Jubnuk / Legends Jubnuk was one of Jabba Desilijic Tiure ' s nine Gamorrean guards . Biography . Jubnuk had a wife and children , who lived with him at Jabba ' s Palace . However , he hated the living quarters he and his family lived in , due to it being too bright , and hoped for the opportunity to move to better living quarters . He also held some respect for Jabba ' s majordomo , Bib Fortuna . During the Rebels ' mission to Jabba ' s Palace , to retrieve Han Solo from carbonite , Jabba assigned Jubnuk to retrieve a lucky talisman , a Tusken battle talisman , that Jabba had misplaced somewhere in the palace . Jubnuk , eager to prove Jabba ' s loyalty to make up for his ineptitude so he can move his family to better quarters . However , he realizes he doesn ' t even know what the talisman looked like , but he did know that he would end up punished if he did not find out . He proceeded to check the Max Rebo Band ' s equipment , but quickly realizes it wasn ' t there . He then tried to check the palace kitchen ' s garbage , although he wasn ' t able to find it and was later driven off by chef Porcellus . Jubnuk then searched the dump and inquired several Jawas hoarding some unused scrap , but learned they haven ' t found a talisman . He eventually asked Bib Fortuna for any communication on Jabba ' s talisman , although Fortuna informed him he has no knowledge on where it is . Jubnuk then tried to ask the chief droid inspector at the droid workshop , EV - 9D9 , whether she saw the talisman , but the droid was busy relaying its orders to Jabba ' s newly delivered droids , R2 - D2 and C - 3PO . Undeterred , he rummaged through the droid parts , but the loud noises proved too distracting , and he resorted to asking one of the B ' omarr monks at Jabba ' s palace . The robotic monks denied finding any talismans , but they did offer Jubnuk the opportunity to join them and ponder the universe by removing his brain . Jubnuk considered the idea , feeling it might make him smarter , but ultimately declined due to it being too complicated for him to understand . Jubnuk intended to deliver the bad news about his fruitless search , but Luke Skywalker ' s arrival prevented him from doing so . When Luke Force - pulled a blaster from Nizuc Bek ' s holster , Jubnuk ran at Luke to protect Jabba from Luke ' s imminent attack . At the same moment , Jabba released the trapdoor beneath Skywalker , causing both the Jedi and the Gamorrean to fall into the rancor ' s pit below . Jubnuk then realized he hadn ' t checked the rancor ' s pit for the talisman , although he wasn ' t given the opportunity to rummage through the pit when the door containing the rancor was opening for it to eat . Upon realizing his predicament , Jubnuk squealed in terror and attempted to climb back up the trapdoor ' s steep slide to no avail . The rancor approached Jubnuk first , and as his fellow Gamorreans watched and laughed from above , Jubnuk was eaten by the rancor . One of his hands was stuck in between the rancor ' s teeth when the rancor ' s trainers mourn for him . In addition , Jabba , believing him to have been killed by the rancor , later had Porcellus arrested and sentenced to death , as Jubnuk had eaten Porcellus ' s food , which , alongside Oola ' s being fed earlier and her eating Porcellus ' s food , led Jabba to believe that Porcellus had cast a hex on the food . Jubnuk was later cut out of the deceased rancor ' s body when one of the beast trainers , Malakili overheard Jubnuk ' s sounds from his stomach . His armor had softened the blows from the rancor ' s teeth , with the talisman also helping him survive . However , Jubnuk was unable to deliver the talisman back to Jabba , as Jabba had left alongside most of his fellow Gamorrean guards to oversee Luke ' s execution at the sarlacc pit as revenge for the rancor ' s death . He also heard rumors of explosions at the pit , although he enthusiastically awaited Jabba ' s return to give it back to him , unaware that Jabba was killed in those explosions . Behind the scenes . Jubnuk was portrayed by puppeteer Simon Williamson in " " , who also portrayed Max Rebo , but his role was uncredited . Although the rancor clearly bites into Jubnuk before swallowing him , " Jabba ' s Palace Pop - up Book " claims that he was later cut out of the stomach of the beast , still alive due to the discovery of a lucky talisman he found inside the stomach . Leland Chee , the gatekeeper for the Holocron continuity database , admitted on June 3 , 2013 that he had not been aware of Jubnuk being revealed to have survived until being notified by a Wookieepedia user . Chee also left his fate ambiguous , reasoning that while his being bitten into makes his survival impossible and later stating on his Twitter account that he ' d prefer to ignore that ending , he did cite that Gardulla Besadii the Elder and Boba Fett ' s survival after being eaten by a krayt dragon and the sarlacc , respectively , did not completely rule out the possibility of Jubnuk surviving , either . In the game " " , Jubnuk ' s encounter with the rancor was depicted slightly differently : Upon Jubnuk and Skywalker falling into the rancor pit ( the animation implying they fell directly into the chamber rather than going down a slide ) , Jubnuk immediately runs towards the rancor gate , which swiftly opens . Jubnuk briefly grunts in confusion , and then is killed by an arm swipe by the rancor before the latter roars at Skywalker .