Ĭhristine Hewitt has since been identified as portraying Shada D'ukal, disguised as Brea Tonnika with Angela Staines portraying Karoly D'ulin, disguised as Senni Tonnika in 1977's Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. Played by real-life friends Christine Hewett and Angela Staines, they were known by the simple production nickname "Space Girls". In A New Hope, two tall girls appear together in the Cantina scene, wearing matching catsuits, and with braided hair piled high on their heads. Karoly D'ulin and Shada D'ukal disguised as the Tonnika sisters. Some time following the Battle of Endor, the sisters spent some time working for Calrissian's special New Republic unit, nicknamed Lando's Commandos. As he watched a holo-message from Han, Calrissian was at first dejected and angry, but quickly softened, although he vowed to get even with Solo for the stunt. Solo arranged for Calrissian to meet "Bresenni" in The High Stakes Casino on the planet Balfron, and although Calrissian thought that his new "girlfriend" suffered from severe personality shifts as the sisters swapped around in the role, he genuinely believed that he was growing close to her when Brea and Senni revealed the deception. Solo had come to know the sisters through his dealings with Jabba Desilijic Tiure, and persuaded them to help him play a trick on the smooth-talking scoundrel. One of the best-known- and perhaps most reputable- stories about the sisters involves Han Solo, and a scam on Lando Calrissian.
They often masqueraded as a single woman named Bresenni, and Vul Tazaene, a Kiffar security officer searching for them, was in love with one of them, but did not know which. Many of the stories told about the Tonnika sisters turn on the difficulty of telling them apart. The true identities of the Mistryl "Tonnika sisters" were not disclosed in Winward's report to the Rebellion, and would go unrevealed to Rebel/ New Republic personnel until D'ukal petitioned Leia Organa Solo to join the New Republic during the Caamas Document crisis. The Tonnika sisters themselves eluded capture, despite the efforts of Argon's agents, and continued to operate as con artists.
Masquerading as the sisters, they were arrested by Imperial Colonel Parq, who was hunting the real twins, but subsequently released by Rebel agent Riij Winward. Although he later acknowledged this mistake, he remained ignorant of the true identities of the women who had been in the cantina: the Mistryl Shadow Guard warriors Shada D'ukal and Karoly D'ulin. However, Na'al was incorrect in his claim that the twins were arrested in Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina in Mos Eisley, a few hours before Alderaan was destroyed. In this much, at least, Na'al's account would appear to be broadly accurate. On one occasion, they conned Grand Moff Argon out of twenty-five thousand credits, and in 0 BBY, just before the Battle of Yavin, they were on Tatooine to attend a party thrown by Jabba Desilijic Tiure at his palace on the edge of the Dune Sea. Over the following years, the Tonnika sisters acquired a reputation among the galaxy's leading con-artists, running several notorious scams against high-society targets, ranging from crimelords to members of the Galactic Empire's new elite. It can be inferred that the sisters grew up on Kiffex, and escaped in their teens through the help of a scout pilot who had landed at the colony it may even be true that they were treated with relative affection and compassion by the criminals among whom they spent their formative years but the entire timbre of the standard account must be treated with caution. Kiffu is not the name of a species, but of a planet, the homeworld of the near-Human Kiffar the settlement on Kiffex was a notorious prison colony, an infamous den of lawlessness and depravity strictly interdicted by the local security forces. Several problems with this version of events must be noted straight away. When a young scout pilot arrived on Kiffex to take on provisions, the teenage twins persuaded him to take them offworld with them, claiming falsely that they had been maltreated by the colonists. However, his account contains a number of inadvertent inaccuracies, and it is unclear how far it can be trusted.Īccording to Na'al's account, the sisters were near-Human "Kiffu" who grew up on the colony of Kiffex although "abandoned" by their parents in early childhood, they were raised by the colonists in safety and with affection, but they were led astray through a desire for money which their homeworld could not offer.
The best-known source of information on the Tonnika sisters is a biographical entry written by Rebel Alliance historian Voren Na'al.
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