Hask

Viceroy Hask was a Neimoidian who led the Trade Federation in the years prior to the Stark Hyperspace War in 44 BBY. He helped arrange a bacta shortage on the planet Thyferra, with the intention of decreasing supply and thereby increasing profits. The result was that bacta transports came under attack by pirates of the Stark Commercial Combine.

Hask's involvement in the scheme was discovered by the Jedi Tholme and Quinlan Vos while he met with co-conspirator Adol Bel of the Xucphra Corporation. That information was later utilized by Jedi Master Mace Windu to blackmail Hask and Trade Federation Senator Nute Gunray into providing ships to rescue embattled Galactic Republic forces on the planet Troiken. Gunray was credited for the intervention and eventually succeeded Hask as viceroy.

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