Lorn Pavan Lorn Pavan was a Human male who worked as a business clerk at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant during the last years of the Galactic Republic before becoming an information broker . Pavan and his wife Siena had a son , Jax , in 39 BBY , who was later found by the Jedi to be Force - sensitive . When Pavan agreed to let his son be trained by the Jedi Order , the Jedi fired him , as a key tenet of Jedi philosophy was that Jedi should not develop attachments . Shortly after this , his wife left him , and Pavan was forced to become an information dealer in the underlevels of Coruscant . In 37 BBY , Pavan met the droid I - 5YQ , who he took into his possession . He later modified I - 5 a great deal , and the droid began to think freely , even developing a sentience of sorts . Pavan considered him a friend , and treated him like an equal . In 32 BBY , Pavan became the target of a Zabrak Sith Lord , who sought to recover a holocron with pivotal information and kill anyone who had knowledge of it . Having attempted to buy the holocron , Pavan found himself being hunted . The Sith chased Pavan , I - 5 and their new ally , the Jedi Padawan Darsha Assant , through the Coruscant underworld . The three tried desperately to evade the Sith and make it to the Jedi Temple but were eventually cornered . Assant sacrificed herself to allow Pavan and the droid to escape . Determined to avenge Assant — for whom Pavan had begun developing feelings — he went after the Sith , encountering him on a space station above the planet . He managed to stun him and recover the holocron , but was then forced to flee when the Sith awoke . Encountering Senator Palpatine and his guards aboard the station , Pavan at last believed that he was safe , and Palpatine gave Pavan a room on Coruscant to stay in and recover from the ordeal . Unbeknownst to him , Palpatine was in fact a Sith Lord , and the Zabrak ' s master . After learning that Pavan had escaped from his apprentice , Palpatine sent his student after Pavan , at which point the Zabrak finally killed him . Pavan ' s memory lived on in his son and I - 5 . Biography . The Jedi Temple and exile . In the latter years of the Galactic Republic , the Human male Lorn Pavan worked as a business affairs clerk at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant , capital of the Republic . In 39 BBY , he had a son with his wife Siena . The two named their child Jax . Pavan continued to work at the Temple until his son was two , when the Jedi realized the Force potential the young child possessed . Pavan agreed to let his son be trained by the Jedi . The Jedi then fired him , as a key component of their philosophy was that Jedi , particularly Younglings such as Jax , should not develop attachments . Pavan was outraged by the loss of his job , but could do nothing about it . Feeling that this was unjust , he developed a great hatred for the Jedi , which would remain for most of his life . Around the time of his firing , his wife left him . Pavan became an information broker , struggling to make money . In 37 BBY , he encountered a protocol droid named I - 5YQ in a junk dealer ' s shop . After activating the droid , and hearing his story — he had been owned by a rich family , whose spoiled children frequently ordered him to jump off the roof for entertainment — Pavan purchased him . He began to make extensive modifications to the droid , allowing him to think and act more independently . It was not long before the droid even began to show sentient characteristics , and Pavan considered him an equal and a friend . In 32 BBY , Pavan and I - 5 were still working in the underlevels of Coruscant . They struggled to get by , and Pavan owned very few possessions . That year , they had a meeting with the Toydarian businessman Zippa . Zippa possessed an object that he claimed to be a Jedi holocron , which he offered to sell to the Human for 20 , 000 credits . However , when a skeptical Pavan replied that there was no way of telling whether it was authentic or not , as it could only be accessed by a Force - sensitive , Zippa sarcastically asked if Pavan would be to able to use the Force to open the holocron . The Human snapped at this remark , threatening Zippa and warning him to never mention the Jedi to him again . After some hassling , the two settled on a price of 12 , 000 for the holocron . However , when Pavan handed over the credits , Zippa withheld the holocron , while his Gamorrean bodyguard , Bilk held the two at bay with a blaster , enabling the Toydarian to flee with both the money and the prize . Before he left , Zippa warned Pavan that anyone who threatened him would die , and left his bodyguard behind to fulfill his warning . However , I - 5 let loose a deafening scream from his vocabulator , causing the Gamorrean to drop the blaster in pain . The droid caught the weapon and shot Bilk , killing him and allowing the two to leave . Though