Fyg Boras Fyg Boras was a male Vor senator of the New Republic who represented the planet Vortex in the New Republic Senate in 27 ABY . During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy , Vortex was among the many worlds that fell to the invaders . Eventually , the galactic capital Coruscant was also captured , forcing Boras and the other surviving members of the New Republic to take refuge on the planet Mon Calamari . When former smuggler - turned - businessman Lando Calrissian and Smugglers ' Alliance leader Talon Karrde arrived on Mon Calamari with relief supplies , the pair approached Boras and struck an arrangement with him . They would provide him with twenty - five tons of relief supplies that were to be distributed to the refugees ; in return , Boras was to vote for an amendment authorizing the New Republic to purchase Calrissian ' s YVH 1 battle droids . Knowing that he would not be reelected to the Senate while his homeworld was under Yuuzhan Vong occupation , Boras decided to sell the supplies for his own profit instead of giving them freely . Using a holo - recording of their initial meeting with Boras , Calrissian and Karrde were able to blackmail the Vor senator into switching his vote for the next Chief of State from Fyor Rodan to Cal Omas . Biography . The male Vor Fyg Boras was a New Republic senator who represented his homeworld of Vortex in the New Republic Senate sometime in the middle of the Yuuzhan Vong War , a galaxy - wide conflict between the New Republic and the warlike Yuuzhan Vong . In 27 ABY , during the war , Vortex was captured by the Yuuzhan Vong , leaving many of its inhabitants as refugees . Later on in the year , the galactic capital planet Coruscant was also captured by the Yuuzhan Vong , causing Boras to flee the doomed capital and make his way to the planet Mon Calamari along with the other surviving members of the New Republic government . Due to former Chief of State Borsk Fey ' lya ' s recent death during the attack on Coruscant , an election for the next Chief of State was held . Boras was part of a faction of senators who supported Fyor Rodan , a senator known for his dislike of the Jedi Order headed by Luke Skywalker . When former smuggler Lando Calrissian — now running the battle droid - manufacturing corporation Tendrando Arms — and Smugglers ' Alliance chief Talon Karrde arrived on the planet sometime in 28 ABY , they offered their services to Skywalker in making sure that Cal Omas , a senator who supported Jedi involvement in the war , would win the election . The pair arranged a private meeting with Boras , as well as several senators from Rodan ' s faction . Calrissian and Karrde offered Boras twenty - five metric tons of refugee supplies to be given out to the Vor survivors on Mon Calamari . In return , they asked that the senator cast his vote for an amendment in an upcoming military appropriations bill , which would see the New Republic Military purchase YVH 1 battle droids from Tendrando Arms . Boras agreed to the request , and , with the support of other similarly bribed senators , the amendment was approved in a rapid manner . Having been given the supplies , however , Boras decided to sell them for his own profit . Thinking of his future , Boras realized that with his homeworld under Yuuzhan Vong occupation , and without a homeworld to vote for him , his chances of being reelected were slim . However , Boras did not anticipate that Karrde and Calrissian would bribe a large number of other senators and flood the market with their own relief supplies , which kept the price of commodities low . With this turn of events , Boras was barely making profits while paying the warehouses that stored his own stock of relief supplies . Shortly after the amendment was passed , Calrissian and Karrde met with Boras once more to convince him to throw his support for Omas . When Boras declined , Karrde showed him a holo - recording of their initial meeting , which showed Boras accepting the bribe . Boras argued that if the holo was publicly revealed , Calrissian and Karrde would also be guilty of bribery . Calrissian informed the Vor senator that what they intended to show was the fact that the relief supplies were supposed to be distributed for free , not sold . To prevent the holo from being circulated , Boras ultimately announced public support for Omas ' s bid for Chief of State . With a large number of Rodan supporters — whom Calrissian and Karrde bribed or blackmailed — changing their votes , Omas won the election . Personality and traits . Having lost his homeworld to the Yuuzhan Vong , and worried that he wouldn ' t be reelected as a senator , Boras grew corrupt and readily accepted a bribe from Lando Calrissian and Talon Karrde in order to secure his financial future . Even though Calrissian explained that the relief supplies they were giving the senator were intended for the Vor refugees on Mon Calamari , Boras felt no remorse in secretly selling the supplies instead . When Calrissian and Karrde flooded the local market with supplies , thus bringing the prices down , Boras was more concerned that his sale profits were barely breaking even with the costs of warehousing his own stock , as opposed to caring about the welfare of his people . Boras favored a type of cologne with a discreet mint scent . Behind the scenes . Fyg Boras is a character created by author Walter Jon Williams for the 2002 novel " " , the fourteenth novel in " " series . To date , " Destiny ' s Way " is Boras ' s only appearance in " Star Wars " canon . In 2008 , he received an entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " .