BOSSK   Species: Trandoshan Sex: Male Hair Color: N/A Eye Color: Unknown (bloodshot) Height: 1.9 meters Homeworld: Trandosha Weapons of Choice: Blaster Rifle, Grenade Launcher, Flamethrower Vehicle of choice: YV-666 Modified Light Freighter 'Hound's Tooth'   Bossk is a Trandoshan, a three-toed, three-fingered reptilian. He is also the son of Cradossk, leader of the Bounty Hunters Guild. Like the rest of his species, Bossk has the ability to regenerate lost limbs and can see in the dark by using the portion of is eyes that respond to infrared light. His home planet is in the same solar system as Kashyyyk, the Wookiee homeworld. The Wookiees owed much of their pain and suffering to the Trandoshans, who used to hunt Wookies and skin their pelts. But when a Trandoshan dignitary convinced the Empire to use Wookiees as their slave labor that was when the Wookies' pain intesified. After the Empire enslaved much of Kashyyyk, the Trandoshans offered to hunt down any Wookiees that had escaped. When Bossk's liege lord suggested that he become a Bounty Hunter who specialized in Wookiee captures and kills, he was more than happy to do so. Bossk outfitted himself with protective body armor and a variety of weapons. Bossk made quite a name for himself hunting Wookies and began accepting Bounties on non-Wookies as well, becoming one of the most powerful Bounty Hunters in the Universe. He also made a personal vow at this time: 'never to cross the Emperor...that way, lies a serious amount of grief.' A giant named Chewbacca--allied with a Corellian smuggler named Han Solo--had gained a high amount of respect in the galaxy's underworld, ans Bossk decided to bring him down. Meanwhile, he continued the hunts, and in addition to the many Wookiees he had trapped and killed, he made twelve captures, delivering eight to their enemies alive. Finally, Bossk got his shot at Chewbacca. He had heard news that a group of renegade Wookiees had set up a safe colony on Gandolo IV, a remote Outer Rim world. The Trandoshan went to the Imperial governor of the sector, to be paid in advance, and then he armed himself for the trip to Gandolo IV. There, he found his prey. Chewbacca was helping the small group of Wookiees settle on the rocky moon. Bossk and his thugs surrounded the Wookiee camp, outnumbering and easily capturing the poorly armed creatures. Bossk had little time to gloat over his victory, though, as Chewbacca was not alone. Han Solo had dropped his copilot on Gandolo IV, then he visited an old girlfriend in a nearby system. Now he returned, the Milennium Falcon's scanners picking up the Bounty Hunter ships even before he got in visual range. Solo dove the Falcon toward the planet, catching Bossk and his thugs by surprise, as they had the Wookiees. Solo flew in low over the Wookiee colony, buzzing the Hunters, and strafing the ground with laser fire. He couldn't hit the Bounty Hunters full on, as they had the bound Wookiees in their midst. Intending to pursue the Falcon, Bossk and his thugs boarded their own ship, leaving two guards behind. But Han Solo had other plans. As soon as the entry ramp was raised on Bossk's ship, Han pulled the Falcon directly above it, lowered the landing gear, and touched down directly on top of the other ship! The Hunter's craft buckled under the strain, its own landing gear caving in, its hydraulics shot, and its interiors sparking and exploding. Bossk's people tried in vain to get the emergency hatches open. Meanwhile, Chewbacca and the Wookiees broke free of their binders and overcame the two guards. Chewbacca and Solo agreed to help the Wookiees find a new, safe colony, refusing to kill the humiliated Bossk before they left. The Trandoshan Hunter was stranded and left to his own helpless rage. It is rumoured that none of his partners survived his anger. Bossk finally freed himself from the crushed shell that had been his ship; it had taken him days to cut his way out with blasters and a few hand torches. A week later, Bossk was picked up by a small out-world hauler carrying a load of nerf manure. After his first ship was destroyed, Bossk purchased The Hound's Tooth. As the rightful heir of The Bounty Hunters Guild, Bossk had been plotting his father's demise for some time. The Guild was everything to the brutal Hunter, and he refused to watch his father's senile claws destroy what was rightfully his. After enacting a brutally efficient plot to overthrow Cradossk and set himself up as leader, Bossk went on a Bounty with Boba Fett, IG-88, Zuckuss, and D'harhan where he narrowly avoided an assassination attempt by Zuckuss, who was working with Cradossk, by