Braconnor Bakiska / Legends Braconnor Bakiska was a male of the Stennes species who lived during the time of the Galactic Civil War . During the year 0 BBY , Bakiska was present in Chalmun ' s Spaceport Cantina , located in Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine . Braconnor Bakiska was sitting inside the entrance to the cantina when the former moisture farmer Luke Skywalker and the Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi came to the cantina looking for a pilot to take them to the planet Alderaan . During that time , Bakiska sat at a table with the Defel Arleil Schous , the Advozsec Bom Vimdin , the Arconan Hem Dazon , and the Siniteen Pons Limbic . Biography . Braconnor Bakiska was a mustachioed male member of the Stennes species who was alive during the Galactic Civil War fought between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance . During the year 0 BBY , Bakiska spent some time in the city of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine , shortly after the Corellian corvette " Tantive IV " was boarded by the Imperial Star Destroyer " Devastator " over the planet . During his time on Tatooine , Bakiska was in Chalmun ' s Spaceport Cantina when a former moisture farmer named Luke Skywalker and a Jedi Master named Obi - Wan Kenobi entered the cantina , searching for a pilot to take them and the droids C - 3PO and R2 - D2 to the planet Alderaan . Braconnor Bakiska was seated at a table near the entrance to the cantina with the male Defel Arleil Schous , the Advozse male Bom Vimdin , the male Arcona Hem Dazon , and the Siniteen male Pons Limbic when Skywalker and Kenobi entered . Personality and traits . Braconnor Bakiska had tan - colored skin and brown hair , including a mustache , which drooped from his upper lip . Bakiska wore a dark hood over tan clothing while at Chalmun ' s Cantina in 0 BBY . Behind the scenes . A mustachioed individual first appeared in , a 1977 film . In the movie , the individual was seated at the table appearing at the start of the cantina scene . The mustachioed individual appeared in only one of the pick - up shots , and was quickly covered by Hem Dazon ' s head after it moved into the frame . The filming of this table was part of supplemental shooting for the cantina scene filmed in the city of in the after was completed . The masks used for the supplemental shoot were slip - on , made of rubber , and designed by makeup artists Rick Baker and Laine Liska . The mustachioed individual was based on a mask known as " Terminal Man , " one of Baker ' s pre - existing designs , which was an attempt by Baker to create an original mask of . Nameless . By the late 1990s , fans had nicknamed the character " Fu Manchu " due to his mustache , but no official source had named him . Leland Chee , the Lucasfilm official who maintains the Holocron continuity database , stated on the StarWars . com forums that he believed the individual ' s mask was the same as that of another character in the cantina named Trinto Duaba , with the addition of a mustache . This fact was confirmed by Rick Baker in an Official Star Wars Blog entry written by Pablo Hidalgo and posted on StarWars . com on September 26 , 2012 . However , Baker was unaware who put the mustache on the character ' s face , which he viewed as a stupid idea . Another one of the cantina makeup artists , Nick Maley , did not view the character as a high - quality design , and was one background character that he hoped people would not look at too closely . Celebration VI naming . On August 25 , 2012 , the mustchioed individual was given a name as part of Pablo Hidalgo and Tom Spina ' s " Behind the Scenes of the Cantina " panel at Celebration VI , a " Star Wars " convention held from August 23 to August 26 in , . In order to have some control over the name of the character , Hidalgo and Spina formed the individual ' s last name — " Bakiska " — from the names of " Episode IV " artists Rick Baker and Laine Liska . During the panel , cards for Tom Spina ' s design company , which were decorated with the face of another cantina character known as " Snaggletooth , " were handed out to the audience . One fan received a card with a mustache drawn on the character ' s face , which was Hidalgo and Spina ' s way of selecting a fan to form the character ' s first name . An audience member named Brandon Connors received the special card , and Hidalgo formed the character ' s first name " Braconner " from Connors ' s name , although the spelling differed because Hidalgo did not verify the spelling of the fan ' s name . As a prize for winning the contest , Connors also received a replica of the character ' s mask made by Tom Spina Designs during the panel . After the original naming at the panel , Tom Spina and Pablo Hidalgo changed the character ' s name to " Braconnor Bakiska " in order to better represent the spelling of Brandon Connors ' s name . On September 26 , 2012 , Hidalgo wrote an official Star Wars Blog entry discussing the process of naming and researching the character . The blog post confirmed that Bakiska was a male , and clarified that Bakiska ' s character used the same mask as Trinto Duaba , who was identified as a Stennes Shifter in the 1997 " Star Wars Adventure Journal " " 12 " article " Shape - shifters . " This identification confirmed that Bakiska was a Stennes , but it did not confirm him to be a Stennes Shifter , since they looked the same as the Stennes species .