Zio Tul'ya

The PCs met Zio Tul'ya on Nar Shaddaa. He arrived on Rogue Ronto in the company of Nomi Amersu, Brawln, and HC-7 and said he was a friend of Nomi's who had served as a steward on one of the Republic ships where Nomi had been stationed as a mechanic. Nomi confirmed that she had run into him at the restaurant he now worked at and agreed to take him back to his family on Bothawui. Before they could return to the ship, the Mirror attacked Nomi and she and Zio ended up on the lunar surface of Nar Shaddaa, where they relied on each other for survival until running into Brawln and HC-7 by chance. Zio claimed not to know why Korrda the Hutt was looking for him but this was obviously a lie.

After Vesper Syl'tine leaned on him for a while, Zio admitted to being a spy for the Jedi, assigned to Nar Shaddaa to keep an eye on the Hutts. After the Jedi he reported to was killed by her clone troopers, he became stranded. Zio also implied that he and Nomi had been attracted to each other but couldn't act on their feelings due to the physical distance between them and their very different lives. However, everything Zio told the other PCs about his prior interactions with Nomi was a lie, told to (successfully) preserve her cover as a Republic spy at the expense of his own. Zio and Nomi had never actually met each other before she answered his call for help through the spy network's emergency communication system.

Zio is a young male Bothan with fur in a black and white tuxedo pattern. He is generally charming and eager to help, albeit clearly inexperienced in the art of espionage. Unlike Vesper, he does not wear Bothan Shoes. The PCs last left Zio safely on Bothawui and have a means of contacting him in the future if they want to. Zio also agreed to write letters to Vesper about his impressions about events on Bothawui, so that Vesper can get a sense of what's going on there untainted by Imperial propaganda.

While on Sura Sindo, Vesper received a message from a Bothan woman identifying herself as Zio's mother and claiming Zio had died. She asked Vesper to contact her so they could try to understand what happened together.