Ponda Baba

Ponda Baba was a male Aqualish thug who rescued Dr. Cornelius Evazan from a bounty hunter. The two formed a partnership and began to smuggle spice for the crime lord Jabba the Hutt, resulting in him becoming a wanted man. Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, he was a patron in Chalmun's Cantina on the planet Tatooine, where he instigated an argument with Luke Skywalker while bored and drunk. Evazan claimed that Baba did not like Skywalker and began to threaten the youth, leading to a brief confrontation with Obi-Wan Kenobi, who, after failing to calm tensions with the pirates, used hislightsaber to sever Baba's right arm and wound Evazan with a slash across the torso when the pair drew their blaster pistols on the old man, who was in secret one of the last remaining Jedi Masters of the nearly extinct Jedi Order. Evazan later tried to reattach Baba's arm using his medical training, but ended up nearly killing the Aqualish in the process when the procedure failed.
== Equipment ==
* Ponda Baba's SE-14C blaster pistol
== Relationships ==
=== Allies ===
* Doctor Evazan - Friend
=== Enemies ===
* Jyn Erso ✝
* Cassian Andor ✝
* Luke Skywalker - Enemy
* Obi-Wan Kenobi ✝ - Enemy
Category:A New Hope Characters
Category:Male
Category:Aqualishes
Category:Villains