Janns Janns was a Human Sith Saber of the Lost Tribe of Sith who served as a warrior aboard the " Candra " during High Lord Edell Vrai ' s reconnaissance mission to Alanciar in 2975 BBY . He survived an attack by the Alanciari air force which destroyed the " Candra " . Janns and four other crew members including the mission ' s commander Edell Vrai survived the assault and subsequent crash - landing . Janns narrowly escaped being shot by the Alanciari Wardmaster Quarra Thayn , who had armed herself with a ballista and was protecting her lover Jogan Halder , a signal officer in the Alanciari Signal Corps . However , Janns ' fellow Saber Ulbrick was not so lucky and had to be " euthanized " by Edell . Later , Janns participated in the Sith survivors ' successful effort to hijack and commandeer the Alanciari sailing ship and harvester " Mischance " . He was also aboard the " Mischance " when it undertook its first transcontinental voyage to Keshtah Minor , the home domain of the Tribe . Biography . Janns was a member of the Lost Tribe of Sith , a group of Human Sith who had settled on the planet Kesh during the Great Hyperspace War . He grew up the continent of Keshtah Minor during the Hilts Restoration and later participated in the Tribe ' s efforts to reach and conquer Alanciar , another continent in Kesh ' s southern hemisphere . Janns joined the Sith Saber s , a rank within the Tribe that was the equivalent of the Jedi Order ' s Jedi Knights . In 2975 BBY , Janns participated in the Tribe ' s expeditionary mission to Alanciar and served aboard the airship " Candra " . He was part of a ten - person crew that included Captain Edell Vrai , the uvak - tenderer Peppin , the thoughtcrier Taymor , four other warriors including his fellow Saber Ulbrick , and two Keshiri ambassadors including Tellpah . His captain Edell was also the commander of the Sith expedition and had invented the Tribe ' s airships after discovering that methane extracted from the volcano Sessal Spire could be used as hydrogen to power gasbags . Janns and the Sith scouting fleet traveled across the Western Sea to Alanciar ' s southeastern peninsula region known as the Six Claws . Shortly after arriving in Alanciar , the Sith airships were attacked by black javelins fired from Alanciari ballista emplacements in the Six Claws and were pursued by the Alanciari air force , which consisted of armed uvak riders . Thus , the Sith had made contact with the Keshiri living on Alanciar but quickly learnt that they had a strong military that was capable of resisting invasion . In fact , the Keshiri geologist Adari Vaal , who had initially worked with the Tribe but later attempted to overthrow them , had fled to Alanciar over two thousand years ago . She succeeded in warning the Alanciari about the threat posed by the Lost Tribe . As a result , the Alanciari developed a highly militarized society based around resisting invasion by the Sith . Janns was one of the six Sith crew who survived the " Candra ' s " crash - landing near Point Defiance , a signal station that was situated on the peninsular of Garrow ' s Neck . The other survivors included the mission ' s commander Edell , the uvak - tender Peppin , fellow Saber Ulbrick , and the Keshiri scholar Tellpah . Unseen , the Sith party had dropped north of Point Defiance while the balloon carried the wrecked gondola farther eastward . After traveling for a kilometer , the Sith party led by its commander Edell Vrai climbed a stony tumbledown which led to Point Defiance . His comrade Ulbrick was the first of the Sith party to climb up the summit . As a result , Ulbrick was hit in his right thigh by glass projectiles from a wooden ballista that had been fired by the Alanciari Wardmaster Quarra Thayn , who was protecting her wounded lover Jogan Halder , who had been crushed by the fallen uvak Starboard , who had been tethered to the " Candra " . Janns managed to dodge the projectile by diving for cover behind a ruined hut . After a brief but fierce struggle against the Force - sensitive Alanciari woman , Janns and Peppin managed to overpower Quarra and take her and her companion Jogan prisoner . Quarra also revealed that she could speak the same language as the Sith and that the Alanciari had been well prepared for the Sith invasion . Meanwhile , the Keshiri scholar Tellpah attended to Ulbrick ' s wounds but the young Saber was unable to walk . To prevent the Alanciari from capturing a live Sith prisoner and to warn Quarra that she should cooperate with her captors , Captain Edell euthanized Ulbrick by beheading him . Janns and his Sith companions then entered Point Defiance where they attempted but failed to operate the station ' s semaphore machine , an Alanciari technology that was unknown to the Tribe . However , Edell and Tellpah spotted an Alanciari ship in the horizon and decided to hijack and commandeer the vessel . After retrieving their Alanciari captives Quarra and Jogan from the latter ' s bedroom , the Sith party set out for the southern shore of the peninsula Point Defiance . There , they found a boat which they used to row to the Alanciari ship and seize it . This Alanciari ship turned out to be the fishing trawler " Mischance " and its crew fought to death against the Sith invaders , whom they had been taught from young to fear and hate . While the Sith managed to capture an Alanciari sailor , he resisted his Sith interrogators even until the point of death . Thus , the Sith gained no intelligence other than the fact that the " Mischance " had been hunting for crustaceans for the past week and was due to remain in the Southern Passage for a week before returning to port . Later , Janns was presumably aboard the " Mischance " when the ship undertook its first transcontinental voyage from Alanciar back to the Tribe ' s home domain of Keshtah . During this voyage , the ship was captained by Edell ' s lieutenant Peppin and also carried the Alanciari prisoner Jogan Halder , who recovered from his injuries sustained on the night of the " first contact " and later became the Tribe ' s " ambassador " to the Alanciari . Halder subsequently convinced the Alanciari to submit to the Sith by claiming they were not a threat to them but were rather the Protectors , powerful gods in Keshiri religion . Meanwhile , Janns ' commander Edell Vrai remained on Alanciar with his Alanciari guide Quarra Thayn . These two participated on a ground reconnaissance mission into the continent ' s interior and capital of Sus ' mintri . Personality and traits . As a member of the Human Lost Tribe of Sith , Janns was Force - sensitive . He was also a warrior in the Sith Saber s , the Tribe ' s equivalent of the Jedi Knights , and was presumably skilled in lightsaber combat . Behind the scenes . Janns first appeared as a minor non - point - of - view character in John Jackson Miller ' s novella " " , which was first released on July 24 2012 as part of the mass paperback " " . This marks his only appearance in the Star Wars Expanded Universe .