Danta Belissa

Danta Belissa was a food and souvenir merchant who ran a small souvenir and antique shop in the planet Bespin's Cloud City by around 1 ABY. In that time, Belissa's store ran into trouble when the criminal Wonn Ionstrike sent thugs to Belissa's store for protection money. The merchant's problems were only compounded when he reported the crimes to the Bespin Wing Guard and one of their officers, Jerrol Blendin, decided to further extort Belissa for money.

When Belissa subsequently began clearing his shop, he ended up discovering an exposed gas conduit that piped harvested tibanna to Cloud City's other levels. Seeing an opportunity to financially help his family and business, Belissa attached a siphon to the pipe and started discretely selling the pipe's tibanna gas to pilots and rogues. He kept his bootlegging business a secret to both Ionstrike and Blendin, although Belissa's fate during the Galactic Empire's 3 ABY occupation of Bespin was unknown.

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