Ephant Mon
A Chevin at Jabba the Hutt's palace who was known for his mercenary skills. He specialized in gun running, and would sell his wares to just about anyone. He'd worked with Jabba before, running weapons on one of Glakka's moons. One of Jabba's men had turned them into the Imperial authorities and Mon and Jabba were forced to fight their way out. They were able to escape, but had to brave chill weather during the night. Jabba wrapped his then-thinner body around Mon, keeping him warm until the night passed and they could get off world. Since then, Ephant Mon had remained loyal to Jabba for saving his life. Ephant had many offers of employment from Lady Valarian while on Tatooine, but he kept strongly to his loyalties to Jabba. When Luke Skywalker entered Jabba's palace, Ephant Mon was drawn to the young Jedi. Luke appealed to Mon to warn Jabba about his imminent demise, and Mon discovered that he had been following something similar to the Force his entire life. He pleaded with Jabba. But to no avail. Jabba then accused Mon of plotting against him, and spurned the Chevin. Jabba left for the Pit of Carkoon without Mon at his side. The novelization of Return of the Jedi has Ephant Mon in a battle with Ree-Yees aboard Jabba's Sail Barge while Jabba was taking Luke and Han to the Great Pit of Carkoon. Ephant Mon was getting beaten very badly, much to Jabba's pleasure. It is believed that Ephant Mon was killed aboard Jabba's sail barge when it exploded. Mon, upon hearing of Jabba's death, returned to Vinsoth to contemplate the Force and run a few profitable scams on the side.
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EV-9D9
This thin, bullet-headed Merendata Supervisor droid was programmed as a female. It had a number of strange programming quirks and manufacturing problems that led to EV-9D9's eventual control of her own systems. One such manufacturing flaw was the addition of a third optic sensor. Later, she rewired herself to become more self-sufficient and more intelligent. As these changes continued, she grew to wonder what it would be like to have feelings, like an organic. She continued to rewire herself, in search of the perfect program to allow her the sensation of feelings. She then set out to wreak havoc across the galaxy, stopping at one time on Cloud City. There, Lando Calrissian employed her as chief of security, a position that Lando had not filled due to the tight staffing problem he had just keeping the station operative. She was discovered by Sarl Random, and sabotaged many of the station's systems and destroyed nearly a quarter of its droids before stealing a Mining Guild cutter and escaping. She fled, and years later she turned up on Tatooine, in Jabba the Hutt's service as the Chief of Cyborg Operations for Jabba. She built herself a workroom under the palace, a place where she continually tortured droids in an effort to feeling their pain and anguish. There, she discovered that she had feelings of paranoia stemming from her actions throughout the galaxy. These feelings were heightened when C-3PO and R2-D2 came to the palace and almost willingly accepted their fate. Her fears were realised when 12-4C-41 found her in her personal workshop. The 12-series droid had tracked her from Cloud City, seeking to "balance the equation" of destruction she had caused. She resigned herself to her fate, and prepared to relish the feelings and sensations brought on by death. However, 12-4C-41 deprived her of it by removing her third optic sensor and her pain simulator. He then released all of her captives, and they dismembered her until she was no longer functional.
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Gartogg
One of the Gamorreans serving Jabba the Hutt just prior to the crimelord's death, Gartogg was dim-witted even for a Gamorrean. Many deaths went unnoticed by Gartogg, who was easily fooled into believing that the dead bodies were, in fact, asleep. Ree-Yees led Gartogg to believe that the deaths of Ak-Buz and Phlegmin were part of a grand plot by Ephant Mon, and nearly missed the true nature of the real plots brewing in the crimelord's palace. He stumbled into Dannik Jerriko, and discovered that Jerriko was an Anzat. Gartogg tried to tell Ortugg that Jerriko was behind the strange deaths, but Ortugg believed that Gartogg was just being thick headed, as usual. Unfortunately, Gartogg was right: Jerriko was trying to consume Han Solo's soup, and was building up a plot to get him close to Solo.
