Gor-kooda was an enforcer for the Sullustan crime lord Surat Nuat on the planet Akiva; he was a Herglic. After Temmin Wexley, a junk dealer, pilfered a shipment from Nuat, Gor-kooda went with his boss to Wexley's shop to find the stolen goods. Instead, they encountered the bounty hunter Jas Emari. Realizing she intended to kill one of their Imperial allies, they captured her. Gor-kooda and Nuat brought their prisoner back to Nuat's bar, the Alcazar, where they were confronted by Sinjir Rath Velus, a former Imperial. When Velus tried to convince them to release Emari, they took him captive as well.
Subsequently, Gor-kooda went back to Wexley's shop to attempt to recover the stolen shipment. After an hour of searching, he discovered Wexley himself, who had fallen from a nearby roof while watching the enforcer search his shop. The Herglic brought Wexley to Nuat, who had the enforcer stay while he interrogated the junk dealer in his Alcazar office. When the crime lord decided to torture the thief, Gor-kooda was ordered to drag Wexley to the cistern where Nuat would inflict pain. However, Velus and Emari, who had escaped from the dungeons of Alcazar and wanted to rescue Wexley, attacked the Herglic en route. Initially, Velus was ineffective in fighting the large thug, but Emair managed to defeat the Herglic by punching him in the nose, allowing the trio to escape.
Following the Battle of Endor, Gor-kooda, a Herglic, worked for Surat Nuat, a Sullustan crime lord, as an enforcer on the planet Akiva. Not long before the Rebellion on Akiva, he accompanied Nuat and five other thugs to the shop of Temmin Wexley, a local junk dealer who had recently stolen from Nuat. They didn't find Wexley there, but they did discover the bounty hunter Jas Emari sleeping on a bench in the back. Nuat woke Emari, recognized her, and asked why she was in the shop and on Akiva. After figuring out that she was on the planet to eliminate an Imperial target for the New Republic, he had one of his men stun her as she tried to escape. Gor-kooda then hoisted her over his shoulder and carried her out of the shop, taking her back to Nuat's bar the Alcazar. Upon entering the bar, Gor-kooda, Nuat, and the other thugs were approached by [Sinjir Rath Velus](/article/sinjir_rath_velus], a former Imperial, who recognized Emari from a previous encounter and wanted to save her. He first offered to buy her from Nuat, but when he learned that the crime lord intended to give her to the Empire, he pretended to be an Imperial sent to collect her. Because Nuat hadn't yet told the Empire about Emari's capture, he realized the man was an imposter and ordered his thugs to kill him. Velus tried to run away from the thugs across the bar, but the bartender knocked him unconscious, and he was captured.
After Sinjir and Emari were locked up in Nuat's cells, Gor-kooda returned with several other thugs to Wexley's shop to search for Nuat's stolen goods. The Herglic and the Abednedo Toomata Wree spent an hour tossing junk from the shop into the street, while some of their colleagues tried to drill through the shop's basement into a secret sub-layer where Wexley kept his most valuable items. Wexley himself, who had come back to try to secure his goods, spent the hour watching them from a nearby rooftop using binocs. As the junk dealer tried to figure out a plan to get back into his shop, he was attacked by a pair of Kowakian monkey-lizards who wanted to steal the binocs he was using. The creatures succeeded in stealing their prize, and in the struggle for it, Wexley fell from the roof, drawing Gor-kooda's attention. Before the junk dealer could get up, the Herglic hooked his ax into the boys nose and tugged his head up to face him. After realizing who he had found, Gor-kooda called to the other thugs, and the group brought Wexley back to Nuat as a prisoner.
Nuat had Gor-kooda bring Wexley to his office in the Alcazar, where he interrogated the junk dealer with the Herglic present. At first, Nuat stood with his boot on Wexley's back as the boy lay prone, but then the crime lord had Gor-kooda lift the prisoner to his feet so he could strangle him. After he released Wexley's throat, Gor-kooda kicked him to the floor again as Nuat continued to speak, explaining how he had killed his own family and then revealing that he intended to torture Wexley. When Nuat decided to take his tongue, the prisoner tried to escape, but Gor-kooda quickly kicked him to the floor again, after which Nuat ordered the Herglic to take Wexley to the cistern where the torture would take place.
As Gor-kooda dragged the boy through the Alcazar's corridors, he was suddenly confronted by Velus, who had managed to escape from Alcazar's dungeons with Emari. In an attempt to rescue Wexley, the former Imperial kicked the Herglic in the knee, but it had little effect, only causing the thug to laugh. Gor-kooda then dropped Wexley and grabbed Velus, who slipped out of his grip and unsuccessfully tried to strangle his opponent despite the Herglic's lack of a neck. Gor-kooda then slammed him into a nearby wall two times, after which Emari emerged and hit Gor-kooda hard in the snout, causing the thug great pain. Letting go of Velus, he flailed around blindly with his eyes closed in pain, giving his three opponents a chance to escape. As the trio tried to escape the bar, Nuat and his thugs gave chase, with Gor-kooda leading the charge out the building's door after recovering. However, the criminals were too late, as Wexley and his new allies managed to escape with the aid of his mother Norra Wexley on a bala-bala speeder. Nuat's thugs later fought alongside the Imperials against the New Republic in the Rebellion of Akiva, but ultimately lost, forcing Nuat to flee the planet.
Gor-kooda was a massive, menacing Herglic with shiny, slick black skin and numerous rows of tiny, serrated teeth inside a huge mouth within a huge head. He had enormous, meaty hands, large enough to twist a speeder bike into knots. He didn't have a neck or chin, making it hard to strangle him, and he was barely affected by a kick to the knee from a fully-grown human. However, his nose was his weakness; when hit, he would be incapacitated, spewing a saline-snot-like substance from his nasal perforations and howling in pain with his eyes closed. While in Wexley's shop with Nuat, his blow-hole puffed out and hissed gouts of breath and spit. He smiled a sinister grin upon catching Wexley, and the sound of his teeth grinding together sounded like a rasp on wood. During his fight with Velus, the Herglic was initially confused by the former Imperial's appearance but laughed when the former Imperial tried to hurt him and quickly retaliated.
Gor-kooda's first appearance was in the novel Aftermath, penned by Chuck Wendig and published in 2015.