Roland Durand

A scaly pelt and wide, curious eyes make Ruby a perfect pet. After she was smuggled to Ord Mantell by Clone Force 99, the mysterious and hungry lizard-like creature became the companion of the crime lord Roland Durand.

A seasoned smuggler, Cid keeps the Bad Batch employed on a variety of high-stakes missions to help keep her parlor on Ord Mantell afloat. Her numerous contacts once made her a valuable informant for the Jedi, but since the rise of the Empire Cid has turned her attention toward more profitable assignments while keeping her past concealed.

Omega travels the galaxy with her brothers, Clone Force 99, as a formidable member of their squad. Before the Empire came to power, she served as a medical assistant to Nala Se on the clone's homeworld of Kamino, spending her life working in Tipoca City. Omega is herself a product of the Kaminoans cloning experimentation. Although skilled with her energy bow and other weapons, Omega now puts her curious mind and intelligence to use for the good of her found family and their very survival, relying on her strategic thinking and compassion as they eke out a new life for themselves in a changing galaxy.

Amid the refuse specked and graffitied streets of Ord Mantell, Cid operates a dank, underground parlor. Patrons mingle at gaming tables while Cid tends bar, turning away newcomers who look like trouble or don't seem to have credits to spend.

In the waning days of the Republic, Ord Mantell housed a base of operations for the Black Sun crime syndicate. During the Clone Wars, it was the site of a battle between the Separatists and the Shadow Collective, of which Black Sun was a member. But after the Empire came to power, the inhabitants of the mountainous world fell on hard times, laying low and working jobs where no questions would be asked. It was still a wretched hive of scum and villainy when Rebel Alliance general and former smuggler Han Solo had a run-in with a bounty hunter on the planet some years later.

During the Clone Wars, the Pykes became the galaxy’s preeminent spice dealers, gaining control of mining operations on Kessel and funneling illicit substances to Coruscant’s most influential crime families. The Pykes’ stronghold is Oba Diah, but they are a powerful presence on nearby Kessel. Pyke sentinels keep a close watch on miners sentenced to extract spice and coaxium from Kessel, as well as on the smugglers hired to ferry these valuable cargos to offworld purification plants and refineries.