Gha Nachkt Gha Nachkt was a Trandoshan salvage ship captain who worked for the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the intergalactic Clone Wars . After the battle over the planet Bothawui , Nachkt recovered a damaged Jedi interceptor , and claimed the surviving occupant : R2 - D2 , an R2 series astromech droid . As R2 - D2 contained vital information pertaining to the Galactic Republic , he planned to sell the droid to the confederate commander , General Grievous . However , Nachkt was intercepted by the droid ' s owner , Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker . The Trandoshan hid R2 - D2 while Skywalker investigated the salvage ship . When Skywalker ' s search proved inconclusive and left , Nachkt traveled to the Separatist held Skytop Station . There , Nachkt demanded payment from Grievious — more than they previously agreed upon — and was promptly stabbed in the back by the general ' s lightsaber . Biography . One Republic ' s trash is another Trandoshan ' s treasure . A Trandoshan male , Gha Nachkt picked up work as a salvage ship captain sometime before or during the the galaxy - wide conflict known as the Clone Wars . At some point during the war , the fleets of the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems collided over the planet Bothawui . The Republic forces were led by the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker , who piloted a Delta - 7 " Aethersprite " - class light interceptor alongside his R2 series astromech droid co - pilot R2 - D2 . However , during the battle , Skywalker ' s ship was critically damaged and Skywalker was ejected from his ship and recovered . R2 - D2 and the interceptor remained behind , however . After both forces finally withdrew , Nachkt arrived to the field of wreckage in his ship , " Vulture ' s Claw " , and began to salvage what he could . He eventually found the damaged interceptor and brought R2 - D2 aboard his ship . Believing that the droid could be worth something to the Confederacy due to R2 - D2 ' s library of Republic intel , Nachkt contacted General Grievous , the commander of the Separatist droid armies , and agreed to sell R2 - D2 to the general . Nachkt was to take R2 - D2 to Skytop Station , a listening post , and drop the droid off there and then collect his payment . However , before Nachkt could depart Bothawui space , Skywalker returned in search of R2 - D2 . Along with his padawan Ahsoka Tano , Skywalker boarded the " Vulture ' s Claw " and began to search for his droid . Nachkt feigned assistance , and attempted to sell the Jedi other droids on his ship . Eventually , he left them alone to browse . However , the Jedi ' s newly issued droid , R3 - S6 , who was secretly a Separatist spy , tried to kill the Jedi by activating two dormant IG - 86 sentinel droid s . The Jedi destroyed the droids and then left the ship , leaving an unhappy Trandoshan salvage ship captain behind , who was displeased with the damage done to his droids . However , with the Jedi gone and R2 - D2 still onboard the " Vulture ' s Claw " , Nachkt was finally able to leave for Confederate space . Nachkt out cold . While en route to the listening post , R2 - D2 tried to escape the " Vulture ' s Claw " , removing his restraining bolt and jettisoning another IG - 86 droid into space . However , R2 - D2 was soon recaptured by Nachkt , but not before the droid was able to transmit information regarding his whereabouts back to Skywalker . Realizing this , Nachkt knocked the droid out of commission . After arriving at Skytop , Nachkt disassembled R2 - D2 on Grievous ' orders , where they discovered that R2 - D2 held even more Republic intel than they had previously believed . However , their investigation became hurried , as Skywalker had launched a rescue mission for R2 - D2 , in order to stop the Confederacy from obtaining the droid ' s intel . However , despite the impending rescue as Skywalker ' s clone trooper s battled their way through the listening post , Nachkt decided to demand a larger payment from Grievous , citing that the droid was suddenly worth more than previously thought because of the droid ' s amount of information . Finally tired of the salvage ship captain , Grievous used one of his lightsaber s to stab Nachkt through the back , mockingly referring to the action as the Trandoshan ' s " bonus . " After Nachkt ' s death , R2 - D2 was successfully recovered , and Skytop Station was destroyed by the Republic troopers . Personality and traits . A bloated , over - weight Trandoshan , Gha Nachkt believed in the all - mighty credit . After making his deal with Grievous , Nachkt was careful to follow through on this deal , and was sure to hide R2 - D2 from his master in order not to lose valuable merchandise . However , Nachkt was also a greedy individual , as he flippantly demanded more money from Grievous after handing the droid over to him , going back on their previous arrangement . Physically , Nachkt had an unmistakable asymmetry to his face , with a fold of flesh drooping over his right eye . Nachkt had brown skin and eyes , large round feet , and had four fingers on each hand . Behind the scenes . Gha Nachkt was created for the television series " " , and made his first on - screen appearance in the episode " Downfall of a Droid " , in which he was voiced by Ron Perlman . He later appeared in the followup episode " Duel of the Droids " . According to series supervisor Dave Filoni , Nachkt was created because Filoni liked Trandoshans , but decided that Nachkt should be older and out of shape on a suggestion from his friend Giancarlo Volpe . Nachkt ' s digitally created model was later reused and retextured in order to be used for the character Nack Movers , who later appears in the episode " Lightsaber Lost " . The model appears with its original texture in the , but this has yet to be officially confirmed as Gha Nachkt himself .