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"I know of a guy that is probably doing some undercover work here. I'll bet he could use somebody who's trained to be a Spy. Talk to Lercer in the Cantina."
Han Solo, to a spacer[2]

Lercer Gaia was a male Bothan spy who was living during the Galactic Civil War.

Biography[]

"Although a frontal assault is never preferred in our line of work, sometimes it's unavoidable."
―Lercer Gaia, to a spy[3]

A Bothan spy, Lercer Gaia resided on board Tansarii Point Station, in the Bright Jewel system, after the Battle of Yavin.[1] Beyond Tansarii Point Station, Lercer was part of a larger spy network involving Kaesii DuPree and Sarlis Beni on Tatooine.[4][5]

In 1 ABY,[6] Lercer Gaia undertook the training of a spacer who wished to become a spy and had just arrived on Tansarii Point Station with Han Solo.[1] During that time, Gaia was interested in finding information about the war raging between the Car'das controlling Tansarii Point Station and the Rak'qua living in neighboring Station Gamma. For a first mission, Lercer tasked his spy trainee to slice the high security files from the Systems Data Control terminal of Tansarii Point Station. The spacer succeeded and found information that a local arms dealer had bribed people on both stations in an attempt to start a conflict and sell more weapons.[7] Gaia later dispatched the spy to Station Gamma in order to find more evidences. The spacer therefore infiltrated the Rak'qua space station and was able to find data corroborating the information.[3] The Bothan spy eventually sold the information to Officer Antom Moria who used it to prevent escalation of the conflict.[8]

After those events, the spacer left Tansarii Point Station and traveled to Tatooine. There, Lercer Gaia introduced the spacer to the spies Kaesii DuPree and Sarlis Beni. The spacer later achieved several missions for both of them.[4][5]

Behind the scenes[]

Lercer Gaia appeared as a non-player character 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.[9] Lercer Gaia was added to the game as part of the "New Player Tutorial," introduced with the release of the "Publish 25," a.k.a. the "New Game Enhancements," on November 15, 2005.[10]

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Spy Quest: "Lercer the Spy" on Tansarii Point Station
  2. Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "You Need Work" on Tansarii Point Station
  3. 3.0 3.1 Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Spy Quest: "Finishing the plot" on Tansarii Point Station
  4. 4.0 4.1 Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Spy Quest: "Spies Like Us" on Tatooine
  5. 5.0 5.1 Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Spy Quest: "Corporate Espionage" on Tatooine
  6. 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.
  7. Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Spy Quest: "The Spy's Game" on Tansarii Point Station
  8. Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Officer Quest: "Preventing a War" on Tansarii Point Station
  9. IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  10. Publish Archive 2005 on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)

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