Sarco Plank

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**Sarco Plank**, also known as **The Scavenger**, was a Melitto who made a living off of retrieving valuable artifacts for clients, while also displaying a sadistic side in luring individuals to their deaths in the process. Shortly after the Battle of Yavin, Plank guided the young Jedi-in-training Luke Skywalker to the Temple of Eedit on the planet Devaron, hoping to use the Jedi to unlock the temple, which Plank believed harbored a considerable amount of treasures in its sub levels. Plank revealed his true intentions to Luke after the latter outlived his usefulness and brandished an electrostaff against the Jedi trainee atop the temple. Luke fought back with his father's lightsaber and cast Plank into the depths of the temple, though Luke sensed Plank's continued survival through the Force. Plank was later active as far as 30 years after the Battle of Endor.

## Biography

### The Outcast Guide

**Sarco Plank** grew up in the settlement of Tikaroo on the planet Devaronthe, but was never popular with the town folk and came to consider the surrounding jungle his home, only returning to civilization when necessary. He was alive at a time when the Jedi Order was still active on Devaron prior to their destruction during Order 66, and was aware of the Jedi Temple of Eedit located near Tikaroo. For years he hoped to enter the temple and loot the treasures he imagined were inside, but he was stopped by the Galactic Empire, who banned entry to the location and protected it with sensors. He became commonly known as "the Scavenger", a nickname he hated, but earned by seeking out valuable objects and finding clients to purchase them. He also sometimes worked as a guide, and was free to operate as he pleased since he owned both his own gear and mount, whereas most local guides rented their equipment from a local depot owner named Porst. On some occasions, Plank would guide his clients to a gloomy depression carpeted with moss and kill them there, leaving their corpses amongst the dirt and leaves. His victims were normally wealthy and eccentric old hunters who had no one that would report them missing once they were gone. He claimed that the clients met with unfortunate accidents, but some locals came to suspect his involvement.

During the early stages of the Galactic Civil War, after the Battle of Yavin but before the Battle of Hoth, the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker landed on Devaron to repair his Y-wing starfighter. Plank learned that the pilot was seeking to visit the Temple of Eedit, a Jedi Temple from before the Clone Wars which had lain abandoned for many years. The local guides who worked in Tikaroo refused to take Skywalker due to the Imperial occupation, but during Skywalker's second day on Devaron, Plank waited for him on the porch of Porst's depot, where Skywalker was staying. While waiting the scavenger cleaned his blaster rifle, and then sized Skywalker up when he did arrive, offering the boy his services as a guide. Skywalker accepted, and two hours later, Plank met Skywalker outside the depot with two happabores for them to travel on. He attached howdahs to the mounts' backs and then aided Skywalker in loading his protocol droid C-3PO into the howdah on top of the smaller happabore, while the Jedi's astromech droid R2-D2 was strapped onto the beast's side. As Plank and Skywalker prepared to leave town, the local Devaronian girl Farnay arrived and tried unsuccessfully to persuade Skywalker not to travel with the Scavenger, warning him about Plank's clients that never returned.

As the four were traveling through Devaron's jungles, Skywalker sensed a number of pikhron nearby and stopped Plank, who assumed his client wanted to hunt the beasts and handed him a rifle. Skywalker refused the weapon and ordered that Plank not kill them, offering to cover whatever price the creature's hides would have been worth when the scavenger objected. Skywalker and C-3PO then questioned Plank about growing up on Devaron and how he had earned his nickname. The scavenger was surprised to learn that Skywalker had once worked as a farmer, having already heard Skywalker's cover story that he was a hyperspace scout. He then offered to sell Skywalker's starfighter and R2 unit if he was interested, as he knew individuals who would be interested in buying. The Jedi turned the offer down and asked that Plank take him to Eedit, which the Scavenger initially refused. After Skywalker claimed he only wished to see the temple due to an interest in historic sites and artefacts, Plank agreed to take him for an additional fee.

### Battle at the Temple of Eedit

Plank took Skywalker and his droids as far as the edge of the large plateau where the temple was located, but refused to go any further due to a number of Imperial sensors dotted around the temple to stop visitors. He instead offered to take Skywalker to the location where he normally killed his clients, refusing to tell the Jedi what he would find there. The Jedi sensed Plank's intent through the force and refused, asking how he could get closer to the temple and if there was a lake nearby, as unbeknown to Plank he had seen one in a Force vision. Puzzled, Plank explained that there was no lake nearby, but mentioned that there was a dam, which Skywalker then demanded he be taken to. At the dam, Plank examined various abandoned gear and droid parts left from the Battle of Devaron during the Clone Wars, but abandoned them as junk. He laughed when Skywalker asked for macrobinoculars to view a nearby cliff, but obliged and was surprised when his client spotted a far off cave entrance to the temple well out of his field of view.

