Mako Spince

Mako Spince was the son of an influential and important senator of the Old Republic. Although Mako had a sharp mind, and was healthy he decided to waste his time, and his fathers money away. After the Clone War Mako finally decided to join the military. Though he was only twenty Mako was considered to old to join the Imperial Space Academy. Mako only managed to get in because of his father, and advisors at the Academy believed that Mako would follow in his father's footsteps. However Mako proved to be rather a nuisance to the Academy; disobeying orders, and breaking rules. He made friends with Han Solo. In making friends with ZZ-4Z the housekeeping droid of Dean Horace Wyrmyr, Mako learned many secrets of the man's past. Mako's pranks went too far when he stole some antimatter and used it to blow up the Academy's 'mascot moon' (his actual target had actually been the Academy's official seal. For this catastrophe Mako was expelled two years before his friend Han graduated. As he left the Academy Mako decided to steal ZZ-4Z who was going to be used at the recycle plant. Mako dissapeared, becoming a smuggler, and teaching Han Solo who was also expelled from the Academy for rescuing a Wookie slave called Chewbacca the smuggling trade. From then on Han and Chewie followed Mako around as his sidekicks. Han also won ZZ-4Z in a game of Sabacc. Mako and Han created their headquarters on Nar Shaddaa. When Mako was on a smuggling run in the Ottega system he was captured by the NaQuoit Bandits who crippled him and forced him to retire from the smuggling trade. He was confined to a repulsor chair and became a traffic controller. He saw Han Solo before Han left, but he would not meet his old friend for several years later. When Mako returned to Nar Shadaa a decade later Mako allowed him safe passage but contacted Boba Fett and Dengar so that he could get enough money to retire. Unfortunately for the bounty hunters Han and Leia escaped. The next time Han turned up Mako contacted the star destroyer 'Invicible'. But things were to turn fatal for Mako when Han piloted the Millenium Falcon behind Mako's traffic control pylon. The pylon was caught up in the star destroyer's tractor beam spearing the craft and blowing both vehicles up. Mako's double cross had been his final undoing.