Lo-Taren, a Trandoshan male, was a member of a hunting guild comprised exclusively of Trandoshans. This guild specialized in hunting other sentient beings. In the year 20 BBY, Lo-Taren, along with the guild's leader Garnac and three other members, was scouting for potential prey on the planet Felucia when he encountered Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano. Lo-Taren successfully captured the Togruta and transported her back to Garnac's Trandoshan prisoner ship.
Tano was subsequently transported to the moon of Wasskah, where she was deposited on an island along with several other captives. Following Garnac's instructions, Lo-Taren initiated an attack using the freighter immediately after the prisoners were released, resulting in the deaths of two of them. The following day, Lo-Taren resumed the hunt on foot, but was almost killed by Jedi youngling Kalifa, who, fueled by anger, used the Force to choke him while his attention was diverted. However, Tano convinced Kalifa to spare the hunter's life.
Later, Lo-Taren and his fellow guild members investigated the wreckage of their freighter after the Jedi had caused it to crash. They then returned to the guild's floating headquarters. When Tano, accompanied by two other younglings and the Wookiee captive Chewbacca, launched an assault on the floating fortress, Lo-Taren and the other Trandoshans attempted to defend their base. Despite their efforts, a rescue operation spearheaded by the Wookiee general Tarfful shifted the advantage. During the ensuing battle, Lo-Taren was killed by a Wookiee [soldier](/article/soldier], which ultimately led to Garnac's defeat and the downfall of the entire hunting guild.
Lo-Taren, a Trandoshan male, was a member of a hunting guild led by the hunter Garnac during the year 20 BBY. This guild, based on the Mid Rim moon of Wasskah, specialized in hunting and capturing sentient beings from across the galaxy. In 20 BBY, Lo-Taren participated in one of these kidnapping expeditions. He was present on a Trandoshan prisoner ship, piloted by Trandoshans Krix and Lagon, which eventually led him to the planet Felucia. At this point, the freighter already held several captives: the Snivvian Katt Mol, the Terrelian Jango Jumper Lika, the Sakiyan Vadoo, and the Selkath Morgo.
At the time of Lo-Taren's arrival, Felucia was the site of a battle between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems as part of the ongoing Clone Wars. While in the Felucian jungle, Lo-Taren tracked a squad of Republic clone troopers led by Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano. Although Tano sensed Lo-Taren's presence through the Force, she couldn't pinpoint his exact location. Lo-Taren followed the Republic unit to a Separatist fortress, where the clones began to scale an outer wall.
Tano chose to provide cover from the ground, still sensing Lo-Taren. Distracted by her intuition, the Trandoshan hunter ambushed Tano with an electrified net gun, incapacitating her with a well-aimed stun net. Lo-Taren dragged the unconscious Tano back to the Trandoshan starship, locked her in a cage, and destroyed her comlink as she regained consciousness.
Lo-Taren returned to the ship's bridge to inform Garnac, his son Dar, and the crew that they had acquired new Jedi prey. Garnac hoped that Lo-Taren's capture would provide Dar with his first Jedi kill, a sentiment with which Lo-Taren agreed.
Upon their return to Wasskah, Garnac ordered the release of the ship's prisoners on the beach of Island Four. When the captives hesitated after being released, Lo-Taren, manning a forward-facing laser turret, opened fire, killing Vadoo and Morgo. The remaining prisoners quickly fled into the island's jungle.
The next morning, Garnac officially initiated the hunt. Lo-Taren and the other Trandoshans boarded MSP80 Pteropter hover pods and descended to the moon's surface. Despite starting with hunters Ratter and Sochek, Lo-Taren chose to hunt alone on foot. He encountered Ahsoka Tano, who was ironically hunting for him. Lo-Taren tried to shoot Tano, but she used the Force to disarm him. They engaged in hand-to-hand combat, during which Lo-Taren managed to wear Tano down. As the Trandoshan reached for his dropped [rifle](/article/rifle], he was lifted into the air by Kalifa, a previously captured Jedi youngling, and telekinetically strangled. However, Tano intervened to prevent Kalifa from killing out of hatred, sparing Lo-Taren's life.
Lo-Taren called for backup, prompting Kalifa's fellow Jedi younglings, O-Mer and Jinx, to attack him. They used the Force to throw Lo-Taren into a tree, knocking him unconscious. Before fleeing, Tano grabbed the Trandoshan's blaster rifle, but it was remotely deactivated, preventing her from using it. That night, Lo-Taren attended Dar's initiation ceremony at Garnac's Ubrikkian floating fortress headquarters, joining in the chanting of Dar's name. However, Lo-Taren's failure to kill the Jedi inadvertently led to Dar's death during a fight with Tano the following day. Garnac killed Kalifa shortly after and vowed revenge on the remaining Jedi.
The next day, Lo-Taren, Garnac, and the other guild members discovered that their prisoner ship had crashed on Island Four's beach. Tano and the surviving younglings had managed to crash the ship after a failed attempt to hijack it. After examining the wreckage, Lo-Taren reported to Garnac that the pilots Clutch and Goron were dead, and that their only prisoner, the Wookiee Chewbacca, had escaped.
