Palabar Palabar was a male Quarren slave shortly after the Battle of Endor . He and his fellow slaves , the Weequay Hatchet and the Wookiee Greybok took opportunity of the Battle of Sevarcos to rise up against their Imperial and Zygerrian slave masters and free several rancor s , which turned the battle ' s tide in favor of the New Republic . Later , Palabar and his companions were recruited by the Zabrak bounty hunter Jas Emari for the liberation of Kashyyyk Biography . Emancipation . Palabar was a male Quarren who lived during the Age of the Empire . In 4 ABY , Palabar worked as a slave miner in the spice mines of the planet Sevarcos . Palabar and the other slaves were mistreated by their Imperial and Zygerrian slave masters . He was so traumatized that he often cowered , nodded , and whimpered in the dark . When New Republic forces attacked their mine , Palabar agreed with the Weequay slave Hatchet that they should take the opportunity to run away . Greybok disagreed and urged them to stand and fight despite having only one arm . When Hatchet disagreed with Greybok , Palabar angrily responded that the Wookiee could be right and that they should take their chance to fight against their slavemasters . Led by Greybok , the three slaves headed to the corral and proceeded to free the three captive rancor s . The freed rancors then scattered the Imperial forces , turning the tide of the battle in the New Republic ' s favor . Following a struggle between Greybok and a Zygerrian slaver , Hatchet killed the slaver . After learning that the New Republic soldier s had won , Palabar asked what would happen now . A female New Republic soldier subsequently informed that that they were now free . Liberation of Kashyyyk . Following their emancipation , Palabar , Hatchet , and Greybok became smugglers . In 5 ABY , the three former slaves were recruited by the Zabrack bounty hunter Jas Emari for Han Solo and Chewbacca ' s campaign to liberate the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk from the Empire . During the attack on Camp Sardo , Palabar conceived of a plan to climb the wroshyr tree s by anchoring massive eyebolts into the wood with pneumo - hammer s . This allowed Solo and his team to take up position so that they could destroy the camp ' s deflector shield generator . After the former Imperial loyalty officer Sinjir Rath Velus disabled the inhibitor chips controlling the Wookiees , Palabar and his fellow slaves manned the guns aboard Jas Emari ' s gunship " Halo " . They attacked Imperial forces including forest trooper s , LAIT gunships , and Imperial walkers . Personality and traits . Palabar was a male Quarren with a tentacled face . Due to the harsh and dry environment on Sevarcos , his tentacled face was chapped , chafed , and peeling . Due to his maltreatment , he was so traumatized that he often cowered , nodded , and whimpered in the dark . Despite his traumatize state , Palabar mustered enough courage to support Greybok in helping the New Republic defeat their Imperial and Zygerrian slavers . While he was scared of combat , Palabar was tech - savvy and good with technology . He came up with the idea of using pneumo - hammers to hammer eyebolts into wroshyr tree s so that Han and his team could take up position and destroy Camp Sardo ' s shield generator . Behind the scenes . Palabar first appeared as a minor character in Chuck Wendig ' s 2015 novel " Aftermath " and its 2016 sequel " " . His lines are told from the point of view of the Wookiee Greybok .