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Azool Phantelle was an Ortolan male criminal and the brother of the musician Max Rebo. During the reign of the Galactic Empire, he swindled several of the inhabitants of the spaceport of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine then had to save Rebo from his victims, who had mistaken the musician for his brother. Rebo complained about Phantelle's crimes and then threw the criminal's stolen money back into the crowd chasing them. The Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure then learned of Phantelle's criminal activity, which had taken place within the Hutt's territory, and punished Phantelle by forcing him to serve drinks onboard his sail barge, the Khetanna.

Biography

Brothers reunited

Azool Phantelle was a male Ortolan who worked as a thief during the reign of the Galactic Empire. He was the brother of the musician Max Rebo, leader of the Max Rebo Band. After Phantelle swindled several of the inhabitants of the spaceport Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine, the victims mistook Rebo for Phantelle and began chasing the musician. Rebo then collided with two Imperial stormtroopers while fleeing toward Chalmun's Cantina. Before the troopers could punish him for the collision, Phantelle spotted Rebo while passing on a speeder bike and pulled his brother onboard out of harms way.^[1]

As the pair sped away from the angry stormtroopers and locals, Rebo admonished Phantelle for his life of crime and fretted that the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure, whom employed Rebo, would punish both brothers for Phantelle's crimes as they had taken place within the crime lord's territory. Unconcerned, Phantelle avoided a missile fired by one of their pursuers, after which Rebo stopped the chase by grabbing Phantelle's bag of stolen funds and throwing the contents out to those chasing them.^[1]

Crime never pays

Upset by the loss of his ill-gotten goods, Phantelle stopped to watch the locals fighting over the scattered currency. As the brothers stood watching, Jabba and his entourage confronted the pair and demanded to know what was going on. Rebo informed the crime lord of what had happened, after which Jabba angrily threatened Phantelle. As the criminal was related to Rebo, Jabba chose to spare him and punished him by forcing him to work as a waiter onboard his personal sail barge,^[1] the Khetanna.^[2]

Sometime later, the cartographer Emil Graf was reminded of Phantelle and Rebo's case of mistaken identity when he was falsely accused of stealing a pair of laser-calipers from his BB-series astromech droid BB-00, when the true culprit was the Kowakian Monkey-Lizard Noni. Graf then told the story to BB-00, Noni and the droid CR-8R.^[1]

Personality and traits

Azool Phantelle was a Ortolan male with blue skin and black eyes. He considered swindling civilians fun and believed his brother was too afraid of letting go. When Rebo hurled Phantelle's stolen currency from the back of the speeder bike they were riding to distract their pursuers, Phantelle was upset by the loss of wealth. He was unconcerned about the risk of Jabba catching him stealing on his territory, but when actually confronted by the crime lord he was intimidated and submitted to a humiliating punishment.^[1]

Equipment

Phantelle wore a black jacket and rode a speeder bike. While being forced to work on the Khetanna he wore a drinks tray on top of his head.^[1]

Behind the scenes

Azool Phantelle first appeared in "Tales from Wild Space: The Blue Brothers", a comic strip written and illustrated by Nick Brokenshire and published in Star Wars Adventures 13 in 2018.^[1]

Appearances

• "[[Tales from Wild Space: The Blue Brothers|Tales from Wild Space: The Blue Brothers]]" — Star Wars Adventures (2017) 13 (First appearance)

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