Gav Daragon

Gav Daragon was a Human male, a native of Koros Major and a hyperspace explorer who lived circa 5,000 BBY. Although he and his sister, Jori Daragon, were somewhat Force-sensitive, they chose not to join the Jedi Order and remained untrained in the use of the Force. Following the death of her parents, Gav and Jori became indebted to Aarrba the Hutt. Running out of credits, the two took their ship, the Starbreaker 12, on one last expedition from the city of Cinnagar in hopes of repairing their finances by earning a commission from the Brotherhood of Navigators for finding new hyperlanes. The Daragons accidentally discovered a trail that took them to the Sith world of Korriban. They were imprisoned by the Sith and taken to the planet Ziost for interrogation.

Eventually, they were sentenced to death by the Sith, but Sith Lord Naga Sadow sprang them from prison and took them to his own fortress. Sadow hoped to convince the other Sith that the Daragons were the precursor for a Republic invasion, as that would give him the support of the other Sith Lords for his plan to invade Republic space. When Sadow's rival, Ludo Kressh, attacked Sadow's fortress, Jori took the Starbreaker 12 and escaped back to Republic space, knowing that the she was the only means of warning the Republic of a Sith invasion. However, Gav was left behind and Sadow slowly convinced Gav that he could reform the Republic by leading the Sith armies to victory over its government in order to establish a regime of his own, a journey towards the dark side of the Force. Eventually, Daragon became one of Sadow's commanders in the Sith invasion of the Republic, which was guided by a homing beacon which Sadow had placed aboard the Starbreaker 12.

Gav led a Sith fleet to attack Koros Major, only to find it defended by the forces of Empress Teta. Landing on the planet, Gav was at Aarrba's Repair Dock when some of his Sith Massassi warriors attacked and slew the Hutt. At that point, Jori, freshly armed with a Jedi lightsaber, arrived, and assumed Gav had killed the Hutt. The two briefly battled, before Gav turned and fled back to his ships. He abandoned his fleet, leading Teta's forces to Naga Sadow's flagship, a meditation sphere. Gav turned on Sadow, attacking the Sith Lord, but Sadow was able to use a superweapon to cause the star of Primus Goluud to supernova. Gav realized he was doomed, but managed to express his apologies and affection to his sister before he perished in the explosion.

Early life


As children living on Koros Major, Gav and his sister Jori were chosen for Jedi training, but they refused, choosing instead to continue working as hyperspace navigators with their parents Hok and Timar. Hok and Timar, their children only twenty years old, were killed while delivering supplies to Empress Teta's soldiers on Kirrek to assist in the battle there. At this time, one of the Daragon family's two ships, the Starbreaker 12, was being held at Aarrba the Hutt's repair dock as collateral. He gave it to Gav and Jori after learning of their parents' deaths at Kirrek, saying they "paid for it in blood."

Gav and Jori survived their parents' legacy, mapping out several new hyperlanes. While flying through the Starswarm Cluster, the Starbreaker 12 was greatly damaged, forcing them to impound it Aarrba's repair dock. With no credits to speak of, and nothing else to barter with, the Daragons were unable to claim the Starbreaker 12 when Aarrba finished repairing it.

The Daragon Trail
Gav and Jori soon found themselves with a price on their heads, put on by Merchant Lord Ssk Kahorr after one of his drone ships crashed into Primus Goluud while using the Goluud Corridor, one of the Daragons' hyperspace routes. After narrowly escaping a pair of bounty hunters with the help of Odan-Urr and Memit Nadill, Gav and Jori stole back the impounded Starbreaker 12 and, pursued by Cinnagar security forces, punched in random coordinates, sending them to Korriban, the cemetery of the Sith Empire (this route would later become know as the Daragon Trail).



After arriving in the Horuset system, Gav and Jori were immediately taken prisoner, as the Sith wildly debated over what to do with them. They were locked in the icy, underground prison in the Sith Fortress on Ziost, where the Daragons soon learned from the Sith Lord Simus that they were to be executed as soon as possible. However, in the first step of his elaborate plan to become Dark Lord, Naga Sadow and his loyal group of Massassi attacked the Ziost prison, freeing Gav and Jori, and making it look like an attack that was orchestrated and carried out by the Republic. Gav and Jori were sent to Sadow's private fortress on Khar Shian, as Naga Sadow was successfully crowned Dark Lord of the Sith, promising to defend the Sith against the Republic. Gav, kept in a separate room from Jori, waited on Khar Shian for days, scarcely seeing Sadow at all. Throughout this time, he was taught ancient Sith magic by the Dark Lord, slowly converting him to the dark side.

The Great Hyperspace War


When Naga Sadow was ready to commence his assault on the Republic, he appointed Gav as Commander of the Koros Major invasion. When they arrived at Koros Major, Gav flew down to the surface to look for his sister, who had since escaped in the Starbreaker 12, flanked by a group of Massassi bodyguards. As the battle raged in space and on the ground, he entered Aarrba the Hutt's repair dock. Upon sight of him, the Massassi plunged their spears into Aarrba, apparently seeing him as a threat. Jori entered at that very moment, and attacked Gav with a lightsaber given to her by Odan-Urr, but Gav was able to escape and flee to Primus Goluud, where Naga Sadow's meditation sphere was located.

Gav fired on the sphere, breaking Sadow's concentration, and giving the Republic soldiers the advantage in the Battle of Coruscant. Sadow lured Gav onto his meditation sphere to discuss his actions, and Gav foolishly did so, quickly discovering that Sadow had vacated the sphere. Just then a fleet of Koros ships appeared, along with Jori, who had followed Gav to Primus Goluud.

Gav transmitted the coordinates of the Sith Empire to Empress Teta, telling her that the Empire was now completely defenseless with its entire military invading the Republic. Naga Sadow's fleet then appeared, and fired at Primus Goluud with some sort of electrical superweapon. Gav told Teta and Jori to leave the area, which they and Sadow's fleet were able to do just before the red super giant went nova, taking Naga Sadow's meditation sphere and Gav Daragon's life.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Young Jedi Knights: Delusions of Grandeur
 * Young Jedi Knights: Delusions of Grandeur