Beyghor Sahdett

"The name is Beyghor Sahdett, and I assure you, Captain Heren, I am a Jedi."

- Beyghor Sahdett

Beyghor Sahdett was a Verpine Jedi who lived during the last years of the Galactic Republic, and into the reign of the new Galactic Empire. Following the enaction of Order 66, Sahdett joined the crew of the Uhumele in search of fellow survivor, Jedi Master Dass Jennir. It wielded a green lightsaber.

Biography
Beyghor Sahdett, a hermaphroditic Verpine with a masculine personality, was trained in the ways of the Force by the Jedi Order and in time became a skilled Jedi. When the Clone Wars broke out in 22 BBY, Sahdett answered the call, leading the Grand Army of the Republic's clone troopers into battle as a Jedi General.

Order 66
"But not every Jedi fell victim to Palpatine's plan&hellip;Some&hellip;by skill&hellip;survived."

- Anonymous

When Order 66 was issued, which ordered all clone troopers to execute their Jedi leaders, Sahdett's troops received the order and moved to obey. While planetside within a forest, they attacked Sahdett, but the Jedi was far too skilled for the clones, and he cut many of them down with his lightsaber. He was then able to escape.

Finding the Uhumele
"Bomo Greenbark? I have been looking for you. My name is Beyghor Sahdett, and I believe we share a mutual aquaintance..."

- Beyghor Sahdett, to Bomo Greenbark

Four months after the end of the Clone Wars, the former resistance fighter, Bomo Greenbark, had made camp on the refuge planet of Kidron with the rest of the crew of the smuggling vessel, the Uhumele. Greenbark, despondent over his grave losses of the last four months, traveled into a nearby town to go for a walk. It was here that Sahdett found the Nosaurian, informing him that they had a mutual acquaintance&mdash;Dass Jennir. Sahdett had forsaken his Jedi robes, donning armor and a blaster instead, yet still keeping his lightsaber clipped to his belt in plain sight. Greenbark, who regretted his earlier stance of banishing Jennir from the crew due to his status as a Jedi fugitive, brought Sahdett back to the vessel and introduced him to his ship-mates. He asked them to allow Sahdett to join them, but their responses were mixed, with their drunken captain, Schurk-Heren, even doubting Sahdett was a Jedi at all.

As Sahdett assured the captain that he was in fact a Jedi, a group of stormtroopers led by an Imperial officer swarmed the camp. The Imperials, knowing that the Uhumele had harbored Jennir, were seeking to detain and question the crew. As they approached, no one reacted, until Greenbark turned to Sahdett. Sahdett leaped into action, igniting his lightsaber and throwing himself in between the attackers and his new associates. He quickly sliced through the troopers, performing acrobatic feats and deflecting blaster bolts, as well as bisecting and beheading his opponents. Within moments, he had killed a dozen stormtroopers, and when the officer fired his blaster pistol at Sahdett, the Verpine deflected it into the officer's forehead, killing him as well. With the entire squad of Imperials dead, Schurk-Heren remarked that Sahdett was indeed a Jedi after all.

The Search for Dass Jennir
"You've put a lot of faith in rumors spread by smugglers and slave runners, Sahdett. Do you really think we'll find Jennnir?"

- Ko Vakier

Shortly after this incident, Sahdett and the crew of departed Kidron to search for Jennir. After gleaning information from smugglers and slavers, the group found themselves led toward Telerath, where rumors abounded of a Human Jedi. Ko Vakier expressed doubts about the veracity of the rumors, and Sahdett agreed that with the Empire having placed a bounty on the heads of all Jedi, they were being "seen" all around the galaxy. He told Vakier that they must keep hope alive, however, and even if they didn't find Jennir, Sahdett was confident they'd find Telerath to be a beautiful planet. Even as he spoke of its beauty, however, a group of Humans with blasters surrounded the crew and demanded to know their intentions. Captain Schurk-Heren, now sober and proud, took offense at their insults toward his ship and told them that they were seeking Dass Jennir. When one of the men placed his blaster against the captain's head, Sahdett began to reach for his lightsaber, but was admonished by Greenbark, and the Verpine stayed his hand. As the men grew angrier, saying that another being had come looking for Jennir, they were approached by two wounded Humans&mdash;a boy named Dado and an old man named Fish. Fish immediately recognized the beings as friends of Jennir, and Greenbark in particular.

The Telerath native brought the group back to a former brothel called Ember's Fire, where Fish told them that due to their unusual mix of species and Jennir's stories, he easily knew who they were, but mentioned that Sahdett was unknown to him. Greenbark pointed out that Sahdett was helping them look for Jennir, and the Verpine then asked of the other being who had come looking for the Jedi as well. Fish told them that the man had said he was a friend of Jennir's, but the old man knew that wasn't so, based on his appearance and lack of manners, and Fish declared that he'd rather die than reveal where Jennir had gone. Fish and Nikollane, Dado's mother, told the group that they had formed a local militia and that everyone on the planet owed so much to Jennir for eliminating all the criminals from the planet, and revealed that the Jedi had been gone for two weeks, headed to the Vondarc system.

