A Hunter ' s Fate : Greedo ' s Tale " A Hunter ' s Fate : Greedo ' s Tale " is a short story written by Tom and Martha Veitch for the Short Story Anthology " Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina " published by Bantam Spectra in 1995 , concerning the backstory of the bounty hunter Greedo . It was adapted into a by Pablo Hidalgo for . Plot summary . 4 BBY . A teenage Greedo and his younger brother , Pqweeduk explore the various caves inside the jungles of their adopted home world . They discover the remains of three old Rodian starships inside one of the caves . Greedo returns to his hut and asks his mother , Neela , about the ships . Neela explains that many Rodians made a pilgrimage to this planet to escape the clan wars that had taken Greedo ’ s father away from them . Shortly after this event , a Rodian warlord of the Chattza Clan named Navik the Red finds the jungle colony and begins slaughtering as many of the pacifist Rodians as he can . Neela takes her children and along with her brothers , Nok and Teeku , they board one of the starships and escape . Nok pilots them to a heavily populated area in the hopes that they can start a new life for themselves . He takes them to the smugglers ' moon — Nar Shaddaa . Four years later . Greedo has been living the past four years on Level 88 in the Corellian Sector of Nar Shaddaa . In that time , he has befriended a Sionian Skup named Anky Fremp and has eked out a living as a petty thief . One day , Greedo notices the droid bounty hunter known as Gorm the Dissolver , preparing to kill two other hunters named Spurch Goa and Dyyz Nataz . Greedo , hoping to establish some connections within the bounty hunting community , shoots Gorm in the back , disabling him . Spurch is grateful for the assistance and decides to take Greedo under his wing . What Greedo doesn ’ t know , however , is that Spurch despises Rodians , and merely lets the young thief tag along so long as he is of use to him . Greedo decides that he now wants to become the most famous bounty hunter in the galaxy . He learns that the Rebel Alliance maintains a secret munitions warehouse on Level 88 . He sells the information to Spurch , who in turn sells it to the Empire . With the money he receives , Greedo prepares to acquire his own starship . He goes to Shug Ninx ’ s repair shop where he finds an Incom Corsair that would be perfect for him . He even has a name for it — the " Manka Hunter " . The ship needs a couple of power couplings , however , so he tries to steal some from a YT - 1300 light freighter stored at the garage . The freighter ’ s owners , Han Solo and Chewbacca , catch him in the act and interrogate him . Han decides to let Greedo keep the couplings in exchange for his rancor - skin coat . Before long , Darth Vader uses the information he has received and sends two " Gamma " - class assault shuttles to Nar Shaddaa to destroy the Rebel storage facilities . Greedo becomes concerned as he learns that his family ’ s housing development is very near where the siege is taking place . Shortly thereafter , Greedo decides to leave Nar Shaddaa and begin his bounty hunting career in earnest . He travels to the Outer Rim Territories world Tatooine , along with Spurch and Dyyz . Spurch manages to gain Greedo an audience with the notorious gangster , Jabba Desilijic Tiure . Jabba decides to put the young Rodian ’ s enthusiasm to the test and offers him exclusive bounty rights to capture Han Solo . Greedo encounters Han twice in the port city of Mos Eisley and tries to force him into paying off a debt owed to Jabba . Han tells Greedo to return the next day and he ’ ll have Jabba ’ s money ready for him . Greedo acquiesces and meets Han the following afternoon at Chalmun ' s Spaceport Cantina . The two get into a small argument which ends with Han pulling his blaster out and shooting Greedo in the chest , killing him . From the sidelines , Spurch Goa snickers at the fact that he was able to manipulate Greedo into gunning for Han , safe in the knowledge that the Corellian would outshoot him . Spurch had accepted a retainer by two Rodians named Thuku and Neesh to have Greedo killed . Behind the scenes . Most if not all of the events of Greedo ' s childhood and early life have been contradicted by the " " " " TV series . In the episode " " Sphere of Influence " " , Greedo is depicted as a fully realized and active bounty hunter , years before the same events would have taken place as detailed in the " " Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina " " novel .