Holshef

"You hide people from the Empire?''" "''Of course I do. Got a few stashed away right now&mdash;there's Holshef, Pinson, and a couple of others. I hide them as long as they've got enough credits, you understand."

- Merei Spanjaf and Yahenna Laxo

Holshef was a human male living in Lothal. He was an old man with wispy white hair who painted and wrote poetry. His artistic expressions against the Galactic Empire resulted in an arrest warrant and forced him into hiding.

History
Holshef lived on Lothal under the Galactic Republic and later the Empire. When the Empire first annexed Lothal, he and his family threw a party because they felt there was much more the Empire could do to bind the galaxy in a better way than the Republic ever could. When he found that the Empire was instead poisoning Lothal's air and water when it would have taken so little to preserve them, he wrote poems and painted pictures to express his objections, but only ended up with an arrest warrant issued against him for his trouble. He thought about going to see Governor Pryce regarding his concerns, thinking she'd understand, but was told by daughter this was a bad idea. As such, he was forced into hiding, paying credits to Yahenna Laxo of the Gray Syndicate to keep safe.

As part of her duties for the Gray Syndicate, Merei Spanjaf would sometimes visit Holshef in his hiding places to collect his credits to give to Laxo. He would ask her to describe things like the color of the grass or the sunset outside and she found him to be terribly lonely. She empathized with his complaints about the Empire and he found her to be a friendly face, promising to paint her a picture, but nothing that would get her in trouble. Later, Spanjaf visited Holshef again to inform him that Rosey, also of the Gray Syndicate, would be moving him to a new hiding place in order to ensure his continued protection from the Empire. At some point after this, Laxo sold Holshef to a bounty hunter and assigned Spanjaf to take the bounty hunter to Holshef's newest hideout, 1044 Chapel. This was punishment for an attempt by Spanjaf to cross him, but a raid on the Gray Syndicate's headquarters, brought down by Spanjaf herself, followed Laxo's ultimatum. The raid left him dead and Spanjaf seemingly free of their influence, as she was believed to be an innocent civilian who had been taken hostage in order to stop an investigation being conducted by her mother.

Appearances

 * Servants of the Empire: Imperial Justice