Cem Fel Cem Fel was a Human male and one of the sons of General Baron Soontir Fel and Syal Antilles Fel . Raised as a shadow child first on Nirauan and then on Csilla , Fel was kept secret from all those outside the family until 28 ABY , when his name was leaked to a visiting group of Galactic Alliance Jedi , information which made its way back to Aristocra Chaf ' orm ' bintrano of the Chiss in 35 ABY . Biography . The Human male Cem Fel was the child of General Baron Soontir Fel and Syal Antilles Fel , highly - placed Imperials who joined the Empire of the Hand in 5 ABY . Born on the planet Csilla and raised on Nirauan , Fel ' s existence was kept secret . He was a shadow child , a custom of the Chiss among whom the Fels lived ; in fact , his name , Cem , was of Chiss origin . As a shadow child , Fel was kept completely unknown to the public , so that if ever the family were destroyed by enemies , Cem could keep the Fel line alive . His brothers Chak , Davin , and Jagged all went into the Empire of the Hand ' s military , as did his sister , Cherith . All of those except Jagged were lost in combat relatively early in Fel ' s life . His sister Wynssa , however , remained at home with him . While he did not appear in public , Fel was taught to pilot and frequently took out the family yacht " Starflare " , which annoyed the eager - to - pilot Wynssa . When the Empire of the Hand ceased to exist and the Fels joined the Chiss Ascendancy , Fel returned to Csilla and settled there with his family , where he remained a secret . In 28 ABY , however , his existence was outed to the visiting Jacen Solo by Wynssa . This information did not make it back to the Chiss until 35 ABY , when Solo ' s uncle and aunt Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker dropped his name in conversation with Aristocra Chaf ' orm ' bintrano of the Chiss , who quickly realized that Fel was a shadow child and promised to keep his existence secret . He speculated that the namedrop by Wynssa had possibly been part of a plot by Soontir . In 36 ABY , the Fels were dishonored and diminished in power by the actions of the Jedi Lowbacca , taken after Jagged granted his parole as an officer of the Chiss Expansionary Defense Force ; at the same time , Jagged was himself lost to a crash on Tenupe . While Jagged was recovered two years later , he was exiled , never to be able to return . It was only in 40 ABY , with the death of the Chiss enemy Alema Rar at Jagged ' s hands , that the family ' s honor was restored . Behind the scenes . Cem Fel has only been mentioned by other characters , first in " " and then in " " ; he has never appeared as a character himself . " " , published in 2000 , and " " , published in 2002 , established five Fel siblings — Jagged , his older deceased brother Davin , his younger deceased sister Cherith , and two other unnamed children . " Force Heretic II : Refugee " , published in 2003 , filled in the missing two as Cem and Wynssa . All five children had been named when Chak Fel appeared in " Survivor ' s Quest " in 2004 . This information was retcon ned in " Dark Nest I : The Joiner King " , which established that Cem had been a shadow child known to none outside the family ; all references to five Fel children were therefore misinformation and included Chak , Davin , Jagged , Cherith , and Wynssa . " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , published in 2008 , confirmed what had only been expressed as characters ' belief by explicitly establishing him as Cem Fel , a shadow child of the Fel family . " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " also stated that Fel was born on Csilla . As his family did not join the Chiss Ascendancy and move to Csilla until shortly before he was old enough to pilot yachts , Fel must have been born on the world before his family took up residence there .