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Their neural networks are cutting edge,
boasting reaction times far quicker than human counterparts. Their eyes
and ears serve as exacting recorders of their surroundings. While cursory
scans will detect an organic being, detailed scans of HRDs will reveal
their true nature, such as their less-than-human body temperature and
the strange bio-fiber composition of their internal organs.
In
total, Prince Xizor spent nine million credits for his enforcer. The brainchild
of droid engineer Massad Thrumble, Guri was constructed by a reclusive outlaw
tech named Simonelle the Ingoian. This brilliant engineer and droid technician
operated out of the Minos Cluster. Working with captured blueprints of the
long-delayed Alliance Project Decoy, Simonelle produced a number of droids
culminating in his final masterpiece Guri. With the nine million from Xizor,
Simonelle worked hard to build other droids, applying the valuable lessons
he learned in Guri's construction. But Simonelle became one of Guri's first
victims, as the deadly droid killed her maker.
Guri was a lethal assassin, capable of killing in the blink of an eye without
even raising her ersatz heartbeat. Xizor sent her out on numerous missions
to deal with those who crossed him personally or his organization. It was
Guri who recovered the "Barani list," a detailed list of Black
Sun operatives leaked in the Sisar Run. It was Guri who killed Vigo Green
for masterminding the scheme that saw the creation of that list. It was
Guri who killed the entire board of directors for the rival Ororo Transportation.
Xizor dispatched Guri to investigate Princess Leia Organa's interests in
Black Sun, interests which stemmed from assassination attempts on Luke Skywalker
and her goal of finding the carbon-frozen Han Solo. Guri served as a diplomat-of-sorts,
luring Leia into Xizor's complex machinations. Guri was perplexed and concerned
about her master's romantic inclinations towards Organa. She carried out
her orders even though her own preference would have been to kill Leia and
her companions -- testimony to her ruthless and efficient manner.
Guri
provided Organa and her companion Chewbacca safe transport to Imperial
Center. To facilitate their insertion into the heart of the Empire, Guri
supplied both Rebels with disguises -- Leia as the Ubese bounty hunter
Boushh and Chewbacca as the hunter Snoova.
Later,
Organa and the Wookiee attempted to escape from Xizor's palace. In the
confusion, Leia managed to momentarily stun Guri by hammering the back
of her head with the heavy Ubese bounty hunter helmet. This gave Leia
the time to escape from her quarters, and lock Guri inside. Guri broke
through the door with repeated pummeling from her fists.
As
Guri continued her pursuit, she came face-to-face with Jedi Luke Skywalker.
Finally, Guri found the challenge she had sought after so many years of
easy killing. Despite the fact that the palace was to explode around them
in three minutes, Guri challenged Skywalker to a hand-to-hand brawl. With
the Force as his ally, Skywalker defeated Guri, knocking her down with
a hit that would have knocked a normal human unconscious. Guri conceded
defeat. Skywalker offered her sanctuary with the Alliance.
"We
can have you reprogrammed," Skywalker said. "No. If they can
find a way around my brainblock, if somehow my memory is downloaded, it
will be fatal for me," Guri responded. She told Skywalker to kill
her, but Luke didn't. He fled from the building as explosions deep within
the palace consumed the immense structure.
Guri
didn't perish with her master, however. As the palace collapsed, and as
Xizor died high in orbit under the guns of Vader's Super Star Destroyer,
Guri escaped in a parawing glider and reclaimed her vessel.
Guri
surfaced again about a month after the Battle of Endor. During the time,
the fate of Black Sun was still in contention, as no obvious heir to the
criminal empire became apparent. Xizor's long-lost niece, Savan, sought
Guri for the valuable Black Sun files contained in her memory core. The
key to Black Sun was getting the secrets contained in Guri's mind, so
Savan hired bounty hunter Kar Yang to track down the HRD.
With
no clear objective or direction, Guri fled to the backwater of the galaxy.
She travelled to Hurd's Moon, to look up Massad Thrumble, who had become
a local cantina owner. Guri wished to be reprogrammed, and knew Thrumble
would be her best chance at that. Thrumble, seeking a challenge, agreed.
The
first obstacle however was the recovery of Thrumble's creation, a one-of-a-kind
medical droid named A-OIC. A-OIC was the only surgeon capable of the exacting
neural restructuring that Guri needed. The droid had been kidnapped by
the Pikkel sisters for delivery to Spinda Caveel, on Murninkam.
Guri
slogged through the swamps of Murninkam, defeating deadly predators by
hand, in her search for A-OIC. She infiltrated Caveel's compound, defeated
the Pikkel sisters, and recovered the surgeon droid. While en route to
Hurd's Moon, she was pursued by Kar Yang. Yang confronted the HRD while
she was about to undergo the neural reprogramming. Guri killed the hunter,
tearing at his heart with her bare hand. It was what she was programmed
to do, and she didn't want to do it anymore.
Thrumble and A-OIC began the delicate process of eradicating her assassin
programming. A simple miscalculation or error could result in wiping her
memory entirely. Meanwhile Savan arrived on Hurd's Moon, pursued in turn
by the Heroes of Yavin.
Guri awoke from the reprogramming, and did something she hadn't done in
over a decade of functioning: she smiled. Guri remembered Massad Thrumble,
and A-OIC. She remembered that they were to rid her of some "bad
memories" but she couldn't recall what those memories were.
Just
then Savan and her enforcers began storming Thrumble's compound. When
confronted by a team of Savan's mercs, Guri was able to hold them off.
Apparently her muscle memory was still intact -- Guri could still fight
with deadly force, even if she didn't know where she learned how to do
it.
Savan
finally confronted Guri, and attempted to use a secret passcode that would
place Guri in her command. But the passcode no longer worked. Guri knocked
Savan unconscious. Finally free of her past, Guri stayed on Hurd's Moon,
entering Thrumble's cantina not as a deadly assassin droid, but as an
attractive young woman. It was purely fate that she caught the eye of
smuggler Dash Rendar, who bought the woman a drink.
Guri
has long, silky blond hair, pale clear blue eyes and an exquisite figure.
Guri's voice and demeanor are cool and even. She traveled in an elegant
custom vessel named the Stinger, provided to her by Xizor.
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