Elan Elan was a Yuuzhan Vong Priestess . Young at the start of the invasion , by Yuuzhan Vong standards she was devastatingly beautiful , with ice - blue eyes and intricately patterned lavender and maroon markings on her face . Biography . The youngest daughter of Most High Priest Jakan , Elan was a member of the Deception Sect , the followers of Yun - Harla . After the Yuuzhan Vong ' s victory at Obroa - skai , Elan was asked by Harrar and Nom Anor to undertake a mission to infiltrate the New Republic and assassinate as many of the Jedi as possible . Elan observed a demonstration of the bo ' tous bioweapon , an airborne blood agent carried in an assassin ' s lungs , in which an apprentice assassin used it to kill a number of captives before succumbing to it himself . Hoping to bring glory upon herself and her domain , Elan accepted the mission . She and her familiar , Vergere , would pose as defectors seeking political asylum , request a meeting with the Jedi , and then Elan would unleash the bioweapon . Elan even hoped her actions could result in her father being promoted to the rank of Most High Priest . The Yuuzhan Vong staged a small defeat close to Exodo II in which Elan and Vergere jettisoned from a ship in a small escape pod and were subsequently apprehended by the light cruiser " Soothfast " , where they requested political asylum . The defectors were transferred to Bagsho on Nim Drovis where they were taken into custody by Major Showolter of New Republic Intelligence . Although Showolter believed their defection was highly likely to be ruse , they were nonetheless transported to Wayland for debriefing by NRI operatives . Elan was able to relay their destination to Harrar using a villip . On Wayland , Elan was questioned by Belindi Kalenda , Joi Eicroth and Doctor Yintal . Elan claimed that as her sect worked closely with the warrior caste by reading auguries and advising which tactics to employ , she would be able to provide valuable information to the New Republic . The interrogation was interrupted however when a Yuuzhan Vong assassin burst into the safehouse and attempted to kill Elan before being shot down by Major Showolter . Elan sustained minor injuries but was otherwise unharmed , and Vergere later used her tears to help heal her wounds . The assassination attempt having increased their plausibility , Elan and Vergere were transferred to Myrkr with a view to eventually bringing them to Coruscant . Showolter arranged to take them on to Bilbringi posing as refugees aboard the " Queen of Empire " , and helped her pass for Human . Unfortunately , the Peace Brigade , mercenaries working for the Yuuzhan Vong who were unaware of Elan ' s true objective , learned of their defection and hatched a plot to retrieve them before their ship reached Bilbringi . They attacked the " Queen of Empire " and Showolter was injured . He was forced to hand Elan and Vergere over into the custody of Han Solo , whom he begged to help hide them . Elan was apprehended by the Peace Brigade with the help of a Yuuzhan Vong unmasker handler . She was taken aboard their shuttle , and they attempted to return her to a nearby Yuuzhan Vong ship . In desperation to prevent the failure of her mission , Elan used the bo ' tous to kill everyone in the shuttle , while she and Vergere took refuge in a cabin at the rear . Han boarded the shuttle to find everyone but the two of them dead . Elan suggested the Peace Brigade must have accidentally released the bioweapon themselves . Han grew progressively more suspicious as they escaped in the " Millennium Falcon " , and decided to load them into an escape pod and return them to their own people . Knowing her deception had failed , Elan attempted to use the bo ' tous on him , but inadvertently became trapped in the escape pod with him . Han survived thanks to a portable breathing apparatus given to him by his youngest son , Anakin Solo , and Elan herself was killed by the toxin . After her death , Nom Anor blamed the mission ' s failure on Elan and Harrar ' s inability to improvise .