Valin Draco Valin Draco was a male Human Jedi Knight who was the student of Jedi Master Denia during the waning years of the Galactic Republic . Following the outbreak of the Clone Wars , he fought for the Republic against the Confederacy of Independent Systems . However , his resolve to destroy the Confederacy drew him towards the dark side of the Force , and after he was almost killed during the Battle of Parein II 4 , he fell fully into its grip . Following the creation of the Galactic Empire , Draco allied himself with it and became a member of the Inquisitorius , an order of Dark Side Adepts that served the New Order . He adapted well to his new position and soon formulated a plan to try and find evidence that Senator Bail Organa had betrayed the Empire . Draco suspected that Organa was the leader of a resistance group based on Alderaan , and he helped Admiral Gilder Varth to infiltrate the movement . He also became part of the Sarlacc Project , a secret collaboration between the Inqusitorius and the Imperial Navy to build a Super Star Destroyer prototype . When a powerful Force nexus began to develop on the planet Almas , Draco was sent to investigate it . In the ruins of the Almas Academy , a Jedi academy that was destroyed during the Clone Wars , he discovered and learned Force techniques from a Sith holocron that was constructed by the ancient Sith Lord Darth Rivan . However , Draco was seriously injured after an encounter with the Alderaanian Resistance , and had to be fitted with extensive cybernetics . He gained revenge by attacking a Resistance taskforce and capturing Denia , his former master . He took her to the headquarters of the Inquisitorius on Prakith , a planet located in the Deep Core , and tortured her there . However , a rescue team traveled to Prakith to free her , and Denia sacrificed herself to weaken Draco , forcing him to flee to the planet Byss where the Super Star Destroyer prototype was under construction . There , Draco took command of a Golan space defense platform that was protecting the prototype and he was killed when the platform was attacked by the Alderaanian Resistance . Biography . Jedi Knight . Valin Draco was a member of the Jedi Order , and was the Padawan of Jedi Master Denia . He fought during the Clone Wars and fully embraced his role as a commander in the Grand Army of the Republic , so much so that the people he commanded nicknamed him the " Valiant Dragon . " However , his determination to defeat the Separatists gradually began to rise as the war progressed and drew him closer to the dark side of the Force . Draco participated in the Battle of Parein II 4 , a battle fought between the Republic and the Confederacy on the fourth moon of the planet Parein II , where he was under the command of Jedi General Sannen . However , the Republic forces were defeated , and Draco was injured and left for dead . He believed that he had been abandoned , and his support of the Republic died . As he lay injured , he was attacked by a nighthunter , a dangerous Force - sensitive species of predator that was thought to be extinct . Draco fought back , and the two almost killed each other . Eventually , he managed to subdue the creature , but not before it had bitten off his thumb and clamped its jaws around his throat , causing extensive scarring . Rather than leave it to die , Draco nursed the hunter back to health , named it Crant , and kept it as a pet . Serving the Empire . Draco somehow escaped Parein II 4 and allied himself with the Galactic Empire , the newly - formed galactic government that had replaced the Republic , and joined the ranks of Emperor and Dark Lord of the Sith Palpatine ' s Dark Side Adepts as an Inquisitor . He was fitted with a cybernetic thumb to replace the one that Crant had bitten off , and he used his new Inquisitor tunic to hide his neck scars . He was also given command of the " Imperial I " - class Star Destroyer " Assiduous " , and had the 12th Squadron of TIE / LN starfighter s assigned to it at his personal request . Draco also expanded his personal armory by constructing a red - bladed lightsaber and acquiring a Star Courier . Draco soon found himself an apprentice in the form of the Dark Jedi Raik Muun . Muun had held a grudge against the Jedi , but following the Order ' s destruction at the end of the Clone Wars , she was prevented from having revenge against them . Muun had traveled to the galactic capital of Coruscant to try and find those who had ordered the execution of the Jedi and cheated her out of her vengeance . However , things did not go as she expected , and she instead met Draco there . He saw great potential in her , and he asked her to join him . She accepted , as she felt that she had finally found someone to love her , and she accompanied him on various assignments . Around this time , Draco also aided the Sith Lord Darth Vader in torturing the captured Jedi Halagad Ventor . The Sith Lord showed his gratitude by giving Draco a squad of Noghri Death Commando s to use as his own . In circa 17 BBY , Draco conspired with Admiral Gilder Varth of the Imperial Navy to infiltrate the Alderaanian Resistance , intending for Varth to become a