Romort Raort Romort Raort was a sadistic criminal from the planet Irith . Raort eventually joined with the Elaginn gang , a group of spice - jacker s , and was responsible for tracking down the spice smugglers from whom the group stole . He murdered the leader of the Elaginn gang , Elaginn himself , and took control of the spice - jacking group . Under Raort ' s control the group flourished and made deals with the neighboring Hutt clans . Though Raort wished to take over the entire operation for himself , he was quite content making people suffer at his current job . Raort performed many of his spice - jacking runs by disabling targeted ships with a stolen ion cannon and selling their crews into slavery . By 10 ABY , Raort and his group had settled down on Nar Shaddaa , Nal Hutta ' s largest moon . Biography . Romort Raort grew up on the planet Irith , a polluted and overcrowded world located on the " Ootmian Pabol " hyperlane in Hutt Space . As a youth , Raort bullied other children for their lunch money and reveled in the suffering of others . Eventually , he fell in with the Elaginn gang , a group of spice - jacker s headed by a man named Elaginn . As a spice - jacker , Raort ' s job was to track down spice smugglers and lay ambushes for them while their ships were docked . In a bid to usurp power , Raort murdered Elaginn , flexi - pasting the gang leader to a chair and defenestrating him . Raort wrote off Elaginn ' s death as an accident and took control of the gang , claiming it to be Elaginn ' s wish . Raort was soon able to build the gang up enough to become one of the largest spice - jacking rings in Hutt Space . He made deals with the Hutt clans , which allowed him to operate along most of the major galactic spice routes , though he still wished to branch out . He realized that he would have to wait years before he had developed enough influence to challenge the Hutts . Raort had contacts in the port authorities of dozens of worlds , making his job fairly easy . These resources enabled him to see where large shipments of spice were headed at any given time . Using an ion cannon he had stolen from a group of Rebel gunrunners , he attacked ships still in dock and stripped them of their cargo while readying their crews for sale into slavery . By 10 ABY , Raort and his group were based out of Nar Shaddaa , the largest moon of Nal Hutta . He was quite unpopular among the rest of the underworld community , since he had stolen from many of them . Still , nobody dared to cross Raort , because his group was notorious for exacting swift vengeance against its enemies . Personality and traits . Romort Raort had only one pleasure in life : seeing other people suffer . He enjoyed his job as a spice - jacker because it allowed him to inflict cruelty on others . Through determination and foul play , Raort was able to take control of the Elaginn gang . Raort was also a very patient being , willing to wait years to take over the Hutt spice - jacking ring . He was adept at basic capital ship operation and knew how to perform torture . He typically wore a breather blast helmet with a set of blast armor , an ammo bandolier , and a modified blaster rifle . Behind the scenes . Romort Raort first appeared as a background character in the of the " Dark Empire " comic book series in 1992 , written by Tom Veitch and illustrated by Cam Kennedy . He was later identified and given a full background in the 1993 " Dark Empire Sourcebook " , written by Michael Allen Horne . The character ' s backstory was also expanded upon in the 1998 " Star Wars Encyclopedia " .