Barada / Legends Barada was a male Klatooinian slave and mechanic who worked as the head of Jabba Desilijic Tiure ' s pool of repulsor vehicles , as well as guard and captain of his own vehicles on the planet Tatooine . While Barada should have been able to buy his own freedom with the salary Jabba paid him , the Hutt had tricked his slave , charging him for room and food and precluding him from being free again . Despite this , Barada was believed to be a loyal servant , with Jabba giving him responsibilities , subordiates , droids , and a number of would - be luxuries . Barada was reasonably content with his lot in life , and became friends with Jabba ' s spy Ephant Mon , although other people at Jabba ' s Palace , including the Gran drunkard Ree - Yees , preyed on Barada . Not long before the Battle of the Great Pit of Carkoon , Barada conspired with Jabba ' s Quarren accountant Tessek and the bounty hunter Dengar to place a bomb on Jabba ' s Ubrikkian luxury sail barge , with the intent of killing the Hutt crime lord . His plot was discovered in advance , but Barada was not informed of this . Soon afterward , Barada drove a skiff of prisoners to their scheduled execution at the Great Pit of Carkoon . One of the convicted individuals , Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker , struggled with Barada and the other guards , and Barada was killed in the ensuing fight . Biography . Barada was a male Klatooinian born on the planet Klatooine , in Hutt Space . Many Klatooinians were named Barada after the legendary and revered Klatooinian scholar and leader Barada M ' Beg . As a young boy , Barada lived on the planet of Klatooine where he enjoyed feeling the local fresh wind on his face . During this time , he planned to leave his homeworld and travel to a different planet in the Galactic Empire where he intended to live and have various adventures . However , during his youth , Barada behaved disrespectfully to his parents , which went against Klatooinian custom and was a crime punishable with the sale of the disrespectful son as an indentured servant . As such , following tradition , Barada was sold by his parents to a garage owner . Barada served his new master for a time . The master in turn followed the letter of the contract and paid Barada a periodic amount as a salary . To earn his freedom , Barada was to pay his master the exact amount he had paid for Barada . Saving his salary , Barada was 2 , 000 credits from his freedom , and he was to obtain that amount in one year or less . At that point , the owner could contract Barada as a free being if he wished so . The garage owner played a rigged game of sabacc with a Hutt crime lord named Jabba Desilijic Tiure . Jabba gained the garage , and also Barada ' s servitude contract No one dared to accuse Jabba of cheating , and thus , Barada found himself indentured to Jabba . Jabba employed Barada as one of the guards in his palace on Tatooine and in several criminal activities . Jabba also ordered Barada to work in the Hutt ' s fleet of land vehicles , or repulsorpool , mostly including customized , armored skiffs for the arid local climate , vehicles used by Jabba and his workers including the big Ubrikkian luxury sail barge , and the repulsor sleds that Jabba used to move his massive person . Motivated , Barada advanced and became the head and captain of the pool . As the local mechanic , his responsibilities included obtaining , customizing , crewing , taking care of , maintaining , and supplying the vehicles . Should the skiff captain Ak - Buz be too inebriated to serve in this capacity — something not unheard of — then Barada would also serve as skiff captain , especially in combat or if Jabba was on board . Jabba noticed Barada ' s high skills and gave the Klatooinian a real responsability — something uncommon in the Hutt ' s entourage . Barada had several people under his command , including his main assistant , Klaatu the Nikto , charged with repairing the skiffs ; Mal Hyb , a capable female Human assistant ; and the Human accountant Gailid who enjoyed tending to skiffs with Barada . Many of the Weequays at the palace worked directly for Barada , even if the Klatooinian had trouble giving them orders or even communicating with them . Barada also had several droids under his command , including an AE - 35 unit helping him at the sail barge . Commonly , Barada ' s droids kept the bay under surveillance . Barada was allowed to sleep at the motor pool to protect the vehicles , laying on a bed of sand over a corner of the floor full of stones . Barada also had his own bunk , and even a sink at his quarters , even if few of Jabba ' s minions were allowed such commodities . Jabba valued too much Barada ' s services to allow the mechanic to buy his freedom , and as such he developed a ruse to keep him indefinitely indentured . Barada earned the amount his contract specified , but Jabba charged him that exact amount for room and board . Barada had no other source of income , and as a consequence he remained indentured . The Klatooinian showed a surprising honesty and high loyalty to Jabba . As such , Barada became one of the few bond servants that Jabba trusted . This trust was not wisely placed , as Barada was not so fond of Jabba . In 0 ABY , Barada worked as mechanic of Jabba ' s swoop bikes and podracers . Knowing that Jabba ' s rival Lady Valarian ' s podracers cheated in the illegal races , Barada hired an independent spacer to spy , to discover how they did so . He later hired the spacer to assassinate Valarian ' s podracer champion Doane Watki . In exchange for this service , Barada gave the spacer some money and a vehicle customization kit . At some point , Barada also befriended Ephant Mon , a Chevin staying at Jabba ' s palace for reasons Mon kept to himself . In 4 ABY , Barada placed an order for vehicle parts , but it never reached the Palace and , after several weeks , Barada decided he could give it up for lost . Around that point , Barada joined Jabba ' s Quarren accountant Tessek and the bounty hunter Dengar in a conspiracy to kill Jabba . Some of the Weequay guards and Ree - Yees , the Gran drunkard , were also accomplices of Tessek ' s . Tessek feared that Barada or any other of his other partners - in - crime could be treacherous or sloppy ; his worries were so intense that the B ' omarr monks in the Palace discovered them by reading Tessek ' s mind . Dengar agreed to build a bomb and giving it to Barada ; the trusted Klatooinian would then place the artifact in Jabba ' s barge . Three days later , Dengar finished the bomb and approached Barada . The bounty hunter was unaware of his rival , Boba Fett , having placed a micro transmitter in one of his holsters . Fett recorded the conversation between Barada and Dengar when the bomb changed hands , and obtained proofs of the assassination attempt involving Barada , Dengar , and Tessek . Barada then hid the bomb at the barge , arranging it to explode two days later . The following day , an Anzati assassinated barge captain Ak - Buz . The corpse was found by Jabba ' s chef Porcellus who , panicked , hid it in the machine yard when neither Barada or his Weequays were there . Meanwhile , Fett reported the conspiracy to Jabba . Jabba decided to secretly defuse the bomb and punish Tessek by forcing the Quarren to go with Jabba when the explosion was scheduled . Jabba , who found the situation to be funny , decided to procrastinate Barada ' s punishment for several weeks ; and , admitting that Denger was dangerous , allowed Fett to punish his peer . Once Jabba had told Tessek he requested his presence on the barge , Tessek planned to escape on a speeder bike , but he needed one skilled operator to open the palace blast doors , and he could not ask Barada as Jabba would kill the Klatooinian for that , and Barada knew it . During that day , Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan sneaked in Jabba ' s Palace disguised as a Ubese along with her friend , Chewbacca the Wookiee , in an attempt to free her lover , Han Solo , who had been captured by Jabba . Jabba discovered and stopped the plot , and sent Solo and Chewbacca to his dungeons , keeping the Princess chained to him as a slave . Barada began the following day looking for six rocker - panel cotter pins for his AE - 35 at the scrap heap next to the palace . He was joined in his walk by two Weequay guards who did not speak ther intentions . Barada found Ak - Buz ' s corpse in the heap and the Weequays , suddenly interested , took the body . Barada mentioned that there had been other unsolved murders in the palace ; then , the Weequays signed Barada to not delve any more on that because it was the Weequay guards ' business . Barada obeyed , and decided that he had been automatically promoted to permanent captain of the sail barge . Barada returned to his garage and buried his head in one engine compartment . Mon came for a pre - scheduled visit and asked Barada for a quick skiff . While Barada was initially reluctant to give away any but the more common vehicles , he accepted to lend his friend a quick XP - 38A utility landspeeder , warning him about its steering . Mon used it to travel to the Lucky Despot hotel and back . Jabba and Barada also discovered the identity , and importance , of Jabba ' s new female slave ; the Hutt laughed at the importance of his captive . Barada was then visited by Tessek , who wanted to confirm if the Klatooinian had hidden the bomb in the sail barge . Barada eased him discreetly , but he also explained that Jabba had chained the Princess of Alderaan , a high - ranking member of the Alliance to Restore the Republic , and Tessek assumed that the Rebels would probably stage a daring rescue . Barada added that Jabba feared not the Rebels . Tessek left Barada ' s garage just in time for the arrival of a Rebel agent , Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker . Skywalker offered to negotiate with Jabba for Solo ' s life and , when this failed , threatened Jabba . Jabba confronted Skywalker with his favorite monster , the rancor , but Skywalker killed it . Enraged , Jabba ordered to take Skywalker , Solo and Chewbacca to the Great Pit of Carkoon , where they were to be thrown into the sarlacc , and to be digested slowly for one thousand years . Barada was notified , as he had only hours to get the sail barge ready . Mon came back soon afterward , and Barada told his friend about all the events he had missed . Barada and his team spent hours painstakingly reviewing the barge ' s engine and many other