Embo

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**Embo** was a male Kyuzo bounty hunter who operated during the Clone Wars and the Age of the Empire. He often sided with Sugi's band of bounty hunters, but on his own he was renowned as one of the most skilled bounty hunters of his time. He owned a pet Anooba named Marrow and a saucer-shaped ship called the *Guillotine*. He carried a modified bowcaster and wore a large-rimmed circular hat, which he used as a weapon or a shield against small arms fire. He is quite mysterious, as he doesn't speak the basic language, is skilled in hand to hand combat and is very athletic as he could jump very high in the air and cover large distances quickly and has been able to pull off very skilled moves and feats.

## Biography

### Clone Wars Career

A hulking male Kyuzo from his homeworld of Phatrong, **Embo** became infamous during the Clone Wars for his skills as a bounty hunter and hat-for-hire. He was a skilled shot with his bowcaster and used his distinctive headgear as a boomerang an unexpected move that took many a quarry by surprise. Embo worked for many bounty-hunting crews, signing on at various points with the likes of Sugi, Cad Bane and Boba Fett, as well as taking on solo jobs aboard his saucer-shaped starship, the *Guillotine*. Embo was a professional who fulfilled any contract he agreed to, but his only true loyalty was to Marrok, his pet Anooba.

#### Helping Threatened Farmers

At one point, he was part of Sugi's band of bounty hunters, alongside Rumi Paramita and Seripas. The group were employed by Casiss, the leader of a farming village on the planet Felucia, to protect the villagers and their harvest of Nysillin from a gang of pirates led by Hondo Ohnaka. Shortly after they had been hired, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano crash-landed on Felucia and discovered the village. A brief standoff between the Jedi and the hunters took place before Casiss intervened, begging the two groups to work together against the pirates. The Jedi were initially reluctant to help the villagers, but were swayed after a brief encounter with Ohnaka, the leader of the gang, whom the Jedi had met once before. Refusing to be bought off by the pirates, the bounty hunters, along with the Jedi, began teaching the villagers to defend themselves. Embo, watching Skywalker train the villagers how to use a simple farming tool as a weapon, chuckled at their lack of experience. While the villagers were preparing to fight, Sugi spotted a lone pirate watching from a nearby ridge.

Embo was sent to deal with the scout and the Kyuzo quickly took him out, disabling his Starhawk speeder bike with his bowcaster and blocking the pirate's shots using his metallic hat, before snapping the Weequay's neck with his bare hands. Skywalker commended Embo for his actions, but the fact that the scout would no longer check back in with Hondo meant the villagers didn't have any time to waste. Soon afterwards, the pirates attacked the village. Dozens of pirates on speeder bikes swept into the village, firing at the defenders. Embo dispatched one of the pirates and commandeered a speeder bike, using it to take out several others. When Ohnaka arrived on the scene in his tank, however, Embo wasn't quick enough to avoid one of the tank's blasts and was hit. With a badly wounded right arm, Embo was helped into the main barn at the center of the village by Sugi and the others, unable to participate in the battle any longer. After Ohnaka and his pirates retreated and fled the system, Embo left in Sugi's ship, *Halo*, along with the Jedi, and traveled to a Republic outpost.

#### Later Bounty Hunting Exploits

Later on, Embo was present on Serenno with eleven other bounty hunters one of which was, in reality, Obi-Wan Kenobi, disguised as Rako Hardeen  to fight in the "Box", which had been designed by Moralo Eval. Embo was one of the few hunters to survive the challenge, and was assigned by Count Dooku to kidnap Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine. Embo then traveled to Naboo to carry out the daring mission. The hunters successfully kidnapped the Chancellor, assuming the roles of Senate Commandos through the use of the holographic disguise matrix, developed by Sinrich. Embo rushed the Chancellor away but failed to escape and were arrested by Skywalker and Mace Windu. Embo did not remain in Republic custody for long, however. Some time later, he and Marrok were seen sharing a table at Chalmun's Cantina, while the pair were also present outside a hut in the town.

Some time later, Embo was employed by the Grand Hutt Council as a bodyguard, along with Sugi, Dengar and Latts Razzi. When Darth Maul and his brother, Savage Opress, representing the Shadow Collective, threatened the Hutts, Embo and the others sprang into action to defend their employers. At first the bounty hunters were able to beat the brothers back, but they were driven back when the forces of Death Watch joined in the attack. Embo went up against Opress on his own, saved from the Nightbrother only by the strength of his hat. When it was clear that they couldn't win, Embo and the others retreated, abandoning their employers. Sometime after this, Embo traveled to Scipio, the home planet of Rush Clovis, whom he had been hired to drive off the InterGalactic Banking Clan vault world. When Clovis arrived, along with Padmé Amidala and Skywalker, Embo killed Amidala's aide, Teckla Minnau, and disabled the trio's ship, forcing them to flee through the snow.

Embo, chasing Clovis, was held at bay by Skywalker until the trio was saved by R2-D2, who was piloting their ship. Having accomplished his mission, Embo informed his employer, Darth Sidious, that Clovis had escaped just as the Dark Lord had planned. In the latter months of the war, Embo began taking jobs on a regular basis with Boba Fett's team of bounty hunters. One job in particular found the crew hired by former ally of the Sith, Asajj Ventress, to assist in the rescue of her lover, Quinlan Vos. This was his first time working with the Dathomirian Nightsister and former Sith apprentice. Embo and his anooba Marrok traveled to Serenno on the *Guillotine* and rendezvoused with Fett's syndicate and Ventress at the planet's spaceport. While the mission proved to be a failure, Embo and the rest of Fett's team escaped a direct encounter with the Sith-Lord Count Dooku, alive.

### Later Career

#### Joining Jas's Crew

By the time of the Battle of Jakku, Embo, along with the bountry hunters Dengar and a Rodian named Jeeta, was hired by Mercurial Swift in order to capture Jas Emari, Sugi's niece. The Black Sun crime boss Gyuti had imposed a bounty on Emari's head. Embo joined Swift's party because he wanted to get cleared off his debts. After learning that Niima the Hutt had taken Jas captive on Jakku, Embo and the other bounty hunters traveled to Niima's temple to pick her up. Swift went into Emari's cell to fetch her, intending to collect the bounty for himself and abandon his crew. However, Jas broke free and overpowered her captors. After escaping her captors, Jas headed to the hangar only to find Embo and Dengar guarding Swift's Corellian shuttle. They began speaking, and during the conversation Embo mentioned the death of Marrok, which had happened years before. Knowing that Embo had incurred debts, Jas tried to remind Embo that he and her aunt Sugi had worked together.

Emari convinced Embo to let her take the ship, saying that he was old and that Marrok always liked her. Dengar tried to stop Jas but she managed to escape on the Corellian shuttle. Later, Jas Emari and the New Republic operative Norra Wexley returned to Niima's temple. In return for ferrying Niima back to her temple, the Hutt crime lady had outfitted them with an old Imperial shuttle, old uniforms, and clearance codes to enter the Main Imperial base on Jakku. Embo and the rest of Swift's party cornered Jas and Niima. While Norra escaped with her son's droid Mister Bones aboard the shuttle, Jas stayed behind in order to allow Norra to proceed with her mission to capture Grand Admiral Rae Sloane. Following Emari's capture, Swift attempted to travel to Nar Shaddaa to deliver Jas to Boss Gyuti. However, they were unable to leave due to the Battle of Jakku. During the wait, Jas managed to convince Embo, Dengar, and Jeeta to turn against Swift.

She offered to secure them pardons from the New Republic if they switched sides. Swift tried to object but was thrown out of the shuttle by Jas with the help of Dengar. Embo, Jeeta, and Dengar then became Jas' crew. They took Swift's shuttle to the Jakku Observatory where they picked up Norra, who had joined forces with Sloane and her estranged husband Brentin Lore Wexley to stop Gallius Rax from destroying Jakku as part of the late Emperor's Contingency plan. Following the Battle of Jakku and the Galactic Concordance, Embo and the rest of Emari's crew received full pardons from the New Republic with the help of Jas' friend Sinjir Rath Velus, a former Imperial loyalty officer who had become an adviser to Chancellor Mon Mothma. They also received enough money from the New Republic and continued to work with Emari as her crew.