Nuri was an impoverished Clawdite who lived on the Banking planet of Aargau. Nuri had his finger on the pulse of information, knowing the value of it, and paying good money to have it. He frequently visited the Aargau Undercity where spies congregated to sell information. He was a rival of Aurra Sing, causing him to have a deep hatred of her. Being a Changeling, he posed as a Bimm, and charged fees to be a tour guide, then scammed money off his marks while pretending to help them remove it from the bank system. He was able to scam an unfortunate young Boba Fett, costing him about 500,000 credits.

In 21 BBY Techno Union Foreman Wat Tambor was captured and arrested by Anakin Skywalker on Metalorn.^[1] After Tambor was relocated to the prison world Delrian, the Techno Union hired Nuri to lead a rescue attempt. Nuri and two Skakoan Commandos disguised themselves as Tambor's legal deputies and were permitted to visit his cell. The two commandos killed Tambor's guards and blew open his cell by breaching their compressed methane pressure suits. In the ensuing chaos, Nuri secured Tambor and used secret Techno Union devices to bypass the prison's security systems.^[2] After the successful rescue mission, Nuri remained in the Techno Union's employ as a guard in Wat Tambor's fortress on Xagobah.^[3]

Nuri would later confront Boba on Xagobah, turning into an Arrak snake to strangle him, and then a Dinko to spray a foul smell in order to stun Boba before scuttling off as a Fefze beetle, but Boba caught him and got his revenge by paralyzing him at least temporarily with a Xabar fungus.

Appearances[]

• Boba Fett: Maze of Deception (First appearance)
• "CIS Shadowfeed Dispatch 14:4:12 Edition" — Star Wars Insider 67 (Indirect mention only)
• Boba Fett: A New Threat

Sources[]

• The Official Star Wars Fact File 111 (FAC1, The New Face of War)
• The New Essential Chronology
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
• The Essential Reader's Companion