Ciddarin Scaleback

Ciddarin Scaleback, nicknamed "Cid," was a Mantellian Trandoshan female information broker, smuggler, and businesswoman whose career in the galactic underworld spanned the Galactic Republic Era into the early days of the Imperial Era. For years, Scaleback manned a parlor in Ord Mantell City from which she ran her operations, sending the mercenaries at her disposal on missions across the galaxy. Cid reaped most of the missions' rewards, namely credits, which gave her a reputation for disloyalty that would come to alienate many of her former associates beyond repair. Though her numerous contacts had made Scaleback a valuable informant for the Jedi Order, demands for her services fell following their near-extinction and the Republic's reorganization as the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY, and thus, she was forced to turn to new ways of making money amidst the new regime.

That year, Scaleback met the fugitive clone squad Bad Batch, who, in exchange for intel on a mysterious bounty hunter they had encountered, rescued the rancor Muchi, a mission Cid's contractor, gangster Jabba the Hutt, had grown impatient hadn't yet been completed. Desperate to evade the Empire and assured by Scaleback that she wouldn't reveal who they were, the Batch agreed to work for Cid as mercenaries. For the next year, she had the Batch put life and limb on the line for her, such as after Roland Durand of the Durand crime family, allied with the Pyke Syndicate, ousted Cid from her parlor, and the Batch aided her in reclaiming it; later, when Scaleback lost a bet to former associate-turned-nemesis Grini Millegi, Tech raced in the Safa Toma Classic to have her released when Millegi held her at ransom.

Cid and the Batch's "mutually beneficial arrangement" deteriorated, however, largely due to her lack of loyalty, and after she refused to come to their aid when they were stranded in a mine she owned after a mission went awry, the Batch cut contact with her and began ignoring her communications, instead rendezvousing with Phee Genoa, a pirate associate of Scaleback's she had introduced them to. Before long, however, the Batch returned to Cid's in a frenzy, seeking sanctuary with Imperial forces hot on their tail, only for Cid to sell them out and reveal their location to their assailant, Dr. Royce Hemlock of the Empire's Advanced Science Division, reasoning that they'd attracted too much attention then brought it to her place of business and that she had to make the best out of a bad situation. Subsequently, she fled Ord Mantell but was eventually tracked down by an Imperial assassin pursuing the Batch, CX-2, who extracted from her their affiliation with Genoa and, as a result, tracked them down.

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