Gharn Gharn was a Nagai male Jedi Padawan who was active in the Jedi Order during the era of the Mandalorian Wars . The Padawan of the Jedi Master Xamar , one of five stationed at the planet Taris ' s Jedi Tower , Gharn was close friends with four other Padawans in his class — Humans Zayne Carrick and Shad Jelavan , the Ho ' Din Oojoh , and Kamlin , a Falleen . One of very few Nagai Jedi candidates , Gharn , by 3964 BBY , was close to being named a Jedi Knight . Gharn ' s final test as a Padawan , along with the rest of his class , was to cross Taris ' s rogue moon , which was constantly bombarded by meteor s , blind . All of the Padawans completed the trial , and a banquet and ceremony was set up shortly afterward , where the class would learn which of them would be Knighted . However , the five Jedi Masters of the Taris Jedi Tower — secretly comprising a Jedi Covenant dedicated to watching for the rise of the dark side — had decided that their class of prospective Jedi would bring about the return of the Sith . After the banquet , the Jedi Masters slew Gharn and his friends . Carrick managed to escape due to a timely late arrival but was officially blamed for the murders . Biography . Promising apprentice . Gharn , a Nagai male , was discovered as a Force - sensitive and taken in by the Jedi Order as a youth . As a youngling , Gharn lived at the Jedi Enclave of the planet Dantooine , where he became fast friends with four of his classmates — Humans Zayne Carrick and Shad Jelavan , the Ho ' Din Oojoh , and Kamlin , a Falleen . The five younglings grew up together , and , along with his friends , Gharn eventually became a Padawan at the Jedi Tower of the Outer Rim planet Taris . Gharn trained directly under the Khil Jedi Master Xamar , one of five Jedi Masters in the academy alongside Human Lucien Draay , the Miraluka Q ' Anilia , the Feeorin Feln , and Raana Tey , a Togruta . With his friends , Gharn , a rarity as a Nagai Jedi candidate , neared Knighthood by 3964 BBY . That year , Gharn gathered with his classmates for what was to be his final test as a Jedi Padawan . He and his friends would travel to Taris ' s rogue moon , a planetoid in the Taris asteroid belt that was perpetually bombarded by thousands of meteor s an hour , and travel blind , trusting only in the Force to guide them , to their Masters ' encampment a long distance away . To reach the moon , the Padawans had to endure a rough shuttle ride through the asteroid belt before arriving high above the moon . After a quick speech from Master Draay , Gharn and the others were dropped from their shuttle , through the asteroid belt , and to the moon below . Wearing an environment suit with his blast shield down , Gharn successfully traversed the treacherous terrain and passed the test . His classmates also succeeded , with Carrick arriving last . However , unbeknownst to Gharn and the other Padawans , their fate had already been decided . The five Jedi Masters of Taris actually comprised a secret Jedi Covenant , dedicated to guard against the return of the Sith . As they waited for the Padawans to make it to their camp , the Masters set down to meditate — together , they shared a vision of a figure in a red environment suit , the same that the Padawans were currently wearing , killing them all and driving the Jedi Order and Galactic Republic to ruin . Believing one of their apprentices to be their destroyer , the Covenant decided that they would have to kill them all in a preemptive strike . The Padawan Massacre . After the group made it home , the Masters cloistered themselves for days ; when they emerged , they declared that they had determined who was to be promoted to Jedi Knight and set up a banquet and a ceremony , where the Padawans would learn their fates . Gharn attended the festivities with his classmates — Carrick , notoriously tardy , arrived late , crashing through a window while in pursuit of a criminal . Afterward , the Padawans , minus the again - late Carrick , retired to the Masters ' chambers to discover who would be Knighted . However , while they waited for Carrick , Shad Jelavan deduced that something was amiss . Carrick , by far the least of their class , appeared as if he was to be Knighted by his Master , Lucien Draay . Unwilling to believe that Carrick would actually be made a Jedi Knight , Jelavan tried to get the Masters to tell them what was really going on . Gharn and the others followed his lead , until suddenly the Masters ignited their lightsabers and attacked . The Padawans had no chance , and Gharn was slain alongside Kamlin , Jelavan , and Oojoh . Carrick , who arrived late to find his friends ' corpses , escaped the Masters ' pursuit after a wild chase . Carrick was blamed for the murders , and he — along with an " accessory , " local Snivvian hood Marn Hierogryph — had a sizable bounty placed on his head . Meanwhile , the bodies of Gharn and his friends were carried away by medical droids . The story of the massacre became a huge news focus on Taris , and holograms of Gharn and his class could be found as far deep as the Lower City . Gharn and his friends were publicly mourned sometime afterward , with the Masters of the Covenant speaking kindly of them at the funerals . The year after the murders , Raana Tey , her sanity eroding , had a nightmarish vision in which Gharn and his Jedi class took the place of the Jedi Covenant , and she took the place of Zayne Carrick , walking in on the murders of her fellow Masters . In her dream , Gharn wielded a red lightsaber , such as those that the Sith used . Xamar , Gharn ' s Master , would later confess to the murders to the Jedi Council and clear Carrick ' s name . Gharn ' s father eventually joined Carrick ' s Rogue Moon Project , an organization dedicated to helping refugees , wrongly accused fugitives , and the like . Personality and traits . Violet - skinned and dark - haired , wearing a Padawan braid , Gharn was close friends with the four other Padawans in his class , having grown up with them on Dantooine and Taris . Gharn was especially close with Zayne Carrick — although he enjoyed ribbing the Human , Gharn was overjoyed when he heard that Carrick was going to be Knighted . However , when Shad Jelavan challenged the Taris Jedi Masters on Carrick ' s potential Knighthood , Gharn followed Jelavan ' s lead , questioning whether they actually would make Carrick a Jedi Knight . Powers and abilities . Gharn had a very strong connection to the Force , and , by 3964 BBY , he was adept enough to be nearing the rank of Jedi Knight . Gharn had the ability to see through the Force when his sensory vision was taken away , allowing him to survive his trial on the rogue moon . Equipment . On Taris , Gharn wore a Jedi robe , along with a belt with several pouches and a pair of gauntlets that covered his hands and forearms . He also had his own lightsaber , which was kept in the Jedi Tower along with those of his friends after the Padawan Massacre . Behind the scenes . Gharn made his first appearance , albeit unnamed , in " " , a comic written by John Jackson Miller and released in 2006 . Illustrated by Brian Ching , the character appeared in flashbacks in the rest of the issues of the " " arc , along with " " , a prequel issue . " " , an in - universe news report that appears at the end of " Crossroads " , establishes Gharn ' s status as a member of the Nagai species and was the first publication to identify him by name . Gharn was also mentioned in several other issues of the " " series , and in 2008 he received an entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " .