Ree-Yees/Legends

Ree-Yees was a Gran from Kinyen.

Biography
Ree-Yees was convicted of murder on Kinyen, and was in hiding on Tatooine as a member of Jabba the Hutt's court. He was an alcoholic, and was often seen associating with Tessek. Jabba had an extremely short-range bomb implanted in him, along with hypnosis and drugs that could make him self-detonate and take a would-be assassin along with him.

Ree-Yees and Tessek were conspiring to plant a bomb on Khetanna in order to assassinate Jabba. Prefect Talmont, who was in on this scheme, promised to clear Ree-Yees' criminal record, which would allow him to return to Kinyen. However, Bubo ate a key piece of the bomb, preventing anything from coming of that plan.

Ree-Yees was also on the sail barge at the Sarlacc. When Princess Leia was strangling Jabba, Jabba triggered the hypnotic trigger to make him grab Leia and self-destruct. However, Jabba died before he could complete the sequence. He was killed in the explosion of the sail barge.

Behind the Scenes
In Dark Forces and Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, any Gran enemy is referred to as Ree-Yees; this leads us to the conclusion that the modeller of the Gran model did not know about the name of species. In Jedi Outcast, the Gran were appropriately named.

In the games, they always lobbed thermal detonators at Kyle Katarn, most likely because that is the weapon Ree-Yees tried to kill Jabba with.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Tales from Jabba's Palace
 * Taster's Choice: The Tale of Jabba's Chef
 * Let Us Prey: The Whiphid's Tale
 * And Then There Were Some: The Gamorrean Guard's Tale
 * Old Friends: Ephant Mon's Tale
 * Goatgrass: The Tale of Ree-Yees
 * The Great God Quay: The Tale of Barada and the Weequays
 * A Free Quarren in the Palace: Tessek's Tale
 * Tongue-tied: Bubo's Tale
 * Star Wars: Dark Forces
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy