Calo Nord Calo Nord , a Human male , was an infamous bounty hunter who lived during the Jedi Civil War , a galaxy - spanning conflict initiated by the Sith Lords Darth Revan and Darth Malak . Nord was sold into slavery by his mother and father at a young age . On his sixteenth birthday , he killed his slave masters and tracked down his parents , murdering them as well . A bounty was placed on Nord , but he eliminated every mercenary that pursued him . Once the attempts on his life ended , Nord murdered those who had placed the bounty and became a bounty hunter by trade , taking assignments from any party that paid . Nord occasionally worked for the Exchange criminal syndicate boss Davik Kang but had been also contracted by the Galactic Republic for operations in the Core . During the final year of the Jedi Civil War , Nord was on the planet Taris for business with Kang . Following the attack on the Republic vessel " Endar Spire , " Malak , who had betrayed Revan and usurped control of the Sith Empire , quarantined the planet in order to search for the Jedi Knight Bastila Shan , who had become marooned on the Tarisian surface . Malak eventually ordered the planet ' s destruction in an attempt to kill Shan . When the Sith began to bombard Taris , Nord and Kang attempted to flee aboard Kang ' s freighter " Ebon Hawk " and caught Shan and her companions during their attempt to steal Kang ' s flagship . A firefight ensued , which ended when Nord was caught under falling debris and trapped . The bounty hunter was able to flee Taris and evade the devastation wrought by the Sith . He was subsequently hired by Darth Malak to track down Shan and capture her alive . Nord located Shan ' s companion , Revan — now a partially retrained Jedi Padawan — in the Eastern Dune Sea on the desert planet of Tatooine as he was searching for the ancient Rakata n space station known as the Star Forge . As Revan and his team exited some ancient ruins , the bounty hunter confronted Revan . Nord was overmatched by Revan and his companions , resulting in his death . Biography . Early life and bounty hunter . When the Human male known as Calo Nord was a young boy , he was sold into slavery by his mother and father . During his time as a slave , Nord learned to be ruthless and cold - hearted . After turning sixteen years of age , Nord butchered his slave masters . Free , he located his parents and murdered them . A bounty was placed on Nord ' s head , and the young man was pursued by many bounty hunters . Nord observed the means and methodologies of the bounty hunters who tracked him , learning and acquiring trade skills . He used his new - found skills to eliminate each one that was in pursuit . Eventually , the attempts on his life ceased . The Bounty Hunters ' Guild had deemed Nord too dangerous and cancelled the contract . Nord , however , found and killed the people that had placed the bounty . Nord became a bounty hunter himself , taking contracts from whoever paid him . Among these contracts were operations on behalf of the Galactic Republic in the Core . As a bounty hunter , Nord commissioned the building of personal armor , based on the design worn by the Mandalorian Neo - Crusaders . Following its completion , Nord killed the maker of the armor to make sure that it would be unique to him , and also to keep from paying the designer . He occasionally worked for Davik Kang , a crime lord of the Exchange crime syndicate whose operations were based on the Outer Rim ecumenopolis of Taris . When contracted , Kang hired Nord to kill and bring back the heads of rancors so that the crime lord could mount the heads in his trophy room . Among the locations Nord visited while on Taris was the Hutt Zax ' s bounty office , an establishment contained within the Lower City locale of Javyar ' s Cantina . By the time of the Jedi Civil War , a galaxy - spanning conflict initiated by Darth Revan , Darth Malak , and their Sith Empire , it had even been said that Nord had killed more people than the Iridian Plague . Jedi Civil War . Destruction of Taris . In 3957 BBY , Darth Malak usurped the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith when he betrayed his Sith Master Revan as the Jedi and Republic forces tried to capture them both . One year later , Malak conquered Taris ; and , after the Jedi Knight Bastila Shan crash - landed on Taris , the Dark Lord quarantined the planet and ordered his fleet to blockade the planet so that the Sith forces could search for Shan . During the Sith ' s quarantine of Taris , Nord , who was on the planet for business with Davik Kang , encountered a Republic soldier named Revan on two occasions . Revan , who was unknowingly the former Dark Lord of the Sith , had been marooned on Taris with Republic commander Carth Onasi , and they were searching for Shan . Nord first met Revan in Javyar ' s Cantina , where the bounty hunter killed three Black Vulkars for having disturbed him . Revan tried to engage Nord in conversation , but the departing Nord desired not to be bothered . Revan complied , not wanting to provoke the bounty hunter into attacking him . Nord later encountered Revan when the soldier was exploring the Lower City ' s apartments . There , Nord killed two Rodians , the assassin Luugro and his companion , so that he could collect the corresponding bounties . Nord was present at Kang ' s estate when the crime lord ' s enforcer , the Mandalorian Canderous Ordo , brought Revan , Onasi , and Shan — who had been successfully rescued by the two Republic soldiers — to the estate . Ordo introduced Revan to the crime lord as an individual interested in joining the Exchange . Nord told the Mandalorian that it was not like him to take on partners and taunted Ordo . He then accompanied Kang while the crime lord treated Revan and his companions to a tour of his estate , showing them his freighter , the " Ebon Hawk " . After the tour , Nord and Kang took Ordo , Revan , Shan , and Onasi to a guest room and warned Revan to stay in the guest wing of the estate . Kang left to look into Revan ' s background , as a standard precaution , and told Nord to come with him . Aboard his flagship " Leviathan " , Darth Malak concluded that his troops ' search for Shan was taking too long and ordered the Sith Admiral Saul Karath to have the Sith fleet destroy Taris in order to kill the Jedi . Nord and Kang , hoping to flee the bombardment , entered the hangar where the " Ebon Hawk " was housed , but they discovered that Revan and his companions were attempting to steal the ship . After Kang spoke to the group , Nord told the crime lord he would kill them , stating that he had looked forward to doing so for a long time . Kang implored the bounty hunter to hurry , saying that if they did not escape , the Sith ' s lasers would be their demise . In the ensuing firefight , Nord realized that he and Kang were outmatched . Kang perished , and Nord — who was not willing to let Ordo , the Republic soldiers and the Jedi escape — tried to use a thermal detonator to kill everyone , including himself . Instead , the bombardment partially destroyed the hangar , causing Nord to be buried underneath a heap of rubble . Leaving Nord and the deceased Kang , Revan ' s group boarded the " Ebon Hawk " and gathered the rest of their companions before fleeing Taris and the Sith bombardment . Death . Even though he had been buried in rubble on Taris , Nord survived the attack and was able to escape the planet . He was later granted an audience with Darth Malak aboard the " Leviathan " . Admiral Karath brought Nord in as an eyewitness of Bastila Shan ' s survival . When the bounty hunter entered the bridge , Malak expressed his surprise that Nord had managed to survive his encounter with Shan and Onasi , to which the bounty hunter replied that he was difficult to kill . Nord agreed to capture Shan , and Karath assured Malak that the bounty hunter ' s services were worth the demanded price . Malak told Nord that he desired Shan taken alive , if possible , but that the Jedi ' s other companions were of no value . Nord and Karath then privately met with Malak away from the crew on the " Leviathan " bridge , during which Nord revealed to Malak that his former Sith Master , Revan , had survived and was one of the members responsible for Shan ' s escape . Nord set out to find both Shan and Revan , who was now a retrained Jedi Padawan tasked with searching for the mysterious Rakata n Star Forge space station under Malak ' s control . The bounty hunter located Revan in the Eastern Dune Sea on the desert world Tatooine and hired two Rodian and two Aqualish henchmen to confront the elusive Jedi . Nord set an ambush while Revan was inside a cave where a krayt dragon had taken nest . Nord confronted Revan after the Jedi found a second Rakatan Star Map , which was needed to locate the Star Forge , inside the cave . Nord gave Revan credit for having evaded him thus far but stated that no one could ultimately escape him . The bounty hunter and his accomplices were overmatched and killed by the former Sith Lord and his companions . Legacy . Shortly after Nord ' s death , Admiral Karath informed Darth Malak of Nord ' s failure . Malak told Karath that the penalty for failure was death , but that the failure belonged to Nord , not Karath himself . Malak dispatched his Shadow Hand , Darth Bandon , to kill Revan and capture Shan . Prior to his death , the leaders of the secret bounty hunter guild known as the GenoHaradan had considered admitting Nord into their organization , although he had not yet proven himself worthy of joining . Due to Nord ' s death at Revan ' s hands , however , the GenoHaradan ' s overseers opted to approach Revan with an invitation instead . Four thousand years after Nord ' s death , he was primarily remembered as a footnote in Revan ' s career with his exploits forgotten . Personality and traits . Calo Nord was a diminutive Human male who seemed harmless upon a first glance . Nord spoke Basic , the Republic ' s trade language . He moved with careful , deliberate precision and possessed an expressionless face . He was willing to take contracts from anyone who paid him well . Even though his ultimate loyalty was to whomever offered him the most credits , Nord also worked for the thrill of the hunt . He enjoyed toying with other mercenaries . Nord had a reputation of being unafraid of potential adversaries , in addition to his regular perception of being cold , menacing , and unapproachable . He also possessed innate instincts for both survival and killing . Nord ' s story was dismissed by some as a myth that was created to scare aspiring criminals . No name was more feared among the criminals in the Outer Rim than Calo Nord . In a couple cases , when someone disturbed Nord , he counted to three , with a number after each interjection . Having counted to three in order for the being to escape his anger , he opened fire on the nuisance for bothering him . Nord was not willing to let anyone defeat him and would go to great lengths to ensure that an individual did not defeat him . When Shan , Ordo , and Revan defeated him on Taris , Nord threatened to kill himself with a thermal detonator in an attempt to ensure their deaths . The bounty hunter also aspired to claim a pearl from a krayt dragon on Tatooine . He considered one of these pearls to be the greatest of hunting trophies . When Calo Nord was a boy , he was sold into slavery by his parents . He murdered his slave masters when he turned sixteen and tracked down his parents , murdering them . After establishing himself as a bounty hunter , Nord worked for any individual who offered him the most credits . He had working business relationships with Exchange crime lord Davik Kang , the Galactic Republic , and Darth Malak ' s Sith Empire . Nord periodically taunted the Mandalorian Canderous Ordo , who was also an employee of Davik Kang . Darth Malak ' s Sith apprentice , Darth Bandon , disliked Nord and viewed him as pathetic . Bandon expressed this opinion to Revan when the Sith confronted the Jedi . Equipment . Calo Nord used two Mandalorian heavy blaster s as his primary weapons , but he was capable of fighting with a vibroblade when pressed . Nord also carried four stun grenade s and two thermal detonators in his arsenal . He possessed a pair of goggles that granted him low - light vision when he wore them and used a prototype energy shield of Verpine design for extra protection during battle . Nord carried 2 , 000 credits on his person and employed a datapad , on which he kept a record of his thoughts and trophy kills . At some point during his life , Nord ordered a custom suit of battle armor that was based on heavily modified Mandalorian designs . After the suit was completed , Nord murdered the armorer to ensure his suit would remain unique . Behind the scenes . Character development . Calo Nord was first created by the developers at BioWare as a boss - like villain for the 2003 Xbox and PC video game " " . He was voiced by Lloyd Sherr . A miniature of Nord was released in the " Bounty Hunters ( Star Wars Miniatures ) " , an expansion set of Wizards of the Coast ' s " Star Wars Miniatures " role - playing game . The set was released on September 23 , 2006 . Unlike the in - game outcome , Nord ' s entry in the " Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide " states that he died during the Sith bombardment of Taris . His entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , however , states that Nord was killed near Rakata Prime during the final battle of the Jedi Civil War . A blog entry entitled " " , the first part of which was published on September 19 , 2013 , confirmed that Calo Nord met his death on Tatooine . When John Jackson Miller — the writer of the " " — was asked if there any other " Knights of the Old Republic " video game characters that he wanted to include in the series , Miller mentioned that he regretted not putting Nord in the comic . In June 2013 , Calo Nord ' s outfit was added for male and female players to purchase in the Cartel Market in the video game " " as part of the Archon ' s Contraband pack . Player options in " Star Wars : Knights of the Old Republic . The planet on which Revan battles Nord is determined by the order the five Star Maps are obtained . Nord may appear either on Tatooine , the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk , the Selkath homeworld of Manaan , or the ancient Sith tomb - world of Korriban . On Tatooine , Nord is accompanied by Rodian and Aqualish henchmen . Nord confronts Revan with Wookiees loyal to Chieftain Chuundar on Kashyyyk . On Manaan , Nord is accompanied by two Twi ' leks . Should Revan encounter Nord in the Hrakert Station on Manaan , Nord explains that he used an underwater vessel to reach the station . On Korriban , Nord is accompanied by two students from the Sith Academy . The first time Nord is encountered in gameplay is in Javyar ' s Cantina in the Tarisian Lower City . If the player attempts to speak to Nord , the bounty hunter simply replies to go away . If the player opts to keep speaking to Nord , the bounty hunter counts to three . Should Nord reach the end of his three - count , the bounty hunter attacks , and the player is unable to defeat him and will be killed . However , it is possible to escape death by quickly leaving the conversation , which Nord calls a smart move before leaving the cantina . Should Canderous Ordo accompany the player when Nord confronts Revan for the last time , Ordo will make note of the fact that Nord brought backup and taunt the bounty hunter .