The Client

"The Client" was a human male who served as an Imperial officer in the Galactic Empire. After the Empire's fall, he continued with the Imperial Remnant, allying with a faction led by Moff Gideon. In 9 ABY, he and the Imperial scientist Doctor Penn Pershing operated out of a safe house on the planet Nevarro, under orders to acquire and extract blood from the Force-sensitive infant alien Grogu. While the infant was known as "the Child," the Client called him the "the asset." He hired many bounty hunters from the local Bounty Hunters' Guild in pursuit of his goal.

One such bounty hunter was the Mandalorian Din Djarin, whom the Client met at his safe house. The Imperial gave to the Mandalorian a beskar ingot as a down payment for the job and provided information and a tracking fob to secure "the asset." Djarin was successful in his hunt and brought Grogu back to the safe house. Pleased with the mission's success, the Client compensated the bounty hunter with a camtono of twenty beskar ingots. When Djarin questioned what would be done to the infant, the Imperial shut down his inquiries and compelled him to leave.

The Client and Pershing extracted blood from Grogu, with the doctor keeping the infant from dying despite his colleague's lack of care for "the asset"'s life. Meanwhile, Djarin, having a change of heart, returned and rescued the Child from the safe house. As a result, the Client took control of Nevarro City with Imperial reinforcements and sent bounty hunters from the Bounty Hunters' Guild to retrieve Grogu. The Guild agent Greef Karga coaxed Djarin back to Nevarro to seize the Child back for the Client but shifted loyalties and instead chose to help the Mandalorian and his allies.

Djarin was cuffed and taken by Karga and the Mandalorian's ally Cara Dune to the Client in the Nevarro Common House, bringing along an empty pram as a decoy in Grogu's place. There the Imperial spoke with Djarin about the planet Mandalore's rebelliousness against the late Empire and then requested to see the Child. Before he could do so, the Client was interrupted by a call from Gideon. The moff asked his associate to check the pram again for the infant before instructing his squad of death troopers to fire on the common house and kill the Client and his men.

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