Vril Vrakth Vril Vrakth was a male Zabrak who was born during the last years of the Galactic Republic . He was raised on a colony world where life was harsh , and the settlers there soon became divided in a series of violent wars . Vrakth originally trained as a soldier so that he could participate in the conflict , but he soon switched careers and became a scout . The combat and survival skills Vrakth learned helped to keep him alive , and he eventually caught the attention of Jeyrs Hundar , a bounty hunter who was passing through the world while chasing a criminal . Impressed by Vrakth ' s potential , Hundar offered to train him as an apprentice . The Zabrak agreed , and he traveled offworld with Hundar to be trained as a bounty hunter . Vrakth adapted well to his new career , and after Hundar was killed by a violent Rodian they were hunting , Vrakth was able to capture the Rodian on his own , and he used this success to establish himself as a bounty hunter . During the Clone Wars , Vrakth was hired by a local Republic governor to hunt down Confederate generals . Following the end of the war , Vrakth began to work almost exclusively for the Republic ' s successive government , the Galactic Empire ; in particular , he took assignments from Inquisitor Valin Draco , a Dark Side Adept who served the New Order . After Draco was almost killed on the Mid Rim planet Almas by a group of agents working for the Alderaanian Resistance , an anti - Imperial group based on Alderaan , the Inquisitor sent Vrakth to capture them . After Vrakth learned that the agents planned to travel to Nizon , a planet located in the Centares system , he went there and waited for them to arrive . The agents helped to stir up a revolt against the Imperial control of the planet , and during the battle , they confronted and defeated Vrakth . Biography . A career as a bounty hunter . During the waning years of the Galactic Republic , Vrakth was raised on a failed colony world where conditions were too harsh to support much life . Food shortages were commonplace and sparked a series of violent settlement wars on the world for control of resources . Vrakth trained as a soldier in order to be able to participate in the conflicts ; however , he soon switched careers and instead learned to become a scout . A bounty hunter named Jeyrs Hundar came to Vrakth ' s homeworld while in pursuit of a criminal and met the young Zabrak . By this time , Vrakth was one of only a handful of surviving colonists . Hundar was impressed with Vrakth ' s combat and survival skills and took the young Zabrak as a bounty hunter apprentice . Vrakth traveled offworld with his new master , and with Hundar ' s help , he learned the skills of both a hunter and a warrior , and Vrakth eventually became a crack shot with a pistol . Vrakth would also assist Hundar by serving as backup when his master was chasing a bounty ; he covered the escape routes of his master ' s quarry . On occasion , Vrakth would aid Hundar more directly by helping him to take down dangerous targets . While they were trying to capture a Rodian , however , Hundar was killed . Vrakth was able to finish the job on his own and collect the bounty on the Rodian , and his success helped him to establish his career as a bounty hunter . Vrakth eventually took on his own apprentice , the Trandoshan Koorst . Vrakth also obtained six LM - 432 crab droids and modified them so that they could serve him as scouts . With the outbreak of the Clone Wars , a galaxy - wide conflict fought between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems , Vrakth came to the attention of a local Republic governor , who hired him to hunt down CIS generals as part of the Republic ' s war effort . Tracking the Alderaanian Resistance agents . Following the end of the war , Vrakth began to work almost exclusively for the newly - formed Galactic Empire , the Republic ' s successor government . In particular , he labored for Inquisitor Valin Draco , a Dark Side Adept who served the New Order . In circa 17 BBY , Draco was severely injured following an encounter on the planet Almas with a group of agents working for the Alderaanian Resistance , an anti - Imperial group that was based on Alderaan . In response , the Inquisitor posted a bounty on the agents and sent Vrakth to collect it . Vrakth tailed them for a few weeks , and when Senator Bail Organa — the leader of the Resistance — made a request to Aldera University for information on Nizon , a planet located in the Centares system , Vrakth inferred that his targets planned to travel to there and decided to go there himself . Vrakth and Koorst flew to Nizon in CloakShape fighters . Upon their arrival , the Zabrak set himself up as a scout for the planet ' s Imperial forces while he waited for the Alderaanians to arrive . Vrakth also planned to kill Sartok , the leader of the Nizon resistance , a rebel group that opposed the Empire ' s control of Nizon . The main Imperial operation on Nizon was the capture of the native sentient Nazren species for use as slaves in the Sarlacc Project , a secret operation to build a Super Star Destroyer prototype . The Imperials gave Vrakth a datachip that contained information about the project and also allowed him to use a platform at Point Gold — an under - construction turbolaser battery located on Mount Antas — as his base of operations on Nizon . Vrakth kept his CloakShape fighter docked at a small landing bay on the edge of the platform , where it was guarded by some of his crab droids ; as an additional defense , Vrakth loosened one of the plates that made up the floor of the platform to create a primitive trap , causing anyone who stepped on it to fall through . Due to the threat posed by blade scorpion s , the dangerous predators that lived on Nizon , Vrakth sent out his crab droids to search the planet for the Alderaanians rather than do so himself . However , Vrakth occasionally ventured into Ahdjok , the capital city of Nizon , where he would question people if they had seen any newcomers recently , allowing him to check whether the Alderaanian agents had arrived . Confrontation at Point Gold . When the Nazren began to revolt against the Imperials , Vrakth correctly deduced that the Alderaanian agents were behind the uprising , and he planned to use