Capture of Mercurial Swift Jas Emari , Sinjir Rath Velus and Norra Wexley undertook a mission to the planet Taris to capture the bounty hunter Mercurial Swift in order to learn information about Imperial Grand Admiral Rae Sloane ' s whereabouts . Posting a fake bounty hunting job , Norra and her team lured Swift into a trap at the abandoned Palmyra foundry on Taris . After trapping Swift , Norra and her team interrogated the bounty hunter and learned that Sloane had traveled to the Inner Rim world of Jakku . Having extracted the necessary information , Norra knocked Swift unconscious and headed to Jakku . Prelude . Following the Liberation Day attack on Chandrila which claimed the lives of several New Republic officials and left others wounded , the New Republic operative Norra Wexley , her son Temmin Wexley , the B1 battle droid Mister Bones , the former Imperial loyalty officer Sinjir Rath Velus , and the bounty hunter Jas Emari embarked on a hunt for Grand Admiral Rae Sloane , who was widely believed to have instigated the Liberation Day attack . After several months of hunting , Norra and her team learned that the bounty hunter Mercurial Swift had dealings with Sloane . Seeking to uncover her trail , Norra and her team connived with the wilder girl Vazeen Mordraw to create a fake bounty hunting job in order to lure Swift into a trap . With Vazeen ' s consent , Norra ' s team created a faux bounty claiming that Vazeen had stolen ID cards from the Gindar Gang , who themselves had stolen the cards from New Republic dignitaries . Swift accepted the job and traveled to Taris to collect the bounty on Vazeen . After questioning a local slave boy , Swift learned that Vazeen was hiding in the abandoned Palmyra factory . The trap . While navigating his way through the ruined factory , Mercurial Swift managed to find Vazeen ' s shack . However , he was then ambushed by Norra Wexley . Swift fought back with his stun baton s and knocked the blaster out of her hand . Before Norra could strike him , Swift hit her under the arm with his stun baton . However , Sinjir then attacked him from behind and punched him in the kidney . Realizing he had stumbled into a trap , Swift escaped through a fallen vent stack tower . Norra tried to shoot him but he managed to flee the shack and head towards a break in the factory wall next door . Before Swift could reach the gap , he was ambushed by Jas Emari , who used her arm to swing him hard across the trachea . Before Swift could grab one of his stun batons , Jas stun ned him with her blaster . Aftermath . When Mercurial Swift awoke , he was interrogated by Norra and her companions . The former loyalty officer Sinjir did most of the questioning . Swift held out until Sinjir threatened to send Mister Bones to harm Swift ' s mother Tabba Teldar , who lived in Coronet City . With little choice , Swift revealed that he had spoken to Sloane several months ago . He explained that she had sent him to search the Emperor ' s luxury yacht " Imperialis " on Quantxi for information about a high - ranking Imperial officer named Gallius Rax . Swift also revealed that Sloane was traveling to the planet Jakku in the Western Reaches with another man , who turned out to be Norra ' s estranged husband Brentin Lore Wexley . After extracting the necessary information from Swift , Jas proposed killing him but Norra instead chose to spare his life . She knocked him unconscious with one of his stun batons . They then headed to the planet Jakku to hunt for Sloane and discovered that the Imperial remnants had fled there . The following day , Swift awoke and decided to seek retribution against Jas Emari . After learning that the Black Sun crime boss Gyuti had placed a bounty on her head , Swift decided to take the job and followed Jas to Jakku . Despite capturing her , Jas managed to turn the tables on Swift by convincing his crew members Dengar , Embo , and Jeeta to turn against him in return for a full pardon and money from the New Republic . Behind the scenes . The capture of Mercurial Swift appears at the exposition of Chuck Wendig ' s " " , the third book in " " .