Lak Sivrak / Legends Lak Sivrak , sometimes known only as Sivrak , was a Shistavanen male scout who sometimes worked for the Uvena System Constabulary . Sivrak obtained fame working for the Galactic Empire , unaware of the tyranny of his employers . Sivrak then found a hidden settlement of members of the Alliance to Restore the Republic and , lacking political convictions , decided to help them . He discovered their status as fugitives and swore not to report them . However , the Empire found the settlement nonetheless and discovered that Sivrak had not reported it . Sivrak became a fugitive of the Empire , and was forced to hide from the stormtroopers in Mos Eisley . Sivrak visited the local Chalmun ' s Spaceport Cantina and there he met Dice Ibegon , a Force - sensitive Florn Lamproid that convinced him to join the Alliance with her . Ibegon and Sivrak became lovers and fought the Empire together . While the Shistavanen had initially followed her only to court her , Sivrak became a proud Rebel warrior , fierce opponent of the Empire and member of Alliance Intelligence . Ibegon died during the Battle of Hoth , and a heartbroken Sivrak kept on fighting , honoring her last wish . Sivrak was a starfighter pilot during the Battle of Endor . His starship was damaged beyond repair and his death could be imminent . It was then that Dice Ibegon contacted him again , using the Force to give him a last chance : He could rewrite history , turning his back to the Alliance when he had first met Ibegon in the cantina , knowing that he would have to suffer and die otherwise . Sivrak chose to stay with his beloved , and joined her as a Force ghost after his heroic death at Endor . Biography . The scout . Lak Sivrak was a male of the Shistavanen sentient species , born in one of the planets in the Shistavanen - controlled Uvena system . He had a brother , Tagg Sivrak . At some point , Lak Sivrak heard about the sentient species known as Florn Lamproids , discovering that they were the only intelligent beings in a planet full of threats . Lak Sivrak became an expert scout and tracker , like many other Shistavanens from Uvena . Sivrak was employed by the Galactic Empire to chart several dangerous territories in the galaxy . Sivrak proved to be an enterprising , profitable professional and one of the best scouts in the Empire . This Imperial world scout obtained notoriety among his peers . At some time before 8 BBY , the Uvena System Constabulary approached Sivrak and asked for his help in the search for the missing Shistavanen Alpha Premier Korta Sac . Sivrak worked in this task along with another Shistavanen scout , Yurdak Fav . Sivrak and Fav found a murdered Sac at the Jenet embassy , and from that point on they were relieved of this task . Sivrak then spent a time with Fav and other scouts and concluded that Fav was essentially a good being . After this , Sivrak returned to his home warren . Sivrak spent a lot of time scouting the galaxy , having little to no contact with the civilization . He was unaware of the tyranny of his employers , or of the fact that an organized anti - Imperial Alliance to Restore the Republic even existed . Sivrak believed that all politicians were bureaucrats of similar morality , and he was content simply by not dealing directly with them . While he was probing the space , he accidentally discovered a secret settlement on a rocky moon . It was a safe world affiliated with the Alliance , populated by families of Imperial fugitives and refugees from planets that the Empire had razed , including Dalron Five and Alderaan . Sivrak believed they were survivors of a crash or mere settlers , and he offered to help them preparing for the winter . The Rebels were suspicious , but Sivrak convinced them of his good intentions and helped them . During dinner and bonfire meetings , the Rebels told Sivrak about the tyranny and atrocities of the Empire , and about the pride the Rebels felt . Eventually , Sivrak decided to leave the colony , and swore his new friends that he would not betray their secret home . Truth to his word , Sivrak traveled to a different sector and quickly wrote down a report for the Empire , explictly saying that the rocky moon was lifeless . The Empire nonetheless hired a second scout to charter places that Sivrak might have missed . This person found the Rebel colony and reported it to the Imperial Navy . The colony was evacuated , thanks to a warning by Rebel spies , but the Empire captured several prisoners and questioned them with thorough methods One tortured Rebel revealed that Sivrak had visited the colony several months before this event . The Empire began looking for Sivrak , under charges of hiding the presence of a Rebel safe world in a system he had discovered . They started by freezing Sivrak ' s accounts , and then they sent stormtroopers after Sivrak . Sivrak ' s first notification of the Empire disliking him was when he had to blast these stormtroopers . However , he was still unaware of the reasons why the Empire had betrayed him . The fugitive . Suddenly deciding that he was aghast at the horrors the Imperial soldiers performed , Sivrak deserted . Dropping his first name to change his identity , he intended to hide at a different point of the galaxy . The Imperial forces chased him , prompting him to reach the planet Tatooine , and he eventually escaped to the local spaceport , Mos Eisley , soon before the Battle of Yavin . Low on money , Sivrak considered helping the Alliance in exchange for money , but he did not know how he could contact them . Sivrak noticed that the Empire had a presence in Mos Eisley , particularly in the form of stormtroopers . He also discovered that many locals were information brokers who would sell him to the Empire should they discover his identity . As such , the newcomer Sivrak chose to speak with very few people , to the chagrin of these information brokers . This led many to conjeture about the mysterious individual known only as Sivrak , and nicknamed " the wolfman " . The locals correctly assumed that Sivrak came from the Uvena system , and the notched blaster rifle slung over his back suggested them that he was a scout . However , they erroneously believed that Sivrak was only trying to start his career when the Empire began to exact punishment for unauthorized exploration and restrictions scouting of the Outer Rim Territories , causing the wolfman to be unemployed . Lak Sivrak , with boots heavy due to dust and sweating due to the heat of the twin suns , decided to enter a local business where he had never been before , Chalmun ' s Spaceport Cantina . He wiped his paw agains this mouth while his eyes adjusted to the change of lighting . Sivrak sat down to drink alone , but he expected to make some business . In fact , the Gotal official Feltipern Trevagg was also at the cantina , looking for an amateur assassin to kill his assistant Balu . Trevagg believed that Sivrak was fierce and big enough to do the job , unlike other candidates such as weakling Greedo or excesively dangerous Dannik Jerriko . However , Trevagg did not approach Sivrak at this point because the Gotal was busy courting M ' iiyoom Onith . A running Jawa scuttled past Sivrak . The Shistavanen then looked behind the bar and saw the snake - like female Dice Ibegon , a mysterious Florn Lamproid . Sivrak perceived Ibegon ' s sex through her pheromones , she then turned to him and seductively offered to buy him a drink , using the Shistavanen . Feeling a rise in temperature at meeting her , Sivrak partially undressed and sat next to her . Ibegon shared a drop of her bantha - blood with Sivrak , putting it in his muzzle with her tail . Sivrak used all of his social skills to impress her with romantic words in an attempt to seduce her . When she expressed sympathies for the Alliance , Sivrak expressed support for this view just to be with her . Soon , they were embracing , but they interrupted the act when perceiving a nearby fight between the Aqualish thug Ponda Baba and a lightsaber - welding old man . Sivrak thought that local Imperial authorities would soon be at the cantina to investigate and , not wanting to be spotted by those , decided to leave . Ibegon went with him . Meanwhile , Trevagg was considering to hire Greedo as his minion , but Greedo was killed by Han Solo only minutes after Sivrak ' s leaving . Seeing that , Trevagg looked for Sivrak , and was disappointed when he couldn ' t find the Shistavanen . Ibegon and Sivrak talked about the Alliance that night and many times during the following nights . Sivrak ' s desire to help the Alliance became stronger . Ibegon quickly felt in passionate love with Sivrak , noticing that his ideas were like hers . Ibegon and Sivrak returned to Chalmun ' s cantina later , becoming usual customers . The barman , Wuher , was used to serve Sivrak a mug of crushed Gilden , with its organ tendrils still writhing to attest their freshness . Sivrak met the Abyssin Myo several times during his time in Mos Eisley , more commonly at the cantina . The Shistavanen decided that Myo was quite a friendly being . After the Battle of Yavin , Rebel historian Voren Na ' al made a research on Sivrak and , after a careful analysis through the Alliance data banks , discovered Sivrak ' s past help to the Alliance . Na ' al considered Sivrak to be a good potential recruit who was only scared because of his past relation to the Empire — even if he was short of money . Na ' al suggested sending recruiters that Sivrak could bind with , including other scouts and kids akin to those living on the rocky moon colony . The Rebel . Lak Sivrak helped several agents of the Alliance while on Mos Eisley without joining the Alliance himself . Eventually , around 1 ABY , a group of Rebels recruited him and Ibegon for the Alliance armed forces . During his first few months in the Alliance , Sivrak provided important information on Imperial scouting procedures , served in several battles and became a lieutenant . He also joined the Task Force on Alliance Security , an Alliance Intelligence group that compiled information on important threats for the Alliance . In this task , he provided addenda to the report on Yurdak Fav , who was disrupting Alliance activities , and on Myo , who had joined the Alliance - opposing Galactic Outdoor Survival School . Sivrak believed that both of them were not really evil and that they should be captured , questioned , and maybe even recruited . While he had initiallly been reluctant to join the Alliance , in time he became proud of his service as a warrior , and made Ibegon his female companion . He talked with other Rebels and became familiar with stories about Imperial biogenetist s taking Rebel corpses to clone parts and keep them alive for research or entertainment . The Alliance also gave him a medkit adapted to the biology of his species . The Empire was still looking for Sivrak , knowing that Sivrak had become a Rebel scout . A squad of stormtroopers tried to capture a different Shistavanen , Riv Shiel , believing him to be Sivrak . Shiel had to kill the stormtroopers , earning his own death mark . Sivrak , by then considered a Rebel grunt , and Ibegon had been assigned to Echo Base , on the frozen planet Hoth , by 2 ABY . They fought in the Battle of Hoth , where Sivrak was a pilot . During the attack , Sivrak felt hope when the Rebel 1 . 4 FD P - Tower antivehicle artillery blasted an All Terrain Armored Transport , and then hopelessness when the AT - AT armor absorbed the shot . Eventually leaving his vehicle , Sivrak ran through the trenches during the battle , tracking Ibegon through scent . He found her bleeding , fatally wounded , on the snow . Ignoring direct orders , Sivrak fell next to her , wanting to die with her . With her last words , Ibegon asked Sivrak to keep on fighting Empire and to believe in the power of the Force . Sivrak agreed to do it because she had asked him , but Ibegon told him that it was his only option . She blessed Sivrak , eager to stay with him forever , and then died . A Human Rebel prompted Sivrak to the evacuation point , but the grieving Sivrak snarled at him and , once the Human had gone , Sivrak gave Ibegon a funeral pyre with his blaster to prevent Imperial scientists from defiling her corpse . He also said her the words " May the Force be with you " . The sacrifice . By 4 ABY , Lak Sivrak was an X - Wing pilot under Admiral Ackbar of the Alliance . He joined the Rebel fleet for an attack against the second Death Star during the Battle of Endor . He , like many other Rebels , was briefed about the Bothan spies having confirmed that the Death Star was unfinished , but during the battle this information proved to be false . Sivrak believed that the battle had been lost because of this , and he started dodging enemy starships before even evasive maneuvers were ordered . He noticed the Imperial fleet approaching sector 47 , but the Imperial capital ships were static , as if they assumed Imperial starfighters were enough to deal with the Rebel attackers . The Rebel command ordered the starfighters to protect the fleet even if it cost them their lives . Sivrak believed that his life meant little without Ibegon , and as such he did not fear his own death . He sent his X - Wing in a collision course with three enemy TIE fighters , which prevented him from helping a medical frigate under attack . The