Wyle Ulbreck Wyle Ulbreck was a Human male who resided on the desert planet Tatooine in the years surrounding the fall of the Galactic Republic . During a sixty year career as a moisture farmer , Ulbreck became very wealthy and , by the time of the Galactic Empire , operated a large ranch north of the Jundland Wastes where he lived with his wife , Magda . More than twice the size of any other nearby moisture farm , Ulbreck ' s farm was staffed by numerous farmhands and guarded by private security personnel . Confident in his own security , Ulbrek was one of the few settlers in the region not to join the Settlers ' Call , a group led by the moisture farmer Orrin Gault which provided mutual defense for its members against the frequent attacks by the native Tusken Raiders . By 19 BBY , Gault was heavily in debt and began attacking his neighbors disguised as a Tusken Raider in the hopes of convincing them to join the Settlers ' Call so that he could use the membership fees to pay off his debts . Ulbreck was among those targeted , but was able to escape the attack after the intervention of the self - exiled Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi . Although Gault attempted to frame the Jedi for the attacks , Kenobi was able to reveal the truth to Ulbreck and the other settlers . Biography . Moisture farmer . Wyle Ulbreck was born around 94 BBY , during the last decades of the Galactic Republic . Sometime around 79 BBY , the young Human became a moisture farmer on the desert planet Tatooine in the Arkanis sector of the Outer Rim Territories , using moisture vaporators to extract water vapor from the barren planet ' s atmosphere . During a sixty year career , Ulbreck saw it rain four times , only twice more than he claimed to have encountered a krayt dragon , a carnivorous reptile native to Tatooine . Ulbreck spent most of his early career working alone , but in later years was able to hire farmhands and increasingly delegate work . By 19 BBY , Ulbreck employed a small army of farmhands to work on the ranch he owned near the Pika Oasis , north of the rocky region known as the Jundland Wastes . Ulbreck ' s ranch was vast , more than twice the size of that of his largest competitor in the region , Orrin Gault . At the center of the ranch was Ulbreck ' s home , a cluster of bubble - like buildings larger than many of the other homes in the desert . Ulbreck shared his home with his wife , Magda , but the pair had no children . One of the wealthiest farmers in that region , Ulbreck was well known for his frugal nature and famously kept most of his fortune in aurodium - plated ingots buried beneath his home ' s septic system . Due to his distrust of others , Ulbreck rarely visited the towns of Anchorhead and Mos Eisley . For over twenty years prior to 19 BBY , he was , however , a regular customer at Dannar ' s Claim , a store and bar located at the Pika Oasis which was run by Annileen Calwell following the death of her husband , Dannar , in an attack by the indigenous Tusken Raiders in 27 BBY . The threat of the Tuskens led Orrin Gault to form the Settlers ' Call , a fund into which many settlers in the region paid and which was used to provide weapons and vehicles for their mutual defense . Gault tried on several occasions to convince Ulbreck to subscribe to the Setters ' Call Fund , but Ulbreck preferred to employ his own security personnel , operating out of barracks east of his house . Anchorhead incident . At the conclusion of the Clone Wars in 19 BBY , the Galactic Republic was restructured into the Galactic Empire under the rule of Emperor Palpatine . The Republic ' s long - time guardians , the Jedi Order , were accused of treason and virtually wiped out by Imperial forces , assisted by the former Jedi Anakin Skywalker , who had fallen to the dark side of the Force and become the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader . Shortly after the rise of the Empire , Ulbreck visited Anchorhead to meet with a vaporator parts supplier . Having had a big fight with Magda that morning , Ulbreck was not eager to return home , so stopped at the Junix ' s Joint cantina and ended up falling asleep at the bar after several hours and half a dozen lum ales . When he finally awoke and stood up to leave , Ulbreck lost his balance and fell , but was caught and helped back to his stool by a man in a brown cloak . Unbeknownst to Ulbreck , his helper was the Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi , one