Kosh Kurp Kosh Kurp was a male Pantoran who worked as an explosives expert for the Galactic Empire . Having witnessed his families ' murder as a child during the riots on his homeworld of Intuci , he vowed to exact revenge on Sonopo Bomoor , the Governor responsible for the massacres . Bomoor ' s real name was in fact Suppoon and shortly after the massacres he resigned as governor to focus on more illegal activities and becoming a Gaar . Kurp devoted his life to finding Bomoor and in the process became an expert in offensive weaponry . His expertise in weapons was so great that Kurp became a weapons specialist for the Empire and it was in this role he would eventually claim his vengeance . Aware of Kurp and Suppoons history , Jabba Desilijic Tiure , a Hutt rival of Suppoon , made a bomb threat before visiting Suppoon for a business ceremony known as a Jubjub . Due to Imperial ties he possessed , Suppoon managed to have Kurp come and check his palace for bombs , of which Kurp found none . The Pantoran remained for the Jubjub , where he watched Jabba and Suppoon attempt to outdo each other in a series of trade deals before Jabba revealed Suppoon ' s old alias of Bomoor . Realizing who Suppoon was , Kurp revealed his past to the Gaar who fired at the weapons specialist to prevent him attacking . The shot rebounded off Kurp ' s armor and killed Suppoon , after which Jabba ordered all of the dead criminals men to follow Kurp instead . The thug agreed to follow the Pantoran , making Kurp the head of the criminal empire , a job he gave up his work for the Empire for . Biography . As a boy , the Pantoran Kosh Kurp grew up living with his family in the city of Bonaka Nueno on the planet Intuci in the Outer Rim Territories . Whilst Kurp dwelt there , a Bah ' r Kilido named Suppoon used embezzled credits to bribe the Galactic Republic into giving him control of the planet . Under the alias Sonopo Bomoor , Suppoon became the governor of Intuci and ruled as a tyrant , hoarding Republic resources for himself . The hoarding soon resulted in food shortages across the planet which led to widespread rioting of the populace . Fearing that the riots would draw the attention of the Supreme Chancellor , Suppoon came up with a solution to the food problem — eliminating an entire city to reduce the demand for food . Suppoon picked Kurp ' s home city for destruction and ordered the troops he controlled to massacre the cities inhabitants , encouraging creativity in cruelty to the citizens . A large number of citizens , including Kurp ' s entire family , were hung from their heels and left to die in an area known as Bonaka square . Only Kurp himself was spared due to an order from Suppoon , who was presented for the hanging and demanded that the young boy be left alive to witness his greatness . After witnessing the massacre of friends and family , Kurp swore never to forget the man who had caused their deaths , the Governor he knew as Sonopo Bomoor . He spent twenty years hunting for the Bah ' r Kilido , but was unsuccessful as Suppoon abandoned his alias and Governorship and moved on to control an underground criminal empire . During the hunt Kurp familiarized himself with large amounts of weaponry as to discover the best way to cause Bomoor maximum suffering before killing the criminal . Using this knowledge , the Pantoran managed to obtain a job as a weapon specialist for the Galactic Empire , the successor state to the Republic , despite their strong anti - alien policies . In the year 5 BBY the Hutt criminal Jabba Desilijic Tiure threaten to place a bomb in a palace owned by Suppoon and due to the many Imperial connections the criminal , now a Gaar , still possessed , Kurp was sent to assess the threat , not knowing he was in the home of his most despised enemy . With neither Kurp nor Suppoon recognizing one another , the weapons specialist searched the palace and found no bomb . Suppoon then asked that the Pantoran stay for a Jubjub – a business ceremony – that he had planned with Jabba at the palace . Shortly after the Hutt arrived Suppoon introduced him to Kurp , whom Jabba was aware of by reputation . The Gaar and the Hutt then proceeded to deal in a variety of goods as Kurp watched . Both criminals tricked each other a number of times as tensions slowly rose , with Suppoon eventually threatening to