Yur T ' aug Yur T ' aug was a male Bothan who lived on the planet Coruscant during the waning years of the Galactic Republic . T ' aug served as a police officer with the Coruscant Security Force and , by 43 BBY , had achieved the rank of captain . T ' aug was in charge of the investigations into the homicides of Senator Uta S ' orn ' s son , Ren S ' orn , and a petty thief and informant named Fligh . Both were the results of several killings on Coruscant in which the victims were drained of blood before being killed . Throughout the investigation , T ' aug clashed with Jedi Qui - Gon Jinn and Obi - Wan Kenobi on how the CSF was treating the cases . Biography . Yur T ' aug was a male Bothan who served as a police officer on the planet Coruscant . By 43 BBY , T ' aug had achieved the rank of captain and worked as an inspector investigating cases such as homicide . In 43 BBY , the murdered body of Ren S ' orn , son of Senator Uta S ' orn , was discovered on the planet Simpla - 12 . His body had been drained of blood in a manner similar to several cases on Coruscant . Because of that , T ' aug was sent to investigate the murder . However , T ' aug dropped the case at the request of Senator S ' orn , Ren S ' orn ' s mother . Ren was Force - sensitive but had left his training with the Jedi Order and had become a loner . Senator S ' orn feared what T ' aug may have discovered and simply wanted the matter to go away . However , six months later , T ' aug was called to investigate the death of Fligh , who had been found in the Lane of All Worlds , an alleyway next to Coruscant ' s Senate Building . Fligh was a petty thief but also an informant for Jedi Master Qui - Gon Jinn . T ' aug discovered that Fligh ' s body had been drained of blood in a way similar to the earlier cases . Didi Oddo , a friend of Jinn ' s , informed the Jedi of Fligh ' s murder . When Jinn and his Padawan apprentice , Obi - Wan Kenobi , went to the crime scene and asked to see the body , T ' aug consented . After some questioning by the Jedi , T ' aug reluctantly revealed information about the case . He told the Jedi of the previous killings in which the bodies had been drained of blood . However , he did not inform them of the connection to Ren S ' orn . As it later turned out , Fligh had faked his own death in order to escape to the planet Belasco after he had stolen Senator S ' orn ' s datapad . Jinn and Kenobi looked into the case further , discovering that T ' aug had failed to properly investigate Ren ' s death . Kenobi confronted T ' aug , who , though refusing to answer at first , admitted it had been at the Senator ' s request that the case had been dropped . The Jedi later discovered that Ren had been murdered by Jenna Zan Arbor , a scientist who had conducted experiments on Ren before killing him . Arbor had also been responsible for the other deaths in which the victims had been drained of blood . Personality and traits . Yur T ' aug was a stockily - built Bothan who had a flowing beard and glossy dark hair . Though T ' aug was very professional in handling his job as a police officer , he was not especially happy with outside assistance from the Jedi . He resented that as police he was required to honor any requests by Jedi and to let them move in on his investigations . To a certain degree he was willing to work with them on a professional level and so outwardly accepted their suggestions , though internally he had a lack of interest in any of their tips or observations . T ' aug especially disliked the Jedi questioning his motives or actions on other cases . When questioned by the Jedi on the handling of the Ren S ' orn case , T ' aug openly and rudely refused to cooperate , even though the CSF was mandated to do so . Only when Obi - Wan Kenobi reminded T ' aug that both the police and the Jedi were on the side of justice did T ' aug reluctantly tell the Jedi of the facts surrounding the S ' orn case . Behind the scenes . Yur T ' aug first appeared in the young readers novel " " , written by Jude Watson and published on December 1 , 2000 . He also appeared in the followup novel , " " , also written by Watson and published on February 1 , 2001 .