Dezanti Zhug

Dezanti Zhug was a Duros male bounty hunter from Duro who was a leader of the Zhug brothers bounty hunter organization. He and his fellow hunters were cast out from their homeworld after committing violent acts against a rival family, and they eventually settled on Nal Hutta's moon, Nar Shaddaa. His group began their hunt for the Jedi Exile&mdash;a former Jedi Knight&mdash;after the local Exchange crime lord G0-T0 had set a bounty on the Jedi.

In 3,951 BBY, after the Jedi Exile arrived on the moon, several Zhug brothers attacked the Exile and her companions without Dezanti, failing in their attempts. After the Exile left Nar Shaddaa, Dezanti followed her to Iziz, the capital of Onderon. Both the Zhugs' Heraklon-class transport ship and the Jedi Exile's freighter, the Ebon Hawk, were shot down by the Onderonian blockade amid the Onderon Civil War. After crash-landing on Onderon's moon Dxun, he and two of his fellow Zhug brothers tried to kill the Jedi Exile but died in the attempt.

Biography
Dezanti Zhug was a Duros male bounty hunter from the planet Duro and a leader of the Zhug brothers bounty hunter organization. The Zhug brothers, who considered themselves a "family" due their shared cause of seizing Duro under their control, were cast out from their homeworld after committing violent acts against a rival family, and they eventually settled on Nal Hutta's moon, Nar Shaddaa, commonly known as the "Smuggler's Moon." Near the end of the Dark Wars, G0-T0, the local Exchange crime lord on Nar Shaddaa, set a large bounty on Jedi, and the Zhug brothers began their hunt.

In 3,951 BBY, the former Jedi Knight known as the Jedi Exile arrived on the Smuggler's Moon, and G0-T0 gathered a meeting of various bounty hunter factions aboard his yacht, the Visionary. After the crime lord warned the bounty hunters of interfering with the Jedi while she was on the moon, Dezanti and Azanti Zhug&mdash;the Zhug leaders representing their organization in the meeting&mdash;proclaimed that G0-T0 was mad for not allowing them to hunt when she was finally so close after they had been searching for the Jedi around the galaxy. When the Exile was invited to meet the Quarren Visquis&mdash;G0-T0's representative on the moon's surface&mdash;to discuss the bounty on her head, she was consequently captured and then imprisoned by the crime organization aboard the Visionary. The bounty hunters believed that the truce was off, taking the meeting as permission to begin their hunt. Too eager to wait for Dezanti to join them, Azanti and two other Zhug brothers attacked the Exile's companions on the Smuggler's Moon, and eight Zhug brothers attacked the Exile aboard the Visionary, unsuccessfully.

After the Zhug brothers had failed in their attacks on Nar Shaddaa, Dezanti pursued the Jedi Exile to the planet Onderon. As the Jedi Exile's freighter, the Ebon Hawk, and the Zhug brothers' Heraklon-class transport ship arrived in the Onderon system and attempted to land in the planet's capital, Iziz, both parties encountered a blockade prohibiting them from entering the planet's atmosphere. Soon after the arrival of both ships, the blockading fleet opened fire on the Ebon Hawk. During the following space battle of the Onderon Civil War, both ships were forced to land on Onderon's moon Dxun after taking damage from the Onderonian separatist forces. After crash-landing on the moon, Dezanti and two of his surviving fellow Zhug brothers encountered the Jedi Exile and two of her companions, who were traveling through the jungle. Dezanti stated that he wouldn't fail like the other Zhugs had before him, and he tried to intimidate the Exile to surrender. After ordering his fellows to attack the Exile and companions, Dezanti and his minions were defeated and killed in the ensuing fight.

Personality and traits
Dezanti Zhug was an arrogant and disrespectful bounty hunter. He referred to the other Zhug brothers who had encountered the Jedi Exile before him as "lesser brothers." His lack of respect was shown by how he belittled other bounty hunters and demeaned the Jedi Exile. Also, like the Zhug brothers in general, he considered the Zhugs an effective and dangerous bounty hunter group. During his encounter with the Jedi Exile, he expressed how he despised deal-breaking when the Exile suggested to pay him to leave her alone.

Behind the scenes
Dezanti Zhug was one of the the Zhug brothers, a minor villainous bounty hunter group featured in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, a video game released by Obsidian Entertainment at the end of 2004. In the game, the player controlling the Jedi Exile is allowed to visit several planets after leaving Telos IV. This article assumes that the Jedi Exile visits Nar Shaddaa before traveling to Onderon's moon Dxun, as presented in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: Prima Official Game Guide.

Message to Spacers 9, an article written by Patrick Stutzman and released in 2007 as an online supplement for the Wizards of the Coast Star Wars Roleplaying Game, contained details of the events that led to the Zhug brothers crash-landing on Dxun, and the details and history of the ship model they used, revealing it to be the Heraklon-class transport ship.

Appearances

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

Notes and references
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