- Appeared in:
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CW
- Homeworld:
Tatooine
- Species:
Jawa
- Gender:
Female
- Affiliation:
Wittin's Jawa tribe
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The shaman of the Jawa Wittin's tribe, she was Wittin's adviser during his negotiations with Jabba the Hutt and agreed to serve as one of Jabba's retainers as long as he helped Wittin. After Jabba's death, Herat and her tribe were freed from servitude, and roamed the deserts of Tatooine. When they discovered Kitster Banai in the deep desert, Herat agreed to transport him to Anchorhead. The tribe was struck by two almost simultaneous attacks, one from an Imperial search party looking for the
Killik Twilight moss-painting, another by a group of Sand People. Many of the tribe were killed; Banai was taken by the Sand People, and Herat was left for dead. She later agreed to help Han and Leia Organa Solo locate Kitster and the important moss-painting before the Imperials could.
She agreed to let herself be "hijacked" in order to draw off Imperial pursuit. With the Solos' help, Herat got her sandcrawler working again,
and then locked herself in a toolbox while the sandcrawler was put in gear. The pursuing stormtroopers took the bait, and later believed
Herat's story of being captured and locked up after the Solos stole her cargo.
