Ree-Yees/Legends

Ree-Yees was a Gran from Kinyen. He suffered from a recessive genetic mutation, uncommon among Gran, which deformed his hands.

Biography
Ree-Yees was convicted of murder on Kinyen, and was in hiding on Tatooine as a member of Jabba Desilijic Tiure's court. He was an alcoholic, and was often seen associating with Tessek. Jabba had an extremely short-range bomb implanted in him, along with hypnosis and drugs that could make him self-detonate and take a would-be assassin along with him. Ree-Yees was then assigned the task of taking care of Jabba's Frog-Dog Bodyguard/pet Bubo.

Ree-Yees and Tessek were conspiring to plant a bomb on the Khetanna in order to assassinate Jabba. Prefect Eugene Talmont, who was in on this scheme, promised to clear Ree-Yees' criminal record, which would allow him to return to Kinyen.

Ree-Yees then had Imperial surgeons place a small panel under Bubo's flesh, which the Gran operative could use to order in components for a thermal detonator (hidden inside shipments of goatgrass) which he and Tessek planned to use to destroy Jabba's sail barge. However, when the last and most vital component, the detonator, went missing, the plan seemed to be doomed. Bubo, angry at his mistreatment at the hands of Ree-Yees, had eaten it, thus ensuring Tessek's plot would fail. Tessek, however, planted another thermal detonator on the barge.

Ree-Yees didn't let his disappointment stop him making a few bets with his companions when Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker was thrown to the rancor's pit after he had enraged Jabba. Someone made a lot of betting money though, as the young Jedi defeated Jabba's vicious beast. Ree-Yees was there with the rest when Jabba's sail barge went to the sarlacc. When Princess Leia Organa was strangling Jabba, the Hutt triggered the hypnotic trigger to make him grab Leia and self-destruct. However, he died before he could complete the sequence. Ree-Yees was killed in the explosion of the sail barge.

Behind the scenes

 * Ree-Yees' name is a play on the words "three eyes."
 * In Dark Forces and Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, any Gran enemy is referred to as Ree-Yees; this leads us to the conclusion that the modeler of the Gran model did not know about the name of species. In Jedi Outcast, the Gran were appropriately named.
 * In the games, they always lobbed thermal detonators at Kyle Katarn, most likely because that is the weapon Ree-Yees tried to kill Jabba with.
 * A Ree-Yees action figure was released by Kenner in 1983, and an improved Ree-Yees came out in 1998 as part of the Power of the Force line.

Appearances



 * Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novel
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * The Return of Tag & Bink: Special Edition
 * Taster's Choice: The Tale of Jabba's Chef
 * Let Us Prey: The Whiphid's Tale
 * And Then There Were Some: The Gamorrean Guard's Tale
 * Old Friends: Ephant Mon's Tale
 * Goatgrass: The Tale of Ree-Yees
 * The Great God Quay: The Tale of Barada and the Weequays
 * A Free Quarren in the Palace: Tessek's Tale
 * Tongue-tied: Bubo's Tale