Cempo Shalk

Lieutenant Cempo Shalk was a male member of Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine's personal Red Guard during the Clone Wars. In 19 BBY, Lieutenant Shalk and fellow guard Halland Goth escorted Palpatine and his party to a performance at the Galaxies Opera House on the planet Coruscant. Shalk stood in Palpatine's private box until the chancellor dismissed the rest of his party to speak with the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, at which point Shalk escorted the others out.

Later that year, after the Republic transitioned into the Galactic Empire, Galactic Emperor Palpatine assigned Shalk, Goth and five other Royal Guards to accompany Skywalker, now known as Darth Vader, to the planet Diso in search of a resurrectionist. On Diso, a local man guided the Imperials to the clearing where the resurrectionist, local shaman Ensoor-Koda-Za, lived.

When Vader and the guardsman confronted the shaman in his cave, the shaman drove the guardsman out with fire and was presumed dead; however, he survived and confronted Shalk and his allies once again in the settlement Adera as they prepared to leave. During the confrontation, Vader used the Force to rip up much of the surrounding town and Shalk was impaled by a timber stake. He remained in critical condition for the group's entire journey back to Coruscant on an Imperial shuttle, but was kept alive with a medkit and received good care once the trip was complete.

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