In this galaxy, I don't care about foolish ideas of good or evil. I'm just here to do what I want, and that involves spilling more blood than any so-called hero will ever be able to cover.
—Schkakerro
Schkakerro was a Maluvirian male warlord who served as a general in the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars. Hailing from Saalok in Hutt Space, he worked for the Klaatu Corporation for several years, helping them suppress opposition on various Outer Rim planets. During his time at KlaatuCorp, Schkakerro became known for his sadistic methods and developed a strong hatred of the Galactic Republic and the Felinian species.
Schkakerro joined the Separatist Droid Army at the outbreak of the Clone Wars, with his main motive being inflicting suffering upon as many people as possible as well as getting revenge on the Felinians. He fought in the Battle for Felinia, which he hoped would be a brief fight where the Felinian species would quickly go extinct. Instead, the Felinian Militia put up fierce resistance while Schkakerro assembled as much forces as possible. In an attempt to break the stalemate, the general ordered the use of nuclear and chemical weapons on Felinia, resulting in over one hundred million civilian fatalities.
Once Republic reinforcements arrived, by which point the Battle for Felinia had been going on for two years, Schkakerro's forces were defeated, although he managed to narrowly escape. Schkakerro subsequently betrayed the Confederacy and went rogue, establishing the Chaos Front to pursue his own destructive goals.
Biography[]
Early life[]
You see, I came from some tiny village in a backwater swamp. It was full of pathetic people with a meaningless existence. I hated that place and everyone there. So, I did what obviously made sense. I got rid of it all.
—Schkakerro's remarks on his early life
Schkakerro was born 67 years before the Battle of Yavin on the planet Saalok, which was located in the Mid Rim Territories and Hutt Space. He grew up in an unremarkable, remote, and mostly peaceful village, but was born with a strong bloodlust, which was historically common amongst the Maluvirian species. Schkakerro was very unfriendly with the people of his village and even his family, because he viewed them all as weak fools.
In 49 BBY when Schkakerro was 18 years old, he was permanently banished from the village when he nearly killed someone else over a minor dispute. He left and for the next two years was a nomad in the swamps of Saalok, occasionally coming across a random person and killing them.
This lasted until he came across a hidden abandoned temple and discovered ancient Maluvirian texts. These texts dismissed ideas good and evil and blatantly encouraged sadistic behavior, an idea that Schkakerro was quick to adopt. He eventually discovered a story of a Maluvirian Sith who killed everyone he knew before becoming extremely powerful. These texts were censored by the Galactic Republic a millennium earlier, but they were unable to cover up all of the Maluvirian species' dark history.
One night in 47 BBY, Schkakerro returned to his village with a large battleaxe he acquired at the temple. He proceeded to slaughter every single person in the village over the course of less than an hour before burning everything down and leaving. Several days later, some traders visiting the village discovered over one hundred bodies.
Pre-Clone Wars[]
Working for Naffo the Hutt[]
Some time after the village incident, Schkakerro was employed by Naffo Besadii Jolp, the Hutt who effectively ruled Saalok. He enforced the will of Naffo the Hutt, killing those who opposed his rule or capturing them and bringing them to the Jolp palace to suffer a terrible fate. However, Schkakerro eventually got tired of working for Naffo the Hutt and found it to be unfulfilling. He went to the city of Kal Saja, where he killed an unknown smuggler and stole his modified YT-1000 light freighter, using it to get off Saalok.
Crime spree[]
Schkakerro went on a prolonged crime spree in the Outer Rim Territories, attacking random vulnerable starships and killing all occupants before taking anything of value. Once his ship began experiencing mechanical problems, he stopped at Mos Eisley spaceport on Tatooine for repairs. While waiting for repairs, he went to Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina and got into a brawl with three Aqualish patrons. He disarmed the blaster of one opponent, putting it into the individual's mouth before pulling the trigger. He killed the next one by smashing their head repeatedly into glass shards. Then he eliminated the final opponent by using a knife to extract the brawler's heart, which he proceeded to eat in front of everyone else. Schkakerro left the cantina and discovered his light freighter had not yet been repaired, so he choked the servicer to death before stealing another ship to get off Tatooine.
Due to his actions on Tatooine and elsewhere, multiple bounty hunters attempted to go after Schkakerro. None of them that found him survived.
