Seeki Taxijic Viture

, also known as Seeki the Hutt and Seeki the Great, was a Hutt crime lord and head of the First of the Five Hutt Families after the rise of the Rebellion. Together with the other Four Hutt Families, he orchestrated the Hutt Rebellion against the Empire and the New Republic, partly to avenge the death of fellow crime lord and Seeki's cousin Jabba the Hutt, but also in a bid for power over the galaxy.

Seeki was unusual for Hutts in that he was an albino, with milky white skin. He also had a low level sense of the Force, and used that to his advantage when making agreements.

Seeki was also the most untrustworthy of the Hutts, using the war as an excuse to search for the Genesis Diamond, a powerful crystal buried somewhere in the galaxy that would give his army unparalleled power over the galaxy at large. Seeki also controlled the Second Hutt Family remotely, using the Family's leader, Jabanna the Hutt, as a puppet.

Early life
Seeki was born to prominent crime lord Chi-balla the Hutt after the Great Hutt Civil War on Nal Hutta in 498 BBY, five hundred years before the rise of the Rebellion. Seeki, like most Hutts, was kept in a brooding pouch for the first fifty years of his life, seeing little of the world at large.

After leaving his father's brooding pouch, Seeki began to build up his own criminal empire. Basing his operations on Taraxis, a capital world of the small area of Hutt space, his empire occasionally came to blows with his cousin Jabba's relatively smaller empire, making a deep rift in their friendship.

Criminal Empire
By the time of Order 66 in 19 BBY, Seeki had a criminal empire larger than any in the galaxy. Moving his base of operations from Taraxis to one of the larger asteroids of the planet Geonosis, he began to seek out the desolate planet's droid foundries and started them up again, creating a massive droid army for "insurance" against the immensely powerful Imperial forces.

This droid army did its job well, and Seeki, already with a 50,000-Credit bounty posted on his head by the Empire, felt relatively safe and secure, leaving his empire in the hands of his son, Toba the Hutt. Settling down into an early retirement on his home planet Nal Hutta, he restored his friendship with the elder Jabba and the pair became fast friends once more.

Seeki returned to Begronis Major, his son's base of operations, to find his criminal empire in ruins. Toba was incapable of running a criminal operation on such a scale, and the empire had gone to the dogs. Angered, Seeki returned to the head of the empire and attempted to restore peace back to his empire. Toba apologised profusely but Seeki was still angry, shooting Toba through the head with the blaster of one of his own bodyguards, instead promising the empire to his second son, Feki.

It took several years for Seeki to restore his empire to a fraction of its former glory, but was assisted by Jabba, who supplied him with weapons and a small fleet of ships. It was in a private meeting with Jabba that he heard about the Genesis Diamond, a powerful device that could restore Seeki to his former power.

Formation of the Five Hutt Families
Agreeing with Jabba to seek out the Diamond and to split the fee, Seeki called together five of the most powerful Hutt families to Jabba's base of operations on Tatooine. Together, they agreed to form the Five Hutt Families, with Jabba's, the Desijilic clan, an unofficial sixth and an extension of Seeki's army.

While there, Seeki proceeded to infiltrate the Families by killing Totarra the Hutt, head of the Second Hutt Family, meaning the title would pass down to his son Jabanna, a weak-minded soul who could be easily manipulated by Seeki and Jabba.

The Five Hutt Families returned to major Hutt worlds, overthrowing the Hutt Royal Family, that was in power over Nal Hutta. Seeki's forces stormed the Rose Citadel on the planet, killing everyone inside; men, women and children. With no power to oppose them, the Five Hutt Families took their place as the rulers of the Hutts, and were greeted warmly by a race that had been greatly oppressed by the Royal Family, and particularly their Great King, Viraa the Hutt.

Death of Jabba the Hutt
By the time the Five Hutt Families had taken power, the Rebellion had already begun their desperate fight against the Empire. For almost four years the Five Hutt Families looked on, hoping that both forces would waken each other and allow the Hutts to take control.

In 4 ABY, just before Jabba and Seeki were to seek the Genesis Diamond, Jabba was brutally killed by a Rebel strike team led by Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker. Angered by this, Seeki, with the apparent support of Jabanna, requested that they advanced their plans and avenged Jabba's death.

The Hutt Rebellion
Declaring war on the Empire the same day as the Second Death Star was destroyed, the Hutts' split up into five armies, sharing their forces. Seeki inherited the late Jabba's army and proceeded to take Tatooine, a once-Hutt world that had been taken over by the Empire.

Landing just south of Mos Espa, Seeki's forces surrounded the planet and forced the Imperial troops to surrender. After sixty days of endless stalemate, Seeki proceeded to bombard the city from orbit, causing the Empire to retreat back to other worlds.

