Gardulla Besadii the Elder

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«Are you here to discipline me, you worm? Were you sent to stop me from reclaiming my former glory? I suppose I should be flattered that I am considered enough of a threat to be chastised by whomever employs you. But you will not stop me. Gardulla will rise again.»

―Gardulla^[6]

Gardulla Besadii the Elder was a female Besadii Hutt of the Hutt Clan prior to and during the Clone Wars. Prior to the Clone Wars, Gardulla was the owner of Shmi and Anakin Skywalker, but lost them to Watto in a bet.

Biography[]

«How goes the war, gentlemen?»

―Gardulla, to Obi-Wan Kenobi and Quinlan Vos^[5]

A female Hutt born on Nal Hutta, Gardulla Besadii the Elder became a prominent member of the Besadii division of the Hutt Clan and was one of the most powerful Hutt crime lords on Tatooine.^[1] Years prior to the Invasion of Naboo, Gardulla bought Shmi Skywalker and her son Anakin as her slaves, however, she lost them in a bet with the Toydarian junk dealer Watto^[2] around 38 BBY. In 32 BBY,^[7] alongside Jabba, she watched as her former slave, Anakin Skywalker won the Boonta Eve Classic podrace from Jabba's box seats.^[2]

Gardulla with Dancer — Gardulla with a Twi'lek dancer

In 21 BBY,^[7] following Ziro the Hutt's breakout during the Clone Wars, Gardulla and the Hutt Council met at her palace on Nal Hutta and demanded that Ziro give up the Council's records. When Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Quinlan Vos arrived, Gardulla asked them how the war was going and denied that the Hutts had anything to do with Ziro's escape or Cad Bane. When Vos accused her and the council of freeing Ziro, Gardulla said that he was lucky that the reasonable Kenobi was with him, or he would not be allowed to leave alive. Following that encounter, Gardulla and the Council discovered that Ziro had escaped. They then hired Bane to track Ziro down.^[5]

Gardulla would live well past the other members of the Hutt Council, surviving^[6] the slaughtering of the Council by Darth Vader^[8] in 3 ABY^[7] and Jabba's defeat via Leia Organa^[9] the following year.^[7] By 34 ABY,^[10] she lived in a fortress on Tatooine and plotted to reclaim her former glory. She acquired three rancors alongside some Weequay guards to defend her fortress alongside a force-sensitive creature who could stop a potential force user that may try to challenge her. Following Kylo Ren's ascension to Supreme Leader of the First Order, the grandson of Vader was on a mission to learn more about Vader's legacy. With help from Vaneé, Ren learned of his grandfather's enslavement by Gardulla and forcibly entered her fortress by killing her guards and rancors. When he an audience with the Hutt, she asked him why he had come to see her and was flattered that she was of enough importance to be so violently approached. When he said that he was there for something she had done in the past, she asked to hear it, as revenge stories were something she enjoyed hearing. Ren said that she owned his grandfather when he was young, and she defended her actions by stating that slavery wasn't illegal in Hutt Space then or now. She then asked for her name, to which he threatened her and lit his lightsaber. She ordered her guards to fire on him, but Ren was able to take down all of them. That was when the force-sensitive creature in her court used telekinesis to take Ren's lightsaber. She told him that Skywalker's story was now his, and knocked him out and chained him in her prison.^[6]

However, using the power of the Force, Kylo Ren managed to break free from Gardulla's chains, destroy Gardulla's prison, and escape. After this, he gave the order to the First Order to destroy Gardulla's fortress.^[11]

Personality and traits[]

Gardulla was a female Hutt crime lord, who sat on the Hutt Council. She was 3.7 meters (12 feet, 2 inches) long.^[4] She had yellow eyes and green-tan skin.^[2] Gardulla had palaces on Tatooine as well as her homeworld of Nal Hutta.^[4] She owned Shmi and Anakin Skywalker as slaves, until she lost them in a wager to the junk dealer Watto.^[2]