Griff Vao Griff Vao was a male Rutian Twi ' lek , the elder brother of Mission Vao . Griff was always getting loans for his schemes of easy enrichment . They failed , of course , and he was never able to repay his debts . His debts soon became enormous , so he and his sister had to leave their home planet . Years later , his sister remembered their trip to Taris — hiding inside a packing crate on a freighter , barely having enough supplies . Biography . The Constable ' s children . Griff once ran around with Marn Hierogryph but nearly got arrested five times for being unable to subtly con a mark . Around 3963 BBY , Griff was a member of the swoop gang known as the Hidden Beks . Taris was in shock over the murders of four Jedi Padawans , apparently by their friend Zayne Carrick . It was around this time that Griff and his fellow Bek Brejik kidnapped the children of Constable Noana Sowrs . It was their intent to ask for a ransom , but chaos broke out on the planet when Zayne escaped and the Jedi left the planet outright . Not too long afterward , the Mandalorians invaded Taris and the Beks , under the leadership of Gadon Thek , became resistance fighters . Soon , the desperation of the circumstances caused the Beks to ally themselves with some people they wouldn ' t have otherwise , including Marn Hierogryph and supposed murderer Zayne Carrick . One day , Griff was bringing food to Sowrs ' kids , named Nahk and Tallie . Griff ' s sister Mission had developed a crush on Zayne and showed him where her brother was going . Eventually , Brejik , Gryph and the Ithorian bounty hunter Del Moomo also converged at where they had hid the children . A small fight broke out , but soon everyone found out what the two Beks had done . Griff tried to deflect some of the blame away from Brejik , but Gadon was still angry at the two . Soon afterward , the kids were reunited with their mother . Leaving Mission behind . In the years that followed , Griff often visited the Lower City cantina to play pazaak . There he met Lena , a Twi ' lek dancer , and fell in love with her . Lena , however , was used to dating Tarisian nobles , and Griff was not nearly wealthy enough to provide her with the expensive things she wanted . Eventually , Griff had to leave Taris , escaping his debts once again . This time , he left with Lena , leaving his twelve - year - old sister behind — although he promised her he would return as soon as they earned enough credits to live like royalty . Since then , Mission always thought it was Lena who made her brother forget about her . Later , after meeting Lena , she realized that Griff was not entirely innocent either . Reunited with Mission . Griff had left for Tatooine where he became a Czerka employee , but his colleagues thought that his disloyalty brought only trouble with him . Eventually he was captured by a Sand People tribe . Some time later , when Mission helped Revan on his quest for the Star Forge , she came across her brother on Tatooine . After she and Revan rescued him from a tribe of Sand People , he accepted a job offer from Greeta Holda . When Revan and Mission arrived to check on him , he asked Revan to lend him some money for a dubious scheme involving synthesizing Tarisian ale , which required tach glands as an ingredient . Tach could only be found on Kashyyyk now that Taris was gone . Revan retrieved the tach glands for him , but Griff made a mistake with synthesizing the ale and had to flee Anchorhead before his contact from the Exchange arrived . By 40 ABY , Tarisian ale had once again become available on the open market . Behind the scenes . Griff ( as well as the whole secondary quest ) appears in " KOTOR " only if the player talks with Mission about her past and family ; consequently , the player must visit a spaceport with Mission in the groups , where they are both informed by Lena about his whereabouts . If none of this happens , the player won ' t come across Griff . The quest to help Griff is an optional quest in " " . The player may elect to help Griff or leave him to his own fate . Another option is to kill Griff in the Sand People Enclave if Mission is not present . For Dark Side points , the player may tell Mission that Griff left her to die on Taris , and deserves no sympathy . Mission will agree , and state that Griff broke any bond he ever had with her . In the event that the player has not yet spoken to Mission regarding Griff , or has not met Lena yet , and travels to the Sand People Camp , Griff will not be present . Griff Vao was voiced by Robin Atkin Downes . He is best known as the actor who played the telepath Byron and Morann on the sci - fi series , Babylon 5 . Downes also provided the voice for Mekel a Sith apprentice in the game . Downes also voiced the Prince in Prince of Persia : Warrior Within , Sagacious Zu in Jade Empire and the Prophet of Regret in the Halo series . He also provided voice for nazi Deathshead in Wolfenstein .