Querdan Dei Querdan Dei was a male Human born on Kesh in 4 ABY . He had become a Sith Saber by 44 ABY , and was usually assigned to difficult assignments that were often unrewarding . Biography . He was part of a fleet commanded by fellow Sith Saber Gavar Khai , who assigned Dei to find and assassinate Queen Mother Tenel Ka Djo , in order to try and prevent the birth of a Jedi Queen that High Lord Sarasu Taalon had seen in a Force vision . He was given the " Cryptic Warning " to carry out this task , which was one of two EE - 104 Fisheye stealth ships the Lost Tribe had captured . After spending several days in the Hapes system near Hapes , Dei and his crew , which included his son Fardan , detected a flotilla of Hapan Battle Dragon s leaving the planet , and determined that Tenel Ka was aboard , and that they were heading to Klatooine . After following the Battle Dragons to Klatooine , Dei ordered Fardan to approach the planet in stealth mode , and followed down a landing craft launched by one of the Battle Dragons . After landing outside the camp where the shuttle set down , Dei and his crew determined that in addition to Tenel Ka being there , the " Millennium Falcon " , and therefore Jedi Knight Leia Organa Solo and Captain Han Solo , were also present . Dei left the ship and walked to a ridge near the camp to observe the Hapan shuttle , and noticed a group of five Humanoids , four adults and one child , whose gender he couldn ' t determine , and two droids watching the ship as well . Eventually he saw the shuttle open , and the four adults take positions around the landing ramp while the child and two droids went inside . Dei found this curious , and wondered who the child was . An hour later , the child reemerged , and Dei attempted to track the child and its bodyguards through the camp but was unable to . Dei then returned to the " Cryptic Warning " , and asked his crew for details about the camp . His archive analyst Sazat told him that it was the location of an unofficial negotiation assembly to determine the future of the planet after a uprising by the native Klatooinians against their Hutt masters . Farden briefed him on the camps defenses , informing him that the camp was pretty low tech except for the shield and weapons emplacements , and that there was a large amount of comm traffic coming from the numerous parties in the camp . Dei determined that he would need to infiltrate the camp and attempt to find a way to assassinate Tenel Ka on the ground , since the shields would be too strong to bomb . He asked for a disguise to infiltrate the camp , and his youngest crew member , Viti , told him she had set up an identity for him as a journalist for Heuristic Financial Analysis reporting on the economic impact of the slave revolt . Dei decided to install some fear in her in order to prevent her from getting to lazy or complacent , and demanded if that was the best she could do , and that it was an unattractive profession . Viti began to offer a defense for why she had chosen it , but Dei told her that he had just been joking and that she had done a good job . He then turned recordings of his monitoring over to Fardan and Sazat , and ordered them to learn whatever they could from them . Dei infiltrated the camp the next day , and hid in the shadows of a tent where drinks were sold , where he could monitor the tent where negotiations were taking place . He paid a Klatooinian child to toss a ball towards the delegates as they approached the tent in order to monitor their guards ’ reactions . One guard jumped on top of the ball , while the others shielded the delegates . Dei noticed that the two droids he had spotted belonged to the Solos , and also spotted the droids moving to guard one of the cloaked figures in the delegation . He determined that that must be Tenel Ka , and was interested in the fact that the droids seemed concerned about her safety , and that she had taken the time to talk with them after the incident as well . Dei began to form a plan using the droids , and waited in the tent until all the onlookers who had been nearby where gone , except for the boy he had recruited . He paid the child , and told him that he might need his services again later . He returned to his ship and met with his crew , and Fardan informed him that the two droids were R2 - D2 and C - 3PO , and that they had severed the Solos for several decades . Dei finished formulating his plan , and ordered Fardan to strip the " Cryptic Warning " of non - essential equipment they could sell so they could get some bribe money , and ordered his chief engineer , Tooley , to cut down a missile and convert it into a bomb that could destroy everything in three to five meters . Dei captured C - 3PO , and after deactivating him , planted the bomb Tooley had built inside of the droid , along with a camera in the droids optics . He then paid a 2 - 1B surgical droid that was part of a droids rights group to take C - 3PO , and pretend it had captured him itself for its own agenda . Dei monitored the droid , and two minutes before it was supposed to be reactivated , the child he had seen , Allana Solo , arrived and rescued the droid with her security detachment . Dei was unconcerned , as C - 3PO was called away to help Tenel Ka with some translation , and waited for him to get close enough to activate the bomb . As he waited , he realized how much Allana looked like Tenel Ka , and determined that she must be her daughter . Dei resolved to find and kill her as well , and when C - 3PO got into position , he reached down to activate the detonator remote , but realized it was no longer where he had put it . He turned around and discovered Allana behind him , holding the remote . He demanded she give it to him , but she refused and told him he wasn ' t going to kill her . Dei asked her if she meant her mother Tenel Ka , and sensed through her surprise that his suspicions were correct . Dei apologized to her , saying he regretted having to kill her and her mother , but that his duty came first , and he would try to make it as painless for her as possible . Dei pulled out his lightsaber and charged at her , but was suddenly attacked by Allana ' s pet Nexu , Anji . It attacked his face , knocking him to the ground , and ripped into his right eye . He managed to fling the creature off of him , but lost his eye in the process . Filled with anger , he stood up and turned back toward Allana , but found Leia Organa Solo in between him and his target , with her own lightsaber activated . She asked him if he wished to surrender , but he refused , and she charged at him . They dueled for several minutes , and Dei was delighted by the beauty of the duel . They continued to fight until their blades locked , and when Dei spun away to his left , he realized he had made a mistake since he could no longer see out of his right eye , and lost sight of Leia earlier than he expected . She took advantage of this and decapitated Dei , and he spent several seconds still alive , before his head fell backwards and he watched his back and legs for a few seconds before it hit the ground and rolled , with the last thing he saw being Anji . Fardan sensed his death on the " Cryptic Warning " . Personality and traits . Dei was a patient individual , and often wished that his crew and family members would understand its value . Unlike other members of the Lost Tribe , he was uninterested in advancement , only wishing to advance the interests and power of the Tribe . Dei appreciated the beauty and intelligence of all things , and regretted having been assigned to carry out the assassination of Tenel Ka and Allana Solo , but believed that his duty to the Lost Tribe came first .