Magnus ( Cold War ) Magnus was the captain of the cruiser " Stardream " during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire . Serving on Taris before he commanded the " Stardream " , Magnus and his crew were ferrying passengers from Ord Mantell when an outbreak of rakghoul plague caused the ship to crash on Tatooine . Transformed into a rakghoul , the captain prowled the wreckage of the ship in the Dune Sea until he was killed by an unknown individual . Biography . Before he assumed command of the starliner , Magnus was stationed on the ruined world of Taris , where he encountered the vicious rakghoul s . Some point in his life , he met a woman named Yllen , and the two married and had a daughter named Amy . By 3641 BBY , Magnus had become the captain of the passenger liner " Stardream " . He and his crew were ferrying 492 passengers from Ord Mantell when Zama Brak , one of the passengers , smuggled a risp . hatchling aboard . The risp had been infected with the rakghoul plague on Ord Mantell by Doctor Sannus Lorrick — an insane Tionese scientist who had released the virus on Kaon — and the rist infected Brak and several other passengers on Deck 2 . During the journey , Magnus sent several communications to his wife and daughter , telling Amy that a passenger had given him a stuffed Orokeet for her . By the fifth day of the voyage , several passengers had fallen ill with what they believed was food poisoning . However , by the seventh day the illness had spread across passenger decks 1 through 5 , and the patients were feverish and incredibly strong . Magnus recognized the signs of the rakghoul plague , and told his wife Yllen not to tell his daughter anything . Magnus himself was infected two days later , and became paranoid when the doctors suggested that he rest . He accused the crew of mutiny and locked himself on the bridge , sending the " Stardream " off - course . By day 12 , the infected passengers had begun to gather near the ship ' s core , and the remaining crew attempted to stop Magnus and retake control of the ship . The crew failed , however , as the " Stardream " crashed - landed on the Outer Rim planet of Tatooine . As the liner broke up over the desert and slammed into the northern end of the Dune Sea , pieces of the wreckage were scattered across the nearby area . Dozens of escape pods were launched , but everyone inside was already infected . Magnus and many other passengers and crew , now completely transformed into rakghouls , survived the crash and haunted the wreckage of the ship , attacking and infecting anyone in the area . Magnus was killed , however , by an unknown individual who took the captain ' s access codes from his mutated corpse and recovered the captain ' s logs . Behind the scenes . Magnus was created for " " , a released by BioWare on December 20 , 2011 . He appeared in the limited time World Event " Rakghoul Pandemic " on Tatooine , as part of the Daily Area mission " Wreck of the Stardream " , available to both Imperial and Republic players from April 15 to April 24 , 2012 . After the player has recovered security access codes from infected security , recovered the ship ' s security logs , and salvaged two power cores from the wreck , they are asked to lure out and kill Captain Magnus , then take his access codes from his corpse . Magnus could be summoned by accessing a security console at the northeastern end of the wreck , and his level will match that of the player who summoned him . Successfully defeating the captain grants the player the Codex Entry " Rakghoul Pandemic 2 - Captain Magnus " , a record of Magnus ' s communications with his wife Yllen and daughter Amy .