Shodon Ko was a male bureaucrat in the service of the Navigators' Guild. He operated on the planet of Koros Major during the era of 5000 BBY. His duties included the authorization of the perilous Goluud Corridor hyperspace route. Subsequently, he met his death at the hands of Ssk Kahorr, a Cha'a merchant lord, after Kahorr's drone ship, Zeta Five, was lost within the treacherous Corridor.
Employed by the Navigators' Guild, which was associated with the Galactic Republic, Shodon Ko was a male bureaucrat stationed on the planet of Koros Major. In the year 5000 BBY, he sanctioned the use of the Goluud Corridor, a hazardous yet shorter hyperspace route that had been discovered by the explorers Gav and Jori Daragon. Because this newly-charted course passed dangerously close to the volatile red supergiant known as Primus Goluud, Ko classified the Goluud Corridor as high-risk, which deterred many of the Guild's clients from utilizing it. Nevertheless, Ssk Kahorr, a Cha'a merchant lord, decided to take the risk and dispatched his drone ship, the Zeta Five, through the Goluud Corridor.
After this decision, Ko then informed Gav Daragon that the Guild would give him a sizable monetary incentive. However, Zeta Five was obliterated, along with its entire cargo, when solar flares erupted from Primus Goluud. Enraged by the destruction of his ship, Kahorr resolved to kill those who had been involved in both mapping and approving the risky route. Kahorr then murdered and devoured Ko, finding him old and tough, before setting out to kill the Daragons. The remains of Ko were soon discovered, in a scene described as "nasty" by Kahorr's thugs.
The character of Shodon Ko was initially referenced in the first issue of Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith, a comic-book series. This particular issue was authored by Kevin J. Anderson and released by Dark Horse Comics on October 9, 1996.