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- "Sounds like that rough crowd out there is an easy one tonight."
"All in a night's work, baby." - ―A Twi'lek dancer and Sy Snootles, after their performance for the Grand Hutt Council
Sy Snootles, also known as Miss Snooty, was a female Pa'lowick singer and part-time bounty hunter. The former lover of Ziro the Hutt, she killed him on the behalf of his nephew, Jabba Desilijic Tiure, after he had abandoned her. Snootles was also a spy for the Hutt Clan and later become the lead vocalist for the Max Rebo Band. When it split up after Jabba's death, she resumed her solo singing career.
Biography
Affair of the fluid sac
Snootles kissing Ziro
- "I thought you were coming back for me. I waited so long. I thought you didn't love me anymore."
"Our separation last time was a but abrupt, and I do blame Jabba for that."
"Jabba?"
"He forced me to have you sent away from Coruscant, shattering the serenity of the happiest time of my life."
"Oh, Ziro, honey, being with you was the happiest time of my life too." - ―Sy Snootles and Ziro
Originally from Lowick,[1] Sy Snootles was a successful singer who dated Ziro,[5] a Hutt crime lord who represented the Hutt Clan's business interests on the planet Coruscant.[6] However, according to Ziro, his nephew Jabba Desilijic Tiure, forced him to send Snootles away from Coruscant, and, while he promised to come back for her, he never did. A broken-hearted Snootles[7] then became a spy for the Hutt criminal cartels[2] and part-time bounty hunter.[5]
Femme fatale
Snootles kills Ziro
- "Next time you'll think twice about breaking someone's heart. Oh, wait, there won't be a next time."
- ―Sy Snootles before killing Ziro
In the year 21 BBY,[8] a vengeful Snootles was hired by Jabba[9] to kill Ziro and retrieve his holodiary, which contained the Hutt Council records. After entertaining the Grand Hutt Council at Gardulla the Hutt's Palace on Nal Hutta with a lavish musical number, she discovered that Ziro was incarcerated in the palace's dungeon[7] following his escape from Coruscant's detention center.[10] Manipulating Gardulla's Gamorrean guards into fighting each other, the Pa'lowick slipped her way past and to her estranged lover's cell. Exploiting her affection, they share a kiss through the bars before Snootles breaks Ziro out, the two escaping through the swamps on a Pongeeta-class speeder.[7]
Snootles turns over Ziro's holodiary to Jabba
Arriving at Mama's house, Ziro convinced her to provide the pair with a starship to travel to Teth, where his father was buried and his holodiary, which the Hutt planned to sell so they could retire to Solarine, was hidden. After retrieving it, a vindictive Snootles turned on Ziro and shot him twice in the chest. She then took his holodiary to Jabba's Palace on Tatooine, where the Hutt's nephew rewarded her handsomely for her services, while she boasted that nobody would suspect someone as "lovely" as her of being capable of doing a bounty hunter's work.[7]
In 20 BBY,[8] a very tipsy Snootles, bottle in hand, was carried out of Bilbousa saloon by a pair of Twi'leks.[11]
The Max Rebo Band
Snootles performs with the Max Rebo Band at Jabba's Palace
- "Whoop! Uh-oh!"
- ―Sy Snootles watches Oola fall into the rancor pit
In the years that followed, Snootles turned her attention to her singing career. After meeting on board a luxury liner, she and fellow singer Greeata Jendowanian became good friends and formed a performing duo. Having spotted them playing in a cantina, Max Rebo offered Snootles a place as lead vocalist in his Max Rebo Band, which she only agrees to join on the strict condition that he also hired Jendowanian as a dancer and singer.[1] She also becomes quite taken with fellow band member Snit, whom she suggested change his name to the more palatable Droopy McCool,[12] a stage name given to him by Rebo. Her and her bandmates were outraged[1] by Rebo's hasty decision to establish the band as a permanent attraction in Jabba's court,[12] having immediately accepted the Hutt crime lord's offer of a contract that paid only in free meals.[1]
There,[1] under the protection on Nizuc Bek,[13] Snootles worked as a double agent, feeding majordomo Bib Fortuna's lies to Jabba's enemies.[1] In 0 BBY,[14] Snootles, Rebo, and McCool were performing when Trandoshan bounty Bossk arrived at Jabba's Palace looking for 261, a rogue Imperial astromech droid.[15] Shortly after the attack on Cymoon 1 in 0 ABY, the trio was ordered out of Jabba's court when Sith Lord Darth Vader arrived to negotiate with the Hutt crime lord.[16]
In 4 ABY,[8] the Max Rebo Band performed at a party in Jabba's Palace. Mistaking Jabba's advances on Twi'lek dancer Oola as a request for another song, Rebo began leading the ensemble through a variation on a popular standard, though Snootles began belting out improvised lyrics.[3] Their performance was interrupted when Oola fell down a trapdoor, where she was devoured[3] by Pateesa,[17] Jabba's pet rancor. Shortly after, the group witnessed the bounty hunter Boushh, in reality a disguised Leia Organa, enter the palace with the Wookiee Chewbacca as his prisoner. Later, Snootles watched as Jabba's guards captured Organa and Han Solo were captured from stairs[3] that led up to the palace's guest quarters.[3] The Max Rebo Band accompanied Jabba's entourage aboard his sail barge,[1] the Khetanna,[18] to view the executions of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Chewbacca at the Great Pit of Carkoon.[3] Despite surviving the sail barge's destruction, the Max Rebo Band split up after Jabba's death. Snootles found it hard to to make it any where mainstream, chiefly because many found her vocals just too weird.[1]
Appearances
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Hunt for Ziro"- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Deception" (Poster only)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Friends and Enemies"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Brothers" (Poster only)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Revenge" (Poster only)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Missing in Action" (Poster only)
- Dark Disciple (Indirect mention only)
- Bounty Hunt
- Darth Vader 1: Vader
- "[[Tales from Wild Space: The Blue Brothers]]" — Star Wars Adventures (2017) 13
- Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (First appearance)
- Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side!
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi junior novelization
Sources
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4
Sy Snootles in the Databank (backup link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
- ↑ Star Wars: Return of the Jedi junior novelization
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ultimate Star Wars
- ↑ Ziro the Hutt in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Hunt for Ziro"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
- ↑ Sy Snootles in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Hostage Crisis"
- ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Friends and Enemies"
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Star Wars: Card Trader (Card: Droopy McCool - Chindinkalu Flute Player) (backup link (http://starwarscardtrader.wikia.com/wiki/Droopy_McCool_-_Chindinkalu_Flute_Player) not verified!)
- ↑ Star Wars: Force Collection (Card: Nizuc Bek (★★))
- ↑ In Bounty Hunt, the Death Star's superlaser is fully operational, and Star Wars: Galactic Atlas establishes that the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and thus the completion of the superweapon, take place in 0 BBY. Since the Death Star was destroyed in the Battle of Yavin (Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope), it can be assumed that the events in Bounty Hunt also take place in 0 BBY.
- ↑ Bounty Hunt
- ↑ Darth Vader 1: Vader
- ↑ Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary
- ↑ The Khetanna (Jabba's Sail Barge) in the Databank (backup link)