Mission to Courkrus The Mission to Courkrus was the first mission intiated by Corran Horn as a Jedi . In 11 ABY , he intended to terrify the Invids on Courkrus to drive the pirates off the planet . Background . In order to track down his wife kidnapped by former Moff Leonia Tavira , Jedi Knight Corran Horn infiltrated one of Tavira ' s pirate squadrons on Courkrus , the Khuiumin Survivors . As Jenos Idanian , he took part in several missions with the pirates . While Corran Horn was touring Vlarnya , he began to get a better sense of the other pirate gangs operating there ; he intended to disrupt Tavira ' s operations by driving the pirates off the world . After a week of planning his campaign to terrorize the pirates , he began building his own lightsaber . Using the notes Rostek Horn had given him , he used scavenged parts to build it in only two days . At the same time , Jenos Idanian began posing as affably but constantly drunk , getting people to largely treat him as harmless . The mission . Corran Horn began his reign of terror one night as he spoke with Jacob Nive in The Crash . After Nive had had a bit to drink , Horn began projecting to him a mental illusion of the dead Imperial Captain Jacob Nive coming up to their table and warning Nive that " Doom is coming to Courkrus . " The rumor of the ghostly visitation soon spread through Vlarnya , causing widespread worry . Not long thereafter , Horn put on a set of green Jedi robes and went prowling through the streets . He found two members of the LazerLords pirate gang attempting to rape a woman and fought them off . In extremely short order , word had spread across Vlarnya that a lightsaber - equipped Jedi was on the loose . The next several nights he performed similar feats , incapacitating small groups of pirates . One night , he warned some Fastblasters that he would kill the next member of that gang he saw . Three days later , the " Fastblast " left Courkrus . Another night , he struck at the Blackstar Pirates , who spent their time in a secret stronghold in the back of the Mynock Hole cantina . Entering the rear area , he found a spice den , brothel , bar , and gambling house in operation . He lit his lightsaber , stalked through the facility , damaging the bar and jubilee wheel , and warned the pirates that doom was coming before leaving . However the pirates had caught on to the fact that he had not yet killed any and were feeling bolder again . Shala , the Hutt leader of one of the gangs , fortified his warehouse base and began having his minions terrorize the local population , challenging the mysterious Jedi . Horn entered the warehouse den and faced Shala on his dais , who revealed that he held the trigger to a set of laser - flechette mines surrounding Horn . Horn tried to cut the trigger apart with the longer blade of his dual - phase lightsaber , but the blade failed . Shala dropped the dead - man trigger in surprise , however , setting off the series of mines . Horn channeled the Force to protect him , absorbing the massive input of laser energy and flame . He burnt off the last of his absorbed energy in a massive illusion of the column of flame becoming a Jedi with a lightsaber of fire which he projected for all Vlarnya to see . At the same time , some groups of Vlarnya ' s citizens had risen and attacked small groups of pirates . The next night , Horn drove off the last of Shala ' s group and let the populace loot the storehouse they had been using a headquarters . The Fastblasters and Shala ' s gang were completely gone , and the LazerLords , Blackstar Pirates , and Red Nova pirates had suffered from extreme desertion . Aftermath . When Tavira was aware of the situation , she went to Courkrus and found Horn , still posing as Jenos Idanian . She told him that she believed Luke Skywalker was the " ghost Jedi " . She demanded that he take charge of the situation and rally the others against the Jedi . Horn immediately began making the rounds of the other groups , boosting morale , issuing security orders , and relaying the fact that Tavira was promising a successful trap for the Jedi . But while he was planning to fake his own death at the hands of the Jedi , he was attacked by five Jensaarai Tavira had dispatched to apprehend him .