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this Hutt was known by most of her kind as a female, and was one of Jabba the Hutt's closest friends. There were also rumors of a romance, as Gardulla was often Jabba's guest at his Tatooine townhome. However, these rumors couldn't be farther from the truth. Gardulla had originally traveled to Tatooine at the urging of her family, the Besadii kajidic, in order to protect her from the Desilijic clan. Angry and upset at being deposited on the desert planet, Gardulla took control of her adopted city of Mos Taike and began to create her own criminal empire. When the organization got too big, Gardulla was ordered to remain on Tatooine inorder to protect it. As if this weren't enough, she was also ordered to court Jabba with the intent of marrying him, in oder to strengthen Besadii's position. After the wedding, she was free to kill Jabba in any manner she pleased. Jabba, meanwhile, decided that Gardulla was worth the effort, and tried a number of tactics to earn her approval. He even used his own smugglers to raid her holdings, then returned them to her as "gifts." All this effort on Jabba's part was doomed to earn Gardulla's affections, but it did manage to degrade her holdings on Tatooine, thereby allowing Jabba to grow more powerful. Seeing the error in her ways, Gardulla decided to renegotiate with Jabba for control. Jabba allowed her to take complete control of the slaving operations on Tatooine, in return for her smuggling operations and protection rackets. Gardulla owned many slaves, and was at one time the owner of Shmi and Anakin Skywalker, so this seemed to be a good deal. However, she lost the Skywalkers in a bet with the Toydarian junk dealer, Watto, six years before Watto lost Anakin to Qui-Gon Jinn in a similar wager. Years later, when the Old Republic began enforcing its anti-slavery laws, Gardulla also lost the slave trade on Tatooine, and was left with nothing. Many knew that Gardulla maintained a large, underground pleasure garden, complete with ponds and plantlife and streams. She paid Sebulba to acquire a group of Ghostling children to serve as living statues in the gardens, shortly before the Battle of Naboo. She also planned to import creatures to hunt the Ghostlings, as part of a cruel, living ecosystem. Unfortunately, her plans were thwarted by Anakin and his friends. Aurra Sing later revealed that she had been hired by Gardulla to upset the plans of Jabba, in an effort to overthrow his control of Tatooine and claim it for herself. Just prior to the Boonta Eve Classic podrace won by Anakin, Gardulla went to great lengths to create a scale model of the racecourse. She then tried to convince Jabba that her analysts had predicted that Gasgano would win the race, in an effort to destroy Jabba by getting him to bet on the Xexto. Jabba, however, refused to bite on the ruse. Following the race, she offered to buy Anakin back from Watto, but Watto was unable to secure Anakin before Qui-Gon whisked him away to Coruscant. Later, Gardulla was implicated in the work of the Bando Gora cult, and was questioned by Jango Fett as to the whereabouts of Komari Vosa. It was later discovered that much of Gardulla's interest in the Bando Gora had been part of an intricate plot created by Count Dooku to test Jango's abilities and his usefulness as the source of clones for the Army fo the Republic. In the aftermath of the Republic's crackdown on slavery, Gardulla was arraigned on charges of slave trafficking. She chose to flee Tatooine, rather than serve time in prison, and was never seen again. Note that the comic adaptation of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace indicates that Gardulla was a male Hutt. Also note that the Star Wars Databank indicates that Gardulla died on Tatooine some time after the Battle fo Naboo.