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Ree Duptom

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famous for being the only individual every kicked out of the old Bounty Hunters Guild, Ree Duptom was a bounty hunter as ugly as his reputation. With his ship, the Venesectrix, he scoured the border territories of the galaxy's central section for work. Among his specialties was the dissemination of misinformation, sometimes even working for the Empire, in spreading lies which helped himself and his employer. Several years before the Battle of Yavin, Duptom was hired by Kud'ar Mub'at to perform a job for Nil Posondum, although the two parties had never met. Duptom was to kidnap Kateel of Kuhlvult, erase her memories, and then lose her somewhere in the galaxy. The kidnapping was successful, but the memory Duptom had done was cruel and - ultimately - incomplete. During the final transport of Kateel, Duptom suddenly disappeared. When his ship was discovered by Boba Fett, floating and adrift near the Core, Fett discovered that the Venesectrix has suffered a partial meltdown of its engine's reactor core. The resulting radiation had killed Duptom and caused several damage to the body. However, it left intact the load shifter droid and the only passenger on the ship, Neelah. Fett took both aboard the Slave I and left the Venesectrix in space.