of the few surviving Jedi , who had come to Tatooine to deliver Skywalker ' s infant son Luke safely out of reach of his father to his uncle and aunt , Owen and Beru Lars . While Kenobi was asking Ulbreck and the Duros bartender for directions , a fight broke out in the cantina between a Wookiee customer , a group of Rodian henchmen to the local crime lord , Jabba the Hutt , and a group of youths , comprising Orrin Gault ' s children , Mullen and Veeka , Annileen Calwell ' s son , Jabe , and Gault ' s farmhand Zedd Grobbo . Ulbreck took cover , but Kenobi went to join the fray , leaving Skywalker with the bartender ' s wife , Yoona , until a nearby blaster shot caused her to panic and hand the baby over to Ulbreck as she ran to join her husband . Ulbreck watched as the Wookiee easily picked up Jabe Calwell and threw him towards a wall , only for Kenobi to use the Force to redirect the young Human safely behind the bar . Kenobi used Calwell ' s blaster to shoot the light overhead , leaving the bar illuminated only by the blue glow of Kenobi ' s lightsaber . By the time Kenobi collected Skywalker from Ulbreck moments later , the Rodians were dead and the shootout was over . Unable to explain Calwell ' s survival , the strange blue light or the fate of the Rodians , Ulbreck attributed what he had seen to alcohol and gave up drinking . A few days later , he was traveling to Dannar ' s Claim in his dilapidated ST - 101 repulsortruck when the engine overheated , leaving him stuck in the desert . Concerned that somebody would steal his vehicle if he left it alone , Ulbreck contacted Gloamer , the mechanic at Dannar ' s Claim , for assistance . It soon arrived in the form of Orrin Gault , who had offered to take some coolant to Ulbreck . After Gault finished refilling the coolant in the ST - 101 , he attempted once more to sign Ulbreck up for the Settlers ' Call Fund , citing a Tusken Raider attack on the Bezzard family ' s farm a few days earlier , which had been stopped by the arrival of armed Settlers ' Call members . Ulbreck , however , was quick to point out that they had arrived too late to save Tyla Bezzard ' s father , Lotho Pelhane , and insisted that he had faith in his own security . Tusken attacks . One week later , most Pika Oasis residents traveled to Mos Espa for the annual Comet Run Podrace , leaving Ulbreck as one of only a handful of customers at Dannar ' s Claim . Among the other customers was Obi - Wan Kenobi , who had settled in the area after leaving Skywalker with his aunt and uncle . Ulbreck almost recognized Kenobi from the Anchorhead incident , but quickly dismissed it and thereafter paid the other no mind . Kenobi eventually went outside with Annileen Calwell , leaving a sleeping Ulbreck and the Rodian Bohmer alone . Ulbreck woke to the sight of Tusken Raiders entering the store . Bohmer was caught by the attackers and seriously wounded , but Ulbreck wedged himself behind the store ' s weapons counter , and used the weapons there to keep the Tuskens at bay . The settlers soon started to return and helped Calwell and Kenobi fight more Tuskens outside , but Ulbreck was in danger of being overwhelmed in the store . Help came when Kenobi entered , setting off a fire extinguisher and using the resulting haze of chemical retardant as a cover while he attacked the Tuskens with his lightsaber . When the haze cleared , over a dozen Tuskens lay dead . As Calwell activated the Settlers ' Call and more settlers arrived , the surviving Tusken Raiders fled . Kenobi claimed that Ulbreck had been the one to kill the attackers while he provided a distraction ; Ulbreck ' s recollection was unclear , but he was quick to take the credit and began telling the story to anybody who would listen . Orrin Gault organized a retaliatory strike on the fleeing raiders , which resulted in the deaths of 48 Tuskens . Ulbreck , however , did not accompany them and was adamant that the incident proved the ineffectiveness of the Settlers ' Call . Several days later , Ulbreck was once more in Dannar ' s Claim when he received a call informing him that Tusken Raiders had attacked one of his landspeeders , chasing away a security team and stealing both the landspeeder and the new vaporator it carried . As he headed home through Gault ' s land , Ulbreck encountered Gault and his children . Gault tried again to convince Ulbreck to join the Settlers ' Call , suggesting that the Tusken Raiders had turned their attention to Ulbreck ' s land