Burda Durmand

''"I've never seen anyone pilot a ship that fast, and with so much conviction. When I met that crazy woman in the slums of Tatooine, I knew immediately that she was fierce, and dangerous. Hairy, too.'"'
 * -Ponda Baba

Burda Durmand was a Brolf born on the Brolfi planet of Barlok. Kidnapped from her home at a young age by an invading group of gangsters, space pirates, and other scum, she was brought up in a harsh environment and trained to be a pilot. Her most notable accomplishment was breaking Han Solo's record for flying the Kessel Run.

Early Life
Burda Durmand was born to Patrok and Gilfog Durmand, and was raised until the age of 6 in a tender environment. Then, in the year 4 BBY, a group of marauding thugs invaded the peaceful planet of Barlok, razing the village that Burda Durmand lived in. She would have been killed, but she used her father's cortosis rod to kill a few of the pirates, and because of this they decided to take her and raise her among their ranks. The identity of these pirates is still unknown, though it is speculated that they pledged their services to Jabba Desilijic Tiure.

As Burda grew up, she became more and more involved in the plundering and looting that her gang of space pirates engaged in, eventually rising to become one of the leading members of the clan. In the year 10 ABY, while the thugs' main space cruiser was orbiting the planet Zerm, Burda Durmand led a brutal coup on her own people, killing the leader of the pirates and assuming that position for herself. Unfortunately, during the coup, every single gangster on the ship was killed (save for two who escaped in escape pods down to Zerm's surface), leaving Burda alone to make her way in the universe.

Life On Tatooine
After Burda's semi-successful slaughter of the space pirate clan, she retired to Tatooine, seeking a relatively peaceful place to retire. However, she soon became immersed in the criminal activities of Mos Eisley, performing menial assassination jobs and dirty work for the local crime lords. It is believed that Burda Durmand was involved in the gunfight between Figirin D'an and the Modal Nodes and the Max Rebo Band, and it was she who killed Evar Orbus. In any case, after Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi fled Tatooine in the Millenium Falcon, Burda Durmand's good friend Ponda Baba informed her a few days later that she had overheard Han Solo boast that his ship had completed the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs. Knowing Burda to be a skilled pilot, Ponda Baba challenged her to best Solo's record.

The Kessel Run, Death, and Controversy
In the year 25 ABY, after more than a decade of research and training, Burda Durmand said goodbye to her friends in Mos Eisley and set out to complete the Kessel Run, knowing that she might never return. Han Solo had used an alternate route to complete the run, maneuvering his ship close to a series of black holes in order to use their gravitational pull to bend time and speed and complete the Run much faster than the standard 18 parsecs. Burda Durmand hoped to pilot her ship even closer to the black holes, completing the run in even less time. However, there was a very grave danger of being consumed by the black hole, and it was unlikely that Burda would survive.

However, the victorious pilot arrived at her end destination of Kessel, having completed the run in a stunning and unmatchable 8.9 parsecs. Unfortunately, before she could make her record known to the galactic public, she was gunned down in broad daylight by Kelshy Bro'or, one of the two space thugs that escaped from Burda's coup above Zerm. Her body was jettisoned into deep space, as she had always requested it be.

Due to Burda's untimely death, whether or not she actually completed the Kessel Run in such a short time is still a point of contention among even the most versed of galactic historians. Because she was killed only 38 seconds after exiting her ship, there was no time to verify the record, and thus it is still a matter of debate. However, Burda Durmand was remembered on Tatooine for a long time afterwards, as one of the galactic underworld's unsung heroes.