Coorta Coorta was a Miner at the Peragus Mining Facility in 3951 BBY with a notorious reputation for criminal activities and a strong desire to leave the facility to do something more profitable . He sought an opportunity by selling Meetra Surik , a Jedi who fought in the Mandalorian Wars and was exiled by her Order to the Exchange who had a Bounty for live Jedi . However , he was soon betrayed by a HK - 50 series assassin droid posing as the Peragus Mining Facility Maintenance Officer and was killed in circumstances leading to the Skirmish at Peragus II . Biography . Arrival of Ebon Hawk . Coorta was a well known miner around the Peragus Mining Facility because of his undergound activities such as smuggling contraband such as blasters , spice and grenades , which earned him the ire of a few high ranking personnel such as the Security Officer because of the volatile nature of mining Peragus II Fuel . When the fuel was initailly mined it caused Peragus II to explode , creating the Peragus Asteroid field and subsiquent mining facility . in 3951 BBY , not long after the Jedi Civil War , Meetra Surik , an exiled Jedi arrived at the facility injured and unconscious aboard a battered " Ebon Hawk " helped by her Droid T3 - M4 who managed to program the ship into the facilty despite lacking Astrogation charts . The ship also had a HK - 50 Assassin droid that disabled T3 - M4 . The droid then posed as Meetra master and her protocol droid , through questioning informed the Administration Officer of Meetra history . The Officer hoped to keep the information away from the miners but Coorta would soon learn from another miner who had apparently been in her service . Coorta immediately began conspiring with his other miners , who were supposed to siphon the 32 - 18 asteroid shelf , the idea of selling Surik to the Exchange , which had posted a massive bounty on Jedi . Over time he tried to recruit others , several of the miners agreed that this would be in their best interests , while others , such as the Mine Foreman Sien wanted nothing to do with it . But the Administration Officer was able to put a stop to his plans . But knowing that Coorta won ' t give up , the Officer decided to make contact with the Republic , hoping to inform them of the location of Surik to get her of the facility to Telos IV before Coorta could ship her of to Nar Shaddaa . Plans for sabotage . In order to accomplish his mission , the HK - 50 set a plan in motion to prevent the Republic from coming to rescue Surik . He contacted Coorta , who was supposed to be ready for the 32 - 19K asteroid , using the maintenance officer ' s voice and convinced him that they would be able to sell Surik to the Exchange . The plan was to detain all of the miners in the dormitories with a few well timed explosions resulting in a lockdown and cover their tracks ensuring the Republic will not be alerted to their presence . Coorta was to use his contacts to provide transportation out of the Peragus system . Although slightly suspicious he proceeded anyway . Sien , who earlier tried to reason with Coorta about his intentions to sell the Jedi but was unsuccessful , overheard the pair ' s plans wanted to report the scheme to the Administration Officer but hesitated because of the amount of trouble it would bring . Sien soon learned of the plans in clear detail but instead of the Administration Officer or Coorta , he confronted the real maintenance officer , who was unaware of the situation and said he had nothing to do with it . He was in the middle of his log called " Must Take Action ! when Coorta knocked him out before he could take further action and his logs were flushed down the refresher in an unsuccessful attempt to get rid of the evidence . Betrayal and Death . Within hours HK - 50 , using the the Maintenance Officer voice , commanded the Mining droid s to " mine " the miners while creating detonations that caused casualties within the facility . Soon the Droid triggered an explosion that caused much of the surviving crew to evacuate their stations to flood their dormitories . What they were not aware of was that the explosion damaged the ventilation systems which would soon flood the rooms with toxic fumes . Coorta never realised that HK - 50 had no intention of honoring their agreement . When the time came to trigger the emergency lockdown HK - 50 attempted to lock Coorta with the other miners . Coorta barely made it out but his efforts were all for naught , as HK - 50 reversed the turbolift codes in case Coorta managed to get far enough , the droid revealed its true colours to Coorta and ordered several mining droids , armed with mining lasers and drills , to kill him and his conspirators who couldn ' t get the lift to work . Legacy . HK - 50 gloated his victory to Coorta dead body and drugged the Jedi , and other miners in their Kolto tank s with enough sedatives to kill the miners , but caused her to be in a deep sleep to patiently wait for his own transport to take the bounty to Nar Shaddaa . However Meetra Surik woke up , much earlier then he predicted . She managed to pick up every log she could find , including Coorta , to piece together the story of what happened over the last 3 days . She , Kreia , another passenger of the Ebon Hawk and Atton Rand , a smuggler who was in the brig for a security violation that , ironically , spared his life would soon join together to try to escape the facility . They were confronted by the HK - 50 , who confessed his actions about sabotaging the facility and the Hammerhead - class cruiser " Harbinger " to her and after Surik refused to go back into the Kolto Tank , she fought the Droid destroying it , avenging the deaths of the miners . The facility was soon afterwards destroyed when the " Harbinger " fired on the Ebon hawk and in the insuring skirmish triggered the very chain reaction of explosions that made the facility dangerous from the very beginning . Coorta body was likely engulfed in the explosion . Personality and traits . Coorta was a fair skinned Human male with grey eyes and light brown hair . Coorta was someone who didn ' t care whether anything was legal or otherwise , as long as it meant a profit to him . He earned the Ire of the Security Officer , for this . Some miners were also suspicious of his motives ; in fact , one of them who had a secret stash of illegal goods got wary of what was available for sale with this . Coorta desire to sell the Jedi because he wanted to get of the facility whatever it took , caused him to overlook his suspicions regarding the " Maintainance Officer " offering him a plan , commenting , " Since when did the Maintenance officer grow some horns ? " . He was also willing to attack Sien because of him attempting to stop the plan made by HK - 50 . However , Coorta did have some concern for the miners ; after realizing that the other miners trapped in the dormitories were going to be killed by the toxic exhaust fumes in the ventilation he expressed that out clearly with shock . In his last moments he ordered his conspirators to continue trying the turbolift codes in fear and begged to know why the " Officer " was doing this before the Droid showed his true colours before his death . Behind the scenes . Coorta first appears as a NPC in the 2004 Xbox Video game " Star Wars : Knights of the Old Republic : The Sith Lords " , which was then ported to Microsoft Windows in 2005 and in 2015 the Mac and Linux . Like the other miners and officers in the Peragus mining facility , Coorta is only seen in holorecords and a generic corpse which bears his name . His true appearance is clear only when the game ' s " Frame Buffer Effects " option is switched off .