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Peckhum

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this older, long-haired man was a freighter pilot who regularly ran supplies to Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy on Yavin 4 during the early years of the New Republic. Peckhum was the owner of the battered old supply ship, the Lightning Rod. He befriended the boy Zekk, whom he discovered after a supply run to the devastated world of Ennth. He and took him in and cared for him, and eventually made Zekk his apprentice. When Peckhum discovered Zekk's affinity for the Force, he allowed the boy to join the Jedi Academy, and continued to make his supply runs. The New Republic realized that Peckhum's services to the Academy were invaluable, and so they gave him a newer supply ship to replace the aging Lightning Rod. He, in turn, bequeathed the old ship to Zekk, when the boy decided to strike out on his own.