Zi'am

"My son is gifted. Do you understand me? Gifted. In the Force. He has the ability to train on Korriban and become Sith!"

- Gianna speaks of her sons ability with the Force.

Zi'am was a male Human who lived on the planet Nal Hutta during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire. Zi'am was the child of a failed Sith named Kendrel and his wife Gianna. Like his father Zi'am was Force-sensitive and when his mother found out she wanted for him to be sent to the planet Korriban to train as a Sith as his father had attempted to before him. Kendrel however did not want to risk his son being killed by the Sith on Korriban if he failed and so tried to flee Nal Hutta with Zi'am to prevent it. Gianna learned of Kendrel's plan and sent an Imperial aligned individual to bring Zi'am back to her. The individual found Zi'am and his father still on Hutta in the spaceport of an industrial town called Jiguuna. When the individual explained why they were there Kendrel refused to hand Zi'am over causing the individual to shoot and kill him. Zi'am then fled back to his mother whom sent him to Korriban. Once on Korriban Zi'am came under the tutelage of a Sith overseer named Harkun who trained him to become a Sith despite Zi'am being uncooperative.

Biography
"I'll... I'll go home now."

- Zi'am agrees to return to his mother after his fathers death.

Zi'am was a male Human who lived during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire. He was the child of a failed Sith named Kendrel and his wife Gianna. His father had trained on Korriban but failed and fled before he could be killed, ending up working for a Hutt on the planet Nal Hutta. When it was discovered that, like Kendrel, Zi'am was Force-sensitive his mother wished for him to be sent to Korriban to train as his father had. Kendrel was greatly opposed to the idea however based on his own experience on Korriban. He took the boy and attempted to flee from Nal Hutta, reaching a spaceport in the industrial town of Jiguuna. A comm officer at the spaceport named Mekks recognised Zi'am and Jiguuna and informed Gianna of their location, as he owed her a favour. Gianna then travelled to the Poison Pit cantina in Jiguuna, where she tried to find someone to retrieve her son.

Gianna successfully hired an Imperial aligned individual in the cantina to retrieve her son. The individual found Zi'am and Kendrel in the spaceport and informed Kendrel why they were there. Kendrel begged the individual to let them flee and to tell Gianna they had gone to Korriban. When the individual refused however Zi'am's father refused to let his son be taken and so the individual shot and killed him. Zi'am then crouched by his fathers body distraught by his death but soon fled home to his mother.

Once Zi'am returned to Gianna she sent him to Korriban where he was enrolled in the Sith academy there. At the academy Zi'am was uncooperative with the Overseer assigned to him, who was named Harkun, and spent much of his time complaining about his fathers death.

Personality and traits
"Zi'am may hate me for getting his father killed--but I hear hate and grief make for a fine Sith."

- Gianna speaks of her son after his fathers death.

Zi'am was deeply upset by his fathers death and crouched by his fathers lifeless body after Kendrel was killed. The Imperial aligned individual's ruthlessness scared him enough however that he quickly abandoned his father's corpse and fled back to his mother. Zi'am's mother Gianna believed that he would hate her for her involvement in Kendrel's death and that the grief and hatred would make him a strong Sith. She also believed he was particularly strong in the Force. Once he reached the academy on Korriban he spent much time complaining about his fathers death and was often uncooperative with his overseer Harkun. The overseer considered him foolish and believed he did not appreciate his gifts but was however passionate which gave him great potential as a Sith.

Behind the scenes
"If Gianna had managed to send Zi'am to Korriban, he'd be dead in a matter of months--or he'd have become a monster."

- An alternate message the player can received from Kendrel if they choose to let Zi'am flee.

Zi'am first appeared in the Massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic released in Bioware in 2011. He is involved in the quest "Dreams of Korriban" where his mother asks you to retrieve Zi'am from her husband. The player has a choice to either allow Kendrel and Zi'am to flee once they reach the space port as a light side option or to kill Kendrel as a dark side option. If the player chooses to allow the pair to flee then they can either tell Gianna the truth as a Dark side option or that Kendrel agreed to take Zi'am to Korriban as a light side option. This article assumes that the player chose to take the dark side option and kill Kendral due to the fact only Imperial characters of the bounty hunter or Imperial Agent class can undertake this quest. This is due to it's location on Nal Hutta which no other classes have access to. If the player chooses to let Kendrel flee then he later sends the player a message thanking him and letting him know that him and Zi'am successfully fled. If they choose the Dark side option then Overseer Harkun sends a message instead informing the player Zi'am is on Korriban. Both messages include a 13 credit reward.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Old Republic