Grigor Tansad Grigor Tansad was a male scientist who served in the forces of Moff Kentor Sarne , Imperial warlord of the Kathol sector . In 8 ABY , he was assigned to science team MS - 133 which was charged with excavating extensive ruins on the planet Aaris III . During the expedition , Tansad was responsible for discovering a chamber filled with pictograph s . Tansad theorized that the glyphs corresponded to a dating system used by the Aaris , the native sentient species that had apparently gone extinct several thousand years prior . During the mission , Tansad ' s fellow scientist , Jelok , discovered the Plaque of Victory , a sentient inanimate artifact that sought to manipulate the beings around it by heightening their suspicions and hostility , eventually turning them against each other . As the team began to suspect that they were being watched from the jungle , they were attacked by the primitive descendants of the Aaris . Tansad was killed in the pictograph chamber by a blow to the head , and his body hidden under the rubble . Ultimately , only two members of the team , Doctor Lancer Brunou and research assistant Solla Deremot , survived to be rescued by the New Republic CR90 corvette " FarStar " , which had answered a distress call sent by Brunou . Biography . Grigor Tansad was a male scientist assigned to science team MS - 133 under the leadership of Doctor Lancer Brunou . Part of the forces commanded by Moff Kentor Sarne , Imperial warlord of the Kathol sector , MS - 133 was dispatched in 8 ABY to conduct an archaeological expedition to the planet Aaris III to determine why the Aaris — the world ' s sentient species — had apparently gone extinct several thousand years prior . During the months - long mission , Tansad assisted his fellow team members in excavating and cataloging extensive ruins . On the forty - ninth day of the mission , Tansad discovered an entrance into one of the ruined structures . A secondary base camp was established near to the building , and Tansad — along with fellow scientist Jelok , two technicians and five troopers — began exploring the chamber . Inside the ruin , Tansad and Jelok discovered pictograph s that covered the walls and emitted sounds when touched . Jelok held the opinion that the glyphs were the key to the language of the Aaris , but Tansad believed that they were , in fact , a pictorial dating system that recorded the civilization ' s history in an aural form . Both scientists worked on their own theories ; after several days , Tansad discovered correlations between the beginning sound emitted by each pictograph , the annual revolution of Aaris III , and the pictograph ' s overall patterns and number . The breakthrough confirmed his theory , and Jelok abandoned his own work to assist Tansad in deciphering the designs . The next day , Jelok found a metal ingot concealed in a floor safe while clearing rubble in the chamber . Doctor Brunou analyzed the artifact at the main base camp , and decided to send it to Moff Sarne ' s research facilities on his capital , Kal ' Shebbol , for further testing when he discovered that the ingot was composed of an unknown material and radiating energy . The artifact , in fact , contained a sentient lifeform that fed off of the life - force of living beings by manipulating their emotions , raising their hostility and suspicions and turning them against one another . Known as the " Plaque of Victory " by the Aaris , the artifact ' s influence had been responsible for the civil war that had caused the downfall of the civilization thousands of years prior . Shortly after the artifact was discovered , members of the team began reporting that they felt they were being watched from the jungle . Although there was no evidence of other living beings on Aaris III , the Lieutenant in command of MS - 133 ' s military detachment and five troopers entered the jungle to investigate . Blaster fire was heard an hour later , and the soldiers did not return to camp . Brunou considered recalling the expedition , but Tansad and Jelok continued their work in the chamber . Tansad continued to decipher the pictographs and enter his findings into his datapad . He translated eleven rows of pictographs , learning that the Aaris had been an industrial society that had raised large cities and were relatively peaceful , although they had fought occasional wars . He learned that the author of the recordings was a scholar by the name of Kastays , and that some of the pictographs chronicled the last days of the Aaris as they descended into civil war . Kastays ' recordings described how the Plaque of Victory was discovered and the effect it had rendered on the population of the city , slowly turning them against each other before compelling them to erupt into full blown conflict . In a final effort to negate its influence , the artifact was sealed in a floor vault in Kastays ' chamber high above the city . As Tansad noted his discoveries , he also commented that he had a feeling that something was terribly wrong on the planet , and that Jelok was jealous of his discoveries . Shortly after , Tansad was killed in the pictograph chamber . His skull was crushed by a heavy blow with a fist - sized rock , and his body was hidden under the rubble . The remaining members of MS - 133 were unaware of his death , and Jelok only reported that he was missing from the chamber to Brunou . Following Tansad ' s death , MS - 133 was attacked by the primitive descendants of the Aaris . Several assaults took place , and eventually the team was reduced to two members , Brunou and Research Assistant Solla Deremot . The pair were rescued by the New Republic CR90 corvette " FarStar " , which had responded to a distress call that Brunou had sent to Kal ' Shebbol , unaware that the planet had fallen to the New Republic in the intervening months . The crew of the " FarStar " conducted an investigation into the events that had occurred on the planet , and discovered Tansad ' s body in the pictograph chamber , along with the rock used to kill him covered in blood . Personality and traits . Grigor Tansad was a scientist with experience in alien linguistics , able to make reasoned hypotheses and correlate findings to prove theories . During the Aaris III expedition , Tansad ' s theory on the nature of the Aaris pictographs proved to be correct . Despite this , he had an unnerving feeling that something was wrong on the planet during MS - 133 ' s time on Aaris III , and he believed that Jelok was jealous that his own theory regarding the pictographs was incorrect . Behind the scenes . Grigor Tansad was introduced in the RPG adventure " Artifact of Aaris " , published in " The DarkStryder Campaign " by West End Games in 1995 . The adventure implies that , under the influence of the Plaque of Victory the members of MS - 133 turned upon each other , resulting in multiple deaths and the destruction of the team ' s shuttle . However , " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , published in 2008 , confirmed that the team came under attack from the remnants of the Aaris civilization . Regardless , " Artifact of Aaris " implies that Tansad was murdered by Jelok . Tansad ' s own notes state that he felt that Jelok was jealous of his work , and Tansad ' s body was found under the rubble in the chamber in which he and Jelok were working . Tansad had been killed by a blow to the head , and the murder weapon was nearby , still covered in blood . However , since neither source directly confirms these implications , this article only presents the information without assumptions .