Moruth Doole
Moruth Doole is a character from the Star Wars series of books.
A vile, double-crossing Rybet, he was the kingpin of the Kessel spice-smuggling business who thought nothing of turning against-even murdering-onetime allies to get what he wanted. Squat and frog-like in appearance with slimy green skin, partial to wearing reptile skins (and a bright yellow tie when he was sexually available), and so paranoid that he was prone to nervous tics, Moruth Doole truly represented the underbelly of the galaxy. His position as an official at the large Imperial prison on Kessel made it possible for him to pack the staff with those loyal to him. He blackmailed or paid of prison guards, sold maps and access codes for Kessel's energy shields so that others could set up small, illegal spice-mining operations on other parts of the planet, then killed of or ratted on those operators when the time was right. The Empire used its Kessel prisoners to mine glitterstim spice, a powerful [...] that sold for high prices all over the galaxy. Doole, of course, skimmed ever-larger amounts of the black-market [...] for his own accounts. He made sure that, with rare exceptions, anyone who knew of his scheming was bumped off. He even put his own offspring-produced through forced mating with unwilling females of his species-to work as slaves in the pitch-black mines. The only one he trusted was his top aid, a onetime prison guard named Skynxnex, an accomplished thief and assassin despite his scarecrowlike appearance. It was on a spice-smuggling run for Jabba the Hutt that Han Solo learned of Doole's true ways. Even though Jabba had already paid Doole the 12,400 credits for the glitterstim spice, Doole tipped off tariff authorities-who had also paid Doole-to the route of Solo's Millennium Falcon. Solo dumped the load before he could be boarded, but when he returned later to pick it up, it had vanished. Jabba then put a bounty on Solo's head, but being suspicious about Doole, sent a bounty hunter after him. Doole managed to lose only one eye instead of his life as Skynxex came to his rescue. As the Galactic Civil War continued, Doole took complete control of Kessel operations, [...] off all potential rivals. Then, seven years after the Battle of Endor, Han Solo and Chewbacca returned to Kessel on a diplomatic mission. Not believing them, Doole made them slaves in his deepest spice mine, where the two first met Force-sensitive Kyp Durron. When The New Republic began to investigate the disappearance of Solo and Chewbacca, Doole decided to [...] them. Instead, Skynxex was killed by one of the giant spice producing spiders in the mine and the trio escaped. A chance encounter ensued in which most of Doole's defense fleet-and much of the planet-was desroyed by Admiral Daala's Imperial fleet, and the Rybet fled back to a prison tower on Kessel. Eventually, forces from the New Republic, smugglers, and his own offspring forced Doole to flee into the mines where he was speared by one of the giant Energy Spiders-a just ending for the murderous Doole.
Sources
Sorces:Jedi Search, Champions of the Force, and StarWars: The Essential Guide to Characters
