Silas ( Mandalorian ) Silas was a Human male who served as a Mandalorian during the final decades of the Galactic Republic . He was a rookie in the True Mandalorian mercenary army around 52 BBY , when he joined his friend and mentor Jango Fett in the Battle of Korda Six . The operation on Korda Six was led by Mandalore Jaster Mereel , with the objective of extracting members of the Korda Defense Force from hostile territory ; however , the mission was actually a trap for Mereel and his men , set by the Mandalorian renegades known as Death Watch . The violent splinter group decimated the Korda extraction teams and murdered Mereel during the ensuing battle . Silas and Fett watched as Mereel ' s comrade , Montross , left him to die on the battlefield so that he might assume command of the Mandalorian armies . When Montross made his bid for control , Silas instead stood behind Fett and insisted that he become the new Mandalore in Mereel ' s stead . Silas ' s wishes were echoed by the other surviving Mandalorians , who exiled Montross and took Fett as their new leader . Silas served under Fett up until the debacle on the Outer Rim world of Galidraan , where members of the Jedi Order wiped out the remaining True Mandalorian mercenaries . Both men survived the event , making them the last two True Mandalorians of Mereel ' s discipline . Twelve years later , the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus took an interest in Fett ; he kidnapped Silas and tortured the man in an attempt to extract information from him on the Mandalore ' s background . The Mandalorian eventually succumbed to Tyranus ' s overtures and told him the history of the battle at Korda Six . Although Silas offered to provide more information , Tyranus refused and had the Mandalorian killed . Biography . Brothers in arms . Silas was a Human male who lived during the latter years of the Republic Classic era . At some point after 58 BBY , Silas joined the Mandalorian mercenary armies , at the time led by Mandalore Jaster Mereel . The young man endured the traditional training of a Mandalorian soldier to become a supercommando under Mereel ' s Supercommando Codex . During that time , he befriended the Mandalore ' s young protégé , Jango Fett , who had joined the warrior clans sometime prior to Silas ' s own induction . Silas grew to greatly admire Fett and supported the man ' s ascension through the Mandalorian command structure . In 52 BBY , the Mandalorians were contacted by the Korda Defense Force of Korda Six in a request for aid . Mereel accepted the job and formed a task force led by himself , Fett , and veteran commando Montross . Silas was assigned to serve under Fett during the operation , which marked Fett ' s first solo command of his squad , Jango ' s Grunts . During a briefing on the mission , Mereel explained to his commandos that the mission ' s objective was to locate and extract a rookie security team from hostile territory on Korda Six , which , according to the reconnaissance provided by the Korda Defense Force , was being lightly defended by Kordan forces with little defensive organization . Silas and the rest of Jango ' s Grunts were to provide covering fire for Montross ' s jetpack - equipped Vertigo Squad and keep the landing zone clear while Mereel led his Headhunter Squad to retrieve the security team . The commandos boarded " Meteor " - class Q - Carrier vessels and made their way for Kordan orbit , where they discovered a reality very different from the fictionalized reconnaissance provided by the Kordan Defense Force . The ships quickly came under fire from ion cannon installments on the planet ' s surface , forcing many of the carriers , including Silas ' s , to execute emergency crash landings . When Silas and the men of Jango ' s Grunts disembarked from their downed craft , they immediately came under fire from Kordan fortifications on a ridge above the crash site . The Mandalorian forces took heavy losses as they scrambled to find cover , but Fett and Silas were able to lead their squad into one of the trenches formed by the trajectories of the downed drop ships . The men were quickly followed by Headhunter Squad and Mereel , who decreed that the mission was a failure and that all forces were to abort their objectives and return to the dropships . The order was disregarded by Montross , who led his Vertigo Squad in a brazen attack run on the ridge . While the Mandalore left to retrieve his wayward subordinate , Fett and Silas took the three other members of Jango ' s Grunts to rescue the security rookies at the extraction site . Upon discovering the empty clearing that should have been the location of the rookie security team , Jango ' s Grunts were ambushed by members of the Death Watch — a renegade faction of Mandalorians who had split from Mereel ' s forces shortly before Silas joined the warrior clans . The Death Watch forces pursued the True Mandalorians through the Kordan forest , and eventually killed every member of the Grunts save for Fett and Silas . The two men were able to escape their attackers when Fett incinerated them with his flamethrower . They concluded that the entire job had been a Death Watch setup — the renegades had armed and trained the locals and then planted the false reconnaissance . As Fett contacted Mereel to inform him of the development , he and Silas trekked back toward the battlefield to rendezvous with their commander and depart the planet . Upon reaching the combat zone , the two bore witness to the Mandalore being gunned down by Death Watch leader Tor Vizsla while Montross fled the scene , leaving his comrade to die alone . Fett attempted to run into the crossfire to save Mereel and was nearly killed in the attempt , but he was instead saved by Silas , who threw him to the ground before the blaster fire could claim Fett ' s life as well . After the Death Watch and Kordan forces withdrew from the area , Fett and Silas approached Mereel ' s inert body . Silas watched as Fett bid his final farewell to his mentor and then followed the man back to the landing zone , where they