Working for Klaatu Corporation[]
In 36 BBY, at the age of 31, Schkakerro joined Klaatu Corporation, a member of the Corporate Alliance. KlaatuCorp promised that he would get to fulfill his personal interests if he worked for them. Despite being considered aggressive and insane, Schkakerro proved to be a fairly competent military commander. As one of the highest-ranking members of the Klaatu Corporation Enforcement Division, Schkakerro had the task of subjugating populations that resisted KlaatuCorp, which ranged from small settlements to entire systems. He commanded battle droids, organic soldiers, and Corporate Alliance tank droids to carry out his objectives. On a number of occasions he used lethal force and killed protestors against KlaatuCorp. The Republic was rarely ever a concern since Schkakerro operated in lawless parts of the galaxy, where the Republic was practically nonexistent.
In 29 BBY, KlaatuCorp sought out valuable resources that were supposedly abundant on Felinia in the Mid Rim Territories. The Felinians rejected a contract made by KlaatuCorp as they saw how the corporation had exploited other planets with no regard for locals. Schkakerro was sent to "persuade" the Felinian government to sign the deal, but he was instead defeated by the Felinian Militia and forced to retreat. This was Schkakerro's greatest defeat and caused him to fiercely hate the Felinian species.
Confederate service[]
Beginning of the Clone Wars[]
The Iniquity
During the Separatist Crisis, Klaatu Corporation joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems in order to profit off of the chaos that would soon engulf much of the galaxy. Schkakerro continued to work for KlaatuCorp, but when the Clone Wars began in 22 BBY he was quick to join the Separatist Droid Army. He was an ideal Separatist commander for Darth Sidious, because Schkakerro would inevitably carry out brutal acts that would lead to anti-alien sentiment and a desire for a stronger government to protect people.
Being immediately granted the rank of general, Schkakerro received a Providence-class Dreadnought as his flagship, which he named the Iniquity, along with additional capital ships and millions of battle droids aboard them. He also had several sentient beings that willingly served him, and his own personal assassin squad of twelve individuals.
Battle for Felinia[]
Initial assault[]
Get down on that planet, and kill anything that moves!
—Schkakerro's orders
Schkakerro wanted to attack Felinia and get revenge on the entire Felinian species for what had happened during the incident seven years earlier. He used the pretext of abundant valuable resources as a pretext to attack Felinia, and his plan was approved by his superiors. He began the Battle for Felinia several weeks after the beginning of the Clone Wars, first destroying any Felinian starships that opposed his fleet. Schkakerro then sent C-9979 landing craft from a Lucrehulk-class Battleship in orbit, landing thousands of battle droids on the ground.
However, the Felinian Militia, led by General Onc Panthera, wasted no time mobilizing to fight against the invaders, and with over one million personnel they actually outnumbered the battle droids and managed to dispatch them. The 458th Battalion, composed of several hundred clone troopers and commanded by CC-6518, was the only sign of the Republic Military's presence on Felinia.
Infuriated by this development, Schkakerro ordered several Munificent-class star frigates to perform orbital bombardment on population centers, since the Felinian Militia did not bother to invest in planetary shields. However, it was discovered that they did in fact have surface-to-space turbolaser weapons, which were capable of crippling a Separatist frigate in one shot. The frigates pulled out of range so that they could not be targeted, but in doing so they were too far to perform effective bombardment.
Prolonged battle[]
Schkakerro sent all battle droid forces possible to the surface of Felinia. Klaatu Corporation personnel arrived as well, helping to set up mines and factories that would use the planet's natural resources to construct more battle droids and vehicles. This allowed for a stronger Separatist foothold to be established on Felinia. Meanwhile, the Felinia blockade fleet was established, being led by Rear Admiral Wrakurona Kazzun. Schkakerro was focused on the ground, and did not care what happened in space as long as no enemies were able to come or leave. At the same time however, the Felinian Militia was preparing millions of recruits and was setting up hundreds of bases and outposts.
Schkakerro eventually ordered the construction of his own large command fortress on the planet, which was completed rapidly. Weeks and months went by without significant Separatist gains as the Felinian resistance intensified. Schkakerro was angered at this development, but he remained determined to win the battle, no matter how long it took him.
Siege of Macharidont[]
You stupid cat. You think you're some kind of hero, trying to save everyone. But no, you're just a complete, useless idiot. All your people are weak. They're all so disgusting, too focused on so-called ethics, compassion, whatever it is. You don't get the futility of it all.
