Akris Ur'etu

"I don't know why this Jedi's been interfering with my operations -- or what happened to the bounty hunter whos supposed to keep him out of my fur!--but it ends here!"

- Akris Ur'etu gives orders to his men

Akris Ur'etu was a wealthy male Bothan crime lord who at a relatively young age became head of the criminal organisation known as the Skar'kla Consortium. The consortium had several Hutt rivals one of whom arranged for a Bounty Hunter to dress as a Jedi and interfer with Skar'kla operations before hunting down and killing the Bothan without any suspecting the Hutts. Akris hired the Duros Bounty hunter Cad Bane to stop the imposter but he allowed the hunter successfully tracked down and killed Akris using a gas emitter designed to make it appear the user could control the force.

Biography
"Look, I don't know what grudge you have against my organisation, but I'm sure there's some arragnment that we can glrk..."

- Akris Ur'etu's last words.

Akris Ur'etu was a Bothan Crime lord who gained control of the criminal syndicate known as the Skar'la Consortium at a fairly young age. Whilst he controlled the consortium several Hutts attempted to take over portions of it's territory. Shortly before the Clone Wars one of the Hutts hired a Bounty Hunter to kill Akris whilst disguised as a Jedi as to draw suspicion over his murder away from the Hutt and onto the Jedi Order.

The Jedi imposter first intefered in a number of Skar'kla operations which caused Akris to hire the Duros bounty hunter Cad Bane to stop the Jedi being a problem. The imposter however tracked down the Bothan to a Skar'kla base and attacked him there. Akris managed to get inside the building with a number of thugs and sealed it's blast doors however the Jedi cut through them with a stolen lightsaber and killed several thugs with a Thermal detonator before finishing off the rest with the lightsaber. While the imposter and thugs fought Akris managed to escape down a hidden passage way concealed behind his Greel wood desk. The passage lead to the base's security center where he was greated by his Weequay security chief. The pair prepared to battle the imposter but the bounty hunter used a mono-filament cable with a magnetic grapple to pull the crime lord's holdout blaster pistol from his grasp as though using the force and then used it to shoot the Weequay, killing him. Akris attempted to plead for his life but the imposter began to choke him using gas from and emitter on his wrist although to the Bothan it seemed as though he was using the force. Cad Bane, who had been watching the entire encounter from afar then arrived in the security centre, but to Akris' horror told the imposter he could finish his job and allowed the Bothan to choke to death whilst the crime lord stared angrily at the Duros.

Legacy
"All right. Then here's the deal, son. I took Ur'etu's job--that's killing you, in case you weren't sure--because I figured taking down a Jedi would garner some attention."

- Cad Bane after allowing his former employer to be killed

Bane had only taken the job from Akris as he had been interested in the Jedi imposter's equipment which had allowed him to impersonate a Jedi. He quickly defeated the imposter in combat and made an agreement with him, allowing him live if he'd show the Duros how to make each piece of equipment. Bane also demanded that the imposter allowed him to turn in the bounty on Akris as it would be high and he wanted the reputation boost that would come with it.

Personality and traits
"Blast doors down! Blast doors down!"

- Akris' terrifed command as the imposter pursued him

Akris was scared greatly of the Jedi whilst he was being pursued and couldn't conceal it from his men due to the fact his grey and brown fur stood on end and his voice became high pitched when ever he was frightened. Whilst being chased he swore continuously in Bothese and once the imposter corned him he begged to make an arrangement with him to spare his life. Akris' fear was replaced by anger on occasion first at the Jedi as he attempted to enter the compound, then at the inepatude of his Weequay security chief and finally as he died at Cad Bane for letting him be killed.

Behind the scenes
Akris Ur'etu first appeared in the short story Reputation written by Ari Marmell and drawn by Tom Hodges which was published in Star Wars Insider 136 in 2012. The story states that he has shadow grey colored fur although in both illustrations of him it appears brown