Yoxgit The Ugnaught male Yoxgit worked selling tibanna gas to arms dealer s in Cloud City on the planet Bespin . During the Galactic Civil War , he passed the Alliance to Restore the Republic heroes Han Solo , Chewbacca and Prince ss Leia Organa along with Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian in the city ' s corridors , shorlty before they were captured by the Sith Lord Darth Vader . The city then fell under Imperial control and Yoxgit left for the planet Tatooine . On Tatooine , Yoxgit began working for the crime lord Jabba the Hutt and again encountered Solo while the Rebel was frozen in carbonite and displayed in Jabba ' s Palace . Solo ' s comrade eventually attempted to rescue him , and Yoxgit was amongst the members of Jabba ' s court who witnessed the Jedi Luke Skywalker kill Jabba ' s pet rancor . The captured Rebels were then taken to the Great Pit of Carkoon for execution , with Yoxgit joining his Hutt employer on the sail barge " Khetanna " to witness their deaths . At the pit , the Rebels managed to escape , kill Jabba and destroy the sail barge , which exploded above the desert . Biography . Cloud City worker . The Ugnaught male Yoxgit worked in the floating Cloud City on the planet Bespin during the Galactic Civil War between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire . While there , he made a fortune illegally selling tibanna gas that was mined from Bespin ' s atmosphere to arms dealer s . Around three years after the Battle of Yavin , Yoxgit and two other Ugnaughts were walking through one of Cloud City ' s corridors while deep in discussion when the city ' s Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian emerged from an adjoining room with the smuggler s Han Solo and Chewbacca and the Rebel leader Prince ss Leia Organa in toe . Yoxgit and the other Ugnaughts then split off down a separate route to the four , who went on to meet with the Sith Lord Darth Vader who captured Solo , Chewbacca and Organa . Shortly after the trio ' s capture , Cloud City was overrun by the Empire under Vader ' s command . Organa and Chewbacca managed to escape from Imperial clutches with the aid of Calrissian and the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker , but Solo was frozen in carbonite and whisked away by the bounty hunter Boba Fett . Member of Jabba ' s court . Sometime within the next year after this event , Yoxgit abandoned Bespin and made his way to the desert planet Tatooine , where he found work with the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure . While the Ugnaught served the Hutt , Jabba was in possession of the frozen Solo , who he displayed in his Palace . Around four years after the Battle of Yavin , Skywalker , Calrissian , Organa , Chewbacca and the droid s C - 3PO and R2 - D2 made an attempt to rescue Solo , with Calrissian taking a position undercover at the palace and the droids being gifted to Jabba by Skywalker . Organa then arrived with Chewbacca and managed to succeed in thawing him out of his carbonite prison before being captured by Jabba and his men . Yoxgit was then present in the throne room when Skywalker arrived , entering the palace at night while most of the court was asleep . As the court awoke , the Jedi attempted to negotiate with the Hutt , but when things turned sour he threatened Jabba with a DL - 18 blaster pistol , prompting the Hutt to drop him through a trapdoor into the pit were his pet rancor was kept , accidentally dropping a Gamorrean guard into the pit as well . Yoxgit and the other court members rushed forward to witness the rancor feast , but the beast only managed to devour the guard before being killed by Skywalker . Outraged , Jabba demanded that Skywalker , Solo and Chewbacca be executed . Yoxgit was then amongst the many members of Jabba ' s court who accompanied the Hutt on his sail barge " Khetanna " to the Great Pit of Carkoon , where the prisoners were to be fed to a sarlacc . While on the barge , Yoxgit sat drinking with other members of the court until they arrived at the pit . Once there , Skywalker and his companions managed to free themselves and after Organa killed Jabba , the Rebels managed to destroy the barge and flee . Personality and traits . Yoxgit was a male Ugnaught with gray hair , black eye s and fair skin . He used his two facial tusks in blood duels . Equipment . While on Bespin , Yoxgit wore grey clothing with a black apron over it . In Jabba ' s palace he instead wore a red suit with captain ' s stripes on the torso and a silver belt along with a pair of flight gauntlets and expensive , black , tactical boot s . Behind the scenes . The character of Yoxgit first appeared in the film in 1980 , where he was portrayed uncredited by Hazel Allen . The mask from the character ' s costume was then reused in the filming of , in which he was portrayed by a different uncredited actor . The name Yoxgit was first created for a card in " Jabba ' s Palace Limited " , an expansion to the " Star Wars " Legends " Star Wars " Customizable Card Game released in 1998 . Until 2004 the name was only applied to the Ugnaught seen in Episode VI , and the Episode V appearance was considered a different , unnamed individual , however in 2004 the article " Rogues Gallery : Pigs in Space ! " written by Leland Chee identified the Episode V character as also being Yoxgit . The name was confirmed to be canon for both characters in the " " , a sourcebook written by Simon Beecroft and Pablo Hidalgo and released in 2016 .