Aldar Beedo

**Aldar Beedo**, also known as **"The Hit Man,"** was a Glymphid male most notable for working as an assassin, bounty hunter, and Podracer pilot during the Twillight of the Galactic Republic. Beedo was ominous, cold-blooded and often enjoyed torturing and inflicting pain on others, much due to his harsh background. He often took advantage of this trait by offering his services to whoever would offer the largest pile of Truguts, never having any ethical or moral boundaries when undertaking contracts.

As a Podracer, Beedo always piloted his blue *MARK IV* Flat-Twin Turbojet, which was renowned for its heavy traction and large size rather than its handling or speed. Beedo would also hire himself out to other Podracers who needed jobs done on the track, and more often than not, his massive Turbojet was generally the right craft for the job.

Aldar Beedo's skill as an assassin was called upon by a smuggler who needed a rival crime lord killed: The target was the Fluggrian Borzu Nale, a contract which Beedo gladly accepted, and completed, much due to his target's species. This job however, would come to haunt Beedo many years later as Nale's son, Kam Nale, would come after the Glymphid seeking retribution.

Aldar Beedo would later race in the Boonta Eve Classic set in Tatooine. Unbeknownst to Beedo, Kam Nale had followed him to the desert planet, where he hoped to kill the Glymphid and avenge his father. Meanwhile, Beedo had signed onto a partnership contract with the Devlikk Wan Sandage, and together they planned to eliminate Sandage's rival, the Dug Boonta champion Sebulba himself, mid-race. This hit would fail however, as Beedo never caught up to Sebulba, placing third during the race. As for Sandage, he crashed into a sandcrawler at the third lap and luckly survived. In turn, Kam Nale also couldn't catch up to Beedo as he finished in fifth place.

Not backing down from his contract, the bounty hunter swore to one day complete his hit on Sebulba, following the Dug to whenever he went podracing. The same applied to himself, as Nale would follow Beedo whenever he went racing from that day on.

## Biography

### Early Life

Born in 970 PRC (52 BBY) in Biduula Jimaju, a crime-ridden nation in the Expansion Region planet of Ploo II, Aldar Beedo belonged to a poverty-stricken family which lived in one of their city's many dangerous ghettos.

As Beedo grew up, he would soon find out he was born in a time of unrest for his species. The Glymphids were caught up in a long century-spanning war with the neighboring world of Ploo IV, home to the amphibians known as Fluggrians. The Fluggrians were relatively well known for their tight knit criminal family empires, and despised the Glymphids just as much as the Glymphids despised them in turn, due to so many years of conflict.

At that time in Glymphid society, it wasn't uncommon for its government to take advantage of Ploo II's most marginalized groups, recruiting many promising youngsters from impoverished families to be trained as professional assassins in the exchange of offering better livelihoods.

Beedo was one of such youngsters, eventually leaving his household to be trained as an assassin, never to see his family again. He soon became a cold-blooded, sadistic individual, who eventually ended up quitting his wetwork services to the government and became a ruthless assassin-for-hire instead. The Glymphid would offer his services to whomever would offer the most money, never taking sides and never having any moral boundaries when undertaking his contracts.

   Beedo later ended up finding out that the Podracing scene was ripe with opportunity for his line of work and soon began taking jobs on the circuit after purchasing a Manta RamAir *MARK IV* Flat-Twin Turbojet with his blood money and painting it blue, eventually growing to enjoy the thrill of the race as well as taking the racing prizes as a form of extra.

Around that time, he would also end up designing his own Podracing flag, modeled after the flag of Biduula's government, only turned upside-down as form of disrespect and mockery.

Beedo brought what piloting skills he had into Podracing. Even though his vehicle lacked a strong accelerator, it had a tremendous boost package to bring the vehicle out onto the forefront, topped on with incredible handling. In addition, the massive engines made it both a viable and intimidating adversary on the track. The faster reflexes of the Glymphids also gave him an edge above many other species.

His aggressive racing style earned him the nickname "The Hit Man," a title that ironically pointed at Beedo's other secret profession. Not much later, Beedo would learn how to speak Huttese in order to better his contracts in the future.

### Podracing career and assassinations

In 990 PRC (32 BBY), a Twi'lek smuggler named Orin Nyell was making a profit contrabanding water to the planet of Sernpidal. The water, however, was smuggled straight from Ploo IV, and was an especially big detriment to the activities of the Fluggrian crime lord Borzu Nale, who did his best to make Nyell's life a living hell in return.

Nyell sought out Aldar Beedo and hired him to pull the job of eliminating the head of the Nale crime family. Aldar Beedo accepted the job and gladfully eliminated his target, due to his long story with the Fluggrian race, and soon after collected his paycheck, leaving Nyell to freely conduct his smuggling business.

While considered a second-rate pilot, Aldar Beedo still managed to make a name for himself on the ice world of Ando Prime, as his RamAir's excellent traction granted him great advantage over most other pilots. Eventually he became the track favorite on a course known as Beedo's Wild Ride, named in the Glymphid assassin's honor after he took the course by storm with the three-lap record time of *03:16.697* minutes.

### Dug hunt at the Boonta Eve Classic

Unknown to Beedo, his past would soon come back to haunt to him. Kam Nale, son of Borzu Nale and heir to the Nale crime family, had been tracking down his father's killer for quite some time, not knowing his name, but only his alias, "The Hit Man".

When Beedo entered the Boonta Eve Classic of 32 BBY, Nale soon after identified Beedo as the murderer of his father after listening the many rumors about the man, including his alias. With that in mind, Nale decided to follow Beedo to Tatooine, planning to enter the race and dispose of Beedo on the track himself. However, Nale wasn't the only one on the conspiracy, for Orin Nyell had learned of Kam Nale's existence, and fearing that Borzu's heir may retake control of his father's empire and bring his water smuggling business to a halt once again, Nyell hired the rookie bounty hunter Rango Tel to take care of the Fluggrian family once and for all.

A few days prior to the race, Beedo was contacted by an aging Devlikk named Wan Sandage. Sandage's species, the Devlikks, had notoriously short life spans, and at the age of six, Sandage believed that his chances of beating Sebulba grew evermore short. He had also heard about the killing of Borzu Nale, and figured out that the new racer in town, the Glymphid nicknamed "The Hit Man", was the same one to have executed the Fluggrian crime boss, as they both shared the same alias.

Sandage approached Beedo at the Maggy the Gorgon's bar, while the latter was enjoying a drink of Pasanta mead, a beverage that could only be safely consumed by very few species (including the Glymphids) and proceeded explain his predicament.

Beedo listened to the entirety of Sandage's story, though he had initially dismissed the Devlikk after he shared his knowledge of Beedo's role in Borzu Nale's assassination, only listening to him after he offered a sum of one hundred thousand wupiupi to eliminate Sebulba during the race, making it seem like an accident. Beedo knew of Sebulba's brutal reputation and how risky it was to eliminate him, and demanded a price of two hundred thousand wupiupi up front, which Sandage gladly agreed to pay.

While Sebulba himself had no idea who exactly was going after his head, he was quite aware of the possible attempts on his life during and even prior to the race, and quickly met up with his own hired gun, a Vulptereen named Dud Bolt, for protection. Like Beedo, the Vulptereen assassin also had a part-time job as a Podracer.

Meanwhile, Nale hid inside an abandone apartment and start laying down his revenge plan. After having purchased a Podracer of his own, an outdated Kurtob KRT 410C, he planned to enter the race using what money he could and shoot Beedo down.

A day prior to the race, Sandage and Beedo met at the bar Maggy the Gorgon's once again, and the Glymphid assassin, explaining that the job was going to be harder than expected, noted that his usual fees stood at one hundred thousand truguts for any job, with fifty-thousand upfront and the final fifty-thousand upon completion of the job. Sandage, desperate, agreed to the additional fees.

### Race day

Next morning, the racers assembled at the Mos Espa Grand Arena. Aldar Beedo's Podracer was one of the first on the grid, placed on the outside pole position of the first row, starting right next to Sebulba's massive orange Collor Pondrat Plug-F *Mammoth* Split-X Podracer. Dud Bolt was, in turn, right behind the both of them. Sandage started in the last row of the pack on the outside position. All the while Nale, having made it to the arena after a narrow encounter with Rango Tel to which only he walked off alive, started on the inside of the fourth row, having changed his name to "Elan Mak" in hopes of avoiding being recognized by Aldar Beedo.

After the Troig announcers, Fodesinbeed Annodue, conducted the race's opening ceremonies. Boonta Eve's host, Jabba the Hutt himself, finally began the race,

As Sebulba rammed the Gran contestant Mawhonic into a rock wall during the early moments of the race at the Mushroom Mesa section, Beedo quickly followed suit, and unknown to the Glymphid, Nale did the same to him. "Mak" remained in second place for a considerable portion of the first lap, but hung back and landed right behind Beedo. Feeling that was his chance to end Beedo, Nale pulled his blaster and tried firing at the murderer of his father, however, due to the sheer speed of the race, the air resistance made it so that it became incredibly hard to properly aim at his target and shoot without being noticed, as using a blaster during the race was forbidden.

Sandage trailed behind, near the Xamster pilot Neva Kee. He was then was quickly surpassed by the sole Human contestant, Anakin Skywalker, who had actually stalled behind during the race's opening moments due to a fuel malfuction, while Bolt stayed near the middle of the pack near the Nosaurian pilot Clegg Holdfast.

Beedo would eventually fall further behind during the second lap, being surpassed by Gasgano, Teemto Pagalies, Mars Guo, and Anakin Skywalker. Sebulba held the lead for both laps, though he was nearly surpassed by Holdfast during the latter, promptly roasting Holdfast's engines with an illegal flamethrower to fix that.

During the third lap, Beedo had yet to make his way back and reach his target Sebulba, while "Mak" was having difficulties shooting the Glymphid due to Ebe E. Endocott's Pod being set between them, although he had slowed down to counteract the drag force and properly aim.

Sandage flew off course and crashed into a Jawa sandcrawler, ending any of his chances at victory. Bolt, meanwhile, had collided with the Nuknog pilot Ark Roose. Beedo eventually caught up to Sebulba, Guo, Skywalker, and Gasgano. Using a piece of debris, Sebulba clogged the engines of Mars Guo, causing the Phuii pilot to crash, moving Beedo a place ahead.

Skywalker and Sebulba eventually became entangled in each other's Pods, and Skywalker, upon accelerating to break off, totaled Sebulba. Beedo managed to place third with a a total time of *15:52.108* minutes while Skywalker placed first.

After the race, Sebulba quickly purchased Skywalker's Podracer, and many of the pilots began to sign up for the next Podrace which was to be located on Malastare. While Sandage was angry for having crashed and being out-flown by Beedo, the Glymphid promised Sandage that he would still finish his contract on Malastare. Both pilots signed up for the Malastare race, and "Mak", who had placed fifth in the Boonta behind Endocott, followed suit. What happened to them after is unknown.

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