Tash Arranda Tash Arranda was a Force - sensitive Human female from Alderaan who survived the destruction of her homeworld and later became a Jedi of the New Jedi Order . She was the daughter of Milessa and Kalf Arranda and the older sister of Zak Arranda . Biography . Early life . Tash and her younger brother , Zak Arranda , were born on Alderaan . Tash had very few friends on Alderaan ; she was considered to be odd , due to her habit of finishing others ' sentences . At some point , she began accessing the HoloNet where she learned of the Jedi after some information was uploaded onto the galactic communication service . Despite the study of the Jedi Knights being illegal under the rule of the Galactic Empire , Tash began to search through library databases from her desk computer in order to find out more about the near forgotten Jedi Order . After breaking through the code , she began to learn more about the order from an unknown individual on the HoloNet who went under the name of ForceFlow . Some time later , both Tash and her brother embarked on a field trip off planet for two weeks . However , during that time , the Empire deployed their Death Star I battle station which destroyed Alderaan . This led to everyone they had known including their parents , friends and neighbors being killed in the resultant destruction of the planet . Both children were later adopted by their Shi ' ido uncle , anthropologist Mammon Hoole , who was only related to them because his brother married the Arrandas ' Aunt Beryl . They accompanied Hoole and his research droid , DV - 9 , on his adventures as he studied the sapient races of the galaxy . In the first six months of this journey , Hoole never told the children about their destinations or even his first name . During this time , he also had his personal research droid DV - 9 tutor the children in various subjects . Project Starscream . One of their earliest adventures was an expedition to the planet D ' vouran though Hoole never told Tash or her brother of the destination . While she was pretending that she was a Jedi pilot fighting Imperial pilots , the " Lightrunner " came out of hyperspace early and nearly crashed on the planet . However , Hoole managed to land the ship though it was badly damaged in the process . They attempted to gain the aid of the native Enzeen that inhabited the planet ' s surface . During their time there , Tash began to get a bad feeling that something was watching them and she did not entirely trust the Enzeen . Desptie this being the case , both Hoole and her brother did not believe her . Hoole later planned to leave the children in his droids care while he went to conduct some research but Tash , her brother and DV - 9 found themselves taken hostage by the criminal henchmen of Smada the Hutt who had a desire to make use of Hoole ' s shape changing abilities in order to serve as his assassin . When Hoole refused , Smada ordered his Gank killers to vaporize the Arrandas though they were stopped by the intervention of the Heroes of Yavin . While they helped Hoole repair the ship , Tash confessed to Luke Skywalker that she received strange " " feelings " " at times of danger though dismissed them . He counseled her by saying that she should trust her feelings . This led to her examining information on the " Misanthrope " on the HoloNet from the " Millennium Falcon ' s " computer . During her search , Imperial forces attempted to track down her signal but after Skywalker told her , she shut the computer down to prevent her from being traced . At night , she and her brother stayed at one of the Enzeen ' s homes while being under the supervision of DV - 9 . During the night , she began to hear strange noises but she only found Chood who claimed it was stray animals . When she returned to her room , she found one of Smada the Hutt ' s henchmen attempting to abduct her sleeping brother . They managed to escape the Ganks and fled to the Don ' t Go Inn where they were sheltered though no one believed their claims of the Hutt ' s henchmen . This led to Hoole telling Tash that her obsession with the Force was going too far and that she needed to stop fixating on it , something that disheartened her . Later , her brother was nearly killed by Smada but was saved by Hoole ' s intervention . At this point , she accompanied the seemingly crazy hermit known as Kevreb Bebo He led her to an abandoned Imperial lab and told her that all of his companions had mysteriously disappeared . He gave her a pendant that he believed prevented him from disappearing as well . She left the lab and was subsequently captured by Smada , who wanted to use her and Zak to draw Hoole out of hiding . They were later rescued and escaped D ' Vouran . The children were Force - sensitive , and briefly encountered Jedi Master Yoda on Dagobah shortly before the Battle of Hoth . They also met Luke Skywalker , Princess Leia Organa , and Han Solo . While practicing with the Force , she found out that when she was angry she was more powerful . She found herself upset to discover Hoole once worked for Gog . Later life . Both of the Arrandas received university training after the threat of the Empire had lessened and became anthropologists themselves . They also attended the Jedi Praxeum for a time before Hoole moved them to an undisclosed location , possibly New Alderaan . Personality and traits . In terms of interest , she did not hold a great deal of interest in zoology , but was more interested in learning about Jedi lore . Ever since she learned of the Jedi , she sought to learn more about them , as well as to meet one and even become a Jedi someday . Generally , she considered herself a good student though the science subjects were not her favorite to study . She had some difficulty in making friends with children her own age on her homeworld , as they believed her to be weird . This stemmed from her always finishing other people ' s sentences or making predictions on when a pop quiz was going to be held and even getting strange feelings about different things . The last of those three tended to be events that were sad or frightening such as knowing that her parents were killed despite being light years away from the incident . She was also determined in setting herself as an example for her younger brother to follow . Furthermore , whenever she was reminded or attempted to remember about her homeworld , she felt that she wanted to cry but refrained from doing so as she believed that being the elder sibling that she had a duty to uphold to her younger brother . As such , she felt that had to make things easier for her Zak but despite this being the case ; she missed her parents terribly . After her parents were killed , for a time she felt lost and alone to the point that she believed she might have gone crazy . However , the focus on looking after her younger brother made her determined to not lose anyone else in her life . Following the destruction of Alderaan , Tash hated playing an Imperial pilot in holographic games due to their part in the destruction of her homeworld .