Kardue ' sai ' Malloc / Legends Kardue ' sai ' Malloc was a Devaronian army captain and devoted music aficionado with a massive collection of rare recordings . When his unit was deployed against a rebellion on Devaron , Malloc captured seven hundred rebel men , women , and children in the city of Montellian Serat and shelled the city . Interpreting his orders to move on without the prisoners as double - speak ordering their executions , he had all the prisoners rounded up and killed , earning him the nickname " The Butcher of Montellian Serat . " Malloc resigned from the military and fled his world ' s retribution , spending years following his favorite musical performers across the galaxy and avoiding bounty hunters seeking to collect the five - million - credit bounty placed on him . He eventually settled on Tatooine , where he lived under the alias " Labria " and made a living as an information broker . Regarded as the worst spy in Mos Eisley , he spent most of his time drunk in Chalmun ' s Spaceport Cantina . When Figrin D ' an and the Modal Nodes , one of Malloc ' s favorite groups , arrived on Tatooine in 0 BBY , he masterminded an elaborate scheme to steal them from Jabba the Hutt ' s employ and force them into a contract playing at Chalmun ' s . When a chance encounter with a Devaronian mercenary in 17 ABY caused him to be recognized , Malloc killed the mercenary and his companions and fled to Peppel , a remote world . He lived behind tight security , knowing that renowned bounty hunter Boba Fett was on his trail ; Fett finally tracked Malloc down and captured him in 19 ABY . Malloc was returned to Devaron , where his family and several thousand Devaronians watched approvingly as he was cast into a pit of starving quarra and consumed alive . Biography . Becoming the Butcher . Kardue ' sai ' Malloc was born to the Kardue family of Devaron , the third member thereof to carry his name ; he had the unusual characteristic of possessing both male and female sets of teeth , a genetic throwback . He had at least one brother growing up . The Kardues had a long and proud tradition of military service stretching back sixteen generations , one which Malloc decided to carry on . He joined the Devaronian Army , rising to the rank of captain . Military life agreed with Malloc , aside from the necessity of putting Devaronian troops under Imperial command when the Galactic Civil War reached Devaron . Malloc was a fanatic lover of music and an avid collector of recordings . He built up a vast library of musical recordings by famed artists over the years . Many of his copies were rare and expensive ; some were the sole existing recordings of a particular performance . Music was his great passion and what he considered to be his reason for living and could achieve transcendent experiences listening to beloved recordings . A great many of his recordings were of music suppressed and destroyed by the Empire as seditious . Malloc married , producing a daughter , Mika ' sai ' Malloc , though he was not close with his family . When the Rebellion sprang up on Devaron , Malloc ' s unit was among those combating it under the direction of the Empire ' s forces . He commanded the siege of the ancient city of Montellian Serat , where a group of Rebels had fortified themselves . Malloc shelled the city overnight , at dawn offering a chance to surrender . The seven hundred beleaguered Rebels accepted , and Malloc placed them under guard in a holding pen he had erected . A group of Rebels was still fighting not far to the south , and Malloc feared a possible rescue attempt . On Imperial orders , he shelled Montellian Serat to rubble in order to make an example . At noon that same day he received orders from his Imperial commanders to intercept the second group of Rebels , which was moving north ; he was not to leave guards behind for the captured Rebels . Malloc interpreted this as very clear double - speak ordering him to execute the prisoners , which he did , having his guards open fire . Within five minutes all seven hundred were dead and , leaving them unburied , Malloc proceeded to the next battle . Malloc knew that this act had effectively ended his military career . Six months later , when the Rebels were finally eliminated entirely , he submitted his resignation . Reviled among his people as a war criminal , he knew he would be put on trial with his resignation ; he also knew that his request to resign could make him guilty of treason against the Empire . With his choices equally bad , he was indifferent to the outcome ; he simply had no desire to stay in the army . His resignation was accepted and he vanished before anyone could take action against him , leaving his family behind . Tatooinian exile . The Alliance to Restore the Republic placed a five million credit bounty on Malloc , who had acquired the epithet " The Butcher of Montellian Serat " . This was a significant sum , enough to incite Boba Fett himself to pursue Malloc during the Galactic Civil War , though he was persuaded to seek other quarry . Malloc took his vast music collection with him when he left and used his flight to further his great passion , seeing various artists on tour . He considered there to be no more than six great living artists he had never seen live . He spent five years following Maxa Jandovar , a noted vandfill ist and political opponent of the Empire , on her informal tour , but always missed her . Malloc was on Tatooine preparing to follow her to Morvogodine when he heard that she had been arrested and died in custody there . Malloc stayed on Tatooine , where he lived under the alias of " Labria " to avoid bounty hunters . The term was an obscene one in Devaronese , meaning " cold food " . He had not originally intended to stay there , but simply never left , eventually settling down for good in Mos Eisley ; he did consider his distance from Devaron and relative anonymity as distinct advantages in staying safe . He became a regular patron of Chalmun ' s Spaceport Cantina despite his profound distaste for the musical entertainment offered and was regularly the first patron in the door on mornings . He regarded the bartender there , Wuher , as his best friend . He enjoyed Wuher ' s general distaste for the universe at large and considered him something of a kindred spirit ; Wuher regarded " Labria " as a friend as well and was sometimes amused at Malloc ' s continual jokes . Malloc spent much of his time in the cantina drinking ; the cantina claimed to supply his favorite alcohol , Merenzane Gold . Though the substance was not genuine Merenzane Gold , he drank it anyway . Malloc kept an apartment near the cantina . Used to a cold environment on Devaron , it was heavily cooled . Malloc maintained a sanctuary in a secret room behind the refresher where he stored his massive music collection and to which he retreated after days at the cantina to enjoy musical bliss . He kept his finances , some five thousand credits , in a bank account under the reverse of his alias — " Airbal " . Malloc took up the trade of an information broker , spying and picking up tidbits of information , though he never bothered to verify his sources ; he readily admitted that he was not much good at it , and his peers agreed . Local crimelord Jabba Desilijic Tiure referred to Malloc as his " least favorite spy " but occasionally took information from him . Malloc used his reputation as a perpetual drunkard to his advantage , frequently faking inebriation to gain information . Malloc was able to make some money through the occupation , frequently selling information about Jabba to Garindan , the preeminent spy in Mos Eisley . The information generally turned out useless ; each blamed the other for mishandling the tips , but Malloc continued to be Garindan ' s primary source for reports about Jabba . At one point , he became involved in a scam in which he and Oxbel , one of only two other Devaronians on Tatooine , pretended to be brothers who had arrived on Tatooine for gambling purposes ; the scam did not play out . The Modal Nodes scam . One day in 0 BBY , Malloc was approached by Garindan , who told Malloc that he wanted to sell him information . He quickly realized that it regarded music and readily paid the fifty credits the other spy demanded . When Garindan revealed his information , Malloc was ecstatic to learn that Figrin D ' an and the Modal Nodes were on Tatooine , playing for Jabba the Hutt . Malloc regarded them as the greatest jizz band in the galaxy and was determined to see them . Returning to his apartment at the end of the day , he played Modal Nodes recordings in anticipation of seeing them perform . The next day , Malloc went to see the Hutt . He offered Jabba the services of Obron Mettlo , a Moorin mercenary he had encountered the previous day . The crimelord agreed , and Malloc promised to bring Mettlo by for dinner and entertainment ; Jabba told Malloc that he was not invited to the meeting . Morose at his inability to see the band , Malloc went back to Chalmun ' s Cantina and drank , dreading the thought of the Hutt , whose musical tastes he did not regard highly , feeding the band to his rancor . When he heard that Jabba loved the Modal Nodes , Malloc was even more despondent at the fact that they were playing regular engagements nearby and he had no way of seeing them . After five days of bitterness and heavy drinking , Malloc was beaten and robbed in an alleyway behind the cantina while inebriated . Wuher found him and carried him back to his apartment , where Malloc spent the whole night , depressed , in the cold shower . Feeling horrible , Malloc did not leave his apartment for days , recovering . He was frightened to go outdoors , fearing that he would be preyed upon as a weakling if news got out of his mugging . When his arm had finally healed weeks later , he ventured out ; his food supply was running low . Going to the cantina early as was his custom , he was greeted by Wuher as the first patron . His friend offered him a drink on the house , and Malloc was completely shocked to find that Wuher had presented him with a glass of genuine Merenzane Gold as a welcome - back gift . He savored the drink while he caught up on the news — Mettlo had picked a fight with some other guards and been killed , worrying Malloc that Jabba might seek retribution . When Garindan mentioned that Lady Valarian , the Hutt ' s local rival , was getting married , Malloc had an idea come to him . He approached Wuher and asked if the bartender would like to have quality live entertainment cheap and explained his plan ; Wuher agreed . Malloc approached Valarian and convinced her to hire the Modal Nodes for her wedding , playing on her desire to outdo Jabba . He sent a messenger droid to the Modal Nodes recruiting them , and on the morning of the wedding he tipped Jabba off to the fact that