Benedict Vidkun

Benedict Vidkun was a married engineer working in the sewers on Coruscant in Imperial City.

Biography


Vidkun was a Human male with bulging brown eyes, a larger nose, a wispy beard and mustache, sharp yellow teeth, and often cleared his throat. Vidkun worked as an engineer at the Imperial Complex. Most of Vidkun's low salary was spent on expensive items by his younger wife.

He was a contact of Dash Rendar who accompanied Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca to rescue Leia Organa from Prince Xizor. They paid for the information and the plans for the sewers that lead to Xizor's Palace and hired him to open the grates and the zapping failsafe mechanism. For some reason they didn't trust Vidkun and did not allow him to call his wife before leaving, nor to hold a blaster in the sewers, fearing that he would give them in.

He led the band via the sewers until outside the Palace's recycling room. He left them a key and started to leave but Lando insisted that he would come along and wait for them. After a brief argument, Vidkun pulled off his hidden blaster and shot Dash whom he injured, but was killed by Lando immediately after.

Vidkun's two brothers-in-law were Lair and Daiv.

Behind the scenes
The traitorous Benedict Vidkun's name is a clear composite of Benedict Arnold and Vidkun Quisling.

The Topp's Shadows of the Empire trading cards by brothers Hildebrandt depict Lando shooting Vidkun as a normal medium-statured man, which conflicts the novel description and other appearances where Vidkun is depicted as a short goblin-like figure.

Appearances

 * Shadows of the Empire novel
 * Shadows of the Empire comic