Brass Marshoo

"Nobody...nobody...calls me 'cooky.'"

―Brass Marshoo^[1]

Brass Marshoo was a Gungan male chef who lived in Otoh Gunga on the planet Naboo during the rise of the Galactic Empire and during the Galactic Civil War.

Biography

Marshoo was named for a fish species of Naboo. He once served in the Gungan Grand Army as a general.

Brass Marshoo at the Lake Retreat during the Galactic Civil War

Prior to the Invasion of Naboo, Brass Marshoo owned a restaurant called General Marshoo's Eatery at Otoh Gunga. In 33 BBY, he discovered that the Gungan Jar Jar Binks attempted to steal his food supplies. The chef reacted violently but Captain Roos Tarpals arrived to settle the dispute. Tarpals arrested Binks for his theft but Marshoo did not believe that the captain would really punish his friend Jar Jar. The chef claimed that Tarpals used his status to protect Binks and became particularly enraged, interfering with Tarpals' arrest of Binks. In his anger, he knocked Tarpals unconscious to get at Binks. Binks, with help from Tarpals' kaadu managed to fend off Marshoo. After regaining consciousness, Tarpals tied Marshoo up and then arrested Binks.^[1]

Three decades later, during the time of the Galactic Civil War, Brass Marshoo still lived on Naboo.^[2] In 1 ABY,^[3] Marshoo was present at the Lake Retreat where he hired a spacer to kill some wild animals, including fanned rawls, peko-pekos and motts.^[2]

Behind the scenes

Brass Marshoo first appeared in The Death of Captain Tarpals, a short comic featured in Star Wars Tales #3.^[1]

Brass Marshoo also appeared as a non-player character in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,^[2] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.^[4] Marshoo was located at the Lake Retreat where he gave three completable missions. However, these quests were bugged and lacked any text dialogue strings, rendering it impossible to have derived much context from them.^[2]^[5] For this reason, these quests were deactivated by the developers relatively early in the game's lifespan. Brass Marshoo remained at the Lake Retreat, but would only tell players who interacted with him that he did not have time for them.