Janse

Janse was a Human male native of the planet Ukio who served as a weapons design evaluator in BlasTech Industries during the Galactic Civil War. At some point, Janse became a sharpshooter. He eventually left BlasTech, taking a cache of A280 blaster rifles with him, and joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic shortly before the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, becoming a corporal in Alliance Special Forces. He served as a scout on hunting expeditions. That year, Janse attended a briefing held on the Alliance Fleet's flagship, the MC80 Home One type Star Cruiser Home One, where the Alliance discussed its plans to attack the Galactic Empire's second Death Star battlestation orbiting the forest moon of Endor. Janse served as a sharpshooter in the strike team organized to infiltrate the moon and deactivate the SLD-26 planetary shield generator that protected the Death Star. The strike team successfully disabled the shield generator, allowing Alliance starfighters to destroy the Death Star.

Early life and BlasTech service
Janse, a Human male, was a native of the planet Ukio who lived during the Galactic Civil War. At some point, he became a sharpshooter. He worked as a weapons design evaluator for the arms manufacturer BlasTech Industries. Eventually, Janse left BlasTech, taking with him a cache of A280 blaster rifles.

Joining the Rebel Alliance
Shortly before the Battle of Endor in the year 4 ABY, Janse joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic, and eventually became a corporal in Alliance Special Forces. By that time, he was also a former sharpshooter. Janse served as a scout during hunting expeditions.

Battle of Endor
In 4 ABY, Janse attended a briefing held on the Alliance Fleet's flagship, the MC80 Home One type Star Cruiser Home One, during which Mon Mothma, the Alliance's Supreme Commander, discussed plans to attack the Galactic Empire's second Death Star battlestation in orbit over the forest moon of Endor. Mothma explained that members of a strike team led by General Han Solo would be sent to Endor to deactivate the SLD-26 planetary shield generator protecting the Death Star, which would allow Alliance starfighters to destroy the station's main reactor. Janse was among the members of the strike team, serving alongside Lieutenant Greeve as a sharpshooter.

Janse and the rest of the strike team traveled to the Endor system aboard the stolen Lambda-class T-4a shuttle Tydirium piloted by Solo. Queried by the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Executor in orbit over the forest moon, Solo gave a stolen Imperial code, and the Star Dreadnought gave the shuttle clearance to land on the moon. Shortly after landing on the moon's surface, the strike team encountered a scout trooper patrol which consisted of Corporal Avarik and Sergeant Elsek. Solo and his copilot, the Wookiee Chewbacca, attempted to stealthily ambush the pair of troopers; however, their cover was blown when Solo slipped on a twig, leading to a fistfight between the Rebel General and Avarik.

With more scout troopers consequently being alerted to the strike team's presence, command crew members Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa mounted Avarik's 74-Z speeder bike and gave chase. The squad waited at the location until only Skywalker returned. When it became evident that Organa was missing, Solo took the rest of the command crew to search for her, ordering the squad to continue on and to rendezvous at the deflector shield generator at 0300 hours. Major Bren Derlin, the strike team's commanding officer, led the squad toward the shield generator. Several times the squad encountered a patrol and managed to hide; however, Corporal Delevar, the team's medic, almost compromised their position by preparing to take a potshot at a speeder bike, to which he was consequently stopped and reprimanded by Derlin.

At nightfall, the squad made camp in a camouflaged shallow ravine, where they posted two sentries and set up a blanket grid with their scanning equipment. Shortly after they started their first sleeping shift, the scanners picked up an All Terrain Scout Transport walker moving toward them. Derlin ordered the team to take cover, but when it became clear that the walker would not pass them by, Corporal Dansra Beezer jammed its transmissions. Lieutenant Greeve destroyed both spotlights with precise shots from his A280 blaster rifle, and the squad circled the walker in order to keep it off balance. When the AT-ST began firing randomly into the trees and foliage, Delevar and fired a smoke canister into its cockpit window. The resulting explosion of smoke in the cockpit forced the walker pilots to abandon the vehicle and surrender to the strike team. The squad captured the pilots and forced them to make a comm check-in at blasterpoint.

The squad continued on to the rendezvous point, forcing the walker pilot to make several more check-ins on the way to explain the scout walker's absence. By the time the strike team reunited, Solo and the rest of the command crew had allied with the moon's native Ewok tribe from Bright Tree Village, who showed the strike team a path to the shield generator bunker's backdoor. Although four scout troopers guarded the bunker's backdoor, one of the Ewoks, Paploo, stole one of their speeder bikes, and three of them gave chase, while the remaining one was captured by the strike team. The strike team then infiltrated the bunker in order to destroy it with 7-PrG proton grenades; however, they were subsequently ambushed and led outside the bunker by Tempest Force, the Imperial Army legion stationed on the moon.

The strike team's capture was only temporary, however, as the Ewoks attacked the Imperial troops and the strike team fought back, with the tide of the battle turned in their favor. Chewbacca managed to hijack the AT-ST Tempest Scout 2, and Solo used the walker to trick the bunker personnel into opening the backdoor. Once more gaining access to the bunker, the strike team managed to destroy it with their proton grenades, allowing the Alliance Fleet to fire at the Death Star's reactor core and destroy the battlestation. With the battle won, the strike team celebrated their victory at Bright Tree Village that evening.

Personality and traits
Janse was a sharpshooter, and served the Rebel Alliance in that capacity. Using his skills from his time as a weapons design evaluator, Janse aided the Alliance as a scout and hunter. As one of the strike team's sharpshooters, Janse, along with Greeve, used the A280 blaster rifles he took with him from BlasTech. Janse had gray hair and fair skin.

Behind the scenes
Janse first appeared as a background Rebel character during the Home One briefing in 1983's Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He was portrayed by an uncredited extra. In June 1999, Janse was given a name and brief backstory in the Endor Limited expansion set of Decipher, Inc.'s Star Wars Customizable Card Game. Janse later received an entry in 2008's The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.

Inconsistencies
Although both Janse's Decipher card and The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia mention that he recently joined the Alliance before the Battle of Endor, 1993's The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook indicates the strike team was made up exclusively of veterans of the Battle of Hoth, an event portrayed in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi PhotoComic