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P'tan

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a Kalkal academic at Beshka University, and a contemporary of Melvosh Bloor, P'tan was a gruff old geezer who believed that every professor had to work his way up from the dregs in order to achieve tenure. When Ra Yasht and Skarten, two other young Kalkal academics like Bloor, were given instant tenure for an investigative report on Porcellus, P'tan flew into a rage. To make matters worse, Bloor planned to interview Jabba the Hutt himself. P'tan interrupted Bloor's petition for University funding, saying that Bloor was too young, and he would make mistakes in his data. P'tan used his seniority to go in Bloor's place. In his infinite wisdom, P'tan hired Salacious Crumb to be his guide to Jabba. However, P'tan never returned from his trip to Tatooine, since Jabba quickly tired of him and threw the Kalkal into the Pit of Carkoon, to be digested by the Sarlacc.