Laane

"What happened to Laane?''" "''He got swarmed by those little beasts... I think they're called cannoks."

- Onderon separatists

Laane was a male scout in the Onderon military during the Dark Wars, and in 3,951 BBY, he was part of the Onderon separatists following General Vaklu in Onderon Civil War. In that year, he was sent as a member of a scout team by Colonel Tobin to the jungle moon of Dxun to find the Jedi Exile who had landed on the moon after the separatist attack above the planet and its moon. As the team spread out into the jungle to begin their search, Laane got surrounded by a pack of cannoks, eventually being killed by the beasts. Soon afterward, Kelborn, a scout who had been sent from a Mandalorian clan hiding on the moon to investigate the new arrivals, discovered his body.

Biography
"Looks like a scout, and pretty green, too. The fool walked right into a group of cannoks and got torn apart."

- Kelborn

Working as a scout in the Onderon military, Laane was a Human male that lived during the years prior to and during the Dark Wars. Serving under the command of Colonel Tobin, Laane&mdash;along with Tobin and the majority of the Onderonian military&mdash;was part of Onderon separatists following General Vaklu opposing the rule of Queen Talia. In 3,951 BBY, following the first battle of Onderon Civil War, the separatists' space forces fired on the small freighter Ebon Hawk after locating the ship among the blockaded ships above planet Onderon. The attack forced a former Jedi the Jedi Exile, travelling aboard the Ebon Hawk, to flee the attack to planet's moon Dxun after the ship had taken some damage, and Colonel Tobin sent Laane as part of a team of scouts to the surface of the moon to hunt down the Exile. The freighter carrying the Laane's scout team attempted to surface the moon without the Exile or anyone other possibly on the moon noticing, but their craft was picked up by the radar of Mandalorian clan hiding on the jungles of the moon. After the separatist scouts had landed and split up, Laane was caught by Cannok beasts residing in the jungle in great numbers. Being surrounded by the beasts, Leena was killed under the witnessing eyes of his team mate. Soon Mandalorian scout Kelborn, who was sent there to investigate the intruders, found the remnants of Laane among the flora of the jungle.

A moment later, the Jedi Exile and her companions encountered Kelborn and late Laane, and after hearing the task of Mandalorian, they volunteered to aid Kelborn to locate and hunt down rest of separatist scouts.

Personality and traits
"The only thing the scouts had on them were weapons. No identity cards, no personal effects, and no evidence to figure out who they were if they died or were captured out here."

- Kelborn about the Onderonian scouts

Laane was a male with short, black hair. During the mission on Dxun to stop the Jedi Exile, Laane carried no items that might help identifying him, only weaponry&mdash;a blaster rifle. Kelborn considered him to be inexperienced, as he did let himself being caught by the Cannoks.

Behind the scenes
Laane appeared as a corpse in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, a roleplaying video game released by Obsidian Entertainment at the end of 2004. A sidequest of helping Kelborn with the separatist scouts is not mandatory, but this article assumes full completion of all related quests.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Notes and references
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