Kannen

"This is between me and Boo-Boo!"

- Kannen

Kannen was an operative working with the Rebel Alliance shortly before the Battle of Endor. She typically dressed in blue armor, and was armed with a blaster and a double-bladed vibrostaff comparable to those used by the Imperial Royal Guard, plus twin-pronged vibroblades in her wrist gauntlets. She may have been a Mandalorian, as her helmet had a T-shaped visor (although the 'upright' of the T was shorter than usual) and she had once dated Boba Fett.

Her liason with Fett was a sore point, as he broke off the relationship without warning, and later insisted that she had mistaken him for one of the many clones produced from his father's template. She harboured something of a blood-feud with him as a result.

In 4 ABY, Kannen escorted Manny Both-Hanz to a meeting on Tatooine with Lando Calrissian, Tag Greenly and Bink Otuna, intended to bring vital intelligence on the new Death Star to the Alliance. After her initial rendezvous was botched, she thought that she had gained some compensation by capturing Fett, although it was actually Tag inside the bounty-hunter's armor. The arrival of the real Fett complicated matters, and in the ensuing firefight, Manny was killed by a shot through the chest.

She was last seen fighting with Fett in a Mos Eisley docking bay, while Tag and Bink blasted their way off-planet aboard what may have been her own ship&mdash;a Lambda-class shuttle with a powerful holocomm.

Behind the scenes
Kannen appears only in Kevin Rubio's parody comic-strip The Return of Tag and Bink: Special Edition; this is a non-canon story, but Kannen may exist in canon. Oddly, the comic is entirely compatible with movie canon and bears no Infinities label.

Her name may be a homage to that of author Karen Traviss.

Appearances

 * The Return of Tag and Bink: Special Edition