Laranth Tarak Laranth Tarak was a female green - skinned Twi ' lek Jedi Knight and a Gray Paladin , a marginalized group of Jedi that fought with more weapons than just a lightsaber . A survivor of Order 66 , Paladin Tarak aided the secret organization Whiplash get surviving Jedi and their associates off Coruscant in the early days of the Great Jedi Purge . She did not use a lightsaber , instead she preferred using twin DL - 44 blasters . She was a childhood friend of Jax Pavan , and would eventually assist him in his search for Bug - Eyes , and later join Whiplash with him . Biography . Born to Twi ' lek parents on the planet Ryloth , Laranth Tarak was identified as Force - sensitive at an early age and delivered to the Coruscant Jedi Temple for formal instruction in the ways of the Force at the Temple academy . Meeting fellow initiate Jax Pavan during her early training , Tarak was selected as a Padawan and saw very little of Pavan during her apprenticeship , and less and less of her old friend when she was made a Jedi Knight . Studying independently as a Knight , Tarak became fascinated with the teachings espoused by the Gray Paladin s , a group of Jedi who eschewed the use of the Force and opted to use blaster weapons . Seeking to aide the Galactic Republic as a Paladin , Tarak carried two DL - 44 heavy blaster pistols , and her belief in the Grays Paladins ' philosophy earned her the disdain of many of her colleagues in the mainstream Order ; many of whom considered her blasphemous , sacrilegious , and heterodoxical . Tarak ' s involvement in the Clone Wars , the massive conflict between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems , is unknown , though she was stationed on Coruscant when Supreme Chancellor Palpatine betrayed the Order by issuing Order 66 to the Grand Army of the Republic . Clone troopers on every front opened fire on their Jedi leaders while members of the 501st Legion stormed the Jedi Temple as part of . Aiding in evacuating Initiates , Padawans , and Temple employee s , Tarak ran into Pavan as he fled the Temple Precinct and into the lower levels of Galactic City . Whiplash . Several months later , Tarak encountered Pavan again on Amtor Avenue in the Blackpit Slums , her face scarred and her left lekku shortened by blaster fire . When Pavan detailed the dying request of a fellow Jedi , Tarak agreed to join him in the hunt for a droid named 10 - 4TO . Tarak led Pavan to the manse of Rokko the Hutt of the Besadii clan , who assisted them and their other comrades , Nick Rostu , Den Dhur and the seemingly fully - sentient droid I - 5YQ . Following a trail given by the Hutt , the Jedi and their companions delved deep into the Works only to be cornered by Prince Xizor . Xizor , who was already in the possession of the droid the Jedi sought , killed Rostu while the others in the group managed to flee . As they escaped the Falleen prince , the group was cornered by feral droids which had overloaded a nearby reactor . Escaping aboard the " Far Ranger " , the team met with a representative of Whiplash , an underground pro - Jedi movement , and agreed to aid them in their fight for justice . Over time , Tarak grew to find her work with Whiplash tedious and longed for a change of pace . While the group began residing in a small apartment , Tarak set off on her own , largely in part to her feeling that a distinctively bad future awaited the group . As Tarak investigated these feelings , she was attacked by the Jedi hunter Aurra Sing and barely managed to survive . After Sing was taken off her trail , Tarak returned to the apartment to find that the group had collected a large sum of credits in payment for their solving the murder of Ves Volette . It was in the next few weeks , while the group attempted to get Dejah Duare off Coruscant , that Tarak felt another tremor in the Force moments before Sing attacked them once more . Sing severed Tarak ' s right arm before Pavan managed to defeat the dark Jedi . He then rushed Tarak to a nearby medcenter . After she recovered , Tarak revealed to Pavan her intentions of parting ways with the group , citing her individualist nature and a need for solidarity . Some time later , the pair crossed paths again when they rescued an untrained Force - sensitive , Kajin Savaros , roaming the streets of Ploughtekal Market . Aiding Pavan in the boy ' s education in the ways of the Force , Tarak was forced to protect him when he was attacked by Probus Tesla and several other member of the Inquisitorius . As she defended the young man from the dark side Force - users , Tarak was struck by Force lightning created by Inquisitor Mas Sirrah . Nearly succumbing to his power , Tarak was rescued when Savaros used his raw power to utterly destroy Sirrah ' s body with an unbridled use of the Force . Because of this incredible power , Tarak agreed with the others that Savaros should be moved off - world . During a transfer to a safe house , Tarak was downed by spice gas and her unconscious form imprisoned within the Imperial Security Bureau ' s headquarters . Aided in escaping by her friends , Tarak was brought by Darth Vader to the roof of the building for a prisoner exchange with Pavan . The group , betrayed by their former comrade Duare , was forced to fight their way out of the building , fleeing back into the undercity after Vader was subdued by his overuse of the drug bota . The Last Jedi . Some time after this , Thi Xon Yimmon , the leader of Whiplash , came to believe that he was in imminent danger of being apprehended . To prevent this , the Whiplash council selected Jax , Laranth , Den and I - 5 to escort him to Dantooine . En route , they were forced out of hyperspace by a gravity well generator and faced capture from a wing of ships commanded by Darth Vader . Jax gave the order to abandon ship , but Laranth waited until Vader ' s flagship had lowered its shields to board them , and fired a laser cannon at the ship at point - blank range . Backblast and shrapnel from the ensuing explosion fatally injured her , and moments later she died in Jax ' s arms . Her last words to her lover were the final line of the Jedi Code , " There is no death , there is the Force . " Personality and traits . Tarak was muscular and tall . Her face and neck were scarred from an early mission against the Empire , which had also cost her ten centimeters of her left lekku . Far from trying to cover up her disfigurements , she did not have the scarring removed , and kept her lekku in front of herself so that they could be seen . Due to her Gray Paladin training she was an excellent shot with her two blasters , able to even shoot other blaster bolts off of their trajectories , deflecting them as if with a lightsaber . She hated to be stripped of her weapons . Tarak rarely revealed any of her personal thoughts or feelings to others . When she developed an attraction to Jax Pavan , she did not admit it to him but became very quiet and withdrawn , finally only letting Pavan know by opening herself to him in the Force in a very personal session in which he also revealed his thoughts to her . Though they both realized that Pavan returned her affections , he was totally inexperienced with relationships and Tarak withdrew from the connection , to Pavan ' confusion . Several times after this , Pavan would sense that Tarak still had feelings for him , but he failed to act on any of these , again due to his inexperience . After Tarak ' s capture and torture at the hands of Darth Vader a few months later , Pavan confronted Tarak about their mutual attraction , this time refusing to let her dismiss it as she had in the past . Pavan and Tarak again opened themselves to each other in the Force , finally realizing that they did love each other . However , they mutually came to a decision to not rush into anything .