Willrow Hood

Willrow Hood was a human gas miner who was a resident of Cloud City, a mining colony in the atmosphere of the planet Bespin, during the reign of the Galactic Empire. He worked at a gas mining operations center in the city but wanted a career in smuggling. In 3 ABY, Hood's smuggler friend Faron offered him a job, instructing the miner to bring a camtono canister with unspecified contents to a woman named Tropos on the planet Batuu—with the warning that Tropos would hurt him and everyone he loved if something went wrong. However, the day before Hood was scheduled to leave with the camtono, the Galactic Empire and Sith Lord Darth Vader arrived in Cloud City. Hood decided to flee with the camtono but discovered that the canister had disappeared from his quarters.

After deducing that the pilot Bexley, who he had hired to fly him to Batuu, had stolen the camtono, Hood tracked her down and attempted to turn her in to Imperial stormtroopers by falsely claiming she was a member of the Rebel Alliance, but they were not convinced. After Vader passed by them, Hood and Bexley took the stormtroopers down and she once again agreed to ferry him to Batuu, though she split up from him to retrieve her possessions. By that point, Cloud City had been mobilized into a full evacuation by Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian; Hood ran by Calrissian and his allies while holding the camtono. Faron then confronted Hood and asked for the camtono back. Hood was unwilling to give it up, starting a fight between the two that ended with the camtono getting slammed into the ground, breaking its contents and causing Faron to leave Hood alone. Hood, who was terrified of invoking Tropos's wrath, then met up with Bexley and instructed her to take them anywhere other than Batuu.

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