he had survived , Pavan was furious for losing both the credits — most of his remaining savings — and the holocron . Determined to forget his troubles , at least temporarily , he headed for the Green Glowstone Tavern , and proceeded to get drunk on Johrian whiskey . After becoming intoxicated , Pavan stumbled out of the bar , and was helped home to his one room apartment by I - 5 . The next morning , the droid informed Pavan that he had two holomessage s . One was from Yanth , a Hutt crime lord who had planned to buy the Jedi holocron from Pavan , and now was growing tired of waiting for the Human . The second message was from a Neimoidian named Hath Monchar , who mentioned that he had a valuable commodity that he believed Pavan might be interested in . He also gave a time and a place for the two to meet . As Pavan now possessed a mere 17 decicred s , he decided to meet with Monchar . Deal of a lifetime . Pavan and I - 5 met with Monchar and his Trandoshan bodyguard , Gorth , at the Dewback Inn . Monchar informed Pavan that he had a holocron with information on an impending blockade of a planet . Furthermore , this blockade was to be directed by the Sith . Aware that there were many who would pay a great deal for this information , Pavan was interested in buying it . However , Monchar demanded 500 , 000 credits for the holocron , and refused to negotiate . He informed Pavan that he should meet him at Monchar ' s cubicle in an hour with the funds . Though Pavan did not have the necessary sum , he agreed to meet Monchar when the Neimoidian threatened to sell the holocron to someone else if Pavan could not come up with the required sum in the time limit . Monchar and Gorth then headed to Monchar ' s apartment , leaving Pavan and I - 5 to determine how to come up with half a million credits in one hour . The two brainstormed several possible solutions , such as winning big in sabacc , although I - 5 convinced his partner that such options were not feasible . The only viable choice , the droid said , was bank fraud . Pavan was stunned by this suggestion , and the droid began to explain his idea . I - 5 was confident that he could slice into a bank , and alter Pavan ' s credit tab so that , for a short while , at least , it would display him as having 500 , 000 credits in his account . Though he would not actually possess the money , the Neimoidian would believe that he did , and Pavan would be able to purchase the holocron , while actually leaving Monchar empty - handed . Although both knew that the plan was extremely risky , Pavan agreed to it , seeing the scheme as the only way by which he could " gain " half a million credits in time to buy the holocron . The two would then sell the holocron for a large sum and flee the planet , hopefully ahead of bank officials . The two then located a dataport , and I - 5 successfully made the transfer . The droid estimated that it would be an hour and 40 minutes before bank officials discovered the fraud , meaning that the two had a small window to collect the holocron and flee the planet . The two headed to Monchar ' s cubicle , and I - 5 waited outside while Pavan went to speak to the Neimoidian and receive the holocron . As he neared Monchar ' s room in the building , the Human was struck by a sudden shockwave from an explosion in Monchar ' s room , knocking him unconscious for a moment . When he awoke , he noticed several corpses nearby . One of them , Pavan realized , was Monchar ' s . Glancing in the Neimoidian ' s burnt and blackened apartment , he noticed the holocron laying in an open safe . Pavan quickly grabbed it and then fled the building . Outside , he met I - 5 and explained what had happened as the two hurried away from the building . Though unsure of what exactly had caused the explosion and killed the people there — evidently Monchar and his bodyguards — he agreed with I - 5 ' s advice that they quickly sell the holocron to Yanth and get off - planet . As the duo was walking away from the building , Pavan suddenly had a realization — the wounds had been cauterized , and there was no blood from the lacerations . He knew that the only weapon capable of doing such was a lightsaber , and that no Jedi would have violently killed in that manner . Thus , Pavan felt , a Sith had to have been responsible , even though he had learned that the Sith Order had supposedly been wiped out a millennia ago . Though I - 5 attempted to convince his friend otherwise , Pavan was sure that a Sith was the cause of the brutal killings . He intended to get off - planet , and started to throw the holocron away before he was stopped by the droid . I - 5 managed to persuade Pavan to keep the holocron , and sell it to Yanth , after which they could flee Coruscant . The two then met with the Hutt in his underground headquarters . There , Pavan explained that the holocron revealed details of an impending invasion to be led by the Sith . When Yanth questioned