Koth Melan

"War, like politics, sometimes makes for strange bedfellows. One uses the tools one has."

- Koth Melan

Koth Melan was a Bothan spy and leader of the Bothan Spynet during the Galactic Civil War.

During the Rebel Alliance's operation to retrieve the computer kept aboard the freighter Suprosa, Melan provided support for the team, analysing the risk of trying to activate the device then and there, guessing it would be encrypted and protected with a self-destruct device. It was Melan who advised the team to bring the computer to Kothlis, where the Spynet's best decryption team was operating at the time.

After the battle with the Suprosa, Luke Skywalker sought refuge with Melan in a safehouse on Kothlis. The safehouse, however, was compromised and attacked by Barabel bounty hunters seeking Skywalker. Melan was killed in the attack. Borsk Fey'lya was given the computer to take to Rebel forces orbiting the planet.

Though he was a member of Clan Alya, he would not attach the traditional "y'lya" honorific to his name, as his father (an innocent teacher) was executed by the Galactic Empire in 17 BBY. As long as the Empire lived, he felt he would have no honor.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
 * Shadows of the Empire (novel)
 * Shadows of the Empire (comics)