Espis Zanchal

Lord Espis Zanchal was a human male baron who served the Galactic Empire. Zanchal resided in the planet Coruscant's Zanchal Estate, where he kept several prisoners and fed them to his domesticated narglatch cat. In 3 ABY, the former handmaiden Sabé planted a false list of members of the Crimson Dawn criminal syndicate, including Zanchal, in one of the syndicate's bases that was being attacked by the forces of Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader. After retrieving the list, the Sith Lord sent his crew of assassins to eliminate him at his estate.

Skeptical about the assassins' claim that he was an associate of Crimson Dawn, Zanchal ordered his droid to give them access to every room of his residence. Upon seeing the narglatch and the prisoners, one of the assassins, Ankala Sahm, asked the baron if he thought she cared about his connection with Crimson Dawn. The Imperial lord then commanded his guards to eliminate the assassins; however, the latter group killed Zanchal and his forces.

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