Tup (thief)

On the planet of Simpla-12 resided Tup, a humanoid male. He maintained a friendship with Ren S'orn, alongside his partners Cholly and Weez. Around the year 44 BBY, S'orn, who possessed Force-sensitive abilities, informed the trio about being contacted by scientist Jenna Zan Arbor, who invited him to take part in a the Force related experiment. Cholly, Weez, and Tup voiced their support, but they were mistaken, as Zan Arbor orchestrated S'orn's death soon after.

Not long after this, the three friends sought out Ren's mother, Senator Uta S'orn, requesting his personal effects, claiming their close friendship as the reason. However, Ren had previously confided in them that the laboratory where the experiment took place held substantial quantities of various medicines. Their true motive for wanting Ren's belongings was to pilfer these medicines, knowing Ren had hidden the lab's location within his possessions. The senator, however, denied their request, stating that the belongings were all she had left of her son.

In 43 BBY, the group was ejected from the 12 Tavern on Simpla-12 when Tup insulted someone's mother by calling her a Kowakian monkey-lizard. Upon exiting, they encountered Astri Oddo and Jedi Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi awaiting them. The pair were in search of Kenobi's Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, who had been abducted by bounty hunter Ona Nobis. They believed details surrounding Ren S'orn's final days could be crucial to locating Jinn, as well as obtaining the medicine needed for Astri's father, Didi Oddo, who Nobis had shot. The trio shared information about the experiment and proposed that Tino, Ren's former roommate, might possess additional knowledge.

Later, Cholly, Weez, and Tup journeyed to Coruscant, anticipating that Oddo and Kenobi would request Ren's belongings from his mother in an attempt to locate the lab. The three associates followed them to Didi's Café, a restaurant owned by Astri's father, Didi Oddo. As Weez and Tup remained nearby, Cholly peered through the kitchen window but was startled when Kenobi, mistaking Cholly for Ona Nobis, leaped from a second-floor window to attack. Kenobi realized his mistake mid-air and halted his assault.

Astri emerged from the kitchen window, prepared to attack, but immediately recognized the trio and demanded to know their presence on Coruscant. After a brief exchange, the three informed them about Ren's property—which Astri and Kenobi had indeed acquired from his mother—and revealed that the laboratory's location was hidden within Ren's belongings. Cholly offered to assist in searching Ren's things for the lab's address, suggesting they might notice a clue that Astri and Kenobi might overlook due to their familiarity with Ren. The Jedi and his companion accepted the offer, and they entered the café.

Inside, Kenobi presented Ren's property to the trio. After examining the items, they noticed that the deck of sabacc cards included in the belongings contained markings, but the marks didn't seem to align with cheating in sabacc. Recognizing the marks as a code, Cholly arranged the marked cards in order and transcribed their meanings onto a durasheet: "L1Q2BU3SP12". Following a short discussion, Kenobi recognized that "SP12" at the end was the astrogation shorthand for Simpla-12 and deciphered the rest as an address on that planet. The Jedi decided to return to Simpla-12, and Cholly, Weez, and Tup, along with Astri, accompanied him.

Upon their return to Simpla-12, Kenobi tasked the trio with acquiring a disguise for Astri. After completing the task, they met Kenobi and Astri near the address that the Jedi had decoded from the sabacc cards, which Kenobi believed to be Zan Arbor's lab. The Padawan's strategy involved infiltrating the lab by posing as Astri's prisoner, with Astri disguised as Nobis. The potential weakness in the plan, however, was the possible arrival of the real Ona Nobis. To address this, Kenobi instructed Cholly, Weez, and Tup to watch for the bounty hunter and attempt to prevent her from entering the building if she appeared. The trio was also provided with contact information for the Jedi Temple and instructed to contact the Temple and request additional Jedi be sent to Simpla-12 if neither he nor Astri emerged from the building within ten minutes. They agreed to these terms.

Shortly after Astri and Kenobi entered the lab, the actual Nobis did arrive. The trio failed to stop her from entering, but followed her when she exited the building. They tracked her to her ship and observed her departure from the planet. Furthermore, they contacted the Temple for reinforcements as instructed when Kenobi and Astri were delayed in exiting the lab. Soon after, the threesome secured a job selling assassin droids to Zan Arbor. The Jedi reinforcement team, consisting of Jedi Master Adi Gallia and her Padawan, Siri Tachi, learned of this and, together with Kenobi, who had been unable to free his Master, approached them, proposing that the Jedi be allowed to hide in the droid shipment in order to infiltrate Zan Arbor's lab.

