The Smuggler The Smuggler was a thief and smuggler active during the reign of the Galactic Empire . Several months into the Imperial lockdown of the Anoat sector , referred to as the " Iron Blockade , " the Smuggler and their older sister , Riley , were instrumental in founding the Uprising . Biography . Early life . The Smuggler was the younger sibling of a young woman named Riley . The two hailed from Burnin Konn , one of the Mining Worlds of the Anoat sector , and were orphaned at a young age when their father died in the mines . Despite their age , the siblings were renowned for their skill as thieves . At some point , however , Riley had a fight with the Cadevon Family over a payment , which earned her injuries . Following that incident , she gained a cybernetic leg brace and became mostly a planner , giving her younger sibling help and information on missions ( via comlink ) . The Iron Blockade . Paying off the debts . At some point during the Iron Blockade , the Smuggler was secretly conveying a package of synthetic kyber crystal s for the gangster " Happy " Dapp on Burnin Konn . Whilst smuggling the crystals , the young scoundrel was stopped by an Imperial Seurity Officer who had caught wind of the operation . To avoid being arrested , the Smuggler stun ned the officer and escaped via a nearby mineshaft , using the kyber crystals to cause an explosion and seal off the entrance . Whilst maneuvering through the mines on Burnin Konn , the scoundrel got into a confrontation with Tryken , Happy Dapp ' s bodyguard , and managed to defeat him , only to then run into Dapp himself . In order to make up for destroying the crystals and putting Tryken out of action , Riley and her sibling decided to work for Happy Dapp to pay off their debts . That arrangement involved the scoundrel retrieving smuggled supplies from Trade Spine League ships that were shot down trying to get past the Iron Blockade , lest those supplies be stolen by different gangs . Eventually , a meeting was a arranged between the Smuggler and Shortpaw , head of the Trade Spine League . At the meeting , Shortpaw explained how his organization were planning to sneak a ship past the blockade . In order to do so , they needed to get a scan of where the blockade was the weakest . The Smuggler was therefore sent to Mataou in order to activate the deep space scanners located in the Hutt ruins on that planet . After activating the four scanners , the League was able to find a weak point in the Imperial blockade and to smuggle a ship through . Due to their increasing reputation , Riley believed that she and her sibling needed to take care of some of their previous enemies in order to stop them from coming after them in the future . This led Riley to come into contact with Nogba Quush , a member of the Ivax Syndicate , who agreed to help the pair if in return they dealt with some of the Syndicate ' s problems . The Smuggler therefore traveled around Burnin Konn , dealing with the Chromium Kings for bragging about working for the Syndicate , the Starscorch Robbery Crew for being too reckless , and the Shuxl Brotherhood for betraying the Syndicate . In return , the Ivax Syndicate helped Riley locate a number of her enemies and prevented anyone from interfering whilst her sibling went to confront them . That allowed them to attack the Nexu Claws and convince them to remove any bounties the group had set on them , confront their father ' s old partner , Roonlo the Stalker , warning him to leave the siblings alone , and finally to kill the Cadevon Family , Riley ' s ex employers who crushed her leg after disagreeing on a payment . After finally dealing with their problems , the Syndicate thanked Riley and the Smuggler as well as giving Riley the parts she needed to repair her cybernetic leg . After dealing with their enemies the two returned to Shortpaw who informed them that Happy had plans for the score of a lifetime . In order to complete the plan an imperial shuttle was needed . The Smuggler then had to travel to the planet Hoth in order to acquire the parts needed to assemble the shuttle . The scoundrel then traveled to a scavenger camp to retrieve the data they had stored their and get a better map of the area but the plan proved unsuccessful as the data was incomplete . As an alternative , the Trade Spine League suggested getting the data from a group of Imperials down on the planets surface . The Smuggler therefore ambushed an imperial patrol down on Hoth and managed to steal an astromech named B9 - DT , who had the necessary data needed . With the map of the area completed , the Smuggler was ready to start collecting the parts needed to fix up the imperial shuttle . The crew needed an imperial codebreaker , a trivalve assembly and a vortex stabiliser . After obtaining the trivalve and the vortex manipulator from a scavenger camp , B9 - DT informed the crew of the location of the codebreaker . The last part was being auctioned off by the leader of the scavengers on Hoth , Bohento Splinth , an Aqualish who had history with Happy Dapp . The Smuggler fought their way to Splinth and offered to buy the codebreaker off of him , explaining that they were working with Happy . Upon hearing Dapp ' s name , the Aqualish became hostile , leaving the smuggler no choice but to kill him and take the codebreaker back to Happy and Shortpaw . In order to continue with the plan , the Smuggler would have to slow down an imperial salvage team led by Lieutenant Mindak so that Dapp and B9 - DT could repair the shuttle without interruption . Upon the shuttle ' s completion , Happy was attacked by the remainder of Bohento Splinth ' s crew and required the assist of the Smuggler . While Riley made the suggestion of leaving Dapp to be killed , her sibling refused , and the gangster was saved . With the shuttle complete , Shortpaw went into hiding as to avoid being identified and arrested by the Empire . Happy Dapp then explained how the next step of the plan required the Smuggler to meet with one of his contacts . Happy instructed the young scoundrel to work with Tam Bastion , leader of the local Rebel regiment . Bastion sent the Smuggler to Anoat in order to find an abandoned Rebel base on that planet . Riley also volunteered her sibling to help rescue a team of Bastion ' s men who had been ambushed by gangsters on Mataou whilst purchasing weapons . In return for finding the base and dealing with the Imperial forces tracking the Rebels , Bastion gave Happy Dapp information on where the Empire was storing the cargo seized by Governor Adelhard and the Iron Blockade . Happy Dapp , Riley , and the Smuggler then worked with Shortpaw and the Trade Spine League to plan an assault on the Imperial impound facilities . After setting up a series of sensor disruptors that allowed escape from Imperial pursuit , the Smuggler assaulted the Imperial facilities on Nar Hypa to secure the impounded cargo . At the final facility , the scoundrel located a recorded message from Leia Organa informing the galaxy of the Empire ' s defeat at the Battle of Endor and the death of Emperor Palpatine . Following their discovery , the siblings were labeled as public enemies and pursued by the dreaded Purge Trooper s of Commander Bragh . The Purge Troopers attacked the Carbon Score Cantina , killing Happy Dapp and injuring Riley in the process . Joining the Syndicate and Securing Alliances . Because of their hostile actions , Riley and the Smuggler were forced to flee Burnin Konn and relocate to Cloud City . Thanks to to Nogba Quush , the siblings met Voras the Hutt , leader of the Ivax Syndicate . The Hutt agreed to help them getting rid of their death mark , on the condition that they would work for him . The Smuggler agreed to hunt down four members of the Zenowai Crime Society , who were trying to seize control over Cloud City ' s black market . Searching the bowels of the city , the young scoundrel managed to take out Shoka Jo , who used to oversee the spice gangs of Plexis . After that , the scoundrel also flushed out Slim Jek , who simply surrendered , and took down the enforcer Roen Torcher . The last Zenowai , Mehedo Clynch , proved to be a trickier adversary . In order to starve the Ivax Syndicate , Clynch was paying off Cloud City ' s security forces to shut down two mining levels and beat any miners who showed up to work despite the threat . The Smuggler easily reclaimed the mining levels , which only made Clynch more desperate . The last Zenowai seized mining droid s and sent them to sabotage the repulsors that maintained Cloud City aloft . As the floating city had already started to crash , the Smuggler set off to stop the sabotage . After destroying the droids , the Smuggler went after Mehedo Clynch himself and defeated him . The Smuggler then returned to the Paradise Atrium , and learned of Riley and Voras ' s plan against the Empire . That plan involved gaining allies in order to strike a blow to the Empire as soon as possible , since its forces were weakened by its continuous attempt to maintain the Iron Blockade and keep the sector running . In order to secure such allies . The Smuggler was sent to the Apex Overlook to speak with the masked Sir Corto Belrake to secure an alliance with the Noble Court . The mysterious Sir Belrake explained that , in order to earn favor with him and his fellow nobles , the Smuggler would have to take on the treacherous Earl Alner , who was located on Anoat . In order to accomplish this , the Smuggler seized the rogue noble ' s two stockpiles before stopping the Earl himself . Upon defeating the Earl , the Smuggler was introduced to Her Majesty . After exchanging pleasantries and politely declining an offer of adoption into the house of Her Majesty , the Smuggler secured an alliance between the Ivax Syndicate and the Noble Court . The Smuggler was then sent by Riley to secure an alliance with the mysterious Kouhun . Riley had offered the services of the Smuggler , and though the Kouhun had no interest in an alliance with the syndicate , Deathstick , leader of the Kohun , did have an interest in the Smuggler . Deathstick challenged the Smuggler to participate in the Kouhun ' s initiation ritual on Mataou as the first step in securing an alliance . The ritual involved the Smuggler drinking a poisonous liquid and passing a series of trials while battling the effects of the poison . The tests all involved killing , and , after completing the final test , the Smuggler was given the cure to the poison and a tentative offer of alliance with the syndicate from Deathstick . After securing alliances with the Noble Court and Kouhun , the Smuggler and Riley set off to Burnin Konin to rescue members of the Trade Spine League from the purge teams attempting to eradicate anyone with knowledge of the Emperor ' s death . The Smuggler rescued Ndaya in Drifter ' s Gorge , Zephasi and Fryoto , Onn Iria , and Tiquip . Shortpaw , upon saving his grandson , Tiquip , offered the Trade Spine League ' s help to the new alliance . Kidnapping and Betrayal . Riley and the Smuggler hatched a plan to kidnap Bragh and ransom him in exchange for safety . When presented with this plan , newly