Janet Lalasha

"What do you have? Something worth trading five million credits for?" "Yes. By the Cold, I do. Something worth five million credits easy. Maybe more. Something priceless, Fett&mdash;" "What?" "Rang. Maxa Jandovar. Janet Lalasha."

- Boba Fett and Kardue'sai'Malloc

A female musician, Janet Lalasha lived during the time of the Galactic Empire. Deemed to be a suspicious individual by the regime, however, Lalasha was subsequently persecuted and executed. Her music was suppressed by the Imperial authorities, although many years following Lalasha's death, when the New Republic was in power, a chance came for the musician's work to be heard once again.

History
Janet Lalasha was a female musician who lived during the time of the Galactic Empire, an authoritarian government which rose to power in 19 BBY. The Galactic Empire, however, was a censorial regime and began systematically hunting down, imprisoning and executing many musicians and confiscating their music. Janet Lalasha was targeted in one such purge as a "questionable" individual and the musician was subsequently executed. Following Lalasha's death, the Galactic Empire also purged records of her music.

Despite the Galactic Empire's success in supressing Lalasha's music, recordings of the musician's work eventually came into the possession of the fugitive Devaronian war criminal Kardue'sai'Malloc. Once Malloc was finally caught by bounty hunter Boba Fett, the Devaronian made his captor promise to sell his music collection, including the works of Lalasha, to a contact in order that it could be distributed once again to the galaxy.

Personality and traits
A musician of some renown, the nature of Janet Lalasha's work was deemed to be a threat to an authoritarian regime such as the Galactic Empire.

Behind the scenes
The unseen chracter of Janet Lalasha was first mentioned in the short story Empire Blues: The Devaronian's Tale, authored by Daniel Keys Moran. Keys Moran later made reference to Lalasha once again in The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett. Lalasha was confirmed to be female in a short entry in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, published in 2008; she was also revealed to have been killed during the Dark Times.

Appearances

 * Empire Blues: The Devaronian's Tale ''
 * The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett ''