After taking a rescue mission from a bounty hunter named Cid on Ord Mantell, Clone Force
99 were sent to capture the ferocious young Rancor named Muchi so that she could be delivered
to Jabba’s palace, by Bib Fortuna.
Unless this was a retcon however, this isn’t actually the Rancor that Luke Skywalker killed
in Return of the Jedi.
So how did Jabba actually acquire his rancor, the one Luke did kill at his palace?
Lets find out…
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After being sent to hunt down the Ravenous Rancor named Muchi by cid, the Bad Batch eventually
found her, and Wrecker was forced to fight with her until the two were both exhausted
to the point of falling over…
This did however lead to her successful capture, allowing Bib Fortuna to pick her up and take
her back to the hot sands of Tatooine, where Muchi would live in Jabba’s palace.
But this isn’t the Rancor that Luke Kills, because that one has already been given a
name in Canon through the aftermath novels and the reference books, as well as being
a male.
So ill break down the possibilities for how Muchi fits into the the story, and then we’ll
get into the full story of how Jabba acquired his Rancor.
The first option is simply that Jabba changes Muchi’s name once she arrives at his palace.
This is definitely possible, and it would make even more sense if his beastmaster, Malakili
was the one who changed Muchi’s name to Pateesa, because he is a rancor lover and
is very close to the animals that he looks over for Jabba.
Pateesa in Huttese actually means friend, so it would be a very fitting name for Malakili
to give the Rancor after it arrives at the palace.
This wouldn't explain Muchi being a female and Pateesa being a male , but it’s one
possibility.
It’s also possible that Pateesa is literally just a nickname given to Muchi by Malakili
or someone else at the palace, but that again has the same issue with her being a female.
After that, it might just be that Cid simply got it wrong, and believed Muchi was a female,
when she really wasn’t…
This, along with the name change theory does fix most of the problem, but it still conflicts
with the previous material that says Jabba received Pateesa as a gift before the year
32bby, obviously way before the time of the Bad Batch.
Finally, it could simply be just another rancor, which would make a lot of sense, although
the writer of the episode has hinted otherwise…
So we’ll see if it turns out to be a retcon, or just another rancor.
Either way, lets break down how Jabba acquired his rancor originally.
The young rancor’s story begins as he was being transported from the Tarsun system on
board a large vessel, by a young man who was deep into the smuggling game, named Grizzid.
Grizzid was attempting to deliver the young rancor to a bothan merchant named Grendu,
but unfortunately for him it violently broke out of it’s restraints and ended up brutally
killing Grizzid and his entire crew…
Because the Rancor obliterated everyone on board the ship, there was obviously no one
left to pilot it, sending it plummeting into the sands of Tatooine.
Once it landed in the sand, it wasn’t long until the Jawas noticed it, sending a renowned
Sandcrawler captain named Tteel Kkak in search of the wreckage.
After a long search through the dunes of Tatooine, the Jawa captain eventually did manage to
track down the wreckage, and immediately informed Jabba’s underling Bidlo kwerve.
Kwerve went out to investigate this report, taking several of Jabba’s Gamorrean guards
with him, and told everyone else at the palace that he was simply going out womp rat hunting…
Bib fortuna however, one of Jabba’s other underlings at the time, was always keeping
tabs on his rivals, and was therefore not far behind him….
At the crash site, Bidlo Kwerve found a ferocious beast that was meters tall, and was forced
to fight the raging beast…
This was of course the rancor.
He and his guards struggled to take the creature down, with conventional tactics, and was forced
to throw eight gas grenades at it.
Only moments after subduing the beast, Bib Fortuna arrived on the scene, obviously keeping
close tabs on the situation, and immediately demanded to know what was going on.
The two immediately realized that Jabba would reward them majorly if they brought this beast
back to him as a birthday gift, which was not far away…
Unfortunately however, Both Bib and Kwerve knew that they would not be able to bring
the beast back to Jabba’s palace alone, and and as a result knew they had to work
together.
This is something that these two major rivals had never done before…
But for now, it was the least dangerous option.
