Umpass-stay

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"Ak-rev here is my brother. He found me when I was just a street rat playing on empty cans. He made me the person I am today. I owe him my life, droid."
"And I owe Umpass mine, several times over."

―Umpass-stay and Ak-rev^[3]

Umpass-stay was a male Klatooinian who worked as a drummer and bodyguard for the Max Rebo Band at the palace of the crime lord Jabba the Hutt on the planet Tatooine. Four years after the Battle of Yavin, he and the rest of the band performed the song Jedi Rocks for Jabba, who demanded they repeat the song but then dropped the enslaved Oola into his rancor pit when she refused his advances during the performance. The band stopped playing as the rancor devored the slave, and then witnessed the arrival of Princess Leia Organa disguised as the bounty hunter Boushh with the Wookiee Chewbacca as a prisoner.

Biography[]

"So anything—anything—that the chief has to say to me, it can be said in front of Ak-rev. Clear?"
"Right-oh! It's your funeral. Anyway, the message is simple…kill Jabba!"

―Umpass-stay and a DRK-1 probe droid^[3]

Umpass-stay was a Klatooinian mercenary^[2] from the planet Klatooine^[1] who was enslaved by the Desilijic Kajidic and essentially forced to work^[5] as both bodyguard and drummer for the Max Rebo Band,^[6] the house band of the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure,^[5] with the Klatooinian also serving as a bodyguard for Jabba himself.^[7] In 4 ABY,^[8] he and the Weequay drummer Ak-rev performed a duet together on an enormous drum^[4] that required two drummers^[7] during a performance by the band in the throne room of Jabba's Palace on the planet Tatooine.^[9]

The band initially played a relatively slow piece as Oola and Yarna d'al' Gargan, a pair of enslaved dancers, performed in front of Jabba. When the song finished, Jabba demanded that Oola repeat her performance, but thinking that the Hutt had been speaking to the band, the singer Joh Yowza counted them down into another song.^[10] The Growdi Harmonique player^[4] Rappertunie began playing the wrong song, but after Yowza shouted at him, the whole band began playing^[10] "Jedi Rocks."^[11] Ak-rev and Umpass-stay's drumming was then brought to a stop^[4] when Jabba dropped Oola through a trapdoor after she refused his advances. Musical performance forgotten, Jabba's court rushed forward to instead watch as Oola^[9] was devoured alive^[4] by the Hutt's pet rancor, Pateesa, in a pit below.^[9]

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After the excitement surronding Oola's demise died down, Princess Leia Organa^[9]—disguised as the bounty hunter Boushh^[4]—entered the throne room with the Wookiee Chewbacca as her prisoner. After she bargained with Jabba over the bounty on the Wookiee's head, the band began playing again as Chewbacca was taken away to the Hutt's prisons. The drum that Umpass-stay and Ak-rev were playing had been removed from the throne room later that night when Organa freed the smuggler Han Solo from the carbonite he had been frozen in on one of the room's walls. The next day, Jabba and much of his court traveled to the Great Pit of Carkoon to execute Solo, Chewbacca, and the Jedi Luke Skywalker there; however, the prisoners fought back and Jabba was killed.^[9] After Jabba's death, Umpass-stay and Ak-rev both fled from the palace.^[5]

Personality and traits[]

"Thst turnaround in Ballad of Bosovir keeps eating you alive, Ak-rev!"
"Only 'cus you keep dragging the bridge."
"Wrong! The bridge is meant to drag—it's bum bam badim bap! Ask Max!"

―Umpass-stay and Ak-rev^[3]

Umpass-stay was one of the more unusual Klatooinians in Jabba's Palace.^[6] A beefy individual,^[12] he had brown skin and dark eyes.^[5]

Equipment[]

Umpass-stay wore brown and gray chest armor with red cloth straps over a black shirt with white sleeves. The drummer also wore brown pants, brown boots, a tan belt, and a tan head wrap. He used a single large drumstick while playing the drum.^[7]