Dengar / Legends Dengar , also known as " Payback , " was a Corellian bounty hunter and the pilot of the " Punishing One " . Brought up in the culture of swoop bikes and becoming a successful racer himself , Dengar also led a double life as a successful bounty hunter during the Clone Wars , becoming one of the galaxy ' s most efficient mercenaries ; his work teamed him with the likes of bounty hunters such as Boba Fett and Bossk . Dengar would eventually give up the life of bounty hunting to pursue his other passion : swoop racing . Following a grievous injury sustained at the hands of the smuggler Han Solo during a swoop race through Agrilat Swamp on Corellia , Dengar was rebuilt by the scientists of the Galactic Empire as an assassin , augmented by various neuro - implants and cybernetic enhancements and being void of all emotions besides rage , despair , and hope . Dengar served under the Empire until he refused to kill the Holy Children of Asrat ; sensing the despair in the children , Dengar deserted his post and became a freelance gun - for hire . It was after a bounty was posted on Han Solo by the Empire that he became entangled in the Galactic Civil War , serving under the Rebel Alliance in Echo Base on Hoth with the intention of taking Solo when he had the chance . Due to a chance encounter , Dengar was among an elite group of hunters recruited by Darth Vader to capture Solo and the passengers of the " Millennium Falcon " shortly after the Battle of Hoth . Biography . Early life . Dengar was born on Corellia and as a young child , he worked with his father repairing and tuning swoops . This early experience lead to him becoming a well - known and successful swoop racer for the Ferini team during his youth . By the time he reached pre - adolescence , he was considered something of a cult hero throughout the Corellian system . Through his connections with the Ferini team , he gained endorsements and higher wages and winnings . Bounty hunter . By 21 BBY , Dengar had established himself as a bounty hunter , keeping a respectable track record . He eventually became a member of a posse of hunters consisting of Boba Fett , Bossk , Latts Razzi , C - 21 Highsinger , and Oked . Dengar and company were hired to escort a hovertrain containing cargo valuable to Otua Blank , the leader of the Belugan people of Quarzite . Dengar and company prepared for the mission on Tatooine , making a last minute addition to the team : Asajj Ventress , a ( unbeknownst to them ) Dark Jedi who killed Oked in Chalmun ' s Spaceport Cantina . Dengar and company set off in the " Hound ' s Tooth " to Quarzite , where Major Rigosso transported the team to the train ' s subterranean loading dock via a space elevator from an orbital skyhook . Dengar , along with Ventress , were assigned to guard the rear of the train . After unsuccessfully flirting with Ventress , a team of skilled Kage Warriors boarded the train in an attempt to retrieve the cargo . Dengar managed to fight off many of the attackers due to his skilled hand - to - hand combat techniques , and even managed to kill two using sticky explosives . Dengar was eventually overwhelmed by the attackers and was thrown from the train , landing safely on the subterranean surface . Dengar and his allies , who were likewise thrown from the train , returned to the skyhook to await Ventress , who had betrayed the mission objective by swapping the cargo with Boba Fett , who was bound and gagged . Dengar was employed soon by the Hutts alongside Latts , Embo , and Sugi as protection on Nal Hutta . They were present when Darth Maul , Savage Opress , and Death Watch leader , Pre Vizsla came to ally with the Hutts . When the plan went sour , the four bounty hunters attacked , though they were pushed by the Mandalorian ' s flamethrower . The trio soon received reinforcements and attacked . When the battle was clearly lost , Dengar and Latts saved the beaten Embo and Sugi by covering their escape with smoke grenades . The group of mercenaries fled the Death Watch and their Sith allies . The swoop accident . At some point prior to 3 ABY , Dengar , having mastered the professional swoop circuit on Corellia , was called to the private tour , where more dangerous challenges awaited him . He was constantly compared to a young swoop jockey on the private circuit named Han Solo . Eager to prove his superiority , Dengar challenged Solo to a winner - takes - all race through the crystal swamps of Agrilat . On the final stretch of the race , Solo brought his swoop down directly over and in front of Dengar , burning his face in the swoop ' s exhaust and locking the repulsor fins of both swoops . The maneuver sent Dengar flying off of his swoop to crash headfirst into crystalline plants . One crystalline stem directly impaled his brain , leaving him in a condition so perilous that only the Empire ' s doctors had the ability to repair him to a near - natural state . Dengar was kicked out of professional swoop racing for engaging in the illegal race and was abandoned by his friends on the Ferini team . Part of the Agrilat Swamp Racing Circuit eventually became known as " Dengar ' s End " , in honor