Momaw Nadon

Momaw Nadon was a male Ithorian also known as Hammerhead who was exiled from his homeworld of Ithor as punishment for revealing the agricultural secrets of his species to the Galactic Empire in order to save the planet. Spending his exile on the desert world of Tatooine, Nadon maintained a small secret garden in the mountains south of the planet's Mos Eisley spaceport. During the Galactic Civil War he sympathised with the Alliance to Restore the Republic who opposed the Empire, and would hide Rebel operatives in his garden. Nadon was present in the Mos Eisley Cantina when the Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and the local farm boy Luke Skywalker arrived in search of a pilot to take them to the planet Alderaan. He witnessed the pair enter into an altercation with Doctor Cornelius Evazan and his companion Ponda Baba, which ended with Kenobi dismembering Baba and killing Evazan with his lightsaber.

Behind the scenes
Momaw Nadon first appeared in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope but went unnamed until identified as "Hammerhead" for his Kenner Products action figure. He received his full name when he appeared as the protagonist of the Star Wars Legends story The Sand Tender: The Hammerhead's Tale, which was written by Dave Wolverton and released in 1995 as part of the Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina story collection. The name was confirmed to be canon by the reference book Ultimate Star Wars, which was released in 2015.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope