Hoff was the Human son of Colby Hoff, a former business competitor of Black Sun crime lord Prince Xizor. Colby fell into ruin and then committed suicide after failing to outsmart his rival, leading the younger Hoff to blame Xizor for his father's murder. In retaliation and with the help of Darth Vader, who also sought Xizor's destruction, Hoff ambushed the Black Sun leader inside a protected corridor on the planet Coruscant. Although larger and more powerfully built, the enraged Hoff could not kill Xizor, who easily defeated the would-be assassin and snapped his neck. Xizor suspected Vader's hand in the ambush but never learned who had granted Hoff access to the secure corridor.



Hoff was the son of the businessman Colby Hoff, once a pesky rival of Dark Prince Xizor, the Falleen Underlord of the Black Sun crime syndicate. After a failed bid to outsmart Xizor left him ruined, Colby committed suicide by firing a blaster into his mouth. The younger Hoff blamed Xizor for what he considered the murder of his father and sought vengeance against the Black Sun leader.

In 3.5 ABY, Darth Vader supplied Hoff with an opportunity to retaliate, as the Dark Lord of the Sith was himself presently locked in a power struggle with Xizor and wished to see him eliminated. On Vader's orders, a checkpoint guard allowed Hoff access to a secure corridor deep inside the core of the planet Coruscant, where Hoff soon ambushed Xizor and four accompanying bodyguards as they were approaching. Blaster in hand, Hoff immediately opened fire on Xizor from a distance and dropped one of the bodyguards with a bolt to the chest, but a second guard scored a direct hit on Hoff's weapon, knocking it from his grip. With a scream, Hoff then charged at Xizor barehanded.

At close quarters, Hoff's enraged attack was no match for Xizor's martial-arts prowess. Ordering his three remaining guards to stand down, Xizor calmly parried Hoff's repeated advances, stunning him with a kick to the stomach; knocking him to the ground with a hammerfist to the head; and then disabling him by kicking and breaking his left knee joint. As the wounded Hoff condemned Xizor for his father's demise, the Dark Prince took hold of the man's head and snapped his neck, declaring that the younger Hoff's death would likewise be judged a suicide for being foolish enough to attack him. With that, Xizor ordered his guards to clean up Hoff's body and to inform the proper authorities of his fate.

A life-size holographic recording of Hoff's attack on Xizor later made its way before Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader, the latter displeased that his scheme to kill his rival had failed. Vader had seen to it that the guard who had let Hoff into the protected corridor was killed, thereby eliminating the only person with knowledge of the Dark Lord's involvement. Although Xizor suspected Vader, he was never able to determine who had granted Hoff access.



Hoff was a large Human, standing taller than 1.83 meters and built like a heavy-gravity weight lifter. He was bigger than Xizor's bodyguards and much larger than the Falleen himself, and his roundhouse punch was powerful enough to shatter bone. Desperate to enact retribution against the man whom he blamed for the murder of his father, Hoff assaulted Xizor in a crazed fury, charging the Black Sun leader's three armed guards without a weapon. Yet Hoff's wild attacks utterly failed against Xizor, who easily subdued his younger assailant with practiced fighting techniques while hardly breaking a sweat. Hoff had brown hair and light skin.

Hoff wore Coruscant Guard armor covering his chest, arms, and shoulders during his attack on Prince Xizor.



In April 1996, Hoff appeared in the novel Shadows of the Empire, written by Steve Perry. Hoff's attack on Xizor is meant to demonstrate the Black Sun leader's considerable ability to defend himself against deadly attack as he vies with Darth Vader for the Emperor's favor. In September of that year, Artists Greg and Tim Hildebrandt created the Hoff character illustration as part of the Topps Shadows of the Empire trading card set. The set's "Xizor's Dirty Handiwork" card captures the moment as Xizor snaps Hoff's neck.

The Shadows of the Empire novel describes the protected corridor where Hoff ambushes Xizor as a type of public walkway in the core of Imperial City where the elite citizenry could travel without being disturbed. However, the "Xizor's Dirty Handiwork" card from the Shadows of the Empire trading card set states that Hoff attacks Xizor in a corridor belonging to Xizor's Palace.

