Luen Luen was a female Mon Calamari , who after the Sith genocide on her homeworld , become a slave of a gang of pirates led by the rogue Sith Darth Luft , who had taken control of the Mon Calamari Shipyards . As a scientist , she had been lured back to Dac by false reports of a renewed Dac . Instead , she and numerous other Mon Calamari and Quarren were press - ganged by the pirates into building a fleet of pirate ships . During her captivity , Luen and her Quarren colleague Tikin encountered the junk dealer Ania Solo and the Imperial Knight Jao Assam , who were on the hunt for another rogue Sith named Darth Wredd . During an escape attempt , they were launched into an escape pod on poisoned Dac ' s ocean . They were subsequently rescued by Ania ' s companions , the Mon Calamari Sauk and the assassin droid AG - 37 . Following the liberation of the Mon Calamari Shipyards by the Galactic Federation Triumvirate , Luen adopted Tilin , the son of the deceased Tikin , and they settled into the flooded Mon Calamari shipyards . Biography . Enslavement . Luen was a female Mon Calamari environmental engineer who lived during the time of the Second Imperial Civil War . She survived the One Sith – inspired Mon Calamari Genocide and the subsequent poisoning of her homeworld Dac ' s oceans with viral spore s . By 138 ABY , Luen was part of the sizeable Mon Calamari and Quarren diaspora who were living as refugees offworld . Following the defeat of the One Sith , the new Galactic Federation Triumvirate faced numerous immense challenges in rebuilding the galaxy . One of the new galactic government ' s main challenges was resettling millions of displaced Mon Calamari and Quarren refugees , many of whom lived in abject state of poverty . At some point , Luen received word of a " renewed " Dac and that all kinds of workers were needed to rebuild society on that poisoned planet . Luen joined a large number of Mon Calamari and Quarren refugees in returning to Dac to fulfill this dream . She believed that she could put her skills as an environmental engineer to good use . Unfortunately , the " renewed Dac " was a ruse created by the rogue Sith Darth Luft and his pirate associates with the intent of forcibly recruiting a labor force of Mon Calamari and Quarren slaves to build a fleet of pirate starships . Once there , these unfortunate Mon Calamari and Quarrens were imprisoned aboard the Mon Calamari Shipyards above the planet Dac . There , they were press - ganged into building ships for the pirates . To ensure their cooperation , their dependents and elderly were imprisoned by the pirates as hostages . During their captivity , the enslaved workers were routinely beaten and maltreated by their pirate captors . Rescue . In 138 ABY , Luen and a Quarren acquaintance named Tikin were cornered by two strangers , who were disguised as pirates . These strangers turned out to be the Imperial Knight Jao Assam and the junk dealer Ania Solo , who were on a quest to hunt down another rogue Sith Darth Wredd , who had instigated an insurgency against the One Sith . Mistaking them for pirates , Luen produced a knife and attempted to fight off Jao and Ania . However , Jao managed to defuse the situation by revealing that he was an Imperial Knight and that he had come to help them . When Ania asked what was going on in the Mon Calamari Shipyards , Luen related how they had been tricked by the pirates into returning to a " renewed " Dac and that they had been press – ganged into building a fleet of warships for the pirates . After hearing Luen ' s story , Jao Assam got his communications droid to send a distress signal to the Galactic Triumvirate authorities in Coruscant informing them of the pirate presence in the Calamari system . When Jao asked Luen and Tikin why the Mon Calamari and Quarren had returned to Dac , she commented that they had been lured by false promises and hopes . The pirates had spread misinformation about a renewed Dac among the refugee communities . As an environmental scientist , Luen thought that she could put her skills to good use . Instead , she found herself being forced to build a fleet for the criminal syndicate of Darth Luft . Meanwhile , Tikin revealed that the pirates were holding their dependents and elderly hostage and expressed his fears of losing his son Tilin to the Sith . At that point , they were interrupted by a group of armed pirates who pursued them through the shipyard ' s hangars . At the end of a tunnel , Luen , Tikin , and their rescuers were cornered by Darth Luft and his associates . After confirming that Darth Wredd was not in the Calamari system as his late henchmen Dieben had led them to believe , Luft had them dumped into an escape pod which was then jettisoned into Dac . Darth Luft hoped to kill his unwanted guests in the poisoned oceans of Dac , where one drop was enough to kill a sentient being . The waters of Dac were littered with the corpses of countless sentient beings and animals , which had perished towards the end of the Genocide . As their escape pod dived deeper into the poisoned depths of Dac ' s oceans , Luen commented that they had a slim chance of survival since their escape pod was only designed to withstand atmosphere pressures . In response to Luen ' s pessimism , a despondent Tikin told her to keep quiet . Jao ' s Imperial comm droid managed to reconfigure his antennae to transmit a distress signal to Ania ' s friends , the assassin droid AG - 37 and the Mon Calamari engineer Sauk , who quickly traveled in their freighter to Dac . As the escape pod descended deeper into Dac ' s oceans , Luen commented that they would soon be in the aphotic zone , the portion of the ocean where no sunlight could reach . When Luen pondered about whether the ship ' s hull would be able