Ugnaughts
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The Ugnaughts are a fictional race in the Star Wars universe. They are seen working on Lando Calrissian's Cloud City. They appear like dwarf-sized humans with some pig-like features, such as a slightly upturned nose and chubby belly. Ugnaughts are diligent and industrious.
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[edit] Society Description
They are ruled by elected terend councils, which are led by elected ufflor officers. Ugnaughts live to 200 years of age and are represented in the Cloud City's Parliament of Guilds. Ugnaughts live their lives in accordance to their blood profession, with Ugnaught parents teaching their children their trade. If the number of new Ugnaughts in a given profession exceeds the needed, a blood duel is called. When the Ugnaughts reach their twentieth year of age, these fights are held to the death, with the victor winning the right to inherit their blood profession. However, despite this outdated violent custom, the Ugnaughts are generally a peaceful people with a rich culture.
[edit] History
Ugnaughts originate from the planet Gentes in the remote Anoat system, from where they were sold into slavery long ago. They were often sold in "tribes". The Ugnaughts lived on the planet's less-than-hospitable surface. During the Clone Wars, the dreaded CIS General Grievous ordered a massacre of Ugnaughts.
Two thousand years before the Battle of Yavin, when the Corellian eccentric and noble Lord Ecclessis Figg wished to build a floating mining complex on Bespin, he decided to recruit several Ugnaught tribes to help in the mining of the base metals needed to build the structure. To fulfill this, he recruited three Ugnaught tribes, the Botrut, the Isced and the Irden. He promised them freedom, livelihood and a share in the Figg & Associates profits. Once Cloud City was built, the noble Ecclessis Figg remembered his promise and gave them their freedom. To make themselves feel at home, the Ugnaughts have constructed many labyrinth tunnels throughout the city, which can only be navigated by their kind.
Shortly after the Battle of Hoth, the Cloud City mining colony fell under the rule of Imperial Captain Treece, who enslaved the Ugnaughts. Many Ugnaughts fled the city, led by the wealthy King Ozz who sheltered the refugees on floating platforms terraformed to mimic the original Ugnaught homeworld. There, King Ozz's Ugnaughts formed a resistance movement that created insurrection of Cloud City, including planting bombs throughout the colony. As a result, Cloud City was evacuated until the bombs could be defused. When the New Republic recaptured Bespin, the Ugnaughts returned.
[edit] Appearances
In The Empire Strikes Back, they are seen working in a scrapyard, annoying Chewbacca while he is trying to get back the pieces of C-3PO after he is blown apart.
Ugnaughts also appeared in the computer games Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight and Jedi Knight II, the latter of which has an Ugnaught as one of the choosable multiplayer models, as well as in Lego Star Wars 2 where they are also a playable character.
Ugnaughts also appeared in the console game Star Wars: Bounty Hunter as wanted bounties. Their crimes usually were selling technological information on the black market.
