Amda Wabo was an Aqualish male who functioned as a weapons designer on the planet of Garel in the early years of the Galactic Empire's rule. He once arranged an agreement with the Empire to provide them with a substantial amount of T-7 ion disruptor rifles, which led to a meeting with Imperial Minister Maketh Tua on Lothal. The discussions were challenging because they lacked a shared language, necessitating the services of the protocol droid C-3PO as an interpreter. The crew of the Ghost starship exploited this situation to sabotage the transaction in an attempt to steal the disruptors. By removing the official translator, they could offer their own translation services to Tua and Wabo during a journey from Lothal to Garel.
The thieves successfully guided Tua and the Imperials to the incorrect hangar bay within Garel City Spaceport, while they loaded the disruptors onto their own vessel. When Wabo and Tua realized they had been deceived, the Imperials launched an assault on the Ghost crew but failed to prevent the theft. Following this, Wabo accused Tua of betrayal.
Originally from the planet Ando, the male Aqualish known as Amda Wabo became a weapons designer on Garel during the early years of the Galactic Empire. Approximately fourteen years after the Empire's establishment—Lothal Year 3272—Wabo represented Garel in negotiations to sell a large quantity of experimental T-7 ion disruptor rifles to the Imperials, weapons that were prohibited under Imperial law. The Aqualish consented to a private meeting with Imperial Minister Maketh Tua on the nearby planet of Lothal. They communicated with the aid of C-3PO, the protocol droid Tua had borrowed from Senator Bail Organa, along with the astromech droid R2-D2, to serve as a translator.
After the meeting concluded, Wabo, Tua, and the two droids boarded the Star Commuter 2000 shuttle ST-45 at Capital City's spaceport on Lothal, bound for Garel, where the weapons exchange was to occur. However, members of the Ghost starship also boarded the shuttle, intending to steal the disruptors from Wabo and the Imperials for Cikatro Vizago, the leader of the criminal Broken Horn Syndicate. During the flight, C1-10P, an astromech member of the Ghost's crew, intentionally instigated a conflict with another crew member, Ezra Bridger, leading the RX-Series pilot droid, RX-24, to send all droids, including C-3PO, to the shuttle's rear. This left Wabo and Tua without a translator, rendering them unable to understand each other, though Wabo persisted in attempting to converse, much to Tua's irritation. Garazeb Orrelios, another Ghost crew member seated behind Wabo, then offered the translation services of his companion Sabine Wren, which Tua gratefully accepted. When Tua asked Wren to inquire about the location where Wabo had stored the disruptors, the translator deliberately mistranslated the Aqualish's response, stating they were in Bay 17 instead of Bay 7 in Garel City Spaceport.
Upon landing on Garel, Wabo, Tua, and the droids met with a squad of stormtroopers and, much to Wabo's confusion, headed to Bay 17. Upon arrival, the group discovered the bay to be empty, at which point Wabo complained and pointed out that they were in the wrong place. With C-3PO present again to translate what the Aqualish was saying, Tua realized what had happened when she recognized C1-10P observing them from nearby and ordered that the Imperials move to Bay 7 to seize the disruptors. Upon reaching Bay 7, Wabo and the Imperials discovered the Ghost's crew loading crates on to their ship, which the Stormtroopers demanded they allowed to be searched. Two members of the crew, Orrelios and Kanan Jarrus then attacked the Imperials and held them off while the rest of the disruptors were loaded. In the confusion R2-D2 and C-3PO also boarded the Ghost in an attempt to catch C1-10P, and were still on board when it took off and fled Garel.
Without a translator, Wabo came to believe that the Imperials had double crossed him, and despite Tua's unsuccessful attempts to calm him, drew his heavy blaster pistol on Tua. The crew of the Ghost successfully brought Wabo's weapons to the Broken Horn, who took most of them before Imperial's arrived to disrupt the deal. Vizago then took what weapons he had without paying the Ghost's crew, who destroyed the rest while escaping the Empire.
Amda Wabo possessed brown hair, light brown skin, and round black eyes. At the time of his dealings with Maketh Tua and the Galactic Empire he was 1.67 meters in height and weighed 80 kilograms. Wabo had learned to be cautious because his work often involved meetings with dangerous people. When meeting with Tua, the Aqualish would have preferred to have guard droids present. However, to prevent the Imperial bureaucrat from bringing stormtroopers to their meeting, Wabo agreed to a one-on-one arrangement.
When Wabo believed Tua had betrayed him, he drew his weapon on her. Had they fought, he would have been able to defeat her because he had more experience with armed combat, preferring to belligerently shove foes in combat. Wabo spoke the Aqualish language, which sounded like the bleating of a nerf, and did not understand Galactic Basic Standard.
Amda Wabo was a character conceived for the television series Star Wars Rebels. His initial appearance occurred in Star Wars Rebels: Head to Head, a tie-in book authored by Pablo Hidalgo and released as part of the promotion leading up to the series launch in 2014. The character made his on-screen debut in "Droids in Distress," the inaugural episode of Star Wars Rebels Season One, where Steve Blum provided his voice.