kill Jabba if he didn ' t agree to a deal . Thinking he had come out on top Suppoon was horrified when , as he claimed the goods from the agreement , he was stung by a poisonous Tromonid . Jabba offered him antidote but only in return for all the trade goods involved and warned him that Suppoon couldn ' t simply kill the Hutt and take the cure as Jabba was holding a grenade which would go off if he loosened his grip . Suppoon agreed and administered the antidote , but then asked that Kurp be allowed to look at the grenade . Kurp obliged and took the grenade but without examining it simply held to his chest , and crouching down to cover it , detonate the device . The explosion caused some damage to the man - o ' - war armor that Kurp wore but left him and everyone else unhurt . With the bomb threat removed Suppoon ordered Jabba ' s men to surrender and for the Hutt to be taken away to be tortured , however Jabba still had one move left against the Gaar . As Suppoon told him to detonate the bomb that the Hutt still claimed to have hidden , Jabba called Suppoon by his alias , Sonopo Bomoor . Suppoon was unmoved by Jabba ' s use of his old identity , but Kurp recognized the name of the man who had killed his family . He began questioning Suppoon , who not realizing the danger he was in , admitted that he was Bomoor and had lead the massacre on Intuci . Eventually unnerved by the ferocity of Kurp ' s questions , Suppoon asked how Kurp new about the massacre and the weapon ' s specialist revealed his past to Suppoon . The Gaar , beginning to panic , attempted to rationalize his actions and reason with Kurp but the Pantoran began to advance on the criminal and Suppoon fired at Kurp with his blaster . The weapons specialist did not flinch as the bolts reflected off of the man - o ' - war armor back at Suppoon , blowing the Bah ' r Kilido ' s head clean off . As the man he had hunted his entire life collapsed dead , Kurp lamented how quick his death had been and how little he had suffered before Jabba approached the expert . The Hutt revealed that he had known of Kurp ' s hatred of Bomoor and the Gaar ' s history and had made the bomb threat knowing the Pantoran would be sent . Kurp had been Jabba ' s " bomb " all along and had killed the criminal just as the Hutt planned . In gratitude for his unknowing part in his plot , Jabba ordered all of Suppoons former men to serve Kurp as they had the Gaar , which they agreed to out of fear . With Suppoon ' s criminal empire now at his control , Kurp resigned his job with the Empire , which his superiors accepted in return for a large cut from the syndicate ' s profits which was then used to fund the Imperial military . Personality and traits . Kosh Kurp was a azure - skinned Pantoran with a muscular build and a jutting chin . Having watched his family killed Kurp was driven by a need for vengeance for much of his life , and it was this that drove him to become an expert in offensives weapons as best to cause Suppoon pain . By 5 BBY his reputation was widely known and his talent was great enough for the Galactic Empire to have overlooked the fact he was an alien and hire him . Whilst at Suppoons palace he witnessed the Gaar and Jabba perform illegal deals and threaten to kill one another but made no move to intervene until a bomb was produced . After causing Suppoons death he became frustrated at how quick the criminals end had been , not involving the prolonged suffering that Kurp had long planned to match the suffering of his family . Equipment . During his time as a weapons specialist for the Empire , Kurp wore a crimson man - o ' - war armor , which was considered rare and was originally of Iskalonian design . The armor included two blunt horns which housed various sensors and wireless devices , and a low lying visor which covered the Pantoran ' s eyes . He also wore brown boots and gloves . Behind the scenes . Kosh Kurp first appeared in " " , a comic book released in 1995 written by Jim Woodring and illustrated by Art Wetherell . He later received entries in the 1998 sourcebook the " Star Wars Encyclopedia " and was mentioned in the 49th issue of " The Official Star Wars Fact File " in an entry for Jabba . In 2013 Kurp ' s backstory was explored in " " , an article released on the official blog of StarWars . com by Abel G . Peña and Rich Handley .