Salman Paak

Salman Paak was a human male Ferrixian who operated the Repaak Salyard on his homeworld of Ferrix alongside his son, Wilmon, during the Imperial Era. In 7 BBY, Paak attended a Separatist meeting on Jondora where he met a woman who told him that, if he was serious about politics, he could act as a liaison for Ferrix to, unknowingly, the Axis network via the use of a fractal radio unit, which he would be paid to keep alive. He'd come to meet the network's leader, Luthen Rael, once and introduce him to local mechanic Bix Caleen, who would take Paak's place as liaison. Two years later, when a group of Preox-Morlana Corpos came to the planet in search of Cassian Andor—who had murdered two Corpos stationed on Morlana One—Paak helped sound the alarm around town to intimidate the incoming soldiers and free Bix, who had been handcuffed to a pipe by several Corpos.

In the ambush's aftermath, the Galactic Empire took over the Preox-Morlana Corporate Sector. After Caleen used the comm unit again to try to find Andor when his mother Maarva Andor was ill, the Imperial Security Bureau discovered the comm and arrested Paak, torturing him for information, and, according to ISB Lieutenant Dedra Meero, despite having little rebellious activity to his name, he was very resistant, leading the ISB supervisor to believe there were motivations larger than money at play. Paak eventually gave in and revealed the information about Caleen and Rael, although he did not provide a name for the rebel. The day after Paak's arrest, Wilmon demanded to know where they had taken his father, which drew a crowd of Ferrix residents around the salyard, inlcuding Caleen, whose use of the comm unit had alerted the ISB to Paak. The lead Imperial officer on the scene, Captain Vanis Tigo, saw Caleen and ordered his stormtroopers to arrest her, causing the woman to flee. They eventually caught up to her and arrested her, leading Caleen to a room in Hotel Rix, which was the makeshift headquarters for the Imperials, that contained a tortured Paak. Meero ordered for Paak to be removed from the chamber as Caleen called out to the man, earning no response.

Prefect Tigo later expressed to Meero that he would like to hang Paak as a message to the rest of the Ferrix residents, which the Lieutenant allowed. Later, angered by his father's death, Wilmon built an explosive device which he used to attack the Imperials at the Rix Road riot, which began as a funeral procession for Maarva Andor. Wilmon had been identified during the attack, and was able to escape Ferrix on a transport alongside Brasso, Caleen, Jezzi, and Andor's droid B2EMO.

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