Hutt/Legends


 * This article is about the species. For the band, see Hutt (band)

"The Hutts are gangsters and slavers."

- Captain Panaka

The Hutts were a species of rotund gastropods with short, stubby arms, wide cavernous mouths and huge eyes, who controlled a large space empire in Hutt Space. The species originally hailed from the planet Varl but later moved to Nal Hutta.

Characteristics
Hutts spoke Huttese, and had the ability to see ultraviolet light and other frequncies not used by the human eye. Often, wealthy Hutts lit their palaces in those spectrums of light, giving intruders a false sense of stealth. Despite their obesity, the Hutts had no skeletons. Instead, they had an inner mantle that helped support their arms and head, while their bodies ended in a long, wide tail. A Hutt's skin was covered in sweat and mucus, and was very thick, making it impervious to weak blaster bolts and some chemicals. They also had a thick layer of fat that maintained their body temperature, also making their skin impervious to knife wounds. The Hutts were also immune to Force mind tricks.

Hutts were hermaphroditic, changing from male to female when beginning gestation, though it appears that they had gender roles amongst themselves, some being considered male and others female. Fetal Hutts spent their first year of existence in the pouch of their mother, and had no sentient mind at that stage. For decades after birth, they stayed close to their mothers, returning to their pouches when they were tired, lonely or scared. Young Hutts were not considered important or accountable for their actions until they were at least a century into their average life-span of well over 1,000 years. Hutts had only one biological parent, though if their parent had a mate, it seemed to consider both its parents (Jabba was said to have both a Father and a Mother).

Although the Hutt Empire was powerful in its own right, many ambitious Hutts moved to other worlds to become overlords in organized crime. All Hutts had a given name, which was supported by their clan name and surname (as in Jabba Desilijic Tiure and Borga Besadii Diori). However, few outside Hutt society were aware of various Hutts' proper names and commonly replaced the clan and surname with "the Hutt", as in "Jabba the Hutt".

History
The Hutts originally came from the planet Varl in the Ardos system, which once orbited two suns, Evona and Ardos, both of which were destroyed somehow. According to Hutt legends, the twin suns were a mated pair of gods who ruled the Ardos system until Evona collided with a black hole and was destroyed. The other planets mourned Evona's death by violently colliding with asteroids and with each other. Ardos mourned his lover by ejecting his outer atmosphere, burning Varl in the process, and shrivelling down into a white dwarf too pathetic for the Hutts to continue worshipping. The Hutts took this story as a sign that they were powerful enough to outlive even their gods. Another theory, considered more plausible by non-Hutt scientists and historians, stated that the Hutts themselves destroyed Varl in a massive civil war.

After the destruction of Varl, the Hutts migrated to a large number of planets including Evocar in the Y'Toub system, which the Hutts renamed Nal Hutta, or "Glorious Jewel" in Huttese. To gain control of the world, the Hutt traded the indigenous, primitive Evocii technology for tracts of land on Evocar. The Hutts continued doing this until the Evocii realized that their homeworld had almost been bought out from under them. Hutt palaces, amusement parks and other constructions were built all over Evocar, and the Evocii could do nothing about it. They appealed to the Galactic Republic, and even though the government tried to help, their own laws sadly ruled in the Hutts favor. The Evocii were evicted from Evocar by the Hutts, and relocated to the planet's fifth moon, Nar Shaddaa. Eventually the Evocii began mutating due to the various technologies that were practiced on the moon. The Evocii later went extinct from prolonged exposure to Nar Shaddaa's atmosphere.

After conquering Nal Hutta, the Hutts began to aggressively expand their galactic influence into a nascent empire. The Hutt Empire was a formidable force even before the founding of the Galactic Republic, dominating expansive territories around Varl. After they discovered the hyperdrive, they tried expanding even further, until they ran into Xim the Despot. Xim and the Hutts warred many battles over the barren world of Vontor, before the Hutts stumbled upon the Si'Klaata Cluster. In this expanse they encountered many races, among them the Niktos, Klatooinians and the Vodrans. All of these races joined the Hutts, and were used as stormtroopers in the Third Battle of Vontor. The Hutts won against Xim this time, and they conquered a large area of the galaxy.

Soon after this the Hutts began wars within their own clans, but eventually these were resolved and all Hutts united under the Hutt Grand Council, formally called the Clans of the Ancients, which met on Nal Hutta. The Council oversaw the operations of all Hutt Clans, favoring none of them, but governing all of them fairly. The Hutts never joined the Old Republic or the New Republic, and they managed to keep the Galactic Empire at bay.

When the Hutts saw the Yuuzhan Vong invading the New Republic, they thought they could save themselves by allying with the extragalactic invaders. They worked a deal with Nom Anor, whereby they would be left alone if the Vong could take a small number of Hutt worlds for their own purposes. The Yuuzhan Vong thought that they would leave the Hutts alone until the time that the Republic could be conquered, then the Hutts would also be destroyed. Meanwhile, the Hutts were secretly shuttling information to the New Republic of where the Yuuzhan Vong would strike next. Eventually the Hutts' treachery was figured out by the Vong, who soon sought revenge. The Y'Toub system was surrounded by some of the Vong's most deadly warships. Several organic creations were sent down to Nal Hutta and Nar Shaddaa for multiple purposes. Different types of bacteria killed most of the inhabitants, and destroyed the technology on the planet, and then processed the remains into the soil of the planet.

The Yuuzhan Vong then terraformed Nal Hutta and Nar Shaddaa. The Hutt clans suffered a terrible defeat as a result of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion. Most of the Hutts fled to Tatooine, but those still left alive on Nal Hutta, such as Borga Besadii Diori, tried to persuade the Yuuzhan Vong into letting them go.

If is unknown if the Hutts returned to Nal Hutta following the end of the invasion.

Notable Hutts

 * Beldorian
 * Blotus
 * Borga Besadii Diori
 * Durga Besadii Tai
 * Gardulla the Elder
 * Grappa the Hutt
 * Grelb
 * Jabba Desilijic Tiure
 * Jiliac Desilijic Tiron
 * Kossak
 * Popara Anjiliac Diresto
 * Vago Gejalli Thokka
 * Vogga the Hutt
 * Zorba Desilijic Tiure

See List of Hutts for a more complete list.

Appearances

 * Tempest Feud
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire
 * Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
 * ''The Approaching Storm
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * The Paradise Snare
 * The Hutt Gambit
 * Rebel Dawn
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Darksaber
 * New Jedi Order
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords