Governor Koong

The uncouth and brutish Koong was the governor of Tawntoom province on the Outer Rim world of Roon. The megalomaniacal Koong used political intrigue, theft and hijacking to increase his personal power in the Roon system during the early days of the Empire. Koong was desperate to ally himself with the new Empire, and was eager to earn an Imperial charter. He invited Imperial Admiral Screed to his salvaging operation in the Cloak of the Sith nebula. Koong had taken over a lightstation in the dark dust cloud, and was purposely crashing ships in order to salvage the wrecks. He had amassed quite a fortune through such piracy.

When he salvaged the Caravel, a ship belonging to trader Mungo Baobab, Koong mistook the sharply dressed man as an envoy of the Empire. When Screed arrived aboard his lightstation, Koong realized he had been tricked by the trader. He tried to capture Baobab, but the trader escaped, inflicting catastrophic damage on the lightstation. The station spun out of control, smashing into an asteroid.

Koong and Screed escaped, and the Governor tried to save face in front of the unimpressed Imperial. Screed expressed his doubts. How could a Governor who could not even crush a rebellious province on his world hope to operate in the new Empire? Koong made it his priority to quell the rebellious Umboo province, to prove his devotion the New Order. Screed humored him, and watched Koong's increasingly desperate plots.

The unscrupulous governor attempted to sabotage the Roon Colonial Games. By beating the Umboo team with his Tawntoom team, he hoped to crush the spirit of the rebels and firmly cement his position of authority. Once again, the efforts of Mungo Baobab undid Koong's schemes. Umboo province emerged victorious.

Koong raised the stakes by unleashing a deadly germ into the air over pastoral Umboo. The bumbling governor infected himself in the process, however. Sick with the rooze germ, he dispatched his aide-de-camp, Gaff, to bring him Nilz Yomm, a renowned doctor from the Umboo province. He tasked Nilz to develop a cure for the rooze infection.

Though Nilz succeeded, Mungo was able to free the doctor and steal the cure. He dealt Koong an ultimatum. In exchange for the cure and the location of the fabled Roonstone treasure, Koong would return Mungo's captured starship and promise never to harm the people of Umboo again. Koong agreed, but Screed double-crossed him. Screed was solely interested in the location of the treasure, and once he knew it, he seized control of Roon.

Enraged, Koong took control of a drilling laser and blasted the Roonstone cache, knocking the priceless gems into a lava flow. He succumbed to the rooze infection before he could use the cure.