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Rendar, Dash

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a mercenary friend of Lando Calrissian, Dash Rendar is a tall, lean human with red hair, green eyes, and pale skin. He attended the Acadmey on Carida, and was a year behind Han Solo. During his time at the Academy, his brother Stanton accidentally crashed a transport ship into one of Emperor Palpatine's Coruscant museums. The Emperor was extremely upset about the damage, and confiscated the Rendar family's wealth and holdings. They were banished from Coruscant, and Dash was expelled from the Academy. This left a bitter taste in Dash's mouth, and he turned to being a smuggler, thief, and card shark to make money. He helped the Alliance out by smuggling them food stores whenever possible. He helped Zak and Tash Arranda escape from the Star of Empire after it had been sabotaged by the Systems Infiltration Manager program. He once delivered food to the base on Hoth, and was about to leave when the Empire attacked. He flew one of the Alliance's modified T-47s against the Imperial AT-ATs during the Battle of Hoth, and was responsible for bringing one of the walkers down. He was able to flee the planet in the ensuing evacuation, but remained a smuggler rather than joining the Alliance outright. He returned a favor he owed to Lando by checking out the rumor that Boba Fett had stopped on Gall before delivering the frozen body of Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt. Having verified the rumor, he led the New Republic to the moon, but opted to stay out of the firefight. Fett managed to escape with Solo's body, but Dash continued to help the Republic. He was present when Luke Skywalker escaped from Jabba the Hutt's swoop gang on Tatooine, and later assisted in the rescue of Princess Leia Organa from Prince Xizor's palace on Coruscant. In the battle that raged following the rescue, Dash's starship, the Outrider was hit by a piece of Xizor's destroyed skyhook. The ship disintegrated, and it was believed that Dash perished in the crash. Rumors abound that he fled into hyperspace, not desiring any repayment or celebrity from the Alliance. Rendar showed up a few years later, having met the reprogrammed Guri on a backwater world known as Hurd's Moon. He recognized that the use of certain procedures would allow a human mind to live much longer than expected if it was placed in a droid body. Working with Guri, Dash adapted the entechment variation developed by the Ssi-ruu for use on humans, allowing the human mind to be stored in the computer center of a human-replica droid. Dash's brother, Stanton, was one of the first humans to undergo the treatment, and eventually took over the business.