Species: Trandoshan
Sex: Male
Hair Color: Inapplicable
Eye Color: Unknown (bloodshot)
Height: 1.9 meters
Homeworld: Trandosha
Weapons of Choice: blaster rifle, grenade launcher, flamethrower
Vehicle of Choice: The Hound's Tooth
Unfeeling cruelty and often uncalculating rages have defined the bounty hunting career of Bossk, who was the son of Cradossk, leader of the Bounty Hunters Guild. Being a Trandoshan Bossk began his career by Wookie hunting, which is typically considered suicidal if attempted by any other species. During this time, Bossk made quite a name for himself and began accepting bounties on non-Wookies as well, becoming one of the most powerful bounty hunters criminals have ever had to reckon with.
Earlier in his career, Bossk had a run-in with Chewbacca and Han Solo that left him vengeful and angrier than even most other Trandoshans. The hunter and his partners had uncovered a Wookie safe planet and caught the Wookies just as they were settling in, led by Chewbacca. Just before Bossk could capture the entire group, which would have been a bounteous gift for the scorekeeper indeed, Han Solo returned and destroyed Bossk's ship by landing on it in the Millenium Falcon. The Trandoshan hunter was stranded and left to his own helpless rage. It is rumoured that none of his partners survived his anger. After his first ship was destroyed, Bossk purchased The Hound's Tooth and continued his hunting but always kept a special place in his cold heart for his grudge against Chewbacca and Solo.
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, who he 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 him, 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.
Even though Han Solo and Chewbacca again slipped through his claws due to help from Luke Skywalker, Bossk was one of 6 hunters hired by Lord Darth Vader to hunt down and capture Solo. The Trandoshan hunter took it is a point of honor and revenge to capture his wretched Wookie enemy and his weak human counterpart. 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, though.
Quite some time later, after Boba Fett's "death", Bossk had another run-in with the hated hunter. 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 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, 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. It is unknown when or if he retrieved The Hound's Tooth and what he did after the showdown in the Cantina is also unknown.
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