Reelo Baruk

"He claims to be an honest garbage hauler, but he's really the most powerful kingpin in all of Nar Shaddaa&mdash;even the Hutts won't touch him."

- Kyle Katarn to Luke Skywalker

Reelo Baruk was a very corpulent Rodian gangster from Nar Shaddaa.

Biography
Very little was known about him. In 1 ABY he was working for Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine, and after much time there became a hardened criminal.

Baruk eventually made the move back to Nar Shaddaa, and opened a bar and also began his own criminal empire. Most people just saw him as the head of a local garbage hauling company, but this was not the case. He worked very hard to keep his criminal activity under the radar. His thugs were of many different alien species, and were considered as some of the worst scum in the Galaxy. He became one of the most respected crimelords in Hutt Space, but kept his business covered up enough that even NRI believed him to be legitimate. During his final years, he made a deal with the Dark Jedi, Desann, supplying the Remnant with thugs for a take over of the carbonite freezing chambers on Bespin. While looking for him, Kyle Katarn freed Lando Calrissian from Baruk's hold and eventually found the crime lord. However, Baruk managed to entrap him in a room full of turrets, but the Jedi escaped.

While Katarn and Calrissian were about to make their escape from Nar Shaddaa, Baruk attacked the two men with a handful of mercenaries. The criminal leader used a gun platform to hit Lady Luck while his thugs boarded the ship, but Katarn leapt into the laser turret of the Lady Luck and shot them down, including the gangster.

Behind the scenes
Reelo first appeared as one of the more major villains in Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, where his voice was portrayed by Kevin Michael Richardson. Reelo later appeared again in Star Wars: Galaxies, as the entrance point into the Jabba The Hutt quests.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
 * N.R.I. Reports
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

Reelo Baruk