While marching down the streets of Mos Espa on a massive litter Two twin
cousins of Jabba the Hutt declared that the territory was now theirs,
and that they intended to take down Boba’s new Criminal Empire. With them was a fierce,
black furred Wookie who went by the name Black Krrsantan, serving as bodyguard and gladiator
for the Hutts. This isn’t actually the first time we’ve seen this deadly wookie though as
he actually appears as quite a big character in the Star Wars 2015 and Doctor Aphra comics,
including almost killing Obi-Wan Kenobi… So, I”m going to break down the full history
of Black Krrsantan and how he might play into the future of the Book of Boba Fett.
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Very early in his life, Black Krrsantan was already facing a very harsh reality.
While he was only very young he was forced to flee from his home planet of Kashyyyk in exile and
was soon after labelled a disgrace to the Wookiee people. We find out this information from Obi-Wan
Kenobi on Tatooine and Obi doesn’t actually reveal what happened, so I guess we’ll have to
wait for the Book of Boba Fett or maybe even the Kenobi show to find out the answers on that one.
Soon after, Black Krrsantan sought after a group of crime lords known as the Xonti brothers
who operated underground fight pits and pitted slaves against slaves. And this is
actually where he gets the title of Gladiator from, which we hear Boba Fett refer to him as.
After fighting his way through hordes and hordes of these slaves in the fight pits,
Krrsantan eventually made it to the Xonti bosses and they were incredibly surprised to find a
Wookiee had volunteered to fight in their arenas. They actually commended his grit and ambition…
but quickly proceeded to stun him and place him a cage… As you can imagine,
this is something that you should never do to a wookiee for obvious reasons.
Not too long after this however the Xonti brothers released Black Krrsantan and put him through
gruelling training before eventually allowing him to fight a group of other captured contestants
in a Gladiator battle to prove who was the strongest. In the pit was a Talz, a Gamorrean,
a Dowutin and a Sarlacc, yes a sarlacc. The Talz was the first to be taken down
by the Sarlacc who also quickly took down the Gamorrean but eventually he too fell.
Soon after Krrsantan took on a member of the Nikto species and absolutely obliterated him.
The wookiee forced him to praise the name Black Krrsantan but immediately after he did this,
Black Krrsantan snapped his neck and killed him on the spot.
Black Krrsantan eventually became the heavyweight champion of the arena but swore to return one day
and inflict the same pain the Xonti brothers inflicted on him, right back on them. This
outrageously good performance in the arena led many of the spectators to inquire about
buying Black K for their own purposes, but he was certainly not going to accept this.
Some time then passes before Krrsantan becomes a hired bounty hunter for Jabba the Hutt who was
obviously the eminent crime lord of the Imperial times. Around 10 years before the Battle of Yavin,
Black Krrsantan is hired by Jabba to track down a mysterious old man who was getting in the way
of him enforcing his water tax on the farmers of Tatooine. As part of this mission he travelled
around to many moisture farms across the Dune Sea, and eventually arrived at the homestead
of Owen Lars, taking Owen hostage. His led Own to scream out in sheer terror at the huge black
beast which caused a disturbance in the force which could be felt by nearby old Ben Kenobi.
Ben Kenobi felt a severe pain and knew that Owen and by extension Luke were in danger.
After Kenobi rushed onto the scene he gave Krrsantan one chance to leave but the Big
Wookiee had no intention of doing this. Instead wreaked absolute havoc on Kenobi,
biting a massive gash into his arm knocking him to the ground with a single swing.
He then lifts Kenobi by the neck, choking him to within inches of his life.
This was actually so close to killing Obi-Wan that he himself believed that this was the end,
and that someone else must rise up to protect the only remaining hope for the Jedi in the galaxy.
Very luckily for Obi-Wan though, Krrsantan threw him to the ground instead of finishing the Job
because Jabba offered more money for taking in the man who stopped the water tax alive. So because of
this, Krssantan traps Obi-Wan in an electro net ready to take him to Jabba and pushed Owen off
of a cliff nearby hoping to kill him. This was a big mistake however as Kenobi still had his
lightsaber on him, allowing him to break free and force push Krrsantan painfully into a nearby rock.
He als managed to use the force to Save Owen Lars from falling off the cliff but Black Krrsstan was
enraged by this, lifting a tremendous rock above his head ready to crush Kenobi. In the heat of
the moment, Obi-Wan managed to leap into the air with the force and ignite his lightsaber,
slashing Krrsantan directly over his eye. This is how he obtains his infamous scar
which we can see in the rest of the comic series, as well as in the Book of Boba Fett.
So for those of you wondering where he got that scar, it actually came from Obi-Wan.
After this abysmal failure, Krrsantan was forced to flee tatooine,
knowing that Jabba would likely be disgusted at his incompetence.
Now we skip ahead to just after the battle of Yavin, where Darth Vader travelled to Tatooine
in order to negotiate a deal with Jabba the Hutt on behalf of the empire for supply routes.
By this point Jabba had forgiven Black Krrsantan for his previous failure and added him to the
ranks of his most elite and feared bounty hunters. While on Tatooine, Vader used the opportunity to
take on a bit of a personal mission of his own interest. He requested two bounty hunters from
Jabba in order to search for the fabled Rebel who destroyed the death Star Star. He didn’t
yet know that Luke Skywalker was truly his son, but he wanted to investigate this famous Rebel.
In response to this request, Jabba gave Darth Vader his two top bounty hunters, one was Boba
Fett and the other was Krrsantan. Vader sent Boba to hunt down the slightly more important target,
Luke Skywalker while Krrsantan was sent after an agent of the Emperor known as Cylo.
Cylo was deeply involved in cloning, augmentation and biological modification,
with the end goal of creating a being that could replace vader as the Dark apprentice.
Vader obviously wasn’t going to allow this, so he sent Black Krrsantan after him.
Krrsantan eventually managed to trackdown the disgusting Cylo and discovered that
he was moving illegal alien body parts to a secret base in the outer rim. Unfortunately,
Cylo discovered that the black furred wookie was following him before he could be led to the base,
so Krssantan pounced and captured Cylo anyway.
Vader managed to get the information about what Cylo was doing with the illegal body parts
through his Torture Droid triple zero anyway, but this marks another failure for Krrsantan.
Soon after his contract for Vader expired, Krrsantan was summoned to a cantina on
the planet Son-tuul along with fellow bounty hunters Bossk, IG-90 and Beebox,
where Wookies captured by Trandoshands fought each other for the entertainment of onlookers.
While here, Krrsantan actually strangled one of the fighters and stole his place in the arena,
becoming one of the only wookiees to ever enter the fight pits voluntarily.
Once again strengthening his title of Gladiator, which Boba fett calls him.
After this little incident Krrsantan travelled to the planet Vrogas Vas,
where he brutally attacked Han Solo’s millennium falcon by colliding with the ship, sending it to
the ground. He then tried to capture Luke Skywalke on board but Luke was protected by Chewbacca who
brutally assaulted his black Furred brother. Unfortunately, Chewwie had just recently been
poisoned by the droid Triple zero so he wasn’t able to defeat Krrsantan. Black Krrsantan then
got up and knocked chewie out with brass knuckles, before turning around and grabben Han Solo ready
to kidnap him. Black K’s luck though had just about run out at this point and he accidentally
electrocuted himself by punching the exposed arm socket of c-3po with his brass knuckle…
So the next and final part of his story before we get to the
Book of Boba Fett comes after Darth Vader secretly hired Krssantan along
with many other bounty hunters to find a Rogue Archaeologist named Doctor Aphra,
either dead or alive. Black Krrstan eventually found Aphra which Vader was pleased with,
but what he didn’t realize was that Aphra owed him money from an earlier bounty… Because of this,
The wookiee stole Vader’s personal Flagship, the Executor and then fought alongside aphra to defend
his payday… Vader soon retook his flagship however and jettisoned Aphra into space,
but the Black furred Wookiee actually chased and rescued her from the black void of space.
After this, they eventually became good friends and Krrsantan stayed in Doctor Aphra’s crew for
many years, sometimes taking brief breaks. Following the battle of Hoth in the Empire
strikes back Black Krrsantan stays loyal to Aphra and her crew throughout all of her escapades and
attempts at evading DArth Vader’s Wrath… Which let me tell you, Vader is always after her.
And that's where we hit the end of his current story, after that he appears in the Book of
Boba Fett and we have no details to fill in the gaps just yet. I think he’s going to have plenty
more appearances in the show and maybe even the Obi-Wan show, Andor and the Mandalorian,
consider how deeply he’s connected to all of those characters.
So let me know down below what you thought of episode 2 of the book of boba fett
and if you want to see more of Black Krssantan. Thanks so much for watching,
really hope you enjoyed the video. Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one!