Janks Janks was a male Phindian who served as a crew member on the smuggling vessel known as the " Uhumele " following the Clone Wars . On the ship he served as an assistant to the chief engineer , a Tintinna named Meekerdin - maa , and also cooked for the crew . In 19 BBY a month after the Declaration of a New Order by Galactic Emperor Palpatine , Janks and his crewmates were trapped on the planet of New Plympto due to an Imperial quarantine . While stuck , the group were joined by Jedi General Dass Jennir and a local Nosaurian , Bomo Greenbark . With the pair ' s aid , the " Uhumele " escaped from New Plympto , after which Janks and the crew agreed to help Greenbark find his enslaved family . First traveling to the slave - world of Orvax IV , they learned that Greenbark ' s wife was dead but that his daughter , Resa , had been sold and was on the planet Esseles . Janks and the crew then traveled to Esseles , where they attacked the villa in which the man who bought Greenbark ' s daughter lived . During the attack , Janks helped disable the villa ' s security droids but the " Uhumele ' s " crew were too late , as Dezono Qua , the man who had purchased Resa had eaten her shortly before the assault . Jennir shot Qua , but parted ways with Janks and company after they discovered that he was a Jedi . The " Uhumele " then traveled to the planet Pizkoss for supplies , but while there Janks was arrested by Imperial Stormtroopers . The Phindian was incarcerated first on a Star Destroyer , then in Imperial Prison ISO - L8 , where he was interrogated by Darth Vader concerning his old crewmates . Some time after Vader visited , the assassin Falco Sang found Janks and killed him for his part in Qua ' s death . Biography . Trapped on New Plympto . The male Phindian Janks lived during the final decades of the Galactic Republic and through the Clone Wars that marked their end . By 19 BBY , the year in which the War did finish , Janks had joined the crew of a Maka - Eekai L4000 transport named the " Uhumele " , working as an assistant to its technician Meekerdin - maa . The ship and its crew , captained by a Yarkora named Schurk - Heren , were on the planet of New Plympto one month after the Declaration of a New Order by the newly appointed Galactic Emperor Palpatine . On New Plympto , the " Uhumele " was landed in a spaceport in an area known as Cadgel Meadows , where they became grounded by forces belonging to the Galactic Empire . The Imperials were still engaged in combat with the local Nosaurian population of the planet , and after a decisive victory against them , were hoping to prevent any survivors escaping . Janks and the rest of the " Uhumele ' s " crew lay low in their ship , hoping to avoid Imperial attention while they were trapped . While the crew waited out the grounding of their vessel , two members of the New Plymto resistance , who had survived the recent battle with the Imperials , snuck aboard their ship during the cover of darkness . One of the pair , a Jedi general named Dass Jennir , took the " Uhumele ' s " pilot Crys Taanzer by surprise as she stood in the ships entryway and subdued her . Janks and the rest of the crew were ; however , located just inside the ship ' s entrance at the time , and the Phindian leveled his blaster at Jennir along with several other crew members , causing the Jedi to release Taanzer . After ordering the crew to hold fire as to not draw attention , Schurk - Heren introduced his the crew to Jennir and his companion , a Nosaurian Bomo Greenbark . Janks did not lower his weapon at first , but after learning the pair had survived the Empire ' s recent victory at Half - Axe Pass he approached them without the weapon aimed . Greenbark and Jennir then explained they were looking for the Nosaurian ' s family , who had fled the battle in the hopes of escaping the Imperials . Meekerdin - Maa informed the duo that all the Nosaurian refugees had been captured by Imperials and taken to be sold into slavery . The Following morning , Janks joined the rest of the crew and the two resistance members in a meeting to discuss how they might escape the Imperial ' s and New Plympto . When Jennir rejected an idea by Janks ' s fellow crewmate Ko Vakier to fight their way out , the Phinidian spoke up and questioned if he planned instead to simply sit and do nothing . Jennir then revealed his plan to make all the ships in the spaceport leave at once , giving the Imperials to many targets to take out . The plan was put into action , with Jennir stealing a Alpha - 3 Nimbus - class V - wing starfighter and using it to create the illusion that the Imperials were attacking the grounded ships in Cadgel Meadows . The " Uhumele " then took off amongst the other panicked vessels , and managed to escape New Plympto after fighting off several Imperial starfighters . Mission to save the Greenbarks . Once they were safely away , Janks and a Togorian crewmate named Mezgraf cooked a meal for the crew , which they ate while discussing their next destination , the slave world of Orvax IV , where Greenbark ' s family had been taken . Shortly before reaching the planet , Janks and the crew convened again to discuss what Jennir hoped to accomplish on Orvax IV . Greenbark and Jennir revealed they hoped to rescue the