Bounty Hunters

Boba Fett

(Originally Jaster Mereel)

Species: Human
Sex: Male
Hair Color: Unknown
Eye Color: Unknown
Height: 1.8 meters
Homeworld: Unknown
Political Affiliation: Free-Lance Bounty Hunter
Weapons(s) of Choice: Highly modified Mandalorian Battle Armor, equipped with wrist blasters, grenade launchers, mini flame-thrower, fiber-cord whip, knee-fired dart guns, and rocket pack. Personal weapon choice is the BlasTech EE-3 rifle.
Vehicle of Choice: Kuat System's Engineering limited-production, high-speed Firespray-class ship Slave 1, MandalMotors Pursuer enforcement ship Slave 2
First Appearance: Star Wars Holiday Special
Notes: The most notorious and fearsome bounty hunter in the galaxy is also the most mysterious. Many legends ,nd stories have arisen over the years, but few facts are known at the man called Boba Fett, or of his inextricable link to Han Solo. Long before Luke Skywalker journeyed off Tatooine to fulfill his destiny as a Jedi, Boba Fett was known as Journeyman Protector Jaster Mereel. Years past, the ugly young low-enforcement officer on the world of Concord Down had killed another protector, and though the dead man had been corrupt, disgracing his office and uniform, Mereel was still imprisoned for the murder. Against the wishes of his pleader, the arrogant young man remained unrepentant to the trial court, and Jaster Mereel was exiled from Concord Down, stripped of all he owned. Mereel's adoption of the name Boba Fett, and the manner in which he acquired his rare battle armor, are tales lost in time, remembered by no living being except for Feff himself. Fett wears ine armor of the Mandolorians, a group of evil warriors who were defeated by the Jedi Knights during the Clone Wars. Fett's modified Mandalore armor includes a helmet that has a macrobinocular viewplcite, motion and sound sensors, infrared capabilities, an internal comlink with his ship, the Slave /, and a broadband antenna for intercepting and decoding transmissions. Wrist gauntlets house lasers, a miniature flame projector, and a fibereord whip/grappling device; a backpack jet pack includes a turboprojected magnetic grappling hook with twenty-meter lanyard. Fe# also carries kneepad rocket dart launchers, spiked boots, a concussion-grenade launcher, and a Bids Tech EE-3 rifle. Braided Wookiee scalps hang over his right shoulder to complete the outfit. Beyond Fett and Fenn Shysa, the only other living person known to wear the Mandalorian armor is Jodo Kast, an ambitious young bounty hunter who patterned his career after that of Bobo Felt. Prowling the Outer Rim Territories, Kast wears armor with much of the same external weaponry that Felt utilizes. It is unlikely, however, that he has as much hidden weaponry and modified circuitry in his suit. In the past, Kast has allowed people to believe he wL7s Feft, adding even greater mystery to the legends surrounding the older hunter. Throughout his life, Felt has worked as a mercenary, a soldier, a personal guard, an assassin, and, most frequently, as a bounty hunter-the most expensive bounty hunter in the known systems. He collected 150,000 credits for the capture of pirate Feldrall Okor, and took a record 500,000 credits when he caught the religious Ffib heretic Nivek'Yppiks for the Lohrans. Feff has worked on retainer for Jabba the Huff and others of the Hu# clan, as well as for the Empire, and has crossed paths with the Rebellion's greatest heroes more than a few times over the years. Feff is slow and methodical and as unpredictable as the shifting sands of Tatooine. He rarely loses his quarry, and has, thus for, shown no remorse for their fate. Fe# has been known to work with other bounty hunters, but his motives may have been to show the others up; Fett has always emerged as the one who catches the prize. Sometime in the years before the Baffle of Yavin, Boba Feff had his first meeting with R2-D2 and C-3PO. On the desert Planet of Ingo, the droids had become the property of speeder racer Thall Joben and his friends, Kea Moll and Jord Dusat. Joben had angered the criminal Fromm gang, and Sise Fromm traveled to the Boonta speeder races to find them. There, Sise hired the mysterious, armor-clad bounty hunter to kill the young racing team, a job Feff took on as a favor owed Fromm, even though Fromm himself was wanted by intergalactic crime lord Jobba the Hutt. After the contract to kill Joben was finished, Feff noted that all debts were paid. Fett's robot, BR-17, befriended C-3PO and turned him against R2-D2 while Fromm's gang put a bomb in Joben's racing ship, the White Witch. Feff chased Thall and Kea, but they escaped, joining in the speeder race. At the same time, C-3PO learned of the treachery of BR- I 7-who was then crushed by falling machinery-and discovered the bomb planted on the Witch Unaware of the bomb, Fett followed Joben into the race and attempted to stop him, using every weapon at his disposal. When he tried magnets, Fett accidentally pulled the bomb onto his own speeder and had to escape at the last minute before it blew up. Angry at the loss of his droid and his speeder, Feff took Fromm and his gang hostage, to turn them over to Jabba the Huff. He expected a great reward for the corpulent trio of villains. Several years later, shortly after the