Who Is BLACK KRRSANTAN? The Wookie BOUNTY HUNTER
Black Krrsantan, nicknamed “Santy,” “BK,” or “Black K” by Doctor Aphra, was a male Wookiee bounty hunter whose career spanned from during the rule of the Galactic Empire into the era of the New Republic. Originally captured from his homeworld Kashyyyk and trained by the infamous Xonti Brothers as a gladiator, Krrsantan later became a ferocious bounty hunter. He was regularly hired by the crime lord Jabba the Hutt and at one point, was hired by Darth Vader during the Galactic Civil War to track down and capture an agent of the Emperor.
Following the death of Jabba and the end of the war, Krrsantan was employed by that late Hutt’s cousins, brother and sister crime lords known as the Twins. Their cousin’s criminal empire had been taken over by the former hunter Boba Fett, and the Hutts sought Krrsantan’s services in wresting control away from the self-appointed Daimyo.
Early in his life, Black Krrsantan was forced to flee his homeworld of Kashyyyk and subsequently disgraced his people. He sought out the pit fighting crime bosses, the Xonti Brothers, who used slavers to acquire new fighters, to learn from them in fighting. Krrsantan attacked four slaver groups, wiping out each of them when learning they did not work for the Xonti. Krrsantan set a trap for another group, leaving a Wookiee to bleed to death as bait. A group of five Trandoshans slavers arrived shortly thereafter, walking into the trap. Krrsantan opened fire on the slavers, quickly killing three of them. The remaining two, Noka and Kootan, took cover behind a tree until Kootan attempted to kill Krrsantan. The Wookiee incapacitated the Trandoshan and tossed him into a tree.[5]
Krrsantan stood over Noka and ordered the slaver to take him to the Xonti Brothers. Noka allowed the Wookiee aboard his ship, and brought him and four captured aliens—a Talz, a Herglic, a Gamorrean and a Dowutin—to the Xonti brothers. On the way, Noka asked what would have happened if he was not with the Xonti. Krrsantan cited the four other slaver groups he had wiped out, although Noka only knew of two disappearing in the past month, which made the Wookiee laugh.
Noka took them to the Xonti Brothers, who were surprised to find a Wookiee had volunteered. The brothers approached Krrsantan, commending his ambition before stunning him and putting him in a cage. The brothers then put their five new fighters through harsh training, soon choosing to highten the level to pick off the weaker ones. The Talz fell first to a sarlacc. Then the Gamorrean was killed by a large monster. The Herglic fell later to a swarm of tiny robots. Thus only Krrsantan and the Dowutin. To make the Wookiee a valuable fighter to buyers, the Xonti Brothers altered the Wookiee’s knuckles by filling them with metal to give him an edge in the fighter market. Now equipped with what one of the brothers called “permanent knuckle dusters” Krrsantan was able to beat the Dowutin and knocked it unconscious in one punch.
Black Krrsantan underwent intense training under the Xonti Brothers to become a better pit fighter, although before he had managed to quickly overpower a Trandoshan slaver crew. According to Boba Fett, Black Krrsantan was one of Jabba’s best bounty hunters. The Wookiee had the ability to wield a bowcaster. He was a good fighter even against his fellow Wookiees, such as Chewbacca. The ferocious Wookie could fight against the exiled Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and even came to lose to killing Boba Fett himself. Krrsantan could lift massive boulders, crush bones and throw other creatures around like ragdolls. He would also utilize his sharp teeth to bite on occasion. He would also use brass knuckles, adding to the power of his modified knuckles that had been injected with a metal filling.
