Akanseh Akanseh was a male Mon Calamari doctor from the planet Dac . A philanthropist and accomplished surgeon , he wanted to use his skills to take medical care to the backwater planets of the galaxy . When the Galactic Empire invaded his homeworld , Akanseh fled and avoided becoming a slave . Hiding for several years , he built a fully automated surgical suite staffed by droids and set out to achieve his goals . Since the surgical suite could be broken down and stowed in the hold of a freighter , Akanseh used free - trader s to transport the apparatus from world to world . While being ferried between planets , the freighter Akanseh had booked passage on was intercepted by an Interdictor cruiser . The doctor was taken to Moff Kentor Sarne , an Imperial warlord who ruled the Kathol sector . Sarne saw that Akanseh ' s talents and surgical suite would serve him well , and forced the Mon Calamari to work for him as an interrogator and torturer . Akanseh did his best to act humanely in this role , using persuasion and coercion to gain his subject ' s secrets without resorting to violence . Despite this , he still used more forceful methods on occasion . In 8 ABY , he was freed from his servitude to the Moff by Page ' s Commandos of the New Republic during the Battle of Kal ' Shebbol . Moff Sarne had fled Kal ' Shebbol with the bulk of his fleet , and the New Republic corvette " FarStar " had been assigned to track him down and neutralize any threat he posed . Akanseh signed onto the crew of the " FarStar " as chief medical officer , hoping to atone for his actions while in Sarne ' s service . Several months into the voyage , the vessel stopped at the planet Q ' Maere in the Kathol Rift . The planet was the site of the Q ' Maere Research Facility , a former scientific outpost that had been converted into a penal colony by Moff Sarne . Many of the inmates had been poorly and brutally treated , and Akanseh elected to stay behind at the outpost to care for them . Biography . Early life . An accomplished surgeon and philanthropist on Dac , the Mon Calamari male Akanseh dreamed of providing advanced medical services to the unprivileged backwater planets of the Outer Rim Territories , and aiding those who needed it the most . Before he could realize his goal , the Galactic Empire subjugated the planet . Akanseh fled his homeworld , and avoided becoming one of the many Mon Calamari slaves throughout the galaxy . Akanseh spent several years in hiding , developing a mobile surgical suite to fulfil his dream of providing medical services to the needy . The suite was largely staffed by medical droids programmed by Akanseh himself , and the doctor planned for them to conduct routine operations on their own while he supervised . The unit was designed to be able to fit into the hold of a freighter , and could also be assembled to create a field surgery unit . Around the time of the Battle of Endor , Akanseh completed his surgical suite , and began traveling to backwater planets , where he hoped to aid underprivileged individuals in need . He traveled in free - trader ships , trading his medical services for full passage , or at least a reduced price . While en route to a new planet , the freighter he was traveling in was captured by an Imperial Interdictor cruiser . Akanseh was taken to Kal ' Shebbol , and brought before Moff Kentor Sarne , an Imperial warlord and ruler of the Kathol sector . Working for Moff Sarne . Sarne confiscated Akanseh ' s medical suite , and saw that the doctor ' s medical skills and knowledge of droids and droid programming would serve him well in his dungeons as an interrogator . A peaceful being , Akanseh chose not to resist and became a submissive prisoner , carrying out Sarne ' s orders . However , Akanseh had his own methods . Rather than torturing them for information , he persuaded his subjects to trust him enough to disclose the information willingly . He did not want to cause other beings harm , and he knew that if he couldn ' t get the information in this manner , then the prisoner would be turned over to Imperial interrogators and droids . His techniques were effective , and his rate of success was noted by the Moff . Akanseh once interrogated a stubborn resistance fighter , attempting to get the young Human to reveal the location of his compatriots who were causing havoc at Kal ' Shebbol ' s starport . Treating the rebel ' s injuries , he tried to persuade the prisoner to see sense and tell him what he knew . Unfortunately for Akanseh , the prisoner was defiant and refused his requests . Desperate not to inflict pain on him , the doctor pleaded with the rebel , telling him that Sarne would use much worse techniques on him if he didn ' t . At that point , Sarne entered the interrogation room . Having heard about the success that Akanseh was having with his subjects , the Moff had decided to supervise one of his sessions . After observing Akanseh ' s failure at persuading the subject to talk , Sarne presented the Mon Calamari with a hypo - syringe and a clear liquid that , when injected into a subject , would make their blood boil . Akanseh hesitated to use the chemical substance , and Sarne noticed . The Moff revealed he had a second hypo - syringe , and commented that if the doctor was unsuccessful , then he would suffer the same fate as the prisoner . Despite working for Sarne as an interrogator , Akanseh was still considered to be a prisoner , and was kept in the detention block in the Moff ' s palace . In 8 ABY , the New Republic liberated the planet . Soldiers