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Today’s video will go over who exactly is the marshall Cobb Vanth.
Cobb Vanth, also known as The Marshal, was a human male who lived during the Galactic Civil War.
He lived on the desert planet of Tatooine his whole life and was once a slave,
having a star-shape mark carved onto his back as a sign of ownership. He eventually became free
and came to be the sheriff of the town Mos Pelgo.
The death of Jabba the Hutt and end of the Galactic Empire's occupation of Tatooine
in 4 ABY led to a power struggle on the planet, and the Red Key Raiders, a crime syndicate that
operated under the guise of a legitimate mining company, began to establish itself on the planet.
The night after the Battle of Endor,
the Mining Collective arrived in Mos Pelgo and attacked the patrons of the local bar.
As they began rounding up citizens, Vanth and the Weequay bartender fled the bar,
with Vanth grabbing a camtono of silicax oxalate crystals before taking off into the desert.
He wandered for days before collapsing and being discovered
by some Jawas. Realizing what was in the camtono that Vanth carried,
the Jawas offered him many items in exchange. Vanth refused them all, instead wanting a
set of damaged Mandalorian armor, which turned out to be the armor of Boba Fett.
While Vanth resided in the sandcrawler, Adwin Charu, a representative of the Red Key, arrived
to barter with the Jawas for droids, weapons and mining equipment from their sandcrawler.
Vanth conversed with Charu and helped the man find valuable equipment on the vehicle.
When Charu found the armor and wished to take it for himself,
Vanth injured Charu, leaving him alive to send a message to his boss
Lorgan Movellan. Vanth returned to town and single-handedly drove away the Collective,
assuming the role of mayor and protector of Mos Pelgo.
As sheriff and mayor of Mos Pelgo, which was eventually renamed Freetown,
Vanth led the residents in defying the Red Key Raiders. In 5 ABY, he rescued the beastmaster
Malakili from a pair of raiders. Vanth recognized Malakili, but the beastmaster claimed that he was
no one and was still mourning the death of his rancor Pateesa. Vanth recruited the beastmaster to
tend to some rontos in Freetown and an infant Hutt which had been acquired from the Red Key Raiders.
Sometime later, the Red Key attacked and captured Freetown, overpowering the residents. Movellan
confronted Vanth, both questioning each other's motives on Tatooine. The Hutt was then brought
out with Malakili, and it gave a shriek, signaling Tusken Raider reinforcements against the Red Key
Raiders. Vanth then carved a message onto Movellan for the crime boss's superiors.
Vanth still lived in Mos Pelgo years later, leading and defending the town. At one point,
the Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin came to town searching for a fellow Mandalorian.
Vanth agreed to give Djarin his armor in exchange for helping him
kill a greater krayt dragon that lived nearby and was attacking Mos Pelgo.
Vanth and Djarin allied themselves with a local group of Tusken Raiders
as well as the people of Mos Pelgo and succeeded in taking down the beast. Vanth then willingly
returned the Mandalorian armor to the Mandalorian and the two parted ways.While we don’t know what
will happen to Cobb Vanth after this, we sure hope we get to see him again in the Mandalorian!
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