Lassicar Lassicar was a Human male who served as an Imperial Guard of the resurgent Sith Empire during the Great Galactic War , Cold War , and Galactic War . Born on the planet Begeren , Lassicar killed his own parents when he discovered they were part of a terrorist cell , and he was recruited into the Imperial Guard not long afterward . A legendary Guardsman with a fearsome reputation , Lassicar was sent by the Sith Emperor himself to stop the Jedi Knight known as the Hero of Tython from retrieving the plans for the Emperor ' s Fortress on the planet Hoth . However , Lassicar ' s attempts to trap the Jedi failed , and the Guardsman was killed along with his elite shock trooper s in a battle with the Knight in the wreck of the " Star of Coruscant " superdreadnaught . Biography . A Human male , Lassicar was born to slave parents on the planet Begeren sometime after the Sith Empire conquered the system in 3678 BBY . When he realized that his parents were part of a terrorist cell on the planet , Lassicar personally killed them and exposed the cell to Moff Harvus . The young man was then recruited into the Imperial Guard , the ranks of which he rose through faster than any other Guardsman . During his career as a Guardsman amid the Great Galactic War and the Cold War with the Republic , Lassicar personally killed six Jedi as well as over two dozen Sith Lords who earned the Sith Emperor ' s disfavor . A team of agents from the Republic Strategic Information Service , the Republic ' s intelligence agency , was sent to eliminate the Guardsman , but Lassicar killed them and shipped the agents back to the Republic capital of Coruscant in a series of small containers . Around the year 3642 BBY , the Emperor selected Lassicar to lead a mission to the ice planet of Hoth . Lassicar and a group of Imperial Guardsmen were tasked with the capture of two Jedi Knights : Leeha Narezz and the Hero of Tython , who were both on Hoth to recover the plans for the Emperor ' s personal space fortress — though Lassicar was not aware of the specifics of the Jedi ' s mission . Lassicar sent a number of Guardsmen to lay a trap for Narezz in the Highmount Ridge , a geological feature on Hoth that was riddled with caves and also home to the wreck of the " Deference " , a " Pythar " - class Imperial shuttlecraft that supposedly contained the plans for the station . Lassicar ' s men set up turrets in the caves and injured Narezz when she entered the cave , and Lassicar had begun to negotiate the Jedi ' s surrender via hologram when the Hero of Tython arrived , destroying the turrets just before Lassicar ' s Guardsmen entered and leveled their blasters at the Jedi . However , Lassicar ' s attempts to force the Jedi to surrender failed when Narezz ' s reinforcements — a squad of Republic trooper s under the command of Sergeant Fideltin Rusk — abseiled into the cave , and with the squad ' s help , the Hero killed Lassicar ' s men and secured the " Deference " . Despite the setback , Lassicar remained committed to his mission , and upon learning that the Hero of Tython intended to storm the crashed superdreadnaught " Star of Coruscant " , Lassicar took a contingent of Guardsmen into the vessel to head off the Knight . The Hero and a companion fought through many of Lassicar ' s men before encountering the Guardsman himself with a pair of subordinates , and Lassicar requested that the two surrender peacefully or suffer the consequences . However , the Knight revealed that the Jedi ' s mission was a distraction for Narezz to secure the station plans from the White Maw pirates who had stolen them and stored them in their treasure cache in the " Star of Coruscant " . When the Knight refused to surrender , Lassicar and his men engaged the Jedi and the Hero ' s companion in battle , but the conflict ended with the death of the Guardsmen . Personality and traits . Fair - skinned and brown - haired with green eyes , Lassicar was arrogant and supremely confident in the superiority of the Imperial Guard . He was also intensely loyal to both the Empire and the Emperor , as he was willing to sacrifice his parents for the good of the Empire and his own life in the service of its ruler . Lassicar ' s loyalty was such that he did not question the Emperor ' s instructions or inquire as to his reasons for capturing the two Jedi on Hoth . Lassicar possessed a number of scars along his right jaw . As an Imperial Guardsman , Lassicar was highly trained in many forms of combat , and he was considered an incredibly deadly opponent , having killed a number of Jedi and several dozen Sith Lords during his career . Equipment . Lassicar normally wore the crimson armor of the Imperial Guard , though he forewent the crested helmet while on Hoth and chose to wear his traditional armor instead of the white environmental gear that some of his subordinates used . In combat on Hoth , Lassicar favored a vibrostaff . Behind the scenes . Lassicar first appeared in " " , a massively multiplayer online role - playing game released by BioWare and LucasArts on December 20 , 2011 . A major antagonist of the Jedi Knight - class storyline on the planet Hoth , Lassicar appears in hologram form in mission " Sub - Zero Showdown . " The final mission on Hoth has two possible paths : The first , " The Imperial Guard , " has the player fight Lassicar and his men in the aft section of the " Star of Coruscant " , while the second , " The White Maw , " has the Jedi fight the pirate Zeshatt in the fore section . Whichever mission the player chooses , Sergeant Rusk will complete the other , but his squadmates will be killed against the highly - trained Imperials , and the Knight only goes after the White Maw out of vengeance . Therefore , this article assumes that the Knight allowed Sergeant Rusk to choose and that his squad survived , meaning that the player fought Lassicar .