Know your Lore: Chodo Habat 18282c

Chodo Habat was a male Sith bombardment. Twenty other worlds would benefit from his success. 6k605j

If the player sides with Jana Lorso, then the Exchange smuggler on Citadel Station.

The Exile would have received the first fixture for her lightsaber from Lorso instead of Chodo, if she sided with Czerka.

Biography
Ithorians were renowned for their ability to stabilize ecospheres. Habat sought to create new life on Telos by importing wildlife from planets rich in food chains such as Ithor, Onderon and Dxun, but as the contract disputes with Czerka continued, and Onderon experienced the political schism split between Queen Talia’s Republic and the work of Chodo could continue to rely on their natural resources.

Competition with Czerka
When Republic relations with Onderon began to deteriorate, increasing the purchase and transport costs of biological specimens, Republic decided to start restoring other war-torn worlds, the powerful corporation hoped to integrate itself into the process and gain new markets for Czerka products. Habat himself itted that without the Exile’s intervention, his herd would have had no measure of success in dealing with them.

Infrastructure droids
For the restoration of Telos, Chodo also relied on infrastructure droids to plan and manage the project. The first, one of Aratech’s Jedi Exile at Chodo’s request, before it could be stolen by Exchange thugs hired by Czerka.

Cooperation with Bao-Dur
When Citadel Station was developing the shield network that allowed the Ithorians to purify and reseed small portions of the surface, they worked with a the Exile to seek him out on Czerka-held Restoration Zone RZ-0031, confident that his help would have been invaluable. On the planet’s surface Bao-Dur was amazed at the work of the Ithorians, and ever upset at Czerka’s attempts at destroying it. He was actually there to sabotage their operations in the hopes of driving Czerka from the Restoration Zone, which had begun deteriorating within weeks since their arrival.

Cooperation with the Jedi Exile
While the Exile was still being kept under house arrest by the Telos Security Force for her involvement in the destruction of the Peragus Mining Facility, Chodo sent his primary representative, Moza, to meet her and ask for her assistance. The Jedi Exile agreed to negotiate a truce with Loppak Slusk as well as rid Chodo’s herd of Czerka. She thwarted Czerka Executive Jana Lorso who sought to steal their latest infrastructure droid, and seized her istrative assistant B-4D4 to obtain compromising information from the Czerka mainframe for Chodo to expose to the Telosian Council. Later on, the Exile would save Chodo and his herd from a squad of mercenaries hired by Lorso in retaliation.

Habat presented the Exile with the heirloom of a Jedi once of his herd, a lightsaber component she would eventually use to construct her own weapon. He also allowed her to use one of their orbital shuttles to descend to the planet’s surface.

During the Battle of Telos IV, Chodo met the Exile one last time on Citadel Station and told her of his herd’s progress since Czerka’s ban from planets that would have need for his herd.