Massacre on Doan

This massacre took place in 980 BBY on the planet Doan. Tensions between the the planet's Royal Family and mining caste rose, and miners accidentally killed of Prince Gerran. Gerran's wife, Princess Serra, became depressed, and her bodyguard, Lucia, decided to exact revenge; she hired the assassin known as the Huntress. The Huntress attacked Gelba, the miners' representative, assassinating her and going on to kill all of the miners that were accompanying her, as well as Jedi Knight Medd Tandar, who had been sent to mediate the situation between the Royal Family and the miners.

Afterward, Sith Lord Darth Bane sent his apprentice, Darth Zannah, to investigate the situation on Doan. Meanwhile, Draado, a miner on Doan, began calling for war with the Royal Family as a result of Gelba's death, while Doan's King agreed with Serra that she should travel to the Jedi Temple to ensure the Jedi that the Royal Family hadn't been behind the attack.

Prelude
Around the time following the New Sith Wars, the Doan Royal House came into conflict with the lower-class mining caste of the planet Doan. Gelba, a leader of the miners, ordered the capture of the Doan Prince, Gerran. However, when the miners tried to force Gerran's airspeeder into an emergency landing, they accidentally killed him, sending his wife, Princess Serra, into a depression. Lucia&mdash;Serra's bodyguard and a member of the Doan Royal Guard&mdash;hoped to remedy Serra of this depression by getting revenge on those who had caused Gerran's death.

Lucia traveled to the space station Paradise, where she found the Iktotchi assassin known as the Huntress and hired her to assassinate Gelba. Meanwhile, however, the miners contacted the Jedi Order on Coruscant and convinced them to dispatch a Jedi to help mediate the situation on Doan. Cerean Jedi Knight Medd Tandar was sent to Doan, where he met with Gelba and five other miners to discuss negotiations. However, Tandar's main objective was to recover several Sith artifacts that had recently been dug up on Doan.

The massacre
During Tandar's meeting with Gelba, the Jedi and miners were suddenly ambushed by the Huntress. The Iktotchi shot and killed Gelba instantly before quickly eliminating the other five miners as well. Using her own Force powers, the Huntress interfered with Tandar's ability to touch the Force. She fired on him with her blasters and Tandar was barely able to dodge her shots. Scolding himself for his clumsiness, Tandar managed to call the assassin's blasters to him with the Force. To Tandar's surprise, she remained calm, and he offered her a fair trial if she surrendered. The Huntress, however, quickly retreated; Tandar realized his mistake too late as he saw that she had overloaded the weapons' power cells. They exploded, overwhleming his feeble attempt at a Force shield and killing the Jedi Knight.

Aftermath
Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Bane became aware of the death of Tandar and decided to send his apprentice Darth Zannah, to investigate; as he believed that anyone who was powerful enough to kill a Jedi was worth the Sith's attention. However, he also used this as a means to get her out of his way so that he could go on his own mission to find the holocron of Darth Andeddu.

This massacre also caused the King of Doan to fear that the Jedi would believe that the Royal House had ordered Tandar's assassination. As such, he agreed for Serra to travel to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to ensure the Jedi Order that this assassination was not the fault of the Royal Family. At the Jedi Temple, Serra learned that her father, Caleb, had been killed ten years previously by a Sith Lord. This caused her to get Lucia to contact the Huntress to again, this time to capture Bane, whom she mistakenly believed to be her father's killer.

Meanwhile, Draado, the miner on Doan who had dug up the Sith artifacts, became corrupted by the talismans he wore. The artifacts, coupled with Gelba's assassination, caused him to call for war with the Royal Family. However, he was killed soon after when the Dark Jedi Set Harth traveled to Doan in search of the artifacts.

Behind the scenes
This massacre first appeared in Drew Karpyshyn's 2009 novel, Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil, the third and final installment in the Darth Bane trilogy.

Appearances

 * Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil