Jiliac Desilijic Tiron ' s child This Hutt was the short - lived offspring of Jiliac Desilijic Tiron , leader of the Desilijic clan in the years preceding the Battle of Yavin . Born in approximately 2 BBY , the Huttling spent its entire life in Jiliac ' s Winter Palace on Nal Hutta , usually safe inside its mother ' s pouch , leaving for only several hours at a time . Jiliac was more concerned with parenting than running the Desilijic criminal empire , to the frustration of Jabba Desilijic Tiure , her nephew and right - hand Hutt . In 0 BBY , Durga Besadii Tai , the leader of a rival clan , visited the Winter Palace and invoked the Old Law , which compelled Jiliac to accept a one - on - one mortal confrontation with Durga . With her infant still in its pouch , Jiliac fought Durga , but perished , trapping the child underneath her huge bulk . The Huttlet eventually escaped , only to be crushed to death by Jabba , who wanted no challengers to his inherited leadership of the clan . Biography . Infancy . By approximately 3 BBY , Jiliac Desilijic Tiron had decided to become pregnant for the first time , insisting on being referred to as a female , instead of Jiliac ' s usual preference to be addressed as a male . Jiliac was leader of the Desilijic clan and its criminal empire , though after she became pregnant her nephew Jabba Desilijic Tiure took over much of the day - to - day running of the clan . Jiliac ' s pregnancy caused her to appear more corpulent than usual , her size increasing by over a third . After a year - long pregnancy , Jiliac ' s first child was born on Nal Hutta . For the first years of its life , the young Hutt had only primitive cognitive abilities , and was immobile for most of the day . Jiliac ' s newborn spent most of the time in its mother ' s pouch , leaving only for short periods of time that slowly grew longer as the Huttlet aged . Jiliac did not give her child a name immediately after it was born , but she referred to it as a male ; however , others referred to it simple as " it , " as the newborn was too young to choose a gender preference itself . Jiliac was very fond of her child , and whenever it emerged from her pouch , she gave it her undivided , affectionate attention . Fearing potential kidnapping attempts , Jiliac expelled most of her subordinates from her Winter Palace residence on Nal Hutta , retaining only her most trusted underlings . She also kept her female gender ; Jiliac relished motherhood , despite all the stresses it caused her . Because Jiliac ' s child received all of its nutrition via its mother , it occupied most of her time , so she could not focus on maintaining the Desilijic clan as much as before . Jiliac began to delegate more and more duties to Jabba , her second - in - command , until he was " de facto " leader of Desilijic . Even when she wasn ' t occupied by her child , Jiliac showed little interest in business affairs , a character change Jabba suspected was hormone - related . Jabba felt his aunt was trapped in a " maternal haze " that prevented her from looking further than her newborn child . The burden of running the clan , as well as his general dislike for dependent Huttlets , made Jabba grow to loathe Jiliac ' s offspring . Infanticide . As the months progressed , the Huttlet began to spend more time out of Jiliac ' s pouch , though the first - time mother never took her eyes off it . Jabba petitioned Jiliac to relocate to Nal Hutta ' s moon , Nar Shaddaa , but Jiliac refused , citing the adverse affect that Nar Shaddaa ' s polluted atmosphere would have on her child ' s health . She also resisted Jabba ' s attempts to have the child put in a communal nursery , where it would be tended to by surrogate pouch - mother s . Jiliac did briefly leave her " maternal haze " in the course of one conversation with Jabba about possible allegiances with Black Sun , but the discussion was interrupted by Jiliac ' s young child , further intensifying Jabba ' s hatred for it . In 0 BBY , Durga Besadii Tai , leader of the rival Besadii clan , visited the Winter Palace and challenged Jiliac to a one - on - one mortal confrontation under the terms of the Old Law , as Jiliac had poisoned Durga ' s father , Aruk Besadii Aora . With her offspring secured in its pouch , Jiliac accepted the challenge and the two Hutts fought , until Durga eventually overcame his opponent , bludgeoning Jiliac to death with his tail . The baby Hutt was trapped under the bulk of its dead mother , eventually emerging several minutes later to face Jabba . Jabba was secure in the knowledge that he would be the new Desilijic leader , but decided to neutralize the potential threat of Jiliac ' s child out of hatred and the desire to tie up loose ends . He rolled over his helpless cousin , squashing it to death . Jiliac ' s child died before it left infancy , so it had little direct influence on the Desilijic clan . However , Jiliac ' s maternal aversion to business affairs inflicted financial losses on her clan , and her expulsion of most of the Winter Palace ' s staff left her prone to an attack such as Durga ' s . Jabba ' s resentment of Jiliac ' s relationship with the child also turned him against his aunt , so that he prevented Jiliac ' s guards from interceding during her brawl with Durga . Had it lived , Jiliac ' s child could one day have laid claim to leadership of the clan . Personality and traits . Huttlets were totally dependent on their parent for the first years of their existence , and were capable of only rudimentary cognition . Jiliac ' s child was killed before it could develop any personal characteristics , but the two beings it had most contact with , Jabba and Jiliac , had polarized opinions about it . Jiliac , as the Huttlet ' s mother , doted upon the infant and was highly protective of it . She refused to subject the child to the pollution of Nar Shaddaa , or to send it to a communal nursery , and insisted that only those she trusted completely were allowed anywhere near the child . Jabba , however , saw the child and its mother ' s sentimental opinion of it as a blight to the Desilijic clan , and despised his cousin . The infant resembled a larval form of a Hutt , with mere stubs as arms . It could move around for short periods of time , and liked being rocked by Jiliac ' s tail ; however , this frequently led to the child regurgitating its food . Behind the scenes . Jiliac ' s pregnancy and unborn child were first established in " The Hutt Gambit " ( 1997 ) by A . C . Crispin , the second installment of " The Han Solo Trilogy " . One year later , Jiliac ' s newborn appeared in " Rebel Dawn " , the final novel in Crispin ' s trilogy . Its death , hinted at in " Rebel Dawn " , was made explicit in Jabba the Hutt ' s entry in Daniel Wallace ' s " The New Essential Guide to Characters " ( 2002 ) . The Huttling was also briefly mentioned in Cory J . Herndon ' s " Hutt ! Hutt ! Hutt ! " article on Wizards . com in 2003 .