Vendere Dashin

Vendere Dashin was a member of the once-noble Dashin political family of Coruscant. Her most notable ancestor was Cos Jonathan Dashin, who served as Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic during the Great Sovereign Crusades. In the three thousand years following the end of the war, many other members of the Dashin family served in politics, mainly in advisory roles or as the Senator of Coruscant. However, Vendere decided not to enter politics, instead favoring a job somewhere in the private sector.

When she was nineteen years old, Vendere's wealthy parents died in a speeder crash near the Taung District on Coruscant, so she inherited everything. Her extended family hoped that she would put the money to good use, though instead of using it to help people like they wanted her to she purchased the Outlander Club, which had been founded and operated thirteen thousand years earlier by her distant ancestor Adhamh Dashin. Her family did not immediately approve of the decision, though they hoped she would be able to use her familial influence to turn the club into a legitimate establishment rather than a front for many criminals.

At first, Vendere had planned on doing just that. However, the life of a crime lord ended up having too great of an influence over her and she decided to continue operating the bar as a front for criminal establishments, going so far as to set up her own black market weapons company with her wealth. Her family disowned her because of this, though it was not a bother to her as she knew she did not need them anyway. She continued operating the bar and the company during the Invasion of Utapau.

Behind the scenes
In Latin, ‘vendere’ is a word for 'betray'. Author Brandon Rhea used this as her first name as he felt it was a fitting way to reflect the fact that she betrayed the noble qualities of the Dashin family for profit, greed and crime.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode I - The Chosen One