Sheb Valaad Sheb Valaad was a Koorivar merchant on Otor ' s Hub during the Clone Wars . Sheb specialized in trading the goods of people who had met " unpleasant fates . " While Valaad usually waited for those makers to die , he sometimes had them killed . He had several employees including the protocol droid Blue , a Twi ' lek assistant , the Gamorrean guard Thurg , and several bodyguards including a Rodian and an Aqualish . Following the Separatist attack on Mahranee , he was visited by the undercover Kiffar Jedi Master Quinlan Vos ( " Master Tal " ) and the Mahran Akar - Deshu ( " Desh " ) who assaulted him and his men . Vos knocked him unconscious before leaving Sheb and his men to be picked up by other Jedi . Biography . The Koorivar merchant Sheb Valaad established a black market operation on Otor ' s Hub a standard year before the outbreak of the Clone Wars . Sheb ' s business specialized in the sale of trinkets like jewels , painting s , statues , and fancy hookah pipes to both the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems . While Sheb usually obtained his merchandise by waiting for their original makers to meet " unpleasant fates " , he sometimes sent assassin s to kill them . To help run his business , Sheb employed the services of the obsequious protocol droid Blue and several thugs including the Gamorrean Thurg . Sheb ' s activities eventually attracted the attention of the Jedi Order who sent Master Quinlan Vos to spy on him . Posing as a Kiffar buyer named " Master Tal " , Vos regularly visited Sheb ' s shop to gain Sheb ' s trust . Tal became such a regular visitor that Sheb instructed Thurg to let him in unhindered . After exchanging pleasantries with Blue , Sheb showed Tal one of his latest finds : a small statuette of an aquatic creature . While Tal was inspecting the object , Thurg entered the room dragging another visitor , the Mahran Jedi Knight Akar - Deshu ( " Desh " ) , who was dwarfed by the bulky Gamorrean . Desh had been sent by the Jedi High Council to bring back Vos for a sensitive mission to assassinate Count Dooku . Tal ( or rather Vos ) had not been expecting Desh and realized that his cover was about to be blown . After putting back the statuette , Tal used the Force to levitate Sheb in the air , causing the merchant to squirm . Desh then used his Force power s to break Thurg ' s grip and to flip the Gamorrean over . As Blue rushed to the door , several armed bodyguards including a Rodian charged at Tal . Despite Sheb ' s pleas that they not damage his merchandise , the body guards opened fire on the intruders . For the duration of the gun battle , Sheb remained dangling in the air and a stray blaster bolt seared one of his robe s . When Vos and Desh drew their lightsaber s , Sheb quickly realized that the intruders were Jedi . The two Jedi overpowered Sheb ' s guards and sliced the hand of Blue ' s wrist when the protocol droid tried to call for reinforcements with a comlink . While Tal was annoyed that Desh had prematurely disrupted his undercover operation , he was mollified that Sheb had inadvertently revealed his other contacts to him . Vos had also been able to identify the owners of some of Sheb ' s merchandise through his psychometric powers . Before leaving with Desh , Vos used the Force to hurl Sheb , who was still hanging in the air , against a wall ; effectively knocking him unconscious . Sheb was subsequently arrested by other Jedi personnel . Personality and traits . Sheb Valaad was a vain and avaricious merchant who was solely concerned with making profits . He profited from selling many high - quality valuables and artifacts which had been wrongfully - taken from makers who had died . Occasionally , Sheb was willing to have these makers killed " directly " so that he could obtain their works . To boost his own ego and self - esteem , Sheb had his protocol droid Blue programmed with two specialized programs " Adul - 8 " and " B - Little " to soothe and entertain him respectively . Like his father , Sheb took pride in his horn and decorated it with ornate carvings . While Sheb saw himself as a " powerful friend " who sold luxurious goods to both the Republic and the Separatists , Vos and Desh regarded him as a war profiteer who had to be punished for his crimes . Sheb also smoked a hookah pipe and enjoyed eating delicate pastries that were prepared by his own private chef . Behind the scenes . Sheb Valaad first debuted as a minor antagonist in Christie Golden ' s 2015 novel " Dark Disciple " , which was based on eight unproduced screenplays from the canceled Cartoon Network TV series " " . " Dark Disciple " is part of the Canon " The Clone Wars Legacy " , an ongoing multimedia project using material from the canceled TV series . He was given a point - of - view passage in the book ' s second chapter .