Q ' anah ' s Marauders Q ' anah ' s Marauders were a pirate group that was active during the later years of the Twilight of the Republic . Originating in the Senex sector , following their leader ' s death the organization was taken over by his lover , calling herself Q ' anah , who expanded their operation to the entire Senex - Juvex . Intervention by the Judicial Forces forced relocation to the Greater Seswenna , where , in an alliance with other pirate gangs , they preyed on mining convoys to devastating effect . However , this was put to an end with their defeat by the Outland Regions Security Force , yet remnants of the group persisted well into the Imperial Era . History . Senex years . Years prior to the Battle of Naboo , the pirate group that would become Q ' anah ' s Marauders was led by the youngest son of the Asmeru noble house of Elegin . The group he led eventually was joined by his lover , who fought alongside them and later gave birth to his triplets . The pirate leader was captured and sentenced to death , executed on the planet Karfeddion . Effectively headless , his lover took command of the organization , taking the name Q ' anah . The group expanded its operation to encompass the entirety of the Mid Rim ' s Senex - Juvex region , with Q ' anah becoming a folk hero in the Senex . Though Q ' anah was twice captured and sentenced to life imprisonment during this period , she was twice rescued by her gang . Following a violent encounter with Judicial Forces of the Galactic Republic , in which the pirates destroyed six starship s , a bounty was placed on Q ' anah ' s head . This prompted the pirate queen to relocate to the Greater Seswenna region of the Outer Rim Territories . Seswenna raids and downfall . The Greater Seswenna was a region rarely patrolled by the Judicial s , and made for easy pickings for the Marauders . Q ' anah rose to the head of an alliance of various pirate groups , and working in tandem they were able to prey upon convoy shipments of lommite ore from Eriadu to the Core Worlds . She developed a unique method of attacking the convoy ' s " shepherd vessel " and any security ships , while targeting five specific slave - rigged lommite cargo containers . The containers , unslaved from the convoy and then slaved to a pirate vessel , were selected by varying combinations of the digits 23416 , the date of the Q ' anah festival , which became the group ' s signature tactic . At its height , the pirate flotilla , containing large numbers of corvette s and frigate s such as the " Elegin ' s Hope " , were able to successfully distract the limited resources of Outland Regions Security Force during their raids ; their numerical superiority combined with Q ' anah ' s ingenious tactics forced Eriadu Mining to implicitly accept the loss of much of its assets in the name of cost - effectiveness . Despite Eriadu Mining ' s eventual conclusion that the attacks on convoys were random and impossible to stop , Wilhuff Tarkin , a young lieutenant of Outland ' s anti - pirate taskforce , determined over the course of months the nature of Q ' anah ' s signature style of attack . He crafted a plan to implant computer virus es in the container ' s hyperdrive motivator s . Once the Marauders raided a convoy , the viruses wou ; d override the pirate navicomputers and deliver them to a point in realspace where the Outland task force would be lying in wait . The plan worked perfectly , and Q ' anah was captured by forces led by Ranulph Tarkin and brought before his young cousin who had outsmarted the pirate queen . The captives were then placed onboard a cargo container which was programmed to fly slowly toward the system ' s sun . The younger Tarkin had the audio and video feeds from the container left on so that both the security forces and other pirates could witness the Marauder ' s death , cooked alive by the sun ' s heat . Several other Marauder vessels arrived in futile rescue attempts , but were destroyed on sight by the Outlands flotilla . Now leaderless , the remaining Marauders fled into hiding after the incident , ending their supremacy over the trade routes of the Seswenna once and for all . Legacy . With no pirate queen , the Marauders ceased to be an active threat to galactic trade , going underground . Certain remnants of the Marauders , however , eventually reformed themselves into Culoss ( from " " Q - less " " , or " " without a Q " " ) following her death , led by the figure known as Angel . Though they would never regain their former presence , they continued to mount small - scale hijacking operations in the Outer Rim well into the Imperial Era , hiring figures such as the rebel agent Nevil Cygni ( codenamed " Nightswan " ) . Tarkin developdc a certain notoriety among the surviving followers of Q ' anah , who told tales of his merciless role in Q ' anah ' s gruesome death to younger pirates .