Amda Wabo

Amda Wabo was a male Aqualish from the Outer Rim Territories planet Lothal. A weapons manufacturer, Wabo owned a large supply of T-7 Ion Disruptors, which he tried to sell to the Galactic Empire minister Maketh Tua on the planet Garel during the Lothal Year of 3272. However, their negotiation proved to be difficult, as the two did not share a common language. However, Tua had the assistance of the protocol droid C-3PO, who acted as a translator. When Tua asked for the droid's help on-board a star commuter shuttle, the shuttle's pilot ordered all droids to the back of the shuttle, putting a halt to Tua and Wabo's deal. However, a young Mandalorian named Sabine Wren claimed to understand Wabo's language, and offered to translate. In reality, she and her crew were after Wabo's disruptors, and incorrectly translated the name of the bay that the disruptors were in. Wabo did not realize this hoodwink until he and Tua arrived at the wrong hangar bay. By then, Wren's crew had a number of the disruptors in their possession.

Biography
A male Aqualish from the Outer Rim planet Lothal, Amda Wabo was a weapons manufacturer who worked out of the nearby planet Garel. Wabo had a large supply of T-7 Ion Disruptors at his disposal, and during the Lothal Year of 3272 he attempted to sell the illegal weapons to the Galactic Empire, who had previously used the weapons on the planet Lasan. In order to consummate the deal, he met with Minister Maketh Tua on Lothal, and planned to travel to Garel, where Tua would acquire the weapons. Wabo had stored the weapons at the Garel City Spaceport, in Bay 7. However, Tua did not understand Wabo's native tongue. She managed to borrow the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 from Senator Bail Organa, who was secretly planning to use his droids to disrupt the deal. C-3PO, a protocol droid, was fluent in over six-million forms of communication, and was to serve as a translator between the minister and Wabo. However, as Tua and Wabo boarded a Lothal star commuter shuttle, the Aqualish constantly conversed with Tua without C-3PO's presence, which frustrated Tua. Things worsened when the shuttle's RX-Series pilot droid, RX-24, ordered that all droids be sent to the back of the shuttle.

Even without the translator droid, Wabo continued to converse with Tua as the shuttle took off for Garel. Seated behind the Imperials, though, was a young Mandalorian female named Sabine Wren. Wren claimed to be a Level 5 Academy student, fluent in Wabo's language. Tua asked for the location of the disruptors, and Wabo responded that they were in Bay 7 of the Garel spaceport. Wren falsely translated that they were in Bay 17 as she, along with her crew, were planning to steal the disruptors for a Lothal crime lord named Cikatro Vizago. Wabo, who did not understand Basic, was unaware of the hoodwink. After landing on Garel, Wabo, Tua, and the droids rendezvoused with a squad of stormtroopers and headed to Bay 17. Wabo, who had told Tua the weapons were in Bay 7, was confused by their trek, and complained to C-3PO, who translated the mis-communication. At that moment, Tua recognized one of Wren's companions, the droid C1-10P, and realized that they had been fooled. They gave chase and were caught in a skirmish with two other crew members, Kanan Jarrus and the Lasat Garazeb Orrelios. After the Imperials suffered light casualties, the rebels escaped with Wabo's disruptors, taking C-3PO and R2-D2 with them. The majority of the weapons ended up in the hands of Vizago.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Rebels: Head to Head