JABBA THE HUTT
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One of the galaxy's top criminal underlords, Jabba the Hutt has been in
charge of a major criminal empire since he was about 600 years old. He
moved to Tatooine and established himself at a palace built around the
ancient monastery of B'ommar monks. Its centerpiece is a huge throne room
where Jabba constantly entertains and holds court from his high dais at one
end of the room.
Jabba's criminal empire knows no bounds. It includes smuggling, glitterstim
spice dealing, slave trading, assassination, loan sharking, protection and
piracy. One smuggler on his payroll is the Corellian Han Solo and his
Wookiee first mate Chewbacca. But after Solo has to jettison a spice load to
avoid Imperial entanglements, Jabba orders him brought in. It takes a few
years, but bounty hunter Boba Fett eventually delivers Solo entombed in
carbonite. Solo's friends come to rescue him, and Luke Skywalker directly
confronts the Hutt, who drops him into a pit to be eaten by Jabba's pet rancor.
When Skywalker instead kills the rancor, an enraged Jabba orders all the
Rebels to be taken to the desert and fed to the Sarlacc monster. But Jabba
pays the supreme price for underestimating Skywalker, Princess Leia Organa
and their friends.