Sahdett and the rest of the Uhumele crew then left for Vondarc, a planet in the Mid Rim. The vessel's engineer, Ratty, was able to obtain a new transponder which allowed them to pass through Imperial lines undetected, as Star Destroyers patrolled the skies. Both Ratty and Greenbark were uncertain that Jennir would land on such a planet, let alone be able to change his transponder code as they had. Sahdett, however, was not willing to write off the information they had, and decided there was only one way to find out Jennir's fate - by breaking into the local Imperial guard station and accessing the Imperial databanks. Though the crew expressed shock and uncertainty at this plan, Vakier, Ratty, and Greenbark ended up accompanying Sahdett into the station. Sahdett had attempted to go alone, but Greenbark stated that even though he was a Jedi, they should work together. Though they had encountered and killed several stormtroopers on their way into the station, they managed to reach the databanks undetected. Sahdett assured the others that he knew exactly what he was doing, and then directed Ratty to the precise access point he needed in order to slice into the databank. Ratty then expressed surprise that Sahdett knew so much about the Imperial system, to which Sahdett faltered when trying to answer. Vakier heard someone coming, however, and Sahdett used his wings to fly past the others to cut down two stormtroopers who were passing by with one swing of his lightsaber. He then returned and gave a confident answer to Ratty's question, saying that just as the clones had formerly been under his command, so too had the computers that the Empire now used. Ratty managed to copy all of the recent reports for the entire sector, and at Sahdett's urging, the group rushed back to the Uhumele.

On the right track
"But see the truth behind the report, and ask yourselves&mdash;how could a "destroyed" civilian ship take out two Nimbus-class starfighters?"

- Beyghor Sahdett

Departing from Vondarc in broad daylight, Schurk-Heren was eager to escape into hyperspace. Meanwhile, Sahdett, Vakier, and Ratty worked to sift through the vast amount of information they stole. Ratty proudly told Schurk-Heren that Sahdett had deftly broken the Imperial encryption, but the Jedi dismissed this as he had before, by saying the code was not that different than the one used by the Republic. The crew mused on different paths Jennir might take, until Ratty became saddened by the memory of their friend and crewmate, Janks, who was captured by the Empire. The Verpine callously disregarded Ratty's feelings and Janks' fate, causing the crew to exchange looks of concern. Sahdett quickly changed the subject when he came across a report that a civilian vessel had been shot down, but not before destroying two Nimbus class starfighters. Greenbark questioned how this could be good news if Jennir was dead, but Sahdett pointed out that the captain who filed the report would be forced to account for both the destroyed fighters and the enemy craft, but would only be able to build a promotion if the enemy was destroyed as well&mdash;yet only a Jedi would be able to take out two clone starfighters in a civilian craft. Using the discovered data, they then began to follow Jennir to the planet of Prine, along the Enarc Run.

On the surface of Prine, the crew discovered the remains of one the V-wing starfighters, revealing they were on the right track. They eventually found Jennir, passed out in attempting to heal Ember Chankeli, whom had been shot in the back by Falco Sang. The crew brought the pair onboard where Sahdett completed the healing process. When Jennir awoke, he rushed to Chankeli's room, where the Verpine Jedi assured her that asside from the scarring, she was completely healed. Jennir immediately embraced and kissed her, completely ignoring his fellow Jedi and causing Sahdett to exchange a stare with Vakier. Schurk-Heren then cleared the room to allow Jennir and Chankeli some privacy.

Shortly afterwards, Jennir shaved his beard and confronted Schurk-Heren about going back to help Maddie, to which the Captain replied was implausible. Eventually the conversation shifted to Darth Vader as well as Sahdett himself, whom Jennir did not know. Schurk-Heren explained that he was another Jedi, but had assumed Jennir did in fact know him. Jennir explained that there had been thousands of Jedi, and while it was possible that they had met before, he did not remember. Bomo then told Jennir of how they had met Sahdett and how he had saved them from Imperials, and that the Verpine had Jedi matters to discuss with Jennir, to which Jennir was happy to oblige.

Behind the scenes
Sahdett first appeared in Star Wars: Republic 79: Into the Unknown, Part 1, drawn by Douglas Wheatley, as an unnamed Verpine Jedi, where he was pictured in a montage which showed Jedi responding to Order 66. Another Verpine Jedi appeared in Star Wars: Dark Times 16: Blue Harvest, Part 4, where he was revealed to be Beyghor Sahdett. Although this Verpine Jedi is also drawn by Doug Wheatley, it was not confirmed that the two were the same until Randy Stradley, the Dark Horse Comics editor confirmed the connection on the Dark Horse forums.

Unlike all previously pictured Verpine, Sahdett sports a pair of translucent wings resembling that of a dragonfly in the Blue Harvest story arc.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Republic 79: Into the Unknown, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 16: Blue Harvest, Part 4
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 17: Blue Harvest, Part 5
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 18: Out of the Wilderness, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 19: Out of the Wilderness, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 20: Out of the Wilderness, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 21: Out of the Wilderness, Part 4
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 22: Out of the Wilderness, Part 5