Gorak ( Trandoshan ) Gorak was a Trandoshan female mercenary and slave . Biography . Gorak did not recall her first years . She knew she was raised as a slave in a starship and mocked by Wookiees for being short , pink - eyed and specially for being albino . Apparently she was rented for a week by a huge Wookiee , but she could not recall what happened . At that time , she was also regularly beaten , which served to increase her skin ' s hardness . After some years , she became a stout , albeit still short , young adult . She was big enough to become a threat . Although she was still a slave , she was no longer mocked . Eventually Gorak was freed , and she met slaver Phylus Mon . Phylus Mon offered Gorak a job at his zoo , food and clothes , as well as a sense of importance . However , upon hiring her , Phylus Mon injected an explosive near Gorak ' s heart . The device would kill Gorak should Phylus Mon die for any reason . The bomb could be deactivated if hit by an ion weapon , but Phylus Mon did not allow any ion weapon in his ship , the " Animiasma " . This mechanism was a security measure that Phylus Mon used in every one of his slaves . At the same time , Phylus Mon paid his slaves and insisted in calling them employees - but at the same time , all of them knew they could not leave his service or they would die . Phylus Mon was a hunter and he also dealt in huge animals . Gorak ' s job included handling violent animals , apparently because of her own experience with violence and because of her phylosophical views on the innate violence of the reality . After years working on it , and specializing in Acklays and Rancors , Gorak developed the ability to identify most non - sentient species by their odor . She also developed claustrophobia . In around 20 BBY , Phylus Mon decided to take Gorak in a mission to the Cularin system onboard the " Animiasma " ( which she had never boarded before ) . Gorak was not informed of the details , but she was introduced the other members of the team . She disliked Nalz the Spiner as a useless technician , although she tried to remember that , if he were so useless , Phylus Mon would not have trusted him . He did not like the Human , but she assumed he might have some local contacts . She sexually liked the Barabel bounty - hunter Yerj , although the feeling was not mutual . However , the last team member was the Wookiee Kaarror , for whom she felt an innate hatred . Gorak and the other minions attacked the Almas Sith fortress in Cularin system . The fortress entrance was being protected by six Jedi , but Phylus Mon sent no less than thirteen minions , including his Wampa bodyguard Ku - Kak . Phylus Mon ' s team killed four of the Jedi and defeated the other two , even although Gorak and Kaarror spent the whole battle insulting each other from different sides of the field . In the fortress , Phylus Mon performed a Sith ritual to transform Gorak and the others in Sith Battlelords : After a dangerous , life - threatening process , they were supposed to rise as powerful military commanders that could use Force powers to deal with insubordination of their troops . However , something went wrong with the ritual : Gorak and the other prospective Battlelords were stripped of their Force - essences , which would be stored in a large crystal . Phylus Mon left the fortress with the crystal , but without Kaarror and the other empty bodies . Those bodies would then be found by a search team sent by the Jedi in the Almas Academy . The bodies were sent to the Academy . There , the Jedi tried their best to recover the lost essences and restore them to their previous state . Behind the scenes . One player character in A Mon Alone can , at a certain point , enter this non - player character ' s body and use Gorak ' s statistics until his essence can be freed ( which means Gorak ' s essence re - enters Gorak ' s body and the PC ' s essence returns to the PC ' s inconscious body ) , or until Gorak ' s body is killed in action . The text explains that some of the final scenes are so dangerous that they could easily kill the player characters - leading to the players getting angry .