Samar, a Khil of male gender, was an officer in Republic Intelligence who fought for the Galactic Republic in the era of the Jedi Civil War. In the year 3957 BBY, Samar participated in a Republic operation to the planet Sernpidal, where he and his team obtained a code cylinder containing the command codes for the sensor arrays on Darth Revan's flagship. Subsequently, they journeyed to the Republic vessel Viscount and aided the Jedi Bastila Shan in an attempt to capture the Dark Lord of the Sith known as Darth Revan. In the course of this undertaking, Samar and his fellow agents confronted the Sith apprentice named Darth Voren.