Ponda Baba
Name: Ponda Baba
Type: Smuggler / Thug
Species: Aqualish
Homeworld: Ando
Gender: Male
Born: —
Died: —
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
Height: 1.85m
Weight: —
Skin: Gray
DEXTERITY 3D+1
Brawling Parry: 4D+1
Melee Combat: 4D+1
Melee Parry: 3D+2
KNOWLEDGE 2D+1
Alien Species: 3D+2
Intimidation: 5D
MECHANICAL 3D+2
Starship Gunnery: 4D+2
PERCEPTION 3D
STRENGTH 3D
Brawling: 5D
Stamina: 5D
TECHNICAL 2D+2
Space Transports Repair: 3D+2
Special Abilities:
Fins: Aqualish are born with the natural ability to swim. They receive a +2D bonus for all movement attempted in liquids. However, the lack of fingers on their hands decreases their Dexterity, and the Aqualish suffer a -2D penalty when using equipment that has not been specially designed for its fins.
Hands: The Quara do not receive the swimming bonus, but they are just as “at home” in the water. They also receive no penalties for Dexterity actions. The Quara are most likely to be encountered off-world.
Force Sensitive: N
Force Points: 1
Dark Side Points: 0
Character Points: 8
Move: 10
Equipment: Blaster pistol (4D), grenades (5D), club (STR+1D)
Background: Ponda Baba was a male Aqualish thug who rescued Dr. Cornelius Evazan from a bounty hunter. The two formed a partnership and began to smuggle spice for the crime lord Jabba the Hutt, resulting in him becoming a wanted man. Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, he was a patron in Chalmun’s Spaceport Cantina on the planet Tatooine, where he instigated an argument with Luke Skywalker while bored and drunk. Evazan claimed that Baba did not like Skywalker and began to threaten the youth, leading to a brief confrontation with Obi-Wan Kenobi, who, after failing to calm tensions with the pirates, used his lightsaber to sever Baba’s right arm. Kenobi, who was secretly one of the last remaining Jedi Masters of the nearly extinct Jedi Order, wounded Evazan with a slash across the torso when the pair drew their blaster pistols on the old man. Evazan later tried to reattach Baba’s arm using his medical training, but ended up nearly killing the Aqualish in the process when the procedure failed.
Appearances: Rogue One, Episode IV A New Hope