details . The Klatooinian did not allow a traditional one - hour meal break until the AE - 35 had been repaired and replaced , as he feared punishment should anything failed during the Hutt ' s pleasure trip . Ephant Mon came again to confide with Barada during this time : After a conversation with the Jedi prisoner , Mon believed that the Jedi could kill Jabba , and wanted to convince the Hutt to pardon the convicted people . Barada answered that Jabba would not believe that and probably would execute Mon too . Mon explained that he could simply leave , but he explained to Barada that Jabba had saved Mon ' s life on Glakka and , feeling morally in debt with the Hutt , Mon had protected his friend from conspiracies . Barada was aghast at Mon ' s secret , but nonetheless told Mon that , in his opinion , the debt had been repaid . The Jedi had also opened Mon ' s eyes and made him wish to return to a simpler life , but Barada was unable to understand Mon ' s explanation on this subject . The mechanic returned to work and wished to see Mon again as a free Chevin . Soon afterward , five Weequays concluded that Ak - Buz ' s assassin had hidden a bomb in Jabba ' s sail barge . They intended to board the vehicle to investigate , but Barada refused to let them in . The Weequays bribed him with food , specifically beignet s cooked by Porcellus . Barada was not asked to captain the sail barge . Instead , he was to captain a gunskiff which would escort the skiff containing the prisoners through the desert . The Prisoner skiff was manned by several guards includding two Weequay guards and a third security agent — who was secretly Lando Calrissian , an undercover friend of Solo who was waiting for a chance to release him and throw the guards overboard . Barada took a vibro - ax and watched the prisoners menacingly , as if daring them to misbehave ; the Weequays he travelled with gave the same impression . The skiffs and the barge reached the Great Pit of Carkoon . Barada stopped his skiff to hover over a hole in the sand where the sarlacc waited . A plank was released from the prisoners skiff , and Queequeg , one of the Weequays , pushed Skywalker to it . Skywalker jumped from the plank , grabbed its edge with a hand while falling , and jumped back to the skiff in an athletic feat . Barada and the other guards were confused at this , and Skywalker used his initiative to catch a lightsaber that was timely ejected by the droid R2 - D2 . Skywalker activated the saber and attacked the guards . Barada and the guards on the second skiff then reacted by shooting at Skywalker , while Calrissian struggled with the helmsbeing . Skywalker and Calrissian quickly killed all of the guards on the first skiff and the Jedi leapt to the second attacking the guards there . Barada was slashed by Skywalker in the ensuing fight , his body falling into the gaping maw of the sarlacc under the watching eyes of Tessek . The battle went on , ending in a victory of the Alliance and the deaths of Jabba and , eventually , of many of his followers . Barada was survived by his co - conspirators Dengar and Tessek . The Quarren escaped the barge and went back to the Palace . Delirious for the lack of water , he assumed that trusted Barada was opening the Palace ' s blast doors for him , and went to the pool to ask him for water before realizing that Barada had died . Tessek then used Barada ' s sink to re - moisturize before leaving the pool . Personality and traits . Barada was a male Klatooinian with leathery green skin that had been described as brown ; Tessek the Quarren found it similar to the deserts of Tatooine both in color and texture . The Klatooinian was hairless , having a skull crest that sometimes changed to bright red . Barada ' s red eyes gleamed dimly with a shade of yellow when the lights were low ; he had to shade the eyes or skint to withstand very bright lights . His face also included a canine snout that allowed him to smell items . and a constant scowl . At some point after his youth , his face was heavilly scarred . At 1 . 7 meters of height , Barada was ten centimeters shorter than the average Klatooinian . His strong hands were nonetheless very big . A good - natured and earnest fellow , Barada was also a remorseless and violent minion , lacking any sophistication . Barada was also one of Jabba ' s most hard - working servants , having found a reason to live in his work and taking it to heart . He was demanding and strict especially with his subordinates , fearing a strong reprisal from Jabba should anything under his responsability go wrong . While he was mostly a slave , Barada was not completely unhappy with his lot , as he found most of his needs to be covered . He was also free to dream about his youth , something he did while sleeping topless . He was unable to obtain money , but he was sometimes bribed with food . Barada was quite intelligent and secretive , able to deduce that Ak - Buz had been murdered by an Anzat because the corpse had no marks . He could also blaspheme in several languages . However , he was perceived as dim - witted by the Weequays , and also by Ree - Yees , who was considered a fool himself but believed that Barada was even more foolish and thus a mark for his scams . Tessek was scared of Barada being too