Bib Fortuna Bib Fortuna was a male Twi ' lek who lived on the desert planet Tatooine . He served as Jabba the Hutt ' s majordomo and chief of staff for decades , handling all of the day - to - day operations at his master ' s palace . Biography . A male Twi ' lek , Bib Fortuna hailed from Ryloth , the homeworld of his species . He served as a majordomo to the Hutt crime lord Jabba as far back as the time of the Invasion of Naboo , in 32 BBY . That year , Fortuna attended the Boonta Eve Classic , which his master hosted to commemorate the Boonta Eve holiday . From his master ' s private balcony , he witnessed the victory of a local human boy named Anakin Skywalker against the reigning champion Sebulba . Galactic Civil War . Trouble with Mercenaries . During the Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance , the Twi ' lek remained in Jabba ' s service . At some point between the Battle of Yavin and Battle of Hoth , Fortuna contacted the Tatooinian mercenary Saponza and his partner in the name of Jabba . The two men had reacted violently to the presence of Jabba ' s henchmen around Saponza ' s homestead , killing six of them . Fortuna let the two mercenaries know they had made an enemy of his Hutt master . Some time later , Jabba ' s henchmen razed Saponza ' s estate to the ground in retaliation , and the majordomo contacted Saponza once again to gloat over his misfortune and warn him that Jabba ' s revenge was not over . Trouble at the Great Pit of Carkoon . Later in the war , Fortuna greeted two droid visitors to his master ' s palace . The two mechanical units , called C - 3PO and R2 - D2 , claimed that they had a gift for the Hutt . The majordomo demanded that they hand over that gift to him so he could bring it to Jabba himself , but the droids answered that their instructions were to give it only to the crime lord himself . Fortuna relented , and led the droids into the throne room , where they delivered a holographic message from their owner , the Rebel hero and fledgling Jedi Luke Skywalker . In the message , Skywalker asked to bargain for the life of his friend Han Solo , whom Jabba detained , offering C - 3PO and R2 - D2 in exchange . Fortuna was present when Prince ss Leia Organa arrived under the disguise of notorious bounty hunter Boushh along with Han Solo ' s longtime friend Chewbacca , demanding that Solo be released under the threat of a thermal detonator , and also witnessed her capture when she attempted to free Solo herself . When Luke Skywalker eventually arrived , Fortuna admitted him into the throne room , despite having been given explicit instructions not to do so until after Jabba had finished his nap . Fortuna was influenced by Skywalker ' s mind trick , though he was not as weak - minded as some of Jabba ' s other guards . Skywalker only succeeded in his mind trick by finding and exploiting Fortuna ' s weak point , his strong loyalty to his master , Jabba . After Skywalker killed Jabba ' s pet Rancor , he was imprisoned and sentenced to death , with Jabba wanting him executed at the Great Pit of Carkoon . Fortuna accompanied Jabba and many of his palace denizens to the pit , though he was killed after Skywalker , Organa , Solo and Lando Calrissian managed to escape custody and destroy Jabba ' s personal Sail barge . Personality and traits . Marking excessive concerns with propriety and modesty , Fortuna was mortified upon hearing Sy Snootles ' s saucy lyrics for the song " Jedi Rocks " . Behind the scenes . Bib Fortuna was played by Michael Carter and voiced uncredited by the late Erik Bauersfeld , who also voiced Admiral Gial Ackbar , in . For , Alan Ruscoe was initially cast to play the character in a scene in the Senate , however , this scene was cut , and he was later portrayed by Matthew Wood for his appearance on Tatooine . The name ' Fortuna ' means ' Fortune ' in Latin , Spanish and other languages . In earlier drafts of " Return of the Jedi " , Fortuna ' s title was the ' High Beeser of Hoth ' , and his original design sketches depicted him as a wizened old human man sporting a dark cloak and a tall hat . References to this title and design , however , were left out from the finished version of the film . The makeup process that Michael Carter needed to perform to create the custom of Bib Fortuna took over eight hours to first transform Carter into the Twi ' lek advisor . By the end of Carter ' s five - week shoot , make - up artist Nick Dudman had streamlined the process down to 58 minutes . Removing the make - up took another 25 minutes . Prior to the reboot of the " Star Wars " canon by The Walt Disney Company in order to explore new storylines and in anticipation for the Sequel Trilogy , some details about Fortuna ' s life were explored . " The Essential Guide to Characters " detailed Fortuna ' s early life as his exclusion from the Twi ' lek society , while the " Tales from Jabba ' s Palace " anthology showed him as the one who abducted Oola in order to make her became Jabba ' s dancer , in addition to showing him escaping from Jabba ' s sail barge during the Battle at the Great Pit of Carkoon . However , after the Expanded Universe was subsequently rebooted into the " Star Wars Legends " brand , these stories have been announced as non - canon ical . While Fortuna ' s language is never actually spoken in " Jedi " , several scenes in the film showed Fortuna speaking something which can be interpreted as a twisted form of English , suggesting that he spoke a heavy dialect of Galactic Basic .