Janse Janse was a Human male native of the planet Ukio who worked as a weapons design evaluator with BlasTech Industries during the Galactic Civil War . At some point , Janse became a sharpshooter . He eventually left BlasTech , taking a cache of A280 blaster rifles with him , and joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic shortly before the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY , becoming a corporal in Alliance Special Forces . Janse served as a scout on hunting expeditions . That year , Janse attended a briefing held on the Alliance Fleet ' s flagship , the Mon Calamari Star Cruiser " Home One " , where the Alliance discussed its plans to attack the Galactic Empire ' s second Death Star battlestation orbiting the Forest Moon of Endor . Janse served as a sharpshooter in the strike team organized to infiltrate the moon and deactivate the Imperial shield generator that protected the Death Star . The strike team successfully disabled the generator , allowing Alliance starfighters to destroy the Death Star . Biography . Early life and service in the Rebel Alliance . Janse , a Human male who lived during the Galactic Civil War , was a native of the planet Ukio . At some point , he became a sharpshooter . He worked as a weapons design evaluator for the arms manufacturer BlasTech Industries . Eventually , Janse left BlasTech , taking with him a cache of A280 blaster rifles . Shortly before the Battle of Endor in the year 4 ABY , Janse joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic and eventually became a corporal in Alliance Special Forces . By that time , he was a former sharpshooter who served as a scout during hunting expeditions . Battle of Endor . In 4 ABY , Janse attended a briefing held on the Alliance Fleet ' s flagship , the MC80 " Home One " type Star Cruiser " Home One " , during which Mon Mothma , the Alliance ' s Supreme Commander , discussed plans to attack the Galactic Empire ' s second Death Star battlestation in orbit over the Forest Moon of Endor . General Crix Madine , the Alliance commander in charge of planning the attack , explained that members of a strike team led by General Han Solo would be sent to Endor to deactivate the SLD - 26 planetary shield generator on the moon protecting the Death Star from frontal assault , which would allow Alliance starfighters to destroy the station ' s main reactor . Janse was among the members of the strike team , serving alongside Lieutenant Greeve as a reactivated sharpshooter . Janse and the rest of the strike team traveled to the Endor system aboard the stolen Imperial " Lambda " - class T - 4a shuttle " Tydirium " , piloted by Solo . Queried by the Super Star Destroyer " Executor " in defensive orbit over Endor , Solo gave a stolen Imperial code , and the " Executor " provided the shuttle clearance to land on the Forest Moon . Shortly after landing on the moon ' s surface , the strike team waited while Solo and the team ' s command crew — Luke Skywalker , Leia Organa , and the Wookiee Chewbacca — scouted the area ahead to make sure it was clear . In the process , Solo alerted a scout trooper patrol to the strike team ' s presence , resulting in a speeder bike chase between Skywalker , Organa , and several of the Imperial scouts . Janse and the rest of the squad waited until only Skywalker returned . When it became evident that Organa was missing , Solo took the rest of the command crew to search for her , ordering the squad to continue on and to rendezvous at the deflector shield generator at 0300 hours . Major Bren Derlin , the strike team ' s commanding officer , led the squad toward the shield generator . Several times along the way , the squad encountered Imperial patrols and managed to hide . However , Corporal Delevar , the team ' s medic , almost compromised their position by preparing to take a potshot at a speeder bike ; he was consequently stopped and reprimanded by Derlin . At nightfall , Janse and the squad made camp in a camouflaged shallow ravine , where they posted two sentries and set up a blanket grid with their scanning equipment . Shortly after the squad members started their first sleeping shift , the scanners picked up an All Terrain Scout Transport walker moving toward them . Derlin ordered the team to take cover , but when it became clear that the walker would not pass them by , Corporal Dansra Beezer jammed its transmissions . Lieutenant Greeve destroyed both of the walker ' s spotlights with precise shots from his A280 blaster rifle , and the squad circled the walker in order to keep it off balance . When the AT - ST began to fire randomly into the trees and foliage , Delevar fired a smoke canister into its cockpit window . The resulting explosion forced the walker pilots to abandon the vehicle and surrender to the strike team . The squad captured the pilots and forced them to make a comm check - in at blasterpoint . The squad continued on to the rendezvous point , forcing the walker pilot to make several more check - ins on the way to explain the scout walker ' s absence . By the time the strike team reunited , Solo and the rest of the command crew had allied with the moon ' s native Ewok tribe from Bright Tree Village , who showed the strike team a path to the shield generator bunker ' s back door . The strike team then infiltrated the bunker in order to destroy it with 7 - PrG proton grenade s ; however , they were subsequently ambushed and led outside the bunker by Tempest Force , the Imperial Army legion stationed on the moon . The strike team ' s capture was only temporary , however , as the Ewoks attacked the Imperial troops and the strike team fought back , with the tide of the battle eventually turning in the Rebels ' favor . The surviving members of the strike team ultimately destroyed the shield generator bunker with their proton grenade s , allowing the Alliance Fleet to destroy the Death Star as planned . Personality and traits . Janse was a sharpshooter and served the Rebel Alliance in that capacity . Using his skills from his time as a weapons design evaluator , Janse aided the Alliance as a scout and hunter . As one of the strike team ' s sharpshooters , Janse , along with Greeve , used the A280 blaster rifles he had taken with him from BlasTech during the Battle of Endor . Janse had gray hair and fair skin . Behind the scenes . Janse first appeared as a background Rebel character during the " Home One " briefing in 1983 ' s . He was portrayed by an uncredited extra . In June 1999 , Janse was given a name and brief backstory in the " Endor Limited " expansion set of Decipher , Inc . ' s " Star Wars " Customizable Card Game . He later received an entry in 2008 ' s " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " .