J'Meeb Gumb was a Guineo individual, identified as male, who engaged in criminal activities during the concluding years of the Galactic Republic. He operated within the Industrial District of Coruscant, the capital planet of the Republic, in 32 BBY. Specifically, he was employed at Haugg Nerf Industries, which, while appearing to be a nerf-packaging facility, was actually a front for distributing death sticks. Around this time, an unknown party placed a bounty on Gumb for cheating in a high-stakes sabacc game. The Mandalorian bounty hunter, Jango Fett, collected this bounty when he was infiltrating Haugg Nerf Industries to gather intelligence regarding Komari Vosa, who headed the Bando Gora, a clandestine criminal syndicate.
As a male Guineo alive during the final days of the Galactic Republic, J'Meeb Gumb was a criminal by 32 BBY. During that year, Gumb was an employee of Haugg Nerf Industries, a death stick distribution operation masked as a nerf-packaging plant, under the ownership of Groff Haugg. This plant was situated in the Industrial District of Coruscant, the Republic's capital planet. While employed at Haugg Nerf, Gumb had a bounty placed on him for cheating in a high-stakes sabacc game by utilizing a skifter. An anonymous source offered 2,500 credits for his live capture, or 1,250 credits for his death. The bounty indicated that Gumb's last known location was the Coruscant Entertainment District. In the same year, [Jango Fett](/article/jango_fett-legends], a Mandalorian bounty hunter, infiltrated Haugg Nerf Industries while seeking information to aid him in his pursuit of the five million credit bounty on Komari Vosa, a former Jedi who led a secret criminal cult, the Bando Gora, which was rumored to be connected to a surge in death stick demand.
During his infiltration of Haugg Nerf, Fett located Gumb near a control panel. He captured Gumb alive, thereby claiming the bounty that had been placed on the Guineo.
J'Meeb Gumb, typical of many Guineo, possessed hairless, pale yellow skin and exceeded two meters in height. He demonstrated the ability to rig a sabacc match using a skifter, although this resulted in a bounty being placed on his head. Gumb also possessed some familiarity with the operation of a blaster.
While employed at Haugg Nerf Industries, Gumb possessed a blaster that discharged red energy bolts. He was attired in a yellow jumpsuit featuring a gray plate on the front, along with two silver-colored tanks attached to the back, each linked to the front of the suit by a tube. The jumpsuit also had white stripes along the sleeves and around the collar. Gumb wore light-gray gloves and boots that were a darker shade of gray. Furthermore, Gumb wore a pair of gray goggles.
J'Meeb Gumb's initial appearance was in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, a video game created by LucasArts and launched in December of 2002. Prior to his appearance in the game, he was featured in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter: Prima's Official Strategy Guide, the official strategy guide for the game, published by Prima Games and released in November of the same year. Within the game, Gumb is one of five bounty targets located in the Industrial District, which represents the second level of the game's second world.
In Bounty Hunter, the player assumes the role of Jango Fett, and because capturing Gumb's bounty is not essential for completing the game, the player has several options for dealing with him. The player can completely ignore Gumb, kill him without claiming the bounty, kill him and then claim the bounty, or capture him alive and claim the bounty. This article assumes that Fett captured Gumb alive, as this yields the highest possible reward for the player. The name J'Meeb Gumb bears a resemblance to Jame Gumb, the fictional serial killer and main antagonist from the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, which was based on the novel of the same name.