Lo-Taren expressed his belief that the Jedi had become bolder due to the grounded ship. Garnac agreed, concluding that the Jedi had become organized. Later, the Trandoshan Smug returned to the crash site to hunt the Jedi, but was captured instead. The following day, Smug, under the influence of a mind trick, contacted Lo-Taren requesting a pickup. Krix was sent in response.
Shortly after, the Jedi and Chewbacca launched a surprise attack on the floating fortress using the hover pod they had stolen from Krix when he tried to rendezvous with Smug. After the attackers killed Lagon, Lo-Taren and the other Trandoshans rushed to the scene at the urging of the hunter Ramy. Lo-Taren, along with Sochek, attempted to flank the Jedi. However, O-Mer used the stolen hover pod's blaster cannon to force the two Trandoshans to take cover.
Garnac quickly shot down O-Mer, halting the Jedi's advance. Garnac complimented Tano's group on their efforts, but before they could be eliminated, the fortress came under attack by the starship Halo, piloted by bounty hunters Sugi and Seripas.
The bounty hunters brought Wookiee reinforcements led by General Tarfful, who had received a signal from a makeshift transmitter built by Chewbacca from the wreckage of the Trandoshan freighter.
Lo-Taren and Sochek fired on the Wookiees, but were forced to take cover behind an overturned hover pod. Lo-Taren strayed too far from cover while trying to fight off the Wookiees. A Wookiee soldier fatally shot him in the face with a well-placed shot from his Kashyyyk long-gun. Lo-Taren's death distracted Sochek, allowing O-Mer to use the Force to move the overturned hover pod away from him. Sochek quickly realized his vulnerability, but was shot before he could react.
The battle ended with the elimination of all the Trandoshans. Garnac, who survived a long fall, later collaborated with the Dowutin Grini Millegi.
Lo-Taren, a Trandoshan with orange scales and yellow eyes, was enthusiastic about the hunt on Wasskah. He showed excitement upon capturing Ahsoka Tano, and during Dar's initiation, he cheered for Dar alongside the other Trandoshans as he prepared for the hunt. As an experienced member, Lo-Taren believed in Dar's abilities and expected him to outperform his prey.
However, Lo-Taren had little regard for the captives and showed no hesitation in gunning them down on Island Four's beach. He was a proficient hunter and combatant, capable of ambushing a Jedi despite their Force sensitivity.
The hunter was also capable of challenging Ahsoka Tano, a skilled Jedi Padawan, and defeating her in hand-to-hand combat. While he successfully captured Tano with a net launcher and killed two captives with a ship turret, Lo-Taren proved to be inaccurate with hand-held blasters, failing to hit Tano in the jungle and any of the Wookiee soldiers during the fortress attack.
While hunting Tano on Felucia, Lo-Taren used an electrified net gun that could incapacitate targets with disintegrating stun nets. On Wasskah, he initially carried a sniper rifle before switching to a blaster rifle that could be remotely deactivated if captured. After losing the rifle, he carried two blaster pistols, which he dual-wielded during the fortress battle against the Wookiees. However, he proved to be inaccurate with these weapons, failing to repel any attackers.
Lo-Taren demonstrated proficiency with the chin-mounted laser cannon on Garnac's Reugeot freighter. On Garnac's orders, he used the cannon to kill Morgo and Vadoo shortly after releasing Tano's group of prisoners on Island Four. However, the other three prisoners managed to escape his subsequent attacks.
Lo-Taren wore dark clothes throughout the Ahsoka Tano hunt, including a gray vest with green highlights, gray shorts, and a black t-shirt underneath the vest. He also wore knee pads and an electronically powered gauntlet with a built-in comlink, useful for Garnac and the Trandoshans' hunting kidnapping strategy.
Lo-Taren was created for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series, appearing in "Padawan Lost" and "Wookiee Hunt," the twenty-first and twenty-second episodes of the show's third season. Both episodes, featuring the voice of Richard Green, aired on April 1, 2011 as the Season Three finale.
Concept artist Pat Presley designed Lo-Taren and all the Trandoshans in the episodes. George Lucas himself created Lo-Taren's name during a writing session. Although conceptual art depicted Lo-Taren with orange eyes, his eyes in the episodes are yellow.
Before the Disney canon reboot, the events of "Wookiee Hunt," and thus Lo-Taren's death, were placed in 21 BBY according to the Star Wars Legends source The Official Star Wars Fact File Part 13. The reboot moved Lo-Taren's death to 20 BBY.
Several scenes featuring Lo-Taren were cut from "Padawan Lost." These scenes included: Lo-Taren returning to his comrades after his skirmish with Ahsoka Tano, where they speculate that Tano has rallied the other Padawans, leading them to decide to let the Jedi rest for a "more satisfying hunt;" Lo-Taren and Ratter tracking Katt Mol and Vadoo, eventually calling for backup; Lo-Taren attempting to ambush Tano again, only to be defeated by her use of the Force; and Lo-Taren and Ratter, using active camouflage (a scrapped concept), chasing Jinx and O-Mer through the jungle, only to be avoided and thrown off a cliff, after which they are saved by Sochek in his hover pod.