Korin Pers

"What? You're a sava?''" "I was''. Sava Korin Pers of the University of Bar'leth, right in the Core. Expert on antiquities of many types. Published throughout the Republic. But that was a very long time ago."

- Lobot and Pers

Korin Pers was a female Ugnaught who held the position of sava at the University of Bar'leth in the Core Worlds during the reign of the Galactic Republic. As an expert on various types of antiquities, she wrote works published throughout the Republic, although she eventually left the university. At some stage she worked with the smuggler Lando Calrissian and lost her left eye in the process, forcing her to get a cybernetic replacement and causing her to greatly dislike Calrissian despite the smuggler promising he would someday make up for the Ugnaught's injury if he could. Due to this, when Calrissian and his companion Lobot visited her during the reign of the Galactic Empire with a job offer, Pers initially aimed a blaster at the pair and claimed they were mad to think she would work with them. Once Calrissian revealed that the job was stealing an Imperial pleasure craft potentially full of antiques for the crime lord Papa Toren, Pers was persuaded to join the heist. The group then used stealth suits provided by Toren to successfully infiltrate Sienar Fleet Systems Orbital Shipyard CC-24, where the starship was being refitted, and steal it.

Biography
Before the Jedi Purge and the Empire's rise to power, Pers found scraps about the Sith. She studied them, becoming an expert on their history. However, she then lost her position at the University of Bar'leth when the Sith's and Jedi's history were no longer a permissible field study.

Behind the scenes
Korin Pers first appeared in Star Wars: Lando, Part I, a comic book published in 2015 which was written by Charles Soule and illustrated by Alex Maleev.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Lando, Part I
 * Star Wars: Lando, Part II
 * Star Wars: Lando, Part III
 * Star Wars: Lando, Part IV