found Montross claiming that Fett had died trying to save the Mandalore . The two interrupted Montross ' s attempts to usurp control of the Mandalorian forces in the wake of Mereel ' s death , revealing to their comrades that he had abandoned their commander on the field of battle . Fett rejected Montross ' s insinuation that he should be the new Mandalore , and Silas stood behind him , drawing his blaster on Montross and affirming that he would be led by no one other than Jango . Their fellow Mandalorians followed suit , and Montross was forced into exile while Fett assumed leadership and led his commandos off Korda 6 . For the next eight years , Silas and the True Mandalorians followed Fett in his war against Vizsla and the Death Watch . In 44 BBY , the Mandalorians were contacted by the governor of the Outer Rim world Galidraan , who claimed that the Death Watch leader and his men were camped out on his planet . The governor agreed to reveal Vizsla ' s location , provided that Fett and his mercenaries first destroy a cell of political activists who were creating unrest for the Galidraan regime . Fett agreed and carried out the governor ' s wishes before confronting the man for the information on Vizsla . The Galidraan operation ultimately turned out to be a setup , just like Korda Six , and Fett was ambushed by the Death Watch in the governor ' s palace . Meanwhile , the remainder of the True Mandalorian mercenaries were confronted by members of the Jedi Order , who had been summoned to the world under the pretense that the Mandalorians had been slaughtering innocent civilians . The battle with the Jedi resulted in the destruction of the True Mandalorians , with Fett and Silas being the only surviving members . After the war . In 32 BBY , Silas was kidnapped by Darth Tyranus , a Dark Lord of the Sith , who held him within his private retreat on the burial moon of Kohlma in the Bogden system . Tyranus was researching Jango Fett ' s history , as the Mandalorian had made a name for himself as a bounty hunter in the aftermath of Galidraan , and had since attracted the Sith Lord ' s attention . Silas ' s old comrade had been lured into a bounty hunting contest arranged by Tyranus , and was the expected victor . Because the contest ' s spoils were so important to the plans of the Sith , Tyranus hoped to collect extensive intelligence on the Mandalorian bounty hunter before entering into an agreement with the man . In the dungeons of the lair , Silas was tortured at the command of Tyranus with a number of interrogation droid s and a scan grid , in the hopes of enticing the man to reveal Fett ' s history . As a Mandalorian , Silas had been trained to withstand torture , but he eventually succumbed when injected with the powerful truth serum Bavo Six . Upon learning that his prisoner had relented , Tyranus visited the dungeons to listen to Silas ' s admissions . The broken Mandalorian revealed to the Sith the carnage that had occurred on Korda Six and Fett ' s rise to power . Although he offered to provide Tyranus with an accounting of the massacre on Galidraan , his captor refused — the Sith Lord had previously been known as Dooku , the Jedi Master who led Jedi Order ' s task force during the mission to Galidraan . Understanding that Silas would yield no more useful information , Tyranus ordered his droids to stop the Mandalorian ' s heart functions . Silas ' s last wish was that the Sith Lord not inform Fett of his complicity ; however , Tyranus refused to promise as much . Personality and traits . Silas ' s career as a Mandalorian and his death at the hands of Darth Tyranus were characterized by his devotion to his Mandalore , Jango Fett . Silas greatly admired Fett and considered him to be the greatest Mandalorian to have ever existed in the order ' s seven thousand - year history . The two men became friendly during Silas ' s early years in the warrior clans , when Fett was still serving as a low - level commando . Silas supported his friend ' s ascension to command and eagerly served under him during the battle on Korda Six . On Korda , Silas saved Fett ' s life by preventing him from running into oncoming blaster fire , and watched as the man bid farewell to his adoptive father , Jaster Mereel . When Montross tried to assume command of the Mandalorian forces , Silas was the first to draw his weapon on the usurper and nominated Fett for the role of the new Mandalore . The sentiment was shared by their comrades , and Montross ' s attempt was foiled . It was Silas ' s strong relationship with Fett that ultimately attracted the attention of Tyranus twenty years later , when the Sith Lord was attempting to glean information on the Mandalore from the man ' s former colleagues . Although he had been trained by the Mandalorians to anticipate a myriad of eventualities , including torture , Silas eventually caved in to Tyranus ' s demands , albeit regretfully . He felt that indulging the Sith Lord was tantamount to betraying his old friend , for whom he had nearly sacrificed his life on Korda Six . Despite his disappointment in himself for telling Tyranus of the bloodshed on Korda , Silas still offered to go into detail about the massacre on Galidraan . When the Sith refused and ordered that his prisoner be executed , Silas used his final words to ask that Fett not be informed of his failure . Silas had light green eyes , dark brown hair , and fair skin . During the mission on Korda 6 , the young mercenary donned Mandalorian armor painted green and blue . In Mandalorian culture , the colors symbolized duty and reliability , respectively . Behind the scenes . Silas was first seen in the of " " , a 2002 comic series that told the history of the Mandalorian Jango Fett through flashback sequences . All four issues of " Open Seasons " were written by W . Haden Blackman and penciled by Ramón F . Bachs . Silas was again seen in " " , as " Open Seasons 2 " was available for viewing in the video game via unlockable bonus content . He later received an entry in the 2008 " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " .