Solomahal Solomahal , a male Lutrillian , was a general in the Grand Army of the Republic and a veteran of the Clone Wars and other conflicts . Famous for liberating the Wode and defeating the Sun Guard ' s 2nd Regiment , Solomahal had become a general by the time of the Clone Wars , during which he commanded a secret Galactic Republic base on Azure . In 20 BBY , Jedi Obi - Wan Kenobi , Anakin Skywalker and Siri Tachi transported a unique codebreaker to Azure , but were followed by Separatist forces ; Solomahal refused to surrender in the ensuing battle and was eventually captured by the Separatists . The Lutrillian prevented the codebreaker from falling into CIS hands , destroying it , and was able to escape custody and return to the line of duty . After the close of the war and the establishment of the New Order , Solomahal became a fugitive , wanted by the Empire . The Lutrillian went into hiding , becoming a scout - for - hire operating out of the planet Tatooine ; he often helped sentients escape from the Empire in Greater Javin . Solomahal was a regular in Chalmun ' s Cantina , and it was here where he met Tzizvvt , a secretive Brizzit treasure hunter . The two became fast friends and embarked on many adventures together . Biography . General Solomahal . A Lutrillian male , Solomahal joined Galactic Republic military forces some time before the Clone Wars , serving with distinction . He became a hero after coordinating the defeat of the Sun Guard ' s 2nd Regiment , a special forces group native to the planet Thyrsus , and for liberating the Wode . When the Clone Wars broke out and the Grand Army of the Republic was formed , Solomahal became a general and was given command of a secret Republic base on the planet Azure , which was of little consequence to either side in the war , and which the Republic hoped would go unnoticed . The base was quite undermanned , and every being Solomahal had under his command was constantly at work , with little respite . Two years and five months after the First Battle of Geonosis , a trio of Jedi — Obi - Wan Kenobi , Anakin Skywalker and Siri Tachi — and Senator Padmé Amidala acquired a foolproof codebreaker developed by technological expert Talesan Fry , which they hoped would help in the war effort against the Confederacy of Independent Systems . They took the object to Solomahal ' s base on Azure ; excited by the prospect of earning more fame , he was barely able to hide his enthusiasm to the Jedi and told them of his hopes for Azure to become an important part of the turning point in the war . The Jedi , particularly Skywalker , disapproved of such optimistic talk . The Jedi stayed on the planet while attempts were made to contact the Republic and the Jedi Council , but Amidala departed ; as Solomahal had no pilots to spare , she was forced to pilot her ship herself . Just moments later , however , Solomahal learned of an impending Separatist attack on Azure ; CIS forces had placed a tracking device in the codebreaker and were preparing to launch an attack on Azure ' s main spaceport . Solomahal alerted Coruscant ; any ships that were available would be sent , though the Lutrillian knew they would be far too late . He mustered what few ships he had on Azure ' s surface , which were bolstered by the Jedi , who flew starfighters . Anakin Skywalker , a confident and occasionally brash young Jedi , advised Solomahal to split his forces into two groups ; one , led by Skywalker himself , to act as a diversion while another waited on the surface . Although initially surprised that a commander would be giving orders to a general , Solomahal did not care that the idea was not his and implemented it . Skywalker led an attack on the Separatist fleet , allowing Solomahal ' s ground - based artillery to fire on the lead CIS ship . The Separatists responded by preying on civilian ships , but using the codebreaker , Solomahal was able to anticipate the enemy ' s attacks and counter them when possible . Despite this , however , the general ' s forces were taking considerable losses , and Kenobi urged him to give the codebreaker to his best pilot and transport it offworld so it could not reach Separatist hands . The Lutrillian refused ; he knew the codebreaker was all that was keeping them from being slaughtered , and he did not wish to lose his base . When the Jedi persisted in their attempts to persuade Solomahal to send the codebreaker away , he cut them off and refused to continue communicating with them . However , with Republic forces still over an hour away , the battle was lost and Solomahal ' s forces were overrun ; finally taking the Jedi ' s advice , he attempted to escape with the codebreaker and transport it to a Republic - aligned world , but was captured in the process . Rather than hand over the unique technology , he destroyed it ; the Separatists placed the Lutrillian in captivity , but he escaped just days later . He was given another post and continued to serve until the war ' s end in 19 BBY , by which point he had won many battles and become a hero . Solomahal the spacer . When the Republic was dissolved and reformed as the first Galactic Empire in 19 BBY , Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader made sweeping changes to the military personnel of the former Grand Army of the Republic and established Human High Culture . As such , Solomahal became an outlaw , wanted by the Empire : his roles in the Clone Wars and other conflicts were stricken from the Imperial archives , his Republic pension was frozen , and his assets were seized . The Lutrillian veteran evaded all attempts at his arrest and became one of the Empire ' s Most Wanted ; many suspected that he harbored sensitive information that the Empire wished to be suppressed . Additionally , scores of influential Core Worlds families sent bounty hunters after Solomahal , for reasons he kept a closely guarded secret . He fled to the Outer Rim Territories and kept his former life a secret , though many remembered him as a hero of times past . Basing his operations out of Mos Eisley on the backwater world of Tatooine , Solomahal became a