Grakkus Jahibakti Tingi

"As you may have gathered, I am not like other Hutts. [...] I am a collector of antiquities."

- Grakkus

Grakkus was a male Hutt crime lord who lived on Nar Shaddaa during the Age of the Empire. He ruled Hutta Town, and like many other Hutt kingpins, controlled an extensive network of bounty hunters and spice smugglers. Grakkus was an avid collector of artifacts of the Jedi Order.

Biography
"It appears you will make a fine addition to my collection after all.''" "But...I'm not..." "What you are, dear boy...is the last Jedi. And now you belong to me''."

- Grakkus and Luke Skywalker Grakkus was a male Hutt crime lord who resided on Nar Shaddaa, the "smuggler's moon" during the Age of the Empire. He, like many other Hutts, controlled a vast criminal network of various criminals such as bounty hunters, smugglers, and thieves. As such, Grakkus became extremely wealthy and powerful. However, unlike most other Hutts, Grakkus used his influence and fortune to procure antiques, particularly artifacts relating to the Jedi Order. The Galactic Empire had purged the Jedi from the galaxy during its inception, and destroyed nearly all of the Order's records and artifacts relating to the peacekeeping Knights. Over the years, Grakkus came to control Hutta Town, a section of Nar Shaddaa's unending city. Within Hutta Town, Grakkus's home was located, which was where he stored his collection of Jedi artifacts, such as lightsabers, statues, holocrons, and even a Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptor. By the time of the Galactic Civil War, Grakkus considered his collection to be all that remained of the Jedi.

During that time, some weeks after the Battle of Yavin, Luke Skywalker, a secret Jedi Padawan, traveled to Nar Shaddaa in order to seek charter to the Jedi Temple on the Empire's captial planet of Coruscant. However, unknown to Skywalker, the temple had been transformed by Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine into his personal palace. Skywalker possessed a lightsaber that he was forced to reveal when he was attacked in a cantina, and Grakkus was notified of the Jedi-in-training's presence, so he dispatched one of his agents to steal the weapon and lure Skywalker to Hutta Town so Grakkus could test Skywalker to learn if he was Force-sensitive

A short time later, the agent succeeded in his task and he and Skywalker crashed down into Hutta Town, where Grakkus confronted the young human, telling him that he owned Skywalker and his weapon. Skywalker prepared to fight back, therefore, Grakkus set a pair of his antique Holowan Laboratories IG-100 MagnaGuards that were used by the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars two decades earlier to combat Jedi, to challege him with their electrostaffs. The battle droids greatly weakened Skywalker, but Skywalker refused to surrender, so Grakkus knocked him unconscious and dragged him to his collection room. Grakkus woke Skywalker and showed him a holocron told him to open using the Force, or be killed. Skywalker was awed by the Hutt's collection, but insisted that he knew not how to activate the holocron because he had never seen one before, though he was able to open the device and at least twenty-three more spread throughout the chamber by concentrating on the Force. Jedi Masters from millenniums past appeared from the holocrons, offering their knowledge to the individual who had activated them. Grakkus was very pleased with Skywalker's performance&mdash;believing him the last Jedi in the galaxy. And even more pleased that Skywalker belonged to him

Personality and traits
Grakkus was more physically active then the average Hutt. Aside from his much more muscular frame, he had a set of cybernetic legs to move in a more agile fashion.

Appearances

 * Star Wars 9: Showdown on the Smuggler's Moon, Part II
 * Star Wars 10: Showdown on the Smuggler's Moon, Part III