Helena Shan Helena Shan was the mother of the Jedi Bastila Shan and the wife of a treasure hunter . Biography . When Bastila Shan was a child and her father wanted to take her searching for treasure , as he regularly did , it was Helena who prevented him , insisting that it was too dangerous . Bastila thought her mother urged her father to go on hunts . As a result , Bastila grew up resentful of her mother , and the two of them had an uneasy relationship . When Helena sent Bastila to join the Jedi Order to provide her with a better life than that of the daughter of treasure hunters , Bastila took that as a sign that her mother did not want her around . Over the following years , Helena and her husband continued their treasure hunting . Helena remembered her daughter with fondness , showing holograms of her to one of her husband ' s employees , a Twi ' lek woman named Malare . At some point during this time , Helena developed a fatal disease . Her husband , in order to pay for treatments , desperately continued his search for treasure to raise the money . In the course of these hunts he traveled to Tatooine searching for krayt dragon pearls , and was killed by a canyon krayt dragon in the Eastern Dune Sea . When Helena spoke to Malare again , she was desperate to find her daughter . During the Jedi Civil War in 3956 BBY , as Bastila and Jedi Padawan Revan traveled to Tatooine during their journey to find a way to stop the Sith Invasion , Malare would cross paths with her and her companion , informing them that Helena was on Tatooine looking for Bastila . Helena ' s attitude had raised the ire of several patrons of the Anchorhead cantina , including the Duros Maana Demknot , who stormed out just as Bastila and the amnesiac Revan arrived , and was able to direct them to her . Bastila reluctantly met with Helena , but doubted that she was truly ill , and after a brief argument learned of her father ' s death . Helena asked Bastila to retrieve a holocron belonging to Bastila ' s father from the krayt dragon ' s lair . After slaying the dragon , the two Jedi retrieved it , but Bastila was reluctant to give it back to her mother . When she learned that Helena truly was dying and righted her misconceptions about her childhood , Bastila reconciled with Helena and gave her 500 credits to pay for treatment from a doctor on Coruscant . Before she left the Cantina , Helena asked Revan to protect and take care of Bastila . He told her that he would do his best . Behind the scenes . Strangely enough , Helena herself is wearing Jedi robes . This could either be a mistake on the part of BioWare , or reflective of the simple nature of some forms of Jedi robes from that period in time , and their similarity to simple desert robes . Her portrait is also a generic Human female seen in many parts of the game . With the robes she resembles many Jedi females at the ceremony on Lehon , albeit she has an older face . In the game , there is another alternative possibility where Bastila does not give the holocron of her father to Helena and keeps it for herself . Bastila is not convinced that her mother is ill , and therefore does not give her credits to find a doctor on Coruscant , with the confrontation between the two ending on bad terms . Helena Shan was voiced by Carolyn Seymour .