Mercurial Swift Mercurial Swift , born Geb Teldar , was a young bounty hunter that was active during the age of the Galactic Empire and in the early days of the New Republic . As a bounty hunter , Swift preferred working alone , even refusing a business proposal from veteran bounty hunter Dengar . Later , Swift found work with the Imperial Grand Admiral Rae Sloane . He evacuated the Imperial Commandant Brendol Hux and his son Armitage Hux during the Siege of Arkanis . At Sloane ' s request , Swift searched the Emperor ' s wrecked luxury yacht on Quantxi for information about the Imperial officer Gallius Rax . Swift ' s collusion with Sloane made him a target of the New Republic operatives Norra Wexley , Jas Emari , and Sinjir Rath Velus . They trapped him on the planet Taris and forced him to disclose Sloane ' s whereabouts on the planet Jakku . Seeking revenge against Jas , Swift decided to collect a bounty on her head placed by the Black Sun crime boss Gyuti . Swift hired Dengar , Embo , and the Rodian Jeeta as his crew . They managed to capture Jas on Jakku . However , Jas managed to convince Swift ' s crew to turn on him by appealing to their dislike for the bounty hunter . Following a struggle , Jas threw Swift out of his ship and hired his crew . Biography . Early life . The male human who would later call himself Mercurial Swift was originally named Geb Teldar . Teldar worked in various odd jobs including as a pipe fitter on Avast , a fathier stall - mucker , and a droid - scribbler extraordinaire . During the Age of the Empire , Swift performed as both a dancer and an actor , using his agility to his advantage . However , he quit his profession due to a lack of demand for performers in the Galactic Empire . Still in his youth , Swift decided to use his agility to pursue a new profession : bounty hunting . Teldar , or rather Mercurial Swift , also had a mother named Tabba Teldar , who lived in Coronet City on the Core Worlds planet Corellia . Uncertain times . Shortly following the Battle of Endor , the bounty hunter Dengar found Mercurial Swift in Coronet City . Recognizing his talent , Dengar offered Swift a partnership as he planned to create a union of bounty hunters . Swift refused , as he preferred to work alone . The two fought each other in the rain , until Swift used dirty tactics to subdue the older bounty hunter . Dengar warned Swift that since the Galactic Civil War was coming to an end , the New Republic wouldn ' t tolerate the existence of bounty hunters for much longer . Dengar believed that there would soon be bounties on bounty hunters , causing the perceived need for a union of bounty hunters . Some time after , Dengar ' s prediction started to become a reality when the New Republic began denying services to bounty hunters following the paranoia caused by the terrorist attacks that look place on Liberation Day . Working for Sloane . Mercurial Swift would go on to be hired by the Imperial Grand Admiral Rae Sloane to kill the AWOL Vice Admiral Perwin Gedde , which he accomplished by poison ing Gedde ' s spice with kytrogorgia , Swift ' s poison of choice . Later , Swift rescued Sloane from being captured by a group of rebels on Coruscant . Out of gratitude , Sloane hired him to safely escort Brendol Hux , as well as his young illegitimate son , from the besieged Imperial - held world of Arkanis so that he could serve on Gallius Rax ' s Shadow Council . Prior to the attack on Chandrila , Sloane hired Swift to dig up any information he could on Rax . Swift accepted Sloane ' s job and traveled to Ord Mantell ' s moon Quantxi where he searched through the wreckage of Emperor Palpatine ' s yacht the " Imperialis " . There , he found information that Rax was from a backwater planet known as Jakku and had met Palpatine as a boy by stowing aboard his yacht . Due to the fact that Imperial credit s were no longer of any use to Mercurial Swift , Sloane offered to repay him in favors , a condition that he agreed to . Trap on Taris . In the months following the Attack on Chandrila , the New Republic operative Norra Wexley , the former Imperial loyalty officer Sinjir Rath Velus , and the bounty hunter Jas Emari set a trap for Mercurial Swift on the planet Taris . Norra and her team were hunting the fugitive Rae Sloane , the purported perpetrator behind the Chandrila attack . Norra and her colleagues created a fake bounty hunting job to track down Vazeen Mordraw , a wilder girl who had purportedly stolen a caseload of ID cards from the Gindar Gang . With the help of Vazeen herself , Norra ' s team lured Swift to Taris . While searching Taris ' wasteland , Swift encountered a local slave boy , who was acquianted with Vazeen . Using a mixture of physical threats and financial reward , Swift managed to coerce the boy into revealing that Vazeen was hiding at the old Palmyra foundry . Hours later , Swift was cornered by Norra , Sinjir , and Jas near the wreck of an old freighter . Swift was familiar with Jas , who was well known within bounty hunting circles . Following a struggle , Jas stun ned him with her blaster . Later that night , Swift awoke to find his arms bound to an old pipe . Norra and her companions proceeded to interrogate Swift , who held out despite the threat of physical force . However , Sinjir used his knowledge of interrogation methods and knowledge about Swift ' s history to exert pressure on the bounty hunter . Threatening to send the B1 battle droid Mister Bones to harm Swift ' s mother , Sinjir managed to force Teldar to reveal that Grand Admiral Sloane had hired him to search the Emperor ' s yacht on Quantxi for information about Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax , who had since proclaimed himself Counselor