Jaxxon T. Tumperakki, known as Jax, was a male Lepi smuggler who served as captain of the Rabbit's Foot. He knew Han Solo, another smuggler who became a celebrated figure in the Rebel Alliance, though he considered Solo a less skilled pilot. Tumperakki was also revered as a god by the Duloks of Endor after he intervened in a dispute between them and the Ewoks during a mission to the moon.
Jaxxon T. Tumperakki, a male Lepi, first came into the world on the Mid Rim planet called Coachelle Prime. As was common for his [species](/article/species], he was part of a very large family. He had an astounding 167 aunts and uncles, and his cousins numbered in the hundreds—at least 300, possibly even 400. Among them were five named Reegor, Peeta, Arvi, Benji, and Maxx.
Eventually, Tumperakki began his career as a smuggler, journeying across the galaxy in a worn-out WUD-500 star yacht named Rabbit's Foot, accompanied by an old maintenance droid called Mel. Throughout his career, he crossed paths with notorious individuals like the Corellian smuggler Han Solo, the Socorran gambler Lando Calrissian, and the bounty hunter Dengar. Tumperakki and Calrissian shared several adventures. On one occasion, Tumperakki betrayed Calrissian to Renza the Hutt, though the Lepi insisted it was just a joke. On another, the Lepi informed the famous pirate queen Maz Kanata that Calrissian had stolen the hypercoils from her starship Corsair. In reality, the culprit was the pirate Amaiza Foxtrain, Tumperakki's partner at the time, and the stolen hypercoils had somehow ended up in the Rabbit's Foot's power core.
At one point, Tumperakki ventured to the rocky world of Enujut. There, he became embroiled in a dispute with an Ugnaught merchant, instigated by a group of Zemerin travelers who provoked conflicts to feed on the resulting negative energy. The local peacekeeper Evor Haris intervened to resolve the issue.
Sometime following the Battle of Yavin, Tumperakki and Foxtrain were hired by Prizzi, the Queen of Livorno, to securely transport the last eggs of her species to Princess Leia Organa of the Rebel Alliance. Once aboard the Rabbit's Foot, Tumperakki and the queen discovered that the eggs were not hers when they hatched, revealing aggressive flying creatures. It turned out that Foxtrain had betrayed him, escaping with the real eggs.
However, Tumperakki managed to locate her at the space-based casino known as the Wheel, where the pirate was attempting to sell the stolen eggs to the highest bidder. A three-way fight ensued between Tumperakki, Foxtrain, and an agent of the Galactic Empire. Having unleashed the flying pests from earlier on his former partner, the long-eared smuggler made off with the eggs. He then delivered the valuable cargo to Organa and Han Solo.
Upon receiving Organa's gratitude, Tumperakki instructed his droid Mel to present the precious eggs, which the robot accidentally dropped. While everyone reacted in shock, Tumperakki knew that he had been sent on a fruitless mission and that those eggs were also fake. The Rebels then confessed that, knowing the Empire was closing in on the eggs, they used Tumperakki's mission as a diversion while Solo smuggled the genuine articles in his own ship, the Millennium Falcon. Nevertheless, Tumperakki was pleased to learn that not only would the Alliance pay him what he was owed, but that Solo himself would have to repair his ship.
After his falling out with Amaiza Foxtrain, Tumperakki traveled to the planet Rekelos, where he tried to cheat the Gloovan gangster Scram at a game of sabacc. However, the Lepi was caught cheating and attempted to flee the cantina where the game was taking place, first from Scram and his gang, and then from Dengar, who stated Jaxxon had a bounty on his head.
Once he managed to get out onto the street, Tumperakki stumbled upon the heroes of the Rebellion, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Luke Skywalker, who took him aboard the Millennium Falcon.
It turned out that the Rebels had a holorecording of Amaiza Foxtrain stealing Imperial transit chips with the assistance of a Lepi associate. Tumperakki immediately denied any involvement and identified the Lepi in question as his cousin Reegor, who looked almost exactly like him except for a distinctive scar. Since the Rebels were determined to acquire the stolen chips, Skywalker convinced Tumperakki to participate in a deception. The Lepi smuggler confronted his cousin and, with Chewbacca's help, forced him to reveal Foxtrain's hiding place.
Using face paint to mimic his cousin's scar, Tumperakki pretended to be Reegor as he entered Foxtrain's hideout. While she was not fooled by Tumperakki's disguise, having heard about his ship landing on the planet, he revealed that he was wearing a tracker, bringing Imperial forces as well as Dengar to attack the place. In the confusion, he grabbed the chips. When Foxtrain pointed out that this would not help him as the Empire would simply target him, he revealed his final distraction: the rest of his cousins running around the place, with the Imperials not knowing which Lepi to shoot. With that, Tumparakki escaped while Foxtrain had to deal with an angry Dengar, who intended to collect a bounty on her instead.