Nosaurian slaves on the planet , and Vakier , Mezgraf and Meekerdin - Maa offered to aid them in the venture . Upon reaching the planet , the rescue party disguised themselves and set off in search of the slaves , while Janks and the other crew members waited on the " Uhumele " . The group returned without Jennir , having discovered that Greenbark ' s wife Mesa had been killed , and his daughter Resa had been sold already . Jennir had split from the group to find the slaver who had sold Resa , and ordered that Greenbark be kept on the " Uhumele " while he did so . Janks and Meekerdin - Maa took on the task of preventing the Nosaurian from leaving , which he attempted to do constantly in the hopes of aiding Jennir . The pair eventually failed to restrain him and chased him as he ran through the ship , with only the timely intervention of Taanzer preventing his escape . Shortly afterwards , Jennir returned with the location and identity of Resa ' s buyer ; a wealthy Human from the planet Esseles named Dezono Qua . After the " Uhumele " left Orvax IV , Janks approached Jennir to congratulate him , but the Jedi ignored him , and Mezgraf warned the Phindian that their crewmate probably want to be left alone . Still intending on rescuing Resa , the " Uhumele " traveled to Esseles , where Jennir split from the group again to gather more information on Qua . While they waited for Jennir ' s return , the rest of the crew enjoyed the local cuisine , dining together in Calamar , Esseles capital . When Jennir did return he shared what he had learned with the crew and informed them that he and Greenbark would undertake the last leg of the mission alone , an idea which met with complete rejection . The entire crew of the " Uhumele " agreed to join the resistance members in an assault on the Qua family ' s villa , although some incorrectly assumed that Janks wouldn ' t help . Taanzer and her co - pilot Lynaliskar K ' ra Snyffulnimatta then piloted the " Uhumele " to Qua ' s mountain top residence , where the rest of the crew disembarked and attacked the security droids Qua owned . Janks , Greenbark and Meekerdin - Maa then headed for a vent which gave them access to one of the buildings control panels . The Phindian covered the vent entrance , while his comrades crawled inside and successfully disabled the remaining security droids in the villa . They then moved on to try and find Qua , first running into his servant droid E - 10 , who Greenbark destroyed after the droid refused to reveal Qua ' s location . By the time the trio did find Qua , Jennir had already reached him and had him at gunpoint . Once Schurk - Heren , Vakier and Mezgraf arrived the crew interrogated Qua and discovered he had eaten Resa , at which point Jennir shot him . A lonesome fate . Outraged that he had not been able to kill Qua himself , Greenbark revealed that Jennir was a Jedi to the rest of the group , a fact that the general had kept secret . Due to the bounty placed by the Empire on all Jedi ' s heads , the crew decided not to travel any further with Jennir as they did not wish to attract more attention to themselves . Leaving Jennir on Esseles , the " Uhumele " set course for the Core Worlds . A month after they had initially met Jennir and Greenbark , the " Uhumele ' s " crew stopped on the planet Pizkoss for supplies , and Janks made sure to gather food to cook for his crewmates . After collecting the goods , Janks begun making his way back to the " Uhumele " , but was interrupted on the way when Greenbark and Meekerdin - Maa collided with him in the street . The pair had been fleeing from Imperial troops , who swiftly caught up with them and opened fire . Janks crewmates took off , escaping the Imperial Stormtroopers , but caught unprepared , Janks was captured before he could run . The Imperials roughed the Phindian up , tearing his shirt and bruising his head , before taking him into custody . Janks was imprisoned in a cell on board a Venator - class Star Destroyer , where he was questioned cruelly for several days about his crewmates . He was then left alone for several weeks , during which time he was served food daily by a droid . Approximately three months after the Declaration of the New Order , Janks was visited by the Sith Lord Darth Vader and a scientist named Fane Peturri , who questioned him again about the " Uhumele " . The pair , who were planning an ambush for Janks ' s old crewmates , then left the Phindian alone again . At some point in the following month , Janks was moved to the space station in the Core Worlds known as Imperial Prison ISO - L8 . There he remained imprisoned , till the assassin Falco Sang , who had been hired by Qua ' s family to kill the " Uhumele ' s " crew , broke into the Phindian ' s cell . Janks was questioned one final time about the crew who had abandoned him , before Sang killed him . Shortly after his death , Vader , who was also visiting the prison to question Janks about Jennir , found the prisoner ' s body , but failed to stop Sang escaping . The assassin would later gloat about killing Janks when he tracked down Jennir , although he failed to kill any further members of the " Uhumele ' s " crew . Behind the scenes . Janks ' s name is written simply as " Jank " in some of his appearances .