Bur Aifo

"*A little bug approaches my greatness in need of money or aid. Speak first. State your aim, Bug?*"
—Baglo the Hutt greets Bur Aifo
**Bur Aifo**, also known as **The Bug**, is a neimoidian trader working for the Galactic Empire, and a smuggler for various crime organizations on Nar Shaddaa. He was born on Cato Neimoidia, and became a valuable employee of the Trade Federation during the Clone Wars, spending most of his career on the Hutt Space planet Nar Shaddaa.

After the Trade Federation was nationalised and all its assets drained, Bur Aifo was left nearly in economic ruin, until he found the oppurtunity to become trader for the Empire on planet Nar Shaddaa, which the Empire had found trouble in making trade relationships with. Bur Aifo used this oppurtunity to also create one of the largest and most streamlined smuggling services of the era.

## Biography

### Early life

#### Childhood

Bur Aifo was born as a larva on the Neimoidian colony planet Cato Neimoidia. He fought intensely and competitively with the other larvae, as to recieve enough nutrients to avoid becoming a neimoidian drone, and instead a full grown one.

#### Trade Federation

Once Bur Aifo had exited the larval stage of his life, he quickly picked up studying, and was taught how to become a valuable part of the Trade Federation. This he achieved, and he rose up the ranks throughout the years, landing on a comfortable position as a diplomat and salesman for the Trade Federation, specifically being sent to the criminal underworld's capital: Nar Shaddaa.

### Dawn of the Empire

#### Near-bankruptcy

With the nationalisaion of the Trade Federation, and all of its assets and accounts frozen, Bur Aifo had lost everything. He nearly faced bankruptcy, however he found an opportunity to get back up on his feet again. The Empire was having a hard time trading inside Hutt Space, so Aifo who was in the right place at the right time, offered to take care of the operations, as he had several contacts in the region as well as years of experience.

#### Setting up operations

Although the rulers of Hutt Space were more inclined to talk to Aifo than the Empire, there was still hesitation in going all in on Imperial trade. However, here Aifo found an opportunity that would not only get Hutt Space interested, but make him a lot of money as well.

Bur Aifo proposed to secretly use some of the imperial cargo ships for smuggling contraband, which he could all manage on a spaceport on Nar Shaddaa. This way he could make a lot of credits, and the criminal organizations could have their goods smuggled in large and streamlined quantities. There'd be less raids on smuggling operations as well, as everybody involved could risk raiding their own goods being smuggled, and the Empire would have no idea while still having their regular trade happen simultaneously. This offer from Aifo had no rejections, and thus Bur Aifo's empire of smuggling and trading had begun.

### Smuggling Enterprise

#### Guunhi debt

By this point, Bur Aifo's empire had grown wealthy enough to be able to loan out credits, and one of these clients who loaned money, the Guunhi biker gang, had begun to not deliver their payments. Their debt to the trader Neimoidian, which had grown even more from interest, would finally catch up to them, as the Neimoidian himself and his enforcer, the reprogrammed KX-series security droid K-1RK, showed up to punish them. Bur Aifo had the road captain and treasurer killed, and some of their top of the line speeders taken as compensation for their debt.

Bur Aifo saw the biker gang's inability to pay up as a sign of their potential weakness, and thought they could exploit this to take the entire gang down. He was only a smuggler however, so he sought out Baglo the Hutt for help on taking the biker gang out. The two came to the agreement of attacking the gang together, and the Neimoidian would get the Guunhi's assets, while the Hutt would take over the territory.

#### Dealings and investments

As his business grew, the Neimoidian felt more and more ambitious. He began making investments in other criminal activities, supplying other criminals and making returns from their crimes. He funded a Black Sun mission to retrieve a train of supplies stolen by rogue Black Sun gangsters, even lending out his personal bodyguard and enforcer droid for the mission.

Bur Aifo spoke to crime lord Jacen Drask, joining him on his side to conspire against the Hutt Cartel, which Jacen had convinced Aifo were a declining power. He delivered a cargo ship to Jacen which the Hutts had promised the crime lord, however didn't act out on.

## Personality and traits

Aifo is a greedy and selfish individual. He only acts within his own interests, and therefore is generally quite disrespectful towards people that aren’t beneficial to those very interests. Aifo is also somewhat careful, and for that reason he prefers other people to do the dangerous work needed for him to earn some extra credits. However, if especially infuriated he might take matters into his own hands.

Being a trader as well as a neimoidian, Aifo has been taught how to be an excellent negotiator, but has also had a lot of personal experience from his own job to earn this skill. His love for credits has also led him to become talented in deception, often changing up his attitude completely towards people he can see money-making in.