of his accident . With his life in ruins , Dengar became viciously embittered with Solo , upon whom he vowed his vengeance . As it was , to save his life , Dengar was forced to become part cyborg through Imperial experimentation . The parts of his brain controlling his senses of compassion , mercy , and pity were removed , leaving him an emotionless killer . He was only left with rage , hope and , accidentally , loneliness , the only emotions the Imperial doctors decided he would need to fulfill his new duties as an assassin . Particularly , the doctors allowed him to feel hope at the empty promise that if Dengar was successful in serving the Empire , he would be returned to his old self . He was also fitted with a number of cybernetic implants , such as new , more powerfully - enhanced eyes and ears , and a drug - induced flawless memory , which left him susceptible to hallucinations . His hypothalamus gland was cut out and replaced with a central computer module to control his new systems . The Ferini team had scattered after his accident and eventually joined up with another swoop gang on Tatooine . Dengar wanted his revenge , but he was still property of the Empire and could not do the job himself . In 1 ABY , he hired a tough and well - armed individual to take out his old crew . He briefly worked as a gladiator on the planet Loovria , before the Empire employed him as an assassin , a task Dengar carried out ruthlessly and without question until after he was ordered to kill the Holy Children of Asrat . These children denounced the Emperor and declared their official desire to leave the Empire . Faced with killing children or deserting the Empire , Dengar chose to leave . Despite no longer being able to feel the difference between good and evil , he still recognized the disparity when he saw it . The Empire posted a bounty for his desertion . Return to bounty hunting . Lethal assassin . Sometime after his desertion from Imperial service , Dengar became a bounty hunter again after learning of a price on Han Solo ' s head . Drawing from his vast Imperial assassin experience , he quickly came into the service of Jabba the Hutt despite a debatable record at best . Of the twenty - three bounties he ' d collected , only six were taken alive . During the Galactic Civil War , he encountered Solo a number of times . Once , just before the Battle of Yavin , while searching for the Yavin Vassilika , and then twice in the year before the Battle of Hoth : once on Tatooine , when Solo attempted to reunite Jabba the Hutt with his nephew Grubba , and then again while teamed up with Boba Fett , Skorr , and Bossk in a showdown with Solo , Luke Skywalker , and the pirate Raskar on Ord Mantell . Still , Dengar was never able to capture Solo ; it seemed as if Solo always got the best of him and was always one step ahead of him . Dengar often remarked to himself that all he ever saw of Solo was the aft of the " Millennium Falcon " as it was flying away from him . His career as a bounty hunter and assassin even saw him targeting Imperials , specifically officers of COMPNOR ' s Redesign efforts . Dengar believed that COMPNOR was the most evil branch of the Empire . This included COMPNOR General Sinick Kritkeen on the planet Aruza . During this mission , the Aruzan s paid him a small bounty to assassinate Kritkeen in the hopes that the Empire would abandon their Redesign efforts of Aruza . There , Dengar saved an Aruzan woman named Manaroo , who would soon become an integral part of his life . At some point , he also contacted a spacer to deliver a " message " to pirate captain Nym on Lok . Following the battle of Talus , Dengar was one of many bounty hunters involved in capturing Emperor ' s Most Wanted , individuals from a list of high - paid bounties on critical Rebel Alliance leaders . Dengar had scored a big bounty on Tatooine , and then traveled to Naboo to hand it over to the Empire . From Moenia , he made his way to the Imperial outpost at Dee ' ja Peak , where he engaged in a conversation with several sneaky - looking individuals . In the midst of the conversation , they were interrupted by an arrival of several individuals in a landspeeder . They explained that they worked for Borvo the Hutt , who , reportedly , had a job for Dengar . However , Dengar was suspicious , and the individuals revealed themselves to be in fact Rebel agents looking for the location of the captured Rebel leaders . With uncanny speed , Dengar drew his blasters and started the firefight , his associates joined him immediately . However , while the Corellian bounty hunter put up a strong defense , his companions were all killed , forcing Dengar to surrender . He explained that he handed over the bounty to Imperial authorities at the outpost in Dee ' ja Peak , but did not know the location where the prisoners were being held . When pressed , he added that , according to rumors , Snoova had recently delivered a bounty to the same outpost as well . The Rebels went in pursuit of the trail , while handing Dengar over to the Rebel authorities for questioning . On the planet Toola , Dengar was recruited by an unnamed woman to join the Rebel