from Page ' s Commandos , led by Kaiya Adrimetrum , freed all the prisoners in the detention area as part of their invasion of Sarne ' s headquarters . Service aboard the " FarStar " . Freed from imprisonment , Akanseh learned of a New Republic mission assigned to track Moff Sarne down . The Moff had escaped from Kal ' Shebbol with the majority of his fleet , and the modified New Republic CR90 corvette " FarStar " had been charged to pursue and neutralize him . The doctor signed onto the " FarStar " mission , seeing it as penance for the acts he performed in Sarne ' s service . However , while Akanseh admitted he did some medical work for the Moff , he did not reveal the nature of the work to Lieutenant Judder Page , the New Republic officer in charge of putting the mission together . One of the first to join the mission , Akanseh was part of the inspection team that checked out the " FarStar " at its secret berth in the Sorbiss Valley . He inspected the vessel ' s medical facilities along with Keleman Ciro and Kaiya Adrimetrum , pronouncing them " reasonably complete . " As the chief medical officer on the " FarStar " , Akanseh was responsible for overseeing the medical bay , keeping track of medical supplies , and maintaining the medical droid pool . He ran the medical facility well , and it was always brightly lit , warm and stocked with hot food . The crew often joked about getting injured just so they could spend a few comfortable days in sickbay . Akanseh ' s droid programming skills also came in useful since the medical droids had to be well suited to deal with a crew composed of a diverse number of species . His ultimate goal was to recreate his surgical suite , but he realized that , since that was not part of the " FarStar " mission , it could not take priority . However , he worked in secret during his time on the ship , assembling equipment and medical droids . Shortly after launching from Kal ' Shebbol , the " FarStar " intercepted an emergency call from the planet Kolatill . Its capital city , Domaz , had been attacked by TIE bombers in retaliation for the overthrow of the planet ' s Imperial governor . The " FarStar " arrived in orbit several days later , and Akanseh led the medical relief teams to the surface to help the injured . Shortly after , he was part of the " FarStar " delegation that met with the political leaders of the planet Gandle Ott , and also a member of the party that was greeted by Imperial Colonel Heget at Imperial Depot 4290 - 1 on Shintel . Several weeks into their voyage , the " FarStar " made a brief layover at Galtea , gathering supplies and performing maintenance before crossing the empty expanse of space known as the Marcol Void . An Imperial agent , known as the Wraith , had joined the crew of the ship at Pembric II , posing as a man named Drenn . He had come aboard with Breslin Drake , a former New Republic Intelligence Service agent who was managing the ThrusterBurn Tapcafe , after running afoul of the local crime lord , Crev Bombaasa . However , Drake had no idea that Drenn was an Imperial spy , and was , in fact , searching for him . The Wraith used the " FarStar " communications system to contact an Imperial patrol and arrange for it to attack the corvette . He then rigged one of the K4 security droid s on the bridge with a miniature projectile launcher loaded with a poison dart , as well as a shaped charge on a power conduit near the captain ' s station . While landed on the surface , the corvette ' s sensors detected the approach of several Imperial ships . Adrimetrum gave the order to launch into orbit and engage the enemy . During the ensuing battle , Adrimetrum was apparently injured following an explosion on the bridge and fell into a coma . In reality , the Wraith ' s shaped charge gave the appearance that Adrimetrum had been injured during the battle , covering the fact that she had been shot with a toxic dart . Examining her in the medical bay , Akanseh could find no cause for her condition — the captain ' s injuries consisted of several cuts , a broken arm , broken ribs and bruising , and none of them was responsible for the coma . An investigation was launched into the matter , led by the Defel Kl ' aal . After reviewing security footage from the command center taken during the battle , it was realized that the explosion that caused the captain ' s injuries did not correspond to any weapon strikes against the ship . Further analysis showed that the memory buffer on one of the K4 security droids on the bridge had been altered , and that Adrimetrum had apparently slapped at her neck just prior to the explosion . Aware of these new findings , Akanseh managed to locate a small puncture wound at the base of the captain ' s neck , and a decrease in neurotransmitter activity in her brain . The doctor discovered that a contact poison was to blame for the captain ' s condition , but the substance did not appear in any of the medical databases . Drake recognized the effects as being similar to those of a toxin used by the Imperial agent known only as the Wraith . He believed that the toxin originated from the planet Sebiris , but had never found the source of it on his trips to the planet . The " FarStar " headed to Sebiris , and a landing party met with the native inhabitants of the planet , the Sebiri . The headman of a local tribe informed the landing party that the only cure to the toxin was a herb that grew near one of their sacred grounds . The landing party gave the headman gifts , including luxury food items , and he