Jess

**Jess** was a popular Human female musician. Secretly, she hoped to eventually leave Jabba's Palace by joining a band. Jess was often seen in the company of Bib Fortuna, and she witnessed Han Solo's rescue.

## History

Jess played the seven-string hallikset and had a long-term relationship with a swooper named Altair Wyeto, who, in 2 ABY took his chance to join the swoop circuits and departed for the Core Worlds. Although Wyeto would have been willing to stay had she asked him, Jess told him to go and live his dream despite the fact that they would be apart. The two promised to see each other again.

In 4 ABY, Jess worked as a musician in Jabba's Palace, hoping to eventually leave the establishment by joining a band. She came to the palace because her father, Willux, had a debt to Jabba the Hutt. She dreamed of killing the Hutt and escaping but believed she never would. Eventually, Wyeto returned and attempted to bargain with Jabba for her freedom. He later encountered Jess and asked her to marry him. Jess refused to try and escape, saying that Jabba's people would hunt them both down and kill them. When Wyeto insisted, Jess, overcome by sadness and anger, told him to leave and never come back. During her servitude, Jess befriended the singer Damaris Viell and Jabba's slave dancer Oola. Jess was often seen in the company of Bib Fortuna stroking his lekku. He reciprocated the gesture, often leading her around the throne room by hand, and letting her sit nestled to him. Though he still reminded her what she was, dragging her to the sight of Oola being fed to the rancor. Despite trying not to look directly into the pit, Jess was enraged as the rancor ate Oola. Later, she was left to slumber alone on Jabba's dais with two other patrons as Fortuna lay in wait with his master, ready to spring the trap as Leia Organa, disguised as Boushh, released Han Solo from carbonite.

When Jabba captured Leia, the Hutt ordered Jess and Damaris to prepare Organa to serve as his replacement for Oola. While she dressed Organa in a dancing-girl costume, she informed the Princess that if she didn't cause trouble, she would be treated well. Organa rejected her advice and insisted that Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker would soon arrive to save her. Later that night, Damaris had a vision that Organa's chains would not hold her, but when she refused to tell Organa, Jess expressed her frustration.

The next morning, Jess received a written message that a palace kitchen worker, Naatke, had found amongst arriving cargo and given to her. It was from her old neighbor, Imj, who told her that Willux had passed away. That same day, Skywalker visited the palace. He was eventually taken prisoner and, alongside Chewbacca and Solo, was sentenced to be executed in the Great Pit of Carkoon. Jess hid in the palace until his sail barge left for the pit so that she wouldn't have to go. She then stole a Joben T-85 speeder bike from the palace hangar and rode to Mos Espa, where she learned that Jabba had been killed. Locating Wyeto, the two escaped the planet together.

During the New Republic Era, Jess was seen in a bar in Level 1313 in the Coruscant Underworld. By 9 ABY, Jess was once again on Tatooine, where she was hanging out with other girls in Mos Eisley.

## Personality and traits

Jess was friends with some of the other performers in Jabba's Palace, such as Damaris and Oola. After becoming a servant of Jabba the Hutt, Jess dreamed of killing the ganster. Though she hated serving Jabba, she was resigned to the fact that she couldn't escape his palace alive. Because of this, she believed Leia Organa was delusional for trusting that Luke Skywalker would save her. Eventually, the shock of her father's death inspired her to finally escape.

Despite the fact that Jess started out on keyboards, her preference was stringed instruments. Jess was a Human female who had white hair with blue highlights. She was attired in a solid brassiere and long blue leggings.

## Appearances

* Coruscant Nights III
* The Sand Will Provide
* *Lyn Me: The Dancer*