Gorse Bendak Gorse Bendak was a Human male former miner - turned Mandalorian Neo - Crusader who fought in the last years of the Mandalorian Wars . Rising to the rank of a Field Marshal , Bendak had a great success among the nomadic warrior clans . After the war , he became a bounty hunter until a fortune posted on his head left him unable to work in the trade . Without a job , Bendak turned to his friend and employer Ajuur the Hutt , who convinced him to wear his armor once more and enter the dueling rings of Taris under the alias Bendak Starkiller . Refusing to leave an opponent alive , Bendak retired from the ring after the Sith outlawed death matches . During the Jedi Civil War , he remained on Taris , watching matches in the cantina and hoping for the day he could return to the arena for another death match with a worthy opponent . Biography . Bendak was born into a family of miners , a tradition that went back generations that he decided to follow . In the year that the Mandalorians invaded the Republic , Bendak was stationed on the mining colony of Vanquo . Working in the mines on the dayside when the invaders attacked , he began working on a defense for when they would reach the mines . And sure enough , that defense held the Mandalorians back for two weeks , killing a dozen Mandalorian warriors . Seeing his fighting spirit and abilities , he was offered to join the Mandalorian Neo - Crusaders . Bendak reluctantly agreed , as the only other alternative was slavery . A quick learner in the art of combat and weapon handling , Bendak rose to the rank of Field Marshal in only two years and received the golden armor of the Neo - Crusaders . However , his soldiering career ended when the forces under the command of Revan defeated the Mandalorian forces in the last battle of the Mandalorian Wars . In need of work , Bendak became a skilled bounty hunter , offering his skills to the highest bidder . Bendak found himself with a huge bounty on his head soon after , as he accidentally killed a nobleman ' s daughter , and was forced to retire the trade and turn to his employer Ajuur the Hutt on Taris . The Hutt encouraged Bendak to become a duelist , using his old armor and adding a stagename to his own , Starkiller . Despite the fact that Mandalorians were hated on the world , Bendak Starkiller became a popular gladiator in the dueling ring — killing many unfortunate opponents . When the Sith took charge of the world , they immediately outlawed the death matches . Losing interest , Bendak decided to retire from the rings . He still hoped for a day when a worthy opponent would arrive for one last duel , so he would wander into the cantina to watch the duels . That day eventually came , when the duelist known as the " Mysterious Stranger " became the new champion of Taris . An impressed Bendak came out of his retirement , wanting to duel him in an illegal death match . Revan , however , refused . Behind the scenes . Bendak ' s canonical fate is unknown : assuming that the player picks the light side choice for this scenario , Bendak is not killed by Revan , as dueling with him gives dark side points for breaking the law , despite how vicious a killer Bendak is . If , however , the player picks the dark side choice for the scenario , Revan has the possibility to duel and kill Bendak . In this case , Revan obtains dark side points , the largest purse of credits from the duel , and Bendak ' s blaster — a modified Mandalorian blaster pistol that is the strongest standard blaster in the game — is given to Revan by Ajuur after his death and defeat . Under the argument that Revan risked his life , the player could convince Ajuur to boost the reward from 700 to 900 credits if the Persuade level is high enough . If the persuasion fails , the player could opt to threaten the Hutt for the reward instead , but this will gain more dark side points . Revan could also get the bounty on Bendak from Zax in the Lower City . Contradictions . The biographical details given for Bendak Starkiller above , though documented in the " Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide " , contradict information from " " , in which Tarisian death matches are said to have been outlawed for " nearly ten years " and Bendak is considered by the other duelists to be an old pro past his prime . As the game is set in 3956 BBY , this would have meant that Bendak had been a duelist on Taris in the years leading up to 3966 BBY , rather than as a miner on Vanquo before it was attacked by Mandalorians two years later . Zax , the Hutt responsible for running the bounty office at Javyar ' s Cantina , explains that Bendak acquired the government contract on his head after continuing to kill at illegal underground circuits for some time after the ban on death matches . The campaign guide instead attributes his bounty on having accidentally murdered a nobleman ' s daughter . Moreover , though the Sith enforced the ban during the game , it was not suggested that it had been they who introduced it , as their conquest and subsequent quarantine of Taris was heavily implied — though not outright stated — to have taken place following the destruction of the " Endar Spire " . John Jackson Miller stated that this tension would be explained in 2009 , although that did not happen .