Doctor Lancer Brunou ' s journal In 8 ABY , Doctor Lancer Brunou kept a journal in which he recorded the progress and discoveries of MS - 133 , a science team that served Moff Kentor Sarne , Imperial warlord of the Kathol sector . Under Brunou ' s command , MS - 133 had been sent on an archaeological expedition to the planet Aaris III to discover what had caused the extinction of the native sentient species , the Aaris . Over the course of several months , Brunou recorded the team ' s progress and findings in the journal , including the discovery of an artifact made of a metal unknown to Imperial science . Following the artifact ' s discovery , the team was attacked by the primitive descendants of the Aaris . Brunou was one of only two survivors of the team who were subsequently rescued from the planet by the New Republic corvette " FarStar " . History . In 8 ABY , Moff Kentor Sarne , the Imperial warlord of the Kathol sector , commissioned a science team , MS - 133 , to conduct an archaeological expedition to a series of ruins on the planet Aaris III . Doctor Lancer Brunou was assigned to lead the team , which had the specific remit of discovering the cause behind the extinction of the Aaris , the native sentient species . Over the course of a couple of months , Brunou recorded the team ' s progress on an almost daily basis . On day 49 of the expedition , Brunou noted that the team had found a metal ingot in a floor safe during an exploration of a ruined structure . Over the next few days , Brunou recorded in the journal how tests on the artifact had revealed it was made of a substance unknown to Imperial science and that the chamber it had been found in was covered in bas - relief pictographs . The pictographs emitted sounds when pressed , and it was believed that they served as an aural history of the Aaris civilization . Grigor Tansad and Jelok , two scientists on the team , worked on the translation of the pictographs . Despite the discoveries , Brunou noted that the team had started to become paranoid , and believed that they were being watched from the jungle , although there was no indication of sentient life on the planet . Unknown to the team was that the artifact they had discovered housed a sentient lifeform that fed off the life - force of living beings and sought to destroy them by manipulating their emotions to violence . As the team members fell prey to the artifact ' s influence , they were attacked by the primitive descendants of the native Aaris . The Aaris knew the artifact as the Plaque of Victory , and its influence had caused the downfall of their civilization thousands of years previously . The team began to suffer casualties due to the Aaris ' attacks , and their shuttle was destroyed . Brunou and the last few survivors fortified their position and sent a distress signal to Sarne ' s capital , Kal ' Shebbol , pleading for rescue . While the team had been on the planet , Kal ' Shebbol had fallen to the New Republic , and Sarne had fled into the depths of the Kathol sector with the majority of his forces . Brunou , along with the research assistant Solla Deremot , was eventually rescued from the planet by the crew of the New Republic CR90 corvette " FarStar " , which had intercepted their call for help . The crew studied the journal with Brunou ' s permission when they investigated what had transpired on the planet . Behind the scenes . Doctor Lancer Brunou ' s journal appeared in " Artifact of Aaris " , the second roleplaying game adventure scenario published in " The DarkStryder Campaign " in 1995 . Several entries from the journal are presented in the adventure , which serves as background information on MS - 133 ' s discovery of the Plaque of Victory .