Ront Byrnloo Ront Byrnloo was a human male pirate and bounty hunter who worked as an enforcer for the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure . He spent time at Chalmun ' s Cantina in the spaceport of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine before accompanying Jabba to find the smuggler Han Solo in Docking Bay 94 . Byrnloo and several other thugs began searching around Solo ' s ship , the " Millennium Falcon " , but the smuggler arrived and offered to pay back the money he owed the Hutt . After haggling with Solo over interest on the debt , Jabba called off Byrnloo and the others , and they left the docking bay . Biography . Visiting the cantina . A native of the planet Corellia , the human male Ront Byrnloo was a pirate and bounty hunter who served the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure as an enforcer . In the year 0 BBY , Byrnloo and two other human thugs were drinking at the bar of Chalmun ' s Cantina in the spaceport of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine when local moisture farmer Luke Skywalker and the hermit Obi - Wan Kenobi entered with the droid s C - 3PO and R2 - D2 . Byrnloo and the two others then left the cantina and joined Jabba , three Rodian s , and the bounty hunter Boba Fett in traveling to Docking Bay 94 in Mos Eisley , where the YT - 1300 light freighter known as the " Millennium Falcon " was docked . The starship belonged to Han Solo , a smuggler who worked for Jabba but owed him money after dumping a shipment of the Hutt ' s spice in space upon encountering an Imperial ship . Byrnloo and his cohorts began searching around the ship as Jabba called out to Solo to come out and meet him . Backing up Jabba . The sisters Brea and Senni Tonnika , who were planning on stealing the " Falcon " , then sneaked in the back of the docking bay . Upon seeing Byrnloo and the other thugs with Jabba , the pair abandoned their plan and left to look for a different ship . Solo , who was not aboard the ship at all , then surprised Byrnloo and the others when he addressed Jabba from the entryway to the bay , having just arrived from the nearby cantina . The Hutt chastised Solo for having not repaid him and for killing Greedo , another of his thugs , in the cantina . Solo then offered to repay the Hutt with interest using credits from a job he had just accepted from Kenobi . The two haggled over the interest amount that the smuggler would pay , settling on fifteen percent . Satisfied , Jabba called off his men , and Byrnloo and the others made their way out of the docking bay . Personality and traits . Ront Byrnloo had light skin , brown eye s , and brown - and - gray hair , including a large beard . Boba Fett considered Byrnloo and the other henchmen in Docking Bay 94 " duds " and did not believe any of them were professional , while Han Solo considered them all ugly . Equipment . Ront Byrnloo carried a blaster pistol while in Docking Bay 94 . He also wore black pants and boot s and a white , long - sleeved shirt with a brown , sleeveless duster over it . Behind the scenes . Ront Byrnloo was portrayed by the actor " Big " Ron Tarr in the film , which was released on May 25 , 1977 . He was present for two scenes in the film , the cantina and the docking bay , the latter of which was cut from the original 1977 release but later included as part of the Special Edition re - release of the film in 1997 . The character went unnamed for forty years after his first appearance , until Lucasfilm Story Group member Pablo Hidalgo named him using a combination of the actor ' s name and the name of attendee Bryan Lewis at the " Behind the Scenes of the Cantina " panel at " Star Wars " Celebration Orlando on April 15 , 2017 . The idea of pirates accompanying Jabba to Docking Bay 94 originated in the third draft of the film ' s script , with the revised fourth draft originally describing the thugs accompanying Jabba as six alien pirates and purple creatures . While three Rodian aliens made it into the film , the purple creatures were replaced with humans , including Byrnloo .