Azanti Zhug

"I'll take the stupid one, who decided to threaten us rather than shoot us when he had the chance."

- Bao-Dur, remarking on Azanti's failed attempt at killing the crew of the Ebon Hawk

Azanti Zhug was a Duros male bounty hunter from the planet Duro and a leader of bounty hunter group called the Zhug brothers. After the group was cast out from Duro due their violent acts against a rival family, Azanti Zhug and his group eventually settled on the moon Nar Shaddaa during the years around the Dark Wars. When the local Exchange Crime lord G0-T0 set a bounty on Jedi, the Zhug brothers were eager to collect this large sum.

In 3,951 BBY, as the Jedi Exile&mdash;a former Jedi Knight&mdash;arrived on the moon, G0-T0 instructed the bounty hunters not to disturb her. When the Exile was trapped by the Exchange, bounty hunters took that as the end of the truce, and the Zhug brothers confronted the Jedi Exile's companions. During a brief fight on the landing pad of the starship Ebon Hawk, Azanti and his companions were killed.

Biography
Azanti Zhug was a male Duros from the planet Duro and a leader in the bounty-hunting organization known as the Zhug brothers, who considered themselves a "family" due their shared cause of seizing their former homeworld of Duro for their own. Some time around the Jedi Civil War, Azanti and the rest of the Zhug brothers were banished from Duro after their violent acts against a rival family. They eventually settled on Nar Shaddaa, the moon of Nal Hutta, and when the local Exchange crime lord G0-T0 set a bounty on Jedi, they didn't hesitate to take the job.

In 3,951 BBY, G0-T0 gathered a meeting of various bounty hunter factions aboard his yacht Visionary when the Jedi Exile, aformer Jedi Knight arrived on Nar Shaddaa. After G0-T0 had told to the hunters not to interfere the Exile while she was on the moon, Azanti and Dezanti Zhug, Zhug leaders representing their organization there, reacted strongly to this new restriction. After calling G0-T0 mad for not letting them hunt she was so close, the Zhug brothers provoked other bounty hunters on verbal fight.

After the Exile left her companions &mdash;Zabrak Bao-Dur, former Jedi Master Kreia, the Ebon Hawk pilot Atton Rand, and Echani handmaiden Brianna &mdash; to attend a meeting with the G0-T0's head of operations on the moon, the Quarren Visquis, she ended up being imprisoned by Visquis and G0-T0. The bounty hunters considered this as the end of the truce, and Azanti and two of his fellow Zhug brothers confronted the Exile's companions as they discussed strategy on the landing pad where their light freighter the Ebon Hawk was berthed. However, instead of taking the opportunity to ambush them, he decided to try to intimidate them with threats, stating that the Exile was "a criminal," and ordering them to surrender her to him. The Exile's companions were not scared by the threats, and all three Zhug brothers were killed in the ensuing short exchange of fire.

Personality and traits
Azanti Zhug considered his group to be very dangerous, important, and famous bounty hunters. He didn't show much respect to the other bounty hunters or his bounties, as shown by his actions on the Visionary and again on the Ebon Hawk landing pad.

Behind the scenes
Azanti Zhug was one of the the Zhug brothers, a bounty hunter group that were minor villains in the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, a video game released by Obsidian Entertainment at the end of 2004.

Appearances

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