Dannik Jerriko

Dannik Jerriko is a 1010 year old Anzati. Anzati are a strange, dangerous species who kill their prey by uncoiling proboscises from within their cheeks, inserting them in their victim's nostrils and then piercing their brain. Jerriko not only drinks down his victim's blood, he sucks down their luck. Taking away their 'soup of life', making sure that though some of his victims may live on, they don't survive for long. Jerriko then chooses killers and assasins to feed on, as only their employers ever miss them. For this reason Jerriko has been a bounty hunter for many years and is credited with saying 'If you cannot afford to hire me, you do not even know I exist'. Only one of his employers ever complained to him about his price. Dannik killed him, and no one ever complained again. Jerriko has worked for Jabba the Hutt, feeding on those failed assasins who Jabba did not feed to the Rancor. He is also known to visit the Mos Eisley Cantina and it was here that Jerriko smelled a 'soup of life' more intoxicating than ever before. It came from an old man (Obi-Wan Kenobi) who defended a younger man (Luke Skywalker) with a lightsabre when two drunks started a fight (Ponda Baba and Dr Evazan). However Jerriko found that the old man would be able to shield himself from Anzati probing. The younger man on the other hand seemed a good specimen. Before Jerriko could make his move Han Solo and Chewbacca arrived in the cantina. Knowing that, not only did Han Solo have a good 'soup of life' but he was wanted by Jabba Jerriko planned to track him. But Han fled Tatooine and Jerriko missed his chance. This did not stop him in his tracks though, Jerriko began to infiltrate Jabba's Palace so that when Solo was brought in he would be there. So Dannik Jerriko waited, a dark creature hiding in the shadows.

Jerriko is credited with the deaths of Phlegmin and Ak-Buz (members of Jabba's Palace)