Tan Tengo

Tan Tengo was a female Sullustan who lived during the Republic Dark Age.

Childhood
Tengo was born in 1,044 BBY, and she lived with her grandfather Gub Tengo on the planet Darkknell, the capital of the Daimanate. As with all Daimanate citizens, she was obligated to work for the Sith Lord Daiman's war effort and worked at a war munitions factory. Since she was still a dependent, Tan was allowed to work for only one eight-hour shift. In 1,032 BBY, Gub hired the Human Kerra Holt to help take care of Tan, and neither of the Sullustans realized that Holt was secretly a Jedi Knight who had infiltrated the Daimanate capital. Since he was too preoccupied with his state job of doctoring documents to show the Daimanite alphabet, Gub had delegated the tasks of tutoring his granddaughter to the Human woman. His legs had also been crippled by a vat collapse during an industrial accident during the Chagras Hegemony era. During Kerra's stay on Darkknell, the two girls shared the same room and they became close friends. Due to her undercover work as a Jedi infiltrator, Kerra was often missing for many hours. Kerra was able to explain her disappearance by claiming that she had been going out on romantic dates with an unknown male friend.

Unknown to Tan and her grandfather, Kerra had been spying on the Black Fang testing facility, the premier military research think tank within the Daimanate. She intended to destroy the facility to sabotage Daiman's war effort. During her missions, Tan learnt that there was another spy doing surveillance work at the Black Fang facility: the Bothan Narsk Ka'hane, an independent intelligence operative who worked for several Sith Lords including Odion. However, his true master was Vilia Calimondra, the matriarch of the Calimondra family. Narsk had been tasked with collecting secrets on a military research project known as the Convergence Tactical Assault Vehicle for Odion and then destroying the research facility. However, Kerra captured him and destroyed the datapad containing the data on the vehicle. She then destroyed the facility with a baradium thermal detonator. After that, she stole the Bothan's Cyricept Mark IV stealth suit and then left Narsk to be captured by Daiman's Correctors.

Kerra managed to escape back to the Tan household where she was reprimanded by Gub for being late home. After apologizing, Gub assigned her with tutoring his daughter in the afternoon after they had both return from their work shifts in the munitions factory. However, that afternoon, Tan was assessed by the Industrial Heuristics talent scouts Ler-Laar Joom and Eraffa, and the pair persuaded Gub to send Tan to work for the company studying war sciences. Her supervisor at the factor had observed that Tan was skilled with electronics and mathematics. The scouts offered her an internship specializing in the design and manufacturing of optical bombsights. Tan and her grandfather Gub accepted the offer since the company purported to offer better opportunities and job prospects that were not available on her poverty-stricken homeworld. Since Tan would have turned thirteen years old the following year, she would have been obligated to work three eight-hour shifts daily to qualify for a basic ration. Gub had also been concerned that his grandaughter would be eligible for conscription into the Daimanate military.

Enter the Jedi
Following her recruitment by Industrial Heuristics, Tan was assigned to serve aboard an arxeum, a type of mobile university, and was sent to the planet Gazzari, where Industrial Heuristics were handing over an arxeum to the Sith Lord Daiman. Meanwhile, Kerra infiltrated Daiman's palace known as the Sanctum Celestial where she attempted to assassinate him. However, she learnt about Daiman's plan to purchase an arxeum from the Sith Lord Ayanos Bactra, the ruler of the Bactranate. She also helped the Bothan spy Narsk Ka'hane to escape and return to his master Lord Odion. Unknown to everyone, Daiman had intentionally allowed Narsk to escape in order to lure his estranged older brother Odion into a trap on Gazzari. Meanwhile, Kerra stowed aboard Daiman's flagship the New Daimanois and hitched a ride to Gazzari.

Tan was part of a group of 1,700 children and adolescents who had been selected as students for Industrial Heuristics' arxeum project. They were transported to Gazzari in a fleet of four Industrial Heuristics transports. However, before Tan and the arxeum's other prospective students could enter the facility, the Odion's forces invaded Gazzari and destroyed the university. Amid the chaos of the battle, Kerra Holt led Tan and the other students aboard the mercenary transport Diligence, which subsequently left Gazzari.

Appearances

 * Knight Errant

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