Zi ' am Zi ' am was a male Human who lived on the planet Nal Hutta during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire . Zi ' am was the child of a failed Sith named Kendrel and his wife Gianna . Like his father , Zi ' am was Force - sensitive , and when his mother found out , she wanted for him to be sent to the planet Korriban to train as a Sith as his father had attempted to do before him . Kendrel , however , did not want to risk his son being killed by the Sith on Korriban if he failed his trials , and so tried to flee Nal Hutta with him . Gianna learned of Kendrel ' s plan and sent an Imperial - aligned individual to bring Zi ' am back to her . The individual found Zi ' am and his father still on Hutta in the spaceport of an industrial town called Jiguuna . When the individual explained why they were there , Kendrel refused to hand Zi ' am over , causing the individual to shoot and kill him . Zi ' am then fled back to his mother , who sent him to Korriban . Once on Korriban , Zi ' am came under the tutelage of a Sith overseer named Harkun , who began training him to become a Sith despite his lack of cooperation . Biography . Zi ' am was a male Human who lived during the Cold War . He was the child of a failed Sith named Kendrel and his wife Gianna . His father had trained on Korriban but failed and fled before he could be killed , ending up working for a Hutt on the planet Nal Hutta . When it was discovered that , like Kendrel , Zi ' am was Force - sensitive , his mother wished for him to be sent to Korriban to train as his father had . Kendrel was greatly opposed to the idea , however , based on his own experience on Korriban . He took the boy and attempted to flee from Nal Hutta , reaching a spaceport in the industrial town of Jiguuna . A comm officer at the spaceport named Mekks recognized the pair and informed Gianna of their location , as he owed her a favor . Gianna then traveled to the Poison Pit cantina in Jiguuna , where she tried to find someone to retrieve her son . Gianna successfully hired an Imperial - aligned individual in the cantina to retrieve her son . The individual found Zi ' am and Kendrel in the spaceport and informed Kendrel why they were there . Kendrel begged the individual to let them flee and to tell Gianna they had gone to Korriban . When the individual persisted , however , Zi ' am ' s father refused to let his son be taken , and the individual shot and killed him . Zi ' am then crouched by his father ' s body , distraught by his death , but soon fled home to his mother . Once Zi ' am returned to Gianna , she sent him to Korriban where he was enrolled in the Sith academy . At the academy , Zi ' am was uncooperative with the Overseer assigned to him , who was named Harkun , and spent much of his time complaining about his father ' s death . Personality and traits . Zi ' am was deeply upset by his father ' s death and crouched by his father ' s lifeless body after he was killed . The Imperial - aligned individual ' s ruthlessness scared him enough that he quickly abandoned his father ' s corpse and fled back to his mother . Zi ' am ' s mother believed that he would hate her for her involvement in his father ' s death and that the grief and hatred would make him a strong Sith . She also believed he was particularly strong in the Force . Once he reached the academy on Korriban he spent much time complaining about his father ' s death and was often uncooperative with his overseer . The overseer considered him foolish and believed he did not appreciate his opportunity to become Sith , but was at least passionate . which gave him great potential . Behind the scenes . Zi ' am first appeared in the video game " " released by BioWare in 2011 . He is involved in the quest " Dreams of Korriban " where his mother asks the player to retrieve him from her husband . The player has a choice to either allowing Kendrel and Zi ' am to flee once they reach the spaceport ( light side ) or to kill Kendrel ( dark side ) . If the player chooses to allow the pair to flee , the only options when returning to Gianna are to lie , saying that her son was taken to Korriban . This article assumes that the player chose the " dark side " option and killed Kendral due to the fact only Imperial characters of the Bounty Hunter or Imperial Agent class can undertake this quest . This is due to its location on Nal Hutta , which Republic players cannot access . If the player chooses to let Kendrel flee , then he later sends the player a message thanking him and letting him know that he and Zi ' am successfully escaped . If they choose the " dark side " option , then Overseer Harkun sends a message instead informing the player that Zi ' am is on Korriban . Both messages include a 13 credit reward .