Underrated Moments from Star Wars

Grakkus The Warrior Hutt


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When you think of a Hutt, it’s likely you tend to imagine a slobbish, greedy, slug like creature that can barely move.

They get their violent natured underlings to do their dirty work for them.

Well, not so much for this Hutt.

Avid Jedi artefact collector and crime lord Graccus The Hutt, equipped with 8 cybernetic legs, took on the battles himself.

And that’s what he did on the day Imperial Forces invaded Graccus’s gladiatorial arena on the Hutt homeplanet of Nar Shaddaa.  Just a few weeks after the Destruction of the first Death Star, Luke Skywalker had journeyed there in search of finding a pilot to take him to Coruscant.  Before he could find one, the local leader Grachus the Hutt found him, imprisoned him, and forced him to fight in his arena for entertainment.


But Vader soon discovered Luke was there, and sent a squadron to retrieve him.

Gracchus, in order to keep his place as leader in the criminal hive of Nar Shadaa, was forced to fight.

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Underrated Moments from Star WarsBy Michael