Khabarakh

Khabarakh clan Kihm'bar was a Noghri male introduced in the Star Wars Legends novel Heir to the Empire. 
A great-grandson of the clan's Maitrakh, Khabarakh grew up after the Noghri homeworld after it was devastated in the Clone Wars. He was one of many young Noghri sent off to fight on behalf of Grand Admiral Thrawn and the Galactic Empire.
In 9 ABY Khabarakh was part of a commando team sent to the Wookie homeworld of Kashyyk to kidnap the pregnant Leia Organa. During the mission he got close enough to smell her wrist, and realized that she had the scent of her father Anakin Skywalker, who the Noghri revered when he was Darth Vader. Agreeing to talk to Leia after his capture, Leia learned the name of the species that had spent the past couple months trying to kidnap her, and also of the Noghri's plight. She got him to agree to meet her at Endor where he took her to the Noghri homeworld Honoghr.
While there Khabarakh was arrested by the Grand Admiral on suspiscion of treason after Khabarakh's story about his time during and after the Kashyyk mission didn't add up. Instead of having Khabarakh interrogated for information, Thrawn instead decided to allow the Clan Dynasts to deal with Khabarakh according to Noghri law. Meanwhile Leia was able to prove to the Dynasts that the droids assigned by the Empire to supposedly decontaminate Honoghr's soil were instead planting grass that poisoned the planet, keeping the Noghri in servitute to the Empire. Khabarakh was allowed to return Leia to Coruscant while a cover story was created that Khabarakh had escaped with the aid of his family. 
After returning to Honoghr Khabarakh helped restore a section of the planet to pre Clone Wars condition. In a conversation with Luke Skywalker Khabarakh admitted that Honoghr's ecosystem was too badly damaged to save. A short time later when Leia asked the Noghri to provide her with some bodyguards, Khabarakh was one of the Noghri sent to act as Leia's bodyguard. After the death of Thrawn, Khabarakh returned home to assist in the restoration of his homeworld. 
By 19 ABY Khabarakh was working again for Leia as a body guard, commanding the team that guarded her children Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin Solo.
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