Initially, they were reluctant, feeling that it would be too dangerous for them, but Kenobi convinced the trio to allow the three Jedi to conceal themselves in the shipment. The threesome had only a gravsled for transport, but had fitted it with a secret smuggling compartment which Gallia and the two Padawans were able to squeeze into, albeit with some difficulty. The location of the compartment, however, meant that the droids would have to be unloaded before the Jedi could get out, so Gallia asked them to try to prevent Zan Arbor from activating the droids so that they would not have to fight them. Cholly agreed to do so, and after the droids were loaded, they headed to the lab.

Inside, Cholly tried to program the droids himself to sabotage them, but Zan Arbor insisted on doing it herself before the droids were unloaded. After she did so, Cholly, Weez, and Tup began unloading the droids, arguing as they did so. Tup accidentally hid the lever that opened the secret compartment, and the Jedi were dumped onto the floor in the middle of the droids. Zan Arbor ordered the droids to attack, and—as the three Jedi began fighting the droids—Cholly, Weez, and Tup went into hiding. After the Jedi had defeated the droids and rescued Jinn, Gallia thanked the threesome, and they left the lab. Zan Arbor, however, had escaped.

The trio then made their way to Sorrus and met up with Astri, who was now searching for Nobis in an attempt to capture her. The group approached spacer Donny Buc and requested transport to the planet's Arra Desert, where Astri knew the bounty hunter had a secret hideout in a cave. Buc, however was unable to do so as he was waiting on some repairs. At Buc's suggestion, the group took an air taxi to the desert. Sometime after they arrived, all four were captured by Nobis, who took them to her hideout. Cholly, Weez, Tup, and Astri were all tied up by Nobis, and gags were placed in their mouths. Before leaving, the bounty hunter set a trap at the entrance to the cave—if anyone entered the cave, they would trip a lever that would cause the cave entrance to collapse after a delay, sealing the cave.

Soon after, Kenobi and Tachi—who were searching for Astri after realizing that she had likely been captured by Nobis—reached the hideout. Seeing the two Jedi crawling into the cave, Cholly and Astri tried to warn them not to come in to the cave because of the trap, but were unable to do so effectively due to being gagged. Kenobi misinterpreted the warning as a plea for immediate help and moved toward them faster. Reaching Astri, he removed the gag and she immediately said, "Trap!", but it was too late as the cave entrance collapsed, sealing everyone inside despite Kenobi's effort to stop the rockslide. Meanwhile, Cholly, Weez, and Tup were untied by Tachi.

An attempt by the Jedi to cut through the rocks with their lightsabers failed, and the group considered other options. Tachi came up with the idea of cutting down a couple of the metal support poles that braced the walls of the cave and trying to push them through the jumble of rocks to signal the outside. Cholly pointed out that there was nothing outside except desert, but Astri knew that a tribe of locals scavenged nearby. After a brief discussion, everyone agreed to try it. The first rod hit a large rock and snapped when Tachi tried to force it through, but the two Jedi were able to get the second pole through with the help of the Force.

Several hours later, the local tribe spotted the end of the pole and dug the group out. Kenobi and Astri quickly learned from the tribe leader that Nobis was headed to the planet of Belasco. After the two Padawans discussed the situation with their Masters, they decided to head to Belasco themselves, and the rest of the group—Astri, Cholly, Weez, and Tup—followed them.

On Belasco, the Jedi discovered that the planet was in the midst of a crisis—bacteria had invaded the world's drinking water, causing many residents to fall ill or die. Suspecting that the now-retired Senator S'orn may be in danger from Nobis—or even be involved in the planet's problems—Jinn asked Cholly, Weez, and Tup—along with Astri—to watch S'orn. Jinn figured that Nobis would stay away from the retired politician if she knew that others were watching. Knowing that S'orn was staying in the royal palace and that those that had fallen sick were on the grounds as well, Tup entertained the sick children as cover.

After the Jedi captured Zan Arbor and S'orn—who had in fact assisted Zan Arbor in sabotaging Belasco's water—and killed Nobis, Cholly, Weez, and Tup were present at the reopening of Didi's Café.