Goru Rainstealer was a male weapons designer who designed the Zicx-bug bomb, an illegal grenade-like weapon made using Zicx bugs and sarlacc bile. Due to his poor treatment of his clients and his illegal weaponry, Rainstealer earned the enmity of the Galactic Empire, the Alliance to Restore the Republic, the Hutt Cartel, Black Sun, and a Whiphid crime lord named Valarian. Due to the fact that these factions either wanted his work or wanted him dead, Rainstealer attempted to hide in the city of Narmle on Rori, a moon of the planet Naboo. However, at one point after the Battle of Yavin during the Galactic Civil War, Rainstealer was approached by a spacer who wanted him to produce a special weapon. Eventually Rainstealer consented and sent the spacer to procure the ingredients, which he used to produce several Zicx-bug bombs in order to keep that individual from speaking openly about him. (Read more…)

An APC driver served in the Army of the Galactic Republic during the Cold War with the Sith Empire. In 3,643 BBY, the driver was stationed on the planet Ord Mantell as part of the Republic forces deployed against a group of separatists intent on overthrowing Ord Mantell's government. During his time on the world, he was assigned to transport a group of Republic troopers to Fort Garnik, a Republic stronghold on the island of Avilatan. However, the driver was killed by armor-piercing missiles fired by a group of separatists as he piloted his APC walker past the small settlement of Drelliad Village. (Read more…)

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