it as an opportunity to capture the agents . Vrakth believed that if he lured them to Point Gold , he could defeat the agents and then turn the tide of the revolt . He hoped that he would then receive a reward from the Empire for saving its operation on Nizon . While Vrakth prepared for combat , he remained in contact with Koorst , who was flying his CloakShape fighter in orbit of Nizon . After the Nazren and Alderaanians captured a planetary control center in Martyr ' s Plaza that had been used to track asteroid fragments around Nizon , an Imperial officer contacted Vrakth . The officer told him to wait for any surviving Imperial officers to make their way from Ahdjok to Point Gold , and then destroy the Sarlacc Project datachip . The bounty hunter acknowledged the officer ' s order but did not promise to obey it . Knowing that the Alderaanians were seeking to learn more about the Sarlacc Project , Vrakth planned to instead use the datachip to lure them to Point Gold where he could capture them . Wearing his battle armor , Vrakth waited for them at the edge of the platform . The Alderaanian agents saw a copy of the Imperial officer ' s conversation with Vrakth and took the bait , heading out to Point Gold to recover it . When Vrakth saw them , he held up the datachip in his hand and then used a voice amplifier to project his voice , enabling him to taunt them from a distance . Shortly afterward , Vrakth engaged them in combat but was defeated . Although the datachip was cracked and burned by the fight , the Alderaanian Resistance agents were able to recover it from Vrakth and eventually decoded it , learning that the Sarlacc Project involved a massive construction project in the Deep Core , which was coordinated from the galactic capital of Coruscant . Personality and traits . Vrakth was tenacious and self - reliant , which enabled him to survive the violent conflicts that plagued his homeworld . Following his decision to become a scout , Vrakth learned that prey required caution while hunting , and he also learned that most battles were won by those who could shoot the quickest and withstand the most damage . He tried to put these principles into practice , and as a bounty hunter , he used situations to his full advantage . For example , when he traveled to Nizon , he planned to maximize the profits he could earn during his stay by hunting Sartok in addition to the Alderaanian agents , the latter whom were his primary targets . Vrakth could also adapt his plans to suit changes in circumstances , as shown when he used the Nazren uprising as an opportunity to lure the Alderaanian agents to Point Gold . He was astute , deducing that the Alderaanians were going to travel to Nizon , and later theorized that they were , in part , responsible for the Nazren uprising . However , Vrakth knew when to avoid taking risks , and he deployed his crab droids on Nizon to search for the Alderaanian team — rather than do so himself and risk being attacked by a blade scorpion . Due to his training under Jeyrs Hundar , Vrakth was a skilled hunter and warrior . However , his skills were more similar to those of an assassin , rather than a conventional bounty hunter . The Zabrak was multilingual , and in addition to Basic , he could also speak Huttese and Zabraki . Equipment . As a bounty hunter , Vrakth wore battle armor to protect himself . He armed himself with a variety of weapons , and while on Nizon , he carried two blaster pistols , a force pike and four thermal detonators . His other equipment included a pocket scrambler to encode any comlink messages that he sent ; a code cylinder , which could store encrypted information ; and a voice amplifier that enabled him to be heard clearly from half a kilometer away . Like his apprentice Koorst , Vrakth flew a CloakShape starfighter . Vrakth owned six LM - 432 crab droids , and each were heavily modified . They served him as both scouts and hunting drones , allowing him to search large areas for targets ; the latter was a task they fulfilled when deployed on Nizon . Although they were programmed to operate independently , the droids were all fitted with comlinks to enable Vrakth to give them override orders from his CloakShape fighter . They also bore an owner ' s stamp , which consisted of a Zabrak symbol that translated into Basic as " Long Hunter , " identifying them as the property of a bounty hunter . Behind the scenes . Vril Vrakth was created by writer Owen K . C . Stephens and made his first and only appearance in " Star Wars " canon in " The First to Strike " , the fifth scenario in the " Dawn of Defiance " campaign , a Wizards of the Coast online supplement to the " Star Wars Roleplaying Game " . In the supplement , the actions of the players who role - play the Alderaanian Resistance team can affect Vrakth in a number of ways . When the players first land on Nizon , if the location of their ship is discovered by the Empire , then one of Vrakth ' s crab droids steals something from the ship , and Vrakth uses it to guess some of their plans . If the players succeed in destroying the Imperials ' Checkpoint Gamma , then Vrakth sends two crab droids to Ahdjok . If they do not destroy the checkpoint , then the Imperial forces give him information about the activities of the players , and he sends two crab droids to the next encounter they have in the scenario . After the players investigate " The Bloody Credit " , a ship used to transport Nazren slaves off Nizon , any of Vrakth ' s surviving crab droids attack them , and after one is destroyed , the rest flee in different directions and rendezvous with Vrakth . After the players help capture the Imperial control center , they intercept and watch the Imperial officer ' s conversation with Vrakth , and after it has ended , the players have the option of calling the Zabrak . If they choose to do so , Vrakth offers to leave the Sarlacc Project datachip intact but taunts them , and suggests that they come and speak to him about it in person . It is possible for the players to kill Vrakth during the confrontation with him , and if they do so , he drops his comlink as he falls , and Koorst calls out from it , asking for more information from his mentor . If the players reply , then Koorst swears his eternal hatred to them for killing Vrakth .