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Velken Tezeri was a human male guard and arms dealer[4] who worked for the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure.
Biography[]
Velken Tezeri was a human male who worked as an arms dealer before deciding to stabilize his situation by becoming a guard for the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure at his palace on the desert planet Tatooine.[2] In 4 ABY,[1] he was one of five guards chosen[2] to ride on board a Bantha-II cargo skiff carrying the prisoners Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Chewbacca to the Great Pit of Carkoon, where Jabba planned to execute the trio by feeding them to a sarlacc.[3]
However, during the execution attempt, thanks to R2-D2, Skywalker managed to break free and attacked the guards on his skiff. Tezeri tried to help his comrades to defeat Skywalker, so he took out his gun from his pocket, but Skywalker passed his lightsaber very close to him, causing Tezeri to slip and fall through a skiff's rail. With such bad luck, Tezeri fell to the sand and rolled until falling into the mouth of the Sarlacc, to slowly be digested over thousands of years.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
Velken Tezeri was played by stuntman Larry Holt[5] in the 1983 original trilogy, film Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.[3] In the current Star Wars canon, the character was first identified in the 2015 reference book Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know.[4] The Battle of Hoth and the Second Death Star, an issue of De Agostini's Star Wars Encyclopedia series[2] released on December 11, 2020,[6] erroneously describes Tezeri as being on the second skiff rather than the one carrying the prisoners.[2]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars LINE Webtoon
- Star Wars Treasury: The Original Trilogy
- Star Wars in Pictures: The Original Trilogy
- Star Wars: The Original Trilogy – A Graphic Novel
- Star Wars (2020) 32 (Variant cover only)
- Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (First appearance)
- "Rescue from Jabba's Palace" — The Original Trilogy Stories (and audiobook)
- Return of the Jedi Read-Along Storybook and CD
- Rescue from Jabba's Palace
- Return of the Jedi – Max Rebo 1 (In flashback(s))
Non-canon appearances[]
Sources[]
- Ultimate Star Wars (Picture only)
- Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know (First identified as Velken Tezeri)
- Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded
- Star Wars Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles (Picture only)
- Star Wars: Complete Vehicles (Picture only)
"The Consequence of Choice: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" — Star Wars Insider 191 (Picture only)- Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition (Picture only)
- Star Wars: The Vintage Collection (Pack: Jabba's Sail Barge (The Khetanna)) (backup link) (Picture only)
- Star Wars: Book of Lists (Picture only)
- Star Wars Complete Vehicles, New Edition (Picture only)
- "The Battle of Hoth and the Second Death Star" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- "Boba Fett and Other Characters of the Underworld" — Star Wars Encyclopedia (Picture only)
- Star Wars: The Vintage Collection (Pack: Jabba's Court Denizens) (backup link)
- Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy (Picture only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the events of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, which includes Velken Tezeri's death on Tatooine, to 4 ABY.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "The Battle of Hoth and the Second Death Star" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
- ↑ STAR WARS AFICIONADO WEBSITE — Behind the Scenes: Just Another Day at the Skiff! on Blogspot (backup link)
- ↑ Official Star Wars Encyclopedia on Altaya's official fr website (backup link)
