Mazzic Mazzic was a male Myke smuggler who was later a part of Talon Karrde ' s Smugglers ' Alliance that went against Grand Admiral Thrawn and helped the New Republic ' s shipping crisis . At one point , Shada D ' ukal , a Mistryl Shadow Guard , worked for Mazzic as a personal bodyguard . Biography . Very little was known of the past of the famous smuggler known as Mazzic . Starting out as a freighter captain for the Galactic Empire , operating out of Corellia , Mazzic fell out with his employers when someone close to him ( perhaps his wife ) was killed , murdered by the Empire trying to get to him . Fleeing to the Corporate Sector , Mazzic became a full - fledged smuggler soon after . Mazzic built up a small organization , consisting mostly of himself and the crew of his freighter " Distant Rainbow " and two " Preybird " - class starfighter , " Raptor " and " Skyclaw " and their pilots Griv and Amber . While he showed no love for the Empire , he was not against running goods for them , and enjoyed overcharging them for his services . Although fanatically secretive about his past ( perhaps because of the murder of his wife ) , Mazzic didn ' t withdraw from interacting with fellow smugglers . In fact many counted Mazzic as a friend , perhaps because of his keen sense of justice . And while Mazzic himself didn ' t trust too many people , those he did he treated as lifelong friends . An example of both Mazzic ' s devotion to his friends and his sense of justice were his rash actions in attacking and destroying a Star Destroyer under construction at the Bilbringi Shipyards following the death of the Gotal smuggler Lishma . Lishma was killed by Imperial troops during a smuggler ' s meeting on Trogan . Ironically , Lishma had voted not to oppose the Empire during the meeting , and was not shooting during the firefight with the stormtroopers . Lishma ' s death did , however , serve to sway Mazzic over to Talon Karrde ' s Smuggler ' s Alliance . While in his middle years , Mazzic still cut an impressive figure clad in a skin - tight black flight suit with twin blaster pistols in cross - draw rigs across his chest . A short black cloak and red - lensed flight goggles often completed the ensemble . Mazzic was also never seen without a toothpick in his mouth . For a while , Mazzic also included as part of the outfit , the beautiful , if somewhat vacuous , female companion known as Shada , who was in fact far more than her appearance let on . During the meeting called by Karrde in the Whistler ' s Whirlpool on Trogan , Mazzic was initially opposed to any sort of armed opposition to Thrawn , but after being fired upon by Imperial Lieutenant Kosk and his Chariot LAVs in an ambush planned by Niles Ferrier , he quickly joined up with Karrde . Mazzic was later taken by Thrawn , and then released in an attempt to plant seeds of dissent , aided by Ferrier , within the Smuggler ' s Alliance . Though initially successful , Ferrier ' s own incompetence led to his demise at Amber ' s hands while fleeing the scene in his gunship , shot down by the Raptor . Mazzic went on to lead the Smuggler ' s Alliance force at the Battle of Bilbringi . Mazzic ' s legendary ability to evade Imperial customs frigates and the traps they set for him made him a primary choice for Talon Karrde ' s smuggler ' s alliance ( although Karrde did consider Mazzic ' s sense of justice misguided ) . Ten years later , in 19 ABY , Mazzic happened to be the contact of Karrde ' s who apprehended Lak Jit , the Devaronian who had escaped Wayland with the news of the discovery of the Caamas Document , implicating a group of Bothan saboteurs in the Caamas Firestorm . After subduing Lak Jit , Mazzic remarked with some disgust that the information was worthless , as no one would care about what had happened to a single world so many years ago - in which he was grossly mistaken , failing to foresee the Caamas Document Crisis that followed the revelation . Behind the scenes . Originally Mazzic was described as a human and no reference was made in regard to Mazzic having an alien appearance in the novel " The Last Command " . Likewise Mazzic was originally depicted as a human in the artwork for " The Last Command Sourcebook " . Later comic depictions produced by Dark Horse Comics radically change Mazzic ' s appearance changing him into a dark - haired blue - skinned near - human that would years later be referred to as the " Myke " race .