Astraal Vao Astraal Vao was a Rutian Twi ' lek female who was born before 126 ABY . When she was a young child , she and her twin brother , Shado , were traveling in their parents ' starship when it crashed onto the surface of the planet Vendaxa . Both of her parents were killed , and Vao and her brother were discovered and taken in by the humanitarian Imperial Mission . The Jedi Master Wolf Sazen found them years later and realized that they were both Force - sensitive ; Shado joined the Jedi Order , but Astraal Vao felt that her destiny lay with the Mission . She became an Imperial Missionary and dedicated her life to helping others . When the Empire that the Mission served was seized by the One Sith , Emperor Roan Fel and his daughter , the Princess Marasiah , went into hiding . The young Fel began to infiltrate Imperial systems to ascertain who in the Empire was still loyal to her father , and Vao grew close to the Princess during this time . She defied the new Empire by protecting Fel from Imperial agents who sought to capture her . In 137 ABY , the two were chased from the Imperial Mission temple on Socorro by the Sith Hand Darth Talon and secured passage offworld on the " Mynock " , a ship belonging to the bounty hunter Cade Skywalker . Vao arranged to rendezvous with her brother on Vendaxa , but Talon followed them and attacked . Shado and Sazen joined forces with Fel and the " Mynock " crew to subdue her , but sabotage she had committed on the ship left them temporarily grounded . Vao attempted to procure aid from Konrad Rus , the Imperial Mission ' s leader , but reinforcements came from another source , as the Fel - loyal Imperial Knight s Antares Draco and Ganner Krieg arrived just before a legion of Sith . The ensuing battle saw the Princess mortally wounded , and Vao tended to her friend aboard the " Mynock " . When they were able to evacuate the planet , rising tensions between Skywalker , the Imperial Knights , and the Jedi nearly led to a brawl . Vao calmed the situation down and convinced Draco to allow Skywalker to heal the Princess . They arrived at Emperor Fel ' s fortress world of Bastion soon after , and Vao tried to persuade her brother to remain with the Empire - in - exile . Shado declined , however , and departed the planet . Biography . Taking her own path . Astraal Vao was a Rutian Twi ' lek female born before 126 ABY , and was the twin sister of Shado Vao . Both Vao children were born with high sensitivity to the Force . When they were very young , the twins were traveling in their parents ' starship , which crashed onto the surface of the planet Vendaxa . Both of their parents died in the crash , but Vao and her brother survived and were soon after discovered by members of the Imperial Mission . The Mission was an organization that spread the influence of the Galactic Empire by offering help and support to citizens in need throughout the galaxy , and its members adopted the orphaned Vaos and raised them within a Mission . Sister and brother lived there for many years until they were discovered by the Jedi Master Wolf Sazen prior to 126 ABY . Sazen recognized their Force potential and brought them to the Jedi Academy on Ossus for training . Shado opted to join the Jedi Order , but Astraal Vao felt devoted to the Mission after having been rescued and raised by its members . She became an Imperial Missionary herself and lived according to its humanitarian ideology . Although the two siblings chose different paths , they developed a holocomm signal that they could use to contact each other if one of them was ever in danger . In such a case , they would meet at the crash site of their parents ' ship on Vendaxa . During her years of service , Vao worked with other Missionaries such as Ethan Adare , and she became a trusted confidant of Moff Konrad Rus , the Mission ' s leader . In 130 ABY , the leadership of the Empire was usurped by the Sith Lord Darth Krayt , and Rus was forced to find new ways to justify the Mission ' s existence under the new regime . He outwardly supported Krayt , content to curry favor if it meant keeping the Mission alive . Agents of the Dark Lord began to hunt deposed Emperor Roan Fel and his daughter , the Princess Marasiah Fel , and for seven years , the young Fel secretly visited Imperial systems to learn which officers were still loyal to her father . During this time , Vao grew close to the Princess and became her trusted friend . She often traveled with Fel in an effort to protect her from pursuing Imperial agents . Despite her best efforts , Vao ' s defiance of the Empire did not go unnoticed . On the run . In 137 ABY , Vao was stationed on the planet Socorro as its local Missionary , operating out of the world ' s Imperial Mission temple . Fel came to Socorro in that year along with her bodyguard , the Imperial Knight Elke Vetter , and sought refuge in the temple . When Darth Krayt became aware of this , he dispatched his Sith Hand Darth Talon , who set the temple ablaze . Vetter dueled Talon as Vao and Fel fled , but the Sith ' s plan was to allow them to escape so that they might lead her to Emperor Fel , whose Empire - in - exile had been performing guerrilla warfare on Krayt ' s fleets for seven years . As Vao and Fel rushed away