Chanath Cha

"My armies serve well as a hammer, but I suspect this undertaking is more suited to a needle. I have no needle sharper than Chanath Cha."

- Emperor Palpatine

Chanath Cha was a bounty hunter who operated during the Galactic Civil War.

Hunting the Imperialis
"There is a ship. The Imperialis. It belongs to me, and yet someone has been so foolish as to steal it. I will provide you with transportation&mdash;perhaps the only vessel in my great fleet equipped to locate the Imperialis. Consider it done, Emperor."

- Palpatine informs Cha of his mission

Cha worked as a prestigious bounty hunter during the Galactic Civil War that occurred during the reign of the Galactic Empire. During that time, Cha was hired by an individual who did not like the crime boss Big String&mdash;who resided in a volcanic fortress on the Inner Rim world Amethia Prime&mdash;to destroy his fortress and apprehend Big String.

Soon, Cha traveled to the ocean world and invaded the fortress, flying through its structure and destroying it using his near-indestructible armor and rocket boots, until the entire complex went up in an explosive fireball. Then Cha turned his attention to Big String, who was fleeing in a boat with three of his bodyguards. Cha dove underwater and raced towards the craft, and once he reached it, shot up through it, destroying its engine and overturning it; quickly ending Big String's escape. Cha confronted Big String, who pleaded to know why Cha had destroyed the "empire" he had spent twenty cycles creating. Cha introduced himself and told the criminal that he had been hired to do so. Then, Cha engaged the guards in hand-to-hand combat, quickly defeating them. Cha then convinced Big String to drop his blaster, so Cha hoisted him up by his belt and took to the air using his rocket boots to deliver the bounty.

However, once at cloud-level, Cha received a holographic comlink call from the Emperor, so he apologized to Big String and dropped him; not wanting to ignore the call from his most important client. Palpatine's haed appeared from the holoprojector and informed Cha that his yacht, the Imperialis, had been stolen from an Imperial Imperial shipyard in the Castell system, and he wanted Cha to recover it, because Palpatine had little faith in the military forces he had assigned to the task, stating that he needed a needle, and that Cha was the sharpest needle he had. The Emperor gave Cha a starship to aid in recovering the Imperialis, and told the bountu hunter that success would mean great reward&mdash;but if the yacht could not be recovered, Cha needed to destroy it, in order for the "personal items" it contained to not fall into the hands of others.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Lando, Part II