Javul Charn

Javul Charn was a Human female holostar and member of the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War. After her parents were killed by Imperial forces when she was fourteen years old, Charn and her younger brother, Ayx, moved to live with a family friend on the Outer Rim planet Tatooine. When she was old enough, she joined the Rebellion against the Galactic Empire. Due to her talents as a singer, dancer and actor, the Rebels set her up as a performer on the Corellian circuit under the name Alai Jance, using her tours to smuggle cargo and information between Rebel cells. During this time, Charn entered into a relationship with Hityamun Kris, a Vigo in the Black Sun crime syndicate. The two were engaged to be married, but Charn broke off their relationship after discovering that Kris had been smuggling illegal goods aboard her starship. She provided information on Black Sun's activities to the Imperial Security Bureau, leading to the collapse of the syndicate's operations along the Corellian Trade Spine.

After starting afresh with the new identity of Javul Charn, her career soon took off and Charn became famous throughout the galaxy. Her album Nova's Heart sold over ten billion copies and Charn's concerts regularly sold out throughout the Empire. In 0 BBY, Charn embarked on a major tour, during which she was to collect some stolen Imperial military plans on Bannistar Station and deliver them to her Alliance liaison on Alderaan. After receiving a series of threatening messages, Charn hired the smuggler Dash Rendar and his crew, Eaden Vrill and LE-BO2D9, to provide security for the tour. Despite this, the tour was plagued by numerous attacks and acts of sabotage. After an attempt on her life during her first stop on Rodia, Charn abandoned her ship and most of her crew on Tatooine and continued the tour aboard the freighter Millennium Falcon, under the command of the freelance pilot Han Solo. However, the incidents continued and Charn barely escaped and attack by the Anomid assassin Edge during her visit to Falleen. Another encounter with Edge on Bannistar Station led to the death of Vrill, though Charn and her companions escaped.

Charn eventually learned that there were actually three different parties responsible for the recent incidents; Hityamun Kris was attempting to scare her into returning to him, Prince Xizor, the leader of Black Sun, sought to kill her in revenge for the losses his organization had suffered, and the Imperial Security Bureau was spying on her in an attempt to prove her suspected Rebel connections. Having collected her cargo on Bannistar Station, Charn abandoned the rest of her tour. Escaping pursuit by Xizor and the Imperial Navy, the Millennium Falcon eventually made it to Alderaan, where Charn delivered her cargo to Princess Leia Organa of the Alderaanian royal family.

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