" Message encoded to General Sev'rance Tann, Count Dooku transmitting. She quickly won the trust of her master and several other prominent Separatist leaders with many successes in missions, becoming a general in the Confederacy and the leader of Dooku's Dark Acolytes.
Tann became a Dark Acolyte of Count Dooku, Sidious' Sith apprentice, studying the dark side of the Force under him and learning how to wield a lightsaber. Historians were unsure whether it was an attempt to remove Tann from a dangerous situation on Csilla or merely to provide Sidious with a tactician he could have confidence in. Historians of a later era speculated that Thrawn, an officer in the Chiss Expansionary Defense Force who was in contact with Sidious, had alerted the Dark Lord to Tann and Vandalor's existence. Tann eventually became one of few Chiss to leave Chiss Space, along with her lover, Vandalor, brought to Republic space by Darth Sidious, Dark Lord of the Sith. Tann became a talented military tactician, with a large repertoire of strategic and tactical knowledge and an innovative mind, which some believed was furthered by her ability to use the Force. The story of her taming of the Yresilini was later repeated by troops under her command. The successor was far more co-operative than the first, leading the troops to follow her orders implicitly, for which Tann received high marks. Her general and his comrades laughed at her efforts in response, Tann had him executed on the spot, with his would-be troops present, and appointed a second general, who was taught same rudimentary commands. She started by choosing one of the creatures to be her " general," and teaching him a number of simple commands. One of Tann's professors once challenged her with training a group of Yresilini, considered an untrainable species into a cohesive, organized army. Tann attended the Chiss Academy, studying military strategy and tactics. She was one of very few Force-sensitive Chiss on record, with an uncanny ability to predict her enemy's movements. Sev'rance Tann was a Chiss female born on the planet Csilla during the waning days of the Galactic Republic.
" I have sensed something powerful in her… we should keep her close to us." ―Darth Tyranus to Darth Sidious Although Tann had been a successful commander, her service in the Clone Wars lasted just a standard month.
Later, in a final confrontation in a CIS stronghold in the heart of the Krantian forest, Shen-Jon killed Tann. After Shen-Jon destroyed the Decimator-producing foundries, Tann kidnapped his new Padawan, Naat Reath, and fled. Tann was then sent to oversee Decimator construction on Krant, but was pursued by Jedi Master Echuu Shen-Jon, whose Padawan Tann had killed at Geonosis. She then launched an ambitious attack on Sarapin, on Dooku's orders, capturing one of the most heavily fortified planets in the galaxy and leaving many Core Worlds in darkness as a result, having destroyed the planet's geothermal generators. When Dooku learned of the new Republic technology known as the Decimator, Tann was ordered to locate the weapons and steal them for the CIS to use.Īfter winning battles on Tatooine, Eredenn, and Alaris Prime, Tann stole the Decimators from the Republic and prepared them for Separatist use. When the war broke out, Tann fought at Geonosis and later commandeered the Kaer Orbital Platform for Separatist use. Dooku taught Tann the use of the dark side of the Force, and she became one of his most trusted underlings. Hailing from Csilla in the Unknown Regions, she became one of few Chiss to leave her people during her time, along with her lover Vandalor, both becoming agents of Count Dooku and the Confederacy of Independent Systems (CIS) shortly before the outbreak of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY. Sev'rance Tann was a Force-sensitive Chiss female who left Chiss Space to become a Dark Acolyte and general as Supreme Commander in the Confederacy military during the Clone Wars. It seems there isn't a Padawan you possess that I cannot take away from you." ―Sev'rance Tann to Echuu Shen-Jon - Listen ( file info)