why he had not taken this to the Jedi , Pavan — reluctant to explain his personal reasons for disliking the Jedi Order — simply replied that he suspected that they would use a mind trick to force him to hand over the holocron for free . Yanth then inspected the holocron , and agreed to buy it for one million credits . Hunted . Just as Yanth handed over the credits , a Zabrak in a hooded cloak with a red lightsaber stepped through the door . Pavan was instantly terrified by the man , recognizing him as a Sith Lord . The Human narrowly avoided being decapitated , and then fled along with I - 5 while the Sith slaughtered Yanth and his bodyguards . The two escaped to the club called the Tusken Oasis that was located above Yanth ' s basement headquarters , and fled out into the streets , the Sith Lord not far behind them . Just as he was catching up to the duo , they were saved by a pair of Jedi in an airspeeder who had sensed a disturbance in the Force when the Sith had killed the Hutt and his guards . Pavan and I - 5 quickly boarded the airspeeder , although the Zabrak was able to damage the craft ' s repulsorlifts , preventing them from ascending to safety high above . Though Pavan was glad to have escaped from the Sith , his enthusiasm was tempered by two things — the realization that the hated Jedi had saved him , and that the Sith was now pursuing them on a speeder . The two explained to the Jedi why they were being pursued . Realizing that the Zabrak Sith was catching up , the Jedi Master , Anoon Bondara , jumped out of the speeder , landing on the Sith ' s speeder bike . The two then jumped to a nearby platform , and started a fast - paced duel . Meanwhile , the Jedi ' s Padawan , Darsha Assant , turned the speeder around , determined to rescue her Master . Pavan and I - 5 pleaded with her to make her Master ' s sacrifice meaningful , but she remained resolute . Just as their speeder neared the platform , Bondara , recognizing that he was going to lose the duel , plunged his lightsaber into the Sith ' s speeder , causing its power core to explode . The platform collapsed , although the Sith escaped , while the speeder crashed , knocking the Humans unconscious . I - 5 dragged Assant and Pavan out of the speeder before it exploded , and guarded them until they awoke . The three headed through a service conduit , intending to head back to the Jedi Temple . The trio traveled for a while , before they were abruptly attacked and knocked unconscious by Cthon s , a group of feral , mutated beings that fed on meat — even Humans . When Pavan awoke a short time later , he found the creatures closing in on him , and his screams awoke Assant . Pavan told her to activate I - 5 , which she was able to do through the Force . The droid then let loose a deafening screech , which caused the Cthons , who relied on their hearing rather than sight , to flee in pain . The three then quickly fled . As the trio headed back to the Jedi Temple , traveling through the underground , Pavan thought of ways he could avoid having to meet with the Jedi Council , whom he despised . He planned to flee to a spaceport instead of going to the Temple , and there , he and I - 5 would book passage on a ship , possibly one owned by Tuden Sal , a Black Sun operative who owed Pavan a favor . From there , he planned to head to a far - away world like Tatooine , where he figured they would be safe from the Sith . However , he did have misgivings about abandoning Assant , as he found , much to his surprise , that he was beginning to like her . As he was lost in thought , the group came to a large drop - off . However , a nearby bridge — made of a sticky string - like substance and planks laid on top — stretched across the chasm , and seeing no other way across , the trio began to walk over it . As the three crossed over the bridge , Assant noticed that the Sith had caught up to them , and was at the edge of the bridge behind them . However , in front of them was a taozin — a large , carnivorous invertebrate that could not be sensed through the Force , and had evidently created the bridge with a sticky substance it produced through its mouth . The trio attacked it , but quickly realized that they could not harm it . However , they remained unable to flee , as the Sith was behind them . As they slowly retreated , I - 5 and Pavan removed the planks from the bridge . Assant then cut one of ropes that made up the bridge , and the three grabbed on , causing them to swing past the taozin , safe from danger . They then exited the tunnel . Outside , the trio encountered several members of the Raptors , a gang Assant had tussled with earlier . The gangsters threatened them , only to be met with insults from Pavan , causing them to attack . The trio quickly defeated them , and then took one of the gang members , who they termed " Green Hair , " with them to lead them to the upper levels . Though the thug attempted to use a mechanical