Ranna Tao ' Ven Ranna Tao ' Ven was a female Twi ' lek Pilgrim who lived on the planet Tython during the Cold War between the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic . The daughter of the Pilgrims ' Matriarch Sumari , Tao ' Ven assisted her mother as Sumari grew ill near the end of the Cold War . During the uprising among Tython ' s native Flesh Raider s , Sumari passed away , leaving her daughter to become Matriarch , and Tao ' Ven worked to lead her home of Kalikori village through the crisis — though she was ultimately unwilling to betray the Jedi Order to the Flesh Raiders as her villagers desired . Biography . Daughter of the Matriarch . A Twi ' lek female , Ranna Tao ' Ven was born the daughter of Sumari — a member of the religious group known as the Pilgrims . Tao ' Ven and her mother were among those Pilgrims who settled on the planet Tython shortly after the planet ' s rediscovery in 3651 BBY , during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire . The Pilgrims established Kalikori village near the site of the new Jedi Temple that the Jedi Order was constructing . Denied official settlement rights by the Galactic Senate of the Galactic Republic , the Pilgrims nevertheless remained on Tython without aid from the Jedi , and Tao ' Ven ' s mother succeeded Kolovish as the Pilgrims ' s Matriarch , or leader , sometime before 3643 BBY . Sumari became ill around 3643 BBY , leading her daughter to take on more and more responsibility to aid her mother . Shortly after a crisis involving the insane villager Nalen Raloch , a conflict ended by the actions of a young Padawan , the villagers observed a significant increase in activity by Tython ' s native Flesh Raider s — whose attacks had long plagued the village . The Flesh Raiders became far more organized and bold in their attacks , even going so far as to attack the Jedi Order ' s Gnarls Outpost . The attack was stopped when a young Jedi killed the Flesh Raiders ' leader , the Dark Jedi Callef , and the Jedi was taken on as the Padawan of Jedi Master Orgus Din . In light of the attack , the Padawan was sent to Kalikori to learn what the villagers knew of the Flesh Raiders ' activities , and Sumari met the Jedi with her daughter and the village ' s Scout Chief Moorint . Sumari was forced to retire early in their conversation , leaving Tao ' Ven to continue with Moorint . Moorint informed the pair of a Flesh Raider weapons cache recently discovered in the Upper Hollows region of the nearby Tythos Ridge , and he asked the Padawan to destroy the weapons in order to deny the Flesh Raiders a tactical and technological advantage . However , Tao ' Ven disagreed — she believed that the villagers would benefit from having the weapons , and asked the Padawan to retrieve them instead . The Padawan sided with Tao ' Ven and retrieved the weapons , but while the Jedi was away , the Flesh Raiders launched an attack on the village that saw the wife of a villager named Saylew killed . Master Orgus Din arrived shortly afterwards and met with Moorint and Tao ' Ven to discuss cooperation in the face of the Flesh Raider threat , but a furious Saylew interrupted the discussion only minutes before Din ' s apprentice returned with the weapons . Tao ' Ven , Din , and Moorint were unable to calm the angry villager , and Saylew stormed off when the Padawan arrived with the weapons and the astromech droid T7 - O1 , who had been captured by the Flesh Raiders during a Jedi scouting mission . After Moorint and Din sent the Padawan on a scouting mission to the ruins of the ancient Jedi city Kaleth , Tao ' Ven returned to tending her mother , who grew worse by the hour . Leading her people . Her mother ' s illness made her late to the next meeting with Din and his student , where Moorint informed them that the scouts had located a Flesh Raider command base in the mountains that was protected by a shield generator . Din ' s Padawan took out the generator , allowing the Jedi Masters to attack the command base , but Sumari passed away by the time the Padawan returned to the village . Now the village ' s Matriarch , Tao ' Ven set aside her grief and met with the apprentice — only for the villager Eseni to interrupt their conversation with news of Flesh Raider sabotage in the village fields . Tao ' Ven begged the Jedi to destroy the enemy toxin mine s that were poisoning the village ' s crops , and was relieved when the apprentice was successful in the mission . Behind the scenes . Writer Hall Hood , who wrote the Jedi Knight class storyline along with Drew Karpyshyn , was responsible for Ranna Tao ' Ven . He considered her a challenge to write , as he had to compress a number of emotions into only a few conversations with her .