Ploovo Two-For-One/Legends

"Come to think of it, he wasn't much better than some Hutts I heard of. Not as intelligent, but every time I met him, I left counting my fingers and needing a bath."

- Han Solo

Ploovo Two-For-One was a crime lord on Etti IV who hired Han Solo and Chewbacca as smugglers as well as hiring Alara Fax after she was thrown out of the SoroSuub Business Academy.

Ploovo got his start as a low-level loan shark under the crime lord Jigoba, from whom Ploovo learned the art of swindling one's own employees; when Jigoba died, Ploovo fled to the Corporate Sector with as many profits as possible before Jabba the Hutt's organization filled the void. He began muscling his way into the Sector's nightclub circuit, first as a silent partner, later stepping up as outright boss. As he bought up many of the seedier clubs on major trade worlds, his power and influence grew, and soon he had a hand in the vast majority of protection rackets and loan sharking efforts within Corporate Sector space.

When Solo and Chewbacca required additional repairs after the Millennium Falcon was improperly fixed by Big Bunji, they acquired a considerable debt to Ploovo, which Solo eventually paid off ... on his own schedule. After a gunrunning deal on Duroon went bad for Solo due to Ploovo betraying him to the CSA, Solo acquired a dinko and included it with his payment to Ploovo; the dinko attacked Ploovo, biting his thumb and drenching him in the dinko's characteristically foul odor.

Ploovo's presence in the Corporate Sector was preferred by Corporate Sector Authority Security Division to bigger, more independent operations such as those of Talon Karrde or Jigoba, and thus to a certain extent his presence was tolerated. He was regarded as too subtle, even timid, to be effective in the Empire, and he avoided getting his hands dirty personally, turning more unsavory work over to affiliated gangs. He was also regarded as lacking taste, despite his large collection of fake gemstone pinky rings. However, he nonetheless had begun to use his Corporate Sector power base to expand into the rest of the Empire.

Appearances

 * Han Solo at Stars' End
 * Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial