Gandr Spanjaf

Gandr Spanjaf was a human male member of the Garel City cell, father of Merei Spanjaf, and husband of Jessa Spanjaf. He and his wife worked as data-security specialists and were contracted by several ministries of the Galactic Empire. Several years before the Battle of Yavin, Gandr and his family moved to the planet Lothal to help the local Imperial ministries boost the security of their data networks. He and Jessa were unaware of their daughter Merei's illegal activities; which included hacking the Transportation Ministry's data network, working as a courier for the criminal Gray Syndicate; and consorting with known rebels and rebel sympathizers including the Spectres cell, her former classmates Zare Leonis and Beck Ollet, and the fugitive Holshef. Merei was helping her boyfriend Zare to find his sister Dhara Leonis, who had been abducted for a secret Imperial program known as Project Harvester.

After Merei hacked into the Transportation Ministry's data network, his wife Jessa was part of the anti-intrusion team that was assigned to investigate that data breach. Merei spent much of that year trying to stay ahead of the Imperial investigators by altering her school photo while working as a courier for the Gray Syndicate at the same time. Concerned about his daughter's well-being and failing grades at school, Gandr provided his daughter with a powerful locator in case she encountered trouble. This locator proved useful when Merei staged her own kidnapping which led to a deadly Imperial raid on Ake's Tavern, the Gray Syndicate's headquarters. As a result, Gandr and Jessa came to believe that the Gray Syndicate were the culprits behind the Transportation Ministry's data breach and that they had kidnapped Merei to stop the Imperial investigation.

Gandr and Jessa were later forced to flee Lothal with their daughter Merei after the Empire launched a crackdown on all sedition and crime following the Spectres' hijacking of the Imperial Communications Center at Jalath. While his wife Jessa was furious with Merei for "ruining" their lives, Gandr express pride in his daughter's achievements. After fleeing to the planet Garel with the help of Old Jho and the Spectres, Gandr used his data security skills to craft new identifies for his own family and the Leonises.

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