personally escorted them to the site with twelve of his warriors . During their trek into the jungle to the sacred site , one of the Sebiri referred a member of the landing party called Drenn by the name " Petrivoor , " an alias that Drake knew the Wraith was known to use . Drake could not believe that the man he had been searching for had been right under his nose , and a brief fight ensued . The Wraith escaped , but it was clear to the crew that he had engineered Adrimetrum ' s injury . The landing party managed to recover several of the herbs , and returned to the " FarStar " . Initially , Akanseh was sceptical about the healing properties of the primitive cure , but was amazed when the captain came out her coma after he administered it . After crossing the Marcol Void , the " FarStar " made a stopover at the planet Binaros to take on food supplies . The landing party inadvertently brought back the spores of a feeder plant , which took root and began to grow within the ship ' s lower forward hold . The plant utilized mobile feeders to gather food and nutrients for itself , and also required nitrogen taken from the blood of living animals . One of the feeders attacked and killed a member of the crew for the nitrogen within their blood stream . Akanseh examined the dead crewmember , and pronounced that he had been completely drained of blood . The feeder plant was stopped by a gaseous poison developed by Varel DeVay , the corvette ' s xenobiologist . Redemption . Several months after leaving Kal ' Shebbol , the " FarStar " entered the Kathol Rift , an area of volatile gases plagued by dense lightstorm s . A bacteria mutation within the Rift rotted the corvette ' s food stores , forcing them to stop at the planet Q ' Maere within the Rift itself . According to records that the " FarStar " had obtained , Q ' Maere supported a scientific outpost . However , unknown to the crew , Moff Sarne had secretly taken the facility over and converted it into a penal colony and re - education center . Weeks before the " FarStar " arrival , Moff Sarne had stripped the facility of its useful personnel and security troops , and stranded the remaining staff and all of the prisoners . The facility ' s director , Langstyn Kraay was desperate for a way off the planet , and took a landing party from the " FarStar " hostage . He hoped that by holding the delegation to ransom , the crew of the " FarStar " would surrender the ship to him . The landing party was put in with the main prison population , and , together with a New Republic prisoner named Lowen Chase , they staged a jailbreak and took control of the facility . Despite being freed , the " FarStar " could only take a small number of the prisoners aboard , and the rest would have to remain at the facility . Akanseh , seeing a chance to atone for his past transgressions , volunteered to stay behind at the outpost and care for those patients that had suffered at the hands of Sarne ' s torturers . Personality and traits . Akanseh was a kind and generous Mon Calamari with orange - brown skin and black eyes , and had a knack for getting other beings to trust him , even in dire situations . He believed in helping the helpless , and was insistent in bringing medical services to backwater planets , even while serving aboard the " FarStar " . To him , withholding medical services was just as bad as causing injury . Although a talented shipboard doctor , he was easily confused in combat situations and was not an effective combat medic . Akanseh was generally peaceful and non - violent , although he was forced to betray his beliefs when he was captured by Moff Sarne . He was deeply ashamed of his time as an interrogator , and simply wanted to forget about it . His greatest fear was that someone would find out about his past and expose him , and he had no compunctions about lying to cover up his past deeds . Skills and abilities . Akanseh had knowledge of alien species and was learned in medicine , able to perform complex surgery and operate bacta tanks . His experience with using a droid automated surgical suite gave him expertise in computer programming and repair , as well in droid programming , especially in regards to Emdee - series droids . He was also able to repair droids that malfunctioned . As a Mon Calamari , Akanseh was amphibious , able to breath in and out of water . He was also most happy in moist environments , and dry environments tended to depress him , causing him to seem withdrawn . Equipment . Although trained to use a blaster , Akanseh did not typically carry one , preferring to only carry medpacs and a surgical field kit . Prior to his capture by Moff Sarne , Akanseh owned and operated a mobile medical suite staffed by droids which could be broken down and carried in the hold of a freighter . Behind the scenes . Akanseh was created for " The DarkStryder Campaign " by West End Games for " " . In the " Crew Notes " section for " The DarkStryder Campaign " , it was noted that Akanseh should find the redemption he sought during the adventure by committing a truly heroic act , such as sacrificing himself in an effort to save others . However , the developers also stated that the gamemaster and players were under no obligation to eliminate Akanseh from their campaigns . In " The Kathol Rift " , Akanseh was written out of the series by stating that , if the players had allowed him to survive to this point in their campaign , then he would remain at the Q ' Maere Research Facility to care for those who suffered under Sarne ' s interrogations .