T ' achak T ' andar T ' achak T ' andar was a male Chadra - Fan with a passion for speed and racing . Originally a design engineer , T ' andar found the work boring and became a test pilot for prototype airspeeders and landspeeders . He was known to push vehicles to their very limits in order to test them thoroughly , but his penchant for joyriding and racing the prototypes — along with gambling on the result — meant that he could not keep in steady employment . T ' andar joined the New Republic , and despite their best efforts to place him in a role where he could not get into trouble , he was eventually transferred to Page ' s Commandos as a support operative . Following the liberation of Kal ' Shebbol in 8 ABY , T ' andar was transferred to the CR90 corvette " FarStar " to serve as its repulsorlift chief . The ship had been assigned to track down the rogue Imperial warlord Moff Kentor Sarne , who had fled from Kal ' Shebbol with the majority of his forces in the wake of the New Republic ' s assault on the planet . T ' andar spent the majority of the mission looking after the corvette ' s small detachment of ground vehicles . Biography . T ' achak T ' andar , a male Chadra - Fan , was a vehicle designer and engineer , and was part of a team of Chadra - Fans hired by the Incom Corporation to design new airspeeders and landspeeders for the company . He soon got bored of designing new creations , and transferred from the design team to the prototype testing team where he discovered a love of piloting vehicles at high speeds . T ' andar developed a reputation for pushing the prototypes beyond their redline limit , proving that his colleagues ' designs worked . However , T ' andar also had a habit of taking the new designs for joyrides , and racing against other drivers , which resulted in both large wagers and crashed vehicles . T ' andar eventually left Incom , and worked for several other companies , including Ubrikkian Industries , Aratech Repulsor Company , Ikas - Adno , and Mobquet Swoops and Speeders . Each time , T ' andar would push the company ' s new prototypes as far as they would go , but would eventually take a new design for a joyride or race , and bet heavily on it . A crash would usually follow , along with the end of T ' andar ' s employment . Despite crashing his vehicles on numerous occasions , T ' andar always managed to jump clear and suffer only minor injuries . He claimed his continued survival was due to two factors . Firstly , he always wore a crash helmet . Secondly , he always modified any craft he was driving with a device he called a " redbutton sissy strap . " That modification was a seat belt or restraint designed to keep the rider aboard the vehicle . In times of emergency , the pilot could release it with a small explosive charge to throw themselves clear . After running out of design companies to work for , T ' andar worked for a few planet - bound smuggling groups and a swoop gang before he eventually enlisted as a repulsorlift engineer for the New Republic . The New Republic tried to put him and his talents to good use , while at the same time trying to keep him from doing too much damage . As a result , he was assigned to single patrol duties on remote planetary outposts . In 8 ABY , shortly before the Battle of Kal ' Shebbol , T ' andar was transferred to support operations for Page ' s Commandos , although he did not make a good impression on the unit commander , Lieutenant Judder Page . T ' andar served with the task force assigned to liberate Kal ' Shebbol , located in the Kathol sector of the Outer Rim Territories , from the Galactic Empire . Elements of Page ' s Commandos infiltrated the Imperial headquarters and deactivated the planetary shields , allowing the New Republic to liberate the planet . In the wake of the New Republic ' s victory , a mission was authorized to track down the local Imperial warlord , Moff Kentor Sarne . Sarne had ruled Kal ' Shebbol , and had managed to flee the planet during the battle with a large portion of his forces . As Sarne was believed to still be able to pose a danger to the security of the region , the CR90 corvette " FarStar " was tasked with a mission to search for him and neutralize any threat he presented . While much of the crew of the corvette was drawn from the civilian population of Kal ' Shebbol due to a manpower shortage , T ' andar was one of the few New Republic personnel to find himself transferred to the vessel at Lieutenant Page ' s instruction . T ' andar was assigned as the ship ' s repulsorlift chief , and spent much of his time in the vessel ' s maintenance and repair bay performing unauthorized " improvements " on the " FarStar " small fleet of ground vehicles to enhance their performance in his eyes . Several months into the voyage , the " FarStar " stopped at Yvara on the edge of the Kathol Rift . The planet was the homeworld of the Yvarema species , a hive - minded race to which one of T ' andar ' s crewmates , Gunthar , belonged . Captain Kaiya Adrimetrum , the commanding officer of the " FarStar " , ordered the ship to land so that routine maintenance could be performed , and authorized teams to scour the surrounding area for food supplies . T ' andar was grateful for the chance to take the ground vehicles out for a spin , relishing the opportunity to race over open ground . After leaving Yvara , the " FarStar " eventually tracked Sarne down in the Kathol system , engaging the Moff ' s forces in combat . The " FarStar " crew successfully defeated Sarne , ending the threat he posed to the stability of the sector . Personality and traits . T ' achak T ' andar was covered in brown hair and had black eyes . He was a cheery , happy - go - lucky individual whose main love was the thrill of flying fast vehicles . He was also willing to push a craft further than its design limits to test just how fast it could go , or just how well it could corner . T ' andar cared about the maintenance of his craft , making sure they were working properly and modifying them to get that little bit extra out of them . T ' andar would often talk with other technicians about modifying their own craft by bypassing safety procedures . Despite his love of fast moving vehicles , he did not risk his own safety , and often built mechanisms into the craft to allow him to escape from an accident without harm . T ' andar also liked to gamble , usually on whatever vehicle he was piloting and how fast he could fly it . However , he was not adverse to placing bets on anything that moved fast . That was one of the traits that usually led to the eventual termination of his employment . T ' andar was capable of piloting ground , hover , and repulsorlift vehicles , and could perform repairs on the latter . He was also able to determine the value of any repulsolift vehicle he encountered . On duty , T ' andar typically wore a pilot uniform and crash helmet . Behind the scenes . T ' achak T ' andar was created as a member of the " FarStar " support crew in the first book of " The DarkStryder Campaign " , published by West End Games in 1995 . Initially , his character was not to be mentioned in any other supplement , giving the gamemaster or any player who portrayed his character control over his fate . However , T ' andar did receive a mention in the third book of the campaign , " The Kathol Rift " , in the adventure " Home " when the players were given the opportunity to deploy the " FarStar " ground vehicles to search for food supplies . T ' andar was later namechecked in 2010 ' s " The Unknown Regions " , a sourcebook for Wizards of the Coast ' s Star Wars Roleplaying Game , as an example name for Chadra - Fan characters .