Massacre on Doan A massacre took place in 980 BBY on the planet Doan . Tensions between the planet ' s Royal Family and mining caste rose when the miners accidentally killed Prince Gerran while attempting to capture him . As a result , Gerran ' s wife , Serra , became depressed , prompting her bodyguard , Lucia , to hire the assassin known as " the Huntress " to assassinate Gelba , the miners ' leader . At the same time , the Jedi Order sent Jedi Knight Medd Tandar to mediate the situation between the miners and the Royal Family , as well as to obtain a collection of recently excavated Sith artifacts . During the meeting between Tandar and Gelba , the Huntress attacked , killing the mining leader and the five other miners that were accompanying her . She used her powers to disrupt Tandar ' s ability to use the Force and killed him as well . Fearing that the Jedi would suspect the Royal Family to have ordered Tandar ' s assassination , Doan ' s King agreed with Serra that she should travel to the Jedi Temple to assure the Jedi that the Royal Family had not been behind the attack . At the Jedi Temple , Serra discovered that her father had been killed by a Sith Lord ten years previously . Around that time , Draado , the miner who had found the Sith artifacts on Doan , began calling for war with the Royal Family as a result of Gelba ' s death . Meanwhile , on Ciutric IV , Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Bane sent his apprentice , Darth Zannah , to investigate the death of Tandar . Prelude . In the years following the New Sith Wars , the Royal House of Doan came into conflict with the planet ' s lower - class mining caste . Gelba , a leader of the miners , ordered the capture of the Doan Prince Gerran . When the miners tried to force Gerran ' s airspeeder into an emergency landing , they accidentally destroyed the vehicle , killing him and sending his wife , Princess Serra , into depression . Lucia , Serra ' s bodyguard and a member of the Doan Royal Guard , hoped to remedy Serra of her depression by getting revenge on those who had caused Gerran ' s death . She traveled to the space station Paradise , where she found the Iktotchi assassin known as " the Huntress " and hired her to assassinate Gelba . Tandar ' s mission . Meanwhile , the miners contacted the Jedi Order on Coruscant and convinced them to dispatch a Jedi Knight to help mediate the situation on Doan . After the Jedi received permission from Doan ' s King to send a Knight to meet with the miners , the Cerean Jedi Knight Medd Tandar was dispatched to discuss negotiations between the Royal House and the mining caste . Tandar ' s main objective , however , was to recover several Sith artifacts that had recently been excavated by the miners on Doan . Tandar met with Gelba and five other miners along with two of Gelba ' s bodyguards and three of her top lieutenants at a mining facility on Doan . There , Gelba began to read off a list of demands that the mining caste had accumulated . Tandar attempted to explain that the Jedi Council did not have the power to grant the miners their demands , revealing that he did not possess the Senate ' s authority to act . Instead , he was only able to negotiate with the Royal Family . Gelba , in turn , revealed that the nobles refused to negotiate with the miners , but Tandar pointed out that the miners were the ones that had killed Gerran . Gelba then accused him of defending the Royal Family , despite the fact that the nobles imprisoned the miners without trial , tortured them , and even executed those who resisted . When Tandar reinforced his point that he was powerless do anything other than to negotiate , Gelba asked why the Jedi had come at all . He revealed to the miners that he had traveled to Doan mainly to acquire the Sith artifacts . Gelba became indignant , claiming that anything the miners had excavated was rightfully theirs and stated that the Jedi cared more for artifacts than the suffering of living beings . The massacre . Tandar began to reassure Gelba that he would try to help , but his rebuttal suddenly stopped . Sensing a disturbance in the Force , the Jedi announced that someone was coming . The Huntress suddenly arrived and shot Gelba in the chest , killing her instantly . The other five miners scattered , but the Iktotchi assassin quickly shot and murdered two more . Tandar drew his lightsaber in response , but as he reached out with the Force , it felt strange and cold to him — as a blow to the gut — and he staggered back . The Huntress then fired on him , but Tandar quickly crawled behind a nearby rock formation . The surviving miners returned fire on the Huntress from behind their cover , but she quickly dispatched with them . As Tandar tried once more to draw on the Force , he realized that it had been tainted with the dark side . He stepped out and ordered that the assassin show herself . Instead , the Iktotchi just fired a shot at him from the shadows , which he was barely able to deflect . Tandar again tried to envelope himself in the Force , but the Huntress used her own power to interfere with his ability to touch the Force . He ordered that she leave the miners alone and requested once more that she show herself . In response , the Iktotchi assassin stepped out of the shadows and revealed to Tandar that she had already killed the rest of the miners . She then fired on Tandar again , and the Jedi was barely able to dodge her shots . Scolding himself for his clumsiness , Tandar called the assassin ' s blasters to him with the Force . To Tandar ' s surprise , the Iktotchi remained calm . He offered her a fair trial if she surrendered , but the Huntress retorted that there would be no trial and quickly retreated . Tandar realized his mistake , too late , as he saw that she had tricked him and overloaded the weapons ' power cells . As they exploded , he tried to protect himself with a Force shield , but the dark side continued to interfere with his powers . Unable to protect himself , the Jedi Knight was killed . Aftermath . The massacre caused the King of Doan to fear that the Jedi would believe that the Royal House had ordered Tandar ' s assassination . As such , the day after the incident , he met with Serra and agreed for her to travel to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to assure the Jedi Order that the Royal Family was not behind the attack . Lucia later revealed to Serra that she had hired the Huntress , but Serra decided not to report her bodyguard ' s action . At the Jedi Temple , Serra learned that her father , Caleb , had been killed ten years previously by a Sith Lord . She thus had Lucia contact the Huntress to hunt down and capture Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Bane , whom she mistakenly believed to be her father ' s killer . On Ciutric IV , Bane became aware of the death of Tandar and decided to send his apprentice , Darth Zannah , to investigate as he believed that anyone who was powerful enough to kill a Jedi was worthy of their attention . He also used it as a means for solitude so that he could go on his own secret mission to find the holocron of Darth Andeddu , which was rumored to hold the secret to immortality . All the while , Draado , the miner on Doan who had dug up the Sith artifacts , became corrupted by the talismans he wore . The artifacts , coupled with Gelba ' s assassination , caused him to call for war with the Royal Family . Nevertheless , he was killed soon after by the Dark Jedi Set Harth , who had also traveled to Doan in search of the artifacts . Behind the scenes . The massacre on Doan first appeared in Drew Karpyshyn ' s 2009 novel , " " , the third and final installment in the " Darth Bane " trilogy .