Tletlsa Kagn

Tletlsa Kagn was the mother of Gir Kagn.

Born on in 64 BBY, she grew up in a family in the servitude of the. She married Miz Kagn and managed to get offworld, but not without incurring heavy debts. In 37 BBY, a pregnant Tletlsa and her husband were on the run from Alliance-hired s. A series of malfunctions on their battered left them stranded on the oddly-named  of Antiquity. Repairs to the ship took weeks, but even after they were complete, Tletlsa and Miz decided to live a quiet life on that planet. Their son was born a few months later.

When their son was a young man, Tletlsa and Miz discovered he was being trained by the hiding Shahmzar Aonda-Alci. They were shocked at first, but they accepted it. They thought it was too late to change it, and they remembered that the Jedi had tried to help them deal with the Corporate Alliance. Years later, Gir left them to join the.

For the rest of Tletlsa's simple life, her son occasionally came back to visit him. She died of old age in 29 ABY.

Behind the scenes
Coincidentally, GIR is the name of an idiotic robot in the cartoon Invader Zim. When the author needed to make names for Gir Kagn's parents, he anagram|scrambled "tallest" (the "Almighty Tallest" are the rulers of Zim's species on the show) to make "Tletlsa".