—Schkakerro, to Faroz Cyannus
In 21 BBY, several months into the Battle for Felinia, Schkakerro personally led an attack on the Felinian city of Macharidont, which had previously repelled a Separatist assault. Felinian Militia personnel were there along with the 458th Battalion. By the end of the day, Schkakerro's forces had taken over the city, but took very high casualties.
Schkakerro, along with super battle droids, commando droids, and his assassins, captured a number of Felinians during the siege of the city, including Captain Faroz Cyannus, all of his immediate family, and several other Militia soldiers. They were all brought to a ruined plaza, where Schkakerro mocked Cyannus before killing all the other Felinians present one-by-one, choking them and then decapitating their bodies. Before Schkakerro killed Cyannus however, he was attacked by clone troopers. Schkakerro was shot but survived and ran away. His droids were destroyed and the clones managed to free Cyannus. They subsequently stole a Multi-Troop Transport.
Schkakerro, determined to not let them escape, commandeered an Armored Assault Tank, and, alongside four tank droids, pursued the hijacked MTT. His tank droids were destroyed but he managed to outmaneuver the MTT, disable it, and then blow open the door. He killed several clone troopers including CC-6518 but his tank was then taken out by a thermal detonator. Realizing he could not kill the rest of the clones on his own, Schkakerro fled.
Atrocity on Felinia[]
Infuriated and humiliated by what happened at Macharidont, Schkakerro decided to obtain powerful weapons so that he could kill as many Felinians as possible. He demanded that Klaatu Corporation give him K-1 thermonuclear missiles, which had recently entered production. In 20 BBY, three hundred of these were delivered. Schkakerro then deployed the majority of them, killing tens of millions of people within a few hours. This atrocity was severe enough to gain the attention of the Galactic Senate, leading the Republic Military to prioritize sending reinforcements to Felinia to end the battle there.
Defeat[]
You will all fight those Republic dirtbags to the end! Kill them all! If you don't, I'll kill you myself!
—Schkakerro's words to his forces late in the battle
A substantial Republic force later arrived, made up of dozens of capital ships, several clone legions, and several Jedi. They broke through the blockade fleet, eliminating Rear Admiral Kazzun in the process, and subsequently deployed reinforcements to the surface. Schkakerro ordered his millions of battle droids, along with KlaatuCorp personnel and Separatist mercenaries present on Felinia, to fight to the death against the Republic.
Not long after the Republic arrival, his assassins managed to capture Felinian General Onc Panthera. Schkakerro assaulted Panthera before throwing the Felinian into a pit full of hungry rodents, who killed him. Schkakerro wanted Panthera to die in this specific way, as he wanted to have the cruel irony of a "predator being eaten by its prey."
The vast numbers of his forces began to deplete as Schkakerro's leadership involved increasingly aggressive and unwise tactics. Schkakerro demanded more nuclear weapons from KlaatuCorp, using blatant death threats this time. They sent him another shipment, but it was lost due to the actions of Confederate Marshal General Yosip Zagoonga, who was disgusted by what Schkakerro had done and wanted to prevent another mass atrocity from happening.
Weeks after the Republic's arrival, CIS forces on Felinia were rapidly collapsing. Many tactical droids and organic personnel were completely ignoring orders from General Schkakerro, believing that he was only telling them to use suicidal methods and that his leadership had only accelerated the Separatist defeat in the battle.
Escape from Felinia[]
Schkakerro's fortress on Felinia was soon surrounded by Republic forces, and all other Separatist forces on the planet were on the brink of destruction. The general knew that he had absolutely no chance of winning at this point, and he decided that he would flee to the Iniquity, which was still in the system. However, with the Republic having total air superiority, it was not feasible for Schkakerro to flee in a starship as he would be shot down and die. However, he devised a plan to successfully escape using a high-value hostage.
The 96th Legion led by Jedi General Jon Ternath eventually attacked Schkakerro's fortress, taking down the defenses and getting inside. Schkakerro and his assassins managed to isolate Ternath, kill the clone troopers around him, and then incapacitate him. Then they took him aboard a Gozanti-class cruiser and took off. The 96th Legion was aware of this, and with Jedi Commander Jedaana Lokka now being in charge, she ordered her clones to hold fire on Schkakerro's ship.