Seeki also travelled to the Dune Sea, seeking out Jabba's carcass and finding it partially scorched by the Great Pit of Carkoon. Sacrificing an entire ship to the Sand God, a deity worshipped by the Hutts and which they believed owned the afterlife, Seeki took his friend and cousin's body to his Temple, burying him in the crypt with his Rancor, Jub-Jub.

Seeki's real reason for returning to Jabba's Palace, however, was to search Jabba's expansive library for whereabouts of the Genesis Diamond. Various accounts, all believed to be reliable by Jabba, pointed to the planet Yavin IV, a far-off Rebel world that Seeki could only reach by cutting through Imperial and Rebel forces alike.

The Coruscant Treaty
Seeki began to carve a path through Imperial forces across the galaxy in a bid to reach Yavin IV, but his quest was cut short when all Five Hutt Families were requested to congregate on the planet Coruscant, recently liberated by the New Republic.

In a move not unlike that of the Sith Empire in the Treaty of Coruscant a thousand years before, the Five Hutt Families met with the leading powers of the New Republic, convincing the Senate that they were an ally to the Republic and helping them in their fight against the Imperials. Having fought only against Imperial forces at the request of the Military Council, briefly headed by Dark Jedi Bolo Artel, the Republic were convinced that the Hutts were telling the truth and extended the hand of peace, giving Seeki and the other Hutts sanctuary on Coruscant while allowing them to use it as a base of operations.

Coruscant Life
Having never journeyed to the capital before, Seeki found life on Coruscant to be very relaxing and enjoyable. Continuing his search for the Genesis Diamond, he sent several of his most trusted men to Yavin IV to seek out the Diamond. They never returned, and Seeki began to feel uneasy.

It took several weeks for the Hutts to coordinate their forces in secret above Coruscant in preparation for the bombardment. During that time Seeki searched the greatest libraries in the capital, including the fabled Jedi Temple Archives. There, he found various other credible accounts detailing the exact position of the Genesis Diamond, this time said to be hidden somewhere on Taris.

Having grown accustomed to the Hutts' presence on Coruscant, it came as a complete surprise to the New Republic when several hundred Hutt ships came down from orbit and attacked the capital. The majority of the Rebel forces fled to far-off colony worlds, abandoning the capital to the Hutts.

The Five Hutt Families briefly rested in their cradle of power, gathering all their forces together around Coruscant. It was here that they made the crucial mistake of gathering all their eggs in one basket. The Rebel forces mounted a counterattack, routing the Hutt forces and taking three of the Hutt leaders captive. Seeki and Jabanna, however, had fled, abandoning their Hutt allies.

Yavin IV
Still convinced that the Diamond would be on Yavin IV, Seeki and Jabanna journeyed there in a small refugee ship. Jabanna, hearing on the HoloNet that the Hutt Families had been captured, threatened to give away their whereabouts. Seeki, unimpressed, shot him in the belly and jettisoned his body into space.

Seeki arrived on Yavin IV, alone save for his small astromech droid R6-D99. Scouring the jungle for several years, Seeki found no trace of the Diamond and instead ventured to Taris with his droid. His ship left for hyperspace seconds before the Hutt forces, freed from Republic prison and angry, arrived in the system. They found Jabanna's dead body and concluded that Seeki was a traitor, giving possession of his criminal empire to his son, Feki the Hutt.

Taris
Being tipped off by a smuggler in orbit who had communicated with Seeki, the Hutt forces travelled to Taris to find Seeki searching the wastelands for the Diamond. Surrounding him, they summarily executed him for crimes against the Hutt Empire and left his body to rot.

Legacy
Feki the Hutt was deeply affected by watching his father being executed, and swore to avenge him by bringing down the Five Hutt Families. Instigating a Second Hutt Civil War, he successfully took down the Second and Third Hutt Families, but was killed himself by the Fourth. Finally accepting that the Families could no longer rule the Hutts, the heads of the last two Hutt Families passed power back over to the Hutt Royal Family in the shape of a distant nephew of King Viraa the Hutt.

Personality and traits
While Seeki was not extremely intelligent, he was skilled in manipulating people. Seeki was crafty and completely untrustworthy, working for his own ends. He could seem loyal, seeking revenge for close "friends", but ultimately his only interests were his own.

Powers and Abilities
"He could get inside your head. There was something about him that made you... want to agree with him..."

- An unnamed servant of Seeki the Hutt

Seeki the Hutt possessed a low-level Force ability, meaning that he was able to use a weak form of Jedi mind tricks on others, even other Hutts. He used this to his ability when making business agreements, when creating the Five Hutt Families, and when convincing the New Republic that the Hutts were an ally.