B'omarr Order/Legends

"You have progressed rapidly on your spiritual path, Brother Fortuna. Prepare yourself for enlightenment."

- B'omarr Monk to Bib Fortuna



The B'omarr Monks were a mysterious religious order that moved to the planet Tatooine around 700 BBY. They believed that cutting themselves off from all civilization and distraction was essential to their enlightenment. They built a cavernous monastery on the edge of the Dune Sea, and spent many quiet centuries in meditation.

Many people lived in the monastery with the B'omarr Monks over the years. Most notable were the bandit Alkhara and Jabba the Hutt, who made it his palace.



The monks came from many species. Their minimalist views led them to sometimes go months without saying a word. Discourses and lectures were whittled down to a single word that the monks would meditate on. At a certain point in the monk's development, the lesser monks of the order assisted him with a "shedding" surgery. The body was seen as just another distraction, so it was discarded. The monk's brain was inserted into a nutrient jar, and placed on a shelf, where it would meditate and contemplate for millennia. On the off-chance that an enlightened monk had some business to attend to, he used his mind to summon a mechanical spider-like apparatus, which picked up his jar, and secured it so he could become mobile. If such an enlightened monk was encountered walking the halls of the monastery, his apparatus was given a generous breadth, and was often bowed to.

Occasionally, Jabba interacted with the monks, allowing them access to prisoners they dubbed "interesting." One such event occurred when Han Solo was imprisoned following his release from carbonite, and he consented to tell his story to a young monk there.

At other times, Jabba would ask (probably with the threat of violence attached) that the monks help him "punish" certain enemies, particularly through the use of the aforementioned surgical procedure. Jabba also ordered the monks to insert the brains of wanted criminals into other people's bodies so he could hand in a criminal's brainless body to the empire while the criminal's brain was in a different body. One of the criminals was a murderer named Karkas. This same procedure was later used on both Bib Fortuna and Nat Secura.

Appearances

 * Episode I: The Phantom Menace ½
 * Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns
 * Star Wars Missions 5: The Hunt for Han Solo
 * Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
 * Galaxy of Fear: The Brain Spiders
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
 * Tales from Jabba's Palace
 * The Jabba Tape
 * Darksaber