Barada (Star Wars)
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Barada is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe who was born on the planet Klatooine. The Klatooinians are dull-eyed, canine-faced humanoids. Since Klatooinians name most of their children after historical figures, Barada shared his name with many others of his race. This has lead some sources to inaccurately identify Klatooinians as "Baradas".
Barada was disrespectful as a youth, and his parents sold him into indentured servitude to the highest bidder. Eventually Barada found himself in the employ of Jabba the Hutt.
Despite Barada's below-average intellect, he was adept with machinery and soon was in charge of maintaining Jabba's luxury vehicles, especially his prized sail barge. Barada made a respectable sum with his services, but was never able to purchase his freedom, because the crafty Hutt charged him exactly the same amount of money for room and board as his salary.
During Jabba's sail barge trip to the pit of Carkoon, Barada was captain of the repulsor fleet. Barada was killed by Luke Skywalker and fell into the Sarlacc during the ensuing battle.
Barada appears in the movie Return of the Jedi. His name is taken from a famous quote ("Klaatu barada nikto") in the 1951 movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.
