Khalu was a male Kyuzo member of the South Sector Sinners criminal gang on the planet Burnin Konn. While the human thief Riley was a member of the Sinners for one or two months, she encountered Khalu. During the Iron Blockade, the Galactic Empire's attempt to prevent the Anoat sector's populace from learning of the crushing Imperial defeat at the hands of the Alliance to Restore the Republic in the Battle of Endor, Riley asked her sibling, a young smuggler, to kill Khalu while they were in the South Sector Sinners' territory to recover the cargo of the Trade Spine League starship Cruel Mistress after it was shot down by the Empire. When the smuggler discovered the missing cargo, which had been stolen by the Sinners, they were attacked by Khalu, though Riley's sibling killed the Kyuzo and s