Kam Nale Kam Nale , also known under the alias " Elan Mak , " was a Fluggrian male professional Podracer pilot who flew an outdated Kurtob KRT 410 - C around 32 BBY , during the final decades of the Galactic Republic . The son of the crime lord Borzu Nale , Nale received his inheritance early when the Glymphid hitman Aldar Beedo murdered his father . Nale sought to avenge his father ' s death and vowed to track down Beedo , following him to the Outer Rim world of Tatooine , where Nale discovered that Beedo had entered as a contestant in the upcoming Boonta Eve Classic Podrace . Nale began to use the pseudonym " Elan Mak " in order to join the race without raising suspicions , all the while hoping to be able to eliminate Beedo by shooting him during the race . Nale ' s craft was too slow to catch up to the Glymphid but managed to finish in fifth . Realizing that he enjoyed the sport , Nale continued his career with it . Nale , now officially known as " Elan Mak " in the Podracing circuits , furthered his racing career by adopting a more aggressive track personality . He eventually gained fame on the Dug Derby racecourse on Malastare , achieving the status of crowd favorite . Victories did not cloud his overall mission , however , as he continued to chase Beedo from race to race . Nale at some point regained control of his father ' s criminal empire but continued to Podrace . However , rather than pursuing Beedo himself , Nale used his newfound criminal funds to send numerous mercenaries after Beedo and bring him to justice . Around 22 BBY , Beedo was captured by one of the mercenaries and was brought back to Nale ' s headquarters , where the Glymphid was to face judgment . Right around the same time , the name " Elan Mak " was publicly exposed to be the crime lord Kam Nale . Beedo ' s capture and Nale ' s exposed identity were just two of several scandals that called for the sport of Podracing to be placed under scrutiny . Biography . Early career . Kam Nale was a Fluggrian male from the watery Expansion Region planet Ploo IV , and he was the one factor that the Glymphid assassin Aldar Beedo did not consider when Beedo accepted the job of eliminating Nale ' s father , Borzu Nale . The elder Nale was a successful Fluggrian crime lord who posed a threat to the smuggling operations of Orin Nyell . Nyell hired Beedo to assassinate Borzu so that Nyell could continue his operation — selling Ploo IV water to the Outer Rim planet Sernpidal at inflated prices — unhindered . Nale was devastated by his father ' s death , and at great expense , he searched for the assassin ' s name . Upon learning Beedo ' s name , Nale swore to kill the Glymphid to avenge his father . He managed to follow Beedo , who was also a Podracer pilot , to the Outer Rim world of Tatooine , where he learned that Beedo had entered the upcoming Boonta Eve Classic Podrace as a contestant . Nale soon formulated a plan to enter the race himself and destroy Beedo and his Podracer . Using whatever truguts , a type of currency , he could find , Nale purchased an old Kurtob KRT 410 - C . Despite an attractive streamlined design , the Kurtob was rather outdated by the time of the Boonta race of 32 BBY . As such , it suffered from poor acceleration and top speed , though it retained a powerful boost component . A good Podracer soon became the least of his concerns , however , when Nale learned that a rookie bounty hunter named Rango Tel was hot on his heels . In an attempt to avoid the bounty hunter , Nale began to go undercover with numerous aliases and false names . Tel , like Beedo , had also been hired by Orin Nyell , who feared that Kam Nale would reclaim his father ' s criminal empire . At the time , Nale actually had no desire to claim his inheritance . Tel actually managed to learn this fact , but nevertheless continued his pursuit . On the eve of the Boonta race , while many of the Podracer pilots who would be competing attended a concert for the glimmik singer and Podracer contestant Boles Roor , Nale created a recording detailing his plans regarding Beedo in case of his own demise during the Boonta . On the same night , Beedo was just as busy with his own schemes . While attending the concert , the Devlikk pilot Wan Sandage approached Beedo and hired him to kill the Dug pilot Sebulba , a notorious cheater , during the Boonta . The next morning , the racers began to assemble , and Nale had since switched to his chosen alias of " Elan Mak " — which was nothing more than his name spelled backward — in order to avoid making Beedo suspicious . Before Nale could reach the arena , Tel cornered the Fluggrian in an alleyway , with Tel believing he would be the faster draw and that his armor would be sufficient to stave off any attack that Nale could present . Instead , Nale shot Tel with a heavy blaster pistol that easily punctured the rookie ' s flimsy armor , killing him . " Elan Mak " . Nale , now officially known as " Elan Mak " on the track , started the Boonta from the inside fourth row on the starting grid , next to the Phuii pilot Mars Guo and behind the Veknoid Teemto Pagalies . Meanwhile , Beedo began in the front row on the outside . As the race began , Mak was off to a good start , right up in front with the leaders , and he held second position ahead of Beedo for the first chunk of the initial lap . Falling behind , Mak was still only a short distance behind the leader , Sebulba , when the Dug smashed Mawhonic ' s Podracer into the side of a cliff . Mak eventually backed off further and remained