Hutt

The Hutts are a large sapient species which originated on planet Varl, but later migrated to Nal Hutta.

Early History
Before the Galactic Republic Hutt came to be on the world Varl. During some point in time Varl became part of the Infinite Empire of the Rakata.

In about 24,000 BBY the Hutts made an empire in the Outer Rim Territories. Xim the Despot found the empire 100 years after it was established and after failed negotiations attacked. The Hutts won the war with the loss of their homeworld Varl.

Hutt Cataclysms & Reformation
In around 15,000 BBY a horrid civil war tore the Hutt Empire. Some Hutt homeworlds were turn into wastelands. Soon after the war Hutts stop being warriors and embrace the philosophy of kajidic.

Hutts After the Cataclysms
Hutts adopted a mindset of deceit. They soon became a race of criminals (except for a few exceptions). Around 4,000 BBY they became competitors with the Exchange. For a short time Nar Shaddaa (a Hutt planet) was taken over by the Exchange.

Republic
In 21 BBY the son of Jabba the Hutt whose name was Rotta was kidnapped by the Confederacy of Interdependent Systems and was saved by Anakin Skywalker and his padawan Ahsoka Tano. This led to Jabba to letting Republic ships go in his space lanes. This caused a major advantage for the Republic in the Clone Wars.

Empire
Under the rule of the Galactic Empire the Hutts thrived. Most Hutts also remained neutral in the Galactic Civil War between the Rebellion and the Empire.

Post-Endor
After the Battle of Endor the Hutts stayed on top of the criminal underworld. But in 25 ABY when the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the galaxy, the Hutts sided with the Vong to make sure they would not be attacked.

Much later during the time of Darth Krayt's rule the Hutts sided with the Empire.

Biology
The Hutts are a slug-like invertebrate species. They are hermaphroditic, meaning each individual is male and female anatomically, but due to their communications with other species, many Hutts develop traits associated with a specific gender. Jabba the Hutt is referred to by male pronouns, and Gardulla by female ones. The Hutts are often crime lords, with the most well known of the species, Jabba being a crime lord on Tatooine. Hutts are known to keep slaves from other species.

Jabba the Hutt
Jabba Desilijic Tiure, better known as Jabba the Hutt, is a primary antagonist in the Star Wars franchise. Jabba the Hutt is seen as a large, slug-like alien. He is introduced as the crime boss who has a bounty on Han Solo's head.

In the original trilogy, Jabba the Hutt was first mentioned in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and once again in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. He made his first appearance on screen in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, although he appeared in a previously deleted scene that was added to the 1997 theatrical re-release and home media releases of Star Wars after the re-release. Jabba the Hutt later makes a minor appearance in the first film of the prequel trilogy, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and makes his final film appearance in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Jabba the Hut is about 600 years old. He is a Hutt crime boss and gangster who employs a group of criminals, bounty hunters, smugglers, assassins, and bodyguards to operate his criminal empire. In his palace on the desert planet Tatooine, he keeps a host of entertainers at his disposal that consist of slaves, droids, and alien creatures. He has a cruel sense of humour, a desiring appetite, and a sympathy for gambling, slave girls, and torture.

In the first scene of Return of the Jedi, Princess Leia Organa, Chewbacca, and Luke Skywalker rescue their friend Han Solo, who was captured and imprisoned in carbonite during the events of the previous film, The Empire Strikes Back. Boba Fett later brings Han to Jabba the Hutt and is placed in his throne room. Lando Calrissian, C-3PO, R2-D2, Leia, and and Chewbacca enters Jabba's palace in order to save their friend Han. Jabba the Hutt later captures Leia and he enslaves her. Her twin brother Luke later arrives but falls into a pit of the rancor, just below Jabba's throne room. After Luke kills the rancor, Jabba punishes Luke, Han, and Chewbacca to execution in the belly of the alien Sarlacc in Tatooine's Dune Sea, but later turns into a battle at the Great Pit of Carkoon upon the arrival of R2-D2 who defeats Jabba's guards. During the resulting confusion, Jabba's slave Leia strangles him to death with her slave chains as her friends escape just before his sail barge explodes, killing everybody in his place.