Addar Addar was a male human member of the Church of the Force who traveled to the planet Christophsis to return a crate of kyber crystal s originally grown there . He did not truly share the beliefs of the church on the Force and quickly became disillusioned with the purpose of the mission , especially when a group of kyaddak began hunting the church members as they passed through the crystal forest . After losing the Elomin Madrammagath to the predators , Addar and his three remaining companions made it out of the forest , but in the following days first the Duros Uggorda and then the MA - B0 cargo lifter droid Mabo also perished , leaving only the human and his Iakaru friend Jumon . On the thirteenth day of the expedition , the kyaddak returned and Jumon sacrificed himself to buy Addar the time he need to complete the mission . The human fled from the predators and managed to reach the cavern in which the crystals were supposed to be returned , but there the kyaddak caught up with him . Using a blaster pistol he had brought with him , Addar fired at the beasts and managed to shatter elements of the cavern walls in the process , bringing down a section of the ceiling . Safe from the kyaddaks , but trapped and alone , Addar began unpacking the crystals to complete the mission , trying to ignore the fact that he would most likely perish in the crystal prison he had accidentally created . Biography . The human male Addar was born to a female founding member of the religious group known as the Church of the Force and grew up to become a member of the church himself . In the year 5 ABY , he joined a five - man expedition to the planet Christophsis with the aim of returning a collection of kyber crystal s to the place in which they had originally grown . The crystal s had been harvested by members of the Jedi Order for use in lightsaber s , but then taken by the Galactic Empire after the order ' s downfall and used to power the superlaser of their Death Star superweapon . The group arrived in a starship and set out to pass through one of Christophsis ' many crystalline cave systems , but by the third day Addar had begun to doubt their missions and confided as such to his friend , the Iakaru Jumon . To reassure him , Jumon had him rewatch holographic recordings of the leader of the church Brin Izisca while the group rested around a campfire they had set up for the night beneath the star s . The following day the group entered the crystal forest , and by the end of the fourth day they realised they were being hunted by something among the crystallized tree s . On the sixth day the Elomin Madrammagath was killed while separated from the group to relieve himself , and based on the wounds his body had sustained Jumon realised they were being hunted by kyaddak . The remaining four members of the group then did not rest that night , but slowly became more and more aware of their hunters presence : at first hearing them , then spotting signs they had been near , then finally seeing the beasts themselves lurking in the shadows . Addar revealed to Jumon that he brought a blaster pistol with him despite their destination being a holy site , but Jumon refused to allow him to attack the kyaddak as they too were creatures of the Force . Three kyaddak attacked the group on the eighth day , injuring the Duros Uggorda but not managing to kill her before being frightened off by Jumon , Addar and the MA - B0 cargo lifter droid Mabo . The four then forged ahead and managed to make it out of the kyaddak ' s territory in the crystal forest on the ninth day , entering an area in where the floor itself was crystal instead of dirt . Now safe from their hunters , the group set up another campfire for the night so Mabo could tend to Uggorda ' s wounds . Addar and Jumon argued about the purpose of their mission before Addar drifted to sleep listening to recordings of Izisca reading from the Journal of the Whills . Uggorda was killed on the tenth day when a crystal stalactite dropped from a cave ceiling and speared directly through her head . Mabo died on the twelfth day , falling into a chasm that formed underneath him after his weight cracked the crystal mantle beneath him . As the droid clung to a ledge in his final moments , Addar leapt to grab the crate containing the crystals , which Mabo also held onto . Knowing that the human could not bear the both he and the crystals ' weight , Mabo then let go . With the cargo lifter gone , Jumon and Addar shared the weight of the crate between them and continued . The kyaddak then returned on the thirteenth day , leaving Addar to finish the journey alone as Jumon remained behind to hold them off and buy the human time . Running , Addar made it to the caves where the crystals belonged , being alerted to this fact by a locator on his arm . At first he believed that he had lost the kyaddak , but upon hearing them approach he opened fire with his blaster pistol , shattering parts of the crystal walls of the cave and causing a cave in . This left Addar safe from the kyaddak , but also trapped , as he soon realised he had reached a dead end . After watching another of Izisca ' s holovid s in which the church leader described the task of returning the crystals , Addar left the recording on loop and began unpacking the kyber crystals from their crate in the knowledge that he would likely die alongside them trapped in the cave . Personality and traits . Addar was young , untested and uncertain when he joined the mission to Christophsis and quickly began to question what the point of the mission was . He had become a member of the church only because his mother had helped found it and did not share its beliefs on the Force . He was not convinced by the recordings of Izisca and refused to believe there was no dark side of the Force as the church leader claimed , knowing that both he and Izisca believed in evil . As the journey on Christophsis became increasingly dangerous and deadly he began to decry it as a fool ' s errand that he did not even understand the purpose of . Despite his lack of faith in the church and the mission , Addar completed the task of returning the crystals , never abandoning them despite the great fear he felt at the danger he faced . While trapped in the crystal caves , he tried not to think about the fact he would soon die trapped and alone , finally becoming one with the Force . Equipment . Addar carried a small blaster pistol with him on the mission to Christophsis , despite being told not to bring weapons into the holy site . He also wore a locator on his wrist that beeped once he arrived at the intended destination of the journey . Behind the scenes . Addar first appeared during an interlude in the novel " " , which was written by Chuck Wendig and released on February 21 , 2017 .