to the Empire and led most of the Empire to Jakku . Swift also revealed that Sloane had traveled with an unknown man , later revealed to be Norra ' s estranged husband Brentin Lore Wexley , to the planet Jakku . Settling scores with Jas Emari . After Mercurial Swift had disclosed the information they wanted , Jas proposed killing him to cover their threats . Swift pleaded for mercy and claimed that he was not worth killing . Choosing to spare his life , Norra knocked Swift unconscious with one of his stun baton s . The following morning , Swift awoke from his sleep and broke free of his restraints . Seeking retribution against Jas Emari , Swift contacted the Black Sun Underboss Rynscar and asked if there was a bounty on the Zabrak bounty hunter . Rynscar confirmed that the crime lord Gyuti had an existing bounty on Emari ' s head . Swift accepted the job in return for a payment of two dozen cases of nova crystal s . Recalling Dengar ' s advice , Swift decided to hire a crew before heading to Jakku on his Corellian shuttle . Swift hired Dengar , the Kyuzo hunter Embo , and the Rodian Jeeta . A week later , Jas was captured by Imperial forces on Jakku who handed her to Niima the Hutt , who lived in a temple on Jakku . After learning of her capture , Swift went to gloat over his foe in her cell . However , the Zabrak used three of her broken horns to overpower Swift and Niima ' s guards . During the fight , Swift sustained several facial scars from her broken spikes . Swift managed to escape on Swift ' s shuttle with the help of Embo , who was familiar with her aunt Sugi . Later , Jas and Norra returned to Niima ' s temple . In return for ferrying her home , Niima provided them with uniforms , an old Imperial shuttle , and clearance codes to travel to the main Imperial base on Jakku where Sloane and Brentin were held . Swift and his bounty hunter crew cornered the two women before they could leave . Using his position as a bounty hunter on Black Sun ' s payroll , Mercurial tried to force Niima to surrender Jas . When the Hutt refused and grabbed him by the neck , Dengar managed to force Niima to release him by threatening to shoot her . Despite his dislike for Swift , he was still willing to work as a crew member . The tables turn . Ultimately , Jas allowed herself to be captured in order to enable Norra and Mister Bones to complete their mission to capture Sloane . Swift commandeered Jas ' s Corellian shuttle to transport her and his crew . Swift wanted to travel offworld but the Rodian Jeeta convinced him to delay their departure due to the Battle of Jakku . During the journey , Jas took the opportunity to torment her captor about his plan . She pointed out that their clearance codes would not guarantee them safety in a war zone . When Swift announced that they would park their ship for a while before traveling to Boss Gyuti on Nar Shaddaa , Jas responded that he would screw him over . When Dengar remarked that Swift was sulking that Jas had ruined his " pretty " looks , Swift told him to shut up and struck Jas with his stun baton . Still , Jas persisted and managed to convince Dengar and Embo to switch sides to the New Republic . She told them that the New Republic was offering a million credits to whoever collected the bounty on Grand Admiral Sloane . As a further incentive , Jas told them that the New Republic was offering to fully pardon bounty hunters who aided them . When Swift claimed that his crew were loyal , Dengar responded that they did not like him . Dengar clubbed Swift in the side of the head with his blaster . Swift was hurt but managed to grab Jas around the neck . He edged towards the shuttle ' s ramp and taunted his former crew that they could have been rich . Jas however head butted him with her new set of horns , causing Swift to lose his grip . She then kicked him out of the cargo ramp . Swift was thrown out of the shuttle into the deserts of Jakku . Jas then hired Dengar , Embo , and Jeeta as her new crew . Personality and traits . Mercurial Swift was an attractive human man who was considered by Jas Emari and Dengar to resemble a " pretty boy " . Sinjir regarded Swift as having a smug look . Although Mercurial Swift lacked armor , he was known for his speed and agility , which he utilized in combat . Despite his speed , Swift was criticized by the more experienced bounty hunter Dengar for being " dumb " and in need of a " guiding hand , " though Swift refused one . Mercurial Swift ' s weapon of choice was a pair of batons . As a bounty hunter , Mercurial Swift was primarily interested in profit . While dissatisfied with the worthless Imperial currency , Swift was ameliorated when Sloane offered to pay him back with many favors . Swift cared for his mother Tabba Teldar and was her main source of income . He was protective of his mother and was willing to exact revenge on those who threatened her . Seeking revenge against Jas Emari for helping to trap him , Swift attempted to collect a bounty on her head . He hired several bounty hunters including Dengar , Embo , and Jeeta as his crew but secretly considered abandoning them . Jas ultimately was able to convince his crew to turn against him by appealing to their dislike for him and offering to secure them pardons if they helped her . Skills and abilities . Mercurial Swift wielded a pair of stun batons . One end was concussive while the other end was electric , allowing him to set the baton to kill or stun . Swift ' s second baton could also be modified with a hypoinjector for poison . Swift used his skills at poisoning to assassin ate Vice - Admiral Perwin Gedde . Behind the scenes . Mercurial Swift appears as a minor antagonist in Chuck Wendig ' s novels " Aftermath " , " " , and " " .