Zaerdra Zaerdra was a pale - skinned female Twi ' lek who lived in the Lower City of the Outer Rim world of Taris during the time of the Mandalorian Wars and the Jedi Civil War . A member of the Hidden Beks , a swoop gang that was one of the largest in the Lower City , she served as the personal bodyguard of the organization ' s leader , Gadon Thek . She participated in resistance activities undertaken by the Beks against the Mandalorian occupation of Taris in 3963 BBY . A devoted ward of Thek , she met the fugitive Jedi Padawan Zayne Carrick with suspicion when he returned to Taris while looking for his comrade , the Snivvian con - artist Marn Hierogryph . Zaerdra also held fellow Bek Griff Vao in low esteem , threatening him if his sister , Mission , was ever caught rummaging in her belongings . Some seven years later , during the height of a street war between the Beks and a rival gang , the Black Vulkars , which had been taken over by former Bek Brejik , she greeted the amnesiac former Dark Lord of the Sith Revan , accompanied by Republic officer Carth Onasi , with open hostility . Her indignant warnings forced Thek to apologize to his guests and to remind Zaerdra that he could still take care of himself . After Thek recruited the pair to reacquire a prototype accelerator that the Vulkars had stolen , she objected to the gang leader allowing Revan to ride the swoop that the accelerator had been installed on for the Tarisian Season Opener . Biography . Mandalorian invasion . A member of the Hidden Beks , a swoop gang hailing from the Lower City of the Outer Rim world of Taris , Zaerdra served as the personal bodyguard of Gadon Thek , the gang ' s leader . When the Mandalorians laid siege and eventually invaded the strategically - located planet , the gang , including her , became a large part of the resistance , hiding in the lower levels of the planet - wide city . When Zayne Carrick , who had been framed by the Jedi Covenant for the murder of four of his fellow Padawans , arrived looking for his Snivvian companion Marn Hierogryph , the Beks at first intended to hand him over to Constable Noana Sowrs . Those plans changed , however , after Carrick ' s discovery that Bek gang members Brejik and Griff Vao had kidnapped Sowrs ' children prior to the invasion . Because of this , Thek ordered Zaerdra to give Carrick his lightsaber back , and accepted the fugitive into the gang . It was Zaerdra who transported the Constable ' s two sons , Nahk and Tallie , who were flown to where Sowrs and her own resistance group had agreed to meet the Beks . In order to get there , however , the Beks , along with Carrick and Zaerdra , were forced to fight their way through a group of Mandalorian Neo - Crusaders who were firing at them from the streets of the Lower City . After a confrontation between the Beks and members of the Constable ' s resistance movement over the presence of Carrick , which was further complicated by the arrival of Jedi Master Raana Tey , Sowrs was reunited with her children , after which Zaerdra helped Carrick to his feet . The Bek – Vulkar gang war . At some point over the next seven years , Thek lost his sight in a swoop bike accident ; however , he remained in control of the gang . Zaerdra ' s bodyguard duties , which she always took very seriously , were amplified when Brejik left the gang to become the leader of the rival Black Vulkars . The jilted former Bek , who had expected to be appointed as the blinded Thek ' s replacement , tried everything he could to kill the elder swoop racer and as many Beks as possible in an ongoing street war that would claim many lives , gang member and civilian alike . The conflict between the Beks and Vulkars continued through the outbreak of the Jedi Civil War and the occupation of the planet by the Sith Empire . At the height of the war , the amnesiac former Dark Lord of the Sith , Revan , along with Republic officer Carth Onasi , arrived in the Lower City after escaping the destruction of the Republic ship " Endar Spire " . The pair was searching for another Padawan , Bastila Shan , whose talents with battle meditation were crucial to the Republic ' s war effort against Darth Malak ' s forces . Acting on a tip - off from Mission Vao , a friend of the Beks who had introduced herself at Javyar ' s Cantina , the pair of Republic fugitives inquired at the Hidden Bek base about rumors they had heard of escape pods impacting in the Undercity of Taris . After pledging support for the Beks , they were allowed in ; however , they were warned by the lookout about Zaerdra ' s nature . When Revan and Onasi walked up to the gang leader ' s desk , Zaerdra was and continued to be suspicious of them , even speculating that Revan might be a Sith agent . Thek , however , had a feeling that this wasn ' t the case , and told the pair what he knew about the pods , revealing Shan ' s whereabouts and that she had been offered up as a prize in the Tarisian Season Opener swoop race . When he and Revan made a deal to retrieve a prototype accelerator that the Vulkars had stolen in order to race in the Opener under the Bek banner and , thus , win Shan ' s freedom , she maintained a steely vigil . Zaerdra ' s suspicions proved to be baseless , however , when Revan , whom the Vulkars had attempted to recruit to their side , returned with the swoop bike accelerator . Thek planned to have Revan ride in the race on a bike with the accelerator installed , proposing this over Zaerdra ' s objection that the gang needed their best rider on that particular swoop . Accepting Thek ' s offer despite the instability of the prototype , Revan took first place for the Beks . However , Brejik accused him of cheating , and announced that he was withdrawing the Vulkars ' share of the victory prize — the captive Shan . When the Jedi freed herself from the neural disruptor that had " restrained " her , the shocked Vulkar ordered his gang to attack Revan and the other Beks present . The resulting lightfight killed Brejik . Eventually Malak , who had had the planet quarantined after its conquest by the Sith in an attempt to find Shan , grew frustrated with the increasingly fruitless search . He then ordered Admiral Saul Karath to prepare the Sith fleet for an orbital bombardment . Virtually the entire surface of the planet was wiped clean of life in the resulting fusillade of turbolaser fire , with few if any buildings left standing . Personality and traits . A Twi ' lek female with a pale face and violet lekku , Zaerdra was a rough - and - tumble swoop rider who knew how to fight and was always ready for combat , due to her habit of wearing a suit of medium armor . She took her duties both to the gang and her charge very seriously . After Thek ' s swoop accident and subsequent blindness , she became even more fiercely protective of him . This mentality became so deep that Thek was forced almost routinely to tell her to back off , reminding Zaerdra that he could still look after himself . As a result of her duty , she was extremely suspicious of outsiders , meeting Zayne Carrick with ill - disguised contempt ; seven years later , she greeted Revan with outright hostility . Zaerdra was also quite possessive , threatening Griff Vao , who she already didn ' t like , if his little sister , Mission , ever rummaged through her belongings again . Behind the scenes . Zaerdra was first introduced in the computer and video game " " . She would later appear , albeit some seven years earlier in continuity , in the " " story arc of the " " comics . In both media , she serves as the personal bodyguard of Gadon Thek . Along with many characters depicted in this story arc , such as Griff Vao , Gadon Thek and Brejik , she was drawn wearing the same type of gear in which she had appeared in the game . If the player , as Revan , takes the dark path throughout the game , he can turn on the Beks , riding in the swoop race for the Black Vulkars . After the race , he returns to the Hidden Bek base in order to kill Thek . In his assault on the base Revan can kill Zaerdra , who is still standing in the main room .