Garindan ezz Zavor Garindan ezz Zavor , sometimes referred to as Long Snoot , was a male Kubaz who had been forced to work as a spy for the Galactic Empire . In private , Garindan loathed his Imperial overlords and sought to return to his his clan and free his homeworld of Kubindi from Imperial rule . Prior to the Battle of Yavin , Garindan received news that his family was in danger . In an attempt to buy passage home , Garindan provided information about the location of Obi - Wan Kenobi , Luke Skywalker , C - 3PO , and R2 - D2 to the Galactic Empire during a battle on the desert world of Tatooine . Despite the failure of that job , Garindan accepted another job to help Derrida the Ketton spy on the Rebel Alliance . Biography . The unwilling spy . Born on the planet Kubindi , Garindan ezz Zavor came from a respectable Kubaz clan that was known for breeding and farm ing a south - after strain of succulent picolet beetle s . He had a wife and several children who were well - known senator s , orators , and artist s . Garindan also had at least one daughter . He also had several grandchildren who attended creches and academies . During the Imperial Era , the Galactic Empire used polished protocol droid s to win over the Kubaz elders and lead the people into the belly of their grand vessel . Garindan was one of the chosen students picked from his academy to study under the Empire as a diplomat and return to his mate and hive with new accolades . However , Garindan and his fellow students were instead indentured and forcibly trained as spies . The Empire wanted to exploit the Kubaz for their ability to read body language s , smell pheromones and weapons , and to hear long distances . Garindan and the other students were put in manacles and forced to endure propaganda , indoctrination , and brain washing . Disillusioned with the Empire , Garindan slipped away while on a job and attempted to return to Kubindi , only to find its orbit guarded by Imperial firepower . Unable to return to his homeworld , Garindan spend the next several years working as a spy in order to raise the necessary credit s to hire a ship to travel back to Kubindi . Garindan also accumulated a datapad with the most current information , diagrams , and manuals on advanced technology and hyperspace travel . Garindan was determined to reveal the truth of the Empire ' s " exploitation " to his people and provide them with the necessary technology to claim their right to self determination . Posting on Tatooine . During the early stages of the Galactic Civil War , Garindan was stationed in the port city of Mos Eisley on the desert world of Tatooine . Garindan dwelled in a hovel that had previously served as a stable for livestock . He hated Tatooine , regarding the planet as a barren world bereft of arts , decorum , and education . Garindan encountered xenophobic hostility from the local human population , who regarded him as an unscrupulous spy . On one occasion , Garindan stole a leather bag of credits belonging to a human man who had insulted him . Around the time of Prince ss Leia Organa ' s secret mission to Tatooine , Garindan received a garbled comm message from Kubindi . Having not heard his own language for years , Garindan paid the robed female emissary all the money in his account . Garindan learned from his daughter that his wife was dead and that the family was in trouble . With his family in danger , Garindan resolved to take on a job and earn enough money to hire a ship to return to Kubindi . Using his spy network , Garindan arranged for his human informant to supply the codes that he needed to return home . The informant told Garindan that the codes would last for a few days and advised him not to hire a rebel ship . Embarking on his mission to get home , Garindan accepted a job from the Empire to search for two droid s , C - 3PO and R2 - D2 , who had escaped from Imperial forces during a battle in orbit . The search was primarily to find the stolen plans for the Death Star , which R2 - D2 was carrying for the Rebel Alliance . The droids were under the protection of Obi - Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker . Garindan waited in Chalmun ' s Cantina listening for any chatter related to the fugitive droids . He smelled the scent of Skywalker ' s X - 34 landspeeder . Garindan overheard Ponda Baba and Cornelius Evazan fighting with Kenobi with the former losing his arm to Kenobi ' s lightsaber . Garindan also overheard Kenobi and Skywalker negotiating passage to Alderaan with the ship ' s captain , Han Solo , and its co - pilot , Chewbacca . While waiting in the dark corner between the cantina and Solo ' s starship , the " Millennium Falcon " , in Docking Bay 94 , Garindan caught side of the men walking with the two fugitive droids . The Kubaz promptly informed Imperial stormtrooper s that the droids were at Docking Bay 94 in Mos Eisley ' s spaceport . Confident that he would be paid for his work , Garindan ordered a second drink at Chalmn ' s Cantina and conversed with the Devaronian Labria . Garindan was dismayed when he received a message on his datapad that the bounty had been forfeited since the droids had escaped . However , Labria then offered Garindan a job on behalf of Derrida the Ketton , who needed a companion for a job that night . Labria explained that this job was against the Alliance . Determined to help his family and liberate the Kubaz from Imperial rule , Garindan accepted the job . When Labria complimented Garindan ' s skills as a spy and asked about his motives , Garindan merely replied that he was " very far from home . " Personality and traits . Garindan ezz Zavor was a male Kubaz . While working as a spy on Tatooine , he wore a long black robe and hood . Goggles covered Garindan ' s eye s , and a metallic device covered Garindan ' s long snout . During the Imperial Era , Garindan initially had an optimistic view of the Galactic Empire and hoped to train a diplomat . However , Garindan became disillusioned with the Empire when he and his fellow Kubaz were forced to work as spies . As a result , Garindan harbored a deep hatred of the Empire and sought to free his people from Imperial rule . Garindan was part of a respectable clan and had a wife and several children and grandchildren . Garindan loved and deeply missed his family . He hated his posting on Tatooine , which he regarded as a desolate place bereft of arts , decorum , and education . Garindan endured considerable hostility form the local human population , who regarded him as an unscrupulous spy and alien outsider . Garindan in return held a negative view of humans , the galaxy ' s dominant species . He regarded them as an arrogant species who had inflated view of their place in the galaxy . Garindan ' s love for his family led him to accept any job including spying on the Alliance . Skills and abilities . As a Kubaz , Garindan was able to read body languages , smell pheromones and weapons , and hear chatter from long distances . Garindan was also sensitive to the pheromones that people and animals secreted , allowing him to read their thoughts and feelings . Garindan spoke both his native language Kubazian and Galactic Basic . Behind the scenes . Garindan was played by Sadie Eddon in " " . According to " Star Wars Insider 110 " , his voice was a processed version of John Wayne ' s voice . Garindan appeared in several Legends works including Daniel Keys Moran ' s 1995 short story " " , which was published as part of the volume " Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina " . Garindan ' s backstory was further developed in Delilah S . Dawson ' s " The Secrets of Long Snoot " , which was published as part of the 2017 anthology collection " From a Certain Point of View " . Dawson gave a more sympathetic appraisal of the character ' s motives , depicting him as a victim of the Empire as opposed to an opportunistic spy .