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Mammon Hoole

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twenty years before the Battle of Yavin, Mammon Hoole joined the Empire as a scientist. A Shi'ido, Hoole was teamed with Borborygmus Gog in the search for the ability to control life and death. Emperor Palpatine himself approved the funding for a huge base on the planet Kiva, where they nearly discovered a way to create life from nothing. However, Hoole recognized that their experiments would steal all the life from the planet Kiva, leaving it a barren wasteland and wiping out the native Kivans. Gog, however, didn't care for the results of the experiment, as long as it continued. He failed to relay Hoole's message to Palpatine, and provided Hoole with a false response from the Emperor approving further tests. In the end, Kiva was wiped out, and Hoole was blamed by Gog for the failure of the experiment. Hoole fled Imperial service, hiding wherever he could and using his shape-changing ability to elude capture. Many years later, Hoole decided to expose the Project, known as Starscream, and joined the Empire as a Senior Anthropologist assigned to investigating many planets and adding information about them to the Empire's planetary database. He used the Shi'ido's ability to shape-shift as a way to blend in with planetary races, easing his transition into their culture and opening them up to his questions. He once did a report on Tatooine, detailing the lives of the Jawas, Sand People, and even Jabba the Hutt's retinue. When Hoole realized what the Empire stood for, he fled Imperial service and returned to Tatooine seeking Jabba's help. Through the crimelord's various sources, Hoole managed to get all records of his existence erased from the Imperial databanks, and he was given a new identity. He also created the droid D-V9 to help him in his efforts. Just as he began his search for the whereabouts of Borborygmus Gog and Project Starscream, Hoole learned that the planet Alderaan had been destroyed, and his brother and sister-in-law had been killed. He then became the only living guardian of their children, Tash and Zak Arranda, who had been on a field trip when the Death Star destroyed Alderaan. He had to bring them along on his search, and entrusted much of their care to DV-9. Hoole and the children then tracked down all the leads on Gog and Starscream, eventually managing to destroy it on Kiva, along with Gog himself. This earned them the wrath of Darth Vader and a death warrant in just about every star system they could flee to, although they managed to remain one step ahead of the Empire.