Azgoghk
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Science officer Leonis Murthé |
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The Azgoghk was an Imperial dungeon ship used for the sole purpose of exterminating entire alien races as per the order of the Emperor.
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[edit] History
The death ship was commanded by Admiral Mir Tork and his sadistic science officer Leonis Murthé, and was one of three such ships, along with the Apocahk and Angrix, under the banner of Grand Admiral Danetta Pitta.
One of the planets the Azgoghk ravaged was Gulma, just prior to the Battle of Endor. Nearly all of the native Gulmarids were slaughtered in the ship's detention bays or fed to the fusion reactors.
One survivor of the Azgoghk's cleansing was a Gulmarid named Slique Brighteyes, who hired Boba Fett to kill Tork and Murthé in exchange for the Gulmarids' combined wealth: 100 credits. Ostensibly to improve his damaged reputation (following his defeat at the Pit of Carkoon), Fett accepted the job. On Malicar 3, Fett single-handedly brought down the ship with an ion cannon. Fett then infiltrated the ship and killed Tork and Murthé. He also freed dozens of alien prisoners, who stripped weapons from Fett's trail of corpses and revolted against the remaining Imperial troops.
Fett returned to Brighteyes on Basteel with the severed heads of Tork and Murthé, having completed his assignment. The Azgoghk's reign of terror had finally ended.
[edit] Behind the scenes
The Azgoghk has many similarities with the Germans' extermination camps during World War II: Stormtroopers replace the Nazi Germany's concentration camp guards, Gulmarids replace Jews, ionization chambers replace gas chambers, ship's fusion reactors replace crematoriums, Admiral Mir Tork replaces the German officer who directed the camp, his racially-obsessed superior Danetta Pitta stands in for Joseph Goebbels, the "architect" of the Holocaust, and Leonis Murthé replace the German scientists (like Dr. Josef Mengele) who performed experiments on the prisoners.
Despite being called an Imperial Dungeon ship, it looks more like a World Devastator.