bribing the other Hunter to his side. Bossk returned, to the surprise of his father, and violently slaughtered his father as The Guild complex erupted into a massive firefight. After this, however, The Guild had been split in half. Bossk was the leader of The Guild Reform Committee, which consisted mostly of younger Hunters, and was fixed on destroying The True Guild, whom Bossk saw as old, lazy Hunters. Against his better judgement, Bossk again worked with Boba Fett to track down the rogue stormtrooper Trihin Voss'on't. After nearly dying, Bossk managed to help Fett capture the defect Imperial only to double-cross the other Hunter. Bossk reasoned that Voss'on't's Bounty could help give The Committee the upper hand in the Bounty Hunter Wars, and would do it much better if he collected all of it. After disabling The Slave I's internal defense systems, Bossk captured Fett on his own ship. Luckily for Fett, Fett had foreseen this complication and had already hired Zuckuss to back him up after gaining the Bounty. Bossk was subdued, and then Zuckuss was also double-crossed. The two Hunters were blasted out of The Slave I by Boba Fett in the only escape pod. Angrily, Bossk threw a bomb into Fett's ship just before he was launched, which gave the pod enough time to escape. Years later, Bossk would get another chance at the Wookiee and Han. Shortly before the Battle of Hoth, Boba Fett gathered several fellow Bounty Hunters, including Bossk, Dengar, and a newer Hunter named Skorr, to find Han Solo. They captured him, along with Luke Skywalker and Chewbacca, aboard the pirate Raskar's ship. Bringing the trio to the planed Ord Mantell, the Hunters were taken by surprise when Luke used his Force powers to engineer the trio's escape. When Darth Vader put out an open call for Bounty Hunters to find the Milennium Falcon, Bossk immediately went to the Super Star Destroyer Executor. There, he found that he had competition from five other Bounty Hunters: Boba Fett, IG-88, Dengar, Zuckuss, and 4-LOM. He grudgingly teamed up with Tinian I'att and Chenlambec, believing they had inside information about Solo's whereabouts. In fact, it turned out to be a setup to rescue an entire prison full of Wookies. Bossk barely survived, and his ship was taken by I'att and Chen to ferry the Wookies back. At some point, he did manage to steal his ship back. Much later, Bossk found out that Boba Fett had indeed succeeded in tracking the Falcon and in procuring the carbon-frozen body of Han Solo to deliver to Jabba the Hutt. Chewbacca had escaped, though, aided by the Baron Administrator of Bespin's Cloud City, Lando Calrissian. Quite some time later, after Boba Fett's "death", Bossk had another run-in with Fett. He was forced to abandon The Hound's Tooth in a panic as a bomb calmly counted down the seconds remaining to detonation. Again, Bossk found himself in an escape pod because of Boba Fett and seethed silently to himself. Suddenly, a countdown began echoing in the escape pod. In a frenzy, Bossk tried to find the bomb, and managed to discover it just as the countdown reached zero... and nothing happened. It was then that the Hunter realized that he had been scared off of his own ship, and he now knew that Fett hadn't in fact been killed by the Sarlacc and was now using The Hound's Tooth as his own ship. Bossk landed on the surface of Tatooine via. the escape pod, where he was stranded without any source of money. Luckily for him, he had managed to steal an important piece of evidence from the Slave I which led up to another show down with Fett in the Mos Eisley Cantina. Bossk held his ground against the fearsome Hunter, refusing to give the location of the evidence without money, even with Fett's blaster trained on his forehead. Boba Fett uttered the unthinkable words "You won" and transferred a large amount of credits into Bossk's account in exchange for the evidence. It is believed that Bossk used this money, not to mention this new respect he earned for defeating Boba Fett, to get back on his feet in the Bounty Hunting world. Some time later, Bossk and IG-88 moved on to the Hunter's world of Keyorin, where they accepted Bounties from the small-time crime boss Drebble, for Lando Calrissian's head. Coincidentally, Lando had accompanied Han and Chewbacca to Keyorin. A Confrontation soon followed, but the Alliance heroes were victorious yet again. Now fifty-eight standard years old, Bossk is willing to sacrifice Chewbacca's pelt for a quick kill if he ever sees the Wookiee again. Bossk is available for hire as a Bounty Hunter.   Information and Pictures on Bossk's ship the HOUND'S TOOTH are available.