Alliance , who had taken notice of his targeting of Imperial officials . The woman secretly programmed the coordinates for an unnamed star on the farthest rim of the galaxy into his ship ' s navicomputer , where he found a hidden Rebel outpost . There , he was examined by military intelligence officers and accepted assignment to a newly - formed outpost on the planet Hoth . However , his true intention for joining the Rebellion was that he knew wherever the Rebellion was would be where he would find Han Solo . The hunt for Solo . Unfortunately for Dengar , he exited hyperspace into the Hoth system in the midst of the Rebel evacuation of the planet . Despite the presence of a Super Star Destroyer and a massive Imperial fleet before him , he recklessly tried to reach the planet ' s surface in hopes of finding Solo . His ruse of posing as an Imperial scout failed when , riding in the wake of a squadron of TIE Fighters , Dengar ' s ship was hit with an ion blast from the planet ' s surface . Drifting helplessly through space , his ship was tractored in by the " Executor " . His ship was boarded , Dengar was captured and , the Empire quickly realizing his identity , was imprisoned . Aboard the " Executor " , Darth Vader offered him a reprieve of his death warrant , allowing him the freedom to hunt down Solo and the " Millennium Falcon " . Disgusted with the fleet ' s inability to capture the fugitive ship , Vader then recruited Dengar and five other bounty hunters to bring him the passengers of the " Falcon " , possibly believing Luke Skywalker was one of them . By this time , his bounty hunting record was still unimpressive . He had yet to claim one remarkable bounty . While searching for Solo in the Hoth asteroid field , the engines of the " Punishing One " were crippled by a bomb placed by Boba Fett , who may have heard of Dengar ' s death warrant , only to leave Dengar helplessly watching the " Millennium Falcon " slowly limp out of the system followed closely by the " Slave I " . He managed to repair his craft and followed Solo ' s particle vapor trail to Bespin ' s Cloud City , where he arrived a few days later , again , to see the " Slave I " leaving the city with the carbonite frozen Han Solo on board . However , it was on Cloud City that Dengar was reunited with Manaroo , where he saved her and several other dancers , for a time , from the Imperial subjugation of the city . The woman would soon become a permanent part of his life . With Manaroo accompanying him away from Cloud City , the Aruzan woman , pitying Dengar ' s near - emotionless state , tried to share her own feelings with him through her " Attanni " , an Aruzan custom in which two people shared emotions cybernetically . Dengar was able to feel what it was to be Human again , feeling what she felt and seeing what she saw . It was from this emotional experience that Dengar was finally able to work with the Rebel Alliance by assisting in the evacuation of the Aruzans from their world , freeing them of their Imperial tormentors . Dengar ' s primary interest in the matter was to free Manaroo ' s parents . Sometime during 3 ABY , a contract had Dengar teaming up with fellow bounty - hunters 4 - LOM , IG - 88 , Bossk , and Zuckuss on a mission for Domina Tagge to steal a sacred gem from a temple in the Red Nebula . Soon after , Dengar had a run in with Princess Leia who was searching for information about the location of Solo . After an unsuccessful bounty hunt for the Mandalorian Fenn Shysa , Dengar was imprisoned and to be handed over to the Empire . Promising Leia that he would reveal everything he knew , she distracted Shysa while C - 3PO cut Dengar free . However , Dengar double - crossed the pair , and secretly informed the Empire of Leia ' s location . The planet was then seized . With Dengar ' s assistance , the Empire overrun the planet of Mandalore . Dengar was however , recaptured by Shysa and Leia , and forced to reveal a possible hideout for Boba Fett and therefore Han Solo . On the planet Blimph 3 , Dengar and other bounty hunters 4 - LOM and Bossk competed in a bounty for Lando Calrissian staged by Quaffug the Hutt . Dengar failed in this hunt . Eventually , Dengar and Manaroo traveled to Tatooine , where he knew Boba Fett would eventually deliver the carbonite frozen Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt . He soon learned that Solo was indeed alive and being held in Jabba ' s Palace . There , Dengar finally caught up with Solo , clutching the carbonite slab and laughing in the face of his old nemesis . However , in his absence , Manaroo was captured by Jabba ' s cronies and taken to his palace to work as one of the crime lord ' s many dancers . In a bid to rescue her , Dengar returned to Jabba ' s Palace , knowing he would have to kill the Hutt to save Manaroo . He witnessed Jabba ' s ruthlessness when killing Oola , his Twi ' lek dancer . Quickly , he formulated a plot with few other members of Jabba ' s entourage , which Jabba himself soon discovered . The Hutt tasked Boba Fett with personally taking care of Dengar , with the stipulation that he died a painful death by way of the Teeth of Tatooine in the