| “ | Remember Ochi of Bestoon when you die! | „ |
| ~ Ochi to Darth Vader. |
Ochi, also known as Ochi of Bestoon, is a supporting antagonist in the Star Wars franchise.
He was a Sith assassin in service to Emperor Palpatine and the Sith Eternal by the Imperial Era. After the fall of the Galactic Empire, Ochi was tasked by Palpatine with capturing his genetic granddaughter Rey and killing her parents.
He was portrayed by puppeteer Liam Cook.
Biography[]
Early Life & Career[]
Young Ochi of Bestoon in full armor.
Born on the planet Bestoon, Ochi was an associate of Yupe Tashu and a member of the Acolytes of the Beyond, a group of liberals devoted to the collection of Sith artifacts and Darth Vader. A Jedi hunter since the Clone Wars, Ochi became a bounty hunter and an assassin obsessed with finding Sith relics.
At some point, he obtained the droid D-O from one of his victims. During the Clone Wars, he took a bounty for Jedi Master's Depa Billaba's head. He tracked her to Malathon IX where he waited for five days to spring his ambush. Hiding from a tree, Ochi attempted to kill her with his deadblade but before Ochi could land, Mace Windu ambush Ochi and he landed in the nearby river. Despite this Ochi manage to fight off Windu and escape.
After the Clone Wars, Ochi eventually came into service of Emperor Palpatine of the Galactic Empire and was tasked in hunting Darth Vader on Mustafar as a form of training him in the dark side of the Force. Despite his mission being a failure, Ochi began to serve Vader. Ochi also later worked for Qi'ra of Crimson Dawn. Ochi was sent on several mission like assassinating the Emperor's Royal Guard. During this he meet the Orphans (consisting of the bounty hunters Chanath Cha, Sear, Imara Vex, and their droid Ladybright), The Archivist, the Knights of Ren, and fellow assassin Deathstick who was sent to capture Cadeliah. Ochi worked for both the Empire and Crimson Dawn, although he didn't betray any of them.
Ochi has dedicated himself completely to hunting down and killing Jedi.
Following the resurrection of Emperor Palpatine, Ochi was promoted as a Sith loyalist under the Sith Eternal cult. He was tasked with obtaining Palpatine's granddaughter, Rey, who was chosen by the Emperor to replace him as the next Dark Lord of the Sith. Ochi recruited the Droid Crush Pirates of Bestoon, the mercenaries twins Bosvarga and Cerensco, and the bounty hunters Stiper and Krastan. Knowing of his father's intentions, Palpatine's son and daughter-in-law, Miramir, hid Rey on Jakku under the custody of Unkar Plutt. The parents manage to hijack Ochi's ship and dropped their daughter off on Jakku but before they left, several CSA troopers, sent by Ochi provided by Enric Pryde, had found them and took control of Ochi's ship. Although the parents manage to fight off the troops, Ochi, with the help of Bosvarga and Cerensco, manage to capture them. When Ochi interrogated them, they refused to surrender their daughter's whereabouts, prompting Ochi to stab them to death with his dagger. Bosvarga and Cerensco were aiming their blasters at the couple as Ochi killed them with his blade but the assassin's bloodlust was unsatisfied and he then repeatedly stabbed Bosvarga and Cerensco to death. After throwing the dead corpse out of his ship, Ochi founded Miramir's Aki-Aki beads and concluded their daughter was on Pasaana.
Ochi with his preferred weapon, a Sith dagger.
Sometime after killing Rey's parents, Ochi was tracked by Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian, as his dagger was rumored to contain Sith writing that detailed the possible location of Exegol, the location of the Sith Lord's secret base. Lando had heard Ochi in a bar owned by an old friend named Sennifer. The two founded Krastan, Bosvarga, and three other bounty hunters on the planet Torrenoteer Minor to find the girl and her family. After they arrived on Torrenoteer Minor, the hunters fought Lando and Luke where Krastan was killed Luke deflected Krastan's blaster bolts back at him with his lightsaber. Although Stiper manage to escape but was later killed by Ochi. The two pursued Ochi to the desert planet Pasaana, where he got trapped in the sinking sands of the Shifting Mires and perished within the caverns below. Despite not finding Ochi, Luke and Lando search the Sinking Fields and his ship the Bestoon Legacy but found no clues. Since Luke is busy managing his Jedi Temple, Lando decides to remain on Pasaana to keep watch for any sign of Ochi and also to search the quadrant for his missing daughter Kadara.
Legacy[]
Ochi's remains.
Many years later, the Resistance members; Rey, Finn, Poe, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and BB-8, find themselves in the Shifting Mires after running from the First Order. While finding a way out, the group found a landspeeder. 3PO noticed the speeder was adorned with a hex charm, a common emblem of Sith loyalists. The group then found the skeletal remains of Ochi, having been picked clean to the bone by gouge beetles, and BB-8 found his dagger in the sand. After escaping from the tunnels with the help of a Vexis, they use Ochi's abandoned ship, the Bestoon Legacy, to escape from the Knights of Ren and look for someone who could decipher the Sith inscription on the dagger, revealed to be the location of the Sith wayfinder in the ruins of the second Death Star on Kef Bir, the ocean moon of Endor.
Although when Rey got to the vault Kylo Ren was already there and destroyed the wayfinder and after a ferocious duel, ended with Kylo Ren being stabbed and Rey taking off in his TIE whisper. Finn who saw the battle thought Ren had killed Rey and he, Poe, and the rest of the company stranded there went back to the Resistance base on Ajan Kloss. While morning Rey, Ochi's droid D-O offered Finn his condolences and they struck a conversation where Finn learned about Ochi's mission to bring Rey to the Sith Lord on Exegol.
Personality[]
Ochi tracking down Rey's parents.
While little is seen of Ochi in the flashback that Rey has about him, it is shown that he was sadistic, obsessed with using brute force to claim what he seeks. From the jittering and fear expressed by D-O, it can be assumed that Ochi abused him, which was later confirmed in the novel Shadow of the Sith.
In the Darth Vader comics, another side to Ochi's personality was established, revealing the assassin was fond of speaking and making quips, especially if they involved him yelling out his name. He revealed to Vader that his loyalty to always to the one who was most powerful, explaining his service to the Sith. People like The Archivist and Deathstick often referred to Ochi as a monster or little beast. Getting older, Ochi began to drink alcohol and with his Sith dagger effecting his mental health into homicidal frenzies, which led him to kill other beings for real and perceived wrongs.
In the Shadow of the Sith, Ochi's personally is expanded more where the dagger (plus the alcohol) influencing his mind, Ochi killed his allies Bosvarga and Cerensco and killed Stiper out of paranoid when he mocked him of trusting the Droid of Bestoon and their captain Ought-Six.
Appearance[]
Ochi of Bestoon's skull with cybernetic head implants.
Ochi is a male humanoid alien with yellowish skin and black eyes. After an accident during the Mission to Exegol, Ochi gain a cybernetic head implants installed, and a visor, after having his eyes burned by a giant kyber crystal.
In his younger days, Ochi wore a battle armor with a helmet over his head. His armor looked similar to the Imperial officer battle armor with shoulder plates, a bicep armor, and a breastplate but Ochi's armor included a grey jumpsuit, light brown gloves, boots, a white cape, kneepads, pauldrons, a utility belt that had pouches and a blaster holster.
Years after the Empire fell and during the New Republic era, Ochi wore a similar jumpsuit but brown.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Expert Fighter: Despite Ochi's small stature and goofy nature, he is shown to be an incredible fighter. He managed to put up a fight against Darth Vader and kill several Crimson Dawn assassins. Despite this Ochi is well aware of the limitations of his skills as he choose not to directly fight Mace Windu and only tried to escape him when he attacked him. Ochi managed to put up a fight with Vader, using his speed and agility to react fast to the damaged Sith Lord's strikes and was also able to fight Sly Moore in a vibro-knife battle. Years after the fall of the Empire, Ochi was still a skilled fighter, managing to fight Luke Skywalker with his Sith dagger despite his old age.
- Expert Shooter/Sniper: Ochi has excellent marksmanship with both one-handed blaster pistols and a long-range blaster rifles. Ochi is both precise and fast, as he manage to shoot many Crimson Dawn assassins with his pistol and rifle, kill three other Master assassins by shooting them in the head in a quick fashion; despite they had their weapons out and Ochi's blaster pistol was in it's holster, and he also graze Major Erstin Deez's neck with a poison dart coated in a poison called Yurfloo.
- Expert Tracker: Ochi is extreme skilled in tracking his targets. He manage to track Deez and later manage to track Chelli Lona Aphra. The only reason he was unable to properly track Rey is due to the Sith dagger and alcohol affecting his mind.
- Master Assassin: Ochi is an experienced killer, having to earn the title of Master Assassin at some point in his life. He is even one of the few people, known as a Jedi hunter/Jedi killer, to have ever slain Jedi. He would have likely killed Depa Billaba if Mace Windu didn't show up. Ochi also manage to plant a poison called Ziroxin-12 into a Royal Guard's breakfast and track the last one Erstin Deez to fire a Yurfloo poison dart at his neck.
- Stealth: Ochi is also extremely skilled in stealth. He manage to avoid Depa Billaba's and the clone trooper's detection, although he was unable to hide from Mace Windu who in return snuck up on Ochi.
- Piloting: Like most Star Wars characters, Ochi is extremely skilled in piloting every type of flying craft, from speeder bikes to starships.
Equipment[]
- Helmet: In his younger days, Ochi wore a helmet over his head. The helmet was strong enough to endure a punch from a Chagrain male and knock out the same Chagrian thug. When Crimson Dawn sent him to assassinate the Royal Guards, Ochi's helmet can connect to his ASN courier droid, ASN-909, where he saw that Erstin Deez was missing. The helmet was destroyed by Vader in Darth Vader (2020) #50.
- Pike: During the Imperial Era, Ochi had a long pike with a spearhead on one end and an axhead on the other.
- Blasters: Like most Star Wars characters, Ochi primary wields one-handed blaster pistols. During the Imperial era, he was often equipped with a blaster pistol that had a DL-44 heavy blaster pistol design but featured a different handle and a slimmer barrel. By the New Republic Era, Ochi appears to wielded a different blaster pistol model that appears to be a modified Glie-44 blaster pistol (made from a SIG-Sauer P226). Ochi had a small hold-out blaster in one of his pouches as a backup weapon. He attempted to use it while being tied up on Mustafar but Vader stopped him. On a few occasions he equipped himself with a blaster rifle. On one occasion, Ochi used a A280-CFE convertible heavy blaster pistol, a variation of the A280 blaster rifle, which he had in rifle configuration. Another time he used a IQA-11 Blaster Rifle, during his mission to assassinate the Royal Guards, to fire a poison dart to kill Major Erstin Deez when he realize he didn't show up like the other royal guards.
- Poison kit: Funded by Crimson Dawn, Ochi purchased a variety of poison substances from Zlarb at his shop at Level 2685 on Coruscant. The poisons Ochi bought from Zlarb included Cyanoxis D-570, Dozoisian Snark, Manax root, X-1, Yurfloo, and Ziroxin-12.
- ASN courier droid: Working under Crimson Dawn, Ochi had a ASN courier droid called ASN-909. The droid was equipped with a cloaking device to deliver the Ziroxin-12 to poison the breakfast of the Royal Guards. Ochi used the droid to quickly track Deez so the guards can all be killed at the same time.
- Daggers/Knives: Throughout his life Ochi used many knives and daggers. During the Clone Wars, Ochi had a shot yet sharp "deadblade" made of beskar which he attempted to use to kill Depa Billaba before being disarmed by Mace Windu. This beskar blade was sheath on his back. During the Imperial Era, he stole a vibrodagger to kill a Crimson Dawn minion and a smaller vibro-knife to fight against Sly Moore. These small vibroblades can either be superheated or conducted electricity to also shock the victim. He later obtain a Sith dagger which had the location of a Sith wayfinder, written in the forbidden language of the Sith, on the blade. The dagger's crossguards have concealed measurements arcs for use in pinpointing the missing wayfinder's location.
- Bestoon Legacy: Ochi owned a starship called the Bestoon Legacy. The ship was a WTK-85A interstellar transport design for scouts or single pilots. Despite Rey's parents stealing the ship, Ochi manage to get it back before making his way to Pasaana. Ochi's landspeeder was stored in the ship when he sank into Pasaana's Shifting Mires.
Quotes[]
| “ | What you see is what you get with Ochi of Bestoon. I'll always obey the most powerful. So as long as that's really you… | „ |
| ~ Ochi to Vader on his allegiance. |
| “ | Okay. This is it. You ready for this? I am a droid. I was talking to myself. | „ |
| ~ Ochi to ASN-909. |
| “ | Luke and I were tailing an old Jedi hunter. Ochi of Bestoon. He was carrying a clue that could lead to a wayfinder. We followed his ship halfway across the galaxy here. When we got to his ship, it was abandoned. No clue, no wayfinder. | „ |
| ~ Lando Calrissian to Rey, Finn, and Poe |
| “ | Luke sensed it. Ochi never left this place. And he ended up down here. |
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| ~ Rey, Finn, and Poe upon finding Ochi's speeder bike. |
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Trivia[]
- It is unknown how exactly Ochi died in the Shifting Mires. It is possible that it was the Vexis that killed him, given that its wound could have come from his dagger.
- Ochi means 'no' in Greek.
External Links[]
- Ochi on the Disney Wiki
- Ochi on the Star Wars Wiki
