Mikdanyell Guh'rantt

"Welcome to Mos Eisley! I'm Mayor Guh'rantt. Do you know the history of Mos Eisley? It's a beautiful city, full of life and character and one of the best cantinas in the known galaxy."

- Mikdanyell Guh'rantt

Mikdanyell Guh'rantt was a male Rodian who served as mayor of Mos Eisley on the Outer Rim world of Tatooine during the early years of the Galactic Civil War. Mayor Guh'rantt was deeply connected to the criminal underground of the city but was eventually exposed by Imperial Navy Chief Moradmin Bast. Despite this, Guh'rantt continued to serve as mayor following Chief Bast's death during the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY. It was during this time that Mayor Guh'rantt actually struggled to improve Mos Eisley's reputation as a hive of scum and villainy by improving the city's police force and combating criminal elements with limited resources. During his time in office, Mayor Guh'rantt worked with and gave a spacer a Key to the City for uncovering Jabba Desilijic Tiure's diabolical plot to provoke Tusken Raider attacks on Mos Eisley. In addition to protecting his city from other hostile entities, Guh'rantt worked with Queen Kylantha and other planetary governors to oversee the creation of a warden program to address the growing number of noise complaints caused by unscrupulous merchants. Guh'rantt was also a proud historian who was very knowledgeable about Tatooine's past.

Corruption Charges
Mikdanyell Guh'rantt was a male Rodian and a proud historian who was very knowledgeable about the history of the Tatooine, a desert planet located in the galaxy's Outer Rim Territories. He became mayor of the large Tatooinian spaceport city known as Mos Eisley sometime prior to the year 0 BBY. As mayor, he worked at the city's commerce guild hall, a building which was used for the daily operations of Mos Eisley's local government. Mos Eisley had a reputation for being a cesspool of criminal activity, and Guh'rantt was not immune from it. Mayor Guh'rantt became deeply connected to the city's criminal underground, and was eventually uncovered by Imperial Navy Chief Moradmin Bast. However, the Human Imperial officer was soon killed during the Battle of Yavin when the Death Star he was occupying was destroyed by Rebel pilots. Despite being revealed as a crook, Guh'rantt continued to serve as mayor of the city during the time that followed the Battle of Yavin.

Debt to Jabba
"Yes. My...debt. My next payment, a speeder deed, was stolen from me. I can't divert...er...raise the money with all the problems in the city. If you do some things for me, it might...free up some funds I need."

- Mikdanyell Guh'rantt

Guh'rantt eventually found himself in the unfortunate position of being indebted to Jabba Desilijic Tiure, the ruthless Hutt crime lord who headed a large criminal empire from Tatooine. Guh'rantt was planning on putting down a speeder deed as his next payment, but it was stolen from him.

However, the mayor was in luck. The Twi'lek majordomo known as Bib Fortuna was eying a spacer as a potential servant for Jabba's criminal empire. Bib Fortuna told this spacer to help the mayor find a way to repay Jabba. The spacer ultimately agreed, and headed to the Mos Eisley's commerce guild hall to meet with the mayor. Guh'rantt explained the circumstances surrounding his debt and the unfortunate speeder deed theft to the spacer. He also insinuated that he could not embezzle public funds to pay off his debt, due to the fact that the city was already experiencing a large amount of problems. However, Mayor Guh'rantt believed that if the spacer would help carry out a few public services, it would free up enough funds to repay Jabba. With that said, the spacer agreed to help the mayor, not so much out of altruism, but rather out of a desire to curry favor with Bib Fortuna and Jabba.

Some of the tasks the spacer needed to carry out involved animal control, eliminating hoodlums, and controlling the ever pervasive threat of Tusken Raider attacks. The spacer worked with several key city officials to solve these problems, including the Twi'lek Animal Control Officer Entha Kandela, Human veteran marksman Purvis Arrison, and a Twi'lek city official named Peawp R'dawc. Most of these officials were cynical about the mayor's reluctance to increase their funding, but they were nonetheless willing to accept the spacer's services. Working with Entha Kandela, the spacer ran a census on the vermin infestation which were posing a threat to the public health. It turned out the the situation was indeed hazardous. Womp rats were spreading grunge fever, kreetles were weakening the soil around Mos Eisley, tempest rills were chewing insulation and power cables, and rockmites were laying eggs all around town. However, the spacer succeeded in helping Kandela, both by killing many of these creatures and by extracting samples for medical and pest control purposes.

Working with Peawp R'dawc, the spacer successfully oversaw the elimination of desert swoopers, moisture theives, gunrunners, and even a hoard of error-prone B1 battle droids which crashed outside of town in a Class-6 escape pod. But perhaps the most important mission for R'dawc was the elimination of a dangerous Nikto criminal named Vaigon Shinn, who operated out of a bunker not far outside the city limits. Despite the dangers, the spacer successfully launched an attack on the bunker, killing the guards and their leader Vaigon Shinn, who operated as the gang's chief mugger. R'dawc was pleased, but lamented the fact that the mayor lacked the budget to hire the spacer full time.

Meanwhile, the veteran marksman Purvis Arrison remained convinced that Mos Eisley was in a state of war against the indigenous Sand People known as Tusken Raiders. While this was an exaggerated point of view, Tusken's were indeed amassing in a small village just outside of Mos Eisley, colloquially referred to as the junk town. Arrison first tasked the spacer with performing reconnaissance of the village, and then later ordered the spacer to do battle with them. The spacer succeeded in killing in at least fifteen Tusken's, thinning their ranks enough to keep Mos Eisley safe for the time being.

Mayor Guh'rantt was also interested, though not necessarily surprised to learn that Jabba was in fact provoking Tusken Raider attacks on Mos Eisley to advance his agenda. However, it was of little concern at the time, for thanks to the spacer, Guh'rantt now had the finances necessary to make the next debt payment to the Hutt crime lord. The mayor was also pleased to learn that by eliminating many criminal entities around the city, he was getting fewer complaints from the townsfolk. He also hoped that helping Entha Kendala with her animal control problems would keep her happy for the time being.

Behind the scenes
Mikdanyell Guh'rantt appeared as a non-player character in the video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online-role playing game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts, prior to its closure on December 15, 2011. His last name was spelled as Guh'rantt in Star Wars Galaxies, while The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia spells it as Guh'Rantt, with a capital R. This article assumes that the lower case version is correct. It is interesting to note that The Complete Star Wars Encylcopedia claims that Mayor Guh'rantt was uncovered as a crook by Chief Bast. However, no mention of this was ever made in the game.