TIEs confronted Sivrak , who roared against them crying the name of his beloved . Sivrak destroyed one of the TIEs , but his X - Wing was fatally damaged by them , and then he had a vision : Sivrak felt he was entering Chalmun ' s cantina for the very first time , reliving the moment where he first met Ibegon ; however , the Shistavanen did had flashforwards of future events . He tried to question Ibegon about that , accusing her of using the Force while at the same time denying its existence . Sivrak ' s senses returned to the Battle of Endor , but the confused Shistavanen first tried to look for Ibegon in his canopy . Assuming that he had had a hallucination , Sivrak felt his X - Wing falling to the Forest Moon of Endor , even after all of his efforts . Through his communicator , he discovered that General Han Solo ' s commando team had failed to destroy the Imperial bunker with the force - field generator protecting the Death Star . Sivrak considered his two alternatives : He could either direct the ship to a crash - land in the forests , where he could survive and became again a hunter and a tracker , no longer chased by the Empire , or alternatively ram the Imperial bunker in a suicide attack that could succeed where Solo had failed , should he could avoid the land defenses . In his briefing , Sivrak had been told that such an idea had a one - in - one - millino probabilities of success . Sivrak ' s meditaitons were interrupted by the two surviving TIE fighters , that attacked him . The Shistavanen veered his ship and dropped all the available mines and decoys , then turned to face any surviving enemy . He confirmed that one of the TIEs had been destroyed , then had vivid memories of Ibegon ' s death on Hoth , and then saw the last TIE fighter blindedly shooting at him . This surprised Sivrak , but he could avoid the attack and bring it down . Then , he felt the local atmosphere bringing the vehicle to the point of no return . During these last seconds , Sivrak had a vision of a desert Chalmun ' s cantina where Ibegon reported Jabba the Hutt ' s death . The Shistavanen noticed that Ibegon had died before Jabba did , and this changed the scenario to their first meeting once again . Sivrak understood that , using the power of the Force , Ibegon was giving her lover an alternative , a way out : Sivrak could leave the cantina alone , instead of going with Ibegon , and then he would be spared from a life of sacrifice for the Alliance , and from the loss of a lover . This was a choice that Ibegon made because she loved Sivrak . Sivrak , who also loved Ibegon , chose to embrace the Florn Lamproid once again , knowing how it would end . Deciding that sometimes choice is an illusion , Sivrak sent his ship to ram the shield generator . Only too late he discovered that General Solo had already destroyed it , but he could no longer change course . Sivrak ' s starship collided on the moon ' s surface . Legacy . The survivors of the Battle of Endor held a victory party along with the local species , the Ewoks . During it , a ghost - like , semi - transparent , bright Force spirit of Lak Sivrak met Dice Ibegon ' s . They joined , paw in tail , and walked to meet three other friends that were waiting for them . Ibegon and Sivrak were together again , their spirits shining in the Force . Lak Sivrak was listed as dead during the Battle of Endor , having crashed on the moon after destroying several TIE fighters . Personality and traits . Lak Sivrak was a furry , 1 . 82 - meter Shistavanen . Like others of his species , he had sensitive but powerful fangs and a rough - rasped tonge hidden in a canine muzzle . His nostrils flared when detecting a particular scent , specially fresh blood or smoke , and he had a full - throated voice that he could use to shout a battle cry or to snarl . His bright , red eyes perceived a greater wavelenght than a Human ' s — but less than a Lamproid ' s — and needed time to adjust to a change of lighting . He also had upright ears that could recognize the voice of several species even if filtered through an intercom , or the music of the Modal Nodes . His hands ended in manipulative paws and , while he sometimes used boots , his feet were strong enough to not require those . Sivrak was known to howl at challenges and to face death — specially if he could perceive it as a hunter ' s death — with primal rage that were common to Shistavanen Wolfpeople . Behavior - wise , Sivrak was a typical Shistavanen