Kardue'sai'Malloc/Legends

Kardue'sai'Malloc, the third person to bear the name in the Kardue family line, was also known as Labria to residents of the city of Mos Eisley. He was a war criminal, information broker, and alcohol and music enthusiast.

The Butcher of Montellian Serrat
Malloc joined the Devaronian Army to continue his family's sixteen generation-old military tradition. He found that the army lifestyle suited him -- in spite of his distaste for the policy of putting Devaronian troops under Imperial command -- and rose up through the ranks to Captain.

Malloc felt that his military career didn't end when he resigned, it had ended when Rebels took shelter in the ancient Devaronian holy city of Montellian Serat, a decision that he considered to be tactically foolish. He spent a night shelling the walls of the old city and in the morning called for the Rebels to surrender. They surrendered, seven hundred in total. They were then herded into a hastily constructed holding pen, after which the order was given to shell Montellian Serat into rubble to make Rebel sympathizers think twice before giving shelter to Rebels.

There were reports that another group of Rebels were still fighting about half a day's march south of Montellian Serrat on the morning that the Rebels surrendered. At noon they were believed to be heading north. Malloc was given the order to intercept them. He was given orders not to leave any of his forces behind to guard the captured Rebels. He decided that this was an order to kill the captured Rebels and acted accordingly.

At mid-afternoon, Malloc pulled the guards back into a half circle. He then ordered them to open fire upon the seven hundred Rebels in the holding pen. He was certain that all seven hundred were dead after five minutes. Malloc organized his forces and had them march south to the next battle. There was no time to bury the slain Rebels. He gained a new name, the Butcher of Montellian Serrat.

Half a year later, when the Rebellion on Devaron was over, Malloc decided to resign from his commission. When he submitted his resignation, he knew full well that he would either be killed by those on his home planet or by the Galactic Empire for treason. He recalled that he didn't much care what the outcome would be. Ultimately, the Empire decided not to kill him, but as a result of his resignation the Empire would no longer be able to protect him from the five-million credit bounty that had been hung over his head after his massacre at Montellian Serrat.

Labria
Malloc was forced to flee Devaron, his wife, and his daughter, taking his music collection -- his "reason for living" -- with him. He seemed to decide that the best way to spend the rest of his life, while avoiding the odd bounty hunter, was to chase musical artists that he fancied across the galaxy. During this time he took up "Labria" as his name, a Devaronian insult translated literally to Basic meaning "cold food."

Labria spent about five years chasing one artist -- a human vandifillist named Maxa Jandovar. Each time he got to a port, he had learned that he had just missed a performance by her, sometimes within a day. Finally, he just missed her on Tatooine and heard that she would be Morvogodine. Labria was getting ready to go to Morvogodine when he heard that Jandovar had been arrested on Morvogodine and had died in Imperial custody. Labria stayed on Tatooine.

Labria stayed on Tatooine despite his hatred toward what he called a "nasty, useless little planet." To him, Tatooine's virtues ultimately outweighed its drawbacks. It was halfway across the galaxy from Devaron and thus bounty hunters would be less likely to look for him there. It also had very few Devaronians. Besides himself, Labria knew of only two other Devaronians who lived on Tatooine, and neither seemed to recognize him as the Butcher of Montellian Serrat.

He discovered a cantina -- Chalmun's cantina -- which claimed to sell Merenzane Gold, his preferred alcoholic beverage. Labria became friends with Wuher, the bartender and was always the first patron to come in when the bar opened. He tended to wear earplugs because he could not tolerate the sound that emanated from most of the bands that the cantina hired. Several years later, he stated that the Merenzane Gold that he drank at the cantina was merely poured "out of bottles that once, eons ago, were looked at hard by a man who heard of Merenzane!"

While the cantina was the place that Labria used to get drunk, it was also his place of business. He started a career in information brokerage. He usually got his sources intoxicated so that they would let slip some loose information or he would feign drunkenness so that his marks would let their guards down. However, he quickly gained a reputation as the worst information broker on that side of the Dune Sea.

After quite some time, he learned through Garindan, a far more successful information broker than he was, that Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes were coming to Tatooine to play for Jabba the Hutt. He immediately hatched a plot so that he would be able to listen to what he considered to be the best jizz band in the galaxy.

Labria decided to recommend to Jabba that he should hire a Moorin mercenary that Jabba could use as a guard. When he proposed this to Jabba, Labria suggested that the he could accompany the mercenary to a meeting with Jabba (suggesting that having a band playing during the meeting would make the mercenary more agreeable), Jabba disagreed, saying that he'd rather that Labria send the mercenary to him. Labria walked away dejectedly, fearing that Jabba didn't have enough musical taste and thus would feed Figrin D'an and his bandmates to his pet rancor upon hearing their music. He later learned that Jabba had a new favorite.

Four days of mourning followed. On the fifth day, Labria drank too much. He was later accosted by thieves in the back alley of the cantina and woke up lying facedown. He spent weeks in his apartment regaining his strength. When Labria ran out of food, it was time to go into the outside world once again. He stopped at the cantina, learning among other things of a space battle that had occured the other day, and that the mercenary that he had recommended to Jabba was fed to Jabba's rancor.

Upon learning that Lady Valarian, Jabba's rival in the area, was getting married, Labria hatched another plot to see Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes. He suggested to the Whiphid that the Modal Nodes were far superior to Max Rebo's band. She initially blanched at the suggestion, but she was eventually sold on the idea of hiring the Modal Nodes. This would enrage Jabba, who would attempt to sabotage the wedding. In the middle of the confusion, Wuher and Labria would save the band and in their gratefulness, the band would play at the cantina. The plan worked.

On the first day that the Modal Nodes played at the cantina, Labria and Wuher struck a deal: Labria would get seven free drinks a day until the band ran away. Labria secured his part of the bargain by getting Figrin D'an to gamble away all of the band's equipment, except for Doikk Na't's Fizzz. Thus, they would need to keep playing until at the cantina until they were able to buy back their instruments.

Flight to Peppel and Execution
Seventeen years after the Battle of Yavin, four merenaries walked into the cantina. One of the Devaronians recognized Malloc. Malloc then promptly killed all four mercenaries and vanished to the planet of Peppel. He settled in a cold swamp and built a hut there. He buried his music collection somewhere near the hut and also dug himself near, but not too near the hut as well. Piles of bones, shells and bottles accumulated in the hut.

Two years later, after he had made his weekly trip to the latrine, with assault rifle in hand, Malloc was shot high in his back with an arrow. He attempted to run, but the bounty hunter that had shot him was too fast. The bounty hunter forced Malloc to walk back to his hut so that he could check if any of the defenses surrounding the hut were active.

Upon getting there, the bounty hunter was annoyed that Malloc didn't recognize him, but considering that the bounty hunter wasn't wearing his trademark helmet, Malloc could be forgiven. Malloc made Boba Fett dig up his music collection and promise to sell it for a fair price before getting onto Fett's ship.

Upon getting back to Devaron, Malloc was reunited with his daughter, who paid the five million credit bounty to Fett. Malloc was then brought to the Justice Field, which laid in the shadow of the ruins of Montellian Serrat. The method by which he was to be executed had kept Devaron from being able to join the New Republic. He was to be shoved into a pit full of hungry quarra. Before he was disemboweled, Malloc noticed the beauty of the Devaronian trees that he had long since missed.