formed alliance agreed to the plan and made preparations to scavenge much needed weaponry from Hoth to arm the Noble Court ' s Throneships , including the stardrop torpedo , a Noble Court superweapon . On Hoth , the Smuggler hired the scavenger Grimraker to assist with the collections and cleared several staging areas and campsites . With the Throneships of the Noble Court armed , the Smuggler traveled to Anoat as bait to lure Bragh into a Kouhun ambush . The Smuggler cleared the area of local inhabitant , disabled planetary sensors , and eliminated teams of purge troopers on the planet . Before Bragh could be kidnapped , the Ivax Syndicate leaked the details of the plan , resulting in the capture of Her Majesty and Loathe by the Imperials . Rescue . After learning that Riley and Voras had betrayed the Noble Court and Kouhun , the Smuggler contacted Bastion . Bastion and the rebels assisted the Smuggler in ascertaining the location of the Crypt , the prison facility where the Imperials were holding Her Majesty and Loathe . The Smuggler assisted the rebels in broadcasting the recorded message from Leia Organa to the entire system . The ensuing riots created the distraction needed to infiltrate the prison facility and free the Smuggler ' s captive friends . As Imperial starships carrying troopers left Pujool , the Smuggler headed toward the Crypt . Riley informed the Noble Court about the Smugglers plans , and Sir Corto arrived at Pujool with Noble Court Throneships to provide the Smuggler with backup . At the Crypt , the Smuggler first came across Kosimas and freed him . The Smuggler then disabled the Crypt ' s alarm and camera systems , then disabled the prisoners held in the delta compound section of the prison . Riley contacted theTrade Spine League , and the League ' s ships transported the prisoners from delta compound to freedom . The Smuggler next freed the prisoners from the gamma compound section of the prison where the Smuggler freed Loathe . Loathe decided to stay and free his fellow Kouhun rather than escape , and the Smuggler continued on . Loathe transmitted data about the prison to Riley , which allowed the Smuggler to attack the various guard stations and keep the Imperials from sending reinforcements . As the Kouhun wreaked havoc throughout the prison , Loathe was able to find the location of Her Majesty before being killed . Acting on the intelligence gathered by Loathe , the Smuggler rescued Her Majesty . As the Noble Court began pulling away from Pujool orbit , the Ivax Syndicate sent reinforcements to protect the Smuggler in an attempt to free the remaining prisoners held in gamma compound section of the prison . In a final effort , the Ivax Syndicate , the Kouhun , the Noble Court , and the Trade Spine League contributed in their own ways to disrupt the prison while the Smuggler closed in on Bragh . The Smuggler found Bragh mid - transmission with Adelhard and interrupted their conversation by killing Bragh . Secrets of the Force . The Smuggler received holodiscs from the data broker , Dazur Dar , that contained information regarding the secrets weapons of the Noble Court and the origins of the Kouhun . Through the tutoring of Shelish and Xiath , the Smuggler became more attuned to the Force . Untabros Munkh , an Ugnaught shopkeeper that lived in the Cloud City Shadow Market , told the Smuggler about rumors of Jedi scrap material . The Smuggler partnered with Munkh to retrieve the material , with Munkh providing information and the Smuggler engaging in dangerous missions to retrieve the Jedi relic . The investigations lead to the location of a Jedi Vault , containing the remnants of a Jedi ' s lightsaber . During the investigations , the Smuggler learned of the fate of four Jedi ( Mususiel , Zubain Ankonori , Khandra , and Nuhj ) that escaped Order 66 , but who were eventually hunted down and killed by Inquisitors . New Base of Operations . After killing Bragh , Riley gathered the everyone together , and the Smuggler returned and gave a rousing speech in front of Riley , Vorax , Deathstick , Her Majesty , Bastion , and Shortpaw , convicing them to band together and overthrow Adelhard . The group then agreed to establish a new joint base of operations . The Smuggler awaited word from contacts regarding the new base . Personality and traits . The Smuggler was initially interested only in profit , but would honor the deals they ' d made rather than break them for a better offer . The Smuggler was willing to take full responsibility for their actions , such as the destruction of a shipment of kyber crystals meant for " Happy " Dapp . The Smuggler was also known to use humor to stave off fear . Behind the scenes . The Smuggler is the player character in " " , a 2015 mobile game " " . Since the game allows the player to give the character a name and a gender of his or her choosing , the Smuggler has no real canon identity . However , the official website for " Star Wars : Uprising " describes the game ' s hero as " an unknown Smuggler , " with a capital S . Riley was consistently depicted as a fair - skinned human in the game ' s promotional material , but later consistently depicted as a blue Twi ' lek female . For purposes of this article , the Smuggler and Riley are depicted as humans . Star Wars Uprising was abruptly cancelled in November of 2016 , leaving the storyline of the game and the story of the Smuggler incomplete . Physical Appearance . In game , the species and gender of the Smuggler may be chosen by the player at the start of a game . This choice also affects Riley ' s appearance .