Skelly

Skelly was a human male explosives expert who lived on the planet Gorse. A veteran of the Clone Wars, Skelly worked as an explosives expert in the thorilide mines of Cynda during the time of the Galactic Empire. While working as a miner, Skelly conducted research which found that mining activities on Cynda weakened the moon's structure. Skelly tried to warn the mining companies to halt mining operations on Cynda. The companies' continued dismissals of his warnings led him to conduct an unauthorized test bombing in Cynda's Zone Forty-Two, intended as a demonstration of the danger.

Skelly's criticism of the Empire drew him to the attention of the Imperial authorities. However, Skelly managed to evade capture and conduct his test bombing on Zone Forty-Two. From his test, Skelly concluded that prolonged mining would eventually destroy Cynda. Shortly later, he was apprehended by the freighter pilot and Great Jedi Purge survivor Kanan Jarrus, who was angry that Skelly had endangered the lives of his recovery team. Kanan handed him over to the mining company Moonglow Polychemical, which planned to hand him over to the Imperial authorities.

However, Skelly was rescued by the rebel operative Hera Syndulla, who planned to recruit him to the rebellion. Skelly however was solely interesting in saving Cynda and not interested in the wider rebellion against the Empire. After learning that the prominent Imperial industrialist Count Denetrius Vidian was inspecting Moonglow, Skelly infiltrated the refinery and tried to convince the industrialist to end all mining operations on Cynda. However, Vidian attacked him and Skelly then made two attempts to assassinate the Count by bombing two of his shuttles. Skelly managed to escape with the help of Hera and Kanan.

After escaping Count Vidian and the Empire, Skelly joined Hera's informal rebel cell which also included Kanan and Zaluna Myder, a disgruntled surveillance operator. The rebels soon learned that Vidian had used Skelly's research to embark on a plot to detonate Cynda. Working together, Skelly and the rebels managed to infiltrate Vidian's headquarters in the Calcoraan system and learned that Vidian planned to use Cynda's destruction to advance his own political career. Using this information, the rebels managed to convince the Empire to end its support for Vidian's planned detonation. Skelly and his rebel comrades then returned to the Gorse system where Skelly was killed during a final showdown that killed Vidian and ended his conspiracy to destroy Cynda.

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