Lok Durd/Legends

"You are now under the protection of the Separatist Alliance. I congratulate you on your good fortune."

- Lok Durd

Lok Durd was an overweight Neimoidian Separatist General and weapons developer who served in the Clone Wars. He created an experimental defoliator weapon during the war, an artillery weapon that would completely wipeout any organnic matter in the blast zone, but leave any any machinery unharmed. The General planned to test the weapon on the planet of Maridun after he discovered a small Lurmen colony on the planet. However, the tests were interrupted by three Jedi, Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, and Aayla Secura, who had crash landed on the planet earlier, and Lok was captured after a brief battle.

The defoliator


Sometime during the Clone Wars, Lok developed a defoliator weapon that could destroy all living matter, only leaving behind his own combat troops, the battle droids, in hopes that it would allow him to rise in the ranks in the Separatist Droid Army. The weapon was an artillery weapon that was attached to the main gun of an AAT that shot a large missile that contained the defoliator. When the defoliator exploded, it created a large fiery shock wave, but a shield generator could block the shockwave.

Lok decided to test the weapon on the remote planet of Maridun, and show the results to the Sith Lord Count Dooku, the leader of the Separatist movement. He decided to test his deadly weapon on Maridun because it was home to a small, peaceful Lurmen colony. Thinking that the Lurmen would not fight back, Lok intended to test the weapon on the colony. However, Durd did not know that three Jedi, Anakin Skywalker who was seriously injuired after the crash, his apprentice Ahsoka Tano, and recently rescued Aayla Secura, along with Commander Bly and Captain Rex, had crash landed on the planet earlier.

After landing on the planet with the defoliator and several dozen battle droids, Durd's forces built a small but heavily armed base camp, and then went to the Lurmen colony. When they arrived there in a Separatist landing craft, Durd met with the colonies leader, Tee Watt Kaa. Durd lied to Tee Watt, saying that the colony was now under Separatist protection, and as long as the Lurmen did not try to fight back, that they would remain unharmed. Meanwhile, the Jedi and their clones, who were staying with the Lurmen, were retreating into the tall grass near the colony. Anakin, now back to full health, Aayla, and Ashoka did not want to get the Lurmen in any danger by making it seem to the Separatists that they were helping Republic. Watt Kaa's son, Wag Too sent a friend of his, Tub to escort the Jedi. However, as Lok and his forces flew back to their base camp, the Jedi were followed by a probe droid deployed by the Separatists, but after realizing that they were being watched, the Jedi were eventually able to chase down and destroy the probe droid before it could get back to Durd and report the Republic presence.

Testing the defoliator
Back at the Separatist camp, Durd was preparing to make the first field test of the defoliator. When he told his battle droids about the new defoliator he created, they originally cheered. However, when he told them he needed a pair of volunteers to move into a large grassy field next to the base to test the defoliator, their ranks quickly moved back leaving just two very reluctent B1 battle droids to be tested upon. Meanwhile, the three Jedi and the clones had stumbled on to the testing site after they had chased down the Separatist probe droid. They were watching what was going from a large tree on the edge of the grassy field, but they didn't know exactly what was going on, so Rex and Bly offered to sneak into the grassy field to get a better look.

While the clones were moving forward, Lok, unaware of that the enemy was watching his test, opened a hololink to Count Dooku as to show him the test. After the test battle droids were a safe distance away from Separatist base camp, Lok ordered the defoliator to be loaded and fired. A pair of B1 battle droids loaded the defoliator missile into the AAT and Lok's Aqualish aide prepared fired the weapon at the test droids. In the meantime, Bly and Rex had moved into the testing field and did not realize that they were in serious danger, but the Jedi watching from the large tree could see they were. The Aqualish aide launched the missile, and it fell slightly in front of the test droid, causing the fiery shockwave that expanded in all direction.

The two B1 battle droids were quickly engulfed by the defoliator and the shockwave destroyed all the plant life and foliage in the blast zone. Rex and Bly, now realizing they were in danger, tried to run as fast as they could from the shockwave, but the shockwave was catching up to them. Aayla Secura, realzing that they would not survive, swung down from the tree using a vine, picked up the running clones, and carried them back to the safety of the tree. The defoliator shockwave stopped and died down at the edge of the grassy field, right in front of the large field.

Back at the base camp, Lok and the rest of his troop, along with Count Dooku through his hololink, watched as the smoke and dust generated by the defoliator cleared to reveal the two battle droids completely unharmed standing in the middle of a deolate waste land. To Lok, the defoliator appeared to work, the two test subjects were not damaged at all, but all the organic life was totally wipeout. Dooku said that the new weapon was very impressive, but Lok should test the deoliator on living, sentient subjects. Lok said that he would test the defoliator on the lurmen colony.

Lok, at least three squads of his battle droids, three AATs, one equiped with the defoliator artillery, and several defoliator shells, prepared to travel to the Lurmen colony to test the defoliator. Skywalker, Tano, Secura, and the clones were still watching what was going from the tree, now knowing that Durd had a very dangerous weapon. When they saw that detachment was moving towards the Lurmen colony, thinking the Lurmen were in serious danger, the Jedi thought that they needed to stop the Separatists before they could harm the colony.

After Lok and the detachment had left, the Jedi and the clones, under the cover of night, assualted the Confederate camp in hopes of capturing their Sheathipede-class shuttle as to get back to the Lurmen colony before Durd reached their and worn the Lurmen. The three Jedi were able to infiltrate the base camp while Bly and Rex distracted the battle droids outside. Anakin, Ashoka, and Aayla were then able to cut down most of the Separatist droids with their lightsabers while Bly and Rex shot the rest and they were able to secure the camp. Before boarding the shuttle, Skywalker found a pair of shield generators that he thought might be able to stop the defoliator from destroying the Lurmen colony.