Because of this, the two carefully approached the Rancor and collected it, and eventually
took him to the lower dungeons of their desert citadel.
Once there, Bib Fortuna used his contacts in the game to secure the services of a beastmaster
named Malakili, who was currently working as a beast handler for a nearby circus, called
Circus Horrificus…
Very interesting name for a circus…
While this situation happened, Jabba was still away on business, purchasing a Cantina down
in Mos Eisley, but his birthday was very quickly coming up, in just three days.
Because of this, Bib and Kwerve knew that they would present the creature to him as
a birthday gift, both as a power play between each other, and as an act of goodwill for
their boss.
And at this point, the two still weren’t 100% sure that this creature was actually
a Rancor.
About a day later, the beastmaster Malakili arrived in from Nar Shaddaa, and was able
to identify the creature as a rancor, native to dathomir…
Although he couldn’t workout just how this creature survived and made it to tatooine.
Kwerve and Fortuna then installed the trapdoor in front of Jabba’s throne, to allow their
boss to easily pull a single lever, and plunge anyone standing over the trapdoor into a horrid
dungeon, containing the rancor.
Jabba’s spies around the palace already informed Jabba about the gift, and the trapdoor
being installed before he even got back, but when he did, he was genuinely surprised and
happy to see the creature at his service.
Kwerve tried to take all of the credit for the beast’s capture, but fortuna was sure
to make his contribution known as well…
After this, Jabba was extremely impressed at the initiative that his two underlings
showed, and promised to hand out two jobs.
One would be to serve as his new Majordomo, or right hand man, and the other job would
be a greater, unspecified role, that would be remembered forever.
After hearing this, Bib fortuna became very suspicious, and was worried at the sinister
nature of this unspecified role, so he told Jabba that he would be very happy to accept
the lesser role, of becoming HIs Majordomo.
Kwerve on the other hand became arrogant and excited that he would be getting the higher
position, but after Bib Fortuna and Jabba began to speak privately in Huttese, which
he could not understand, he began to panic…
Jabba then made it clear that his major role and great honor would be, to become the first
victim of the rancor, to test out his new trapdoor system…
The trapdoor then opened on the terrified Kwerve, plummeting him down into the lair
of the rancor, and despite putting up a massive fight with his blaster, he was ruthlessly
devoured by the creature…
And awesomely, Kwerve did actually get his revenge on the Rancor after his death some
years later, after Luke Skywalker used his Skull to trigger the closing mechanism of
the blast door in the dungeon, killing the Rancor…
So yes, that skull in Jabba’s palace belonged to Bidlo Kwerve, and there’s actually quite
an interesting story behind it.
But that was many years later…
Following this, Malakili took the Rancor for long walks through the desert sands, and enjoyed
every moment of caring for his massive beast.
On one of these walks, the Rancor even saved him from a small gang of Tuskens…
After the death of Jabba’s rancor, Malakili was left devastated and without hope.
Malakili remained in the palace during Jabba’s death, and eventually as time went on, food
and water began to run low, and things were not looking good inside the palace.
Despite this, he and many others chose to stay, with hopes of a new employer coming
to take over the palace.
As many of the others at the palace begin to slowly leave, rumours spread that the hutts
were now engaged in a fierce underworld war as a result of Jabba’s death, but Malakili
stayed anyway, being the lat one left in the palace.
Eventually however, Malakili too got up and left the palace, putting the memories of his
beloved Rancor behind him.
Feeling purposeless without his rancor, Malakili sit out towards the great pit of Carkoon,
giving himself a dire ultimatum.
Either he would successfully tame the sarlacc, or he would throw himself into the sarlacc’s
mouth, to die.
When he arrived at the Sarlacc however, he noticed the large being weeping, and instead
of jumping in, he simply wept alongside it.
Quite a sad story for Malakili, who was left without purpose for a long time after the
Rancor’s death…
So that is the story of Jabba the Hutt’s Rancor.
Thanks so much for watching, really hope you enjoyed the video.
Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one!