member of it . Their goal was to gain evidence that Senator Bail Organa had betrayed the Empire and was secretly leading the Resistance . Draco had Varth display interest in joining the movement , and to ensure that no one suspected that Varth was still loyal to the Empire , he had the Admiral imprisoned in a facility on the Outer Rim planet Felucia . Draco wanted the Resistance to free Varth , and limited the number of Imperial troops stationed at the facility , under guise of trying to keep its existence secret . The Resistance took the bait and sent a team of operatives to free Varth . To keep up the pretense of Varth ' s defection , Draco sent a message to the prison while the team were still there , stating that he would be arriving in the system aboard the " Assiduous " to take custody of Varth , and wanted interrogation chemicals to be administered to the Admiral on his arrival . Everything went according to plan , and Varth took up a post in the Resistance . Around this time , Draco became involved with the Sarlacc Project , the secret construction of a Super Star Destroyer prototype to serve as a flagship for the Imperial Navy . He oversaw a deal made with the Hutt Darga Jiramma Mionne , who agreed to supply tibanna gas for the project in return for Nazren slaves . Igren Demos , the Hutt ' s majordomo , began to secretly contact Draco , as he hoped that he could use his alliance with the Empire to take control of Darga ' s organization . Draco ' s former master , Denia , had been held captive in Darga ' s palace on the planet Cato Neimoidia since the Clone Wars , after being captured by the Separatists and placed in an artificial coma . When she was reawakened and freed by an Alderaanian Resistance team , Darga fled the palace , and Demos contacted Draco via HoloNet . The Majordomo told him that he had cornered Denia , and wanted to trade her in return for the Inquisitor ' s assurance that Darga would never return to Cato Neimoidia . Draco agreed , and said that he would travel there aboard the " Assiduous " , but he threatened Demos that he would not be pleased with him with him if he failed to hand over Denia . However , the Jedi Master successfully escaped before Draco arrived . Darga relocated to the gas planet Bespin , and Draco traveled there aboard the " Assiduous " to oversee the transfer of funds to the Hutt — which would occur in secret during the Cloud City Sabacc Tournament . The Alderaanian Resistance team had tracked Darga to Bespin and infiltrated the tournament , discovering the truth about the deal . In order to cover up the arrangement , Draco used slave circuit ry to take control of a Tibanna gas hauler , and tried to crash it into the slave ship " Shackles of Nizon " , which would kill all the slaves inside and destroy all evidence of the deal . The team commandeered several Z - 95 Headhunters and managed to prevent this from happening . While they were there , Draco felt through the Force a presence that he had not felt since he was with Denia , and he suspected that this was the same team that had rescued her on Cato Neimoidia . As the team flew out of the system , Draco sent a transmission to them , saying that he would find them and make them pay for what they had done . Investigating the Almas Academy . Several months later , Draco traveled on a mission to Almas , a planet located in the Cularin system . Raik Muun and a contingent of Imperial troops , including Draco ' s Noghri , were assigned to accompany him . In addition , Draco brought a detachment of the elite clone shadow troopers , as he believed that if they were good enough to guard the Emperor ' s storehouse on the planet Utapau , then they were good enough to guard him . He had been sent to investigate the growing power of a Force nexus that was centered around the Almas Academy , a former Jedi academy , and also because he had learned from torturing Force - sensitive prisoners that there was a Sith holocron there . Draco arrived in the system aboard the " Assiduous " , which was accompanied by the " Lictor " - class dungeon ship " Revelator " . He first searched the system for any Jedi who had survived the destruction of the Almas Academy at the end of the Clone Wars , but failed to locate any . Following this , he headed for Almas . Both his ships were too large to traverse the system ' s comet field , and he and his entourage were forced to make the journey to Almas in a " Theta " - class shuttle , and landed in the remains of the Forard spaceport . Draco arrived in the academy ruins , and was immediately entranced by an intoxicating surge of dark side energy . Attempting to locate the source of this power , he went into the caves beneath the academy , where he found the holocron of Darth Rivan , a Dark Lord of the Sith who had ruled Almas over a thousand years earlier . The growing dark side energy on Almas had suffused the holocron and given it greater power , which enabled the holocron gatekeeper to take on a life of his or her own and believe himself or herself to be the spirit of Rivan . However , Draco and his entourage were not alone in the Academy . Jedi Master Vhiin Thorla had already arrived there along with his Padawan , Dorv ' Tilsta , in search of any Jedi survivors of Order 66 . They encountered Draco and Raik Muun , and engaged them in a lightsaber duel . Draco threatened Thorla that he would turn Tilsta to the dark side if he refused to fight , and Muun used the Force to coerce the young Padawan into a murderous rage , directed at his Master . Thorla was forced to strike his apprentice down , but the grief the Jedi Master suffered in doing so allowed Draco to easily capture him . The Inquisitor imprisoned Thorla in a Force - annulling Universal Energy Cage , and left Crant to guard it . Draco had plans for Thorla , and he conspired with the Rivan gatekeeper in the hopes of turning the Jedi Master to the dark side . Draco took Rivan ’ s holocron to a chamber beneath the Academy ’ s archive room , where he studied it and learned some of the Sith techniques that Rivan had known . Under the influence of the gatekeeper , Draco left various traps and creatures around the academy to discourage intruders . The holocron persuaded him to release two parasitic Guardian Spirit s in the Academy ' s library . He also used techniques that the holocron had shown him to create a Force illusion in a room that made anyone who entered the room fall asleep and come under Draco ' s influence . They would then have a Force - induced nightmare about being in a room in the Academy that resembled one they had previously been in , and while seeming familiar , it did not seem real . They would begin to feel claustrophobic and disorientated , making them despair and allowing Draco — through the Force — to sap their moral strength . In the same room , Draco created a K ' kayeh dreambeast through the Force , using another technique that the Rivan gatekeeper had shown him , similar to those used to create Sith Dopplegängers . The dreambeast was an illusion that resembled a larger K ' kayeh that was hidden beneath the Academy , to which it was linked through the Force . The holocron also revealed to him the location of the Qornah Holocron , a holocron made by Jedi Master Qornah , which was concealed inside a bronzium bust of the Jedi Master in the Academy ' s library . Draco sliced the bust in half and retrieved the holocron , keeping it strapped to his wrist from then on . At some point , Draco hired the pirates of the Red Fury Brotherhood to prevent outsiders from landing on Almas by having their ships patrol the planet ' s orbit . Meanwhile , Master Denia sent the Alderaanian Resistance team to the academy on a mission to recover the Qornah Holocron . They found Thorla ' s prison and killed Crant , which Draco felt through the Force . He continued to study both Rivan ' s and Qornah ' s holocrons , but was interrupted from his work when he was confronted by the Resistance team . Draco realized that the team must have been formidable foes , as they had survived all the traps and creatures that he had left in the academy . He urged them to surrender , but they refused , which instigated a fight between them , Raik Muun , and Draco ' s team of Shadow troopers . The Rivan gatekeeper used its Force connection with Draco to provide him with advanced Sith fighting techniques that Rivan had known . This turned the color of Draco ' s eyes to a golden hue as he used the techniques against the Resistance fighters . Draco drew his lightsaber and then used Force rage to enhance his Force power . The Inquisitor moved to confront them , and once he was within range , he attacked them with his saber . However , the team was able to use the Force to sever the gatekeeper ' s connection to the holocron , which caused it to dissipate and overload . As the shadow troopers and Muun were incapacitated , Draco became desperate to survive , due to the fact that the loss of the holocron had weakened his power . He began to lose his resolve , and he fled back to the entrance of a large cavern . However , the gatekeeper had planned to summon a K ' kayeh dragon if it lost control of Draco , and a dragon emerged from the depths of the academy as Draco fled further back to a bridge formation . Draco used the Force to control the dragon , preventing it from devouring him , and then threatened to destroy the Qornah Holocron . He held it over the edge of the chasm while he fired Force lightning from his hands at the team . In turn , the team attacked Draco again , causing him to drop the holocron on the ground , from where it tumbled over the edge into the abyss . The capture of Denia . Draco somehow survived the encounter , and was fitted with extensive cybernetic enhancements , including a cybernetic right eye . To hide these , he began to wear a black face - plate with a red optic center . He posted a bounty on the Resistance team and sent the Zabrak Vril Vrakth to collect it . Vrakth tracked them to Nizon , a planet located in the Centares system , and hoped to please Draco by bringing them to him . However , he failed and was killed during the Battle of Nizon . A few weeks later , Gilder Varth sent Draco the coordinates of the location of an Alderaanian Resistance task force that was waiting near Coruscant . Draco led several " Imperial " - class Star Destroyers in an attack on the task