since the massacre the other day had driven them further away from the Pika Oasis . Ulbreck , however , was still unconvinced and once more declined . In response to the Tusken attack , he assigned more sentries to patrol vehicles . The following evening , Ulbreck was smoking a cigarra on his porch when four Tusken Raiders approached the ranch . The Tuskens quickly incapacitated Langer , a relative of Magda ' s who was on duty as night watch , and fired on Ulbreck , leaving him pinned down and unable to reach his rifle . Ulbreck shouted a warning to his wife inside the house , but the attackers kicked in the side door and threw a smoke grenade inside . Magda stumbled outside and was grabbed by one of the attackers . When Ulbreck attempted to reach his wife , one of the Tuskens struck him with the butt of a blaster rifle , breaking his nose and sending him crashing to the deck . The attackers dragged Magda in front of Ulbreck and the leader approached her with a knife . At that moment , Kenobi jumped down from the roof , knocking the knife from the lead Tusken ' s hands . As the others released Magda to fight the new arrival , she and Ulbreck reached the nearby garage and fled in Ulbreck ' s repulsortruck . By the time Ulbreck ' s security staff secured the ranch , both Kenobi and the Tusken Raiders had gone . However , a scout saw the Tusken Raider Plug - eye , who had led the attack on Dannar ' s Claim days earlier , leaving the area and Ulbreck assumed that she was also behind the attack on his ranch . Early the next morning , Ulbreck went to see Gault and declared his intention to join the Settlers ' Call Fund . Gault quickly gathered the settlers and Ulbreck ' s security personnel at Dannar ' s Claim . Ulbreck ' s memory was unclear on what role Kenobi had played , but he was able to confirm that the newcomer had been present during the attack and Gault seized on this to denounce Kenobi as a traitor who had directed the Tusken Raiders to Ulbreck ' s , knowing that it was not protected by the Settlers ' Call . Showdown with Kenobi . The posse set out to catch Kenobi at his home on the outskirts of the Jundland Wastes . Spotting him leaving on a speeder bike , they followed as Kenobi took shelter in the Roiya Rift , a rocky labyrinth where the local Tusken Raiders were known to hide . The settlers waited outside the rift to prevent Kenobi ' s escape , but before they could deploy smoke charges to flush him out , a stampede of banthas emerged from the Rift and charged toward them . Ulbreck and the others took cover as the banthas charged straight into their vehicles , overturning several . Moments later , a speeder bike emerged from the rift . Thinking Kenobi was attempting to escape , the vigilantes opened fire , but when the speeder bike crashed , they discovered that what had appeared to be the driver was only a duffel stuffed with Tusken clothing . As the settlers gathered around the downed speeder bike , they heard Kenobi ' s voice , projected by the Force , reveal that he had found the clothing at Gault ' s ranch . Gault , he explained , had been using the Settlers ' Call Fund to pay off his debts to the bank s and Jabba the Hutt ; when membership had started to decrease , Gault and his children had taken to attacking his neighbors , disguised as Tuskens , in an effort to scare them into joining the Fund . Ulbreck was angry to learn that Gault had been behind the attack on his ranch . He and the other settlers confronted the Gaults , but were interrupted by the arrival of a skiff carrying the Nimbanel Mosep Binneed and several of Jabba the Hutt ' s minions , intent on recovering the money Gault owed to the Hutt crime lord . When Annileen Calwell also arrived moments later , she confirmed what Kenobi had told the settlers and revealed that she had told Binneed where to find Gault . Veeka Gault angrily grabbed Calwell ' s arm , prompting Ulbreck and the other settlers to turn their weapons on the Gaults . Bineed insisted that Gault be turned over to him , but Ulbreck refused to be bullied and fired on Binneed ' s skiff , killing the Klatooinian gunner Jorrk . The other settlers followed Ulbreck ' s lead and a firefight broke out between the settlers and the criminals . The Gaults used the distraction to flee into the rift , taking Calwell with them . Their escape was short - lived , however , as Kenobi and the Tuskens had formed a truce to stop the Gaults . Outside the rift , the brief fight ended with Binneed