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Kithaba, a typical skiff guard
A skiff guard was a mercenary or slave assigned to work on a skiff. A skiff guard's duties included defending the skiff and keeping prisoners in line. Some skiff guards also acted as pilots.
Jabba the Hutt kept a contingent of skiff guards to operate his fleet of sand skiffs. This contingent consisted largely of Klatooinians, Niktos, and Weequays including the individuals: Barada, Brock Starsher, Gailid, Kithaba, Klaatu, Lathe, Pagetti Rook, Pote Snitkin, Vedain, Velken Tezeri, Wooof and Yotts Orren. A number of other Human individuals and three Weequay individuals rounded out this complement of guards. They wore no special uniform and were armed with a motley assortment of weapons, including vibro-axes, vibrostaves, and DL-18 blaster pistols. All of these skiff guards fell victim to either the Sarlacc, or a faster and less painful death at the hands of Luke's lightsaber during the attempted execution of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Chewbacca at the Great Pit of Carkoon.
Appearances[]
- Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
- Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi novelization (and unabridged audiobook) (First appearance, in book)
- Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi junior novelization
- "Shaara and the Sarlacc: The Skiff Guard's Tale" — Tales from Jabba's Palace
Non-canon appearances[]
Sources[]
- Star Wars: The Action Figure Archive
"Jabba's Skiff Guards" — Keeper of the Holocron — Leland Chee's StarWars.com Blog (content now obsolete; backup link)
