Pagetti Rook Pagetti Rook was a Weequay male who worked for the crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure as a skiff guard on the planet Tatooine . In 4 ABY , Jabba ordered that Luke Skywalker , Han Solo and Chewbacca — three agents of the Alliance to Restore the Republic whom he held prisoner — be executed at the Great Pit of Carkoon . Rook was assigned to the Bantha - II cargo skiff that carried the prisoners to the pit , where they were to be fed to a sarlacc that lived there . . Biography . Pagetti Rook was a Weequay who served the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure as a skiff guard during the Galactic Civil War between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire . His master obtained the smuggler Han Solo frozen in carbonite in 3 ABY , and chose to display Solo at his palace on the desert planet Tatooine , where Rook worked . In 4 ABY , several of Solo ' s friends in the Alliance then initiated a plan to free the smuggler from Jabba ' s clutches , which started with the former smuggler Lando Calrissian taking a job alongside Rook as a skiff guard at the palace . The Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker then gifted the droid s R2 - D2 and C - 3PO to Jabba , and they two were given roles within the palace . With these allies in place , Leia Organa disguised herself as the bounty hunter Boushh and then brought Chewbacca to Jabba as a prisoner , but soon after arriving she was caught thawing Solo out of his carbonite and captured . Skywalker himself was the last to journey to the palace , and after he killed Jabba ' s pet rancor , the Hutt ordered that Solo , Chewbacca and Skywalker be executed . Rook was one of five guards assigned to escort the prisoners on a Bantha - II cargo skiff pilot ed by the Kadas ' sa ' Nikto Vedain , with Calrissian and the slave Kithaba being two of the other men assigned to the skiff . The skiff would take Skywalker and his companions to the Great Pit of Carkoon , where they would be fed to the sarlacc that dwelt there and digested over one thousand years . Jabba and his court traveled in the sail barge " Khetanna " to watch the spectacle and a second skiff of guards traveled alongside the vehicle carrying Rook . Upon reaching the pit , Skywalker used a Jedi mind trick to convince one of his guards to take off his handcuffs before Rook forced him out onto a gangplank over the sarlacc ' s pit . Jabba offered the prisoners a chance to beg for mercy , but all three refused , and Skywalker warned the Hutt that this was his last chance to free them . Jabba chose to ignore the threat and ordered Rook to push Skywalker into the pit . Rook stepped forward and jabbed at the Jedi with his Vibro - ax , forcing Skywalker to step off the end of the plank ; however , the Jedi spun and caught the plank and then leapt back up and over Rook . After landing , Skywalker caught his lightsaber , which had been launched to him by R2 - D2 on board the sail barge , and attacked Rook and his colleagues . At some point during the ensuing battle , Rook was either knocked into the Sarlacc , killed by Skywalker ' s lightsaber or simply escaped . Personality and traits . Rook was a Weequay male with black hair and brown skin . Equipment . Rook carried a vibro - ax while on the skiff and wore a pair of beige pants with a blue shirt and brown armor . His outfit also included boot s and a belt . Behind the scenes . Pagetti Rook was one of several Weequay characters created for , all of whom were known as " Queequay " during production in reference to the character from the book " " . Rook himself , who was portrayed uncredited in the film and known as " Queequeg 2 " in production , was identified by the nickname Queequeg in " " , a reference book released in 1999 . The character then received proper identification in the " Rogues Gallery " section of " Star Wars Insider " 143 , where Leland Chee identified him by the full name of Pagetti Rook . All of the non - human skiff guard costumes , including Rook ' s , were made through cooperation between the costume and creature design departments working on the film . Clay sculpts of the alien heads were used to make plaster molds into which latex could be poured to create the final product . Velcro and harnesses hidden with clothing were used to make sure the masks did not fall off the performers ' heads during filming . Rook ' s clothing consisted of a quilted suede tabard over a simple turquoise shirt . The pants were made using a cotton waffle weave fabric that was used extensively in many of the film ' s costumes and then dyed , aged and distressed with mud . The leather straps and belt that lay over the tabard were secured at the front of the costume with a medallion buckle . An early costume sketch for the character made by Nilo Rodis - Jamero also included a helmet and armed the Weequay with a blaster as well as a vibro - ax .