Jao Assam

Jao Assam was a Human male who served Empress Marasiah Fel's Empire as an Imperial Knight. After the Second Imperial Civil War, he went to the Ottega system as an agent of the new Triumvirate.

Biography
At some point in his early career, Assam had been mentored by Yalta Val and he felt such loyalty to his mentor that he disobeyed the direct command of his Empress, Marasiah Fel.

Stationed in the Ottega system, Master Assam became concerned when his section of the array did not receive a carrier signal from the other side of the Surd Nebula. His concerns only deepened when Master Val did not send his comm droid with an updated completion time. He contacted Empress Fel and was ordered to remain in the Ottega system. Leaving the completion of his array to his Ithorian allies, he set course for the Carreras system, but came across the Carreras blockade. Detained by Shifala guards operating under the orders of the Darth Wredd, an imposter who had taken Master Val's place, Assam activated his lightsaber and fled to his ship. The Shifala gave chase, but Assam activated the hangar bay force field and sealed them inside. He then detected the homing signal from Master Val's comm droid on Carreras Minor, which had come into the possession of Ania Solo and her Mon Calamari friend Sauk.

Assam arrived just in time to rescue Ania and her allies, including the assassin droid AG-37 from a large, tentacled creature that had attacked AG-37's freighter on the planet's surface. He and Ania were thrown clear and she held him at gunpoint as her recent experiences with the Sith imposter had made her distrustful of Imperial Knights. Assam deduced that, because he had easily traced the coded Imperial signal transmitted by the droid, Master Val would have done the same and was, for some reason, unable to. Sauk showed him a holorecording of a duel between Val and a Sith he had encountered on a planet in the Surd Nebula. Realizing that Val had been replaced, the four went to find him. Loading Assam's ship onboard the freighter, they set course for the Surd Nebula. Shifala forces followed them, but broke off once they reached the nebula, even though they'd damaged the ship's thrusters. Once inside, they discovered that the planet they'd expected to find was gone, and a starship captured them in a tractor beam and brought them aboard.

Captured and brought aboard the Carreras communications array, Assam was suspended in a stasis field and confronted by the Sith that had taken Val's identity. The Carreras system's governor Biala watched this and, realizing the danger the Sith posed to her system's standing in the galaxy, freed Assam and returned his lightsaber to him. He, in turn, set Ania, Sauk and AG-37 free. The four went to engage the Sith, but Ania's rash actions in destroying his shuttle exposed their position. The Sith sliced AG-37 in half and briefly duelled Assam. Though Assam managed to wound the Sith's face, he was impaled by debris and exposed to the vacuum of space as the Sith fled aboard another shuttle.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Legacy 2: Prisoner of the Floating World, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Legacy 3: Prisoner of the Floating World, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Legacy 4: Prisoner of the Floating World, Part 4
 * Star Wars: Legacy 5: Prisoner of the Floating World, Part 5