Baffle of Yavin, Luke Skywalker took R2-D2, C3PO, and a Y-wing fighter to go look for Han Solo. The Corellian was due back from his search for an invisibility talisman, a mystic item the Empire also sought. When Luke crash-landed on a red-water moon in the Panna system, he was rescued by the mysterious Bobo Feft. Luke was felled by a strange sleeping virus that had also knocked out Han, so Feff and Chewbacco snuck into the Imperialguarded city to got an antidote. While there, Bobo contacted Darth Vader, who called him the 'best bounty hunter in the galaxy.' It was at this point that the droids intercepted Fett's message that he planned to capture the Rebels and claim the talisman. Back at the Millennium Falcon, following a h a r r a w i n g chase by s t a r m troopers, Bobo admin- istered the an- tidote to Han and Luke. Still groggy, Han didn't recognize Bobo, and didn't object when Luke offered the hunter a place in the Rebellion. C-3PO and R2 D2 interrupted, Rebels of Fett' mission to Vac rocketed away, ing vengeance. Prior to the Rebels' establishment of the Hoth base, Feff reappeared in pursuit of 'the Mole,' a man wanted for leaving the service of Darth Vader. Piloting a TIE fighter, Feff was chased down by Luke Skywalker in an X-wing. Luke chased the mercenary's ship through the ice canyons of the frozen world of Ota, and both ships crashed. Feff got the drop on Luke, but both of them were captured by the opelike Snogars. The Snogars' city was growing colder, and they were convinced the off worlders could restore their heat-providing machines Meanwhile, Han, Chewie, Leia Organo, and the droids had come to Ota to find Luke. While Luke and Bobo made a break from the Snogars, Han himself was captured. Ever the opportunist, Bobo agreed to go with Luke to rescue Han, planning to capture the smuggler for profit. In a wild sequence of events, the Rebels and the Mole were caught between the Snogars and Fett. When Feff tried to take both the Mole and Han prisoner, the Mole used a giant magnet to pin the bounty hunter to the wall. The Rebels and the Mole made their respective escapes, Feff swearing vengeance yet again. Fett sometimes used his bounties against each other. Once, for example, Fett found out that the magician, Magwit, was performing at a small frontier settlement in the wastelands. The dwarf had minor Imperial bounty on is head, but Fett knew Magwit could help him in acquiring another bounty; Gorgci the Hutt had hired Feft to bring in the notorious spcice pirate Bar-Kooda. Felt forced MOgwit to buy hiS freedom by Smuggling the hunter in his magic props. MOgwit was @captured" and taken aboard Bar-Kooda's massive Pirate vessel, BlOOdstor where the savage carnivore demanded the Magician's final PeOormcince. Magwit's most impressive trick used a hoop to cause objects tO appear and disappear. The hoop Was connected to a short-range matter transmitter, with Felt waiting on the other side. Working in concert with MOgwit, the hunter Pulled Bar-Koodo through the hoop and escaped, causing carnage along the way. MOgwit survived via a speedy exit, and true to his word, Felt gave the Magician his Wom. and exacted his price in the capture of Han Solo. Unfortunately for Han, Vader wanted to use him as the test subject for the carbonitefreezing process. Solo survived, and Feff took the quick-frozen Corellion to his ship for transport to Jabba the HLitts Tatooine palace. On the way to board the Slave /, he exchanged shots with the wary Luke Skywalker, who was attempting to save his friends. As he neared Tatooine, Felt was angered to find that IG-88, one of Vader's other bounty hunters, had trcicked him. Felt used evasive maneuvers and his weaponry to blow up the starfighter IG-2000 and its pilot. He continued on his way, delivering to Jobba his Han Solo 'wall sculpture,' and collecting his bounty. Arguing that the carbonite piece was actually art from the hands of DOrth Vader, Felt was able to talk Jabba into raising Solo's bounty from loo,ooo credits to 250,000. For the following year, Bobo was steadily employed, and a constant presence in Jabba's court. Although the Hutt would never admit it, he was afraid that the Alliance would retaliate for the capture of Solo, so he gave Felt assignments to keep him around, knowing how voluble the hunter was. one such job offered a 100,000 credit bounty to capture a live krayt dragon to be placed in battle with the Hutrs monstrous rancor. When Luke, Leia, and Chewie came to Tatooine and were all captured while trying to rescue Han, Jobba sentenced them to death in the Great Pit of Carkoon. But Jobba had not counted on Skywalker's Jedi powers or initiative, and the Rebels broke free. In the baffle that followed, Feffs backpack was hit and he flew, out of control, into the mouth of the Sarlacc. Fett somehow escaped the Sorlcicc, crawling away from the pit and lapsing into a painful oblivion. A short time later the bounty hunter Dengar, who had also been in Jobba's employ, set out to search for the Hutt's body. Instead, he found Bobo Felt, Shortly before the Battle of Hoth, Jcibba the Huff hired Feff to find Han Solo. Working both sides of the fence, Feff met Dcirth Vader mask to mask for the first time. For reasons unknown to either of them an instant sense of mutual