Groff Ditcher

Groff Ditcher was a brutish human who worked as foreman of Tibidon Station, a sand whaling station established to harvest meat from the carcass of a large tibidon sand whale in the deserts of the planet Tatooine. Following one shift at the site in 9 BBY, Ditcher stood by a GNK-series power droid with a payment dispenser attached to its head as the laborers used their punch discs to collect their credits for the day.

After collecting his payment, laborer Padu Cherd complained that it was only half and pleaded with Ditcher for the rest, but the foreman shoved Cherd away and warned that he would pay him nothing at all if he spoke another word. Obi-Wan Kenobi, the last laborer in the line, then scowled at Ditcher as he approached, but when the foreman asked if Kenobi had anything to say, the laborer silently took his payment and moved on to board the transport back to the town of Anchorhead. Ditcher scoffed and then began speaking to other workers at the site in an alien language.

Later that year, Ditcher was in Anchorhead, where he pushed to the front of a line for water being served by the cart vendor Dardin Shull from a portable vaporator. Pushing the old man at the front of the queue out of the way, Ditcher took a filled cup from Shull's hands as the vendor frowned at him.

The foreman questioned if Shull had something to say, but the former Inquisitor Reva Sevander, who stood in the line behind him, answered him instead. Ditcher told her to wait her turn, but using the Force she threw the water from his hand and glared at him as he silently backed away. She then questioned Shull on the whereabouts of the moisture farmer Owen Lars.

Groff Ditcher was a brutish man and a bully. He pushed and threatened Padu Cherd when the laborer pleaded for his family's sake and tried to intimidate Kenobi, Shull, and Reva, although he backed away after seeing the latter use the Force. Ditcher had light skin, brown hair, and green eyes.

Ditcher wore a light brown shirt, a brown belt over a black apron, brown pants, brown gloves, and brown boots. He carried a knife in a sheaf on his belt that he used for butchering. When he encountered Sevander in Anchorhead, he was also wearing a gray coat.

Groff Ditcher was portrayed by Heath McGough in the Obi-Wan Kenobi television series, where he first appeared in the first episode, which aired on May 27, 2022. The Tibidon Station scenes were the first filmed for the series and were captured using the technology known as "the Volume," while the scenes McGough filmed for the sixth episode were captured on location in a desert. Ditcher's name is not spoken in either episode but appears in the credits.

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