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Mawat

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this youth, a native of the planet Melida/Daan, was the leader of the Scavenger Young. He was instrumental in digging a tunnel to the spaceport in Zehava, during the struggle between The Young and their elders of the Daan and Melida. He later became one of Nield's chief lieutenants, although it was later revealed that it was Mawat, acting in an effort to cause a confrontation, who supplied arms to both The Young and the elders of the Daan and Melida shortly before Cerasi's death. Mawat wanted to rule Zehava for himself, and believed Nield was weakening under the stress of leadership. Mawat went so far as to place snipers in the buildings surrounding the Hall of Evidence on Glory Street, where Wehutti and Nield confronted each other, in case either backed down. It was one of Mawat's snipers who killed Cerasi and started the firefight. Mawat tried to rally his forces and defeat Nield, but Qiu-Gon Jinn displayed a hologram of Cerasi, recorded shortly before her death, in which she pleaded for peace. Mawat, who had secretly loved Cerasi, threw down his arms and surrendered.