Gartogg carried the bodies of Phlegmin and a B'omarr monk around as evidence, until the bodies were putrified and partially mummified by the harsh Tatooine environment. Following the death of Jabba, Gartogg was often seen wandering around Mos Eisley with his two "friends" in tow.
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Jabba The Hutt
One of the galaxy's most infamous crimelords, Jabba was a slug-like Hutt. Zorba the Hutt on the planet Nal Hutta sired him, about 600 years before he set up shop on Tatooine. Like most Hutts, Jabba had a huge, bloated body, which must be moved on repulsorlift devices. This made Jabba appear immobile and defenseless, but he was also highly resourceful and cunning. During his early years as a thief and smuggler, Jabba worked with Ephant Mon, and once saved Ephant's life during an Imperial raid. At the height of the New Order, Jabba had become the Outer Rim's most notorious crime lord, controlling most of the smuggling, spice shipments, loan sharking, and murders in that territory. He was a major player in the illegal movement of glitterstim spice, and was constantly in powerplays with Moruth Doole over command of the market. Jabba had a working relationship with Han Solo, which centered on the delivery of smuggled spice from Kessel. When Han had to dump a shipment and escape from the Imperials, he could not repay Jabba, and so Jabba placed a death mark on Solo's head. Jabba employed his own set of bounty hunters to find Solo, thus keeping some of the reward money in-house. When Boba Fett returned Solo to Jabba, in a block of frozen carbonite, Jabba was ecstatic, and had the frozen Solo hung as a wall decoration. This capture of Solo led to a reprisal from Solo's new-found friends on the Alliance, and Jabba was killed when he tried to have Solo and Luke Skywalker put to death in the belly of the Sarlacc which resided in the Great Pit of Carkoon. Luke used the Force and a little luck to rescue Han, while Princess Leia strangled Jabba with the chain he kept linked around her neck. Following Jabba's demise, no one could find his will, and his palace was left empty. It was overrun with Ranats, until Zorba the Hutt returned to take ownership of it and Jabba's other possessions.
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J'Quille
A male Whiphid who was part of Jabba the Hutt's retinue on Tatooine, just prior to the crimelord's death. He was one of Valarian's former lovers, and the two of them staged a falling out to gain Jabba's attention. Jabba, in turn, employed him in order to gall Valarian. Valarian and J'Quille had arranged their break-up, and J'Quille became a spy. She had J'Quille arrange to meet Malakili and the Rancor, in order to steal them out from under Jabba's nose. J'Quille was also responsible for bribing Phlegmin to lace Jabba's paddy toads with a slow-acting poison. In his rooms, J'Quille kept a strand of poisoned Mastmot teeth as a decoration, hoping someday to use them against Jabba. He never got the chance, because Jabba was killed at the Pit of Carkoon. When he fled Tatooine and tried to return to Toola, he found that Valarian had put a price on his head for "rejecting" her. J'Quille returned to Jabba's palace and became a B'omarr acolyte, claiming that having his brain removed to a nutrient jar was the only way to escape Tatooine's heat.
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Malakili
This tremendous human was a professional monster trainer for the Circus Horrificus. His ability to handle and train unusual alien creatures was renowned throughout the galaxy. He had spent seven seasons as the head trainer, which was a record. When Bib Fortuna and Bidlo Kwerve came into posession of a rancor for Jabba the Hutt, they purchased Malakili from the Circus Horrificus to tend the beast. His otherwise muscular body, developed from years of hard work training the galaxy's most
Dangerous beasts, was hidden beneath a huge paunch grown from the good eating he enjoyed at the Circus. In the oppressice heat of Tatooine, he dressed only in a loincloth and a black head drape. He became a good friend with Jabba's cook, Porcellus. When he learned that Jabba was going to pit the Rancor against a krayt dragon, he appealed to the Lady Valarian for assistance. She agreed to help him, just to spite Jabba. However, Luke Skywalker killed the rancor before any of their plans could materialise. Malakili was heartbroken, but he quickly came to his senses when he heard Jabba had been killed at the Pit of Carkoon. He and Porcellus fled the castle, and eventually opened the Crystal Moon restaurant in Mos Eisley.
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Mal Hyb
This human was a member of Barada's repulsorpool crew. She was one of his most competent workers, especially skilled with a welding torch.
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Mara Jade
Before signing on with Talon Kaarde as a crewmember of the Wild Kaarde, Mara Jade was employed by Emperor Palpatine as the Emperor's Hand. She took on a number of surveillance missions, often posing as one of the Emperor's dalliances in order to escape notice. As a member of Palpatine's closest followers, she gained a good deal of experience in the use of The Force. The Emperor heightened her latent Force-sensitivity, and it allowed her to contact him across vast distances via Force energy. These abilities disappeared almost completely when the Emperor was killed. One of the last missions the Emperor assigned her to was the killing of Luke Skywalker. The Emperor claimed to have foreseen her involvement in Luke's death, and sent her to Tatooine following Vader's failure to capture Luke at Cloud City. She infiltrated Jabba's palace as a dancing girl, but was not allowed onto Jabba's sailbarge when it left to sacrifice Luke and Han to the Sarlacc. This unfortunate setback allowed her to continue in her efforts to kill Luke, but the death of the Emperor at Endor robbed her of her Force abilities and her main source of impetus.
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Max Rebo
The Ortolan keyboard player in Evar Orbus's band, Max became the de facto leader of the band following Orbus' death. When Naroon Cuthas found the remaining trio in Mos Eisley, Max agreed to play for Jabba the Hutt. When Jabba offered the band all the food they could eat as payment for employment, Max immediately said yes. When Jabba was killed at the Pit of Carkoon, the trio jumped off his sail barge before it exploded, and fled into the desert. Max and Sy Snootles teamed up to play for Lady Valarian, and Droopy disappeared into the desert. When Sy decided to go solo, Max joined up with the Alliance, claiming that they had better food than the Empire. He served as a cook in many outposts before retiring and starting a line of popular restaurants on eight planets.
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Melvosh Bloor
A Kalkal academic, Bloor was a professor of Investigative Politico-Sociology at Beshka University. He came up with the idea of writing an investigative paper on Jabba the Hutt, and petitioned the university for funding. P'tan interrupted, however, and claimed that he should go instead of Bloor, since Bloor was an untenured junior professor. The board agreed with P'tan, and Bloor was forced to remain at the university. When P'tan failed to return on time, the university sent Bloor to Jabba's palace on Tatooine to determine whether or not P'tan was still alive, and to continue the study of Jabba and his crime ring. However, Bloor was waylaid in the tunnels by Salacious Crumb. Crumb brought Bloor before Jabba, in an attempt to humor the Hutt. However, Bloor was a pure academic, not a comedian, and the only joke he knew was one that Jabba had already heard. The Hutt fed Bloor to his pet Rancor.
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Nat Secura
A Twi'lek descendant of a great Twi'lek house, Secura was controlled by Bib Fortuna, just before Jabba the Hutt's death. When Jabba came to Ryloth to obtain Twi'leki slaves, he had burned buildings in Nat's city in order to force the Twi'leks out of them and into capture nets. Nat had been severly burned in the fires; his lekku had been completely burned off. Fortuna had discovered Nat while looting his house, and had "rescued" him. The Twi'leki survivors never forgot Nat's bravery, and Fortuna had planned to use Nat as his figurehead and as a rallying point. However, Jabba had grown tired of Nat's presence, and was planning on feeding him to the Rancor. Fortuna intervened, again "rescuing" Nat, only to have Nat's brain surgically removed by the B'omarr monks and placed in a nutrient jar. Nat's mind railed against the loss of his body, but he eventually came to accept his place. Jabba then threw Nat's body - which had been kept alive by the monks' skillful surgery - to the rancor, seemingly ending Nat's life. Fortuna had planned to find a Twi'lek clone body for Nat's brain, a body that was not scarred and deformed like his original one. He told Nat this, and Nat decided that he wanted Han Solo's body. Fortuna thought that this would be a fitting revenge against Solo, and kept the plan in his mind. However, the death of
Jabba and the monks' revenge against Fortuna left both of them disembodied.
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