Ketwol

Ketwol was a male Pacithhip. He was present at Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina on that fateful day in 0 BBY when Luke Skywalker came there with Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Biography[]

Prospector and scout[]

Ketwol was a Pacithhip male^[1] asteroid prosector and part-time scout who hailed from an^[2] unknown^[3] system in the Outer Rim Territories.^[2] He traveled the galaxy his old, poorly maintained starship, the Herd Mother. Occasionally, Ketwol chartered passengers aboard the Herd Mother to make extra money.^[4] He often sold precious ores and metals that he mined from asteroids in seedy spaceports and seamy tap cafés on planets like Tatooine and Coruscant.^[4] The prosector was an enemy of the Galactic Empire, sometimes mining asteroids in Imperial space. Ketwol also secretly supplied the Alliance to Restore the Republic with materials and information.^[2]

In much of his downtime, he talked to spacers and travelers in cantinas, one of which being Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina^[5] in the Tatooine city Mos Eisley.^[6] Though the talks, the scout gathered information he needed to locate new planets.^[5] By 0 BBY,^[7] Ketwol took care of a group of jerbas, some wounded and exhausted, that had come from the Tatooine desert to his ship. The jerba group originally belonged to the woman Swilla Corey, though she had lost them after a giant sandwhirl and an anooba attack.^[8]

In 0 BBY,^[9] Ketwol visited Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina^[10] and sat in a booth^[11] with the Lamproid rebel Dice Ibegon,^[12] whom the Pacithhip managed to raise the ire of.^[1]

Personality and traits[]

The hardworking^[1] and enigmatic^[2] Ketwol was an aloof but pleasant individual who kept to himself.^[1] Few tested his good nature.^[4] Ketwol had gray skin, blue eyes^[2] and stood between 1.63 to 1.8 meters, depending on his stilts.^[1] His sharp tusks could inflict damage and his thick hide could protect him from stun weapons.^[2]

Skills and abilities[]

Ketwol was deadly-accurate with his Protector PRP-500 Hold-Out Dart Pistol. Even without weapons, he was still considered dangerous, enough have made a living as a professional fighter. He lacked mechanical skills and, as a result, the Herd Mother often underwent repairs on Tatooine.^[2]

Equipment[]

Ketwol moved with a pair of mechanical stilts^[1] to both overcome his short round appearance^[5] and to look more humanoid.^[1] These stilts allowed him to operate machinery and use vehicles created for taller aliens.^[2]

Ketwol used a Protector PRP-500 Hold-Out Dart Pistol which contained six darts full of concentrated symoxin.^[2] He kept this pistol hidden away in his tunic.^[4] Other gear used by Ketwol included a Jawa ionization blaster he got from a Jawa trader in exchange for a valuable but small amount of unrefined ore, and a Twi'lek dagger Ketwol claimed after finding taped to the bottom of a table in Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina. He suspected that the dagger had been left there by an assassin.^[2]

Ketwol wore a light-colored^[2] tunic,^[4] gray pants, black shoes on his stilts, and a red cloak.^[2]

Behind the scenes[]

Ketwol24 — Ketwol employed robotic stilts to increase his height.

Ketwol was added to the 1997 Special Edition re-release of A New Hope to replace Lak Sivrak. The Ketwol puppet was reversed and used for the character of Melas as well. Ketwol and Melas were both played by special effect artist Howie Weed.

Ketwol's mechanical stilts were never seen on-screen in the special edition of Star Wars. His Hasbro action figure was the first time these were depicted.