10 Minor Star Wars Characters Whose Stories Must Be Told
5. Figrin D’an, Leader Of The Cantina Band
Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes hold a celebrated place in Star Wars as the band playing in the cantina where Obi-Wan and Luke first meet Han and Chewbacca. The wretched hive of Mos Eisley is a stop on Tattooine’s toilet circuit, where fresh-faced entertainment newcomers rub shoulders with the burned-out remnants of those who might have made it big if things had been different.
Figrin D’an’s struggle to make something of himself in the galaxy’s furthest-flung dusthole has the makings of compelling drama, something that speaks to anyone who has ever set out into the world with no more than a Kloo horn and a dream.
Whether Figrin makes it or not is down to how he copes with the unexpected turns of life on the road. The pressures of burgeoning fame, the drugs, the six-breasted alien groupies - all these surround him as Figrin strives towards his dream.