scout - for - hire , agreeing to transport beings — mostly those being persecuted by the Empire — to safe areas , for a price . Business was good , and before long he had amassed enough credits to purchase his own ship , the YV - 888 freighter " QuadStar " . He often worked in Greater Javin , where his species ' homeworld , Lutrillia , was located . Solomahal became well known in spacer and mercenary circles , and over time he became the foremost scout of the area , with an intricate knowledge of worlds ideal for hiding away from Imperials . He generally spent his free time alone , in cantinas such as Chalmun ' s and other taverns on the planet Gerrenthum . Solomahal claimed to have a foolproof method of entering the administrative headquarters of the Figg family , the widely hated rulers of Gerrenthum . During the Galactic Civil War , Solomahal was hired by Covah , a Nothoiin criminal wanted by the Empire , to deliver him to a safe world in Greater Javin . At some point , Solomahal drank with a Brizzit named Tzizvvt in Chalmun ' s Cantina in Mos Eisley ; Tzizvvt was derided by the cantina ' s other denizens because of his stories of long - lost treasures , but Solomahal decided to humor him and arranged a meeting . Tzizvvt claimed to be a xenoarchaeology professor native to Jandoon and told Solomahal of his quest to locate a relic known as " The Eye of the Beyonder , " which he insisted held a map that would locate hordes of hidden treasures throughout the Jandoon system ; to acquire it , however , he needed a ship and a crew . Afraid of being identified , the Lutrillian ended his meeting with Tzizvvt and left the cantina , telling the Brizzit he would meet with him again in several days . Solomahal was dubious of Tzizvvt and began to investigate the Brizzit ' s claims ; he called in a favor from Garindan , a Kubaz spy and information broker , who used a pirated HoloNet station to determine that Tzizvvt was wanted by the Empire for stealing relics on Roon and Biitu . Intrigued , Solomahal decided that the Brizzit most certainly was " not " a xenoarchaeology professor , but kept to his word for the meeting anyway . Several months after the Battle of Yavin , Solomahal was in Chalmun ' s Cantina , when the Empire announced that they were imposing a curfew on the entire Tatoo system ; the old Lutrillian was one of the first to leave , but not before Ackmena the barmaid sang one last song for the night . Solomahal eventually did meet with Tzizvvt in the Brizzit ' s underground den in one of Mos Eisley ' s sewers , when he showed Solomahal several old relics and jewels he had captured in his time ; Solomahal still took the Brizzit ' s outlandish claims with a grain of salt , but he knew that Tzizvvt was sincere about his hunt for " The Eye of the Beyonder . " Even though Tzizvvt could not pay him upfront , Solomahal agreed to take him to the Jandoon system in his ship , in exchange for a cut of the profit , and the two left Tatooine and began a quest for fortune and glory . Personality and traits . Solomahal was an eager combatant , and he constantly hoped to prove himself and earn more fame . He was a practical commander who knew how to coax the best out of his soldiers , and he was not above using ideas and plans he did not formulate himself . Solomahal was extremely stubborn ; he hated to surrender and would ignore the urgings of others to do so . During the Battle of Azure Spaceport , he kept up the fight and refused to send the codebreaker away , knowing that to do so would mean that the battle would inevitably result in failure . In his later years , Solomahal became very secretive ; he had to be to ensure he was not discovered . Despite this , he was not adverse to reveling in the awe experienced by other beings when they heard the stories from his illustrious past . Confident , capable , and wise , he was regarded by many as a sort of father figure , with a quick draw and a steady piloting hand . As the Lutrillian had outlived most of his former comrades - in - arms , he was an aloof figure , usually alone and often unpredictable . Behind the scenes . Solomahal was originally intended to be one of two Lutrillians created as background characters for the cantina scene in 1977 ' s . The character was designed by John Mollo , and his mask was sculpted by Stuart Freeborn for shooting in England . The only distinction between the two costumes was an ascot worn by one of the extras . The production team for " A New Hope " referred to at least one of these Lutrillians as the Colonel , and at least one as the Hare Mouse . One or both of these characters was intended to be named Ownellco . However , in Star Wars Insider 130 ' s " Rogues Gallery : The Usual Suspects : Who ' s Who in Mos Eisley " , published in December 2011 , it was retcon ned that both of the Lutrillians seen in " A New Hope " were in fact Ownellco and Atheloe . One of the Lutrillian masks was later used in the cantina scenes in " The Star Wars Holiday Special " , marking Solomahal ' s first appearance . The character went unused and unreferenced until 1997 , when the " Star Wars " Customizable Card Game established that he was " Solomahal , a veteran officer of the Old Republic . " Since then , Solomahal has appeared in Jude Watson ' s Prequel era novel " Secrets of the Jedi " and in two Wizards of the Coast roleplaying game supplements : " " and " Rough and Tundra " . He is also the subject of a card in the " Premiere " set of the Jedi Knights Trading Card Game ; the image used for the card resembles Ownellco , the thinner Lutrillian from " A New Hope " , although he does wear a scarf like Atheloe , the fatter member of the species . " Star Wars " fan Tim Veekhoven used Solomahal in his successful What ' s The Story ? submission for the character of Tzizvvt . The original entry established that Solomahal had visited the planet Illna during the Clone Wars , but this did not make the final , canon ical cut . Veekhoven also established Solomahal ' s relationship with Tzizvvt , which he based on the earlier cut of the cantina footage , which depicts Ownellco sitting by the insectoid Brizzit .