from the temple on foot , the Princess felt Vetter ' s death in the Force . Fel prepared to turn about and exact revenge on her bodyguard ' s killer , but Vao was able to dissuade her by suggesting that they honor Vetter ' s sacrifice and escape . As they made their way through deserted city streets , Vao contacted her brother on a public holocomm using their prearranged signal . She soon after grew tired and convinced her friend to stop for a moment ' s rest , but their respite concluded in mere seconds when they spotted Talon shadowing them . The two eventually came across the " Mynock " , a starship belonging to the bounty hunter Cade Skywalker that was parked in the planet ' s Killee Wasteland . Skywalker and his mechanic , Deliah Blue , were standing on the ship ' s open loading ramp , and Fel attempted to use the Force to convince the captain to give them passage offworld . Skywalker was a former Jedi and was resistant to her efforts , but he ushered the two onboard when he spotted Talon approaching on a speeder bike . The ship ' s crew initiated emergency takeoff procedures and blasted off ; Skywalker soon showed Vao and Fel to Blue ' s quarters , where they made themselves comfortable and asked to be taken to Vendaxa . Fel told Skywalker that he would be reimbursed when they arrived , but the captain had other ideas : he recognized Fel ' s face from an Imperial wanted poster and plotted with his crew to collect the bounties on both her and her father . The " Mynock " made its way to Vendaxa , and Vao directed Skywalker and Jariah Syn , the ship ' s co - pilot , to land near her parents ' crash site . The thick jungle dictated that they put down some distance away , and , as the group of five advanced toward the rendezvous point , they were attacked by a native acklay . The " Mynock " crew held it off with their blasters as it chased them , but , when they reached the crash site , the beast grasped Vao with one of its limbs . Shado and Wolf Sazen arrived at that moment ; Vao ' s brother pried her from the acklay ' s grasp before helping Sazen down the creature with their lightsabers . As the siblings Vao embraced , Fel informed the " Mynock " crew that she had discerned their intentions and would not be paying them . Shado and Sazen ' s nearby transport exploded just then , and its saboteur , Darth Talon , sprang into the clearing . Accompanied by a horde of vanx creatures that she was controlling through the Force , Talon attacked the gathered party . With lightsabers and blasters , everyone save Vao fought the attackers off , and the Sith was subdued when Skywalker used the Force to throw pieces of the wrecked ship at her . He then led the group back to the " Mynock " . Betrayed . When Blue discovered that Talon had sabotaged the ship and damaged several systems , Vao offered to fix the comm unit . After enacting repairs , she attempted to contact Rus , whom she believed could potentially send them aid . Shado entered the room and was surprised to find that she trusted an Imperial Moff , but he trusted his sister ' s judgment and praised her for the humanitarian work she had done throughout her life . Vao was soon after able to reach Rus and tell him of their situation . He promised to inform Roan Fel and told Vao to remain on Vendaxa until either he or the Emperor contacted her — Vao was unaware , however , that Rus was in the company of Darth Krayt at that moment . Rus served the Sith Lord to ensure the survival of the Mission and , in an effort to draw out Roan Fel , used some of his channels to contact the deposed Emperor and inform him of the danger that his daughter faced . As the motley crew worked on fixing the " Mynock " , Shado informed his sister of Skywalker ' s former identity as a Jedi , and Vao passed the knowledge onto the Princess , which prompted Fel and Skywalker to hold a conversation about their respective legacies . As everyone stood outside the ship , two Imperial TIE Predators arrived but were shot out of the sky . Vao assumed it to be Emperor Fel and made to rush toward the crashing starfighters , but she was held back by a cautious Skywalker . The fighters in fact belonged to the Imperial Knights Antares Draco and Ganner Krieg , who had acted on the intelligence that Rus had passed to their Emperor and had come to Vendaxa to rescue the Princess . Talon then emerged from the jungle with a legion of Sith reinforcements at her side , and the battle began anew . Vao insisted on helping Fel fight but was dragged inside the " Mynock " by Syn . The two of them manned the cockpit controls as Blue started the engines . The Princess was gravely injured in the battle and was brought inside the ship by Draco and Sazen . Draco rushed back out to finish the battle , and Vao stood by her friend as she lay on a table and Sazen attempted to heal her . When Skywalker , Shado , Draco , and Krieg were able to get aboard , the ship took off , and Shado and Krieg added their healing efforts to Sazen ' s . Their attempts were fruitless , however , and when Skywalker offered his assistance , a frantic Draco responded by punching him in the face . The bounty hunter drew his blaster in response , and Draco , Krieg , and Shado all ignited their lightsabers . Vao stepped between them and