Jelok Jelok was a Human male scientist who served in the forces of Imperial warlord Moff Kentor Sarne in 8 ABY . Assigned to research team MS - 133 , Jelok was part of an expedition dispatched to the planet Aaris III in the Kathol sector . The team ' s mission was to conduct an archaeological dig in ruins found on the planet in an effort to discover why the native species , the Aaris , had gone extinct . During the months - long mission , Jelok assisted his colleague , Grigor Tansad , in exploring the Place of Kastays , where he discovered the Plaque of Victory , an inanimate lifeform that influenced the emotions of those beings around it by heightening their suspicions and causing violent behavior . The Plaque of Victory began to affect the team , causing an outbreak of paranoia . Shortly after , MS - 133 came under attack by the primitive descendants of the Aaris . As the team began to take casualties , the expedition leader , Doctor Lancer Brunou , ordered the mission to be abandoned . Jelok , feeling that his exploration of the Place of Kastays had reached a critical stage , refused to abandon his research and had to be forcibly removed to the team ' s shuttle . That night , the shuttle was destroyed , stranding MS - 133 on the planet . Jelok did not survive to be rescued by the New Republic CR90 corvette " FarStar " , which arrived in orbit in response to a distress call sent by Doctor Brunou . Biography . In 8 ABY , Jelok , a Human male , was serving in the forces of Moff Kentor Sarne , the Imperial warlord of the Kathol sector . He was a scientist and was assigned to MS - 133 , a research team under the command of Doctor Lancer Brunou . The team was dispatched on an archaeological expedition to a series of extensive ruins on the planet Aaris III with the intention of discovering the cause behind the extinction of the world ' s sentient species , the Aaris . Over the course of several months , Jelok assisted Brunou and the rest of the team in exploring the extensive metal ruins . On the forty - ninth day of the mission , one of Jelok ' s fellow scientists , Grigor Tansad , discovered a chamber within one of the ruined structures . Brunou assigned Jelok , along with two technicians and five troopers , to assist Tansad in exploring the chamber . The small group set up a secondary base camp close to the chamber , as the structure was away from MS - 133 ' s primary camp . The team discovered that the chamber was covered in bas - relief pictograph s that emitted sounds when touched . Jelok believed that the sounds the pictographs emitted were the key to the language used by the Aaris , while Tansad was of the opinion that they represented a pictorial dating system and served as the civilization ' s aural history . Both scientists began to work on their own theories , attempting to translate the pictographs . After several days of work , Tansad ' s theory about the pictographs proved to be correct , causing Jelok to abandon his own line of research and assist his fellow scientist . On the sixtieth day of the expedition , Jelok was clearing rubble from the chamber ' s floor when he discovered a concealed panel that housed a metal ingot . Brunou took the artifact to be analyzed at the main base camp and discovered that it was composed of material unknown to Imperial science , and that it gave off a faint energy reading . He resolved to send it back to Moff Sarne ' s laboratories on his capital , the planet Kal ' Shebbol , for further testing . The team was unaware of the ingot ' s true nature ; the artifact contained a sentient lifeform that fed off the life - force of living beings . Despite being inanimate , it sought to destroy those around it by manipulating their emotions , heightening their suspicions and turning them violent . The Aaris referred to the artifact as the " Plaque of Victory , " and it had been responsible for the civil war that had destroyed their civilization thousands of years previously . Jelok continued to clear the rubble and debris from the chamber while Tansad endeavored to translate the pictographs , entering the findings on his personal datapad . On the sixty - first day of the expedition , members of the team began to report feelings of being watched from the surrounding jungle , despite there being no evidence of any other living beings on the planet . As a precaution , the Lieutenant in command of the security detachment led five troopers into the jungle to investigate . An hour later , blaster fire was heard in the distance . When none of the team returned , weapons were issued to the rest of the team . Jelok and Tansad continued to work in the chamber despite the incident . That night , the main base camp was attacked by the primitive descendants of the Aaris , resulting in the wounding of a technician and Doctor Theda . Jelok later reported that Tansad was missing from the secondary camp , and that two more technicians had been killed by sniper fire from the jungle . With these setbacks , Brunou ordered Jelok to return to the main camp . Jelok refused , stating that he was close to translating the alien language , and that he had discovered that the name of the chamber they were excavating was the " Place of Kastays . " Jelok felt that it was vital his work continue , but Brunou disagreed , ordering the remaining troopers to escort Jelok back to the team ' s shuttle , while he and the rest of the staff packed up the base camp in readiness to leave the planet . That night , the Aaris attacked again , destroying the team ' s shuttle and reducing MS - 133 to a handful of survivors — Doctors Brunou and Theda , Solla Deremot , two troopers , and a technician . With no way off the planet , they fortified the base camp as best they could and sent a distress signal to Kal ' Shebbol . The message was intercepted by the New Republic CR90 corvette " FarStar " . In the months since MS - 133 had departed Kal ' Shebbol , the New Republic had liberated the planet . By the time the corvette had arrived , only Brunou and Deremot remained alive to evacuate . Captain Kaiya Adrimetrum , commanding officer of the " FarStar " , authorized an investigation into what had occurred on the planet . Crew members searched the Place of Kastays , where they found Tansad ' s body hidden in the rubble , with evidence that he had been killed by a blow to the head by a heavy rock . The rock in question was found nearby , along with Tansad ' s datapad , which noted that he felt that Jelok was jealous of his work . Personality and traits . Jelok was a scientist with experience in translating alien languages , and he was able to make intuitive leaps and reasoned hypotheses when confronted with imagery from alien civilizations . During the Aaris III expedition , when his theory on the nature of the alien pictographs was proved wrong , he willingly set aside his own work to assist his colleague , Grigor Tansad . Despite this , Tansad felt that Jelok was jealous that his theory had been proven right . Dedicated to his work , Jelok was angry when Doctor Brunou ordered him to abandon his studies when the expedition came under attack . Behind the scenes . Jelok was introduced in the RPG adventure " Artifact of Aaris " , published in " The DarkStryder Campaign " by West End Games in 1995 . The character was later referenced in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " . The adventure implies that , under the influence of the Plaque of Victory , the members of MS - 133 turned upon each other , resulting in multiple deaths and the destruction of the team ' s shuttle . However , " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , published in 2008 , confirmed that the team came under attack from the remnants of the Aaris civilization . Regardless , the adventure implies that Jelok was responsible for the murder of Grigor Tansad . Tansad ' s own notes state that he felt that Jelok was jealous of his work , and Tansad ' s body was found under the rubble in the chamber in which he and Jelok were working . Tansad had been killed by a blow to the head , and the murder weapon was nearby , still covered in blood . However , since neither source directly confirms these implications , this article only presents the information without assumptions .