N'a-kee-tula was a Shadda-Bi-Boran child from the planet Shadda-Bi-Boran. In 38 BBY, the Shadda-Bi-Borans were evacuated from their dying homeworld by the Refugee Relief Movement, including the Naboo Padme Naberrie, who felt N'a-kee-tula was a special child. N'a-kee-tula ultimately died, along with the rest of his species, as they were unable to adapt to life on other planets.



N'a-kee-tula was a Shadda-Bi-Boran child who lived on the planet Shadda-Bi-Boran. His name meant "sweetheart" in the Shadda-Bi language. The Shadda-Bi-Boran species relied on a toxin-purifying enzyme that was only activated by the light of the sun Shadda, which, at the time of N'a-kee-tula's childhood, had entered a white dwarf phase and was about to implode, which would cause the planet to freeze over.

In 38 BBY, as the planet's demise began, members of the Refugee Relief Movement arrived to attempt to evacuate the population to systems with stars that they hoped would have the same purifying effect on the Shadda-Bi-Borans as Shadda. One of the volunteers in relocating the planet's children was the seven-year-old Naboo Padmé Naberrie, who bonded with N'a-kee-tula and believed he was a special child. At one point during the evacuation, Naberrie, N'a-kee-tula, and dozens of Shadda-Bi-Boran posed for a holograph recording where Amidala and N'a-kee-tula rocked back and forth together.

N'a-kee-tula was unable to survive away from his homeworld and perished, as did the rest of his species. Naberrie kept the holograph of her and N'a-kee-tula at her family home on the planet Naboo. In 22 BBY, Naberrie, whose surname by then was Amidala after her service as Queen of Naboo, was packing clothes in her room along with the Jedi Anakin Skywalker. He enquired about the holograph, and Amidala explained her time in the Refugee Relief Movement and spoke somberly of N'a-kee-tula's memory.

Naberrie described N'a-kee-tula as full of life, like the other Shadda-Bi-Boran children. He had green skin and black eyes.

During the recording of the holograph with Naberrie, N'a-kee-tula wore a yellow shirt.

N'a-kee-tula was originally pictured in a holograph in a deleted scene in the prequel trilogy film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, written and directed by George Lucas. His holograph was featured in the film's novelization written by R. A. Salvatore and in the illustrated version of the film's screenplay included in The Art of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, both of which were published on April 23, 2002, prior to the film's premiere on May 16 later that year.

The deleted scene featuring N'a-kee-tula's holograph, and thus the first visual depiction of the character, was included on the DVD release of Attack of the Clones, which was released on November 12, 2002. The deleted scene depicts only two Shadda-Bi-Borans in the holograph, and although Amidala's dialogue refers to N'a-kee-tula as the one she is holding, in the image she has her arms around both children, leaving it unclear which one is N'a-kee-tula. The novelization describes dozens of children participating in the holograph, and this article follows the novel's portrayal.

Ott Klemp was a member of the Rebel Alliance who served in the Scavenger Squadron around 4 ABY.

Ott Klemp was one of the younger and less experienced pilots of the Scavenger Squadron. Commander Gennad Rozhdenst assigned Klemp the duty of transferring him from their mobile base-support ship to the KDY construction docks, to give the young pilot more flight time. Klemp was able to share with his Commander his belief that Scavenger Squadron should try to claim the completed Warships that awaited the Imperial Navy on the KDY construction docks. Rozhdenst explained that the poorly equipped squadron would fail in that attempt.

During the attempted destruction of the construction docks at KDY by Kuat of Kuat, Ott Klemp and the Scavenger Squadron did try to save these warships. Klemp flew his Y-Wing down to the dock, transferred into a Tug module connected to a Lancer-class frigate and successfully piloted it below a falling construction crane to safety.

Scavenger Squadron was able to save four Lancer-class frigates and an unspecified number of Zebulon-B frigates. Unfortunately, Scavenger Squadron lost 2 pilots during the mission.

Captain Noran Vran was a young female officer in the 656th regiment, which served the Galactic Empire in Xanas City. After Emperor Palpatine's death at Endor, she was in need of medical supplies for her troops. She made a deal with Magresh, who had actually stolen the supplies from her facility in West County, in exchange for ten portable missile launchers. However, the missile launchers were rigged, and after Vran left they exploded, killing Magresh.