Durge

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**Durge** was a bloodthirsty, sadistic, and aggressive Gen'Dai bounty hunter who had been active in the galaxy for two thousand years. Able to survive near-death situations due to his Gen'Dai heritage and enhanced battle armor, he fought in several wars and collected a multitude of bounties. Over the centuries, Durge acquired a deep distaste for Mandalorians, and even killed their leader at one point. As a result of personal tragedy and torture, he had become mentally unstable. Thrilled with the idea of killing Human clones of the Mandalorian Jango Fett, Durge was recruited into the Separatist Alliance during the Clone Wars. Given the rank of a military commander, he performed several key missions for Dooku himself, and led battle droid forces in combat on more than one occasion.

## Biography

### Early Career

**Durge** was in exceptional physical shape already at an early age, and possessed a natural aggression uncharacteristic of the Gen'Dai species. After witnessing bounty hunters in action, Durge was filled with a lust for hunting. He eventually left his tribe and ventured out into the galaxy, where he trained under various crack bounty hunters. At one point, he met a Mandalorian training master, who taught Durge all he needed to know in the field of Mandalorian tactics and combat skill.

### Hunting Throughout the Ages

At some point, Durge and his Mandalorian trainer were approached by a doctor who offered to complement their bodies and armor suits with advanced cybernetics. Both feared that without such enhancements, they would become obsolete in combat, and therefore took the scientist up on his offer. They traveled to his laboratory on an unknown planet, where they were introduced to a woman, who had been disabled to the point where she needed cybernetic enhancements to function. The doctor persuaded Durge and his training master by offering them the same cybernetics technology that kept the woman alive. Both Durge and his training master were effectively merged with their armor suits on the operating table, although the doctor encountered some problems with Durge's Gen'Dai physiology, Durge's body was constantly trying to heal itself over the cybernetics. After recovering, Durge and his master tested out their new abilities in a sparring match against a further cyborgized woman. After their battle, when the match was about to get fatal the Doctor stopped them and informed them of Mandalorians coming to take an artifact from him.

The doctor demanded Durge and the others to kill them in order to repay their debt to him. In the ensuing battle both his master and the woman were incapacitated by a thermal detonator. Believing his friend to be dead, Durge ran off to hunt down the Mandalorian leader. Durge fought for the Sith in the course of the their conflict against the Republic and the Jedi Order, facing several Jedi in combat, learning their techniques and becoming experienced at killing them. In order to avoid Jedi reprisals, Durge went into hiding after the Sith's defeat and the fall of their order, though he continued to hunt under a series of aliases and false names, and amassing a fortune in bounties. Perhaps his most fateful mission came in two hundreds years prior to the war between the First Order and the Resistance, when he was hired to kill the leader of the Mandalorian people. He was successful, but was captured by the Mandalorians and tortured, driving him slowly past the edge of sanity. Although he eventually escaped the Mandalorian torture, it took Durge nearly a century to regenerate, with sixty of those years spent buried underground.

### Hunting for the Separatists

When he resurfaced following the outbreak of the Clone Wars, Durge was disappointed that the majority of the galaxy's Mandalorian warriors had perished, feeling that he had been cheated out of his revenge. Durge was more than happy to accept the invitation of the Sith-Lord Count Dooku into the ranks of the Separatist Alliance, which was at war with the Galactic Republic. He once again had the opportunity to fight Mandalorians in the form of the Grand Army of the Republic, which was made up of clones of the Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett. Dooku would sometimes partner Durge up with his secret apprentice Asajj Ventress. The Gen’Dai served the Confederacy as early as the first stages of the conflict by secretly being apart of the testing of a chemical weapon called the Blue Shadow Virus on Gungans inhabiting Naboo's moon of Ohma-D'un. The poison was quite powerful and the work that had been done was nearly ready to be sent out to the rest of the galaxy, however a team of Jedi consisting of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi and clones were sent to the moon to investigate after shutting down the Separatist operation on Naboo.

