Unidentified Gran ( Rimmer ' s Rest cantina ) A Gran male operated out of the moon Nar Shaddaa in the period following the Battle of Endor , working as a bounty hunter and a bodyguard . At some point , he had a run - in with Rebel Alliance agent Kyle Katarn , in which the Gran received a blaster injury to the leg . In 5 ABY , the droid information broker 8t88 hired the Gran to serve as backup during a meeting with Katarn at the Rimmer ' s Rest cantina on Nar Shaddaa , where 8t88 was going to divulge information regarding the death of Katarn ' s father . However , the droid double - crossed Katarn and left the Gran and another hireling to kill him . Katarn disarmed both hirelings before they could shoot him , however , with the agent making his escape soon after . Biography . Gran with a Grudge . A Gran male worked as a bodyguard sometime before the year 4 ABY . The Gran eventually went in search of a weapons smuggler but encountered the Rebel Alliance agent Kyle Katarn instead . After a shootout between the two , the Gran sustained a blaster injury to the leg while Katarn took down the smuggling operation by himself . The wound took three months to heal , during which time the Gran built up a grudge against Katarn . By the year 5 ABY , the Gran had switched over into the career of bounty hunting , working out of the moon Nar Shaddaa . Later during the same year , a droid information broker named 8t88 , working for the Dark Jedi Jerec , obtained a datadisc on the moon Sulon from the home of Katarn ' s father , Morgan , whom Jerec had murdered previously . Unable to decipher the disc due to its layered encryption , 8t88 journeyed to Nar Shaddaa in search of Katarn , whom 8t88 believed could decipher the disk . In case Katarn would not comply , 8t88 searched for hired guns to provide backup and first contacted the bounty hunter Boba Fett to serve as a bodyguard . However , Fett declined , which forced 8t88 to find cheaper backup , including the Gran and a number of other mercenaries and bounty hunters . Rematch with Katarn . Arriving at Katarn ' s table at the Rimmer ' s Rest cantina , 8t88 informed Katarn of Jerec ' s responsibility for Morgan ' s death as well as the Dark Jedi ' s plans to create a new Empire . While late to the confrontation , the Gran and a Grave Tusken moved in around Katarn as 8t88 offered him one last chance to describe what his father ' s datadisc contained , rather than die at the hands of the hirelings . However , Katarn refused to comply , prompting 8t88 to leave and order his hirelings to kill Katarn . Instead of immediately shooting Katarn , the Gran asked him if he remembered him from their past encounter . While the former agent did not recognize the Gran , the exchange granted Katarn enough time to throw the Tusken over his shoulder while unconsciously calling on the Force to retrieve his own blaster to point at the Gran . Both of the hirelings were disarmed and were in awe of Katarn ' s sudden trick as the former agent slipped away , mockingly adding that they should go out for lunch sometime . Afterward , Katarn chased 8t88 through the streets of Nar Shaddaa , eventually shooting off one of the droid ' s arms on a landing platform as 8t88 escaped aboard an Imperial " Lambda " - class shuttle with the help of more hired guns , whom the shuttle ' s stormtroopers shot when they tried to board as well . Personality and traits . The Gran was not above holding a grudge and carried one against Kyle Katarn ever since obtaining a long - lasting injury from him during a prior confrontation . The Gran was also cocky and somewhat eager during his subsequent confrontation with Katarn . He wished to know if Katarn remembered him at all from the previous engagement , though Katarn did not recognize the mercenary at all , claiming that the Gran was just a piece of street trash like numerous others with whom Katarn had dealt . However , the Gran was distracted by the exchange , which allowed Katarn to disarm him and slip away , leaving him seething in anger . At one point , 8t88 compared the Gran to Boba Fett , saying that while the Gran may not have been as skilled as Fett , he had been useful nonetheless . The Gran had beige - colored skin and purple eyes that , at the time of his confrontation at the bar , were noticeably bloodshot . He had a voice that sounded like a gravel crusher and could speak both an alien language and Basic . Equipment . The Gran carried an E - 11 blaster rifle as his primary weapon during his second confrontation with Kyle Katarn . He also wore dark - blue fatigues around his torso as well as black pants with brown boots . Behind the scenes . The Gran mercenary first appeared in the 1997 video game " " and later appeared , still unnamed , in the 1998 novella adaption " " , written by William C . Dietz and illustrated by Ezra Tucker . He also appeared in the , which expanded briefly on the character ' s backstory . The voice talent behind the character is unclear , however . The credits mention both a " Goon 1 " and a " Bounty Hunter 1 , " voiced by Tom Keith and Tim Russell , respectively . It is not made clear as to what credit the Gran character was put under . Out of the three uncredited extras that portrayed minor characters in the game , the Gran was the only one with a spoken line . The Gran ' s line was split up into two phrases that were reused as taunts for all other Gran enemies in the game , who speak one of the two lines upon sighting the player - character . One of the lines happens to translate to the phrase " Nar Shaddaa shall be your grave " and , ironically , the phrase is still spoken by Gran during the game ' s levels on Sulon . Due to the costume ' s mask , the Gran ' s mouth does not move when he speaks . In addition , this Gran and others in " Dark Forces II " reused sound effects from " " . Inconsistencies . Between the video game and the novella , the confrontation in the bar is somewhat different . While a Grave Tusken acts as 8t88 ' s second hire in the game , the novella changes the nameless thug to a Rodian . The weapon that Kyle Katarn uses against the Gran is also different in the translation — Katarn grabs a DH - 17 blaster pistol from the Grave Tusken behind him in the game , while in the novella Katarn uses the Force to grab his Bryar pistol , though the weapon is never identified by name . As it happens , the original artwork for the novella featured Katarn exclusively using a DH - 17 as opposed to his trademark Bryar . Another notable , albeit minor , difference between the game and the novella / audio drama is the order and wording of some of the dialogue . After the closure of the cutscene preceding the gameplay of the first level , the Gran runs out of the cantina ' s seating area and into the main bar room where he repositions to attack . The player may choose to shoot and kill him or evade his followup attacks and escape the area . The game ' s recommends killing the Gran . In the novella , Katarn disarms the thugs and leaves , though a page break is inserted shortly thereafter , which leaves the Gran ' s fate ambiguous . However , in the audio drama , Katarn leaves the Gran behind . In the game , the Gran speaks an alien dialect , though he speaks Basic in the audio drama — the novella make no mention of him speaking in Basic or an alien language , although it infers the former via a lack of a mention otherwise . Although this article was written with the assumption that " Rebel Agent " is the canon ical telling of the events , it still assumes that the Gran could speak both Basic and another language .