Ziro Desilijic Tiure

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**Ziro Desilijic Tiure**, also called **Ziro the Hutt**, was a criminal lord of the Hutt Clan in several star systems, a Vigo for Black Sun, and uncle to Jabba Desilijic Tiure. Ziro had in the Clone Wars conspired with Dooku to kidnap the child son of Jabba, reasoning that when the Jedi sent to retrieve Rotta died, the Republic would be forced to apprehend Jabba, which would lead to Ziro gaining control of the clan. When the conspiracy had been unraveled, Ziro was then imprisoned on Coruscant. Fearing he would confess many Hutt Clan dealings to forces of the Republic, the others had paid Cad Bane to break him out, so they could keep Ziro under their own watch. Cad had freed him and turned him over to the Hutts, who feared that Ziro might tell the Republic of their dealings. Ziro was able to flee the Hutt Clan, but could not outrun his own shady past.

## Biography

### Early Life

At some point, **Ziro** was born to Mama the Hutt and he had a brother named Ebor. Starting as a loan shark on the planet of Sleheyron, Ziro the Hutt moved to the planet Coruscant so to pursue a bigger career. The Hutt did, however, adopt tattoos, headdress and jewels of the wealthy Sleheyroni Hutts. He did at a point in time eventually became a Vigo of Black Sun, and had a tattoo of its symbol. At some point, Ziro the Hutt had a affair with Sy Snootles, a singer of Max Rebo Band who later would be his death. However, Ziro ended the affair and went to Coruscant. There, Ziro the Hutt had operated his nightclub.

### Age of the Galactic Republic

#### Conspiring with the Separatists

Ziro is one of the only Hutts that have been heard to fluently speak Basic as opposed to Huttese. During the Clone War, Ziro made a deal with Separatist leader, Count Dooku; Dooku's assassin, Asajj Ventress kidnapped Ziro the Hutt's own nephew Jabba's son, Rotta. However, Ziro then learned from Naboo Senator Padmé Amidala that the Jedi had rescued Jabba's son. Fearing that his role would be discovered, contacted Dooku, informing of Amidala's investigation. Dooku assured Ziro that Jabba believed him about the Jedi killing his son. Knowing Jabba would execute the Jedi responsible, Dooku assured Ziro that he would become master of all the Hutt Clans when the Jedi would bring Jabba down. Ziro the Hutt was then ordered by Dooku to eliminate Amidala if she continued investigating. Ziro the Hutt and his IG-86 sentinel droids then found Amidala. When Dooku realized that it was Amidala, he told Ziro the Hutt that his allies would pay him for delivering Senator Amidala to him. Ziro, agreeing to the deal, had Amidala placed in his dungeon and thanked Dooku for the profitable alliance. However, Ziro the Hutt had then learned that Amidala had contacted the droid C-3PO for help.

Thus, he decided to execute Amidala, knowing his powerful friends in the Republic Senate would protect him. Ziro then attempted to dispose of the Senator Amidala, but was ultimately apprehended by the Coruscant Guard led by the droid C-3PO and Clone Commander Fox and put into custody. Via holocomm, he was forced to confess to his nephew of his part in his grandnephew's kidnapping. Furious at his uncle's treachery, Jabba vowed to have him punished. Ziro's time spent in Republic captivity was supposedly a brutal time in which he suffered many horrors. Blaming Senator Amidala for his current state, Ziro hired bounty hunter Aurra Sing to eliminate Senator Amidala for revenge. Sing attempted to kill Amidala on Alderaan, where she was attending a conference addressing the welfare of various refugees of the war. Sing only wounded the Senator, and was captured in the act. After Sing was captured, Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker visited Ziro in his cell. He admitted to the assassination attempt, which extended his sentence in the facility. Sometime later, Jabba and the Hutt Council conferred, discussing Ziro's importance to the Hutt operation.

#### Dirty Secrets for the Hutt Cartel

It was concluded that Ziro the Hutt was in possession of a sensitive datapad detailing the various illegal operations the Hutt Council undertook. Fearful for their safety, the Hutt Council had planned to hold the Galactic Senate hostage with a hired gunfighter, to use it as leverage for Ziro's release. Though the bounty hunter Cad Bane intially only signed with the Council to retrieve a layout of the Senate building, Cad Bane agreed to take part in the actual raid, assembling a team of hunters including Aurra Sing, who eluded imprisonment by the Republic in exchange for testifying against Ziro the Hutt, and technician Robonino. The ensuing raid resulted in the death of Senator Philo, as well as several of Galactic Senate security guards. The Hutt was released via Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's orders to save the surviving Senators' lives. Despite being pursued across Coruscant's skylanes by Quinlan Vos, Bane and Ziro escaped the Jedi on an airspeeder and made it to the bounty hunter's ship. After Bane successfully extracted Ziro from the prison, he was delivered to the Hutt Council on Nal Hutta, where Ziro had vowed his demise would result in the leaking of intelligence to the Republic.

#### Ziro Desilijic Hutt Assassination

The Hutt Clan Council instead decided to keep Ziro the Hutt under control in a cell. Jabba the Hutt hired Sy Snootles to free Ziro the Hutt from his cell, asking her to retrieve the information in Ziro's possession and then kill him when the task was complete. The other Hutts, unaware of Jabba's plan, had hired Cad Bane to track down Ziro and kill him. Ziro's first instinct was to flee to his mother's house, where the Council would least expect Ziro to flee. During this surprise visit, he arranged a trade with his mother for her starship, giving her his swamp speeder. Using their new ship, Ziro and Snootles traveled to Teth, where Ziro planned to retrieve his personal datapad, deliver it to the Republic, and have all the Council arrested. Ziro showed Sy his father's grave where the diary was located. After Sy had gotten her hands on the evidence, she quickly revealed her assignment under Jabba, equipping a and executing Ziro with two blaster shots to Ziro's chest. Around this time, the Jedi sent Obi-Wan Kenobi and Quinlan Vos to bring Ziro to justice. Their investigation naturally led them to the Hutt's stronghold on Nal Hutta, where Vos used his natural psychometryabilities to track Ziro to his mother's house, who then directed them to Teth. However, by the time the Jedi and Bane arrived, Ziro the Hutt was already killed.