Durge

**Durge** was a fearsome male Gen'Dai bounty hunter who was active during the Clone Wars and Imperial Era. Durge was involved in the Clone Wars by working for the Separatist against the Galactic Republic. He got the title of being unkillable after battling many Jedi and clone troopers. He was a feared legend that even the pirate Hondo Ohnaka did not want any part of after hearing stories of the Gen'Dai bounty hunter, fearing his own safety.

In 3 ABY during the reign of the Galactic Empire, he was hired to capture Ebann Drake for weapons smuggling which he later tracked to the abandoned luxury starship *Opal Empress*. Aboard the ship he encountered Doctor Chelli Lona Aphra and Sana Starros. The two parties made a truce after learning that the abandoned ship was infested by the small parasitic cymotes, though the truce did not last long and Aphra bertrayed Durge, ejecting the Gen'Dai into the vacuum of space.

Sometime later after the incident, while lounging at the Bounty Hunters Guild social club on the planet D'assem, Durge was hired by the scoundrel Khel Tanna and the bounty hunter T'onga to join a crew of lethal individuals to save the cyborg Beilert Valance before losing his memory and what was left of his humanity. The crew later hired the clone bounty hunter Boba Fett after a battle that broke out due to a misunderstanding between the two parties. They helped Fett deal with the criminal syndicate Black Sun, in exchange for a lead to help fix Valance. Durge then went to the moon Quantxi and fought off the Black Sun forces, along with the rest of the crew. Completing their end of the bargain, Fett fulfilled his and handed T'onga the coordinates of the cyborg fixer Tarr Kligson.

Fett's lead led the crew to the Haven, a droid outpost orbiting Kligson's Moon. Upon landing on the outpost, they were greeted by the droid Telemak. T'onga asked for Telemak to help Valance. The droid obliged to her request, sending Valance to meet Kligson for his repairs.

During the New Republic Era, Durge, while on an assignment to capture a bounty, encountered Fett, who was also after the same target. Being both after the same bounty, they fought each other on the storm-stricken planet of Eadu, though Fett would gain the upper hand and continue his pursuit of the target, leaving a defeated Durge behind on Eadu.

## History

### Hunting a Quarren

Around 7 ABY-8 ABY, Durge was given an assignment to capture a Quarren who had a price placed on his head. He tracked his quarry to Eadu by using a tracking fob; he had a rough time landing on the planet due to the stormy weather. Using the fob, he traced the Quarren to near the remains of the Eadu Energy Conversion Laboratory. As Durge prepared to go inside the wreckage to capture him, he was suddenly attacked by Boba Fett, who was also after the same target and intended to capture the bounty to get paid by his client, Graballa. Fett blasted Durge in the back, though the Gen'dai survived due to his tough armor. The two then proceeded to engage a brief scuffle until Fett looked up and saw the Quarren running past them in another direction. Fett, after managing to tackle Durge to the ground, incapacitated him by blasting his ZX miniature flame projector in the other hunter's face and proceeded to chase after the bounty.

As Durge recovered, Fett pursued the fugitive Quarren to the derelict, still-standing Eadu Flight Station nearby. He stunned the bounty, preparing to bring him in, but Durge appeared, having found his way there with his tracking fob, and attacked Fett, grabbing and throwing him to the side, slamming him against one of the Zeta-class cargo shuttles parked on the landing pad. Durge got out his quad-barreled rifle and prepared to finish off Fett, but the latter fired a wrist rocket that knocked the weapon out of Durge's hands. Fett then attacked with his carbine rifle, though Durge was able to resist the shots, firing back with his gatling gauntlet. Fett saw a nearby fuel canister and blasted it, causing a large explosion that knocked back Durge; Fett then walked over to him and prepared to kill him in order to capture the bounty for himself and to prevent him from interfering with the job. Durge then swung a fist at Fett, who pushed him back and tried to pull back with a grappling line. Durge instead pulled his opponent to him and dealt a blow to Fett before using his jetpack to throw him to the side. As the pair used their flamethrowers at each other, Fett used his free hand to secretly get out a flash grenade and lob it to the ground; Durge failed to notice this because he was too focused on trying to kill Fett, shooting his flamethrower. The grenade detonated, causing a large energy flash that blinded Durge and created a loud noise in his hearing. Fett on the other hand was able to duck for cover before the detonation happened.

Durge, unable to see, tried to search for Boba only by using his hearing as he could partially hear background noise despite the loud ringing noise created by the grenade. Getting out his twin blaster pistols, Durge looked for Boba Fett. Fett tricked him by throwing a Dasani canister into one of the Zeta cargo shuttles, and Durge fell for the ruse and thought Fett himself had caused the noise inside the shuttle. As Durge entered the empty shuttle, Fett prepared his real intention, which was to trap Durge inside and subdue him, getting out a thermal detonator and lobbing it inside the shuttle. When Durge entered the shuttle, having fallen for the ruse, his sight had partially returned, though all he could see was a dark blur. By the time he heard the the grenade clattering across the deck, he realized too late that he had been tricked. The detonator exploded and destroyed the entire cargo shuttle with Durge still inside. Meanwhile, while Durge and Fett were fighting on the shuttle depot earlier, the Quarren apparently made his getaway from the shuttle depot, escaping from Eadu's surface aboard his HH-87 Starhopper. After witnessing the Starhopper taking off following the explosion of the cargo shuttle, Fett, believing Durge to be dead, commandeered one of the other remaining Zeta-class cargo shuttles at the flight station and gave pursuit, as his *Slave I* had been damaged during his crash landing on the planet.

Sometime later, as the storms in Eadu’s skies raged on, Durge, still alive but wounded, climbed out of the flaming rubble of the Imperial cargo shuttle and scanned his surroundings, discovering that neither Fett or the Quarren were anywhere to be seen.

### Noted by a pirate

Around 9 ABY, Hondo Ohnaka noted his knowledge and information about some of the most notorious bounty hunters in the galaxy in his guide book *The Secrets of the Bounty Hunters*, which also included Durge. He had heard stories and talks about the gargantuan bounty hunter during the Clone Wars. Even Sana Starros had also told Ohnaka about her and Doctor Aphra's encounter with the Gen'Dai on the *Opal Empress*.

However, Ohnaka was unsure if it was truly the same legendary bounty hunter they had encountered, even though her description of him matched. The Weequay felt that even if it was Durge, he had no way of knowing if it was the same individual as from the old stories. Ohnaka admitted that even with his extensive knowledge and experience, the Gen'Dai bounty hunter was a mysterious legend that he was unwilling to dig deeper; fearing his own safety. Unbeknownst to Ohnaka, it actually had been the same bounty hunter from the Clone Wars.

## Personality and traits

Infamous and fearsome, Durge was an aggressive Gen'Dai, known for being hard to kill. He enjoyed killing, to the point where he considered a period of time well spent only if it had been used for this purpose. His mental health was questionable, likely caused by the large number of near-death situations he experienced and his species' tendency to develop psychosis. Aphra deduced he was expensive to hire. He enjoyed his reputation for being hard to kill, openly mentioning it to Aphra and Starros shortly after meeting them, and was more than willing to strike down his enemies, even if it meant bringing about the extinction of a species. All the same, based on her experience with expensive-to-hire hunters, Aphra reasoned that he was not the type of person to senselessly slaughter an entire ship if he was only in pursuit of a single target, noting how such slaughter would waste the hunter's time. He had a calm demeanor and only speak when needed to or provoked. Despite his massive armament, Durge disliked loud noises. He stood 3 feet tall.