Korin Pers

"I was Sava Korin Pers of the University of Bar'leth, right in the Core. Expert on antiquities of many types. Published throughout the Republic. But that was a very long time ago."

- Pers gives Lobot some of the details of his past

Korin Pers was a male Ugnaught who held the position of sava at the University of Bar'leth in the Core Worlds during the reign of the Galactic Republic. As an expert on various types of antiquities, he wrote works published throughout the Republic, although he eventually left the university. At some stage he worked with the smuggler Lando Calrissian and lost his left eye in the process, forcing him to get a cybernetic replacement and causing him to greatly dislike Calrissian despite the smuggler promising he would someday make up for the Ugnaught's injury if he could. Due to this, when Calrissian and his companion Lobot visited him during the reign of the Galactic Empire with a job offer, Pers initially aimed a blaster at the pair and claimed they were mad to think he would work with them. Once Calrissian revealed that the job was stealing an Imperial pleasure craft potentially full of antiques for the crime lord Papa Toren, Pers was persuaded to join the heist. The group then used stealth suits provided by Toren to successfully infiltrate Sienar Fleet Systems Orbital Shipyard CC-24, where the starship was being refitted, and steal it.

Behind the scenes
Korin Pers first appeared in Star Wars: Lando, Part I, a comic book published in 2015 which was written by Charles Soule and illustrated by Alex Maleev.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Lando, Part I