Tavvar Va'ran

Master Chef Tavvar Va'ran was the second-best Kubaz chef in the galaxy, though few knew that Emperor Palpatine himself retained the best Kubaz chef for his personal staff. Va'ran worked at the Manarai restaurant, Coruscant's most exclusive fine-dining venue for Imperial high society, but his employment came with a dangerous catch. He had been personally hired by Manarai co-owner Guri, which left Va'ran indebted to Guri's master—Prince Xizor, leader of the Black Sun crime syndicate.

In 3.5 ABY, Va'ran nervously obeyed Guri's order to secretly murder Imperial Advisor Fendrilon Koozar for prying into Black Sun's business. To carry out the deed, Va'ran poisoned Koozar's meal one busy night at the Manarai with a combination of natural ingredients and untraceable chemicals designed to produce a painful death some hours after eating. Va'ran learned the following evening that his recipe worked as planned, as Koozar had killed himself after throwing a hallucinatory fit and crashing his luxury airspeeder in a fiery explosion.

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