stupid to follow his scheme , and Ephant Mon found him unable to understand his Force - induced epiphany . Barada was good at reparing several kinds of technologies , including blasters , repulsorlift vehicles , armor , land vehicles , droids , and hover vehicles . He was also a capable repulsorlift pilot . Barada was a formidable melee fighter , but he was also good in a shootout using his weapon of choice , the heavy blaster pistol . He also carried with him a thermal detonator , a vibro - ax and a mechanic tool kit . His vehicles of choice were the Ubrikkian luxury sail barge and the desert skiff . Barada was mostly a loner , but he found a friend in the Chevin Ephant Mon . While Mon was unable to take Barada away from his responsabilities as a mechanic , he liked the young Klatooinian . Barada , in turn , was observant enough to read in the facial expressions of his friend . Mon trusted Barada and commonly asked for his advice and , as Mon was a traitor - seeking spy , this made Barada one of the best informed people in Jabba ' s entourage . However , Mon did not trust Barada with his secret past until the last time they met . Barada disliked the company of the Weequays . He believed they were inescrutable , ruthless fighters , and had never heard them speaking . However , Barada did his best to understand what they wanted , and only if he failed at doing so , he opted to ignore them . Behind the scenes . Barada first appeared in . He went on to appear in , for which he was developed as one of the skiff guards . Concept sketches on him were drawn , and later maquettes were crafted . Barada was executed as a costume made of a slip - on mask and gloves representing hands . Several " Barada - like " aliens were crafted for the scene of the sarlacc . Barada himself was played by actor Dickey Beer , who was not credited . In 1997 , Barada ' s mask was re - used for a new character , Umpass - stay , in " Star Wars Episode VI : Return of the Jedi " ( Special Edition ) . In the short story " , " Barada is mistakenly described as being in the place of Kithaba on the prisoner skiff and being the first guard to die after being sliced in half by Luke Skywalker . However , in the film he is clearly not aboard the prisoner skiff but on the second , where he is later pushed off into the mouth of the sarlacc . It is possible Barada in fact survived for some time in the stomach of the sarlacc as Boba Fett did . Barada ’ s name comes from the line " " " " which is used in the classic science - fiction film " " ( 1951 ) , along with the Nikto skiff guards species and Klaatu ’ s name . In " The Day The Earth Stood Still , " the Human - looking alien Klaatu , played by Michael Rennie , is sent to jail but asks his friend Helen Benson , played by Patricia Neal , to go to his robot companion Gort should anything happen to him and utter the sentence — whose meaning is never specified — prompting Gort to revive Klaatu . The section on Barada at the Databank of StarWars . com mistakenly says the the mute Gort utters the sentence , while the section on Nikto says that it is Klaatu who utters it to control the giant robot Gort — but in the movie , Klaatu never says it to Gort directly . The sentence was re - used in several other unrelated movies as a homage , including " Tron , " " Toys " and " Army of Darkness . " Kenner and Hasbro released a Barada action figure several separate times . The first one came out in 1985 as part of the original ' Power of the Force ' series , with an item called " Skiff guard battle staff " , and was one of the ' Last 17 ' figures issued in the ' vintage ' era . The color scheme and weapon used , though , actually come from another Klatooinian guard , Kithaba . A true rendering of Barada was released 14 years later , as part of the " Jabba ' s Skiff Guards " cinema scene ( 1999 ) , in the revived ' Power of the Force ' line , equipped with a blaster . The pack included the Nikto called Vizam and Klaatu — even if , during " Return of the Jedi , " Klaatu is seen in the sail barge , not on the skiff . A similar figure was rereleased in 2004 as part of a Battle of the Great Pit of Carkoon - themed multipack exclusive to Toys " R " Us , with figures of Han Solo , Klaatu , and Nikto . Except for Solo , the package confuses the names : Barada is called Klaatu , and Vizam the Nikto is called Barada . In 2006 , the figure was re - released as " Barada ( Skiff Guard ) " for the initial wave of " The Saga Collection " , along with a blaster , a display stand , and a mock hologram . In 2007 , a big - headed depiction of Barada was sold , along with a big - headed Weequay , for the collection " Galactic Heroes , " without weapons or accessories . Barada ' s name is mentioned in passing in the book " Ultimate Alien Anthology " , as one of the example names for Klatooinians , and indirectly when talking about the many Klatooinians named after Barada M ' Beg in " The New Essential Guide to Alien Species . " The Star Wars Trading Card Game from Decipher , Inc . includes a card representing Barada . This character is fairly strong , having a bonus to be " very " strong if he is inside Jabba ' s Palace , but he loses almost all his advantage if he leaves Tatooine . In this game , Barada can also recover lost transport vehicles .