Looking forward to battling Jedi once again, Durge revealed himself to his enemies as he clubbed down Kenobi with his magna bolas. He proceeded to attack the other Jedi of the group, managing to strike all of them despite being stabbed through the abdomen with a Lightsaber. He sustained yet another injury seconds later, when a clone trooper shot him through the eye. Not long after making a call to his nearby droid forces, reinforcements arrived which put the Jedi at further disadvantage. While Obi-Wan Kenobi was preoccupied with enemy forces, Durge prepared to shoot the Jedi in the head, but was interrupted by yet another Lightsaber wound. Ordered by his superiors to oversee the virus attack and distribution as planned, Durge ran off, only to find the shuttles meant to transport the remaining samples of the Blue Shadow Virus destroyed. Outraged to see his plan foiled by the Mandalorian clones, Durge threw the clones into a fire. Before he had a chance to react, Anakin Skywalker hit him from the side with his own magna bolas. Shocked and injured after sustaining several mortal wounds, Durge retreated from the battle, vowing to kill Skywalker on a later occasion.

After his failure in securing the remaining Blue Shadow Virus samples, Durge would set a trap for the Jedi who had destroyed the poison, particularly Obi-Wan Kenobi. Durge lured the Jedi sent to investigate an old abandoned factory where he and a large amount of explosives were waiting. As soon as the Jedi revealed their presence, activated the explosives, causing a mass explosion and severely damaging the factory, sending it sinking into the lava stream. Durge's actions resulted in the murder of four Jedi, with Obi-Wan barely surviving the encounter with Durge and making it out alive. His success with the murder of several Jedi Masters earned him recognition from Dooku. At a later point in the war he assisted the Confederacy in launching a major series of attacks known as Operation Durge's Lance which targeted several worlds along the Corellian Trade Spine, but Durge's involvement with the operation is unknown, with the purpose of the attacks being the preparation for the Separatist invasion of the Core Worlds. At some point after Operation Durge's Lance near the end of the Clone Wars, Durge had become aware of Obi-Wan Kenobi's search for the resurgent Sith-Lord Darth Maul.

Recognizing Kenobi's search for Maul as a personal matter, Durge sought to use this to his advantage to lure the Jedi into another trap. Durge enlisted the services of the Black Sun to lure Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker into a trap in the Outer Rim by giving the Jedi a false lead on Darth Maul, who they were trying to track down. Durge took over a ship that belonged to a Black Sun corporate rival, and killed the crew. The Black Sun meanwhile gave Obi-Wan fake evidence to make him think he’d find Maul aboard. When Anakin and Obi-Wan boarded the ship, they were nearly blown up by a thermal detonator and Durge took the opportunity to attack. He triggered more explosives on the ship and took on Anakin while Obi-Wan escaped to look for Maul. Durge at first overwhelmed the Jedi but Anakin used the Force to launch several explosives at the Gen’Dai, severely damaging him and removing his helmet. Durge was thrown into a fearsome rage and Skywalker exploited this and forced the bounty hunter into an escape pod. Again using the Force, the Jedi guided the pod into the nearby star, finally finishing Durge off.

### Resurrected by the Empire

What little remained of Durge was recovered by the Separatists in a attempt to revive him, however before this could be attempted the Separatists were dissolved and the Galactic Empire had risen to control the galaxy. Decades later, after the destruction of the Death Star and the revelation of a rising Jedi threat, Darth Sidious realized that he would once again require the services of the unkillable hunter to rid the galaxy of the Jedi once and for all, and so organized the commission of **"Project Durge"** in a attempt to revive Durge's dead biological matter. To start this process a group of scientists at an Imperial research station on Dantooine were assigned to "Project Durge," an attempt to repair a grievously injured being. To keep the true purpose of the project a secret, the scientists did not receive any information as to the origins of the life form they were experimenting on. They were amazed at the recovery rate of the specimen once they started piecing together its organs and limbs. They successfully revived "Project Durge", but were unable to restore him to his original appearance. Instead, they equipped the being with a suit of heavy battle armor. After the Battle of Endor and the death of Palpatine, "Project Durge" escaped the lab with help from hired criminals, and later on resumed his bounty hunting career.