force , and was among an Imperial boarding party that landed on the Alderaanian Resistance Nebulon - B frigate " Resurgence " , which had been commanding the flotilla . Accompanying him were three other Inquisitors who had been sent to help him , although they were unhappy about being pulled from their duties and placed under his command . Aboard the vessel , Draco quickly captured Master Denia , and then planned to leave with her in his custody . While Denia was being taken to a shuttle , the Alderaanian Resistance team that Draco had encountered on Almas arrived . He paid them little heed , and hurried aboard the shuttle where Denia had been taken , which launched moments later . He transferred Denia to his Star Courier , and eventually made his way to the Citadel Inquisitorius on the planet Prakith in the Deep Core , the headquarters of the Inquisitorius . He took her to the Citadel ' s torture chamber , an octagonal - shaped room located high up in the building , where he began to torture her . However , she resisted him , and after a few months , he had still not broken her mind . This made his superiors impatient , and Draco began to use more brutal techniques on her . Draco ' s old foes , the Alderaanian Resistance team , traveled to Prakith to try and free Denia . They infiltrated the Citadel and confronted Draco in the torture chamber , where he was torturing his former Master with the help of two T0 - D interrogation droid s . He immediately attacked them and initially fought defensively , using an examination table to give him cover while he used the Force to try and knock them over and disarm them . Afterward , he engaged them in melee combat . He seemed unbeatable and it appeared that he was about to defeat the agents . However , Denia used her last reserves of strength to grab Draco with the Force . The energy from her attack reflected back on to both of them , killing Denia and weakening Draco . It now seemed that the Alderaanians were going to win , so he turned and fled the room . He ran to a landing platform and left the Citadel aboard his personal shuttle . Confrontation on Byss . Draco traveled to the planet Byss , where the Super Star Destroyer prototype was under construction , as his meditations revealed to him that his final confrontation with the Alderaanian agents would take place there . With Varth ' s approval , Draco made himself in charge of a Golan space defense platform that was being used to protect the Star Destroyer and hold it in place with tractor beams . However , Draco chose not to tell Varth about his visions , as he planned to wait for Varth to fail at defending the Star Destroyer , then step in , save the Star Destroyer , and take control of the Sarlacc Project and it ' s support fleet . While he waited for the Alderaanian Resistance to attack , Draco stored his Star Courier in Docking Bay 616 of the Golan platform and was also assigned two Imperial Shadow Guards to serve him , as part of a training mission for them . Draco ' s prediction proved to be correct and an Alderaanian Resistance fleet attacked Byss , intent on destroying the prototype . During the battle , Draco ' s old adversaries , the team of Resistance agents that he had encountered on Almas and Prakith , boarded the Golan station and planned to use it ' s weapons to attack the Super Star Destroyer . The Inquisitor waited for them on the station ' s auxiliary command bridge , along with a complement of stormtroopers and both of his Shadow Guards . He ignited his lightsaber and allowed the agents to reach the bridge . When they arrived , he told them that when he had first encountered them on Almas , he hadn ’ t realized what a problem they would cause for the Empire . He then offered to give them quick and painless deaths if they dropped their weapons and surrendered to him . However , their conversation was interrupted , as Varth contacted Draco over a display screen , demanding to know why the Inquisitor hadn ’ t powered down the station ' s tractor beams , to allow the Star Destroyer to participate in the battle and decimate the Alderaanian forces . Draco ordered his men to lower the tractor beams and was then immediately attacked by the Alderaanian agents . The agents killed Draco and the Resistance was able to succeed in destroying the Super Star Destroyer . Personality and traits . As a Jedi , Draco was heroic and idealistic , and at the start of the Clone Wars , he sided with the Republic . However , as the conflict drew on , he increasingly lost hope in what he was fighting for , and eventually completely abandoned his belief in the Republic after the Battle of Parein II 4 . Draco was ruthless as well as calculating , and did not make rash judgments . He preferred to twist things so that they could serve his own means , rather than destroy them himself . This was demonstrated when he nursed Crant back to health and attempted to make Vhiin Thorla turn to the dark side of the Force . He also fully embraced his role as an Inquisitor , and was a skilled torturer . However , he viewed his allegiance to the Empire to be one of necessity , as it helped him to do what he wanted and he did not see himself as beholden to