Barada Barada was a Klatooinian who served the crime lord Jabba the Hutt four years after the Battle of Yavin . When Jabba attempted to execute a group of Rebels at the Great Pit of Carkoon on the planet Tatooine , Barada was one of the crime lord ' s minions who traveled with the prisoners to the pit . At the execution , however , the Rebels fought to free themselves , and in the struggle the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker slashed Barada with his lightsaber and killed the Klatooinian . Biography . The Klatooinian Barada was enslaved to the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure four years after the Battle of Yavin . He worked as a mechanic in Jabba ' s Palace on Tatooine , and was responsible for the gangster ' s pool of repulsorlift vehicles , which included his sail barge " Khetanna " . Despite his enforced servitude , Barada remained relatively content with his lot in the palace . Barada was in the Hutt ' s employ when Jabba was in possession of the smuggler Han Solo frozen in carbonite . Solo ' s companions in the Alliance to Restore the Republic hoped to rescue their comrade , planting some of their number in Jabba ' s court : Prince ss Leia Organa , and then Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker , both attempted to free Solo , but ended up Jabba ' s captives along with the Wookiee Chewbacca . After Jabba ' s rancor failed to kill Skywalker , the crime lord demanded that Solo , Skywalker and Chewbacca all be executed at the Great Pit of Carkoon , where they would be fed to the sarlacc . Barada was among the henchmen Jabba assigned to ride in a secondary skiff , to travel alongside the skiff carrying the prisoners to the pit . Once at the pit , Skywalker ' s astromech droid R2 - D2 , who was serving in Jabba ' s court , armed the Jedi with his lightsaber , which he used to quickly slay all of the henchmen on the skiff with him . The Jedi then leaped across to the vehicle carrying Barada , and killed a number of the men on it before the Klatooinian attacked him . Skywalker dodged the blow and slashed at Barada , knocking him into the pit of the sarlacc . The Rebels went on to slay Jabba and destroy his sail barge , killing many other members of his court in the process and escaping . Languishing in the Pit of Carkoon , Barada would be slowly digested by the sarlacc over the next thousand years . Personality and traits . Barada had green skin and blue eye s . Although a slave , Barada found reasonable contentment with his lot , and helped maintain Jabba Desilijic Tiure ' s repulsorlift vehicles . Equipment . Barada wore a white shirt , blue pants and an orange bandana while at the Great Pit of Carkoon . The Klatooinian also wore a backpack and carried a battle - staff weapon . Behind the scenes . Barada first appeared in the of , written by James Kahn and released in 1983 . The Klatooinian then appeared in the movie itself later that year , played by Dirk Yohan Beer , who went uncredited for the role . The name Barada was first used in the movie novelization , which is considered part of the " Star Wars " Legends continuity ; however , in the novel the character Barada is described as being on the prisoner skiff , where as the movie character later identified as Barada in the Legends continuity is clearly visible on the second skiff . Barada , as well as fellow skiff guard , Klaatu , and the species Nikto , are all references to the phrase " " , from the 1951 Science Fiction film , " " .