- “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 about Ochi
Ochi, also known as Ochi of Bestoon, is a recurring antagonist in the Star Wars franchise.
Background
Ochi was born on the planet Bestoon. He was a known Jedi hunter since the Clone Wars and became an assassin obsessed with finding Sith relics. At some point, he obtained the droid D-O from one of his victims. Shadow of the Sith, reveals he abused the droid and he was reactivated by the Sith. He owned a modified WTK-85A interstellar transport called the Bestoon Legacy, which was left with D-O on Pasaana after the Sith assassin's demise there. Ochi also possessed a personal Sith dagger used to commit acts of murder. He also write the location of a wayfinder in ur-Kittât, known as the old tongue and an ancient language of the Sith banned by the Republic.
During the Galactic Civil War, he was tasked by the emperor with hunting Darth Vader as a test. Afterwards, he would instead serve Darth Vader and become blinded by a massive Kyber crystal mountain on the planet Exegol. After receiving a cybernetic visor, Ochi would become Vader's agent in combatting the crime syndicate Crimson Dawn and attempting to retrieve the smuggler Han Solo.
Later on, the orders of the Emperor, Ochi would be tasked with hunting down Rey and her parents. After succeeding in finding Rey's parents, Ochi would murder them after they refused to give up Rey's location. He would later be found boasting in a cantina about Exegol, which led to him being pursued by Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian. This chase led him to the desert planet Passana, where Ochi's ship would crash and he would perish below the sands.
While searching for a Sith wayfinder, Rey found a dagger that belonged to Ochi, the missing key that Luke had been searching for. As C-3PO's program forbids him to translate Sith language, Rey and her group took him to an old friend of Poe's, who bypassed the program so that C-3PO could translate the runes inscribed on the blade, in order to locate the wayfinder. The dagger's crossguards have concealed measurements arcs for use in pinpointing the missing wayfinder's location.
Appearances
The Rise of Skywalker
Ochi appears in the flashbacks and is mentioned. Lando and Luke were tracking him due to caring a clue to find a Sith wayfinder. Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, and BB-8 found his dagger and Rey learned more of her past.
Print media
Ochi appears in several of the Marvel comics like the 2020 Darth Vader comics. He was sent by Darth Sidious to kill Vader, after he sensed Vader's mourning. He also brought the Droid Crush Pirates of Bestoon but they turned on him when they saw Vader's armor was standard parts not high-tech as they expected. After Vader kills the droids and forces Ochi to help him use his wayfidner to get to Exegol. The pair discovered various planet-destroying Xyston-class Imperial Star Destroyers. Ochi got his eyes burned when a large kyber crystal sent out a wave of power, that burn Ochi's eyes, forcing him to wear a visor to regain his sight.
After wards, Ochi began to serve Vader and help him take down Crimson Dawn, although it is later revealed he is a double agent for the crime syndicate. In Crimson Reign, Qi'ra sends him on a mission to kill the Emperor's Royal Guards as a warning to Palpatine.
Ochi also appeared in Shadow of the Sith, where it dives in deeper on his mission to finding Rey's parents. Flashbacks also show how he encountered Depa Billaba and Mace Windu.
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