Guri (Star Wars)
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Guri is a character in Steve Perry's book, Shadows of the Empire. Shadows of the Empire is set in between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Guri was a Human replica droid created by researcher Massad Thrumble and engineered as an assassin. She served as Prince Xizor's assistant and was one of the few individuals the necessarily paranoid crimelord believed he could trust.
[edit] Biography
Guri's creation cost Xizor nine million credits, and he felt she was worth every one. Guri had long blonde hair and blue eyes, and resembled a beautiful Human woman in her mid-twenties. She was created around 7 BBY, and one of the few ways that she could be seen to differ from Humans was that her body temperature was 10% cooler than Human normal, enough to kill a Human. She was capable of emulating all of the "more intimate" functions of a Human woman, and Xizor occasionally made use of her abilities in that regard.
Although often terse, Guri exhibited a sometimes playful sense of arrogance; for example, when she massacred a group of Xizor's rivals, she took the time to allow one victim, knocked out in the initial fray, to regain consciousness so that she could have the last word before killing him. This smug attitude and apparent enjoyment of power were further illustrated by her dry and self-assured responses when Leia Organa and the other Heroes of Yavin interrogated her. At the end of this interrogation, when her captors moved to remove the metal bonds they had trapped her with, she burst them herself in a dramatic show of superhuman strength.
Shortly before Xizor's death, Guri, bored with other prey, sought out a duel with Luke Skywalker. This wish was granted as the two fled Xizor's palace, which was about to be destroyed by planted explosives. She persuaded the young Jedi to throw aside his lightsaber and fight unarmed. Luke defeated her, but rather than killing her, he extended an offer for her to come with him and join the Rebel Alliance. Guri fatalistically (or perhaps merely realistically) declined, explaining that overcoming the controls implanted in her programming would be impossible for the resource-strapped Rebels. Luke reluctantly abandoned her to the palace, though he later came to (rightly) suspect that she had escaped.
Following this encounter and the death of her master, Guri pursued a new beginning, with her ship, the Stinger. She was hounded by the last surviving relative of Xizor, Savan, who wished to capture the vital data stored in her memory. Guri managed to evade Savan, and made her way to a droid programmer who was able to free her of some of her programmed constraints. At one point, she knocked Savan unconscious, but decided not to kill her, arguably in a parallel of the mercy Luke showed her in Xizor's palace.
Afterwards, Guri walked into a bar, where Dash Rendar, also believed dead around the time of the death of Xizor, offered to buy her a drink. They both reconized each other, but only Rendar knew how they knew each other because of Guri's memory wipe. The two eventually formed a mercenary team. Whether this partnership is a romantic relationship has yet to be seen. They teamed up with Kyle Katarn and Bey on an insertion mission to Saijo, the fortress world of the Tofs.
