Krrsantan

**Krrsantan**, also known as **Black Krrsantan**, and nicknamed "**Santy**," "**BK**," and "**Black K**" by Doctor Aphra and "**Santo**" by Garsa Fwip and Boba Fett, was a male Wookiee bounty hunter whose career spanned from during the rule of the Galactic Empire into the era of the New Republic. Originally escaping his homeworld Kashyyyk and trained by the infamous Xonti Brothers as a gladiator, Krrsantan later became a ferocious bounty hunter. He was regularly hired by the crime lord Jabba the Hutt and at one point fought Obi-Wan Kenobi, receiving a scar from the Jedi Master's lightsaber. During the Galactic Civil War, Darth Vader hired Krrsantan to track down and capture an agent of the Emperor.

Following the death of Jabba and the end of the war, Krrsantan was employed by that late Hutt's cousins, brother and sister crime lords known as the Twins. Their cousin's criminal empire had been taken over by the former bounty hunter Boba Fett, and the Hutts sought Krrsantan's services in wresting control away from the self-appointed Daimyo. Krrsantan attempted to assassinate Fett, but was captured by his forces. Shortly after, the Twins promised to leave Tatooine, and Krrsantan was eventually employed by Boba Fett. A part of Fett's forces, he participated in a battle against the Pyke Syndicate, which resulted in the Fett gotra's victory.

## History

By 9 ABY, Krrsantan had been employed as a guard for the Twins, a Hutt brother and sister who spent their days involved in debauchery on the Hutt world of Nal Hutta. When the Twins traveled to Tatooine intending to reclaim the territory of their late cousin Jabba for the Hutts, Krrsantan accompanied them, acting as muscle.

However, Jabba's empire had been claimed by former bounty hunter Boba Fett, who was unfazed by the gladiator's presence. Fett maintained that the territory was his, and that the Hutts should go back to Hutta. The Twins wanted to kill him, but the brother of the pair decided to defer the conflict until later, leaving Fett and bringing Krrsantan with them, the latter of whom glared at Fett before departing.

Following the previous meeting with Tatooine's new Daimyo in Mos Espa, the Twins dispatched Krrsantan to kill their rival to Jabba's throne. The Wookiee infiltrated Boba Fett's Palace, and attacked an unsuspecting Fett, who was healing in his bacta tank. Throwing his target out of the tank and across the room, Krrsantan used his electrified brass knuckles to strike down the Daimyo. Fett then stabbed the Wookiee twice with a gaderffii stick, leaving the weapon in the bounty hunter's back. Krrsantan knocked his adversary across the room in response. Picking up Fett by the waist, the Wookiee began to squeeze around his target's spine with a bear hug. Fett tried to hit Krrsantan on the head, but his assassin bit his hand with his teeth.

However, Fett's newly recruited street gang arrived and attacked Krrsantan, surrounding and engaging the Wookiee in melee combat. The bounty hunter knocked two to the floor and hit Fett into his bacta tank when he pulled the gaderffii stick out of his back. When Fett's two Gamorrean bodyguards came, Krrsantan tackled them both down the stairs to the throne room and used his strength to knock them around, biting one of them. The street gang returned to face the Wookiee when Fett's Master Assassin Fennec Shand intervened and activated a trap door below Krrsantan. The bounty hunter managed to grab onto the floor with one hand, but Shand threw a knife directly at Krrsantan's fingers which caused him to plummet down into Jabba's former rancor pit, where he found himself trapped.

After the thwarted assassination attempt, the Twins met Fett by the palace door, with Krrsantan led in shackles by one of the Gamorrean guards. Fett offered to give him over to the Hutts. Once the Twins realized that their bounty hunter had failed, and that the planet was offered to another syndicate by mayor Mok Shaiz, they offered him as an extra gift to Fett alongside a rancor, before departing to Nal Hutta, uninterested in fighting over Tatooine with rival syndicates. Fett advised Krrsantan to not waste his time by working for the Hutts and freed him. Removed from his shackles, the Wookiee shared one last glace with Fett before running away.

Following his departure from Fett's palace, Krrsantan found himself as a patron of Garsa Fwip's cantina, Sanctuary. While drinking at the cantina, he watched a group of Trandoshans gamble. Over time, he grew enraged, before eventually attacking the Trandoshans, causing havoc and destruction as the other patrons and Boba Fett, who had just arrived, watched. Garsa Fwip soon intervened, attempting to calm Krrsantan, stating that such violence was beneath an individual of his fame and notoriety—and pointing out the considerable bar tab he had accrued as a result of his destructive assault. Despite briefly pondering Fwip's words, he tore the arm off of one of his Trandoshan victims, then paid his tab and left the cantina.

As Krrsantan walked away from Sanctuary, Fett approached him. The Daimyo offered Krrsantan a job, which the Wookiee accepted. During an ensuing meeting—hosted by Fett—between the multiple families that ruled over Mos Espa's territory, Krrsantan stood present while under Fett's hire. He was also present during a meeting with the rest of Fett's associates, in preparation for war against the Pyke Syndicate.

