Rodo

Rodo was one of the protagonists of the Star Wars Legends novel Death Star.
Rodo was a near-human, having descended from humans who colonized Ragith III, which was a high gravity world. Ragithian humans tended to be tall and quite strong, and Rodo was no exception about about 2 meters tall (6.5 feet). At some point in his life Rodo had become a Branded Aesthete, and as a result practiced celibacy. Rodo was also trained in the martial arts called Teräs Käsi, and was noted for his speed and strength in more standard gravity environments. He was noted for being particularly soft spoken for someone in his profession. 
A few years before the Battle of Yavin Rodo lived on Coruscant and was working as a bouncer for bar owner Memah Roothes, who ran a bar called the Soft Heart Cantina. The bar burned down a year before the Battle of Yavin, ostensibly due to arson but more likely the work of Imperials looking to "recruit" people to work on a new military installation. Roothes was given an offer to run a new cantina at that installation, and brought Rodo along to work as her bouncer at the new cantina. The installation turned out to be a new battle station called the Death Star, and Roothes named her new cantina the Hard Heart Cantina.
While on the Death Star he met Sergent Nova Stihl, who like him was a practitioner of Teräs Käsi when Stihl used his skills to defend himself from an attacker. Recognizing that Stihl was a fighter, Rodo sparred with Stihl after a Teräs Käsi class until Stihl taught until it became obvious that they were too evenly matched. He also became friends with other Hard Heart regulars like the pilot Villian Dance, escaped convict Celot Ratua Dil, archivist Atour Riten, architect Teela Kaarz, and Dr. Kornell Divini
As construction wrapped up Rodo and his friends became more and more uneasy with the Empire as Grand Moff Tarkin destroyed Despayre. The group was horrified a few days later when Tarkin ordered the Death Star to fire its superlaser at the peaceful world of Alderaan, reducing the planet to rubble. In the hours that followed a few Alderaanians who served on the Death Star sat in the bar staring off into space, mourning the lost of nearly if not all of their friends and families. When an Imperial trooper loudly celebrated the destruction of Alderaan in front of the Alderaanians, one of them got up to confront the troopers. Even though the Alderaanian was half the size of the trooper, he put that trooper on the deck. Rodo physically convinced the second trooper to scrape his buddy off the floor and leave. Rodo then told the Alderaanian how sorry he was, the Alderaanians tabs were all on the house, and if anyone else said something so stupid he would handle it as he could hit a lot harder than most humans could. 
After the destruction of Alderaan, the group began making plans to defect. The group managed to obtain access to a medical shuttle but found the access blocked when they went to board the shuttle as the Death Star approached Yavin. Rodo and Stihl attacked the stormtroopers blocking access to the shuttle. While Rodo and Stihl were both killed, their sacrifice enabled the others to escape - with the exception of Riten - who remained on board to open the bay doors and transmit proper clearance codes when needed.
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