Yerj Yerj was a black - scaled Barabel male Force - sensitive bounty hunter and slave . Biography . During his first years Yerj was a slave to a master he never met , in a place known as a " training facility " that might be intended for Force - sensitive children . Yerj suffered daily beatings apparently for anything he could do , and he spent the nights coughing blood or learning to stitch his own injuries . The following day , he would be beaten again if there was any blood in the bed or if the stitches were bent . Apparently , the beatings stopped when he was a teenager . By then , Yerj was big enough to start beating smaller children himself — with the weaker ones dying . He was so good at this , that he began training older children to beat the smaller children — again , with the weaker ones dying . As he grew , Yerj began training adults . At some point , at least two people tried to escape the training center . Yerj was assigned to stop them . He tracked the fugitives , brought them back and then killed them remorselessly . There might have been other missions after that one . Yerj proofed that he was good both physically and mentally , even developing some dark side abilities . He harnessed his own rage and was at the same time trustworthy , at some level content with his slave status . He was a frightful , seven foot tall presence with slit - red eyes . However , he was an easy bleeder , with his blood having trouble to coagulate . Around 31 BBY , Chevin slaver Phylus Mon was interested in Yerj and bought his contract . Phylus Mon injerted an explosive near Yerj ' s heart . The device would kill Yerj 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 Phylus Mon ' s service or they would die . Yerj began working as a tracker and bounty hunter for Phylus Mon , although initially he had no direct contact with the Chevin . Yerj enjoyed his work , and the assignments were more important every time . For more than a decade , Yerj continued with it , becoming known in Phylus Mon ' s ranks . During this time , Yerj ' s hardest work was the hunt of a female Jedi . Although Yerj managed to kill her , he never really " broke " her . This technical victory haunted Yerj for the following years : He wanted to defeat the " coward " Jedi and proof that their light side was a mere excuse to justify their uselessness . In around 20 BBY , Phylus Mon decided to take Yerj in a mission to the Cularin system onboard the " Animiasma " ( which she had never boarded before ) . Yerj was not informed of the details , but he was introduced the other members of the team . He despised all of them as inferior to him , although Yerj was respected and even liked by the others . Yerj 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 . In the fortress , Phylus Mon performed a Sith ritual to transform Yerj and the others in Sith battlelord s : 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 : Yerj 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 Yerj 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 Yerj ' s statistics until his essence can be freed ( which means Yerj ' s essence re - enters Yerj ' s body and the PC ' s essence returns to the PC ' s inconscious body ) , or until Yerj ' 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 .