- "Why do you dance here instead of in a cantina?"
"Because more goes on than meets the eye in places such as this. The people one meets can be quite informative and enthralling if one knows where to look and when to listen. And there are always those interested in information from a planet such as this one." - ―A spacer and Bertos Goodner
Bertos Goodner was a male Twi'lek who lived on Naboo during the Galactic Civil War. Posing as a dancer, he was in fact a spy of the Rebel Alliance.
Biography[]
- "My friend. Welcome to Moenia. The starport is a bustling center of commerce and community. Shall I dance for you?"
- ―Bertos Goodner, to a spacer

Bertos showing off his dance moves.
After the Battle of Yavin, Bertos Goodner stood by the entrance of the Moenia spaceport on Naboo. Posing as a dancer, Bertos Goodner would offer to dance for traveling spacers who passed through the city. The Twi'lek preferred to dance at the spaceport rather than in the cantina so he could gather more information from the travelers. In fact, Bertos Goodner was a member of the Alliance Intelligence and the commander of the Rebel spies on Naboo.[2]
In 1 ABY,[3] a Rebel spy named Simo Oron was captured by Imperial forces and detained in a small Imperial Base in the Lasay Swamp. On Corellia, the Rebellion made arrangements to rescue Simo but his personal effects, including a sensitive contact list, were left behind. The Rebel droid C-3PO therefore tasked a group of Rebel operatives with obtaining his contact list in the Imperial base on Naboo. After the Rebel operatives succeeded in finding the contact list, they handed it over to Bertos Goodner in Moenia.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
Bertos Goodner was a non-player character (NPC) in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[1] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[4]
Bertos Goodner was added to the game with the expansion Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed, released on October 27, 2004. This NPC was originally a "greeter NPC": an NPC present at the entrance of a starport to provide general information to players arriving on a new planet.[1] Bertos Goodner was later integrated into a quest of the revamped "Rebel Theme Park,"[2] released with the "Chapter 6" update, on May 22, 2007.[5]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed (First appearance)
- Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4
Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Rebel Quest: "The Spy's Contact List" on Corellia
- ↑ The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
- ↑
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
- ↑
Publish Notes – Chapter 6: Masters of the Wild on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
External links[]
The Spy's Contact List on the SWG Wiki