Bode Akuna was a Force-sensitive human male who once served as a Jedi Knight and was assigned to Republic Intelligence by the Jedi High Council under the command of Lank Denvik during the Clone Wars. He undertook several undercover missions throughout the war until Order 66 was issued, leading Bode to abandon his Jedi teachings and disappear.[2]
At one point during the Imperial Era, he married and started a family with a woman named Tayala, whom he settled down with on the planet Birren, and together had a daughter they named Kata Akuna. However, he later lost his wife to the Inquisitorius and managed to escape with his daughter, becoming a mercenary and freelance gunslinger. After being on the run for so long, Akuna reluctantly cut a deal with ex-colleague Lank Denvik—now a chief supervisor within the Imperial Security Bureau—who questioned the Inquisitorius' capabilities. Akuna offered to work for Denvik as an Imperial Agent in exchange for protection for himself and Kata from the Inquisitorius. Seeing it as a chance to discredit the Inquisitorius, Denvik accepted Akuna’s offer and provided private quarters for him and his daughter at the ISB listening post he commanded in the Nova Garon system. Despite his effectiveness as an covert operative, Bode disliked working for the Empire and only saw it as a means to his own survival.[2]
During the Stinger Mantis crew's crusade against the Empire, Akuna was tasked with finding and allying himself with the rebel Jedi Cal Kestis and his crew in an effort to locate his second Jedi Master, Cere Junda. Needing to pose as a mercenary gunslinger with no love for the Empire, Akuna managed to keep his Force sensitivity hidden from Kestis. Despite this duplicity, Akuna came to consider Kestis his best friend as the two fought several battles together side by side. When Kestis discovered the existence of the hidden planet Tanalorr, Akuna saw it as the perfect opportunity to leave the Empire and disappear with Kata. Having successfully earned Kestis’s trust, Akuna accepted Cal's offer to officially join the Stinger Mantis's crew in search of Tanalorr and for a time abandoned his previous mission. Despite having found new allies as a part of the Mantis crew, Akuna continued to maintain his cover and convinced Kestis into pursuing a romantic relationship with the Nightsister Merrin as way to manipulate the young Jedi's emotions. Bode continued to fight by Kestis's side up until the climactic lightsaber duel with the Dark Jedi Dagan Gera on the Koboh Observatory's Observation Deck where the two ultimately defeated Gera. Despite having everything they need to safely reach Tanalorr, Cal's proposition to share the location of Tanalorr with the Hidden Path worried Bode as it would reduce the planet's secrecy and would potentially make it possible for the Empire to discover the world as well. Although he was initially willing to travel to Tanalorr together with Cal, Merrin and Greez, Bode ultimately decided to go there alone with Kata after failing to convince Kestis to reconsider his decision of sharing the hidden world's location with Hidden Path and initiated his backup plan.[2]
Feeling he would eventually come into conflict with Kestis, Bode opted to stay behind following Dagan's defeat and secretly took possession of the fallen Jedi's lightsaber as Akuna had presumably lost or abandoned his own lightsaber prior to becoming an Imperial Agent. After returning to Jedha with the rest of the crew to celebrate their victory with Cere, Bode reluctantly betrayed them and by anonymously tipping off the Inquistorious to the location of the Path safehouse. Despite being offered a chance to reconsider by Jedi Master Eno Cordova, Bode instead murdered Cordova before stealing the Abyss compass during the subsequent attack where he eventually revealed his Force sensitivity to Kestis before defeating him in a lightsaber duel before escaping. He then lured Kestis to Denvik's headquarters, so that the Jedi would take out the base and inadvertently destroy any trace of Akuna's survival. Fleeing to Tanalorr with his daughter, the gunslinger was pursued by Kestis and the crew of the Stinger Mantis. Despite being offered mercy by Kestis, Akuna continued to fight him and his crew, culminating in Kestis gunning him down at the end of their duel on Tanalorr.[2]
