Gardulla Besadii the Elder/Legends

"Gardulla controls lots of businesses on Tatooine and would prefer to control them all!"

- Aurra Sing (speaking in narrative context)

Gardulla the Hutt was one of the many Hutt crimelords that control Tatooine, and a powerful and greedy one at that. At one point, the feminine Hutt owned Anakin Skywalker and Shmi Skywalker. However, she would eventually lose them to the Toydarian junk dealer, Watto, in a likely regrettable podracing bet. Such events would continually mark her long life with failure and defeat.

Gardulla was going to feed Jango Fett to her krayt dragon, but Fett escaped, killing many of Gardulla's Gamorrean guards in his way. Gardulla was killed by Fett as the deadly bounty hunter followed the trail of the Bando Gora and their leader, Komari Vosa. Fett pushed Gardulla into her own beast arena, where she was devoured by her pet krayt dragon.

Consequences of gambling and crime
Gardulla's criminal activities were rampant during the golden age of her rule, in which her use of slavery would seem to have granted her great fortune, although it caused numerous conflicts between her and the more powerful Jabba Desilijic Tiure. At one point, she resorted to a limited partnership with Jabba, who would become her greatest rival, after she lost her entire fortune on gambling. And Gardulla would still maintain power over her slave trade franchise.

However, the Republic would soon outlaw slavery in the Outer Rim Terrorities, right after the agreement was reached, and Gardulla would be sentenced to life in prison. Eventually, though, she escaped the law and returned to Tatooine, where she would control her failing criminal empire.

The Boonta Eve Classic
Gardulla had been a supporter of the Dug podracer, Sebulba. However, briefly before the spectacular Boonta Eve Classic in which Sebulba was to participate, Gardulla tried to trick Jabba into thinking a less likely racer, the Xexto, Gasgano, would win. She, however, failed in her cunning and felt she was tricked herself in that Jabba's astromech droid determined Anakin Skywalker may succeed. She'd wagered that he'd lose, so, to be completely sure, Gardulla employed the use of her dancer and majordomo, Diva Funquita, to find someone in Mos Espa to sabotage the boy's podracer.

Funquita would then hire the Nuknog racer, Ark "Bumpy" Roose, to carry out the job. However, Roose would incidentally sabotage the podracer of Ben Quadrinaros. The effect of this was apparent when the race began and Skywalker busted through to a top place after a small slow start and Quadrinaros' racer awaited its eventual explosive doom at the starting point. Gardulla had to, of course, been humbled as well as infuriated.

Battle in the Jundland Wastes
The attack on the Tusken Raiders of Tatooine's Jundland Wastes would end up being the ultimate triumph and failure of Gardulla the Hutt. It actually traces its origins years back when the Hutts were stuck with a junky surplus of weapons in the possession of Dreddon the Hutt. Jabba conceived the idea of sending thugs to raid Tusken camps, in turn causing the Sand People to raid nearby settlements, which gave the civilians a need for weaponry. Jabba then continually sold portions of Dreddon's surplus overpriced, increasing the profit of the Hutts. And Jabba remained hero.

However, Gardulla decided to assemble all his criminal forces to launch an assault on the Tusken Raiders, dispatching the bounty hunter, Aurra Sing, to personally assassinate the unbeknownst Jedi leader, Sharad Hett. Her plan was to puncture the Tusken Raider defenses and slay all in the army's path, thus ending the "Tusken threat" and stopping Jabba's weapon franchise. She hoped that Nal Hutta would then see to it that she managed Tatooine.

But Gardulla's plot for consumption of power failed and Gardulla was forced to retreat to her palace in Mos Espa, but not without the mortifying and degrading assistance of her rival, Jabba, who was tipped off by Sing, who was apparently a double agent.

Appearances

 * Podracing Tales
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
 * Star Wars Republic 11: Outlander, Part 5
 * Star Wars Republic 12: Outlander, Part 6
 * Star Wars: Bounty Hunter