"Goatgrass: The Tale of Ree-Yees" is a short story that appeared in the Tales from Jabba's Palace anthology, published in January 1996 by Bantam Spectra. It was written by Deborah Wheeler. The story provides the backstory of the Gran, Ree-Yees who was present in Jabba's Palace in 4 ABY. The title is a reference to Goatgrass, a preferred food among Gran.
Plot summary
The murderous fugitive Ree-Yees is secretly cobbling together a bomb to kill Jabba in return for a full pardon from the Empire. The bomb components come smuggled in shipments of Goatgrass, a food favored by Gran. An encounter with a B'omarr monk grants Ree-Yees a vision of a fiery future, leading him to believe his bomb will be successful. But his vision presages a different outcome: Ree-Yees has been surgically implanted with a bomb by a distrustful Jabba. During the Hutt's death throes as he is strangled by Princess Leia, Jabba activates the device – an explosion rendered redundant by the fiery death of the sail barge moments later.
Continuity
Galaxy Guide 5: Return of the Jedi (1990), the same roleplaying supplement that provided Ree-Yees' basic backstory as a murderer, suggests that he survived the sail barge blast, though this explosives-laden story makes that claim extremely doubtful.[2]
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