The Battle of Maridun
"There goes my promotion"

- Lok Durd after being captured by Anaking Skywalker

The Jedi and the clones were able to reach the colony before Lok and his forces, and told Watt Kaa about the defoliator and that Durd was coming with it to likely destroy the colony. Watt Watt Kaa, a devote pacifist, said that he and the colony would not fight back, and that if their destiny was to die in the Jedi's war, then so be it. Against Watt Kaa's wishes, the Jedi still decided to defend the colony, and began to make a makeshift barricade with giant pods of some kind, in front of the colony and deployed the two shield generators. While this was going on, Wag Too told Ashoka that he wanted to fight back against the Separatists, but did not want to go against his father.

After the Jedi had created the barricade, Lok and his forces soon arrived and set up positions a long distance away from the colony, but close enough that so that the village was in range of the defoliator. Lok himself was sitting in the open turret of one of the AATs. When one of his droids told that a barricade had been set up, Lok thought that it was only the Lurmen trying to protect themselves, and ordered the defoliator to be fired at them. When Anakin saw that the Separatist were loading the defoliator, he ordered Rex and Bly to start up the shield generators. As a deflector shield enveloped the colony and the pod barricade, Skywalker told his Shili apprentice that if the enemy couldn't beat them from far away, then they would be forced to engaged them close up.

After the defoliator was loaded, Lok commanded his aide to fire the weapon. The defoliator missile landed several meters in front of the defelctor shield, and the fiery shockwave expanded out as it had during the first test. When the shockwave reached the shield, however, it was unable to get through and was effectively stopped. After the defoliator had died down, Ashoka, Anakin, and Aayla emerged from behind the pod barricade, preparing for a Separatist charge. One of Lok battle droids informed the general that there were Jedi guarding the colony, which surprised the Nembodian. He then ordered his first squad, consisting of severl B1 and B2 battle droids, to charge forward and attack the Jedi, realizing he would have to destroy the colonies shields for the defoliator to be effective at this range.

The first squad charged through the wasteland created by the defoliator while the Jedi emerged from the shield barricade to meet the charging droids. Rex and Bly stayed behind to give their commanders covering fire. When the battle droids neared the Jedi, they started to fire upon them, but the Jedi were able to deflect the blaster fire away with their lightsabers and charged into the first squad. Lok and the rest of his forces watched as the first squad was completley cut down. Durd then ordered his second and third squads to charge forward, leaving a few battle droids and the three AATs behind to guard the general.

The Jedi used the same formation that they used against the first wave for the second wave, but the three Jedi were not able to hold off the combined might of both squads, and several battle droids made it past them. Anakin, realizing that the droids might destroy the shield generators and leave the village exposed to the defoliator, so he ordered Ashoka and Secura to keep defending the colony and he would eliminate the defoliator. Rex and Bly were trying to stop the Separatist droids from breeching the deflector shields and had to retreat behind the pod barricade, but battle droids blew threw the barricade and continued on to attack the colony. Tee Watt Kaa still did not want to get innvolved in the battle even when the battle droids started to shoot at the Lurmen houses. Ashoka and Aayla continued on to fight the remainder of the battle droids by cutting down them from behind, but the two Jedi and clonetroopers were unable to keep the battle droids from destroying the shield generators, deactivating the defelctor shield.

Meanwhile, Lok was ordering his men to reload the defoliator and destroy the village, but Skywalker was running towards them. Durd ordered his tanks to destroy the Jedi Knight, but Skywalker was too fast for the AAT's laser blasts. When Anakin reached the defoliator, he destroyed the AAT equipped with the defoliator artillery along with several of the droids quarding Lok, although Durd's aide jumped out of the AAT before it was destroyed. Lok, afraid that the Jedi would defoliate him, jumped out of his AAT and attempted to run away, but Skywalker lifted him from the ground before the Nembodian general could run far, capturing Lok.

Back at the Lurmen village, Wag Too, disgusted that his father would let the entire colony be destroyed in the name of peace, got several of the other Lurmen to attack the Confederate battle droids. With the assistance of the Republic forces, they were able to destroy the rest of battle droids by tying the droids' legs with rope and knocking them to the ground, while Ashoka decaptitated the droids with her lightsaber. With the defoliator destroyed and Durd, along with his aide, captured by the Jedi, they had saved the colony from Durd's new weapon. After the battle, the Jedi prepared to leave the colony with Durd with them, while three Venator-class Star Destroyers jumped into the system to pick up the stranded Jedi. Lok Durd's fate remains unknown after the battle.

Personality and Traits
Lok Durd was overconfident, condescending and power-crazed. He also carried a dream of being promoted to a higher rank within the Separatist Droid Army, which was one of the reasons he developed the defoliator. He liked to deploy his troops in large head on rushes. Lok Durd personally knew Count Dooku and carried out his orders. Lok Durd was also very cowardly and attempted to run away from Skywalker when he came to close.

Behind the scenes


Lok Durd made his first and only appearance in the The Clone Wars episode Defenders of Peace. In the episode, Lok Durd is voiced by George Takei of Star Trek fame. Although his character is captured at the end of the episode, "Defenders of Peace", it appears that Lok Durd will be a recurring villain in the series based on the interviews with George Takei.