Nasan Godera Doctor Nasan Godera was a male Human scientist who worked for the Republic Strategic Information Service , the Galactic Republic ' s intelligence agency , during the Great Galactic War with the resurgent Sith Empire . Born on Balmorra in 3708 BBY , Godera was a brilliant scientist whose arrogance nearly crippled his career until he began aiding the Republic ' s war effort , and he soon became involved in the Shadow Arsenal project under Colonel Laren Omas . After the project was discontinued , Godera completed the weapons in secret but realized their destructive potential was too great , and he founded the Republic superweapon initiative to create weapons to protect the Republic and destroy the Empire . As head of the SIS ' s Advanced Development Laboratories , Godera trained a protégé in Boab Deduun , and was outraged when the Republic submitted to the Empire ' s demands in the Treaty of Coruscant . The fiercely patriotic Godera abandoned the Republic in protest and went into exile on the planet Taris , constructing a series of underground labs manned by droid assistants . However , Godera became the target of an Imperial Intelligence operation almost a decade into the Cold War when the agents of Sith Lord Darth Angral attempted to capture the scientist for his knowledge of superweapons . A young Jedi Knight was sent to retrieve the doctor before the Empire could capture him , and the Jedi managed to rescue Godera after pursuing his captor , Watcher One of Imperial Intelligence , across the ruined world . Godera returned to the capital of Coruscant to aid the Republic during the campaign against Angral , and his knowledge proved invaluable in deactivating the Desolator weapon aboard Angral ' s ship " Oppressor " . He remained assigned to General Var Suthra of the Republic Military as a scientific advisor as the Galactic War began , and he helped halt the Sith ' s efforts to kill civilians during the Battle of Corellia . Godera was killed during an Imperial attack , though his inventions would continue to be utilized by the military and the SIS during the renewed war . Biography . Early life and the war . A Human male born on the planet Balmorra in 3708 BBY , Nasan Godera quickly became known for his genius intellect as a young man . Godera ' s abrasive personality and political insensitivity nearly doomed his career as a scientist in the years before the Great Galactic War , but when the resurgent Sith Empire returned in 3681 BBY and began to attack the Galactic Republic , Godera was recruited into the Republic Strategic Information Service , the Republic ' s intelligence agency . Not long after the Battle of Alderaan in 3667 BBY , Doctor Godera was one of many scientists recruited by Colonel Laren Omas of the Republic ' s nascent Special Forces . Omas convinced the group to design a weapon capable of stopping the Imperial threat , and over the course of several weeks the scientists developed a plan to build a " Shadow Arsenal " — a stockpile of interplanetary missiles with cloaking devices and payloads capable of destroying entire continents , intended to serve as an incredible deterrent against further Imperial hostility . However , the group began to fall apart soon after the plan was finalized , and Omas ' death in the Battle of Hoth in 3665 BBY caused the group to officially disband . But a determined Godera continued to secretly build the arsenal on the adrenal - producing world of Quesh , and it was not until he completed the weapon that Godera realized that the weapon ' s destructive potential was too much . Understanding that the catastrophic death toll the weapon would incur was too high a price , Godera locked the Shadow Arsenal away on Quesh and swore that from that day for his inventions would be different — they would either imprison or selectively target enemies , or guard against attack . After spending four years studying the technology of the ancient Rakata species on the prison world of Belsavis , Godera founded the Republic superweapon initiative to develop new technologies and weapons . Godera soon became the Chief Designer within the Republic ' s Advanced Development Laboratories , developing prototype technologies and working with the galaxy ' s greatest scientists . Fellow scientist Boab Deduun became Godera ' s protégé , and Godera ' s genius eventually led to the creation of multiple superweapons and advanced technologies . Among his inventions were the Sky Torch weapon and the spy ray , a long - range surveillance device that every SIS agent knew how to build by the time of the Cold War . . Several superweapons — including the Planet Prison , Power Guard Enhancement System , Shock Drum , and the Death Mark laser — were developed years later from Godera ' s half - finished designs and research . Self - exile . In 3653 BBY , the Republic was forced to sign the Treaty of Coruscant and end the war on the Empire ' s terms . This infuriated Godera , whose devotion to the destruction of the Empire led him to protest the Treaty . After the Galactic Senate repeatedly ignored his advice and predictions that