Orin Bold Orin Bold was a male Human moisture farmer who lived on Ord Mantell . He was also the father of Nella Bold . Biography . The widower Orin Bold and his daughter Nella managed a moisture farm close to the Ten Mile Plateau as of 37 BBY , when Jedi Obi - Wan Kenobi and Qui - Gon Jinn met them for the first time . Their existence was a solitary one , since Bold ' s wife had been killed by Mantellian Savrips several years earlier . The farm was large , reportedly capable of providing several nearby colonies with water . However , their business had been in steady decline for several years , as the would - be Jedi Baron Taxer Sundown had been attempting to take over their farm , as he had already done with many others . To achieve this end , Sundown intimidated their customers in order to ruin them . Bold , a talented mechanic , built a small army of improvised war droid s to protect his farm . However , when the two Jedi reached the farm , they were greeted by Bold ' s hostile droids and forced to defend themselves . Most of the droids were destroyed before Bold could intervene . He and Nella were at first vary of the strangers , since in their eyes their lightsabers marked them as members of Sundown ' s militia , but eventually came to trust them . The Jedi promised to look into the matter for them . Bold did not take active part in their investigation , but their results affected him deeply . Nella , who helped the Jedi , was abducted and disappeared into the wastes . As the Jedi pressed closer to their goal , while at the same time the savrips were migrating , they forced their enemy ' s hand . Suddenly Sundown appeared at the Bold farm , forced by the Jedi to leave the planet in a hurry , and pressed Bold into helping him prepare his escape . Since he intended to kill Bold once he had no further use for him , he told him the truth of the last years . He had mind - controlled Bold , he boasted , using his farm as a front for his illegal activities , and forced him to use his technical expertise to build lightsabers for his men . His daughter had been duped into serving as Sundown ' s courier . Most horrifying of all was the revelation of the true circumstances surrounding his wife ' s murder . She had actually discovered him aiding Sundown , who had then forced Bold to kill her with his bare hands and blamed it on the Savrips as part of his overall smear campaign against them , afterward removing Bold ' s memory of the event . At this point , Padawan Kenobi arrived , in time to hear the final part of Sundown ' s confession . He attacked Sundown and the remaining droids , which now served him rather than Bold . When Sundown was thus distracted , the enraged Bold struck him with his crutch , destroying the mind - control device he had been using to pose as a Jedi and forcing him to flee . With Nella ' s being saved by Kenobi ' s Master , Jinn , and Sundown ' s death shortly afterward , the immediate threats to Bold ' s existence disappeared . However , he still had to reconcile himself with his daughter and his now - returned memories . Talents . Orin Bold was a skilled mechanic , able to redesign and convert droids with apparent ease . He passed on at least some of his skills to his daughter , who was able to jury - rig Mobquet and Subpro components to interlink with Incom machinery . He could also manufacture lightsabers , a very rare trait among those not gifted in the Force . In addition , he was a hard and competent worker , able to run his large moisture - farming complex more or less alone , despite having to rely on a crutch to support an injured leg .