Zorba Desilijic Tiure

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**Zorba the Hutt** is the father of Jabba the Hutt, and relative of countless other Hutts. Zorba chose to take action against the people who had killed his son.

## Biography

### Early Life

**Zorba Desilijic Tiure** was a Hutt crime lord and the leader of the Desilijic kajidic. One of few Hutts to possess hair—as a result of a genetic throwback—Zorba was the sibling of Jilac, Ebor, Ziro, and Pazda, the parent of several Hutts, among them Jabba Desilijic Tiure, and also a grandparent of several Hutts, including Jabba's son Rotta and both Gorga  and Grubba Desilijic Aarrpo. Zorba was an inept leader of Desilijic, and he had few supporters in his clan, due to his outlandish schemes and financial mismanagement. During the Separatist Crisis, he was apprehended by law enforcement and sentenced to prison on the planet Kip. Jiliac took over as Desilijic leader, and Jabba inherited much of Zorba's holdings.

### Release from Prison

After the destruction of the second Death Star and the slow deterioration of the Galactic Empire, Zorba was released by agents of Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard, and traveled to Jabba's Palace on Tatooine in his ship, the *Zorba Express*. Zorba was refused admission to the palace, and he later discovered that Jabba had been killed by Princess Leia Organa. Determined to punish Organa, Zorba put out a bounty on her. Using a secret will of his son's, Zorba laid claim to much of Jabba's holdings throughout the galaxy, including his casino on Bespin and his desert citadel on Tatooine.

### Revenge against Leia Organa

By the time the Empire was almost cast out into the Unknown Regions, Zorba decided that the time had come to set his plan of revenge in motion. During one of Han Solo's expeditions across the galaxy, Leia now pregnant with their child accompanied him and Chewbacca. The trio of heroes were being tracked by bands of pirates and bounty hunters hired by Zorba to ensure that there would be no survivors. While on this voyage, Leia and Han decieded to check in on their old friend Lando Calrissian, who was beginning to get back into the smuggling business, but also worked at a casino. The hunters then targeted Leia at the casino and opened fire, fortunately Lando saw the shooters in time and pushed Leia out of the way. Han then proceeded to shoot at the hunters, managing to kill two to three of them in the first five minutes of the shootout. But the ultimate victory came when Chewbacca quietly approached them from behind and knocked out the hunters.

After the attack, it was made obvious that Leia was the target, and Han first assumed it was Xizor, but she debunked that thought when recalling that Xizor wanted her alive. After an investigation, the heroes discovered that it was Zorba, Jabba's father who had instigated the attack in order to kill Leia to avenge his son. Because of Zorba's treachery to the New Republic a squad had been sent to apprehend the criminal but soon discovered that he had traveled to the Sarlacc pit where he would wait for vengeance to arrive. The squad soon found Zorba by the pit and Zorba's forces engaged the Republic in a lengthy battle until Zorba was Force-Pushed by Leia into the Sarlacc pit, where he would die from the pit ripping him apart.

### Legacy

After both Jabba and Zorba's deaths, the responsibility of running the criminal empire fell to Jabba's son Rotta. Though Rotta was still young, he would one day rise to be a powerful crime lord.

## Personality and Traits

Zorba Desilijic Tiure was extremely proud of his Hutt heritage. He believed Hutts to be a fair and honorable species; they were kind to each other, even if they expected everyone else to do their bidding. He often swore by the name of the ancient conqueror, Kossak the Hutt, and it pained him to hear other sentients speak ill of Hutts. Zorba was outraged when the gatekeeper droid at Jabba's Palace refused to admit him, believing it was because of anti-Hutt bias. Zorba was also extremely close to his family, especially Jabba, though Jabba and Jiliac did not have high opinions of Zorba.

Zorba was unlike most Hutts in that he did not relish being in charge of criminal operations, and he often shunned power—for the almost 600 years he spent as leader of Desilijic clan, he was never really interested in running the clan and the family business. Despite this, he was an iron-fisted ruler, and he did not allow any attempts to usurp him to succeed. Zorba was something of an entrepreneur, and he was a Hutt full of ideas.

Zorba was almost universally disliked by his fellow Hutts, and by most non-Hutts. Because of the rare genetic throwback that gave him a full head of hair, Zorba was often ostracized by other Hutts—they felt he was impure, and unfit to be in such a lofty position, and made no attempts to hide their displeasure at it. Zorba was a vengeful being, and he had no qualms about harming innocent people to achieve his own means.