Titus Sypknee was a Human male assassin who lived on Tatooine during the Galactic Civil War.
Biography[]
- "You dare insult Lady Valarian?"
- ―Titus Sypknee, to a spacer
By the time of the Battle of Yavin, Titus Sypknee worked as the bodyguard of the Whiphid crime lord Lady Valarian.[3]
In 1 ABY,[1] a lab assistant from the Mos Eisley Biolab, Bera Jeza, was assassinated in a street of Mos Eisley. Since she had ties with the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure, his majordomo Bib Fortuna hired a spacer to investigate the murder.[4] Working with the Slicer Cale Herron, the spacer was not able to find the assassin. As Fortuna urged the spacer to solve the case, Herron suggested to blame Lady Valarian, Jabba's rival on Tatooine, for the murder. The spacer therefore visited Lady Valarian at the Lucky Despot, in Mos Eisley, and accused the crime lord in the name of Jabba. Indeed, Lady Valarian was not eager to be held responsible for a murder she did not order. Valarian then ordered Titus Sypknee to get rid of the spacer. The assassin attacked the spacer but the latter managed to kill Sypknee.[3] The spacer eventually forced Lady Valarian to pay reparations to Jabba the Hutt.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
- "I think it is about time someone competent took over."
- ―Boba Fett
Sypknee's natural eye appearance.
Titus Sypknee appeared as a dead non-player character (NPC) in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[3] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[5] Titus Sypknee was added to the game with the "Game Update 13," released on September 30, 2009.[6] This NPC was part of the questline "Something is Obviously Wrong,"[3] an introduction to the "Death Troopers" update.[7]
In the game, Titus Sypknee was a hostile elite NPC who could only be defeated by a group of players.[3] However, killing Sypknee was not required to complete the questline. In fact, if the player was killed, he/she was respawned at the nearest cloning center and received a communication from Jabba declaring that Boba Fett would take care of Titus Sypknee.[2]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures (First appearance)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 According to its opening crawl, Star Wars Galaxies was set sometime after Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. The only precise time indication in the game was given by the character Ruwan Tokai, who referenced the destruction of the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin as occurring one year earlier, placing the game sometime around 1 ABY. Later, multiple elements confirmed the placement of the game storyline in 1 ABY. First, The Essential Reader's Companion established that the tie-in novel Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine took place in 1 ABY. Furthermore, the game expansion Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookiees was set during the Blockade of Kashyyyk, one year after the Battle of Yavin according to The Star Wars Holiday Special. Additionally, the main scenario of The Nightsister's Revenge from the Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game was set over a year before the Battle of Hoth (3 ABY), so around 1.5 ABY. Finally, the reference book Strongholds of Resistance placed the events of Star Wars Galaxies's Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" one year after the Battle of Yavin. Of note, Galaxies's Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" introduced the Battle of Hoth in the game. However, the developers were quite clear that this was only intended to be a completely isolated "Star Wars Moment" without any effect on continuity for the rest of the game.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3
Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures — Quest: "Jabba Communication" on Tatooine
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures — Quest: "The Valarians?" on Tatooine
- ↑
Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures — Quest: "Gather Clues" on Tatooine
- ↑ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies: Game Update 13 -- Chronicle Master System on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ Game Update 14: Death Troopers on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (content now obsolete; backup link)
