Korin Pers Korin Pers was a female Ugnaught scholar who held the position of sava at the University of Bar ' leth in the Core Worlds during the reign of the Galactic Republic . As an expert on various types of antiquities , she wrote works published throughout the Republic , although she eventually left the university . At some stage she worked with the smuggler Lando Calrissian and lost her left eye in the process , forcing her to get a cybernetic replacement and causing her to greatly dislike Calrissian despite the smuggler promising he would someday make up for the Ugnaught ' s injury if he could . Despite her animosity towards Calrissian , she agreed to help him steal an Imperial pleasure craft potentially full of antiques for the crime lord Papa Toren . However , this heist attracted the attention of Emperor Palpatine , who was unwilling to let his yacht fall into the wrong hands . During the adventure , Korin and her companions discovered that the " Imperialis " housed Sith artifact s that were capable of corrupting sentient beings . After being corrupted by a Sith mask belonging to Lord Momin , Korin decided to turn on Calrissian but was murdered by the corrupted alien warrior Aleksin , a renegade member of Lando ' s crew . Biography . Early Life . During the reign of the Galactic Republic , Korin Pers served as a sava of the University of Bar ' leth in the Core Worlds as an expert on many types of antiquities and ancient cultures including the Jedi . She wrote works published throughout the Republic . In her long studies , she found only scraps related to the Sith . Particularly , she came across stories involving the Sith and their relation to corruption , which she admits were actively suppressed by the Jedi and possibly anti - Sith propaganda . Age of the Empire . Sometime after the Jedi Purge and the Galactic Empire ' s rise to power , Pers lost her position and fell into disgrace when the Jedi and their history was no longer a permissible study . She then found work with smuggler s and other criminals . Later , before the theft of the " Imperialis " , Pers took a job with Lando Calrissian that resulted in the loss of her left eye , which was substituted with a cybernetic replacement . Although , Calrissian promises to repay the Ugnaught , Pers still greatly disliked Calrissian . Theft of the " Imperialis " . When Calrissian and his companion Lobot received a job from crime lord Papa Toren to steal the " Imperialis " , Calrissian enlisted the aid of Pers in order to identify antiquities on board . Despite pointing a blaster at Calrissian and claiming that almost nothing could make her want to work with Calrissian , Pers decided to join Calrissian once seeing the datapad with information about the job . Calrissian revealed that the job was stealing an Imperial pleasure craft full of potential rare and priceless antiquities . While Toren would receive the ship , the group could keep anything inside the starship . She then assisted Calrissian , Lobot , Aleksin , and Pavol in stealing the " Imperialis " . The group used stealth suit s provided by Toren to successfully infiltrate Sienar Fleet Systems Orbital Shipyard CC - 24 , where the ship was being refitted , and steal it . In the Castell system near Orbital Shipyard CC - 24 , the " Imperialis " was attacked by three Imperial Star Destroyers while Pers surveyed the ship . Upon feeling the " Imperialis " thrum as the ship ' s automatic defense system destroy the gravity - based mine s deployed by the Star Destroyers , Pers , Aleksin , and Pavol entered the cockpit where Calrissian and Lobot were present . Outside the viewport , Pers spotted a Star Destroyer and reprimanded Calrissian for risking their lives . Calrissian navigated the " Imperialis " away from the Star Destroyers . Once safely in deep space , Pers claimed the ship was full of treasures , including a Gungan fertility totem . While guiding the group through the ship , Pers suggested the " Imperialis " was a work of art , custom created by Raith Sienar , who supposedly kept his unique technology for preferred clients . She then pointed out the central chamber , which was well secured . Using his implants , Lobot opened the chamber and was stabbed by an Imperial Royal Guard on the other end . While Aleskin and Pavol dealt with the two Royal Guards , Pers helped Calrissian take the injured Lobot to the medical bay and into a bacta tank that she had found earlier during her survey . Pers identified the ship belonging to Emperor Palpatine and reprimanded Calrissian for the impending doom that the smuggler had brought on them all . After a visit to the armory , Pers and Calrissian returned to help the twins but found that the twins had killed the Royal Guards . Pers proceeded to take the helmet of one of the dead guards , finding the corrupted face of the guard . Tossing the helmet aside , Pers continued into the central chamber to find the something that the guards were left to protect . In the central chamber , Pers identified the numerous antiquities as being priceless Sith artifacts . Meanwhile , a bounty hunter serving Emperor Palpatine named Chanath Cha boarded the " Imperialis " in hopes of recovering the starship for the Emperor . After identifying the artifacts as being created by the Sith sculptor , Lord Momin , Pers told Calrissian that the price of the artifacts could be worth enough credits for a moon or two to the correct buyer . However , a helmet artifact corrupted Aleskin , who grabbed a red lightsaber and attacked Pavol . Calrissian and Pers escaped Aleskin and closed the central chamber . Reflecting on her past research into the Sith , Pers suggested that proximity to the Sith artifacts might have corrupted the Royal Guards and Aleksin . Pers decided to find an escape pod , recommending Calrissian and Lobot do the same . However , Chanath Cha had deactivated the escape pods . While heading to the bridge to reactivate the escape pods , Pers was captured at gunpoint by Cha and refused to disclose information about other members of her crew . Although Calrissian failed to rescue Pers , the bounty hunter recognized Calrissian and lowered her blasters . Cha told the two that she would help them escape and proceeded to self - destruct the ship despite the pleas of Pers and Calrissian for assistance in stealing the artifacts . Once Calrissian brought up Lobot , Cha stopped inputting the self - destruct codes . Suddenly , Aleksin and Pavol appeared and provided Pers the opportunity to join their side . After being handed the helmet artifact , Pers decided to join the twins and kill the others . Aleksin then stabbed Pers through the chest with a red lightsaber . Personality and traits . Korin Pers was a female Ugnaught . She sustained a cybernetic eye while helping the smuggler Lando Calrissian on one of his jobs . Korin Pers was once a respected Sava at the University of Bar ' leth who specialized in the study of ancient antiquities including Jedi and Sith relics . After losing her position , Pers took a job with Calrissian . She disliked Calrissian after losing her left eye during that job . Despite her hostility , she agreed to work with Calrissian after learning that he and his associates plan to steal a luxurious Imperial yacht . Pers regarded Palpatine ' s luxury yacht , the " Imperialis " , as a work of art and believed that the ship ' s Sith relics would make them rich . After discovering that the Sith artifacts had corrupted the Royal Guards aboard and Aleksin and Pavol , she recommended fleeing the ship . When captured by the bounty hunter Chanath Cha , Pers refused to betray her fellow crew . Due to her academic interest in artifacts and history , Pers objected to Chanath ' s plan to destroy the ship . Pers was corrupted by the dark side influence inside the Sith helmet aboard the " Imperialis " and decided to join the twins and kill the others . However , Aleksin killed her with a red lightsaber . Skills and abilities . Korin Pers was a respected Sava who was a reputable expert on ancient antiquities during the last decades of the Galactic Republic . After research into Jedi artifacts fell out of favor , Pers was forced to ply her skills to helping smugglers like Lando Calrissian steal artifacts in order to survive . Behind the scenes . Korin Pers first appeared as a secondary character " " , a comic book published in 2015 which was written by Charles Soule and illustrated by Alex Maleev .