respect was born, and the bounty hunter agreed to work with Dengar, Bossk, and a rookie bounty hunter named Skorr. But on the planet Ord Mantell, the wily Han Solo, Luke, and Chewie escaped Fett's clutches, heading back to the newly established Rebel base on Hoth. DE)Spite his failure to capture Solo and the other Rebels, Feff was once again summoned to work with Vader. One of the six bounty hunters instructed to find the Mlllennium Folcon, Felt succeeded in tracking the ship to the Bespin system. There, he aided Vader in capturing the Rebel leaders devoid of armor and covered in scars and fibers from the Sarlacc. Dengar nursed Felt back to health, using Jabba's medical droids. A month later, Fetl was well enough to travel, and since the Alliance had confiscated the Slave /, the two hunters set off in Dengar's ship for the spaceport moon of Nor Shaddaa, the smuggling center of the galaxy. Bobo had a liffle-used backup ship on Nor Shaddoa: The Slave // was a MandalMotors Pursuer enforcement ship, and few sentients in the galaxy even knew that Feff had one. The hunter used this to his advantage, knocking out old enemies who thought him dead, and collecting bounties quickly, sometimes working with the tagalong Dengar. Meanwhile, the Alliance let the Slave / sit on Grakouine, gathering dust. Wary of another encounter with Solo and Skywalker, Feff decided to buy his ship back legally. With the help of an old employer, Crystalboy, he used a system of dummy corporations, paper trails, and forged requisition forms, eventually getting the Slave / as part of a 'surplus liquidation' deal. Feff repaired the ship and put it in orbit around Nor Shaddaa. He would use it again, but for now, he was profiting more from the anonymity the Slave // and his 'death' had given him. It wasn't long before the galaxy realized Fett was alive. When he captured an infamous pirate, Feldrall Okor, Feff took a page from the plan Princess Leia had used when she had infiltrated Jabba's palace, He presented Feldrall to Imperial Governor Isis, but when she balked at his bounty price, he charged a thermal detonator. As tense seconds ticked by, the governor argued, while Fett calmly upped his price. Ultimately, the governor trusted her fortunes more than she trusted Fetts sanity, and she gave the hunter his ransom. Six years after the death of Jabba the Hutt, Han and Leia went to Nor Shaddaa, the galactic smuggling center. There, Han was surprised to find that Boba Fett and Dengar were waiting for him in his quarters. Fett told Solo that the Sarlacc had found him 'indigestible,' adding that the descendants of Jabba the Hutt wanted Han and Leia, dead or alive! In a hail of blaster fire, Leia and Han made it off world, escaping in Salla Zend's Starlight Intruder. Fett and Dengar followed in the Slave 1, snatching the Intruders coordinates and jumping into hyperspace. Although the Slave // arrived at Byss before the Starlight Intruder, only Salla's ship had been cleared to get through the planetary security shields, which closed, locking out Fetts ship and breaking off a control rudder. As they spun away, trying to regain control of the ship, Dengar angrily informed Fett this was the last time he'd ever work with him. Although he was grateful to Dengar for saving him back on Tatooine, Fett was glad to be rid of the other hunter When Han and Leia again returned to Nor Shaddoa seeking the Jedi Master Vima-DaBoda, they were afraid Fett might be lying in wait. In fact, two Imperial Dark Side Warriors were attempting to blackmail the bounty hunter into working for them. They claimed knowledge of his past-that Fett had been a stormtrooper who had murdered his superior officer. Fett rejected their attempts and fought back as the two warriors attacked him. He escaped even as Solo's Millennium Falcon prepared to touch down. Fett bided his time, and when the Falcon prepared to depart, Slave / rushed forward on a suicide run. Fett expected Han to turn tail; instead, the Corellion used his freighter to clip Slave /'s stabilizer Although Fett lost some control, he was still able to blast the Falcon, causing the ship to lose all sensors. The bounty hunter tracked the Falcon to the lower levels, where he ambushed Leia and Han shortly after they found Vima-DoBoda. In turn, he was ambushed by Chewbacca. During the ensuing firefight, Boba Fett shot Chewbacca in the side, but the Wookiee managed to rip off Boba's helmet and send him spiraling into the roof high above. Fett recovered quickly enough to board the Slave / and pursue the Falcon through the floating space debris of the spaceport moon. Scoring a hit on the freighter, Fett figured he finally had his bounty. He was surprised when Solo piloted the Falcon into an interstellar gas cloud. His ship's sensors were useless, so Fett hung back, waiting for several days before the Falcon reemerged. Unfortunately for Fett, Solo had beefed up his firepower and used it to play havoc with Slave /. Fett's ship spun out of control into the gas cloud. Though Fett disappeared, and has not reappeared on Han Solo's trail, new reports of the bounty hunter's adventures have surfaced throughout the galaxy. Han Solo knows that one day, he will once again face the toughest and most feared bounty hunter in space, Boba Fett.

Dengar

Name: Dengar
Species: Human
Sex: Male
Hair Color: Unknown
Eye Color: Unknown
Height: 1.8 meters
Homeworld: Unknown
Poltical Affiliation: Free-Lance Bounty Hunter
Weapon(s) of Choice: Modified Imperial blaster Rifle, Concussion Grenades, Vibroblade
Vehicle of Choice: Unknown
First Appearance: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
When Darth Vader put out a call for bounty hunters to find Han Solo, one of his obvious choices was the armored Dengar, This particular hunter had a long-standing grudge against Solo, and his hunt would be personal. When he was a young adult, Dengar had been a successful swoop jockey on the popular Ferini team. Swoops were dangerous repulsorliff bikes, and Dengar had been racing them since his childhood, becoming a cult hero throughout the Corellion system. With the Ferini team, he become even more crystal swamps of Agrilat. Even though Solo had been accepted into the Imperial Academy of Caridia, he couldn't refuse the challenge. The swoop race was one of the mostwatched events in the Corellian system, and the two racers seemed evenly matcheduntil the final stretch. Solo sped to a lower altitude, zooming through the dangerous underbrush, pulling ahead slightly. Dengar decided to go one better and swooped closer to the swamps, taking an even lower approach. As he cleared the lost bit of foliage before the straightaway to the target, Dengar didn't realize Solo was directly above him. Dengar pulled his swoop up and crashed into Solo's main repulsor fin, The impact left him badly burned, with major cranial trauma. While he was recovering, he also received word he had been kicked out of professional swoop racing for engaging in the illegal race \jyith Solo. Dengar's life was destroyed, and he held Han Solo responsible. Although he eventually healed, Dengof carried a burning hatred for Solo. For a time, he worked as a gladiator, but eventu- popular, gaining endorsement contracts and ever higher wages and winnings. But the controlled world of professional, tour swoop racing was not what held Dengar's oftention. The private tour called to Dengar-wild and dangerous, and with one major challenge. A young Corellion named Han Solo had become a popular swoop jockey on the private circuit, and Dengar was constantly compared to him. Finally, tired of the comparisons, Dengar challenged Solo to a winner-takes-all race across the dangerous ally, he found another calling: The Empire wanted him as an assassin. They would train him and provide him with equipment that rnight help balance his mind-unstable since the accident. Records about Dengar's time in service to the Empire-and subsequent depa@ure-have not yet been found. When he learned there was a galaxywide bounty on Solo's head, he decided to become a bounty hunter. Ouffitting himself with body-protecting blast armor and major weaponry, Dengar eventually come into the employ of Jobba the Hutt, The ex-racer's success ratio over the following decade was debatable. Of the twenty-three bounties he captured, only six were alive. Sho@ly before the Battle of Hoth, Bobo Fel gathered several other hunters, includng Bossk, Dengar, and Skorr, to find Han Solo. The hunters captured him aboard the pirate Raskar's ship, along with Luke Skywalker and Chewbacco. While bringing the ftio to the planet Ord Mantel], the hunters were taken by surprise when Luke used his Force powers to engineer the Alliance members' escape. Events soon conspired to bring Dengar into the service of Darth Vader on the Super Star Destroyer Executor. Bobo Feff, Bossk, IG-88, Zuckuss, and 4-LOM were assigned to track down the Millennium Falcon. Unfoaunately for Dengar and the others, Fett was the one who succeeded in tracking the Falcon to the Bespin system, and who received not only the bounty, but also the carbon-frozen body of Han Solo to deliver to Jobba the Hutt. Months later, Dengar arrived on Tatooine, making his way to Jobba's palace and the endless partying there. Too drunk on Zeltron spiced wine, he missed the excitement when the execution party left to dispose of Luke, Han, and Chewbacca. He soon learned that Jabba was dead, and the sail barge wrecked, A short time later, Dengar set out to search for Jobba's body among the wreckage of the sail barge near the Great Pit of Corkoon. The hunter had figured that Jabba would have kept an identi-chip with him one that was needed to open the mysterious and hopefully treasure-filled vaults deep in the palace. Instead of Jabba, Dengar found Boba Feft, devoid of armor and covered in scars and fibers from the Sarlacc. Dengar took Fett back to the palace, and spent the next month nursing him back to health using Jabba's medical droids. During that time, Dengar was also constantly traveling to Mos Eisley on mysterious business. When Fett was well enough, the two set off in Dengar's ship, bound for Nor Shaddoa, the spaceport moon that functioned as the smuggling center of the galaxy. Six years offer the death of Jabba the Hutt, Solo and his now-wife Leia went to Nor Shaddaa, where Han was surprised to find that Bobo Fett and Dengar were waiting for him in his quarters. Dodging a hail of blaster fire, Leia and Han made it off world, escaping to Byss in Salla Zend's Starlight Intruder. Fett and Dengar followed in Fetts Slave snatching their prey's coordinates and jumping into hyperspace. Although the Slave // arrived at Byss before the Starlight Intruder only Salia's ship was cleared to get through the planetary security shields. The shields closed, locking out Fetts ship and breaking off a control rudder. As they spun away, trying to regain control of the ship, Dengar angrily told Fett this was the last time he'd ever work with him. Dengar's current whereabouts are unknown, but his bounty-hunting days are far from over. In the back of his mind, the hunter knows that, one day, he will cause Solo as much pain as the Corellian has caused him.

4-Lom

Droid: Industrial Automatic 4-lom Protocol Droid
Sex: Inapplicable (masculine programming)
Hair Color: None
Eye Color: Unknown
Height: 1.6
Homeworld: Unknown
Political Affiliation: Free-Lance Bounty Hunter
Weapon(s) of Choice: Blaster Pistol, Stun-Gas Blower, Net Thrower
Vehicle of Choice: Unknown
First Appearance: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
in the history of the galaxy, it is quite extraordinary for a droid to change the level of its own self-awareness, paaicularly to the degree of personal transformation that 4-LOM achieved prior to its becoming one of the galaxy's fiercest bounty hunters. 4-LOM was a late-model protocol droid serving as a valet and human-cyborg relations specialist on the passenger liner Kuori Princess. With a TranLang III Communication module giving it knowledge of more than seven million languages, 4-LOM acted as an interpreter between the rich guests and the ship's computer. The droid was entirely aware of what the guests-and their possessions-were doing at all times. As entertainment, the protocol droid began engaging the main computer in a series of games, simulating how best to steal valuables, The games became serious, though, when the droid and the computer began to alter each others' programming. Soon, unexplained and perfectly executed thefts had the Kuori Princess owners worried. No one suspected 4-LOM, the bonevo- lent and passive droid. Eventually, 4-LOM's altered programming allowed it more sentience, and it became bored with the ease with which it robbed from the space liner's guests. Off ship, the protocol droid become a master thief and information broker for many of the golaxy's most powerful crime lords, including Totooine's Jabba the Hutt. Jabba realized that 4-LOM would make an excellent bounty hunter, but the droid reminded him that its programming would not allow him violent actions. Jabba offered the droid a deal: he would refit, reprogram, and rebuild 4-LOM in exchange for its services. The droid agreed, and Jabba soon had the smartest bounty hunter in the galaxy working for him. The crime lord paired 4-LOM with a Gand hunter named Zuckuss, whose intuition and ability to outguess his opponents worked perfectly in combination with 4LOM's analytical skills. For a time, they were two at Jabba's favorite hunters. A year after the destruction of the Empire's first Death Star, Darth Vader sent out a call for bounty hunters to find Han Solo, whose capture he believed would lure Luke Skywalker to him. Jabba sent 4-LOM and Zuckuss as 'nonofficial emissaries.' They arrived on Vader's Super Star Destroyer Executor, finding that four other bounty hunters had also been chosen for the hunt: Boba Fett, Dengar, IG-88, and Bossk. Unfortunately for the paired hunters, Boba Fett was the one who tracked the Millenium Falcon to the Bespin system. Fett received not only the bounty from Vader, but also the carbon-frozen body of Han Solo to deliver to Jabba the Hutt, Pleased to have Solo hanging on his wall, Jabba did not have his own hunter pair killed for their failure. The droid and the Gand were much too useful, 4-LOM and Zuckuss would have many more successful missions in their future