it . Despite this , he believed that being an Inquisitor was his destiny and that it had allowed him to find his true self . By the time that Draco had traveled to Byss , he began to believe that he was future of the Empire and that he should exterminate any Jedi he met by engaging them in personal combat , like the Emperor had done . He planned to earn a high - ranking position within the New Order , by crushing the Alderaanian Resistance , which he believed would deter any future rebellions against the Empire . Draco liked to seek revenge against people who had caused him harm or double - crossed him , but was also wary of fighting those that he could not defeat , and as such , he knew when to retreat . An example of this was when he captured Denia aboard the " Resurgence " and left without attacking a constant thorn in his side , the Alderaanian Resistance team , even though he had previously vowed to kill them . Draco genuinely cared for Crant and was saddened when the night hunter was killed , although he tried not to show it . Powers and abilities . Draco demonstrated various Force abilities , including Force lightning , Force Rage , telekinesis and Beast Control . He also learned various techniques from Darth Rivan ' s holocron , such as how to create dreambeasts . The holocron significantly augmented Draco ' s connection to the Force and he was able to draw power from it , although he lost most of this after it was destroyed . By the time of his encounter with the Alderaanian Resistance on Prakith , he had greatly grown in power since their previous encounter with him on Almas , as the time he had spent in the Citadel Inquisitorius had infused him with the power of the dark side . After Denia sacrificed herself , she reduced his power , and he was no longer able to continue the fight . Draco was multi - lingual — in addition to Basic , he could also speak Bocce , Dosh , High Galactic , Honoghran , and Huttese . Behind the scenes . Valin Draco was a created as a recurring villain for " Dawn of Defiance " , a campaign produced by Wizards of the Coast to supplement the " Star Wars Roleplaying Game " . However , he received his first mention in the sourcebook " Starships of the Galaxy " in late 2007 , just prior to the release of " Dawn of Defiance " in 2008 . Draco also later received an entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " and was indirectly mentioned in an adventure hook in the " Rebellion Era Campaign Guide " . In " Echoes of the Jedi " , the fourth scenario in the " Dawn of Defiance " campaign , a number of different things involving Draco depend upon the actions of the players , who role - play as the Alderaanian Resistance agents . If the player characters are captured or incapacitated by Draco ’ s Noghri Death Commandos , then they take them straight to Draco . Also , if the players confirm to Draco that it was they who killed Crant , then the glint in his eyes dulls , although he soon regains his composure . The players have the option to free Vhiin Thorla from his cage , and if they do , then he comes and fights Draco with them . If they do not know how to sever the Rivan gatekeeper from its holocron , then Thorla does this for them . Draco then snatches the holocron and throws it at Thorla , which makes it shatter and pushes Thorla off the edge of the chasm . In " Sword of the Empire " , the ninth scenario in the " Dawn of Defiance " campaign , it is possible for the player characters to encounter Draco either after infiltrating the Citadel Inquisitorius , or after being taken there if they are captured by Imperial forces . However , as the plot summarization of the scenario in " " claims that they encounter him after infiltrating the Citadel , this can be assumed to be the canonical option . The means by which Denia sacrifices herself can also vary , depending upon player actions . If they succeed in inflicting a lot of damage on Draco and are about to defeat him , then he turns on Denia and attacks her with Force lightning , which she reflects back onto him . If , alternately , it seems that Draco is about to win , then Denia uses telekinesis to attack Draco and the resulting Force energy reflects back onto both of them . The " Gamemaster Primer " claims that Draco was about to defeat the player characters , so this article assumes that it is that outcome that is the canonical one . The players again confront Draco in the final scenario of the campaign , " Jaws of the Sarlacc " . If any of the player characters present during this encounter are Jedi , then Draco duels them and is prepared to fight to the death to defeat them , while relying on his Shadow Guards and stormtroopers to attack any non - Jedi player characters . The release of the " Legacy Era Campaign Guide " — another supplement to the Star Wars Roleplaying Game — in 2009 raised the possibility that Valin Draco is the ancestor of Antares Draco , an Imperial Knight of the Fel Empire . While the " Legacy Era Campaign Guide " does not explicitly state the familial bond , it is strongly implied in the entry for Antares Draco ; it is noted that an ancestor of Antares was a member of the Inquisitorius under Emperor Palpatine .