Unkar Plutt was a male Crolute junk boss who dominated the scavenger economy of Niima Outpost on the desert world of Jakku roughly thirty years after the Battle of Endor. Born on the aquatic world of Crul in 16 BBY, he drifted across the galaxy before settling on Jakku, where he traded salvage for survival rations and enforced a monopoly on barter through hired thugs. Scavengers nicknamed him "The Blobfish" behind his back.
Plutt is best known for his dealings with the scavenger Rey, who was left in his charge as a child and worked for him for years. Among the wrecks he hoarded was a battered YT-1300 freighter, the Millennium Falcon, which sat under a tarp in his junkyard until Rey, Finn, and BB-8 commandeered it to escape a First Order attack on Niima Outpost.
Pursuing his stolen ship to Takodana, Plutt confronted Rey and was famously maimed by the Wookiee Chewbacca, who tore off one of his arms. Portrayed by Simon Pegg in Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, Unkar Plutt also appears across various sequel-era novels and comics.
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