

While Luke, Han, Lando and Chewbacca fought on their Skiff and managed to knock Boba Fett into the pit, Leia used the chains she was bound in to strangle Jabba. The prisoners, however, overcame their guards, with the help of R2-D2 and Lando Calrissian. After their capture, Jabba took his Rebel prisoners to the pit, to be digested over years by the sarlacc. In 4 ABY, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Chewbacca attempted to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt. In 1 ABY, Jabba's beast master Malakili hired a spacer to kill Jundland eopies in order to collect their livers to feed the sarlacc. Due to the pit being close to his palace, Jabba would begin using it as a means to execute people for his amusement over the course of many years.Īfter the Battle of Yavin, the constant presence of Jabba's sail barge at the Great Pit of Carkoon had scared off the sarlacc's natural preys. At some point, the gang leader Alkhara had managed to cut a road from his headquarters to the Pit of Carkoon before it was taken over by Jabba the Hutt in the year 516 BBY. A Choi named Susejo, who had fallen into the sarlacc by 3996 BBY, would eventually merge his personality with the beast as it remained stationary for millennia.

The sarlacc had resided in the Pit of Carkoon for around four thousand years by the time of the Galactic Civil War. Luke Skywalker looks down into the maw of the sarlacc. " Jabba takes his sail barge to the Great Pit of Carkoon to feed his enemies to the Sarlacc." ― Malakili, to a spacer
