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Ghent, Zakarisz

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a former crew member of the Wild Kaarde and employee of Talon Karrde, Ghent was an accomplished young computer slicer from the planet Baroli. Note that the Heir to the Empire Sourcebook lists Ghent as a human, but the HTTE comic series from Dark Horse portrays him as a blue-haired near-human. Shortly before joining Karrde's organization, Ghent was a scrawny youth who was stranded on the planet Sibisime. He was conned into traveling to Chibias as part of a plot by Counselor Raines to discredit Imperial Governor Egron, and was going to take the fall when he was "rescued" by Mara Jade. It was Ghent who helped Leia Organa-Solo decipher the transmissions of Delta Source and locate its whereabouts, during the reign of Grand Admiral Thrawn. Following Thrawn's death and the formation of the Smuggler's Alliance, Ghent chose to join the New Republic, and eventually worked his way up to the position of Chief of Cryptography for the New Republic Intelligence agency. In this position, he was able to reconstruct the offer of a peace treaty negotiation that was supposed to have been delivered from Colonel Vermel to Garm Bel Iblis, before Vermel was captured by Captain Dorja and the Relentless. He was accompanied to Pakrik Minor by the Caamasi Elegos A'kla, whose descriptions of the destruction of Caamas and the need for justice without hatred and punishment without revenge struck a chord in the man. Ghent agreed to accompany General Hestiv to Yaga Minor, to recover a copy of the Caamas Document, as a first step in the new peace between the Empire and the New Republic. He was present at the station when Garm Bel Iblis arrived with his own assault force, hoping to steal a copy of the Document. Later, during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy, Ghent served as an intelligence expert for the New Republic.