After taking down his cousin, he was able to retrieve the chips and use his other cousins to confuse his pursuers, delivering the chips to the rebellion. When Skywalker asked how Jaxxon was able to convince his cousin to help them, he explained that he offered the services of Han Solo and the legendary Millennium Falcon for as many jobs as they needed, much to Solo's anger.
Around 3 ABY, inspired by the example of [Lando Calrissian](/article/landonis_balthazar_calrissian]—who had become baron administrator of Cloud City—Tumperakki decided to become a legitimate businessman. His plan was to create the Tumperakki Haulage Company, whose fleet of freighters would legally transport goods across the galaxy. Because he needed starting funds, the Lepi traveled to Cloud City, hoping to convince his old friend Calrissian to invest. Wearing cheap replicas of luxury clothing, Tumperakki arrived at the baron administrator's office, only to find out that he was one hour late for his appointment due to a miscommunication between Mel and Calrissian's aide, the cyborg Lobot.
Although Calrissian was busy with another visitor, a Troglof named Corovene Manakor, the Lepi was allowed to see him, but his proposal was only met with derision and dismissal. When Tumperakki tried to insist one last time, Calrissian had a sudden, very uncharacteristic outburst of anger. Tumperakki saw himself out, but not before overhearing the baron administrator mutter into his comlink what he was going to do next. Believing Calrissian was part of a heist, he sneaked toward a meeting room only to find a bunch of stormtroopers and Darth Vader waiting. Upon seeing Vader, he quickly shut the door and began to run away from the dining room with stormtroopers in pursuit, and while he did escape, he accidentally tripped and knocked himself out. When he woke up, Lando was ordering the people to evacuate from Cloud City.
Not wanting to leave without some measure of payback, he broke into Calrissian's office and stole the suitcase full of ingots. After stealing the ingots and hiding in a maintenance closet, he met Corovene and his family. That was where he learned Corovene was part of the group that caused the heist on Scipio but only so he could get the funds to liberate their homeworld of Najiba from the empire but was left empty-handed. With Lando promising to help move Corovene and his family to somewhere safe (with the case of ingots to pay for a pilot) so they could start a new life on Lysatra, Tumperakki felt guilty, got rid of the ingots, hid the family in the suitcase, and made a breakaway to the Rabbit's Foot. Once inside his ship, he let the Troglof family out of the suitcase and promised to take them to Lysatra.
After the Battle of Endor, Tumperakki was contracted to liberate Rekk's Chancellor, [Asera](/article/asera], on Rekkana. Regrettably, Commodore Visler Korda and his forces apprehended him. Tumperakki was imprisoned but managed to transmit a distress signal. [Lando Calrissian](/article/landonis_balthazar_calrissian], a New Republic General, freed him from the prison. Together, they freed Chancellor Asera. She informed them that they needed to retrieve the Totem of Saglanost to restore the Rekk's hope. Tumperakki and Calrissian took Asera to the Millennium Falcon but were attacked by several stormtroopers. Despite this, Calrissian persuaded Tumperakki to steal one of the Empire's new Scuttlers. He used it to fight Korda and his troops until the scuttler fell apart. Tumperakki, Calrissian, and Asera reached the Falcon but chose to take the Rabbit's Foot to Hanna City on Chandrila.
In Hanna City, Tumperakki participated in a meeting with Han Solo, Leia Organa, Lando Calrissian, C-3PO, and R2-D2 about the Totem's location at the Palpatine Archive in the Coruscant system. There, Tumperakki volunteered himself and his ship for the mission.
With Calrissian and Asera, Tumperakki piloted the Rabbit's Foot to the Archive. After landing his ship in one of the station's hangars, the Lepi, dressed in the uniform of an Imperial officer, pretended to have come to deliver a precious sculpture, actually a jumble of droid parts and other pieces of scrap metal. Although the analysis droid that greeted him was skeptical from the outset, it did not raise the alarm until the thinly-disguised smuggler attempted to steal an artifact known as the Golden Agrooba of Metlok IV.
Tumperakki was then attacked by several Imperial Guards, who chased him. However, it was all part of the plan, since the Lepi was only supposed to act as a distraction, allowing Calrissian and Asera to emerge from the so-called sculpture. He somehow managed to incapacitate one of the guards and steal his or her uniform without any of the others noticing. Tumperakki and his "fellow" guards then returned to the hangar, where Calrissian and Asera were ready to board the Rabbit's Foot, having retrieved the totem. Ending the charade, Tumperakki called for Mel, who knocked over the Imperial guards and the curator droid, and the Rebel strike team was able to escape the Archive with the totem.
