Gars Croft was a male Cerean who was the brother of the Office of Peace and Security lieutenant Hanes Croft. During the waning years of the Galactic Republic, Croft became a resident of the Blue Star Centre, a philosophical retreat that was located in the city Gadrin on the planet Cularin. In about 31 BBY, members of a criminal organization known as the Intarsa League entered the Blue Star Centre and took Croft and the center's other occupants hostage. Lector Amin Galingal, the director of the center, was struck down by extreme terror as a result of his staffs' capture, forcing Croft to assume a leadership role among the hostages. Croft ordered his fellow hostages to move all of the Blue Star Centre's books to the center's main meditation chamber and he appealed to Dersa Welles, the leader