Darato Murellis

Darato Murellis was a Human male Republic politician and later the Baron Administrator of Cloud City on Bespin.

Prior to the Separatist Crisis, Darato served as the senator of Bespin in the Galactic Senate. When his term as senator ended, Darato was elected the Baron Administrator and spent much of his tenure strengthening the Bespin Wing Guard and also founded the short-lived Bespin Defense Force as part of the Republic's Planetary Security Forces pact. Under Darato's directive, the Wing Guard's police contingents carried out raids on warehouses used by Black Sun subsidiaries to store illegal weapons, munitions, and drugs. In retaliation, the Black Sun Vigos contacted one of their most successful assassins, a Mandalorian warrior named Naastau, who was sent to Cloud City to assassinate the Baron Administrator. With help from local criminals, the Mandalorian eliminated most of the guardsmen in Darato's keep, prompting Darato and his guards to flee into Cloud City's lower depths; the assassins and some of the local gangsters pursued. Unable to call for reinforcements due to Naastau's extremely powerful jammer, Darato decided to stand his ground in a tibanna refinery. This would prove to be a fatal tactic, as after his guards were quickly dispatched Naastau fired an explosive dart into the wall, triggering a chain reaction that killed Darato as Naastau was able to narrowly escape. Dominic Raynor, who was also an administrator of a public luxury station in the Besh Gorgon system known as the Wheel, succeeded Darato as Baron Administrator of Cloud City.