Princess Leia and Lando Calrissian infiltrated Jabba's palace as Boushh the bounty hunter and as a mercenary. As Boushh, Leia appeared with a seemingly captured Chewbacca for the bounty Jabba placed on the wookie. When Jabba tried to renegotiate the bounty, Boushh threatened the whole palace with a thermal detonator.
Leia acquired the armor and equipment of the infamous Ubese bounty hunter Boushh. Known for his melee skills and penchant for thermal detonators, Boushh was considered cool-headed in a profession often filled with trigger-happy mercenaries, and operated as a freelancer traveling from system to system looking for work. He wore a suit of customized Ubese armor—layers of brown survival material and an optically-enhanced helmet which both provided him with protection and obscured his identity.
Boushh had crossed the line with Black Sun -- a dangerous criminal syndicate -- with both his demands for extra payment and his blackmailing of a vigo ( a title for the organization's lieutenants) and crimelord Xizor had ordered his death. Few knew of his death, though, which would later be used by Leia to others' advantage.
Ubese armor was a type of battle armor usually worn by Ubese trackers. The helmet featured a targeting laser, vision-plus scanner, audio pickup, broadband antenna and speech scrambler. The body armor consisted of an Ogygian cloak, impact armor for the neck and chest, a bandoleer with a projectile detonator and ammo pouches, glove spikes, a chest-mounted comlink and a Ubese clan belt-clasp. The lower body armor was shata leather pants and traditional Ubese boots.
The princess disguised herself as Boushh and brought Chewbacca to Jabba Desilijic Tiure's palace on Tatooine. Leia could speak Ubese, and because the mask concealed her true appearance, none suspected her deception. After she was captured, however, Boushh's armor was discarded by Jabba's minions. Despite this, few knew of the ruse, and many suspected that Boushh was not dead, but merely retired.
During the Galactic Civil War, Calrissian became part of the Rebel Alliance and joined up with Leia Organa and Chewbacca in an attempt to rescue Han Solo, who'd been frozen in carbonite and turned over to Jabba the Hutt, whom Solo owed money. Calrissian was posing as one of Jabba's guards in the Hutt crime lord's Tatooine palace when Organa and Chewbacca arrived.
Tamtel Skreej was the alias taken by Lando Calrissian during his stay at Jabba's Palace, as he attempted to rescue his friend Han Solo, who had been frozen in carbonite. An essential part of the resulting disguise was a mask of gondar tusks to hide his face.
When Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Chewbacca were sentenced to execution in the Great Pit of Carkoon, Calrissian was stationed as a guard on the same skiff as the prisoners, ready to spring them free on Skywalker's cue. At the Pit of Carkoon, while Skywalker received his lightsaber from R2-D2 and fought off the other guards, Calrissian helped free the other prisoners. In the process, he was nearly knocked into the maw of the sarlacc, falling toward the pit. Calrissian quickly scrambled out of the pit, trying to escape the approaching tentacles of the sarlacc.
However, only the timely intervention of a partially blinded Han Solo and Chewbacca saved him from the sarlacc, as the Wookiee lowered Solo down to where Calrissian could grab hold of a force pike held by Solo in order to haul himself out of danger. One tentacle of the sarlacc seized Calrissian's ankle, but a blind blaster shot by Solo freed him from its grasp. After Skywalker defeated the guards and rescued Leia from the Khetanna, Calrissian piloted the skiff away as Jabba's barge exploded.
Copy paraphrased from Wookipedia
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