Gorse Bendak

"Bendak's the best there ever was, plain and simple."

"He was as bloodthirsty as an Iridorian battle-rager."

- Marl

Bendak Starkiller was a Mandalorian professional duelist who lived on Taris during the Jedi Civil War.

During the course of his career as a mercenary, due to the many deaths he had caused—although some of them were the result of inexperienced challengers—Bendak found himself a wanted man. A large bounty was placed on his head, and he fled to the remote world of Taris.

Bendak often fought in the gladiator arena owned by Ajuur the Hutt, but only when an opponent had beaten all the rest of Ajuur's gladiators, because only then would he or she be an interesting challenge to Starkiller. A legend on Taris, Bendak retired from the sport of dueling when death matches were banned, simply because he thought non-death matches were boring and unchallenging. It is probable that, because of the Mandalorian code of values, he thought that only death matches were honorable. When Revan became the dueling champion of Taris, however, Bendak came out of retirement, wanting to duel Revan in a death match.

Behind the scenes

 * Bendak's canonical fate is unknown: while the canonical ending of KotOR is the light side ending (in which Revan helps the Galactic Republic destroy the Star Forge), this by itself does not impose any additional restrictions on the story, and the outcome of any individual alignment-defining choice in the game is not strictly set. However, assuming that the player picks the light side choice for this scenario, Bendak is not killed by Revan (as duelling with him gives dark side points). In this case, Bendak most likely died when Taris was razed by Malak's fleet.
 * If however, the player picks the dark side choice for the scenario, Revan has the possibility to kill Starkiller. In this case, his blaster is given to Revan by Ajuur after his death and defeat.
 * Bendak's last name is likely based on the original name for Luke Skywalker.
 * Also, the name Bendak may be an homage to the Bioware's, Baldur's Gate series character in the Copper Coronet named Hendak.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic