Rune Haako/Legends

Rune Haako (&mdash;19 BBY) was the Settlement Officer of the Trade Federation, as well as the Neimoidian lieutenant to Viceroy Nute Gunray in the years before, and up to the end of, the Clone Wars.

Biography
Haako was promoted to his position after the betrayal of fellow Neimoidian Hath Monchar. He served as the Trade Federation Settlement Officer, meaning that his primary duties were to act as a diplomatic attaché and legal counsel to the viceroy. He was widely known for his jurisprudential acumen, but when confronted with real threats, he reacted with typical pessimism.

Haako was at Viceroy Nute Gunray's side when the Trade Federation decided to blockade the peaceful planet of Naboo, and he was one of the few people, besides Gunray and Daultay Dofine, who knew that the Sith Lord Darth Sidious was the one who had ordered the blockade. When the Battle of Naboo was concluded, Haako was captured along with Gunray and the two were transported to Coruscant for trial. After several trials, however, Gunray was never formally punished for the Naboo incident and maintained control over the Trade Federation; Haako was also shielded from any convictions&mdash;due to control wielded over the courts by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who was secretly Darth Sidious. Haako would later serve at Gunray's side in the Confederacy of Independent Systems throughout the Clone Wars. In the final days of the war, Rune Haako's forgetfulness was responsible for the Jedi's acquisition of Gunray's mechno-chair, which was equipped with a holotranceiver used by Darth Sidious to communicate via hologram to Viceroy Gunray, during the First Battle of Cato Neimoidia. The chair also contained intelligence capable of leading the Jedi toward finding Darth Sidious. However, Haako was never truly punished for this misdeed&mdash;he was merely chastised by Gunray&mdash;as their evasion of the Republic forces was a clear priority at the time. After a stop-over on Utapau, Haako and the other Separatist leaders were sent to Mustafar to orchestrate their armies' operations from there. When Anakin Skywalker, now Darth Sidious' apprentice Darth Vader, was sent to kill the Separatist leaders on Mustafar, Rune Haako was present and tried to hide underneath the table in the conference room as Vader slaughtered the other CIS leaders. When he tried to escape duing the confusion, Vader found&mdash;and killed&mdash;him.

Behind the scenes

 * Rune Haako was played by Jerome Blake and voiced by James Taylor in The Phantom Menace, and played by Sandy Thompson in Revenge of the Sith.


 * Originally, Rune Haako was to appear Nute Gunray's side in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, but the mask was lost sometime after Episode I finished filming. A new costume was constructed using one similar to Lott Dod's and using Daultay Dofine's mask. It was meant to be Rune Haako, but because he did not resemble Haako or Lott Dod enough to be considered those characters, a new Neimoidian named Gilramos Libkath was created and utilized in the role instead.

Appearances

 * Cloak of Deception
 * Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
 * Evasive Action: Reversal of Fortune
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith