Tavvar Va ' ran Master Chef Tavvar Va ' ran was the second - best Kubaz chef in the galaxy , though few knew that Emperor Palpatine himself retained the best Kubaz chef for his personal staff . Va ' ran worked at the Manarai restaurant , Coruscant ' s most exclusive fine - dining venue for Imperial high society , but his employment came with a dangerous catch . He had been personally hired by Manarai co - owner Guri , which left Va ' ran indebted to Guri ' s master — Prince Xizor , leader of the Black Sun crime syndicate . In 3 . 5 ABY , Va ' ran nervously obeyed Guri ' s order to secretly murder Imperial Advisor Fendrilon Koozar for prying into Black Sun ' s business . To carry out the deed , Va ' ran poisoned Koozar ' s meal one busy night at the Manarai with a combination of natural ingredients and untraceable chemicals designed to produce a painful death some hours after eating . Va ' ran learned the following evening that his recipe worked as planned , as Koozar had killed himself after throwing a hallucinatory fit and crashing his luxury airspeeder in a fiery explosion . Biography . Tavvar Va ' ran worked as Master Chef at the Manarai , the most exclusive restaurant on the Imperial throneworld of Coruscant and the premier gathering place for the Imperial Center elite . Va ' ran was the second - best Kubaz chef in the Empire , though few knew that the best Kubaz chef was actually on Emperor Palpatine ' s personal staff . While usually only responsible for creating the restaurant ' s fine culinary delights , Va ' ran ultimately answered to the demands of the woman who had personally hired him : Guri , part - owner of the Manarai and chief lieutenant to Prince Xizor , leader of the powerful Black Sun crime syndicate . Guri never let Va ' ran forget that he was in her debt , and Va ' ran knew that Guri would not hesitate to eliminate him and encourage the Manarai ' s management to fill his vacancy with the galaxy ' s third - best Kubaz chef should he be uncooperative . So it was that Guri came to Va ' ran on one busy night at the Manarai in 3 . 5 ABY with orders to secretly murder patron Fendrilon Koozar , one of the Emperor ' s Advisors who had meddled in Black Sun ' s affairs . Guri instructed Va ' ran to give Koozar the " house special , " a code phrase meaning a combination of ingredients — both natural food seasonings and nearly untraceable chemicals — that would be added to a victim ' s dish throughout the meal . The poisoned recipe was designed to interact with the meal ' s natural oils and spices , as well as the victim ' s own digestive system , eventually resulting in painful death some hours after ingestion . To accommodate Guri ' s desire for a discreet recipe that might cause Koozar to hallucinate and plummet to his death from some great height , Va ' ran considered the various chemical combinations and spices in Koozar ' s food and his own knowledge of Human physiology . He decided to add a dose of tasteless thetametabuterin to Koozar ' s Wroonian flycatcher filet appetizer , a hybrid mold on his bowl of sufar greens and mecolar briddlings , and some collafa spice in his main dish of fleek - eel broiled in zaffa oil . Va ' ran ' s recipe produced the desired effect — the following evening , the Master Chef saw on the newsnets that Koozar had been killed after throwing an uncontrollable fit while riding in his luxury airspeeder , seizing the controls from his droid pilot and slamming the vehicle into the Ministry of Land Management in a fiery explosion . Personality and traits . Tavvar Va ' ran was nervous about having been given the responsibility of murdering Imperial Advisor Fendrilon Koozar on Black Sun ' s behalf , knowing full well that his own life hung in the balance if he did not cooperate . Thus did he obediently prepare the " house special " for Koozar on Guri ' s orders , nevertheless displaying an odd grimace with his snout at the thought of that poisoned recipe . Although Guri was gorgeous by Human standards , Va ' ran found her unappealing , knowing what dark intentions lay masked behind her beautiful exterior . Behind the scenes . Tavvar Va ' ran appeared in the short story " A Very Special Meal , " which was written by Peter Schweighofer and included in the June 1996 " Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook " , a supplement for West End Games ' " " .