turret to kill them , they thwarted him , and with the aid of a mind trick , Assant convinced him to lead them to the Temple . He took them to a large tunnel with a ladder stretching upward . The group climbed up the ladder , finally making it to the top . However , when they opened the door to leave the access pipe and finally arrive at the upper levels , they found their way blocked . The Sith Lord was waiting for them . Assant Force pushed I - 5 and Pavan into a carbon - freezing chamber next to the exit , using the Force to lock them in , while she attacked the Sith . Pavan was stunned , and tried to break out to help her . However , I - 5 knew what she had intended , and refused to let Pavan exit . He convinced him to make Assant ' s sacrifice meaningful , and then told Pavan that he could be frozen in carbonite , allowing him to escape the Zabrak ' s wrath . Pavan was successfully frozen ; meanwhile , Assant continued to duel the Sith Lord . Aware that she could not win against a superior opponent , she sacrificed herself , detonating several barrels of explosive fuel that had been sitting nearby . The explosion vaporized Assant and her surroundings ; however , the Sith escaped . The carbon freezing chamber , with I - 5 and Pavan , also remained intact , allowing the two to survive . Seeking vengeance and finding death . I - 5 then unfroze Pavan . When the Human came to , the droid explained what had happened , and that Tuden Sal was coming to give them a ride and take them to safety on another planet . As the droid reminded Pavan of the events that had taken place mere minutes ago , the Human felt a deep sense of loss and sadness upon concluding that Assant had died . He then realized that he had harbored feelings for her , and that the two had come to mean something to each other in a short time . Shortly after this , Tuden Sal arrived in a skycar . As he took them to his ship , Pavan and I - 5 noticed a figure below them — the Sith . He had survived , and remained unaware that Pavan had also lived . Pavan decided to follow the Sith , and avenge Assant . However , Pavan would not let I - 5 accompany him , telling him that he should go to the Jedi Temple , so that there would be a backup plan in case the Sith won . Before the two parted ways , Pavan had I - 5 make a brief recording of him explaining why he was going after the Sith . The message was meant for Jax , so that if Lorn Pavan was killed , his son would know why he had died . Pavan also wanted his son to know that he loved him , and wanted Jax to be proud of him . I - 5 then gave his friend a bit of taozin skin to make him invisible to the Force , and the two split up , with Pavan telling Tuden Sal to deliver the droid to the Jedi Temple . Pavan boarded the ship Sal had obtained for him — an ARE Thixian 7 — and he pursued the Zabrak , who was in his own ship . He was able to follow him to a space station that was in orbit of the planet without being noticed , and then he landed his ship in the hangar . He succeeded in sneaking up on the Sith in the station , and fired two stun shots into his back . However , just as he took the holocron from the Zabrak , the Sith Lord awoke , and attacked , slicing off Pavan ' s right hand . Stunned , the Corellian fled , managing to make it to another corridor and lock the door before the Zabrak could follow him . Nonetheless , the Sith pursued Pavan , and used his lightsaber to cut through the hatch . Motivated by fear , Pavan ran for his life , scrambling upwards , until he found himself in a large solarium with several guards , and the senator from Naboo , Palpatine . Pavan handed him the holocron , informing Palpatine that it contained information vital to the Jedi Order . Palpatine promised to deliver it to them , and summoned aid , before Pavan collapsed from exhaustion . Palpatine ' s assistants Kinman Doriana and Sate Pestage escorted Pavan away to receive medical attention and they then settled him into the suite of a comfortable hotel , to recover . An artificial limb was ordered for Pavan and several days later , shortly before the limb was due to be attached to Pavan ' s forearm , he awoke from his slumber , convinced that he was finally safe and had at last won . Palpatine had given him the option of moving to a world on the Outer Rim or staying on Coruscant . Either way , the bank fraud charges would be dropped , and Pavan would be able to live in peace with I - 5 . The Human was ready to start a new life . Though he would miss Assant , he was determined to begin his life anew , most likely by staying on Coruscant and attempting to meet Jax . However , his dreams were shattered when he opened the door to venture outside . There stood the Zabrak Sith . Pavan was stunned , but the feeling of horror quickly faded , to be replaced by one of peace and acceptance . Having spent the past several days being chased by a deadly assassin , with his life on the line at every moment , he was tired of running . Furthermore , he believed that he had accomplished his objective , by delivering the holocron to the Jedi . His last thought before the Sith granted him a quick death was of his son , Jax . Legacy . Pavan ' s death was in vain , as the holocron was not delivered to the Jedi Temple . In truth , Palpatine , who Pavan had given the holocron to , was also the Sith Lord Darth Sidious . In his alter ego as Sidious , Palpatine was the Zabrak Sith ' s Master , and the mastermind behind the impending blockade of the planet Naboo . Palpatine ' s mentor Darth Plagueis believed that it was due to the will of the dark side that , despite Maul ' s failure , Pavan had brought the holocron to Sidious . Meanwhile , I - 5 , who Sal had promised to deliver to the Jedi , was instead sold to a smuggler so that Sal could pay off his debts . The droid ' s memory was also wiped , and although I - 5 was able to save his memory from being permanently erased , it was not until 19 BBY that he fully restored his memory . Upon recovering his cognizance , he realized what had happened 13 years ago , and that Lorn Pavan had given him a mission — to protect and watch over his son . Thus , I - 5 and his friend , the Sullustan reporter Den Dhur , set off for Coruscant . However , upon arriving , they found that the Jedi had been all but wiped out during the Great Jedi Purge , in which Palpatine and his last Sith apprentice Darth Vader transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire and attacked the Jedi , nearly wiping out the Order . Hoping to locate Jax Pavan , Dhur and I - 5 remained on Coruscant . Eventually , they were able to find him , and though Pavan was initially less than receptive , he agreed to let Dhur and I - 5 stay with him . Over time , he became friends with the two , and I - 5 told him about the father he never knew . In 18 BBY , when Pavan was being hunted by Vader and felt particularly lost , he mentioned to I - 5 that he wished he could speak to his father , just once , and ask for advice . Upon hearing this , I - 5 activated the holographic message that Lorn Pavan had programmed shortly before pursuing the Zabrak Sith . The message greatly impressed Pavan , and he found himself crying in honor of the father he had not known , who he believed had died a hero . Personality and traits . After Pavan gave his son over to the Jedi Order and was subsequently fired , he bore a great hatred for the Jedi that would last until his dying days . Being terminated from his job for what he felt was an unjust reason led to him developing a cynical view of the world , and he blamed the Jedi for his problems . The Human felt that they were greedy opportunists , and remained determined not to change his mind about them , causing him to initially dislike Assant . However , after the two were involved in life and death situations from which they narrowly avoided dying , they began to develop feelings for each other . These emotions led to Pavan feeling torn and guilty , as he had sworn to himself years earlier to never forgive the Jedi . Though he attempted to convince himself that he did not like Assant , he eventually realized that he was deluding himself , and admitted that he did indeed have feelings for her . After her death , he was deeply saddened , and also angered . Her sacrifice motivated him to go after the Sith in hopes of avenging Assant . Though he was very aware that he could die , Pavan remained determined to try and avenge Assant , and to stop the Sith , who he felt had to be killed . Although he was unsuccessful in his bid to stop the Sith and ended up dying , he died content with himself , having at last found peace . Lorn Pavan thought often of his son Jax , wondering how he was doing as a Jedi , and regretting having given him over to the Order . He was heartbroken when he was fired , which meant that he could not see his son . Though he had been separated from Jax for years , Pavan cared about him , and requested that I - 5 watch over him in the event that he was unable to do so himself . He wanted Jax to know that he loved him and wanted his son to be proud of him , a message included in his holographic epistle for his son . Pavan held the views that droids could be free - thinkers , and should be treated as equals rather than mindless servants . This view was highly unorthodox , and he frequently encountered beings who wondered why he referred to I - 5 as a friend rather than a mere servant . It was this view that led to him buying I - 5 and treating him like an equal , a belief that only grew stronger after he had been with I - 5 for years and seen the droid ' s personality develop . Behind the scenes . Lorn Pavan was created for the 2001 novel " " , by Michael Reaves . Though " Shadow Hunter " was the character ' s only " Star Wars " Legends appearance , Pavan ' s son , Jax Pavan , featured in the " " trilogy , also written by Reaves .