the band was working Valarian ' s wedding . He gave Wuher the invitation to the wedding that Valarian had provided him , and instructed him to bring the band back and offer them a contract when Jabba had the wedding broken up . The plan went off perfectly , with Malloc watching the wedding and tripping the stormtroopers who came after Wuher and the Modal Nodes during their escape . As part of their deal , Malloc received seven free drinks a day as long as they played ; he extended the likelihood of their staying longer by winning the band ' s instruments in a game of sabacc with Figrin D ' an , played using cards marked in the infrared spectrum , which Devaronians could see but Bith could not . Malloc was annoyed with the first day of music , which was interrupted by fights involving Obi - Wan Kenobi and Han Solo , but as the evening approached the Modal Nodes hit their stride , knowing they had a dedicated fan in the audience who actually appreciated their music . Malloc ' s plan had played out perfectly . A short time afterwards , Malloc accompanied the Stennes Shifter Trinto Duaba to his favorite cantina during the night shift . However , an Imperial curfew had been enacted on the Tatoo system , and the cantina was closed . The night shift bartender , Ackmena , attempted to deny Malloc entry , but he did not accept her decision and pulled a blaster to force his way in . The bouncer Tork attempted to intervene , but Ackmena stopped him from throwing them out , wanting no more violence during her shift . Ackmena was eventually able to get Malloc and the other customers out of the cantina by singing the song " Goodnight , But Not Goodbye " , accompanied by the Modal Nodes . Manipulating the situation . Malloc was occasionally employed by Slag Flats , a small - time local crimelord . She was a friend of Adar Tallon , who was in hiding on the planet . When the search for Tallon reached Tatooine shortly after Malloc executed the Modal Nodes scam , Malloc came across a party of individuals seeking Tallon . He arranged a rendezvous later in which he led them from the Spaceport Hotel to Tower Ridge on his speeder bike . He directed them to an unused water silo where Flats would be and departed . Malloc was actually in the employ of Jodo Kast , a bounty hunter seeking Tallon , and the rival party was ambushed at the water silo . Malloc learned that Kast had killed Flats , which he regretted . However , he remained on Kast ' s side and sent a note to the party , which had survived , asking them to meet with Arno , one of Tallon ' s friends , in the cantina . When they arrived , Kast ' s team of hunters was also present , and Malloc pointed out the targets and quickly got out of the way as the party was attacked , though he was wounded in the firefight . When the group returned from rescuing Tallon from Kast in the desert , Malloc tipped off Prefect Orun Depp and watched as they were attacked , though the group escaped Tatooine . Whether for this Imperial assistance or other offenses , Alliance Intelligence listed " Labria " as a target of opportunity . When Mos Eisley authorities picked up smuggling kingpin Big Bunji , with whom Malloc had previously done some business , on minor charges , Malloc saw an opportunity to seize Bunji ' s cargo of valuable espionage matrices for spy droids . He tried to engage a group of spacers to steal the cargo for him , but was interrupted by the arrival of Bunji ' s agents Voushon , Wrex , and Rait . They dragged him outside , but Malloc insisted he had not been the one to tip off the police about Bunji , and they let him go . The spacers ended up working for Voushon , agreeing to break Bunji out of the Mos Eisley Police Station in exchange for a cut of the hidden cargo . Malloc collaborated with Garindan to track down the matrices , trailing the spacers and , when they noticed him , distracting them with an offer to join forces long enough for Garindan ' s agents to plant a comlink on one of the group . They rejected his offer , and Garindan disrupted their efforts to rescue Bunji , receiving a payoff from the new prefect , Eugene Talmont . The Empire failed to prevent Bunji ' s escape , however , and the spacers gained their profit while Malloc ' s plans were foiled . Exile ended . Malloc entertained some ambitions of selling his skills to the Empire once more as an Imperial agent , though never seriously acted on them . With the Empire ' s decline after the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY , however , that opportunity was closed , as was his major income source — Jabba was killed around the same time , rendering his supply of information about the Hutt unneeded . He remained quietly on Tatooine . Eventually , in 17 ABY , four mercenaries entered the cantina , one of the two Devaronians among them recognized him as Malloc , and they attempted to take the bounty on his head . By now old but still deadly , Malloc killed them and left the planet . Malloc made his way to Peppel , a remote world where he set up an extensive security system around his simple hut , which did not even have indoor plumbing . He lived off Merenzane Gold and animals he hunted himself ; his music collection was buried in a case in the yard . Having heard that legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett was after him , he lived far more carefully than he had on Tatooine , hiding behind the intense security and carrying an assault