Augustine Smight Augustine Smight was one of the guards of the Cog Hive Seven prison by the year 33 BBY . He also worked as an undercover employee of Jabba the Hutt . He was killed by using a badly - constructed lightsaber , the blade of which looped back on itself and into his face . Biography . Working inside Cog Hive Seven . Augustine Smight was a young recruit who lived during the waning years of the Galactic Republic . He worked as a corrections officer on the space station prison Cog Hive Seven . As all other guards within the prison , he possessed a control unit called a " dropbox " , which could kill prisoners by activating the subatomic electrostatic detonators implanted into their hearts . Darth Maul infiltrated this prison under the name of Jagganath and it was Smight who scanned him for infections or hidden weapons . He attempted to intimidate the Sith Lord by describing the brutal life inside the prison , but his quavering voice and trembling hand betrayed his nervousness . When a father and son organized an escape attempt , locking themselves inside the prison ' s medbay , Smight was one of the guards to arrive at the scene . Along with another officer , he brought Maul up into a crowded service lift , where he kept his blaster jammed against the Zabrak ' s spine until the moment he received a verbal threat . He brought Maul into the office of Warden Sadiki Blirr . Smight was afterwards ordered to leave . He voiced his uncertainty at this decision , but was impatiently gestured away . Before one of the prison ' s infamous fighting matches , Smight was ordered by Sadiki to await for Maul in a corridor outside his cell . The Warden had prepared zip - tie restraints in order to make Maul ' s next fight more difficult . Smight fitted these restraints to Maul ' s ankles and weighed them to the floor . Maul noticed by the officer ' s twitchy behavior that Smight had taken glitterstim to nerve himself for this task . When Maul made a remark about his spice - influenced behavior , the young guard reacted with hostility and quickly exited his cell . Meeting with the Prison Warden . Still feeling confident by the effects of spice , Smight later attended a meeting along with several other officers . While they all awaited the Warden , he spoke with a corpulent guard named Hootkins . Once Sadiki arrived , she opened a holoprojector communication channel with Jabba the Hutt . She then exposed Smight and his fellow officers in front of the Hutt as the Crime Lord ' s own foot soldiers , sent by him to work undercover in order to track down the weapons dealer Iram Radique . Smight felt a rising panic at the accusations , but attempted not to show any reaction . Sadiki asked Jabba to recognize his men and she would then return them to him unharmed . However , Jabba denied knowing any of them and expressed no interest in whether they would live or die . The Warden then slid open a panel to reveal various prison gang members approaching the meeting room . She threatened to unleash the prisoners against the unarmed guards unless someone else admitted to the truth . It was Hootkins who first caved in and betrayed all the disloyal members , a list which included Smight himself . Sadiki abandoned them all to their fate . As the guards were being violently slaughtered , Smight managed to escape by rushing into a dark passageway . Running to Survive . Smight wandered around the prison tunnels in fear , until he encountered a giant Wolf Worm named the Syrox . Desperate not to be eaten , Smight rushed back through the corridors which he had come from , where he was once more caught by the gang members who had killed his coworkers . Just before he was attacked by the prisoners , he managed to warn Nailhead and Strabo of the Syrox . However , his words did not come quickly enough to save the gangs from the creature . Smight once more escaped by lying low and crawling quietly away into a conduit . After this event , he was plagued by what he had seen and briefly lost any enthusiasm to survive . He managed to accidentally locate a chemical laboratory and correctly deduced that it was the secret headquarters of Radique ' s operations . He explored the area and uncovered a multitude of customized weapons . Hoping to use his findings in order to earn a higher position within the Desilijic Clan , Smight did a quick inventory and armed himself with a DT - 12 blaster pistol . Before he could leave , however , he was attacked by one of Radique ' s men and knocked out by a blow to the side of his head . By the time he awoke , he was gagged and tied by his hands and ankles . Final Confrontation with Darth Maul . Iram Radique ' s inner circle met with Darth Maul inside the laboratory . They discussed synthetic lightsabers which Radique was trying to produce . Maul suggested that they were faulty and would not work correctly . He told the prisoner Zero to attack him with one of the lightsabers , as proof of his confidence in his claims . Instead of carrying out this offer , Zero asked the Chadra - Fan Coyle to bring forward Smight . The guard ' s bonds were cut loose and he was handed a lightsaber , but the gag over his mouth was not removed . Ordered to kill the Zabrak , Smight at first hesitated due to feeling humiliation , until a murderous resolve took over him . Maul thought that the prison guard felt a sacred self - actualization at the decision to use the lightsaber . Before he could cut down the Sith Lord , however , the weapon malfunctioned and instantly killed Smight by hooking through his face and chopping his body to pieces . Personality and traits . Augustine Smight was a jittery officer with an occasional cruel streak . Despite trying to appear brave , his fears were visible to prisoners around him and he backed down whenever Darth Maul verbally threatened him . Smight was prone to self - pity and considered himself cowardly , inadequate and incompetent . His feelings of self - doubt and uncertainty surfaced in particular when he was in great personal danger . He had a good knowledge of various weapons , being able recognize different types of guns and explosives , and whether they were up to factory specifications . Smight had a spice addition , which he thought helped him to gain courage and heightened his senses .