The terrorist attack on the Sanctuary prompted the battle for Mos Espa and started open warfare between Boba Fett and the Pyke Syndicate. Commanded by Fett to patrol in the area of the City Hall, Krrsantan kept a keen eye on the streets of Mos Espa in the Trandoshan territorry. Observing the crowds of merchants and people wandering the streets, Krrsantan was suddenly ambushed by multiple Trandoshans that drew their weapons and advanced against the Wookiee. Nine Trandoshans made their way towards him and Krrsantan fired two rounds from his heavy blaster and killed two of his opponents. However, another Trandoshan impaled the Wookiee from behind. He roared in pain and bashed the attacker with his blaster. Retreating to the stairs of City Hall, the bounty hunter continued to battle against his Trandoshan aggressors even as they took away his blaster. He employed his enormous strength and brass knuckles to punch the Trandoshans. Though valiant in effort, Krrsantan was overwhelmed when the remaining seven Trandoshans restrained him and crawled all over him, pinning the Wookiee to the ground. In spite of this, the ex-gladiator managed to escape.

Wounded, Krrsantan made his way towards the rendezvous, the destroyed Sanctuary. Making his way through the Pykes, Krrsantan spotted Fett and his allies barricaded behind a landspeeder in front of Sanctuary. Carrying one Pyke on his shoulder and dragging another which held onto his blaster, Krrsantan dropped the one on his shoulder and then pushed the other Pyke hard enough to shoot him mid-air. More Pykes began to open fire on him, some hitting him, though some hit his gold armor. Picking up the Pyke he had dropped, the battle-worn Wookiee heaved him several meters at an advancing Pyke. Still under fire, Krrsantan began to limp his way towards Fett and the others while taking out the Pykes he could. By this point, Krrsantan had been cut, stabbed, and shot multiple times and was starting to succumb to his wounds.

Krrsantan still tried to power his way through the pain, but after another shot to his already injured right leg, he collapsed. Fett and Djarin ran to Krrsantan's aid, taking most of the fire from the Pykes. Helping Krrsantan to the landspeder, Fett welcomed the Wookiee back and was impressed he was still alive, promising him a bacta tank soak after the whole ordeal was over. While resting and recuperating, the Fett gotra fought against the Pykes in a large shoot-out. Then the Pyke forces suddenly retreated and two large scorpenek droids approached, armed with two heavy turrets and a shield generator. Boba Fett and his allies failed to penetrate their shields. Blasting the landspeeder, Krrsantan followed the people of Freetown as they ran towards the Worker's District to seek shelter.

Despite Fett and the Mandalorian distracting one of the droids, the second droid pursued the fleeing people. Taking cover behind a wall, Krrsantan waited until the droid was right in front of him and opened fire at close range. Using his hand, Krrsantan pressed against the shield and managed to pierce it with his fingertips. However, just as he had his hand through the shield, he was knocked back into the wall by one of the droid's legs. Falling down, the Wookiee was helped up by Drash and Skad, who supported him until three Pykes appeared, which they all fired upon. They then helped him escape with the others. Finding a shelter, Krrsantan and the Weequay Taanti kept firing at the droid's shield until the others were safe. Backed against a corner, Krrsantan and the others were forced to make their stand.

Trying to distract the droid and the Pykes, Krrsantan allowed Drash and one of the people of Freetown to get to a roof to see if they could get through the shield, although the attempt failed. Suddenly, the nearby wall burst into rubble as Fett rode atop his rancor and let it smash the droid, eventually destroying it after a prolonged fight. Boba Fett was separated from the rancor by Cad Bane and the beast started to roam through Mos Espa and rampaged throughout the spaceport. Krrsantan joined the others and tried to quell the beast, however they only succeeded in angering it further. The rancor threw a landspeeder, which Krrsantan dodged.

Following the aftermath and their subsequent victory against the Pyke Syndicate, Krrsantan healed his wounds and was given a meiloorun fruit from the locals by Boba Fett. Skad jokingly asked if the Wookiee would share, which Krrsantan merely roared at.

## Personality and traits

Black Krrsantan was a male Wookiee. He had black hair and brown eyes, with decorative gold material covering his chest, as well as gold ornaments in his hair. He had a scar across his left eye from Kenobi's lightsaber. He disgraced his people on Kashyyyk, prompting him to get off world. When he first heard of the Xonti Brothers, Krrsantan did not hesitate to try and get to them, going as far as killing most of a Trandoshan acquisition crew to get to them. The last Trandoshan, Noka, was surprised of Krrsantan's willingness to join.

However, Krrsantan soon found out what he really signed up for and after harsh training as a gladiator, he swore a life debt on the Xonti Brothers, a pledge to affect them in the same way they had affected him. Krrsantan eventually saw the Xonti Brothers again during the auction of Rur, where he attempted to capture them. After the Auction ended in the deaths of many members, Krrsantan used it as his chance to capture the Xonti Brothers and he did, taking them back to their gladiatorial pits to fulfill the life debt. When Krrsantan greeted Doctor Aphra with a hug and a smile on Arbiflux, Vulaada Klam suspected it was because Krrsantan considered her a friend, but Aphra believed the Wookiee only saw her as a friend so long as she had a debt to him that she was alive to pay off. Indeed, for all their history together, Krrsantan was more than willing to turn on Aphra when a bounty was offered for her capture, showing no remorse for his betrayal when Aphra tried to bring up their past alliances.

## Appearances

* The Sand Will Provide (Indirect mention only)
* From the Desert Comes a Stranger (First appearance)
* Invaders on Their Land
* The Sun Sets and It Rises
* The Believer