deciding to cut his losses and ordering a withdrawal . As the settlers celebrated their victory , an injured Veeka Gault fled the Rift , followed shortly by Calwell . Ulbreck was relieved to see that Calwell was unhurt , but disappointed to learn that he would not get to confront Orrin and Mullen Gault , neither of whom had survived . Personality and traits . Having worked hard from a young age , Wyle Ulbreck became a successful moisture farmer , owning a ranch significantly larger than any other in the region . His success made him wealthy , but Ulbreck was notoriously frugal , spending as little as possible and burying the majority of his fortune beneath his home ' s septic system . Ulbreck was not fond of other beings , even those who worked for him , who he believed would steal from him if he left them alone for too long . His attitude was often reciprocated by others and even his own staff did not like to spend time with him . He was particularly distrustful of city dwellers and droids , who he refused to do business with in the belief that they were programmed to steal for their Jawa masters . In addition to Jawas , he had a low opinion of the Sand People , who he did not consider capable of logical thought . Although he cared for his wife , Ulbreck and Magda frequently argued . Ulbreck would seek peace from his wife by spending most days at Dannar ' s Claim , although Annileen Calwell suspected that this was to Magda ' s benefit as much as Ulbreck ' s . At night , Ulbreck would seek refuge outside his home , allowing him to smoke cigarra s , despite being forbidden by both his wife and his doctor . As well as cigarras , Ulbreck was partial to alcohol , although he quit drinking after witnessing Obi - Wan Kenobi defeat some of Jabba the Hutt ' s minions in Anchorhead , believing that he had imagined the whole thing as a result of intoxication . Ulbreck prided himself on knowing his way around Tatooine , although there were few places on the planet he liked . His long life on the planet had left him with numerous stories and theories which he liked to share with others whenever he got the chance . As Dannar ' s Claim ' s best customer , he spent twenty years regaling Annileen Calwell and her regular customers with the same stories , ranging from the four times he had seen it rain on the desert planet to his encounters with krayt dragons . One visitor described Ulbreck ' s tales as transcendental loops which defied the laws of physics and storytelling . When Kenobi rescued Ulbreck from the Sand People attack on Dannar ' s Claim , Ulbreck was quick to accept Kenobi ' s explanation that the elderly farmer had killed the attackers . He soon started telling the story to anybody who would listen , filling in the blanks with his imagination . Ulbreck viewed the Settlers ' Call with derision and frequently rejected Gault ' s attempts to enlist him . He had no interest in protecting those around him and believed that his own security personnel were sufficient to protect his own lands . As owner of the largest ranch in the area , Ulbreck would have been required to pay a higher membership fee than his peers , which he objected to out of principle and believed would have been squandered by Gault and the other members . Ulbreck refused to be pushed around by anybody ; he remained defiant even when Gault threatened Magda during the attack on Ulbreck ' s farm and opted to fire on Jabba the Hutt ' s thugs rather than allow them to take Gault during the showdown at the Roiya Rift . When he learned that Gault had been killed , he was frustrated that he would not get to see the man brought to justice . By the time of the Galactic Empire , Ulbreck was elderly and balding with white facial year and a gravelly voice . He was in good shape for his age , but no longer performed manual labor , instead delegating to his numerous farmhands . Behind the scenes . Wyle Ulbreck was created by John Jackson Miller for the 2013 novel " Kenobi " . " Kenobi " was originally envisioned as a comic book and early drafts of the story did not include Ulbreck , who was only added after Random House picked up the story as a novel . Random House suggested adding a prologue that included Obi - Wan Kenobi , who otherwise would not appear until much later in the book . Miller used Ulbreck as an unreliable narrator for the prologue , his drunken state allowing him to witness Kenobi using the Force to deal with a bar fight without understanding what had occurred .