Jareth Sartoris Jareth Sartoris was the cold - blooded Captain of the Guard on - board the " Purge " . He had a natural immunity to the Blackwing Virus , though he was bitten at some point . Rather than succumbing to the disease , he sacrificed his life to save Han Solo , Chewbacca , and the other survivors of the plague . Biography . Trouble aboard " Purge " . Captain Sartoris was the officer in command of the Imperial Corrections Officer s aboard the Imperial Prison Barge " Purge " . When the thrusters broke down aboard the " Purge " , he was part of a salvage team sent to check out a derelict Star Destroyer , the " Vector " . The team returned with the parts needed to repair the ship , but they inadvertently brought with them a horrible disease . After most members of his party began to show symptoms of an unknown disease , the med - bay was quickly overrun with sick inmates , stormtroopers , and Imperial personnel . On order of Dr . Zahara Cody , he was put into a quarantine bubble . Instead of waiting to die , he decided to leave the bubble and go to Warden Kloth ' s office to get the launch codes to launch the escape pods . When he got up to the office , he found that Warden Bissley Kloth was already showing signs of an advanced infection . After he extracted the code from Kloth , he killed him in cold blood . Two troopers witnessed the killing and Sartoris shot one but let the other one go free . He traveled to the escape and found that Kale Longo and Trig Longo had also been trying to gain access to the pods , but were unsuccessful because they were without the codes . The brothers pleaded for Sartoris to take them with him , but Sartoris refused . He then opened up the pods and kept Kale and Trig at bay with a blaster . Sartoris blasted off the barge into what he thought was safety . Aboard " Vector " . Jareth Sartoris would arrive on the derelict Star Destroyer after trying to escape the " Purge " in an escape pod . What Sartoris didn ' t realize was that the " Vector " tractor beam was turned on . Instead of drifting through space , he ended up in the main hangar of " Vector " . He was quickly attacked by the reanimated corpses of the crew of the Purge . After using a derelict X - Wing fighter ' s armament to temporarily evade the zombies , he took refuge inside a " Sentinel " - class shuttle . Inside , he was introduced to Commander Gorrister and five others , survivors of the crew of the Star Destroyer " Vector " . Gorrister explained to him how they had survived for ten weeks , by eating the other surviving crewmates . After narrowly escaping a murder attempt by the survivors , Sartoris grabbed Gorrister and the two other men that were holding him and hoisted them out into the crowd of the undead . As Sartoris was about to throw out the rest of the survivors , he stopped when he saw the faces of the three young men , White , Tanner , and Pauling . He spared the three soldiers and left the shuttle in an attempt to disable the tractor beam . At that moment , Jareth Sartoris realized that he had been bitten . He would go on to look for the other survivors of the " Purge " . A great sacrifice . After commandeering a service hovercraft , Sartoris searched the Star Destroyer for the other survivors of the " Purge " . He found Trig Longo , Han Solo and Chewbacca in one of the main engine wells of the ship , arriving just in time to save Longo from certain death . After picking up Han Solo and Chewbacca , Sartoris headed for the main hangar . The combined weight of all the survivors , however , exceeded the hovercraft ' s capacity , so Sartoris decided to sacrifice himself by jumping down to a crowd of zombies , giving the rest of the survivors a chance at escaping the " Vector " .