Ree Ree was a young male Twi ' lek podracing pilot working for the Hutts , until he decided to leave them and work in a criminal scheme for up - and - comer crime lord Kaeline Ungasan . Biography . Ree began his career as an independent podracing pilot , employed by the Hutts . During this time , he made friends with Benkudi , a Dug living in Mos Espa , Tatooine . After a short time , Ree decided that the Hutts were paying him too little . At this point , aspiring crime boss Kaeline Ungasan approached Ree with a better deal . Ungasan wanted to control the podracing in Ando Prime , and was willing to wrestle it from the Hutts with a new race , the Ungasan Cross Country . Ree agreed to work as the chief scout for race locations . During his work , Ree found traces of precious metal Vonium , and reported it to Ungasan . Ungasan wanted to perform an illicit mining without buying the lands , but to do that they had to know the exact location of the vein . They decided to modify parts of podracers with scanning gear , and then sell them to the pilots at very low prices , knowing that many of these pieces would be knocked off during the race , and afterwards Ree could check the loose equipment . The Cross Country changed its course every time it was ran , secretly basing on the most probable seam sites , but officially to provide new and exciting challenges . Ree bought the mining survey equipment to Miner ' s Union Hall manager Geon Justic , using some surplus from the CSA that had been provided by Ungasan . Ree also bought Justic ' s silence , and partial information about the Juaka Canyon , a gorge that Ree thought suitable for his scheme . Justic neglected to mention the savage native Talid s that haunted the Canyon to reclaim lost machinery ; he hoped the Talids would kill Ree , freeing Justic from any promise of future help . The Ungasan Cross Country crossed the Canyon , a point that claimed the lives of at least four pilots . Ree did his best to hide his relationship to Ungasan and to the race in Ando Prime . People in the local town of Elesa believed that he was in a four - sentient survey crew researching the local fauna — except for Justic , who knew the truth . Ree shrewdly thought that his friend Benkudi probably would try to sell any information he knew to the Hutts . Ree told Ungasan , and Ungasan in turn hired some thugs to beat Benkudi up . However , by then , the Hutts already knew about Ungasan ' s plans and Ree ' s involvement . The Hutts hired some independent agents , who believed to be working for Ree ' s worried father Jer Blankuna . Really , Blankuna was not Ree ' s relative , but a Twi ' lek agent of the Hutts . The Hutts organized a charade , including a false past for Ree saying that he had visited Aquilaris and Coruscant in pleasure trips . Blankuna gave the unknowingly agents a tracking device , so that some mercenaries could follow them . As soon as the agents found Ree , the mercenary leader Davon Gitta had orders to capture Ree and kill any witness using his Gamorrean agents . Ree and his team reached the Juaka Canyon in their Ikas - Adno 22 - B Nightfalcon speeder bike s to scavenge the scanning devices from the podracer ruins . They were attacked by the Talids , who believed to be owners of the gadgets . During the shootout , they were found by Blankuna ' s independent agents , by Ungasan in person , by CSA thugs looking for Ungasa , and probably by Gitta ' s Gamorreans . The result of this multiple - side encounter is unknown .