Gha Nachkt/Legends

"More than my fee. This droid is worth more, I get paid more. I suggest&mdash;"

- Gha Nachkt's last words

Gha Nachkt was a Trandoshan male who owned the freighter Vulture's Claw during the Clone Wars, the war between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Nachkt scavenged the remains, left over debris from battles, for items he could sell to either of the two factions. Although Nachkt was not allied in specific with either organization, he dealt with the Confederacy on numerous occasions. At one point in time, Nachkt worked with the Separatist Council member Wat Tambor. Tambor anticipated that the Koorivar Passel Argente, an adversary of his, would come to Nachkt to buy a droid. Due to this, Tambor contacted Nachkt to sell Argente a spy droid, and Nachkt agreed.

After the Battle of Bothawui, Nachkt found R2-D2, an astromech droid belonging to the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker. Nachkt resolved to sell the droid to the Confederate General Grievous. Argente arrived at the Vulture's Claw to buy a droid to spy on Tambor. Nachkt sold Tambor's droid to Argente in return for credits from Tambor; the droid being able to report on Argente's dealings to Tambor without Argente knowing.

When Skywalker and his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, came to the Vulture's Claw, to search for R2, Nachkt hid the droid from them, and claimed that he had not found any astromech droids after the battle. After Skywalker and Tano left, Nachkt traveled to the Separatist listening post Skytop Station to give the droid to Grievous. When Nachkt arrived at the station, he was instructed by Grievous to take the droid apart and extract whatever information the droid carried. Nachkt, however, found that R2 contained more important information than he had originally thought, and demanded more payment from Grievous. In retribution, Grievous killed him.

Deal with Wat Tambor
"Magistrate, you think me a hatchling. You have a droid army! You're allied to the Techno Union! You have plenty of droids."

- Gha Nachkt to Magistrate Passel Argente.

Gha Nachkt was a Trandoshan scavenger during the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. During the war, Nachkt scavenged the debris left over after battles between the Republic and the Confederacy, for items he could sell. Despite Nachkt's neutrality in the overall terms of the war, Nachkt would deal with both the Republic and the Confederacy. Prior to the Battle of Bothawui, Nachkt was approached by Wat Tambor, a member of the Confederacy. Tambor was foreman of the Techno Union, a commerce guild affiliated with the Confederacy. Tambor offered to pay him to sell a protocol droid to Magistrate of the Corporate Alliance, another commerce guild, Passel Argente, would have no idea of the droid's true programming, and so the droid would be able to spy on Argente and report back on his dealings to Tambor. Nachkt agreed to the offer, and so Tambor gave him the droid for Argente.

Scavenger
"You sneaky little scrap pile. You'd better be worth all this trouble."

- Gha Nachkt, to R2-D2

In his starship, the Vulture's Claw, Nachkt searched the debris left over from the battle for any merchandise he could sell to either the Confederacy or the Galactic Republic. Nachkt had a number of droids&mdash;including IG-88 assassin droids&mdash;aboard his ship, scavenged from across the galaxy. Nachkt was not allied with the Republic or Confederacy of Independent Systems during the war, and was more concerned about how many credits he could gain. Due to this, he sold his salvage to the highest bidder.

During the Battle of Bothawui, a battle between the Confederacy and the Republic in the Clone Wars, Jedi general of the Republic Anakin Skywalker lost his astromech droid, R2-D2, in the battle. Skywalker had not wiped the droid's memory, to erase the information in the droid in case it was captured by the Confederacy. With his entire memory still intact, the astromech droid contained a number of pieces of information on Republic battle plans, formations and bases that would be an asset to the Confederacy were they to find it. Skywalker had been instructed by his former Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi to wipe the droid's memory, however had not done so. Nachkt, scavenging the debris after the battle, discovered R2-D2 and brought the droid aboard the Vulture's Claw. Inside, Nachkt discovered the information the astromech droid contained, and resolved to sell him to the Confederate General Grievous.

Magistrate Argente arrived on board the Vulture's Claw, and Argente bribed Nachkt with credits to keep the details of their meeting private. Nachkt agreed, and listened to Argente's request to buy a droid. Argente claimed he wanted a droid to spy on Wat Tambor. Argente felt that the war was going badly for the Confederacy, and that they were looking to make Argente a scapegoat, so he wanted a droid to spy on Tambor. Initially, Argente wanted to buy R2-D2, and Nachkt told him the astromech droid wasn't for sale. Nachkt instead persuaded him into buying the special RA-7 protocol droid that Tambor had given him. Argente bought the droid and left, and so Nachkt was able to contact Tambor and inform him of the mission's completion.

Skywalker, however, searched for his astromech droid with his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano. When the two Jedi came on board the Vulture's Claw to search for R2-D2, Nachkt hid Skywalker's astromech droid, instead escorting the Jedi to another area of the ship. After Skywalker and Tano were unable to find R2-D2 among Nachkt's stores, they left the ship, believing that R2-D2 was not on board.

Skytop Station
"There's your bonus."

- General Grievous, shortly after stabbing Gha Nachkt in the back

After the departure of Skywalker and Tano, Nachkt contacted General Grievous, and agreed to meet the general with R2-D2 in the Separatist listening post Skytop Station, to hand over the droid and collect his payment. Traveling to the station, R2-D2 attempted to escape whilst on board the Vulture's Claw. Removing the restraining bolt keeping him confined, R2 also managed to jettison an IG-88 droid into space to stop the sentinel droid from raising the alarm. Nachkt, however, woke up from sleep in time to recapture the R2 droid and put him into confinement once again.

After arriving at Grievous' rendezvous point, Grievous instructed Nachkt to take R2-D2 apart, and extract the information from him. This would allow the Confederacy to gain information about the Republic and its strategies, information that the Republic felt would be devastating to its efforts in the hands of the Confederacy. To stop the Confederacy from gaining the information in R2's databanks, Skywalker and the clone troopers of the Republic launched a mission to rescue R2.

Nachkt, having taken the droid apart, discovered the information inside R2. Deciding that the information was more sensitive and important than he had initially thought, Nachkt demanded more credits from Grievous, as the general himself had decided that the droid was worth more to him. After requesting a larger fee for his work, the Trandoshan was impaled by Grievous' lightsaber,ending the scavenger's life.

Personality and traits
"This I always understand."

- Gha Nachkt after being given credits.

Gha Nachkt had a distinct lack of personal hygiene. Aboard the Vulture's Claw Nachkt didn't withhold flatulence, this being noted upon by Ahsoka Tano upon visiting the Vulture's Claw whilst searching for R2-D2.

Nachkt lacked morals, refraining from solidly siding himself with either the Republic or the Confederacy of Independent Systems in order to gain more credits for whatever he found. Nachkt would search the debris left over from any battle to scavenge pieces he could sell to either the Republic or Confederacy. Nachkt lied and hid things from people if he felt being honest would mean he would lose any merchandise he would otherwise be able to sell. As such, he hid R2-D2 from Tano and Skywalker when they searched for the droid on the Vulture's Claw in the aftermath of the Battle of Bothawui.

Nachkt was also greedy, reflected by his demands to General Grievous to raise his payment for R2-D2 above what they'd originally agreed. This was also shown by his eagerness to accept a bribe from Argente.

Behind the scenes
Gha Nachkt first appeared in "Downfall of a Droid," an episode in the first season of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. Nachkt also appeared in the following episode, "Duel of the Droids," and appeared in web comic Discount.

Gha Nachkt was voiced by Ron Perlman.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars film
 * The Clone Wars: Discount
 * The Clone Wars: Discount

Notes and references
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