Unidentified Royal Guard (Onderon)

A member of the Emperor's Royal Guard served the reborn Galactic Emperor Palpatine's Dark Empire. In 11 ABY, the Guardsman accompanied the Emperor to the planet Onderon during an attempted abduction of the Force-sensitive infant Anakin Solo and remained stationed at the Emperor's shuttle in the capital city of Iziz. When the shuttle came under attack by Jedi Master Luke Skywalker and his New Republic allies, the Guardsman engaged the young Jedi trainee Rayf Ysanna in one-on-one combat but lost. Wounded, he made his way to the Kira Fortress, where Palpatine had ventured to kidnap the Solo child.

Yet, by the time the Guardsman arrived at the fortress, the Emperor had already been killed. Instead, the Guardsman witnessed the New Republic's interrogation of the captive Emperor's physician, who admitted his involvement in a conspiracy against the Emperor on behalf of Guardsman Carnor Jax that had been instrumental in Palpatine's ultimate demise. The Guardsman escaped from Onderon and traveled to the Imperial Royal Guard Academy on the planet Yinchorr, where he revealed what he knew to fellow Royal Guards gathered there. A surprise attack by Jax's forces followed, resulting in the death of the Guardsman and nearly all of his kin, with the exception of one, Kir Kanos, who swore vengeance on all traitors to the Empire.

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