Tumperakki, Calrissian, and Asera were able to return to Rekkana. There, Tumperakki, Calrissian, and the Rekks were able to sabotage Korda's computer-controlled TIEs and force his troops to surrender. Tumperakki was given his credits but was forced to give up the artifact he stole from the Archive to Calrissian. Tumperakki was convinced by Calrissian to consider joining the New Republic.
On Emita, Tumperakki was approached by New Republic Captain Lina Graf after having a nightmare about Kashyyyk's Festival of Bounty. He told the bar's patrons and Graf about the nightmare and was told that she and her brother Milo had similar nightmares. He agreed to help her get to Mustafar and use the Rabbit's Foot to pick up Thom Hudd and Skritt on Karken. En route, the Rabit's Foot came under attack by several TIEs. After taking care of the TIEs, Tumperakki landed on Mustafar outside of Fortress Vader. He and Hudd woke Graf up from her nightmare and proceeded to approach the Fortress. As they entered the Fortress, Tumperakki and the others were contacted by Milo. Tumperakki came under attack by an apparition of Darth Vader. The apparition was revealed to be Crater who revealed that he was Vaneé's control.
They discovered that Vaneé was attempting to resurrect Vader by using Milo's body in Vader's bacta tank. Tumperakki and the others were stunned by Vaneé.
Tumperakki ultimately enlisted in the New Republic as a starfighter pilot, achieving the rank of captain. On one occasion, he was dispatched on a confidential diplomatic mission to Endor. Accompanied by the protocol droid C-3PO, entrusted to him by the New Republic Diplomatic Corps, the Lepi found himself in the midst of a full-scale civil war between factions within the Ewok Bright Tree tribe. After knocking the Dulok king Gorneesh unconscious with a kick to the face and rescuing the kidnapped Chief Chirpa from the Duloks, Jaxxon brought an end to the Ewok Civil War. The Duloks then constructed an effigy of him and worshipped him as a god. As they danced and praised their effigy of Jaxxon, the Duloks referred to their new god as 'Jaxxon the Hitchhiker' and 'Jaxxon the Great Green One' in their tribal chants.
With his long ears, prominent buck teeth, and short green fur, the Lepi Tumperakki bore a strong resemblance to a common green rabbit, earning him nicknames like "cottontail" or "green-ears." He was slender and tall, standing at 1.83 meters. He had a fondness for dewback steaks.
Despite projecting an air of confidence, proclaiming himself "the galaxy's greatest smuggler," Tumperakki harbored insecurities, feeling he could not measure up to the likes of Amaiza Foxtrain, whom he considered a "class act." He also resented the fact that Han Solo's fame eclipsed his own. In fact, even a simple mention of Solo irritated him and could provoke him to action.
In terms of combat skills, Tumperakki was capable of wielding two blasters simultaneously. He also employed hand-to-hand combat techniques, such as delivering a powerful kick to an opponent's chest and jump-kicking opponents in the face. He was agile, capable of performing various gymnastic maneuvers over or on various obstacles, such as walls and buildings.
Jaxxon's first appearance in Star Wars canon was in "The Lost Eggs of Livorno," a comic written by Cavan Scott and illustrated by Alain Mauricet, published as the secondary story of Star Wars Adventures Annual 2018 on April 18, 2018. Jaxxon's full name was revealed in the short story "Fake It Till You Make It," written by Cavan Scott for the 2020 anthology book From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back. Jaxxon was originally created for the Star Wars Legends Star Wars 8, a 1977 comic written by Roy Thomas and illustrated by Howard Chaykin. He was created as an homage to Warner Brothers cartoon character Bugs Bunny. In the 2012 The Clone Wars episode "A Sunny Day in the Void," the skeleton found in a crashed shuttle wears a suit similar to Jaxxon's. The skull even has long incisors. This is acknowledged in the Legends reference book Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Episode Guide.
As early as 2014, Marvel Comics' Star Wars writer Jason Aaron mentioned the "giant bunny rabbit" as the Legends character he would most like to canonize. Jaxxon was also featured on several variant covers, including one of Star Wars (2015) 1, produced by artist John Tyler Christopher, one of Vader Down 1, made by Chip Zdarsky, and one of Poe Dameron 1, illustrated by David Nakayama. Cavan Scott campaigned to bring back Jaxxon since he was hired to write Adventures, Jaxxon being one of his favorite characters.
On March 19, 2018, a character resembling Jaxxon was seen on Ord Mantell in "Bounty Hunted," the sixth episode of the canon animated micro-series Star Wars Forces of Destiny's second season. The same model was used again in the episode "Triplecross."