Schkakerro anticipated that the Republic would not let his ship get away so easily, and he was correct as multiple gunships gave pursuit. Lokka and clone jetback troopers quickly got inside the ship, fighting against commando droids and Schkakerro's assassins, while Schkakerro was in the cockpit. Ternath was soon freed, and Schkakerro made his assassins lure the Jedi to the cargo bay, which he then remotely opened. The two Jedi survived by landing on the pursuing gunships, while the assassins died. Schkakerro then had a swarm of vulture droids come down from the Iniquity, forcing the gunships to break off their pursuit.
Schkakerro's Gozanti-class cruiser successfully arrived at the hangar of his Providence-class dreadnought Iniquity. However, the Republic battle group was closing in on the Iniquity and the other Separatist capital ships. Schkakerro immediately ordered these ships to attack the Republic vessels. They did, and were quickly destroyed as they were outgunned and just used a head-on attack. This bought enough time for the Iniquity to jump to hyperspace, allowing Schkakerro to survive at the expense of the rest of the Separatist fleet present.
Rogue general[]
I thought being in the Confederacy was a waste of time, but it actually made me realize that this whole galaxy is full of incompetent morons who can't do a damn thing right. I'm going to fix it. All that needs to happen is trillions, maybe quadrillions of deaths, and then a stronger society will be built from the ground-up, one not corrupted by the arrogance and folly of a thousand bygone generations.
—Schkakerro after his betrayal to the CIS
After the Battle for Felinia, Schkakerro decided that he would no longer be part of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. He blamed his defeat on his forces being incompetent, and decided that he would embark on his own campaign. This would involve causing as much death and destruction as possible, which Schkakerro claimed was necessary to building a better society. His followers aboard the Iniquity hacked and reprogrammed all the battle droids aboard the ship, making them loyal not to the CIS but only to Schkakerro. He called his new Separatist splinter faction the Chaos Front, named after the mythological realm known as Chaos, which he intended to metaphorically bring to the galaxy.
The Galactic Republic wanted Schkakerro for war crimes, and it was expected that he would certainly be executed if captured due to the severity of his actions. As he had also committed treason against the Confederacy and was in possession of a Providence-class Dreadnought, the CIS wanted him dead as well.
Personality and traits[]
This is the most purely evil being in the galaxy. He is an unbelievably brutal war criminal who has killed millions with zero remorse. The only reason he joined the Separatists was to watch everything burn. These types of people are the ones who ruined the Separatist movement.
—Yosip Zagoonga on Schkakerro
A large and imposing Near-Human Maluvirian, Schkakerro was 2.26 meters tall and weighed 263 kilograms. He had dark green skin and horns on his head. He was known to be remarkably physically strong.
Schkakerro was considered to have a very large ego, causing him to become extremely aggravated if he felt annoyed, embarrassed, or insulted. He focused on winning tactical victories and did not hesitate to use any methods in order to achieve success. He committed many atrocities, the most significant of which was when he killed over one hundred million civilians on Felinia through the use of weapons of mass destruction. Schkakerro was considered to be extremely aggressive, cowardly, and treacherous. Overall, he showed no regard for the lives of his enemies, non-combatants, and even his allies. He saw his forces as completely disposable, and on many occasions sacrificed them for his own immediate benefit.
Throughout his life, Schkakerro was very sadistic, enjoying making others suffer. This was supposedly the motivation for everything he did, although he claimed that his actions sought to weed out the weak in the galaxy. He preferred to kill victims with his bare hands or through other unmerciful methods. He sometimes took prisoners but typically only to brutally torture and eventually kill them. He owned several violent beasts which he sometimes fed his victims to, causing him to be known as “the Beastmaster.”
Schkakerro was a cannibal, with his diet consisting entirely of the flesh and organs of sentient beings. However, he only consumed individuals whom he considered strong in some way, as he believed that he was absorbing the matter of his formidable opponents and becoming more powerful in the process. He also had a habit of freezing the remains of his enemies to keep them as trophies.
Behind the scenes[]
And his opponent, from the pits of hell. Weighing in at 580 pounds: The Bad Guy The Beastmaster The Eliminator The Villain!
—Announcer in WWE 2K22
Schkakerro was originally created as a humorous custom character originally known as "Salty Shrek" in the wrestling video game WWE 2K22. He is the largest possible size at 7' 4" (one inch was added for this page because of his horns) and 580 lbs. His in-game personality traits include egotistical, disrespectful, perseverant, treacherous, cowardly, and aggressive. The author eventually had the idea to incorporate the character into Star Wars Fanon, giving him new attire and naming him Schkakerro.