Search for the Kyber Saber

In 3 ABY, the Freemakers, a family of scavengers embarked on a quest to search for the legendary Kyber Saber, a lightsaber forged completely from Kyber crystals. The Freemakers were egged on and assisted by Naare, a secret Sith agent of Emperor Palpatine, who wanted to exploit the powers of the Kyber Saber for himself. After the Freemakers learnt of Naare's true identity, the Freemakers at the urging of the youngest member Rowan Freemaker took part in a race against Naare and the Hutt crime lord Graballa to find the pieces of the Kyber Saber. Though Naare managed to reforge the Kyber Saber, the Freemakers managed to steal it from her following a skirmish on Coruscant. After Rowan destroyed the Kyber Saber, the Freemakers joined the Rebel Alliance.

Prelude
Before the dawn of the Old Republic, the Jedi Master Baird Kantoo had forged a weapon from pure kyber crystals called the Kyber Saber. After realizing the danger of the weapon, he smashed the blade into seven pieces and entrusted seven Jedi with hiding the fragments throughout the galaxy. During the construction of the second Death Star, Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader learned about the Kyber Saber while probing the Jedi Archives. Desiring a back-up plan, Palpatine tasked the Sith Naare with recovering the weapon.

Enter the Freemakers
Naare led a detachment of stormtroopers to the jungle planet of Nal Kapok, which had once been the site of a Clone Wars battle. There, she encountered the Force-sensitive Rowan Freemaker and his B1 battle droid minder Roger, who had been drawn to the hilt of the Kyber Saber by the Force. Posing as a Jedi with her blue lightsaber, Naare saved Rowan and Roger from being devoured by a dianoga. Realizing that Rowan was Force-sensitive, she befriended him and rescued his older brother and sister Zander and Kordi Freemaker from being arrested by stormtroopers.

After gaining the trust of Rowan and his siblings, she convinced them to let her teach Rowan the ways of the Jedi. Naare told the Freemakers that the Emperor wanted to reforge the Kyber Saber and convinced Rowan that he had to find them before the Emperor did. Trusting Naare, Rowan left the hilt in her care. The Freemakers allowed Naare to stay in a nearby apartment she rented from their Aqualish landlord Furlac. Naare then secretly contacted the Sith Lords and convinced them that she could manipulate Rowan into leading her to the Kyber Saber.

Hutt Entanglements
During a "Jedi lesson", Naare got Rowan to use the Force to locate another Kyber Saber crystal on a holomap. Through the Force, Rowan sensed that the second crystal was in the Balgaroth asteroid field. However, Rowan's older sister Kordi was suspicious of Naare and objected to taking her younger brother on a fool's quest. While Naare and Kordi argued, Rowan and Roger borrowed one of Zander's Z-wings and traveled to the Balgaroth asteroid field to obtain the second crystal.

The two entered a Hutt mining facility on an asteroid. Following a dangerous journey through the factory conveyer system, Rowan managed to find the second crystal embedded in an asteroid. He was saved from falling into a vat of lava by DLC-13, a DLC-13 mining droid that Roger had befriended. Before they could leave, the two were accosted by the Iktotchi bounty hunters Baash and Raam who brought them to their master Graballa, a Hutt crime lord who lived aboard the starship Rancor's Fist.

Graballa soon learned about the Kyber Saber from his unwilling guests and tried to force Rowan to lead him to more crystals by threatening to feed the boy and his droid to his pet Nexu smiley. However, Graballa was interrupted by Kordi and Zander, who posed as salepersons selling a Z-wing. Naare then freed Rowan and Roger. After Graballa realized that it was a ruse, the Freemakers and Naare fled aboard the Z-wing into the Balgaroth asteroid field. Naare then used her Force powers to destroy most of Graballa's pursuing starfighters.

However, the second Kyber Saber crystal was lost in space during the skirmish on the Rancor's Fist. Naare was enraged and almost used the laser cannons on her Eclipse Fighter to destroy the StarScavenger. However, Rowan quickly sensed that the crystal was nearby and recovered it. This pleased Naare, who was now five steps closer to reforging the Kyber Saber. Naare's search for the Kyber Saber encountered a setback when she reluctantly rescued Zander from the Star Destroyer Vendetta. Naare experienced another setback when a mission to Cloud City only yielded the rebel leader Lando Calrissian's cape.