Jax Pavan served as a naval officer and starship captain in the New Republic Defense Forces during the latter years of the Galactic Civil War, then the Yuuzhan Vong War. Admired by those who served with him as a superb officer who had an offbeat sense of humor and quite a way with the ladies, he was famous for his actions during that conflict, and for commanding the U.S.S. Enterprise on its historic five-year mission of exploration. During the Galactic Alliance's final offensive against the Yuuzhan Vong, he became a legend. While commanding a small flotilla of warships, which participated in the last-ditch attempt to reclaim his homeworld of Coruscant, Pavan met his end. After the Enterprise had suffered critical damage to its hypermatter core, he ordered the crew to abandon ship so that h