near the middle of the pack , while Beedo managed to stay ahead , aiming his own racer for Sebulba . However , Sandage crashed into a sandcrawler during lap three . Far ahead , Sebulba became entangled with the Podracer of another pilot , the Human Anakin Skywalker , and upon pulling away he crashed into the desert , paving the path to victory for Skywalker . Mak attempted to fire upon Beedo ' s racer with his blaster pistol , but his aim was obstructed by another contestant , Ebe Endocott . Beedo placed third , while Mak ended up in fifth place , ahead of Boles Roor in last . Realizing that he had enjoyed the race and that he had managed to finish ahead of more seasoned pilots , Mak elected to pursue Podracing as a career , while his races doubled as a front for his mission to eliminate Beedo . In addition , he decided to reinvent himself as a hardcore Podracer pilot . Mak continued to race from that point on , achieving fame on the planet Malastare when he became the most popular pilot on the Dug Derby racecourse and became the favored racer for a Malastare drag course . However , his success on the Dug Derby stemmed more from the audience admiring his multiple attempts to finish the race in record time . Mak later competed in Malastare ' s Phoebos Memorial Run , the fifth race of the Vinta Harvest Classic , where he found himself pitted against Beedo once again . Beedo and Wan Sandage were both still working together to eliminate Sebulba . Mak positioned himself above Beedo during the final stretch of the race in order to shoot his target , but his plans were disrupted — Sebulba tricked the pilot By ' t Distombe into flying over a geyser , causing an explosion that forced many of the racers to break off . Beedo was once again unable to engineer Sebulba ' s demise , and Mak was unable to kill his Glymphid quarry . Sebulba won the race , followed closely by Sandage , with Mak and Beedo in tow . All four racers qualified for the final race of the Classic , which ran through the same course , but Mak again failed to eliminate Beedo in that race . When Sandage eventually died of old age sometime before 29 BBY , Beedo decided to switch allegiances and join with his former Dug target . At some point , the magazine " Podracing Quarterly " took notice of Mak ' s pursuit of Beedo , and after learning what Mak had spent on his Kurtob Podracer , they published a short blurb about their findings . Crime lord . Mak was still hunting Beedo in 26 BBY , when the two eventually ended up on the planet Euceron to participate in the Galactic Games . Sebulba was also present but was allowing his son , Hekula , to race instead . The Boonta winner Anakin Skywalker , now a Jedi in training , also participated in the race on behalf of the Aleena brothers Deland and Doby Tyerell . The Boonta ' s runner - up , Gasgano , also competed . During the first lap , Mak caught up to Beedo and proceeded to cut off the Glymphid after narrowly avoiding the wreckage of Ody Mandrell , who had crashed while attempting a tight turn . Beedo wasn ' t able to avoid Mak ' s Podracer and slammed into it , wrecking both of their vehicles . Immediately after the crash , and having survived the wreck , both pilots climbed from the debris and dashed off of the track to avoid being crushed by the other racers . They immediately began casting blame on each other , disputing whose fault it was that the wreck had happened . Mak , however , did not apprehend or kill Beedo , and Skywalker went on to achieve a second victory . Other competitors included " Scorch " Zanales and Will Neluenf . Having failed to avenge his father despite getting so close to his killer , Mak began to realize that he might never catch up to and kill his quarry . At the same time , he feared that he would be targeted by other bounty hunters like Rango Tel . " Mak " restored his former name of Kam Nale in order to retake his father ' s criminal empire , and using his newfound family funds , he began to hire numerous bounty hunters and mercenaries to track the elusive Glymphid . Around 24 BBY , Beedo was still very much active on and off the course , still working as Sebulba ' s on - track bodyguard . However , Nale also continued to race under the guise of " Elan Mak " around 22 BBY . He participated in races taking place on Tatooine , Felucia , and Coruscant , among other worlds . Beedo also continued with his racing career up until sometime around 22 BBY , when one of Nale ' s mercenaries finally caught up to the Glymphid on the jungle world Baroonda . The mercenary shot down Beedo ' s craft in the middle of the Fire Mountain Rally race and arrested the Glymphid , and then brought him before Nale . However , around the time of Beedo ' s capture , Nale ' s false identity was exposed . HoloNet News documented both the exposure and Beedo ' s arrest , while the seedy nature of both incidents put the future of Podracing under careful scrutiny . Personality and traits . Kam Nale entered into a state of vengeance - filled fury upon hearing of his father ' s death and set to work looking for his killer . Upon discovering that it was Aldar Beedo , a known Podracer , Nale decided to risk his life by entering the Boonta Eve Classic in order to run Beedo into the ground . On Malastare , he even risked fines and a race suspension by using an illegal weapon during a race to to try and shoot Beedo ' s Podracer . However , Nale eventually realized that he was unable to eliminate Beedo himself , and opted to hire other mercenaries to find Beedo for him . After his skirmish with Rango Tel , Nale became slightly paranoid , and despite his initial distaste for his father ' s illegal enterprises , he took over his father ' s organization in order to deal with future encounters . While racing as " Elan Mak , " he had the tendency to make fun of other racer ' s pods , generally remarking on cheap - looking parts . A Fluggrian , Nale possessed three - digit hands that ended in sharp , purple - hued claws , and the bottoms of his forearms were lined with natural spikes . He had a green exterior with a more white - colored stomach area , and he had yellow eyes along with several purple marks that stretched across his face , giving him a somewhat unique appearance among the other Boonta contestants , along with his pink , puffy lips . Fluggrians were generally short , and Nale stood at only 1 . 02 meters tall . The knobby protuberances on his forehead acted as sensory inputs . Skills and abilities . Kam Nale had never piloted in a Podrace before his first Boonta race , and as such , he was pleasantly surprised that he was able to finish the race , especially with such an outdated Podracer . His piloting only continued to evolve , and he eventually became a popular pilot on Malastare . A more aggressive track personality was also notable of his career as he adopted the image of a hardcore racer . Nale was also a decent shot , being able to outdraw and out - shoot rookie bounty hunter Rango Tel . Despite that , he was unable to shoot down Aldar Beedo ' s Podracer during either the Boonta Eve Classic or the Vinta Harvest Classic . Nale eventually resorted to hiring others to take care of Beedo for him . Nale was trilingual ; he was able to speak Huttese , Galactic Basic Standard , and another dialect . Equipment . Kam Nale wore a light brown vest when racing , as well as a headset with a comlink . He owned a silver blaster pistol that he used against Rango Tel and Aldar Beedo during the Boonta Eve Classic , and later again on Malastare . When Nale entered the Boonta Eve Classic , he did so with an outdated Kurtob KRT 410 - C Podracer . The overall design of the pod was very spherical , with large bulbous engines and a circular , upright cockpit . The cockpit had a large apparatus attached to its right side , which was where one of the engine cables was connected , although this attachment was removed during Nale ' s participation in the Vinta Harvest Classic on Malastare . The color scheme was dominated by a white color , with red and blue markings adorned on the engines and cockpit . Similar designs adorned the flag that he used to represent himself during the Boonta . The vehicle had very few advantages in competitions with modernized Podracers ; it had poor acceleration and below - average handling . The engines were durable , however , and could sustain moderate damage . Despite an average top speed , the Kurtob pod had a useful boost ability and an effective cooling system that could cool down the engines fairly quickly after every boost , although the Podracer could only boost every so often due to the fact that the engines rapidly heated up . Nale managed to finish in fifth place during the Boonta Eve Classic and ranked among the top five during a qualifying race for the Vinta . As opposed to buying a stronger Podracer , he instead opted to upgrade his Kurtob and use it throughout his career . Behind the scenes . Elan Mak first appeared in the 1999 novel " " , written by Terry Brooks and based on the screenplay for George Lucas ' s . Despite having a detailed maquette built and concept art created by the film ' s art department , Mak was realized in the film ' s Podracing sequences only as a low - resolution computer - generated model that was used for distance shots of his Podracer . The character was afforded a far more detailed close - up for a deleted scene on the film ' s DVD release , with the character being depicted as a fully computer - generated character . Mak had a more substantial appearance in the 1999 Nintendo 64 video game " " , where the character acted as one of the available playable characters at the start of the game . In the game , he was voiced by Tom Kane . Parts of Mak ' s backstory , including the fact that " Elan Mak " was only an alias for his true name , Kam Nale , were revealed in the " Episode I Racer " companion guide , " " . He later appeared in several " Star Wars " Legends stories , including the comic book " " and the junior novel " " by Jude Watson . A Kurtob engine with the same markings as Nale ' s Podracer appeared in junk dealer Watto ' s garage in the 2002 video game " " , although Nale himself did not appear . The character was also incorporated into " Kinect Star Wars " , a video game released in 2012 for the Xbox 360 . He was featured under the name " Elan Mak " in the game ' s Podracing feature , in which he was a competitor against whom the player could race . Players could also utilize his vehicle as their Podracer . The conflict between Nale and Aldar Beedo was explored in the 2000 webcomic " Podracing Tales " , but their conflict did not receive closure until " The Not - So Magnificent Seven , " a blog article published in 2013 on the Official " Star Wars " Blog that detailed the lives of several untalented bounty hunters . Both Nale and Beedo were referenced under Rango Tel ' s entry in the blog , which provided details on the outcome of Nale ' s hunt . Nale was also mentioned in an article in " Star Wars " Magazine 2 , which misspelled his pseudonym as " Elan Nak . "