In Star Wars, Wookiees were among the strongest species in the galaxy, with most being able
to rip the limbs off their enemies with relative ease. However,
despite this strength of theirs, they usually did not act out in violence
unless provoked. Additionally, their strong bonds among each
other were often taken advantage of by slavers, who threatened to hurt their family members as
retaliation for disobedience. With all of that said, the black furred Wookiee
briefly shown in the second episode of The Book of Boba Fett was a complete anomaly of his people.
His story begins with a group of Trandoshen slavers lurking on Kashyyyk in search of Wookiees
to capture and later sell into slavery. As they moved through the thick forests, they discovered a
lone Wookiee unconscious and bound to a tree. Before they knew it, they were ambushed from
the shadows by Krrsantan, with them dropping dead second by second. As the few survivors
regrouped, they were shocked to see a Wookiee use one of their own as bait, an unthinkable
act among a species so tightly close with one another.
Nonetheless, the remaining Trandoshans soon met their end, with only one being left alive. And
to the lone survivor’s surprise, Krrsantan requested to be taken to his employers’ gladiator
arena, where slaves were forced to fight for the entertainment of others.
Once he was brought to the arena, he volunteered to fight the strongest warriors available; both
to train and entertain himself, as well as to feed his bloodlust of ending lives without
repercussions.
Although impressed by his ambition, the hosts of the underground death brawls, two brothers,
shot a blaster stun at the Wookiee. The stunned beast was then placed in chains and made into
their prized champion. An act that they would deeply regret later in life.
While their slave, Krrsantan was put through brutal training courses and had his body modified,
with metal surgically implanted into his hands to give him permanent knuckle dusters. Once the
time came to finally fight in the arena, Krrsantan was unlike any other Wookiee the crowds had
seen. In his first fight, he was put up against three other combatants, each armed with weapons.
Krrsantan tossed his own weapons aside and simply charged at his first opponent, knocking the
Trandoshen down and killing him with a single punch to the head, which exploded from the
sheer force. His second opponent was quickly dispatched as well, with his body being tossed
into a pit of fire within the arena like a small toy.
The third and final opponent, having witnessed the fates of his two allies, froze up in complete
fear. Krrsantan then picked the Nikto up and forced him to praise the Wookiee in front of the
crowds, before having his neck snapped like a twig.
Black Krrsantan soon became the favorite among the underground death match audiences, with
him going undefeated in every fight he was in. Eventually Krrsantan was able to escape his
imprisonment and became a bounty hunter; later coming back and enslaving the two brothers
who had captured him earlier. And just like they did with him, the Wookiee brutally trained them
as fighters, and likely sold them off once he got bored.
As a bounty hunter, he came under the employment of Jabba the Hutt. One of his first
assignments from the crime lord was to take out the man who had ended the Hutt’s planet wide
water tax. Unknown to the Wookie bounty hunter, the man he was tasked in killing was the
exiled Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. Discovering the hermit had some connection
to the Lars family, Krrsantan kidnapped Owen and began torturing him before being confronted by
Kenobi. As the disguised Jedi Master came near, he felt a sense of fear from the large
beast before him, understanding his foe was no ordinary Wookiee. He initially tried to mind trick
him to leave, but it failed, and he was instead brutally attacked, getting bashed with the
bounty hunter’s weapon and even bit into. Having underestimated his opponent, Kenobi nearly
paid for his mistake with his life. Luckily for him, he was wanted more alive than dead, so he
was instead captured inside an electrified net. As he struggled to free himself, he saw Krrsantan
pick Owen up and toss him off a cliff. It was at this point Obi-Wan had to break his rule of not
using the Force directly, in fear of it exposing him
as a Jedi. He used the mystical power to save the moisture farmer from his fall.
He then went all out, igniting his lightsaber for the first time in years and calling upon the full
power of the Force. Kenobi unleashed a fury of rocks and later boulders to crush the bounty
hunter. Despite being battered in such a manner from a power he didn’t understand, Krrsantan
still continued to fight, resulting in Obi-Wan slicing through the Wookiee’s right eye, leaving a
giant scar over it. Even so, the fight went on, with Kenobi getting viciously punched by the large
beast until finally he deflected a blaster bolt from Krrsantan’s rifle,
knocking him off the cliff. Although severely injured, Krrsantan was able
to survive and fled from Tatooine, not wishing to deal with Jabba’s reprisals over his failure.
However, he was eventually forgiven by the Hutt, who saw the Wookiee as an indispensable warrior
and among his best bounty hunters under his payroll.
Later in his career, Krrsantan took a job from Darth Vader alongside Boba Fett. This job
involved him capturing a prominent Imperial scientist, which he did successfully. He even
participated in a battle on the side of the Empire, where he fought against Chewbacca, besting
him in their long brawl. Afterwards, he was about to kill Han Solo but was stopped by C-3PO,
who annoyed him to the point that he punched the droid so hard, it ended up electrocuting
Krrsantan, knocking him out, which allowed for Chewbacca and Solo to escape with their lives.
While bounty hunting was his main source of income, he appeared to do it more out of enjoyment
rather than necessity, as he continued to fight in arenas during his free time.
All in all, Black Krrsantan is one of the most dangerous and brutal bounty hunters in the galaxy,
and his story will continue in The Book of Boba Fett as he is currently employed by the Hutt
Twins seeking to take over Tatooine following Jabba’s death.