Gallandro

Species: Human
Sex: Male
Hair Color: Gray
Eye Color: Deep Blue
Height: Unknown (slightly taller than Han Solo)
Homeworld: Ylix
Political Affiliation: Free-Lance Bounty Hunter
Weapon(s) of Choice: Archaic Guns and Various Blasters
Vehicle of Choice: Unkown
First Appearance: Han Solo's Revenge
Death: In The Vaults of Xim The Despot
one of the most merciless gunmen in the galaxy, Gallandro learned at an early age to be cold, heartless, and later, quick on the draw. Gallandro was a commoner on the backwater planet of Yiix, a world besieged by revolutionaries and terrorists from Goelitz, a rival colony in a nearby system. Atacks were common, but they never affected young Gallandro until the day he saw his parents murdered before his eyes. Gallondro grew up in orphanages, and joined the planetary militia as soon as he was old enough. Hatred for the Goelitz burned in his breast and he became an exemplary soldier. While he became a hero to some, others were disturbed by his lack of conscience. He volunteered for increasingly hazardous assignments, becoming addicted to danger and conflict. When the war against the Goelitz ended, Gailandro become a mercenary, hiring out as a bodyguard, soldier, bounty hunter, or assassin. All the while, he practiced his quick draw. Gallandro's exploits became legendary. He single-handedly hijacked the Quomor Messenger on its maiden run, and flew with Marso's Demons. He incurred the wrath of the Assassin's Guild but when he killed half their Elite Circle, they decided to leave him alone. The gunman gained the death mark on over a hundred worlds, but he was too tough for anyone to take down. Odumin, a powerful sector manager for the outlying Corporate Sector Authority, made Gallandro an offer. Odumin wanted the Malorm Family dead. Not only would he offer good pay, but a general amnesty, as well. Gallandro finished the job easily. Impressed, Odumin brought Gailandro onto his staff at operatives. On retainer, Gallandro began living life better. Then he met his match in a young Corellian pilot named Han Solo. After a brief altercation on the planet Ammuud, Han and Gallandro faced each other aboard the Millennium Folcon while it was held in the tractor beam of an Espo Victory-class Destroyer. Han tricked his opponent into grabbing a rigged security case, which sent neural shocks up Gallandro's right arm. Knowing he couldn't draw as well with his left hand, a humiliated Gallandro acceded to Solo. Gallandro encountered Solo only once more. The gunman was working for J'uoch at a mining operation on Dellalt. Solo and his partners arrived on the planet in search of the Xim treasure ship Queen of Ronroon. During a baffle against a group of rogue robots, Gallandro and Han saved each others' lives, but once Han found the treasure, all truces were off. In a duel, Gallandro was faster. Han was disabled, but Gallandro didn't know that Xim had installed a no-weapons system in part of the chambers. Dozens of lasers shot toward Gallandro at the speed of light, igniting his body in a flaming inferno. And so the fastest gunman in the galaxy met his match.

Greedo

Species: Rodian
Sex: Male
Hair Color: None
Eye Color: Purple:
Height: 1.65 meters
Homeworld: Rodia
Political Affiliation: Free-Lance Bounty Hunter
Weapon(s) of Choice: BlasTech AU-7 blaster Pistol, Grenades
Vehicle of Choice: Incom Corsair Manka Hunter
First Appearance: Star Wars: A New Hope
Death: Mos Eisley Cantina on the desert world of Tatooine A bounty hunter whose dreams far exceeded his grasp, the greenskinned, foul-smelling Greedo managed to rack up more enemies than friends during his short life. But his last mistake was trying to collect the bounty on Corellian smuggler Han Solo. Greedo wasn't very bright, but he wanted to be a hunter in the worstway. He succeeded. Greedo was a Rodian, from the planet Radio in the Tyrius star system. The Radians consider bounty hunting an honored profession and a fabulous sport, and prizes are awarded to the hunter with the most captures or kills. The only dishonorable thing for a Rodian hunter to do is padding' a catch - or driving up a bounty by allowing the prey to commit more crimes, even after they had been located. The Rodian Council of Justice frowned on such activities. In a more violent time on Radio, Greedo's bounty-hunter father was murdered and his riches seized. His pregnant wife, Neela, took three-year-old Greedo and left the planet with her older brothers, Nok and Teeku. Other members of the more peaceful Rodian clan, known as the Tetsus, came as well, and the refugees fled in three large silver spaceships. They relocated to a jungle world and began life anew. When he was fifteen years old, Greedo and his younger brother, Pqweeduk, discovered the trio of spaceships hidden in a mountain cavern. He asked his mother about them, and she told him of his violent heritage. A month and a day later, the same Rodion who had slaughtered Greedo's father finally tracked the Tetsus down. The invaders began mowing down the sefflers. The two brothers ran to the caves, along with their mother, two uncles, and twenty other clan members. They escaped in two of the ships; the third was destroyed. Nok piloted the Rodion through hyperspace to the port moon of Nor Shaddaa, where the survivors made their new lives in the Corellian sector. Greedo grew to be an adult, working with his brother in the bustling districts of Level 88, He had become streetwise, learning petty thievery and black-market tactics. One day, Greedo witnessed two bounty hunters, Spurch 'Warhog' Goa and Dyyz Nataz, killing a rogue Imperial spice inspector. When the two hunters were attacked by a towering cyborg named Gorm, Greedo managed to save their lives by killing Gorm. When the deadly duo cut the Rodian in on the bounty, he decided to help them, tipping them off to a cluster of Rebels hiding in another part of Level 88. With the Imperial reward, Greedo planned to buy an lncom corsair ship from the mechanic Shug Ninx, He planned to call it the Mankc Hunter, Every bounty hunter needed a great ship, he had decided. While he was inspecting his ship-to-be, Greedo couldn't resist stealing a pair of new Dekk-6 power couplings. Unfortunately for him, he was caught by the huge Wookiee known as Chewbacca; the Dekks were for the Millennium Falcon. When Han Solo took his rancor-skin jacket as restitution, Greedo threatened him, Greedo become Warhog Goa's apprentice, learning the bounty-hunting trade from a 'master.' He was soon to learn the error of his ways. When the Imperials attacked the Rebels on Level 88, the fighting was intense. Greedo barely escaped with Goo and Dyzz in their ship, the Novo Viper, before an entire quarter of the Corellian sector exploded in a flash. Greedo realized with a heavy heart that his family was dead, and he was responsible The trio of hunters fled to Tatooine, where Goa and Greedo hooked up with Jabba the Hutt. The obese crime lord was fond of Rodian hunters: they were ruthless, they worked cheaply, and they made great rancor snacks if they fell out of his favor. Working for Jabba would be a perfect way for Greedo to increase his status and his power as a bounty hunter. When Jabba awarded Greedo the exclusive bounty contract on Han Solo's head, the Rodian saw the galaxy opening to him; the Corellian was a heady prize. Greedo waited for Solo in Chalmun's cantina. As the Rodian steeled himself, there was a disturbance at the bar, an old man using a lightsaber had attacked an Aqualish and an ugly humanoid. When Chewbacca escorted the old man and a fresh-faced farm boy back to Solo's table, Greedo grew more nervous. Two stormtroopers walked through the bar, and as they left, Greedo noticed that Solo and Chewbacca were alone. Then Chewbacco got up and left. Marching up to Solo, blaster drawn, the Rodian demanded the credits Han owed Jabba, If he could get the credits out of Solo, then kill the smuggler, Greedo could be paid twice for the one bounty! Sure of himself, the Rodian kept his blaster trained on Solo, who seemed remarkably unafraid. The Corellion's smug attitude angered Greedo and he fired a shot in frustration...and missed, before he could threaten Solo further, the spacer shot a blaster from under the table, killing Greedo instantly. It was then that Wuher the bartender got a fiendishly clever idea. He recovered Greedo's body and took it below, where he and his new droid, C2-R4, used the Rodian's flesh and blood in their still. The resulting liqueur was the most powerful pheromonal drink Wuher had ever tasted. The bartender was sure that Jabba the Hutt would pay handsomely for the drink. If he could have withstood the intense flavor, Wuher would have hoisted a second drink to salute Greedo, the greatest tasting Rodian bounty hunter of all time

