Mission to Myrkr The Mission to Myrkr , also known as the Mission , was an operation conducted by the New Jedi Order in 27 ABY with the purpose of destroying the Jedi - hunting voxyn creatures . A strike team of seventeen Jedi Knights , led by Anakin Solo , infiltrated the worldship " Baanu Rass " above the planet Myrkr and eliminated the voxyn queen , though six Jedi — Anakin among them — lost their lives in the process and Jacen Solo was captured . The mission . The Yuuzhan Vong War continued to rage as planets began to fall one by one , and with the birth of his son , Ben , Luke Skywalker was determined more than ever to drive back the aliens . After the discovery of the Jedi - killing voxyn , several Jedi were assigned to destroy the cloning facility at Myrkr , including the Solo children , Anakin , Jacen and Jaina , and their friends Tenel Ka , Tahiri Veila , and Zekk . Lando Calrissian and Tendra Risant Calrissian pretended to be Yuuzhan Vong sympathizers from Talfaglio , a planet under Yuuzhan Vong blockade . They delivered the seventeen Jedi to a rendezvous point with the Yuuzhan Vong scout ship " Exquisite Death " , which delivered the team through the heavily mined Vong frontier to Myrkr . During their captivity , the Jedi were badly injured by Vong torture , and one , Ulaha Kore , almost died . Hoping to elevate himself in the eyes of his superiors by employing voxyn to torture the Jedi one by one , the Yuuzhan Vong commander Duman Yaght showed particular sadism against the Jedi by repeatedly inflicting pain upon the already injured Ulaha , and by forcing Jaina Solo to choose which of her brothers was tortured . The resulting injuries ranged from bruises , burns , and cuts to more severe injuries . Using a technique called Force meld , the Jedi managed to survive . They then turned on their captors , and secured the ship in hyperspace with the help of two of Lando ' s YVH - Series battle droid s , who helped them destroy all the Yuuzhan Vong warriors and voxyn aboard . On arrival in the Myrkr system , several Vong ships , led by Nom Anor and Vergere on " Ksstarr " , pursued the Jedi frigate . Ulaha sacrificed her life to allow the Jedi strike team to land on the worldship , " Baanu Rass " , and led the enemy away while Anakin ' s force entered the ship . Ulaha perished soon after the Jedi were offloaded . Following their entrance into " Baanu Rass " , the Jedi encountered a Nightsister , Lomi Plo , and her apprentice , Welk . They agreed to assist the Jedi in finding the voxyn queen in return for safety and protection . Under Anakin ' s leadership , the team avoided a trap in a slave city and on board a captured AT - AT walker , a home to an insect nest . Nom Anor and Vergere relentlessly pursued the group towards the voxyn queen ' s lair throughout the journey ; however , after the encounter in the slave city , Anakin ' s spleen was ruptured after rashly rescuing his sister . The remaining mission was spent in an attempt to stay away from the Yuuzhan Vong long enough for Anakin to go into a healing trance , as he refused the team to stop the mission because of his wounds . Not long afterward , the Jedi reached an arena - like area nearby the Shaper damutek where the queen hid from them . As they neared the arena , they found a freighter , " Tachyon Flier " , which they attempted to repair as a means of escape . While Lowbacca repaired the crashed ship , Raynar Thul recovered from his recent injuries . Lomi Plo and Welk showed their true colors by stealing the ship with Raynar on it and flying off into the Unknown Regions . In an effort to complete the mission , the team continued . In a rearguard action , a severely wounded Anakin fought many Yuuzhan Vong as a means of allowing the team enough time to escape . He also levitated a thermal detonator to destroy the remaining voxyn tissue , which prevented the further creation of the Jedi - hunting creatures . Moments before his death , Anakin became a blinding pillar of light as he became one with the Force . Jaina , blinded by her grief , drifted into the dark side of the Force in order to retrieve Anakin ' s body . After killing the queen , Jacen , assisted by Vergere , was captured by Nom Anor . Unable to return to the worldship , Jaina , Tenel Ka , Zekk , Tahiri Veila , Tesar Sebatyne , Alema Rar , Ganner Rhysode , Tekli , and Lowbacca flew away from Myrkr on " Ksstarr " . Aftermath and legacy . After Anakin ' s death , Jaina continued to wrestle with the dark side , and Tahiri , who had been romantically involved with Anakin , was sent to depths of despair . Jacen faced the Embrace of Pain at the hands of the Yuuzhan Vong , though he was thought to be dead by everyone except his mother ; Ganner Rhysode later died while helping Jacen escape . Due to the heavy losses that came with the mission ' s bittersweet victory , the Solo family went into a deep depression . Luke Skywalker himself bitterly regretted not going along with the team to ensure a safe success and the guilt remained with him for many years afterwards . Just after getting elected Chief of State , one of Cal Omas ' s first priorities was to organize a ceremony where the survivors of the mission were knighted , and the dead were honored . Six years after the war ' s end , the Dark Jedi , including Raynar , started the Dark Nest Crisis . Due to the excessive use of the mind meld that was employed throughout the previous years , the survivors , with an exception of Jacen and Tenel Ka , were easily converted into Joiner s . Jacen and Tenel Ka had a child , Allana , and fell in love . During the Second Galactic Civil War in 40 ABY , Jacen turned to the dark side and apprenticed himself to the Sith Lady Lumiya , through whom he discovered that Vergere had been a Sith . Alema Rar , who was presumed dead four years earlier , returned with the intent of exacting revenge on Jacen ' s family , in the process helping to ensure Jacen ' s fall ; she was later killed . Later in the war , Jacen , by then the Sith Lord Darth Caedus , took Tahiri as his Sith Apprentice , corrupting her with false promises of bringing the deceased Anakin Solo back to life . The war ended with Caedus ' s death at Jaina ' s hands , whilst Tahiri , having realized the error of her ways , was redeemed by the now - teenaged Ben Skywalker . Of the seventeen Jedi that participated in the mission to Myrkr , only seven of them - Jaina Solo , Tenel Ka , Tahiri Veila , Lowbacca , Zekk , Tesar Sebatyne , and Tekli - survived both the mission and its long - lasting repercussions . In 43 ABY , sixteen years after his death , Anakin Solo ' s spirit met with Luke and Ben in the Maw . Saying that too much had died with him , Anakin warned his uncle and cousin not to repeat his mistakes . He also asked them to tell Tahiri he still loved her , a message she later received from Anakin ' s parents . Behind the scenes . In " The New Essential Chronology " , it is repeatedly — and mistakenly — referred to as the ' Mission to Wayland ' .