male : Not aggressive , but ferocious , and clearly ferocious - looking by other species . Although his trust was hard to obtain , Sivrak was known to be very loyal . As a Rebel soldier , he ignored direct orders to stay with his dying female companion , and he was not beyond snarling at a fellow to scare him away . Ambicious and hard - working , Sivrak was an excellent scout , tracker and warrior , with important skills that he honed during his time in the Alliance . He had specialized knowledge about planetary systems , alien species and survival , and was a qualified navigator and pilot . His weapons of choice were the blaster pistol , the blaster rifle and the vibroblade , and he commonly carried survival gear with him . During his time as an Imperial scout , Sivrak used the idiom " moving forward " when he felt the need to change location . Sivrak was not a firm believer in the power of the Force , even after he had promised Ibegon to believe . When he first had a vision during the Battle of Endor , he dismissed it as a hallucination . However , before the end of the Battle , he had became a believer . Relationships . Dice Ibegon . Lak Sivrak ' s relationship with Dice Ibegon began as a hormonal release : He was first impressed by the female pheromones she exhuded , and then admired the twists of her muscular coils . Being familiar with Florn Lamproids by that point , Sivrak knew that Ibegon ' s snake - like body was very strong , able to constrict the skull of a Bantha until it crushed . Sivrak also liked Ibegon ' s light sensor and her mouth full of needle - like teeth . This eventually became true love . After her death , Sivrak was unable to forget her . His life had no longer a meaning and he became a suicide fighter , shouting Ibegon ' s name as his battle cry . Behind the scenes . Sivrak first appeared as an unnamed extra in the movie . Makeup artist Rick Baker decided to use off - the - shelf masks to perform some reshoots of the booths in the cantina scenes . He used two different furry wolfman masks . The first one to appear onscreen would be identified as " Wolfman " during the shooting , and later as Arleil Schous , a Defel . The other mask was called " Hyena - Man " during the production . In 1989 , the Expanded Universe gave " Hyena - Man " a more detailed identity as Lak Sivrak , the Shistavanen Wolfman . Lak Sivrak , the Shistavanen Wolfman , was not mentioned in the , beyond a widely generic mention to " creatures with fur " in the cantina . In 1997 , Sivrak was digitally replaced for the Special Edition of " A New Hope . " A detailed puppet later known as Ketwol would be seen in his place , leaving Lak ' s canoncity disputed . In 1998 , the first action figure of Sivrak was released , for the fourth yearly update of the series " . " Sivrak appears in the non - canon comic " The Emperor ' s Court . " In this comic , Sivrak is a drooling person with dark gray fur , instead of the brown fur he had in the movie ; and Dice Ibegon whispers for him . He is one of the witnesses to testify on the murder of Greedo , but Han Solo objects saying that " that wolf - guy wasn ' t even there . " This comic deals with the changes made for the Special Edition of " A New Hope , " including the scene of Greedo ' s death and the disappearance of Sivrak — but even then , pre - Special Edition stories in " Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina " specified that Sivrak left the cantina before Greedo ' s death . " The Essential Guide to Characters " says that Dice Ibegon was a Rebel agent when she first met Sivrak , and then says that Sivrak and Ibegon joined the Alliance together . The role - playing guide " The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook " ( 1993 ) includes a text on Sivrak very similar , but not exact , to Sivrak ' s description in " " ( 1989 ) . Both books provide role - playing stats for Sivrak , representing him at different moments of his life : The stats in " The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook " are higher , because Sivrak ' s skills have improved with his age . However , in an uncommon situation , Sivrak had lost his knowledge of Medicine at some point after joining the Alliance . The book " The Star Wars Rules Companion " shows an image of Lak Sivrak without giving any new information . Roleplaying guides " Ultimate Alien Anthology " and " The Unknown Regions " list Sivrak ' s name as one of the example names for Shistavanens .