Mand Kerin is a starpilot in Colonel Ledok and the Mission to Qalabar who later turns out to be a bounty hunter attempting to get the bounty on Colonel Ledok's head. Kerin was chartered by Ledok in 3 BBY and was promised the payment of 900,000 credits to aid the colonel in his peace mission to a last couple of worlds. Kerin, who was secretly a bounty hunter, decided to wait until Ledok's last mission to bring the colonel in after the two formed somewhat of a friendship. But mostly his reasons were waiting were because Ledok had promised to pay him when they reached the final stop at the planet Qalabar.