Rastaban Menkar

"Menkar is mine."

- Leviathan's takes control of Dr. Menkar Dr. Rastaban Menkar was a male human scientist and a prominent member of the Ministry of Science of the Galactic Republic. A pragmatic man and a brilliant scientist, Dr. Menkar was the leader of a team of scientists sent by Chancellor Palpatine to secure a sinister-looking artifact from Akatoa. Shortly after securing the artifact, Menkar was showing signs of increased ruthlessness and sociopathy, eventually killing his team of scientists and taking the artifact for his own.

It is soon discovered by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker that Menkar was being controlled by an insidious entity known only as the Leviathan, who attempted to use Menkar to achieve is long-term goal; galactic dominance.

After being confronted by the two Jedi Knights, Anakin tried to convince Menkar to fight the Leviathan's control. Briefly, Menkar succeeded in repelling the Leviathan's influence and committed suicide shortly afterwards.