Seboca

"Jedi poodoo!"

―Seboca —

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Seboca was a Dug holovid star from^[1] the planet^[2] Malastare.^[1] In 22 BBY,^[4] the Dug was entertaining Senator Bogg Tyrell while she^[1] piloted a speeder through the skylanes of the planet Coruscant. The pair were interrupted when the Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi nearly collided with their vehicle while hanging from the assassin droid ASN-121, forcing Tyrell to swerve and cry out.^[3]

Seboca then cursed at Kenobi in Huttese as the Jedi was carried away. The star later sat in a booth with the Nuknog^[3] Slyther Bushforb^[5] and fellow Dug^[3] Rednax^[6] at Dex's Diner^[3] in the CoCo Town district^[1] when Kenobi entered the establishment. Tyrell also entered the diner shortly after Kenobi's arrival, after which Seboca got up and left.^[3] Seboca wore brown pants and a red shirt that was the latest fashion on Coruscant. The Dug had pink skin with a blue nose, orange eyes, and black slicked-back hair.^[2]

Behind the scenes

Seboca was voiced by Matthew Wood^[7] in the prequel trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones,^[3] which released on May 16, 2002.^[8] The character was created by modifying the computer-generated model of podracer Sebulba made for the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace.^[9]

In the current Star Wars canon, the character was first identified in the 2016 reference book Star Wars: Complete Locations.^[1] The name Seboca was first used in a Legends StarWars.com databank entry for Dex's Diner, released by August 9, 2002. It identified one of the patrons of the diner as Seboca,^[10] although during production of the film the names for the two Dugs in the diner were Rednax and Manoca.^[11] Work on the animated shots in Dex's Diner was completed between April and May, 2001, with the finalized renders then completed over the summer.^[11]

Seboca and Rednax sit oppostie one another in a booth at Dex's Diner. — Seboca (background) and Rednax (foreground) were both at different points known as Manoca.

A "Behind the Magic" article written by Rob Coleman and published in the sixty-third issue of Star Wars Insider magazine^[11]—published November 5, 2002—^[12] identified the non-spotted Dug in the diner as Rednax and the other spotted Dug as Manoca.^[11] In later sources,^[13]^[14] the identities were then switched, with Rednax first identified as the spotted Dug in an Episode II Depth Commentary available on StarWars.com that was accessible through the DVD-ROM home release of Attack of the Clones^[13] on November 12, 2002.^[15]

In the "Star Wars Q&A" section of Star Wars Insider 66,^[16] released on March 4, 2003,^[17] Leland Chee identified Seboca as the Dug seen earlier in the film, but still identified the two diner dugs as Rednax and Manoca.^[16] In a blog post made on October 10, 2006, Chee then clarified that the spotted Dug at the diner was Rednax and the other was Seboca, as the two non-spotted Dugs had identical models other than their hair. This left no character named Manoca,^[18] although it was later established to be a pseudonym used by Seboca in the Databank entry for Slyther Bushforb written by John Hazlett as part of the "What's The Story?" contest^[19] and published around March 27, 2008.^[20]