Skywalker managed to scale the cliff and reach the cave, then returned and haggled with Plank for the use of his block and tackle in getting R2 and C-3PO up the cliff. Once the droids were safely up, the Jedi threw down Plank's gear and informed him that he would be inside the temple for a few days and would raise the guide on comlink when he wanted to leave. Plank then returned to his beasts and set up a campsite near the cliffs where he waited for Skywalker, making a campfire from branches and leaves. After a day of waiting, Plank saw a group of eight Imperial Storm Troopers and an Imperial officer enter the temple with Farnay as a prisoner. Plank activated his electrostaff and followed the Imperials, commenting on Skywalker's use of a lightsaber and then activating an electromagnetic pulse from his belt to disable the Imperials' communications. One of the troopers shot at Plank and missed, prompting the alien to spear the Imperial with his staff and stun him.

A full battle then broke out between the Imperials, Plank and Skywalker. Skywalker killed the Imperial officer with a deflected blaster bolt, and he and Plank then took down the remaining troopers with their lightsaber and staff respectively. Once the battle was over, Skywalker thanked Plank as the alien began throwing the trooper's bodies into a collapsed pit at the center of the temple. He explained to Skywalker that hiding the bodies would make it more difficult for the Empire to work out what had happened, and the Jedi aided him in finishing the task. Plank then revealed to Skywalker that he had worked out that the boy was a Jedi, but assumed he was only a Padawan. He then revealed that he had wanted to enter the temple and loot it for years and thanked Skywalker for showing him a way in.

The pair then dueled, and Plank soon gained the upper hand after Skywalker discovered that the scavenger's electrostaff was able to withstand his lightsaber. After Skywalker managed to nick the back of Plank's leg, the alien activated a flash grenade and blinded his foe. Skywalker was saved when Farnay began shooting at Plank, but the scavenger managed to disarm her and threatened to kill her. Skywalker then return to the fight while still blind, and assuming the boy was no threat Plank moved to finish him. He was caught off guard when Skywalker slashed across his torso and screeched in pain, drawing Skywalker's blaster pistol to shoot the Jedi. Before he could fire, a herd of pikhron charged from nearby and knocked Plank into the same pit that he had earlier thrown the Storm Troopers. The scavenger survived the fall, but was left by Skywalker, who returned to Tikaroo with Farnay and the droids and then left Devaron.

### Work on Jakku

Plank at some point relocated to the planet Jakku, escaping or possibly hiding from the enemies he'd made over his dubious career. On Jakku, Plank established himself as an arms-dealer and bounty hunter in Niima Outpost. He acted as a fence, buying stolen weaponry, often enhancing it with Trandoshan Triplers and Doublers to amplify the the firepower of blaster weapons. In a scavenger-based economy like Niima, such weapons were in strong demand.

## Equipment

The Scavenger wore a battered old gray metal helmet which hid all of his head, bar his face and included a vocoder built into the chin. It was capable of extending a shield to entirely cover Plank's face when needed. His torso was strapped with two bandoliers covered in bulging pockets, which sat either side of a control box with black tubes extending from it, two of which connected to the cheeks of Plank's helmet and two of which ran up and over his shoulders. At least one of the tubes contained a pale green liquid. Mismatched armor covered his left forearm and right shoulder, and a torn cape hung from his right shoulder. Plank's belt included a switch which could activate a electromagnetic pulse.

He kept a block and tackle on one of his happabores, which he used to hoist the corpses of pikhrons for skinning during hunts. He kept a pair of small, but expensive macrobinoculars in one of the pockets of his bandoleers. In combat, he used an electrostaff, and also owned two long, boxy-looking blaster rifles and at least one flashgrenade.

On Jakku, Plank wore a simpler outfit, in-keeping with the common forms of dress at Niima Outpost. He wore a layered, hooded robe in dark red tones with a lighter red underlayer. His robes were stained and dirty from the harsh conditions on Jakku. A Nutrient and Fluid Dispenser was mounted on his chestplate and feed into his chitinous mask, but he had dispensed with visible armor and no longer carries the weaponry bandolier. Plank carried a modified SoroSuub JSP-14 pistol amplified with an exotic Trandoshan Tripler.