Zuckuss

Species: Gand
Sex: Male
Hair Color: None
Eye Color: Unkown
Height: 1.5m
Homeworld: Gand
Political Affiliation: Free-Lance Bounty Hunter
Weapon(s) of Choice: Blaster Pistol, Vibroblade, Stun Grenades, Thermal Detonator (strictly for assassinations)
Vehicle of Choice: Mist Hunter
First Appearance: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The insectoid bounty hunter Zuckuss was one of his planet's most successful findsmen, but the elusive quarry assigned him by Jabba the Hutt and Darth Vader still managed to slip from his grasp. On the gaseous planet of Gand, the inhabitants had formed a series of pocket colonies, establishing a totalitarian monarchy. Like the Radians, the Gand honored the tradition and skills of bounty hunting. Their hunters-called findsmen-were largely used to corral fugitive criminals and runaway slaves. The findsmen were highly superstitious. Their sect worshipped the swirling mists that hid the planet, performing ancient rituals handed down through generations. In the gases, the findsmen believed they could see divine signs and omens, leading them to their prey. Unfortunately for the hunters, the Empire insinuated itself into the Gand's slave trade, and Imperial technology made obsolete the findsmen and their rituals. Although many of the findsmen retired, a few of the younger ones left for the stars. One of those who left the planet was Zuckuss, a young Gand descended from a long and illustrious line of successful findsmen. He used the elaborate and arcane rituals in his hunts, becoming a tireless tracker with an affinity for intuiting his quarry's moves; he was called 'the uncanny one.' Off planet, Zuckuss was forced to wear a special breathing apparatus that protected him from harmful oxygen and provided supplemental gases necessary to his species. He adopted baffle armor under his heavy cloak, and hung a computer and sensor array on straps around his neck. He dared any terrain or environment in pursuit at his prey. Zuckuss was eventually hired by the Tatooine crime lord Jabba the Hutt. Although he worked solo on several missions, it was when Jabba paired him with a brilliant rogue protocol droid, 4-LOM, that Zuckuss found the missing piece to his hunting procedure. Zuckuss's intuition and ability to outguess his opponents worked perfectly in combination with 4-LOM's analytical skills. For a time, they were two of Jobba's favorite hunters. A year after the destruction of the Empire's first Death Star, Jabba sent 4-LOM and Zuckuss as 'nonofficial emissaries' to Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer Executor. The Dark Lord of the Sith had sent out a call for bounty hunters to find Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon. Zuckuss and 4-LOM saw that their competition would be fierce; the four other bounty hunters were Boba Fett, Dengar, IG-88, and Bossk. Unfortunately for Zuckuss and 4-LOM, Boba Fett was the one who tracked the Falcon to the Bespin system. Fett received not only the bounty from Vader, but also the carbon-frozen body of Han Solo to deliver to Jabba the Hutt. Zuckuss had lost one of the biggest quarries at his career, but that didn't concern him. There would be others, and he and 4-LOM would keep alive the tradition of the findsmen for many years to come until, some time after 4-LOM's destruction, he stumbled upon some Rebels fleeing the Hoth system after the Empire engaged them on the ice world. Touched by the Rebels devotion to one another, and their unquestioning acceptance of him, Zuckuss aided the freedom fighters in their escape and soon joined the Alliance as a spy, and counter-intelligence agent.

IG-88

Droid: Holowan Mechanicals IG series assassin droid
Sex: N.A. - Male programming
Hair Color: N.A.
Eye Color: N.A.
Height: 1.96m
Homeworld: Holowan Labs
Political Affiliation: None, Freelance Bounty Hunter
Weapon(s) of Choice: Highly modified Imperial heavy blaster rifle, Imperial light blaster rifle; On-board armaments include missile launcher, flame thrower, and grenade launcher.
Vehicle of Choice: Unknown
First Appearance: The Empire Strikes Back
Notes:
A heartless assassin droid who became one of the galaxy's most feared and proficient bounty hunters. IG-88 was designed with dozens of built-in weapons including a grenade launcher, blaster, flame thrower, and missile launcher. He was also programmed with sentience, which allowed him to murder his creators the moment he was activated. In the years since, he has slaughtered over 150 intelligent beings and earned the equivalent of the death sentence on over 40 systems. IG-88 was also among the bounty hunters charged with locating Han Solo.

Bossk

Species: Trandoshin
Sex: Male
Hair Color: N.A.
Eye Color: Yellow/Black
Height: 1.9m
Homeworld: Trandosha
Political Affiliation: None, Freelance Bounty Hunter
Weapon(s) of Choice: Imperial heavy blaster rifle, blaster pistol
Vehicle of Choice: Hound's Tooth Class/Manufacturer Unknown
First Appearance: The Empire Strikes Back
Notes:
A reptillian Trandoshan bounty hunter devoted to capturing Wookies. Bossk has much of his life in pursuit of the heroic Chewbacca and his partner Han Solo. Although he has managed to corner the pair several times, each encounter has resulted in Bossk's defeat and humiliation. Yet the tenacious and greedy hunter continues his quest undaunted, most often plying the stars in his starship the Hound's Tooth. As with all members of his species, Bossk exudes a brackish stench, has sensitive eyes, and can regenerate lost limbs.

Boushh

Species: Ubese
Sex: Male
Hair Color: Unknown
Eye Color: Unkown
Height: Unknown
Homeworld: Ubese
Political Affiliation: None, Freelance Bounty Hunter
Weapon(s) of Choice: Blaster pistol, Blaster rifle
Vehicle of Choice: Unkown
First Appearance: N.A.
Notes:
An Ubese bounty hunter contracted to work for Prince Xizor's criminal Black Sun organization. Boushh eventually allowed his greed to surpass his good judgement and he crossed Black Sun. For this he was murdered. Princess Leia subsequently assumed Boushh's identity in order to infiltrate Black Sun and, later, Jabba the Hutt's palace in an attempt to rescue Han Solo from the vile gangster.

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