Lok Durd

Lok Durd was a neimoidian general working for the Separatists during the Clone Wars

History
Lok Durd was a neimoidian general during the Clone Wars. During the war, Durd created the Defoliator, a radioactive weapon that could destroy organic life and leave inorganic material unharmed. Durd did this in hopes of getting a promotion in the Separatist military. In order to test the Defoliator, Durd traveled to the remote planet Maridun, inhabited by a peaceful Lurmen colony where he would test it on the Lurmen themselves. Upon arrival, Durd met up with Tee Watt Kaa, the leader of the lurmen, and lied to him that they were under Separatist protection to hide his true intentions. Later, Durd and his droids set up camp some distance away from the lurmen village, where they conducted the first test of the Defoliator supervized by Count Dooku. The first test was successful, as the capsule's radiation incinerated a large amount of grass and left two battle droids unharmed. Dooku was impressed, and ordered Durd to test the Defoliator on sentient beings, and the general promised to test the Defoliator on the lurmen and ended transmission. The next day, Durd traveled to the lurmen village to test the Defoliator and took three squads of droids with him. Upon arrival, Durd discovered that a small group of jedi and clones consisting of jedi Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker, and Aayla Secura, and clones Rex and Bly, had taken refuge with the lurmen after crashlanding and were with the Lurmen while waiting for the Republic to find them. Durd ordered his droids to fire the Defoliator at them, but they used shield generators surrounding the village to protect the lurmen, and the village was left unscratched. Durd then ordered his first squad to attack the group, but the jedi and clones easily destroyed the squad. Durd then ordered his second and third squads to attack. The group destroyed most of the second squad, but the third squad diasbled the shield generators. Noticing the shield was down, Durd ordered his droids to reload the Defoliator. However, Anakin ran towards the Defoliator and Durd opened fire, but Anakin was too quick and destroyed the third squad and the Defoliator. Durd, fearing he would be "defoliated", attempted to flee, but Anakin easily captured him, causing him to sigh and mutter, "There goes my promotion." Later, three republic warships arrived on Maridun and picked up the jdi and clones and took Durd into custody.