rife even to go to the pit toilet he had dug outside . He lived this way for two years , remaining wary . In 19 ABY , Fett tracked Malloc to Peppel , where he observed him and prepared an ambush . When Malloc left the hut in the evening to relieve himself , Fett shot him in the shoulder with an arrow — one of the few weapons he could get past Malloc ' s sensors . As Malloc fell , Fett hamstrung him and forced him to surrender . Malloc was bound and taken into the hut , where he refused to cooperate with Fett and pushed the bounty hunter to kill him . As the bounty was for live capture only , Fett refused . Malloc attempted to barter his music collection for his life ; when that failed he made Fett promise to dig it up and sell it to a contact he would provide , the director of the Coruscant University School of Music . He also demanded that Fett bring six bottles of his stock of Merenzane Gold along . Malloc was kept in a cell aboard the " Slave IV " for the trip to Devaron ; he finished the first five bottles early on . His shoulder wound healed , but his leg became infected and could not be treated . Meanwhile , Malloc spent the entire trip dreading what awaited him — execution by quarra . He would be thrown to a pit of the starving hunting beasts , which would eat him alive . Due to Devaronian resiliency , he would be awake and aware through most of it . When they were finally ready to arrive , Fett restrained Malloc and gave him the final bottle of alcohol . When they arrived , he was identified by his daughter as Kardue ' sai ' Malloc ; neither displayed any emotion toward the other . Malloc was turned over to the Devaronian authorities . Utterly terrified but enjoying one last view of the world he missed for so many decades , he was taken before a massive crowd of ten thousand Devaronians at Judgment Field in the ruins of Montellian Serat , accompanied by his daughter and brother . His wife , refusing to have anything to do with him , did not attend . As he was thrown to the quarra , he enjoyed the scenery and made an effort to arch his neck back so the quarra would tear out his throat and let him die quickly . In the pit , he struggled briefly before dying . He was survived by his music , which Fett did distribute to his contact . The School of Music on Coruscant disseminated Malloc ' s collection into the larger galaxy . Music long suppressed by the Empire , preserved only by Malloc , was published to be enjoyed by the galaxy . Personality and traits . Malloc had a tremendous love for music ; he considered it his reason for living and found release in listening to recordings from his collection . His other major release was in drink , which he consumed copiously while in exile . He enjoyed military life as well , and though he had no great for love for the Empire he was content to serve it . Though Malloc was not proud of his role in the Battle of Montellian Serat and it pushed him to resign from the military , he took the action of executing the prisoners on his own initiative , not on direct orders . He was consumed by self - pity , both due to guilt over the deaths he had caused and his own loss of a stable life on Devaron . He remembered Devaron fondly and missed its scenery , its way of life , and its women . When he was finally confronted with death , he attempted to justify himself to both himself and Fett , but was plainly suffering from guilt . Malloc did not have much respect for other sentients , especially Humans . He did not even care much for his family . Wuher was his one real friend on Tatooine . He did not enjoy killing for its own sake , however , and when his actions caused Slag Flats to come to her death , he felt bad about it . Malloc did believe in the concept of Grace , however , requiring him to display such virtues as patience and restraint . Malloc was not especially ambitious ; he was content to simply follow musicians before he settled on Tatooine , and when he arrived he made a career as an informant but did so without checking his sources or putting much effort into obtaining information . The one thing that could provoke significant effort on his part was music and obtaining it ; otherwise he was content to drink , listen to music , and live simply . Behind the scenes . Kardue ' sai ' Malloc originally appeared as an extra among the cantina aliens in . Known by the on - set nicknames " Louie " and " the Devil , " Malloc was filmed during the additional photography for the cut - away shots establishing the various denizens of the cantina . The mask worn to play the character was created by Rick Baker . A Devaronian who may or may not be Malloc also appeared briefly in a cantina scene from " The Star Wars Holiday Special " . This was confirmed to be Malloc in the Star Wars Blog article " " . Despite the on - set nicknames , no name was given to the character until " " was published in 1989 , at which point he was identified as the largely harmless drunk Labria . With the publication of " " in " Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina " in 1995 , Labria was identified as the alias of Kardue ' sai ' Malloc , a dangerous war criminal . " Empire Blues " also retconned Labria ' s relationship with Oxbel , established in " " , as being misinformation from an elaborate scam . Malloc ' s fate was ultimately given in " " in " Tales of the Bounty Hunters " ; the story was by Daniel Keys Moran , the author of " Empire Blues " .