Durr Roddack

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"Durr and the White Thranta company are a front for illegal activities for Jabba the Hutt."
―Reimos Taligg, to a spacer[3]

Durr Roddack was a Human male who lived on Tatooine during the Galactic Civil War. He was a manager in the White Thranta Shipping Company, a front for the illegal activities of Jabba the Hutt's criminal organization.

Biography

"So Durr was stealing from his own company? Maybe we can get this boss of his to answer for their shared crimes."
―Reimos Taligg, to a spacer[2]

After the Battle of Yavin, Durr Roddack was a manager in the White Thranta Shipping Company, a front for the illegal activities of Jabba the Hutt's criminal organization. Director of Operations Brok Ziam was his immediate superior.[2]

In 1 ABY,[1] Durr Roddack stole plans for a military prototype speeder, without Jabba being aware of it. The spymaster Kaesii DuPree then dispatched a spy to infiltrate the White Thranta Shipping base to recover the plans. After the spy succeeded in the mission, Kaesii DuPre contacted one of Roddack's rivals to announce that she could sell him the plans. Durr Roddack learnt about the offer and started panicking, thereby convincing DuPre and her buyer that the plans were authentic. Finally, Kaesii DuPree threatened Roddack to reveal the theft of the plans to Jabba and blackmailed him to get extra money.[4]

Around the same time, a spacer working for Reimos Taligg, one of Jabba's employees, infiltrated the White Thranta base in order to find evidence that the company was conspiring against Jabba. After going through the company's security files, incriminating evidence linking Durr to creepy medical experiments was found,[3] and so Reimos ordered the spacer to kill Durr. It was only after Durr's death, however, that Reimos discovered that Durr was not in charge of the experiments. Upon reading his personal logs, it became clear that Durr was a lazy employee working under Brok Ziam.[2] Durr had diverted funds from the company into his own private account, and was actually planning to flee the company in the days before his death.[3]

Behind the scenes

Durr Roddack was a non-player character in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[2] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[5] Durr Roddack was added to the game as part of the "Legacy Quest" with the release of the "Publish 25," a.k.a. the "New Game Enhancements," on November 15, 2005.[6]

In the game, Durr Roddack was originally named Dren Riddick,[2][7] yet for unknown reasons the developers changed his name in the "Chapter 2" update, released on August 1, 2006.[8] Furthermore, the Mos Eisley section of the "Legacy Quest" was revamped upon the release of the "Chapter 3" update, on September 27, 2006,[9] and Durr Roddacks quest was strongly modified, though the story line remained similar.[2]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Shipping Out" on Tatooine
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Digital Infection" on Tatooine
  4. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Spy Quest: "Spies Like Us" on Tatooine
  5. ↑ Gal-icon IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  6. ↑ Gal-icon Publish Archive 2005 on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  7. ↑ Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Guide: Prima Official Game Guide
  8. ↑ Gal-icon "Chapter 2: The Talus Incident" Publish Notes, August 1st on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (original site is defunct)
  9. ↑ Gal-icon Chapter Archive 2006 on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)

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