Deeve Deeve was an Arpor - Lan scout who served the Rebel Alliance . Using skills he had learned on his native planet Arporatal - Lanin , Deeve became one of the most respected scouts in the Alliance after scouting Wild Space and the Unknown Regions , as well as exploring the planet Apliria — which later became a safe world . After being promoted to the rank of lieutenant , he helped to establish New Alderaan in 1 ABY , and he also became a member of the Task Force on Alliance Security . After the Battle of Endor , Deeve became a scout for the New Republic ' s Bureau of Scouting and Exploration Services . He traveled in the starship NRSS " Founder " along with fellow scouts Jarsa and Effcee on a mission to survey the planets of eight star systems , searching for a profitable mineral vein . The first four worlds they scouted lacked any interesting resources they could use , and Deeve found a tentacled being while on the fifth one . Biography . Deeve was a male Arpor - Lan native to the planet Arporatal - Lanin . As a child , Deeve suffered from several apprehensions , including acrophobia . While he was able to overcame his fear of heights , he still retained other phobias as an adult . Deeve learned scouting and tracking skills on Arporatal - Lanin and became a scout . He later joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic and helped to scout worlds in Wild Space and the Unknown Regions , looking for potential Alliance safe world s . Deeve was a key part of the preliminary scouting of the planet Apliria , which became a safe world . The Arpor - Lan was considered to be one of the best scouts in the Alliance . In 1 ABY , after being promoted to lieutenant , Deeve also helped Alliance Support Services establish New Alderaan . By 2 ABY , Deeve had become a member of the Task Force on Alliance Security . In that role , he wrote a report on the Shistavanen independent scout Yurdak Fav , mentioning that Fav was a potential threat to Rebel surveyors due to her penchant for following them during their reconnaissance missions . Deeve could not discover whether Fav had links with any enemy of the Alliance , but he knew she was not a member of the Alliance , and as a consequence she was compromising the Rebel safe worlds his colleagues were discovering . During his time in the Alliance , Deeve also worked with Lieutenant Commander Bakki Sourthol , Lieutenants Anson Blazer and Tura Raftican , and special agent Tay Vanis . After the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY , Deeve joined the Bureau of Scouting and Exploration Services , also known as the New Republic Scout Service . While doing so , he worked alongside the female Jarsa and the droid Effcee . Deeve disliked Effcee ' s warmhearted personality , and he vainly tried to reprogram this trait off of her . The three of them were assigned the starship NRSS " Founder " from the Outer Region Foxar Scout Base , and were sent to survey planets in eight different star systems , looking for valuable natural resources such as mineral veins . As long as they found at least one useful world , that discovery would cover their expenses and give them a profit on the mission . Once the survey was over , they intended to return to their starting point . The crew of the " Founder " discovered no valuable resources in the first four planets they scouted . The fifth planet had a hostile but breathable atmosphere , and Deeve had to wear his protective gear before disembarking the ship to climb a mountain from which he could perform a more precise survey . After the climb , he contacted the crew of the ship and began the analysis with the help of his hovering droid REM - 02 . Cliffside , he encountered a giant , tentacled being . Having nowhere to retreat , Deeve reacted by firing near it and calling the crew of the ship again , asking for reinforcements . Personality and traits . Deeve was a respected scout in the Rebel Alliance and was known for his tracking skills . He disliked talking with the droid Effcee , whom he found to be annoyingly affectionate , preferring instead to converse with the organic Jarsa . He then tried to reprogram Effcee to make her less friendly , but his programming skills were not sufficient : he believed he had succeeded in changing the droid ' s behavior , but to his chagrin , Effcee kept her fondness . During his childhood , Deeve suffered from several fears ; he overcame his apprehension of heights , but he retained other frights . As an adult , he was not frozen with fear when facing alien creatures he did not know : on at least one occasion , he reacted by shooting in front of a potentially hostile being . When scouting for the New Republic , he carried specialized gear , including a blaster pistol , a comlink , a datapad attached to his waist with molecular hooks , a face breather with monitor pad s that were activated with his tongue , a spectrameter , raddetects , a mineral spotter , and a temp monitor , as well as the droid REM - 02 in his backpack . As REM - 02 could not understand what it surveyed , Deeve made it contact an enviro - analyzer which could achieve conclusions . Behind the scenes . Deeve first appeared in " A Typical Survey " , a two - page short story that served as an introduction to " " . He was later mentioned in the book " Alliance Intelligence Reports " .