
At one point, Ors and Katarn saw each other, and though neither remembered their brief past encounters, both felt a spark of distant recognition. It was not long before the Empire located the AX-456 base and invaded coincidentally, Kyle Katarn was the cadet commander in charge of the mission. One of her mission was at a Rebel relay station on the asteroid AX-456. There, Datch joined the Rebellion and began training to become a fighter pilot, while Ors went on to other missions.

Unable to return to Pellezara station, and knowing the fuel slugs needed to be delivered to the Alliance, Ors disclosed the location of the Dantooine base to Datch, who took them both there. When he made it to open space, he hypered to an outer-system station that was equipped with a well-equipped medicenter, where he stabilized Ors. When Imperial forces entered the Duro system, Datch, an accomplished pilot, took action to save the strikingly beautiful woman, undocking the ship, and proceeding to fly it in a manner more befitting a starfighter than a freighter, outmaneuvering the Gamma-class assault shuttle that was pursuing them. Sometime between her service as Jan Strange and 1 BBY, Ors lost the use of her right hand and had it replaced with a cybernetic prosthesis. In a delirium brought on by the strange alien infection, Ors told the boy her name and the cargo the ship was carrying. Tarrin Datch, a seventeen-year old son of the owners of the station, found her while replacing the ship's gravity disks during routine restocking. Her teammates fled with her to Pellezara station in the Duro system, where they hid her beneath the deckplates of their freighter while they all disembarked in search of medical supplies. In the course of the mission, her leg was injured, and it became infected. In 1 BBY, she participated in a mission to steal prime-grade fuel slugs from Imperial forces in the jungles of Oulanne. Ors did not remain in her Jan Strange guise for long, and was soon performing missions as part of the Rebel Alliance itself. " I'd be a content old man." ―Jan Ors and Kyle Katarn - Listen ( file info) Despite having never worn the uniform of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, her difficult assignment earned her a Captain's rank and a Nebula for Bravery in absentia, along with an almost legendary stature among other Rebels. Unfortunately for the Alliance, her cover required her to sometimes act against them, even sometimes going so far as to sacrifice clumsy and careless agents. This "talent" was the result of Ors arranging to have targets planted by the Alliance, whom she would then observe, capture, and interrogate they would then be set free, and she would fake a "termination during interrogation" to cover their escape. Surveillance section came to value her ability to pinpoint the right subjects for observation, and often sent her to the Core Worlds where corruption was rampant.

She maintained a very delicate balance of providing intelligence to the Alliance while simultaneously performing her duties as an Imperial Intelligence officer. She first encountered the Imperial cadet Kyle Katarn while working in Intell, though neither left an impression on the other at the time.

Once she was well placed in the Surveillance section of Intell, she contacted the Alliance Intelligence, providing them with invaluable counterintelligence and performing sabotage and covert extractions. She began her career by infiltrating Imperial Intelligence under the pseudonym Jan Strange. " Captain Strange is almost something of a legend in the Rebellion, even though she has never worn an Alliance uniform." ― General Airen Cracken However, Ors did not stay with the JAN, instead striking out on her own path. Her parents also were instrumental in Earnst Kamiel's establishing of the Justice Action Network, an anti- Imperial terrorist organization whose initials (JAN) were partly chosen to honor the Ors' daughter. Since when she was four years old, her mother noticed that she preferred doing things alone and never asked for help. She learned from her mother, one of the few remaining believers in the Force, that the Force worked in mysterious ways. Jan Ors' mother was a choreographer for Alderaan's premier ballet company, and her father was an aerospace engineer Ors learned both of these arts, although her mother could be with her only when she wasn't rehearsing.
