Knocker

"You'll never understand why I do these things! "To protect yourself? "To protect her!"

- Knocker and Jeden arguing about the Togruta's criminal life.

Knocker was a female Togruta and a leading criminal informant in the Corellian city of Coronet in the years of the Galactic Republic. Respected on the streets for her steady aim and wise underworld-knowledge, Knocker eventually went against one of her bosses, the criminal known as the Sculptor, after the crime lord almost killed Knocker's younger sister, and Knocker eventually became a Jedi informant for Corellia.

Biography
Born on Corellia fifty years before the Battle of Yavin, Knocker's parents were killed by gang members in Coronet's brutal underworld, and Knocker was left to look after her younger sister, Frera. From a young age, Knocker began working for different criminal gangs as a spy and double agent, using the money she earned to look after her sister and to try and keep her safe from the gangs Knocker worked for. By the time Knocker was 18, she was already well-known by many of Corellia's criminals, and was used as a courier by some and a gun-for-hire by others. Either way, she got the job done.

In 32 BBY, Knocker noticed a Jedi Knight ominously roaming the streets of Corellia, and so enagaged conversation with the Jedi, Jeden Vesal. As they spoke about the crime lord named the 'Sculptor', who was apparently using a Force-based device to turn his enemies into statue-like trophies, Jeden managed to save Knocker from a stray sniper shot, coming from Coronet's spaceport. Soon, Jeden was embroiled in the hunt for the Sculptor, and both Jeden and the local security chief, Major Kelasa, knew who to ask about the situation: Knocker, who had gone back into the underworld.

While Kelasa tracked down the Sculptor by eliminating his assets, Jeden met with Knocker for more news, often speaking to the young criminal about her life. Knocker revealed that she only became a criminal to protect Frera, something Jeden admitted seemed the right thing to do, despite his Jedi teachings going against crime. When Kelasa finally tracked down the Sculptor's hideout, Knocker came to her home to find Frera beaten and traumatized, apparently by one of the Sculptor's thugs as punishment for Knocker betraying information to the local police. While Jeden and Kelasa took on the Sculptor with the help of another Jedi Knight, Sun Jovin, Knocker looked after her sister.

Jeden and Sun eventually found Kelasa to be a traitor, and both the Sculptor and the Major were dead after the mission. Jeden met with Knocker one last time before he left Corellia, with Jeden thanking Knocker for her aid, and Knocker thanking Jeden for stopping crime in Coronet, ensuring her sister would have a safe future. With that, the pair departed from each other, and never met again.

Years later, after the Clone Wars and the Rise of the Empire, Jeden, having survived Order 66, travelled to Corellia with his Padawan, Koses Lik-Har, to gather intel for a raid on Coronet's spaceport by a resistance cell. While roaming the streets, Jeden visited Knocker's old home, finding Knocker and Frera dead in their beds, with a discharged Imperial magazine laid on the ground nearby. Jeden couldn't guess how long Knocker had been dead for, though he knew the Imperials had killed her. The mission was later successful, with Jeden remembering his slight friendship with the Torgruta during the raid.

Personality and characteristics
Straight-to-the-point and possessing no round edges, Knocker was a no-nonsense woman. A survivalist by all accounts, she admitted to Jeden that helping the Jedi was possibly the stupidest thing she ever did, and her friendship with Jeden was likely why the Imperial hunted and killed her and Frera years later. While she had a thick exterior, Knocker did have a slim sense of humour, and showed great compassion to her sister, who she was overly protective with due to their troubled childhoods.

Tall due to her large head horns, Knocker almost matched Jeden's rather-tall height. Having the red, blue and white skin shared by the majority of Togrutas, Knocker was slim and agile, and was highly athletic. She had blue eyes, thin lips and a rough voice to match them, and she often wore typical Corellian clothing of a brown jacket, dark trousers and slim boots, along with black gloves and occasionally a hooded coat.