Zhug brothers

"Which one do you want?''" "''I'll take the stupid one, who decided to threaten us rather than shoot us when he had the chance."

- Atton Rand and Bao-Dur upon being confronted by three Zhug brothers

The Zhug brothers were group of Duros bounty hunters who were cast out from the planet Duro after their violent acts against a politically connected, rivaling family. After settling on Nar Shaddaa, the brothers started collecting money by acting as a merciless bounty hunters there in order to take over their former homeworld of Duro.

During the Dark Wars in 3,951 BBY, when local Exchange crime lord G0-T0 placed a bounty on former Jedi Knight Jedi Exile, the Zhug brothers were eager to collect bounty, a task that was eventually devastating to them. The Zhugs encountered the Jedi Exile three times unsuccessfully, resulting the death of both of their leading brothers, Azanti and Dezanti Zhug.

History
The Zhug brothers were Duros bounty hunters cast out from the planet Duro after attempting to wipe out a rival, politically connected ruling family around the era of the Jedi Civil War. They eventually settled on Nal Hutta's moon Nar Shaddaa, commonly known as the "Smuggler's Moon," and began hunting for prey in the slums of the ecumenopolis. The Zhugs numbered in the hundreds, grouped not by blood but by their shared cause, and claimed that they were in fact a new "family," seeking to collect enough credits to seize Duro for their own.

Near the end of the Dark Wars, on Nar Shaddaa, when the local Exchange crime lord G0-T0 set a large bounty on Jedi, the Zhug brothers were eager to collect this hefty sum of money. In 3,951 BBY, the former Jedi Knight known as the Jedi Exile arrived to the "Smuggler's Moon", and soon after met by former bounty hunter and Bounty Hunters' Guild leader Vossk. He warned of the bounty hunters on the moon trying to collect the bounty over her head, with the Zhugs being among the hunters Vossk mentioned. Meanwhile, G0-T0 had invited all bounty hunters to his yacht, the Visionary, where he clearly expressed that the Jedi Exile was not to be harmed while walking on the streets of Nar Shaddaa. When they of heard this restriction, the Zhug Brothers loudly proclaimed G0-T0 being mad not allowing them hunt her when she's so close, leading the hunters picking on each other.

Eventually the Jedi Exile met Visquis, a quarren who acted as the lead of G0-T0's operations in the surface of the moon, in order to discuss of the bounty. The bounty hunters considered this as the end of the truce, and When G0-T0 brought the now imprisoned Exile to the Visionary to discuss her role in the events that affected the stability of the Galaxy, three of the brothers pursued the Jedi Exile's companions at the landing pad of their freighter, the Ebon Hawk. They attacked Zabrak Bao-Dur, former Jedi Master Kreia, the Ebon Hawk pilot Atton Rand, and handmaiden Brianna. Instead of ambushing them, the brothers were unwise enough to issue foolish ultimatums and threats. The three hunters, including their leader Azanti Zhug, were dispatched, and none of the Exile's comrades were killed in the short, decisive exchange of fire. After the fight, two of the Exile's companions infiltrated the Visionary in an attempt to rescue her. After the Exile's companions reached her, eight of the Zhugs boarded the ship. They tried to kill the Jedi, but once again they failed.

The brothers's final encounter with the Jedi Exile took place on the Onderonian moon of Dxun, where the Ebon Hawk was forced to land after a battle over Onderon between Onderon Royalists backed up by the Galactic Republic and the Onderonian separatist forces. Three Zhug brothers led by Dezanti Zhug, whose Heraklon-class transport ship had been damaged in the battle by separatist forces, confronted her on the surface of the moon. They attempted to claim the bounty put on the Exile, stating that they wouldn't fail to fulfill their part of the bounty deal like Azanti and the other brothers had before, but were similarly defeated in a short and intense fight.

Organization
The Zhug brothers consisted hundreds of Duros, who formated a "family" sharing the cause to get their former homeplanet Duro under their command. Unlike their rivaling family in Duro, they were not politically connected, and borthers' violent acts against them resulted to casting out the Zhugs from Duro. Zhug brothers considered themselves as famous and powerful bounty hunters, and especially their leading brothers, Azanti Zhug and Dezanti Zhug, assured their importance to the Jedi exile. They also considered themselves being good making deals, and they despised deal-breaking.

Behind the scenes
The Zhug brothers were one of the minor villains in the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, a video game released by Obsidian Entertainment at the end of the year 2004.

In the cut content of the game, numerous Zhug brothers&mdash;among the other bounty hunters&mdash;were to attack Atton Rand and the other Jedi Exile's companions while they're trying to save her from Visquis. There is also several dialogues in the cut content, including references to the GenoHaradan bounty hunter guild.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Notes and references
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