Lorz Geptun

"Colonel Geptun is a dangerous man. Exceedingly dangerous. I'll probably have to kill him. Or, possibly, offer him a job."

- Mace Windu to Depa Billaba

Lorz Geptun was a Balawai Human colonel during the Clone Wars in the Pelek Baw militia, and, by extension, the army of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, with which his homeworld of Haruun Kal was aligned.

'Geptun' was a Korunnai name. His paternal grandfather had been a Korun who moved out of the jungle to the city. Geptun blamed that part of him for making him too proud to change the name; however, it granted him a degree of Force-sensitivity, and he was able to both sense the emotions of others and mask his from other Force-sensitives.

When Mace Windu arrived on the planet six months after the Battle of Geonosis, the Jedi Master was brought before Geptun after he was shot and captured by the militia while trying to save the life of Phloremirrla Tenk. Geptun questioned Windu but released him when Windu told him that his mission was to extract the rogue Master Depa Billaba, who as a new leader of the Korunnai Upland Liberation Front had been causing trouble for Geptun and the militia. Even so, Geptun evidently declined to call off the regular gunship patrols that battered Korunnai across the breadth of the jungle. Two of his gunships were lost and one damaged at Windu's hands when they attacked the party he was journeying with.

Soon after, a series of violent atrocities in quick succession touched off a new wave of aggression between Geptun's militia and the natives, and Billaba and Windu led a large group of Korunnai to Lorshan Pass. Geptun, in turn, dispatched a number of squadrons of droid starfighters to attack the natives when Windu refused to surrender. His plans were thwarted, however, after Windu ingeniously tricked the droid fighters into dogfighting each other. Windu then led the Korunnai rebels into the capital of Pelek Baw itself, and moved against Geptun's base. Geptun was forced to surrender to Windu and shut down the remaining droid starfighters, effectively handing the planet over to the Republic.

Following the battle, he joined the Republic Army. Without his knowledge, Windu put in a request to transfer him to Republic Intelligence.

Appearances

 * Shatterpoint