the Empire would press their advantage , Godera left the Republic in disgust and traveled to the ruined world of Taris . There , he constructed a series of underground laboratories with the help of droid assistants , and the scientist continued his research and experiments over the next decade as the galaxy experienced the tense Cold War . The droid RE - M0 became one of Godera ' s favorite assistants . In 3643 BBY , the Sith Lord Darth Angral declared a personal war upon the Republic and the Jedi Order in response to the death of his son Tarnis at the hands of a young Jedi Knight . Tarnis had been posing as a member of the Republic superweapon initiative — which had been reorganized following Godera ' s resignation under General Var Suthra with the purpose of weaponizing the technologies Godera had developed — and he sent all of his files on the Republic ' s weapons projects to Angral before his death . Tarnis also communicated the rumors that Doctor Godera had gone into hiding on Taris , and the Sith Empire ' s Imperial Intelligence confirmed this , as they had been tracking Godera ' s whereabouts for quite some time . Angral therefore ordered Watcher One of Intelligence to take a force of Imperial soldier s to Taris and capture the scientist , and Watcher One ' s forces began to attack and capture Godera ' s laboratories across Taris . Imperial forces eventually located and captured the doctor , knocking him unconscious and bringing Godera to Watcher One the Imperial - occupied ruins of Taris ' s ChemWorks Factory . However , Godera ' s interrogation was prevented by the impending arrival of the Jedi Knight who had killed Tarnis ; the Jedi had been sent by General Suthra to rescue Godera , and was tracking Godera ' s biosignature with the help of RE - M0 . To evade the Knight , Watcher One donned a holoprojector that disguised him as a Rodian and carried the unconscious doctor to the factory ' s entrance , where Watcher One tricked the arriving Jedi into letting them leave ; the Imperial operative then took Godera to a secure base in the depths of the ruined transport hub known as Transport Station 5 . The still unconscious scientist was then injected with a class - four truth serum , which allowed the Imperials to easily interrogate Godera and mine his knowledge of advanced weaponry and technology . Once the interrogation was complete , Watcher One sent the data to Darth Angral just as the Jedi Knight who was pursuing Godera arrived . Still strapped to the interrogation table , Godera witnessed the Knight ' s fight with Watcher One , after which the Knight allowed the defeated agent to flee and make a new life for himself outside of the Empire . The Jedi then freed Godera from his restraints , and the doctor begrudgingly agreed to return to the Republic when he was informed of Angral ' s crusade . Godera was escorted by the Knight back to the Republic settlement of Olaris , where the Jedi delivered the scientist into the custody of Agent Fau - Kes of the SIS ; Fau - Kes and his team then escorted Godera to Coruscant , where Godera was appointed as General Suthra ' s scientific advisor during the crisis with Angral . Personality and traits . Nasan Godera was an expert in mathematics and loved calculating problems in his head . He preferred the companionship with droids over organics . Like many in the Republic , Godera despised the Empire and was so outraged at the Treaty of Coruscant , that he retired and hid on Taris . However , he was willing to return after seeing that the Republic finally acknowledged the Empire as a threat . Godera had an indifferent , casual outlook on life and viewed the weapons such as the Shock Drum to be fascinating designs , not even caring about its potential to destroy planets . He also had a close friendship with General Var Suthra and had confidence in his abilities , so much so that he was more than willing to stand in the middle of a war zone on Corellia , believing that the General ' s best troops would protect him and that no one would intentionally target a museum . Unfortunately , this proved to be his undoing when the Sith killed him . Behind the scenes . Nasan Godera was first mentioned in the comic book " The Old Republic — The Lost Suns 3 " , an issue in the " " arc of the for the BioWare video game " " . Godera went on to appear in the game itself as a supporting character for the Jedi Knight class storyline , and was also mentioned frequently in the Imperial Agent storyline and other missions on Taris . The 2012 reference guide " " sheds further light on his career , and Godera received his own entry in the guide ' s section on the Strategic Information Service . The timing of Doctor Godera ' s work with the Shadow Arsenal is a source of confusion ; the Imperial Agent storyline states that the Shadow Arsenal project officially ended with the Battle of Hoth , but claims that the battle occured at the end of the Great War , despite all previous sources and other parts of the game stating that occurred in 3665 BBY . As a result , this article assumes that the Shadow Arsenal dating is in error .