Tobin (Human)

"Tobin is General Vaklu's personal kath hound. If he's on your trail, you might want to steer clear of Onderon."

- Kelborn

Colonel Tobin was an officer in the Onderon military until 3,951 BBY.

Biography
Before the Onderon Civil War, Tobin was the second in command of General Vaklu, who controlled all the Onderon military. When Vaklu began to carry out his plan to overthrow his cousin, Queen Talia, Tobin was responsible for provoking an open conflict between Onderon and the Galactic Republic which would make the Onderonians support Vaklu in the inevitable civil war.

Tobin was informed by an unknown source – most probably by his and Vaklu's Sith allies – about the upcoming arrival of the Ebon Hawk. The Hawk eventually did appear near Onderon, as the Jedi Exile planned to search the planet for Jedi Master Kavar. Tobin then ordered his fighter pilots to shoot at the vessel, which forced the Exile to hide in the jungles of Dxun, the nearby moon of Onderon. This event triggered a space battle between the Republic fleet and Vaklu's fleet and, practically, the Onderon Civil War itself.

However, Tobin was not satisfied with the outcome, as he wanted to see the Ebon Hawk disintegrated. He reprimanded the captain who allowed the ship to escape and dispatched a group of scouts to Dxun to find the Exile and his crew. Before the scouts could report anything, they were killed by the Exile and Mandalorian patrollers.

When the Exile, with the help of the Mandalorian leader Canderous Ordo, breached Onderon's military blockade and managed to contact Master Kavar in the cantina of Iziz City, Tobin personally arrived with a squad of Vaklu soldiers, hoping to capture both Jedi at once. Suddenly, Kavar paralyzed all the soldiers with the Force, and Tobin lost his self-confidence and ran away.

Later, during the Second Battle of Onderon, Tobin commanded the strikeforce that infiltrated the Royal Palace. He used a drexl beast to disable the force field that guarded entrance to Queen Talia's throne room, planning to assassinate her. However, his plans were disrupted when the beast broke free of its handler, crushing everything in the hall, including Tobin himself. The Jedi Exile, who appeared in the palace just in time, left Tobin for dead when pursuing Vaklu and his soldiers to the throne room.

Unlike the Exile, Kreia realized that Tobin's injuries were not lethal. She decided to use him as a pawn in her own game against Darth Nihilus, the shadowy Sith Lord behind Vaklu and Tobin. She lied to the Colonel, telling him that many Jedi were hiding in Atris' secret academy on Telos. Tobin initially didn't believe her and fled the palace before the Royalist forces could capture him.

Eventually he found himself before Darth Nihilus and informed him of the academy. In his hunger for the Force, the Sith Lord summoned his fleet to Telos, which started the Battle of Telos. During it, the Jedi Exile once again crossed paths with Tobin aboard the Ravager, Nihilus' flagship. Tobin realized at last that Nihilus did not care for Onderon, and had he won the battle, it would be his next target. Therefore, Tobin turned away from the Sith and agreed to help the Exile and his Mandalorian allies to destroy the ship – much to the displeasure of Canderous Ordo, who warned the Exile not to "waste time with the weak".

Behind the scenes
As an alternative to persuading Tobin to abandon the Sith (only if the player has a high persuade skill), the player (as the Jedi Exile) has an option to kill him or not to engage in conversation with him at all. Due to the developers' error, the player cannot leave Tobin, unlike most NPCs, alone if he does engage in conversation; one of the two mentioned options must be chosen.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords