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Lak Sivrak was a Shistavanen male who served the Galactic Empire as a scout and hunter. He[1] at one point was a patron of Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina in Mos Eisley[3] spaceport on the planet Tatooine[4] and left the establishment by a backdoor during a brawl.[2] After meeting the Force-sensitive Lamproid Dice Ibegon,[1] another patron of the cantina,[5] he fell in love with her.[1] Ibegon was a member of the Alliance to Restore the Republic and convinced Sivrak to join her cause[5] in the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the rebels.[4]

In 4 ABY,[6] Sivrak flew an X-wing starfighter for the rebels during the Battle of Endor,[1] in which the Alliance Fleet engaged the Imperial Navy above the moon of Endor and successfully destroyed the Death Star II.[4] Sivrak had brown fur, gray skin, and black eyes.[2] He wore a brown shawl over a white shirt with a black belt and used a SE-14r light repeating blaster.[7]

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Lak Sivrak was portrayed by a woman[8] in the original trilogy film Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope,[9] which was released on May 25, 1977.[10] He was added to the film during[11] a series of supplemental shots filmed for the cantina sequence on a sound stage in Dovington's Hollywood studio between January 2425, 1977.[12] Due to time and budget restraints,[13] the Lak Sivrak mask was an off-the-shelf Halloween mask created by creature designer Rick Baker, who also used an altered version of the same commercial mask for the cantina character Arleil Schous. Sivrak's shawl was a re-used Jawa robe.[14]

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Lak Sivrak used an off-the-shelf Halloween mask made by Rick Baker.

Sivrak's mask long bothered director George Lucas,[11] as although he had approved its use, the mask had been created outside his sphere of control.[13] Because of this, he digitally replaced the character with the highly detailed puppet Ketwol in the Special Edition version of A New Hope[15] released in 1997,[10] although the audio that was intended to be Sivrak growling was left unchanged.[16]

Sivrak was known as "Hyena"[16] or "Hyena-Man" on set,[11] but in the current Star Wars canon, the character was first identified in the mobile card game Star Wars: Force Collection,[1] which initially launched in 2013. Although the launch of Force Collection predates[17] the Star Wars canon reset of 2014,[18] Lucasfilm Story Group member Leland Chee confirmed that the game was kept updated to fit with canon.[19] The name originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where Sivrak was first identified in the 1989 Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game supplement Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope, which was written by Grant S. Boucher for West End Games.[20] The character Jak Sivrak, who was created for the 2018 animated show Star Wars Resistance, was named as a reference to Lak Sivrak.[21]

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  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Star Wars: Force Collection (Card: Lak Sivrak (★))
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 StarWarsLCG Logo Star Wars: The Card GameDesperate Circumstances (Card: Lak Sivrak) (backup link)
  3. ToppsDigitalLogo Star Wars: Card Trader (Card: Lak Sivrak - Fans' Choice - 2022)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
  5. 5.0 5.1 Star Wars: Force Collection (Card: Dice Ibegon (★))
  6. Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the Battle of Endor to 4 ABY.
  7. GentleGiant-Small Star Wars: A New Hope (Pack: Lak Sivrak) (backup link)
  8. SWInsider "Refresher Reading" — Star Wars Insider 91
  9. Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
  10. 10.0 10.1 Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 StarWars Cantina Roll-Call: Shedding Light on Some Alien Aliases - Friendly Neighborhood Cullatran on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link)
  12. The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film
  13. 13.0 13.1 SWInsider "Star Wars Q&A" — Star Wars Insider 71
  14. YouTube Star Wars: A New Hope – Cantina Archeology Part 2: Behind The Scenes of the Mos Eisley Cantina – US on the The Credible Nerds YouTube channel (backup link)
  15. Databank title Ketwol in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
  16. 16.0 16.1 Star Wars: Behind the Magic
  17. StarWars Announcing Star Wars: Force Collection on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
  18. StarWars The Legendary Star Wars Expanded Universe Turns a New Page on StarWars.com (backup link)
  19. TwitterLogo Leland Chee (@holocronkeeper) on Twitter: "I'm not gonna go through the trouble of changing them and I don't have any reason to believe currently that anyone would. […] On the off-chance that we DID have a current need to change any of these, we would have for Force Collection." (backup link)Leland Chee of the Lucasfilm Story Group has confirmed that in-universe information from Star Wars: Force Collection conforms with Star Wars canon.
  20. Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope
  21. Star Wars Resistance harbors crazy deep cuts and will cross over with The Force Awakens by Young, Brian on www.syfy.com (October 2, 2018) (archived from the original on December 27, 2019)
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