TheForce.Net - Completely Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia

Bloodletter

Description

Additional Info

Related Entries

Sources

Images

Legend

this was the pseudonym used by the human spy who lived on the planet Thyferra during the ten-year period following the Battle of Naboo. His memoirs of this period, known throughout the galaxy as the Thriving Season, were published in a book called Thrive or Die: Memoirs of the Bloodletter. In the book, he explained that he decided to go to work as a spy for a group of Vratix who would eventually become known as the Ashern. The Vratix hired him at twice the pay he would have received from either the Zaltin of Xuchpra factions of the Bacta Cartel, provided that he go to work for both factions and play one against the other. The Vratix Seeqov Thranx got him jobs in each company, working as an alazhi field inspector, that allowed him to be out of the office for extended periods each week. When the Ashern began development on an enhanced strain of alazhi known as kolazhi - the basis for kolcta - Thranx and the Bloodletter were ordered to keep an eye on its development. They worked together for a year before the project was discovered. A mercenary who wore armor similar to that of Jango Fett had been hired by the Bacta Cartel to eliminate the Ashern responsible for its development. The mercenary shot both Thranx and the Bloodletter and then left them for dead. Thranx, however, survived long enough to use the enhance bacta to bring the Bloodletter back from the brink of death. Before she died, she told him the complete story of the development of kolcta. Unknown to the Vratix, however, was that the Bloodletter was also working for a wealthy man who was dying of a strange disease, and who paid handsomely for the secret of kolazhi. The Bloodletter managed to obtain the only known specimens from Thyferra, and immediately converted it to kolcta, thereby preventing the Bacta Cartel from ever discovering it. His employer paid him quite well, and the Bloodletter lived for many years on the credits and his own supply of kolcta. It was later discovered that the mercenary hired to kill the Bloodletter had actually been hired by his wealthy exployer, and had managed to obtain a few samples of kolazhi on the off-chance that the Bloodletter would try to eliminate it.