to withstand the oceanic pressure , Tikin merely responded that he did not want to know . Ania attempted to take control of the escape pod ' s directional thrusters . However , Tikin revealed that the pirates had forced them to strip all propulsion systems from the pods for use in their new fleet . Tikin and his companions were rescued by Sauk and AG - 37 who plucked their escape pod from Dac ' s oceans . AG - 37 ' s freighter towed the escape pod into an abandoned section of the Mon Calamari Shipyards . Once aboard the space station , Luen met Ania ' s companions the assassin droid AG - 37 and the Mon Calamari Sauk . When Luen commented that the shipyards where the Mon Calamari and Quarren slaves had been forced to work in were awful , Tikin added that the shipyards were a horrible place . A disagreement quickly broke out between Jao Assam and Ania Solo over how to deal with the threat posed by the pirates and Darth Luft . While Jao wanted to take the fight to the rogue Sith immediately , Ania insisted that they depart and wait for reinforcements to arrive . Tikin refused to abandon his son Tilin to the depredations of the pirates and strongly objected to Jao ' s plan on the grounds that his son could get killed in the process . He explained that the pirates punished recalcitrant slaves by harming their family members . Worried about his son and unwilling to risk provoking Darth Luft , Tikin left returned to the shipyards . Meanwhile , Luen joined Ania and her companions aboard AG - 37 ' s freighter . The Fight for Freedom . Luen was present aboard AG - 37 ' s freighter during a joint Fel Empire and Galactic Alliance assault on the pirate – occupied Mon Calamari Shipyards . Jao Assam ' s mentor Yalta Val and Admiral Gar Stazi had received word of the pirate presence on Dac from Jao Assam . They assembled a force of warships , seatroopers , and Imperial Knights to deal with the pirates and liberate the Mon Calamari and Quarren slaves . The Triumvirate force assaulted the shipyards , wiping out the pirate starfighter and pirate droid defenses . During the fighting , the Alliance tanker " Trand Cappa " flooded the orbital shipyards with seawater , overwhelming the pirates and allowing the Mon Calamari and Quarren slaves to gain the upper hand over their captors . Val then led a boarding party of Imperial Knights and seatroopers to apprehend the pirates . Under Darth Luft ' s orders , the pirates exposed the detention blocks housing the slaves ' relatives to zero - gravity space , killing several Mon Calamari and Quarren civilians . An ice plume formed outside the space doors of the detention block , plugging the hold and saving many more from being killed Luen , along with Ania and Jao witnessed the ice plume and quickly realized that they had a narrow window of opportunity to save the captives . Ania , Sauk , and Luen attempted to close the space doors but found that the controls were covered in ice . Unable to do so , they shepherded the Mon Calamari and Quarren refugees out of the chamber . However , the ice began cracking and Ania and her companions feared that they would not be able to evacuate everyone in time . With AG - 37 unable to help since he was engaged with pirate starfighters , Ania managed to get Jao ' s comm droid to access the shipyards control bay and shut the doors remotely . This ploy worked and Ania and her rescuers managed to save countless Mon Calamari and Quarren . Liberation . Following the liberation of the Mon Calamari Shipyards , Luen and the surviving Mon Calamari and Quarren refugees settled into the flooded interiors of the shipyards and established a new community . Luen also adopted the late Tikin ' s son Tilin as a gesture of respect to her fallen acquaintance . While Luen had never imagined herself having a child , she took pride in becoming Tilin ' s foster parent and adopted the title " Aunt " . Luen also tried to encourage Ania ' s Mon Calamari companion Sauk to settle with her in the shipyards . Knowing that Sauk was a qualified engineer , she pointed out that the shipyard could make use of the services of several top – notch engineers to make the Shipyards hospitable . There was also news that several Whaladon s , another sentient species indigenous to Dac , were planning to settle in the shipyards . However , Sauk politely declined Luen ' s offer , citing that his friends need him . Luen and Tilin settled into their new home , secure in the knowledge that the threat of Darth Luft and his pirate associates had been vanquished . Personality and traits . Luen was a blue – skinned female Mon Calamari who was trained as a marine engineer . As with many Mon Calamari and Quarren , she was greatly affected by the Mon Calamari Genocide , which ended in the destruction of her homeworld Dac . Despite the odds , Luen harbored the hope of returning to a restored Dac , that was free of viral spores . Like many of her compatriots , Luen fell victim to a scam perpetuated by the rogue Sith Darth Luft and his pirate associates and ended up as their slave and captive . Due to her engineering skills , she was put to work building a fleet of starships for the pirates . Luen also knew how to wield a knife in self defense . While Luen was a single woman and had no interest in raising children , she was still compassionate enough to raise the Quarren Tilin , the orphaned son of Tikin as her own child after the former was killed by Darth Luft . Behind the scenes . Luen first appeared as a supporting character in Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman ' s " " comic series . . She first appeared in the second story arc " " , which ran from August 28 to December 18 2013 . Luen was drawn by Brian Albert Thies , colored by Rachelle Rosenberg , and designed by Jimmy Presler .