Yoxgit

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Yoxgit was an Ugnaught in the employ of Huttese crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure during the Galactic Civil War. Hailing from Bespin, he was an employee of A'roFilter on Cloud City, but he found the income to be paltry, and entered into a criminal trade with the Baragwin Hermi Odle, a weapons technician for Jabba. With his ill-gotten gains, he purchased an upper city apartment, new clothes, and a new vehicle, distancing himself from the working class. When, in 3 ABY, the Galactic Empire took over Cloud City, Yoxgit realized that he would no longer be able to enjoy his new lifestyle, and he chose to leave Bespin for Tatooine, Jabba's seat of power.

There, Odle hired him to maintain Jabba's security systems and observe the movements of the Baragwin's nemesis, Pote Snitkin. So proficient was the Ugnaught at his work that he found his way into Jabba's favor, and was invited to witness the execution of three prisoners at the Great Pit of Carkoon from the sail barge Khetanna. Unfortunately for Jabba and Yoxgit, the prisoners were able to escape, and turn the tables on the crime lord's guards. Chaos erupted at Carkoon, and Jabba was slain by Leia Organa, a friend of the prisoners. Yoxgit prepared to kill Organa, believing that by doing so was the only way he could keep himself in a manner to which he was accustomed, thus currying favor with Jabba's successor. He was foiled when one of the prisoners, Jedi Luke Skywalker, destroyed the Khetanna, killing the Ugnaught in the process.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early career 1.2 Death at the Great Pit of Carkoon 2 Personality and traits 3 Behind the scenes 4 Appearances 5 Sources 6 Notes and references 7 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early career

Calling Bespin home, Yoxgit was employed on Cloud City as a security systems technician with the mining company A'roFilter. He chose not to fraternize with his fellow Ugnaughts, and detested his honest endeavors, and so Yoxgit opted to make a few credits in an under-the-table scheme. He covertly sold Tibanna gas packs to Hermi Odle, a Baragwin weapons designer in the employ of Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure. Odle, in turn, utilized the gas in blaster packs. With his supplementary profits from the deals with Odle, Yoxgit purchased an upper level apartment, far from his fellow working class Ugnaughts, a chrome-plated Storm IV Twin-Pod cloud car, and new, more fashionable clothes than his standard fatigues.^[1]

In 3 ABY, the Galactic Empire seized control of Cloud City from Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian.^[2] Predicting that he would not be able to maintain his current lifestyle under Imperial rule, Yoxgit bought a ticket for an outbound shuttle, which took him to Tatooine, Jabba's center of operations, to call in his favors with Odle. The Baragwin hired the Ugnaught to tend to the security system he had devised for Jabba's Palace. Yoxgit was also to keep an eye on Odle's rival, gunrunner Pote Snitkin, and his henchman, Wam Lufba.^[1] In addition to those roles, Yoxgit would supply Odle with various weaponry.^[3]

[edit] Death at the Great Pit of Carkoon

The following year, Jedi Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia Organa, and the Wookiee Chewbacca came to Jabba's Palace to rescue Captain Han Solo, a captive of the crime lord and a friend of theirs. They failed, and were in turn placed in Jabba's custody. While the Hutt chose to have Organa as a slave girl, he sentenced Skywalker, Chewbacca, and Solo to death at the Great Pit of Carkoon.^[4] Jabba was so pleased with Yoxgit's work on the security system that he invited the Ugnaught to accompany the rest of his court to the execution, aboard the sail barge Khetanna. Yoxgit accepted, believing that he was close to becoming one of Jabba's most favored employees.^[1]

The Ugnaught drank with the rest of the court, and wagered on the order of the executions.^[1] However, when Skywalker was moved into position to be executed, the Jedi turned the tables on Jabba's guards, producing a lightsaber and assaulting the various executioners. His allies, including Calrissian, who had been disguised as a guard, began attacking Jabba's men, leading to widespread chaos above the Great Pit of Carkoon.^[4] Yoxgit, fearing for his own safety, hid behind the bar, and watched as Organa strangled Jabba to death with the chain the Hutt had used to control her. As Organa fled the scene, he realized that his hopes of an easy life in the criminal underworld were slipping away. He then picked up a blaster, hoping to kill Organa and cement his favor with whomever succeeded Jabba; but at that moment, Skywalker fired the Khetanna's deck cannon at the sail barge itself, killing Yoxgit in the blast.^[1]

[edit] Personality and traits

While living at Cloud City, Yoxgit had nothing but disdain for both his working-class lifestyle and his fellow Ugnaughts, prompting him to turn to criminal activities to escape both. He was perceptive enough to realize that the Empire would change the state of living on Cloud City, and decided to depart as they descended on the floating settlement. Refusing to leave his favors uncalled, Yoxgit used his earlier ties with Hermi Odle to secure new jobs for himself in Jabba the Hutt's criminal organization—jobs in which he acquitted himself well enough to earn Jabba's favor within a year. Thinking ahead, Yoxgit, in his final moments, believed that the killer of Jabba's murderer would be looked on favorably in the wake of the Carkoon incident, but he was unable to see that through to fruition.^[1] During his year at Jabba's palace, he had longed to return to Bespin.^[3]

[edit] Behind the scenes

The character of Yoxgit first appeared, unnamed, in Richard Marquand's 1983 film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, which was written by George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan. The mask used by the actor portraying the character had already been used in 1980's Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.^[5] The character was later identified in the "Jabba's Palace Limited" set of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game, released in 1998. The card also provided Yoxgit with a small amount of story, which was later embellished upon by Edward M. Erdelac, writing as "caledre," through StarWars.com's Hyperspace feature, "What's The Story?"

Erdelac took his inspiration for his characterization of Yoxgit from the character's screentime in Return of the Jedi—most of which is spent drinking on the Khetanna. From that, and the fact that he wore clothes unlike the ones touted by Ugnaughts in The Empire Strikes Back, Erdelac figured that the character was "an easy money kinda guy." Being a fan of Star Wars Miniatures, Erdelac thought that the "Ugnaught Technician" miniature (actually the "Ugnaught Demolitionist," as he later discovered) resembled Yoxgit, and so he decided to use that in his Databank entry. Erdelac used several elements from prior "What's The Story?" entries, namely A'roFilter from Benjamin Christopher Norton Dawe's Willrow Hood entry, and Wam Lufba, whose entry had been written by Tim Veekhoven, and which Erdelac particularly enjoyed. In the original submission, Erdelac had written that Yoxgit had installed a silent alarm on Han Solo's carbonite casing, but the reference was cut in editing.^[6]

[edit] Appearances

• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (First appearance)

[edit] Sources

• Star Wars: Behind the Magic
• Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Jabba's Palace Limited (Card: Yoxgit) (First identified as Yoxgit)
• Star Wars: The Action Figure Archive (Picture only)
•  Yoxgit in the Databank

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] External links

• This Little Piggy on Hyperspace
•  "What's The Story Behind The Scenes - M-HYD Hydroponics Droid and Yoxgit" - "If There's A Bright Center To The Universe…", Edward M. Erdelac's StarWars.com Blog
•  Yoxgit in the Completely Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia