Janard

During the Galactic Empire's reign, he once witnessed a cadet trying to abandon the local Imperial Academy, and he reported them. But, after learning about the terrible choices Imperial cadets had to make, Janard resolved to never repeat that error. As a result, he assisted the next cadet he saw fleeing, a Mandalorian girl named Sabine Wren. As Imperials chased her, Janard toppled a collection of freight containers to obstruct their route, enabling Wren's escape. As a result, the two became friends. Even after Wren became a member of the Spectres, a group of anti-Empire insurgents, Janard would occasionally provide her with intelligence regarding Imperial activities in the years that followed.

Sometime in the fourth year prior to the Battle of Yavin, Janard was apprehended by the Imperials, who held him as a prisoner on a Gozanti-class cruiser. However, the cruiser crashed into the waters of the planet Quila. The ship sank, and monster eels killed most of the Imperials aboard, but Janard was able to find refuge in the front section of the ship, which was the final part to submerge. Despite his best efforts, Janard was eventually cornered by two remaining Imperial stormtroopers.

Luckily for him, that moment coincided with the arrival of Sabine Wren and Ahsoka Tano, a former Jedi Padawan, who had received the ship's distress call and had arrived to save him. As Janard, Wren, and Tano were about to board the Spectres' starship, the Ghost, the commander of the sunken Gozanti suddenly reappeared, announcing the arrival of an Imperial evac ship. While the Ghost eliminated the evac ship, Janard and his rescuers battled the commander and his two soldiers. When it seemed that the Imperials had been defeated, the rebels prepared to leave the sinking Gozanti and get on the Ghost. However, a wounded stormtrooper still managed to shoot Janard in the back. The man died in Wren's arms, expressing deep regret for having once reported a cadet and urging the rebels to continue their fight.