Khetanna

The ***Khetanna*** was an LO-KD57 luxury sail barge manufactured by Ubrikkian Industries that was modified to suit the needs of the Hutt crime lord Jabba. After the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker killed Jabba's pet rancor, the crime lord demanded Skywalker and his companions Han Solo and Chewbacca be executed at the Great Pit of Carkoon. The Hutt and his entourage traveled to the pit in *Khetanna* in order to view the executions, but the prisoners managed to board the sail barge and kill Jabba, destroying the sail barge as they escaped.

## History

Shortly before the Battle of Endor, Princess Leia Organa, Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, and the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 staged a rescue attempt of Han Solo, who was frozen in carbonite inside Jabba's palace. However, the attempt ended up failing and Organa was forced to become Jabba's slave, while Skywalker, Solo, and Chewbacca were sentenced to death by being consumed by the sarlacc in the Great Pit of Carkoon. Jabba, accompanied by Organa and his entourage, traveled to the pit in *Khetanna* to witness the execution. However, R2-D2, who was still aboard the sail barge, launched Skywalker's lightsaber into the air, allowing the Jedi to catch it and fight back against Jabba's thugs, while Organa went on to kill the Hutt. Skywalker soon managed to board *Khetanna*, and after neutralizing the guards on top, told Organa to aim the vessel's main blaster cannon at the deck. The pair proceeded to swing across to one of the nearby skiffs while the cannon fired at the barge, starting a chain-reaction and causing it to explode. Its remains ended up burying the sarlacc, allowing Jawas to scavenge them for their business.

After Boba Fett escaped the Sarlacc, he found himself standing among the wreckage left over from the Battle of Carkoon. He saw the destroyed *Khetanna* in front of him, shortly before collapsing onto the sand unconscious. Fett would eventually regain consciousness and depart Tatooine in ALC-8.

A short while later, Fett returned to Tatooine. He hid in the wreckage of the *Khetanna* in order to ambush Jar Jar Binks, who was wandering near the Sarlacc pit.

After the *Khetanna*'s destruction, Lugubrious Mote, a performer who claimed she was present during the rescue of Han Solo, had a scaled replica of the vessel created that she used during performances. After seeing Mote perform with the sail barge, a youth named Teal commented the replica was so gaudy that she found it difficult to believe such a ship had ever existed. Although largely stripped of valuables by scavenging Jawas, the remnants of the *Khetanna* near the sarlacc pit were part of Mos Eisley's Skywalker Tour. Parts of the *Khetanna* were eventually used to line the interior of the Doe See'ybark Bootana restaurant.

In 9 ABY, the remains of the *Khetanna*, mostly picked clean, were still lying next to the sarlacc pit and somewhat visible when Boba Fett escaped the sarlacc for the third time in his life; the bounty hunter later returned to taunt the sarlacc and Susejo. The sail barge's wreckage remained there when he and Master Assassin Fennec Shand revisited the pit and killed the sarlacc inside, in a failed attempt to retrieve the former's armor.

## Appearances

* Beyond the Dune Sea (First appearance) (wreckage only)
* Bombad Bounty (wreckage only)
* Counterattack (wreckage only)
* A Job Worth Payment (Mentioned only)
* *A Third Time* (wreckage only)
* Beyond the Dune Sea II (wreckage only)
* "Desert Sands"—*The Further Exploits of Indiana Jones* (wreckage only)