Kedpin Shoklop Kedpin Shoklop was a Wermal male who spent one hundred and two years in his trade as a vaporator salesbeing at VaporTech . He won a trip to the casino city of Canto Bight after being awarded Salesbeing of the Year . It was his first vacation in a century . Upon arriving , he ended up spending a night with the criminal Anglang Lehet . Biography . Early Life . Shoklop was born on the planet Werma Lesser . Later on in his life , he became an employee of VaporTech , where he sold vaporator s for one hundred and two years . Canto Bight . Cheating the System . For numerous decades , Kedpin had worked incredibly hard for Vaportech to try and become " Salesbeing of the Year " , but never did . He had come to learn that those who won were either higher management or favored employees . In 34 AB he decided to hack into the computer which chose the winners of the competition , and rigged it so that he would be revealed the winner for that year . Everybody was surprised to know that he had won , and although management knew he had cheated , they took no action against him over the fear that other staff might realize the competition was rigged . Kedpin ' s prize was an all expenses two week vacation on Cantonica , in the casino city known as Canto Bight . He was excited over the prospect as he was finally able to do things he had always wanted to do , such as experience a zero - g massage and most importantly watch a real live fathier race , which he had only ever seen on screens . Arrival on Canto Bight . Kedpin grew up very polite and troublesomely trusting , and upon arriving at Canto Bight , Kedpin had received a harsh time from the start because of it . Firstly he was almost detained for not having a sponsor chip , had his luggage detained for not having a luggage pass , which later turned out to be a scam and had his luggage stolen , and trusted the wrong droid who also scammed him of his money in a bathhouse . Eventually he found his way to his hotel , where he was able to relax for a few hours in his hotel room and at another spa , where he was able to finally have a zero - g massage . Later on the same day , he was stopped by two creatures who looked alike , who tried to tell him there was a problem with his hotel room . This was when a Caskadag named Anglang Lehet stepped in to warn him that they were about to scam him . Anglang stated that they go for a drink , which Kedpin was more than happy to oblige for helping him . Not realising Anglang ' s true intentions , the two enjoyed a drink in a bar , where without him realizing , Anglang placed a detonator into Kedpin ' s drink and smuggled fake spice onto his back , then proceeded to contact the CBPD . Moments after Anglang stated he had to slip away for business , the CBPD stormed the bar and arrested Kedpin for spice smuggling . Arrest . Kedpin was taken to the CBPD where he was interrogated by a brute police officer named Officer Brawg . Though Kedpin was actually innocent , Brawg beat up Kedpin and demanded he give him a name of his work partner . Realizing he had been set up , possibly by anybody he might had met during the day , he refused to give anybody up . He found himself in a cell the following day , where he realized he must have been knocked out cold . He heard the voices of Brawg and none other than Anglang , who had come to set him free . Upon leaving the station , Anglang explained he had tried to kill him by placing a detonator in his body ; this was in order to try and kill Officer Brawg , who numerous people wanted dead . As the two entered down an alleyway , the pair were cornered by the group who had hired Anglang known as the Old City Boys who wanted to kill Anglang for not completing the job . The group allowed Kedpin to escape , but as he ran he heard all the commotion behind him . Realizing Anglang was losing and that he had saved him , even though he tried to kill him , Kedpin stormed back into the alley and tried to fight , though was only knocked back . This however served as a brief distraction , as Anglang grabbed a stun stick from one of the group and knock the rest out . Anglang then stole what money they had and gave some of it to Kedpin . Enjoying the Vacation . After a crazy start to his vacation , Kedpin could finally take time to enjoy it . With the money he received from Anglang , the pair both went to a fathier race , where Kedpin bet his money on a fathier named Kessell Runner . It won by a small victory , and Kedpin realised he had won what amounted to a whole years salary . The two decided to celebrate in a more expensive bar where Kedpin gave half his winnings to Anglang for helping pay his bail and also came clean on how he actually won the competition . Soon after , the two then went their separate ways . Kedpin appeared in the casino not long after , where he played zinbiddle after being taught by Kaljach Sonmi , though did not succeed at the game . Behind the scenes . Kedpin Shoklop was first introduced simultaneously in the short stories " Rules of the Game " and " The Ride " from the " Canto Bight " novella collection . " Star Wars " veteran Warwick Davis , in addition to play Wodibin , played Shoklop in a cameo appearance during the scenes set at Zord ' s Spa and Bathhouse of the 2017 film , but these scenes were cut from the finished version of the film , though were then included in the Blu - ray and digital releases .