Unidentified dinghy driver

A male Teek dinghy driver worked as a ferryman at Starport Borgo during the New Republic Era. By operating a dinghy that docked with incoming starship, it provided new arrivals with transportation to the landing platform on the asteroid.
Around 9 ABY, the dinghy driver offered its service to the young members of the Skeleton Crew, who had become lost in the galaxy after accidentally leaving their homeworld aboard an abandoned starship. The younglings paid the driver with Old Republic credits, a valuable currency it eagerly accepted before scurrying off excitedly. Some time later, the children intended to use the ferryman's services again, but the transaction was never took place as the younglings were arrested by Brutus's pirate crew.
==Biography==
The individual was a male Teek who worked as a ferryman at Starport Borgo during the New Republic Era. The driver operated a plastic-roofed space dinghy that utilized a dedicated suction tube to dock with incoming starships and transport new arrivals to the landing platform on the asteroid, itself steering the vehicle from a side-mounted pilot's dome.
Around 9 ABY, the ferryman docked with the Onyx Cinder and invited the younglings Fern, KB, Neel, and Wim aboard. At the suggestion of their droid SM-33, the children boarded the Teek's dinghy and travelled with it to the port. After dropping off the kids, it jumped on Fern's back, speaking in its language while holding out its hand. Despite not understanding the language, KB figured out that the Teek wanted payment for its ferrying service. Therefore, Wim handed the driver an Old Republic credit that his father had given him for lunch money. Knowing the value of that kind of credits, the Teek ran off excitedly with the coin it had received.
With a new coin in hand, the dinghy driver stopped by a noodle bar, the same place that the boys Neel and Wim were visiting. The man climbed onto the counter and spotted Wim using the same currency he had previously given to it. The Teek jumped back down just as the fry cook got into a fight with a greasy patron, onto whose shoulder it shortly scrambled to watch as the boys excused themselves to other customers. Wim and Neel claimed to hail from At Attin, a mysterious planet dismissed as a myth in pirate lore. When a scuffle was about to break out, Wim uphanded his bowl of noodles onto the grill, igniting it into flame. Seizing the moment, he and Neel dashed out of the noodle bar together.
Some time later, the younglings returned to the dinghy, having escaped a pirate crew that had been chasing them after the skirmish in the noodle bar. Fern told Wim to pay the man again, but the communication was hindered by the ferryman speaking its non-Basic language. Although the boy had delved into his socket to provide the currency, the transaction was not finished, as the pirates arrived for the younglings in the meantime. The children subsequently argued with pirate Captain Brutus before being arrested and placed in a brig pending further interrogation.
==Personality and traits==
The ferryman was a small male Teek with light-brown skin and a scruffy appearance, featuring scraggly white hair covering most of its face and limbs. It had blue eyes and pointed ears.
==Equipment==
During its time piloting the dinghy, the driver wore a dingy brown long-sleeved shirt with gray patches and brown pants in addition to open-toe sandals. In addition, it possessed a wrench.
==Behind the scenes==
The dinghy driver first appeared in the second episode of the live-action series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which aired on December 2, 2024. 
The ferryman was a handpuppet-controlled creation, digitally untouched except for its animated hand gestures. For "Way, Way Out Past the Barrier" director David Lowery, seeing on screen the same, unretouched puppet that he had priorly seen on set was a "cognitive dissonance." During a charity livestream with the 501st Legion, actor Sam Witwer revealed that he might have voiced the character.
The episode "Way, Way Out Past the Barrier" provided two pronominal paradigms for the character, with KB addressing it as it and Fern calling it him. Ultimately, however, it was KB's pronominal usage that was consequently adhered to in the episode's audio description, narrated by Jedediah Barton.
A species originally created for Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, the man was the first Teek individual to be pictured within the canon continuity. The presence of a Teek character in the series was the idea of the showrunner Jon Watts, while the other showrunner, Christopher Ford, contributed to its portrayal by making it look "rough." Accounting for the discrepancies between the Ewoks and Skeleton Crew depictions of the species, Watts said that the ferryman was more like a Teek who had "fallen on hard times," which would explain its being thinner and less hairy than its fellow Teeks.
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Category:Individuals with he/him pronouns
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Category:Teeks