Goethar Kleej Goethar Kleej was a male Gotal who was kidnapped by Crucible slavers around the time of the Mandalorian Wars to compete in swoopdueling matches for the Franchise entertainment firm . Despite having his sensory cones severed by his abductors , Kleej performed well in training , and by 3963 BBY , he had won the Solo Aerials four times in succession . At the end of his fourth victory , he tried to tell the event ' s spectators about the slaving operations behind the Franchise , but a harmless pre - recorded speech was played over his words . The operator of the events , a Krish named Bardron , assaulted Kleej for attempting to expose the Franchise , but he later made an offer of retirement to Kleej provided that the Gotal and his son , Aubin , won the forthcoming Tandem Open event . Aubin was hindered by his inability to filter electromagnetic signals received through his cones , so he would be unlikely to progress without help . As Kleej would not be in the same round as his son until the final round , he intimidated fellow competitor Zayne Carrick into protecting Aubin . Father and son both advanced to the final round , where Carrick , now wanting to help Kleej , set in action a plan for them to escape . Deliberately crashing out of the arena , the Gotals were then smuggled out of the venue in a trash bin . Upon reaching the safety of the planet below , Kleej saw that one of Carrick ' s companions had been a Crucible slaver and fled with his son . Biography . Goethar Kleej was a male Gotal who , around the time of a war fought between the Galactic Republic and Mandalorian Neo - Crusaders , was abducted by The Crucible slaving organization and was forced to train as a competitor for swoopdueling matches run by the Franchise entertainment firm . Early on during his stay in The Crucible ' s training pits , Kleej ' s slaver , Chantique , became angry with him and ordered his cones to be severed . The removal of the sensory organs , unique to Gotals , that picked up electromagnetic signals was a heinous act in Gotal culture . Kleej later had false cones implanted to disguise the fact but still had to rely on his other senses to live . While in the slave pits , Kleej had a son , Aubin , with another Gotal . Aubin ' s mother was able to help him filter out the electromagnetic signals he received , but she was later killed , leaving Aubin helpless . Kleej performed well in training and was put through to the top swoopdueling events , participating in the Solo Aerials at Jervo ' s World — a massive space station run by the Franchise over the planet Pantolomin — and , as of 3963 BBY , he had won it four times consecutively . Kleej ' s popularity was such that he did advertisements and endorsements , had a toy line , and was used as a mascot for the events . Kleej won his fourth Solo Aerials by defeating one of the D ' qell Sisters and , at the end of the match , attempted to inform the crowds of spectators about the hidden slaving practices that provided duelists for the Franchise . However , a pre - recorded speech was played over his pleas for help to the spectators in which he instead announced his retirement . In return for threatening to reveal the slavery behind the game , Kleej was physically beaten by two underlings of Bardron — the Krish in charge of the actual games themselves — and was threatened with being sent back to the training pits . Kleej noted that , if sent back to the pits , he would at least be able to see his son , not having done so since the start of the season . Expecting the emotional attachment to Aubin , Bardron revealed that the Gotal ' s son had been put in the upcoming Tandem Open and that the other competitors had been told to avoid him . Bardron made Kleej the offer that if both he and Aubin won the Open , they would both be able to retire fully . However , the two Gotals would not be in the same round unless they both advanced to the finals . Meanwhile , former Jedi Padawan Zayne Carrick had entered the same Tandem Open round as Aubin and also managed to advance to the next round . Kleej approached the Human after the round and ordered him to protect Aubin so that he would make it through to the finals , threatening Carrick with death if he failed to do so . In the semi - finals , Carrick successfully got himself and Aubin through to the next round , though the Gotal struggled throughout the match . Kleej had meanwhile returned to the sport in the same semi - final round and fought with another contender , " Spikes , " the " Mandalorian miscreant . " The two exchanged blaster fire before Kleej leaped at " Spikes " from his bike , proceeding to engage him in unarmed combat . The pair then quickly turned and simultaneously shot a Night - Soarer competitor , leaving them as the last two standing and putting them through to the final round . After the match , when Kleej explained to Carrick how he was tied to the Franchise , and thus couldn ' t simply leave , Carrick offered to help expose the slaving practices . Meanwhile , on another part of the station , Bardron and Jervo Thalien , a prime investor of the Franchise , plotted to remove Kleej permanently by fixing the match . In the final round , several of the safety mechanisms in place were disabled on Bardron ' s orders to put Aubin , Goethar , Carrick , and " Spikes " at a disadvantage . Shortly after the start , the brakes failed on Kleej ' s swoop bike and the accelerator jammed , forcing him to transfer Aubin , who had been riding with him , from his bike to Carrick ' s . When a Mandallian Giant competitor attacked Aubin and Carrick , Kleej leaped to protect his son and dispatched the fighter . Remounting his swoop , Kleej followed Carrick ' s plan and crashed his bike through a window in the side of the arena with Carrick and Aubin following suit . To distract the crowd , the event ' s musician played his data cube , not knowing that Marn Hierogryph — one of Carrick ' s companions — had replaced its contents with parts of Kleej ' s original speech exposing the Franchise as well as part of the conversations between Bardron and Thalien that Hierogryph had eavesdropped upon earlier . Using the uproar that this generated in the crowd as cover , Carrick smuggled Kleej and his son to a spaceport on Pantalomin below in a large trash bin . Once on the planet , Carrick assured Kleej that he could take the Gotal to someone who would be able to act on Kleej ' s revelations about the Franchise , as well as help Aubin with his difficulties . One of Carrick ' s other companions , Jarael , soon appeared , and Kleej recognized her facial tattoos signifying her as a slaver for The Crucible . Pushing her away and berating Carrick for associating himself with the former slaver , Kleej fled with his son . Personality and traits . After suffering poor treatment at the hands of The Crucible when in training , Goethar Kleej dedicated himself to swoopdueling in the hopes that it would be able to get his son out of the fighting . Kleej also held himself responsible for not being able to help his son Aubin deal with the myriad of electromagnetic signals he received . When Aubin was put into the Tandem Open , Kleej strove to protect him by making death threats to Zayne Carrick and later dispatching a competitor who was attacking Aubin . Despite the difficulties that he was faced with , Kleej remained optimistic with a saying from the training pits that " false hope was better than none . " Kleej also had an extreme fear of the slavers who had trained him , a fear that made him get himself and Aubin away from Jarael as soon as he recognized what she was . Skills and abilities . Goethar Kleej was an exceptional swoop rider and duelist , ably winning the Solo Aerials four times . Such was his success and popularity that swoop manufacturer Lhosan Industries awarded a specially painted bike to the winner of Kleej ' s last Tandem Open . The Gotal also successfully managed to cope with the loss of his cones , relying on his other senses to compensate . Behind the scenes . Goethar Kleej ' s first and only appearance was in the 2009 story arc of the " " comic book series , " " , penciled by Brian Ching and written by John Jackson Miller . When planning the story arc , Miller decided upon Kleej ' s species by first trying to find a suitable species that would fit Aubin ' s predicament of struggling with his sensory perception , finding that Gotals fitted his needs .