People and Monsters of Star Wars

A towering Wookiee, he is best known as the co-pilot of Han Solo's ship, the Millennium Falcon in the original Star Wars trilogy.

Solo is introduced in A New Hope as a roguish spice smuggler who, through a twist of fate, becomes involved in the Rebel Alliance against the evil Galactic Empire. Over the course of this film and its sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Solo becomes a chief figure in the Alliance. Star Wars creator George Lucas describes him as "a loner who realizes the importance of being part of a group and helping for the common good."

Padmé Naberrie Amidala is a fictional character in George Lucas' science fiction saga Star Wars. She first appeared on film in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) as the young queen of the planet Naboo. In subsequent prequel trilogy films, Padmé represents Naboo in the Galactic Senate. She is featured in the animated miniseries Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003–2005) and in Star Wars literature. Padmé is the secret wife of Anakin Skywalker and mother of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa.

Yoda, standing only 2' 1" (0.66 m) tall, is one of the lifetime members of the Jedi Council and arguably the wisest and most powerful Jedi Master in the Star Wars universe. In his career as a Jedi Master, Yoda has trained several notable Jedi, including Count Dooku, Mace Windu, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker.

C-3PO is a protocol droid designed to serve humans, and boasts that he is fluent "in over six million forms of communication." C-3PO is generally seen with his long-time counterpart, R2-D2, a small, quirky astromech droid. Threepio's main function as a protocol droid is to assist with etiquette, customs, and translation so that meetings of different cultures run smoothly. In his time, C-3PO loyally served over forty masters. He hated adventure and space travel, as they often resulted in him coming out on the wrong end of a fight, losing parts, and having them reattached, sometimes incorrectly. Together with his fellow droid R2, Threepio played a vital and pivotal role in the Galaxy's history, however lowly he thought of himself.

R2-D2 (called R2, or "Artoo" for short), is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. R2 is one of the only four characters - the others being Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader), Obi-Wan Kenobi, and droid companion C-3PO - to appear in all six Star Wars films.

Tarkin appears very briefly at the end of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. However, he neither speaks nor is addressed in this role, and is only seen walking away from Emperor Palpatine to make way for Darth Vader on the bridge of a command ship. He is the main villain in A New Hope, in which he commands the Death Star. By this time, Tarkin is the Imperial governor of Over Sector Outer (aka the Outer Rim) and one of the Emperor's most powerful servants. He is charged, along with Vader, in pursuing and destroying the Rebel Alliance spies who have stolen the battle station's plans. To that end, he threatens Princess Leia Organa with the destruction of her home planet of Alderaan if she does not reveal the location of the Rebel base. When she reluctantly confesses, he has the planet destroyed anyway. He later orders the Death Star to attack the base, however Leia directed them to Dantooine, when really the base was on the fourth moon of Yavin. He is killed when the Rebels destroy the Death Star in the film's climactic battle scene. Tarkin is the only person apart from Palpatine who is seen to exert any kind of command over Vader.

Jabba the Hutt is a fictional character in George Lucas' science fiction saga Star Wars. He first appeared on film in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) as an obese, slug-like alien. Jabba was originally portrayed by an immense latex puppet, but in other films he is a computer-generated image (CGI). Besides the films, Jabba the Hutt is featured in Star Wars literature and is sometimes referenced by his full name, Jabba Desilijic Tiure.[2] The character's role in Star Wars is primarily antagonistic. He is a 600-year-old Hutt crime lord and gangster who employs a retinue of criminals, bounty hunters, smugglers, assassins, and bodyguards to operate his criminal empire. Jabba the Hutt's palace on the desert planet Tatooine is a former monastery for a group of mystics known as the B'omarr monks. There, he keeps a host of entertainers at his disposal: slaves, droids, and alien creatures. Jabba has a grim sense of humor, a bellicose laugh, an insatiable appetite, and an affinity for gambling, slave girls, and torture.

Darth Maul was a Dark Lord of the Sith, an apprentice to Darth Sidious. Trained in the ways of the Dark Side of the Force from a young age, Maul had no emotion aside from bloodlust and rage. His master constructed him as a weapon of pure hatred.

Greedo is a Rodian bounty hunter who was killed by Han Solo in the cantina on Tatooine in A New Hope. Greedo was attempting to extort money out of Solo when he and Solo got into an altercation wherein Greedo was shot. In the original cinematic release of the film, Greedo does not have a chance to fire his threatened and impending shot. Solo shoots first from under the table, pre-emptively. In the 1997 re-release of the film, Greedo launches a poorly-aimed shot at Solo from about two feet away before Solo fires. George Lucas has said that this politically-correct change is to supposedly "enhance" Solo's overall heroism, and (in Entertainment Weekly) that he had originally planned it this way. The altered scene has irked many fans before and after. In the 2004 DVD version both pull the trigger at about the same time.(Though Han Solo still shoots it before Greedo).

In the fictional Star Wars, the Jawas are a pygmy and rodentlike race inhabiting the desert planet Tatooine. They are a hardworking people that work as scavengers and tinkerers. They are entirely covered in brown cloaks and their glowing yellow eyes are the only body parts visible. They use vast Sandcrawlers as transports in the desert world. These sandcrawlers can house a family unit as well as store cargo that they have collected on their journeys. Most Jawas belong to clans. Half of the clan work in the sandcrawlers while the other half live in desert fortresses in remote areas. These fortresses have high walls made from large chunks of old wrecked spaceships for protection against Tusken Raiders and krayt dragons. They also serve as a home for the rest of the Jawa clan which store the wealth gathered by the other family unit in the sandcrawlers.

Ewoks are a fictional species of bearlike hunter-gatherers that inhabit the forest moon of Endor. They first appeared in the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983).