Tolomar Reez Tolomar Reez was a human male from the planet Nar Kanji who served in the criminal gang known as Kanjiklub under leader Tasu Leech . In 34 ABY , he accompanied Leech and several other Kanjiklub members , as well as members of the Guavian Death Gang , in boarding the " Eravana " , a freighter belonging to the smuggler Han Solo , who owed both gangs money . Solo argued with Leech and the Death Gang ' s frontman , Bala - Tik , in one of the freighter ' s corridors until a trio of deadly rathtar s that the smuggler had captured attacked both gangs . Reez became separated from his comrades while fleeing from the rathtars and then ran into Solo , who punched him in the face and hurled him into the mouth of a rathtar . Biography . Debt collecting . Tolomar Reez was a native of the planet Nar Kanji who served in the criminal group known as Kanjiklub during the cold war between the First Order and the Resistance . In 34 ABY , he and four other members of the gang accompanied their leader , Tasu Leech , in tracking down the smuggler Han Solo so that they could reclaim a loan of 50 , 000 credit s Solo had borrowed from Kanjiklub in order to hunt rathtar s . Leech made an alliance with the Guavian Death Gang — another criminal group to whom Solo owed money — before confronting the smuggler , and both groups boarded Solo ' s " Baleen " - class heavy freighter " Eravana " above the planet Jakku . Reez and the other Kanjiklub members marched through the " Eravana " corridors until they found Solo and his Wookiee partner , Chewbacca , already arguing about their debts with the Death Gang ' s frontman , Bala - Tik . Reez then stood menacingly beside Leech as the head of Kanjiklub joined the argument , which continued until Bala - Tik recognized Solo ' s other companion , the astromech droid BB - 8 , as a fugitive wanted by the First Order . Rathtar chow . Razoo Qin - Fee , Leech ' s lieutenant , ordered Kanjklub to begin searching the freighter for another pair of fugitives associated with BB - 8 ; however , Reez and everyone else in the corridor were quickly distracted from the droid by the howls of three rathtars that Solo had managed to capture . The rathtars had been released accidentally by the scavenger Rey , one of the two fugitives that Kanjiklub was looking for . One of the rathtars then barreled into the corridor behind the Kanjiklub members , grabbing two of them and forcing the remainder to flee down another corridor to their right . Reez became separated from his comrades as he fled and ended up crossing paths with Solo . The smuggler punched Reez in the face as he turned a corner , grabbing the Kanjiklub member by his torso and hurling him directly into the mouth of a rathtar that had been chasing Solo , Chewbacca , and BB - 8 . The rathtar consumed Reez whole , belching out only one of his boot s . Personality and traits . Reez was a human male with tan skin and black hair . Equipment . Reez wore a brown suit of armor over a yellow tunic with a helmet that included goggles to cover his eye s . He carried a boiler rifle while onboard the " Eravana " . Behind the scenes . Tolomar Reez first appeared in the 2015 film . The actor playing him was not credited , and the character did not receive a name in the film but was identified by the video game " Disney Infinity 3 . 0 " , which was released in conjunction with " The Force Awakens " . Despite the game being non - canon , Lucasfilm Story Group member Pablo Hidalgo confirmed that the names provided by the game for previously unidentified characters , including Reez , were considered canon . In the game , all basic Kanjiklub enemies share his appearance . In the of " The Force Awakens " , written by Alan Dean Foster , Han Solo is described as hurling a member of the Guavian Death Gang into the mouth of a rathtar instead of Reez .