appealed to the Imperial Knights , suggesting that since nothing else was working , they should at least let Skywalker try to heal Fel . Skywalker was able to cure the Princess ' s wound and bring her back from the edge of death with his healing abilities , and the " Mynock " made its way to the Empire - in - exile ' s fortress world of Bastion . The Emperor invited everyone to stay as guests , and , although Vao tried to persuade her brother to stay , the Jedi were distrustful of the Empire after its part in a massacre of the Jedi Order seven years prior . Shado and Sazen departed the planet with Skywalker in the middle of the night . Vao made contact with Rus again , and reported both the princess ' s healing at Skywalker ' s hands and the fact that Roan Fel had retaken Bastion . Rus passed the vital intelligence on to Krayt . Later in the year , Blue used Vao ' s name as an alias when she posed as an Imperial Missionary in an attempt to steal a trivalve assembly from the Imperial Mission on Tatooine . Ethan Adare saw through her ruse but nevertheless helped her acquire the assembly . Personality and traits . Astraal Vao felt indebted to the Imperial Mission after it adopted and raised her and her brother , and she turned down an offer to be trained as a Jedi so that she could become a Missionary and live by its humanitarian ideals . The Mission was dedicated to aiding needy people throughout the galaxy , and Vao epitomized the kind of person whom the Mission tried to attract . She was intelligent , gentle , and very faithful to the Mission , where she believed her destiny lay . After years of devoted service , she grew close to Konrad Rus and was able to confide in him . To Vao , Rus embodied everything to which she had dedicated her life . She remained naive to the fact that he himself confided in Darth Krayt , however . Vao was a trusted friend , an advisor , and a mentor of Marasiah Fel , who was herself an enemy of the Empire that the Mission served . Vao spent years protecting Fel from Imperial hunters and was forced to perform a balancing act as she served the Empire but hid her friend from its agents . Vao lived her life in the service of others and felt bound by those duties ; she believed that her own personal desires meant nothing in the face of duty . When Elke Vetter sacrificed herself so that Fel could escape from Socorro , Vao appealed to Fel ' s own sense of duty and was able to convince her not to turn around and confront Vetter ' s killer . Although she had no formal training in the ways of the Force , Vao wanted to fight at Fel ' s side against an army of Sith on Vendaxa . Vao was similarly close to her brother , Shado . The two were orphaned and raised together in the Imperial Mission , and they arranged to meet on Vendaxa if ever one of them was in danger . When Shado ' s path diverged from hers and he began to train as a Jedi , Vao thought that she would be emotionally torn apart . She quickly realized that the Jedi Order was where he belonged , however . Shado admired her for her passion and her philanthropy , and immediately came to Vendaxa in 137 ABY , when he discovered that she was in trouble . When Shado and Cade Skywalker stood on the brink of fighting Antares Draco and Ganner Krieg aboard the " Mynock " , Vao was able to diffuse the situation and convince the Imperial Knights to allow Skywalker to heal the injured Princess . Although she was highly Force - sensitive , Vao had no formal training . She could speak Basic , the Twi ' lek ' s native Ryl tongue , High Galactic , and Huttese . She could additionally understand Binary . Behind the scenes . Astraal Vao was created by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema for the comic series " " . An identifying illustration of her by Duursema was first published in " New Force Rising " , an article in the eighty - seventh issue of " Star Wars Insider " magazine ( 2006 ) , which served as a preview to " Legacy " prior to its launch . More information about the character was revealed in additional pre - release material for the series , including the preview comic issue " " . Vao went on to play a major role in " Legacy " first story arc , " " , which was published throughout 2006 and the first month of 2007 . Despite having been billed as one of the series ' s principle characters in its pre - release material , Vao did not make any subsequent appearances in " Legacy " throughout its fifty - issue run . She was referenced several times by other characters in dialog , however , and her name was used as an alias in " Legacy " " " story arc . Mission and Griff Vao , two Rutian Twi ' lek siblings sharing Astraal and Shado ' s surname , had previously appeared in the 2003 video game " " . Although it was not the intention of Ostrander and Duursema that the two pairs of Vao siblings be related , they included an homage to Mission in the of " Broken " by having Konrad Rus address Vao as " Missionary Vao . " In " Broken " , Vao speaks to Ganner Krieg and refers to him as " Master Draco . " Although her dialog specifically refers to Draco ' s romantic feelings for the Princess , Duursema has asserted that she is speaking to Krieg . The 2007 of " Broken " reflected this by changing the dialog to " Master Krieg . "