been deemed by Lucasfilm Ltd . to be the canon ical ending , and is reflected in later products . " The Dark Forces Saga , Part 2 : Unsung Heroes of the Light " retconned her into the same character as " Cracken ' s Rebel Operatives " mysterious Jan Strange , who was created four years before " Dark Forces " . Character . Jan Ors is also a playable character in the multi - player modes of all of the games in the " Jedi Knight " series . It is interesting to note that the unused female Jedi model in " Jedi Outcast " is just a jacketless Ors with a lightsaber and Force powers . Though it does not appear in the main game , it is accessible using the cheat " npc spawn jedif " . In addition , Jan , like almost every non - Force user in the Jedi Knight series , can utilize the lightsaber as a primary melee weapon if she is called to a multiplayer game as CPU - controlled bot .