Valley of the Winds . The night before Jabba was to execute Luke Skywalker , Han Solo , and Chewbacca at the Great Pit of Carkoon , Fett drugged Dengar and left him at the mercy of Tatooine ' s elements . Surprisingly , for the second time , Boba Fett had done Dengar a favor , so to speak . Although he left Dengar to die , he allowed him to remain with his armor strapped on , which effectively saved him from the brutally harsh winds until he was saved by Manaroo . Dengar realized that for the second time , Fett refrained from killing him , the first being when he merely disabled the " Punishing One " near the Hoth asteroid field instead of destroying it and Dengar outright . Still , he vowed to make Fett pay . Life after 4 ABY . After being rescued by Manaroo , the two agreed to be married . Dengar recovered from his wounds after several weeks in Mos Eisley , racking up enormous medical bills . It was then that he realized that few people were aware that Jabba had died at the Pit of Carkoon . He traveled with Manaroo to the site of the Hutt ' s death hoping to salvage valuable goods , only to find a badly burned and scarred man on the brink of death , who had apparently killed the Sarlacc . He discovered that this broken man was Boba Fett , having survived from being swallowed by the Sarlacc . With Dengar ' s newly found compassion , sourced from Manaroo ' s Attanni device , he nursed Fett back to health . The infamous Fett even served as Dengar ' s best man during his wedding to Manaroo . This unlikely partnership then led Fett and Dengar on a mission to foil what was believed to be Prince Xizor ' s complicated plan to destroy the Bounty Hunters ' Guild . To achieve this the pair had to kidnap the powerful Kuat of Kuat , the leader of Kuat Drive Yards . In 5 ABY , Dengar tracked the pirate Nosstrick to the planet Fluwhaka for a bounty posted by the New Republic . However Jodo Kast , whom Dengar believed to be the feared Boba Fett , had arrived first . Dengar entered to see Kast dangling from a spiked pit . Dengar blasted the computer controls to the trapdoor that dropped into the pit , saving Kast ' s life . Kast responded by pointing a blaster at Dengar and taking the bounty for himself . Realizing that Boba Fett wouldn ' t have made nearly as many mistakes or threatened to shoot the man that saved his life , Dengar contacted Fett , making him aware of Kast ' s posturing . Dengar accompanied Fett to Paqualis III where Fett disguised himself as " Sava Brec Madak " and approached the House Benelex bounty hunters ' guild to hire Kast . According to " Madak , " a man called Satnik Hiicrop had stolen his name and reputation ; Hiicrop , " Madak " said , could be found in a clan keep on Nal Hutta , and he wanted Kast to bring him in . Dengar proceeded to help Fett lay traps for Kast in the ruined clan keep , and was present when he was killed . Their partnership continued until 10 ABY , when the cloned Emperor Palpatine returned . The pair ' s final , failed attempts to recapture the elusive Solo on Nar Shaddaa and Byss led Dengar to proclaim that he would never work with Fett again . Retirement . After his partnership with Fett , Dengar settled down to married life with Manaroo . However , he resurfaced from time to time for unknown reasons . In 9 ABY , Mara Jade was taken prisoner for a short time by a bounty hunter . She later escaped from him and found an ID card that read " Dengar Roth " . However , the card was forged and carried by a man named Gunner Groth , who used the phony ID to better scare his targets and negotiate higher bounties with the Empire . In 11 ABY Dengar free - lanced for Grappa the Hutt , who was paying large sums for bounty hunters . After Grappa ' s organization began to unravel , Dengar fled , but was captured by the Black Sun , which Grappa had offended . However , after revealing all he knew of Grappa ' s organization , Black Sun let Dengar go unharmed , and he swore never again to work for a Hutt . Over a decade later in 24 ABY , Dengar joined the quest for Bornan Thul during the Diversity Alliance ' s reign . This brought Dengar face - to - face with Jacen and Jaina Solo , the children of his former enemy . Personality and traits . Early in his life , Dengar was a crude and slovenly bounty hunter with a proven track record , priding himself on firepower and destruction . Though scruffy - looking and battered , he would frequently make passes at women that caught his eye . Despite some perceiving him as obnoxious , a young Boba Fett enjoyed working with him and held him in high regard . His mind would take a sharp turn following his swoop accident and the bio - implants the Empire used to save his life . Dengar became a person devoid of all caring emotions . His new cybernetics transformed his damaged biological brain into that of an emotionless and remorseless killer . Dengar continually displayed a serious demeanor and would only kill a person professionally , not for amusement . Dengar strongly believed Han Solo was responsible for how he was , and right before any assassination , he would attempt to visualize his target as Han Solo , his need for revenge enhancing his desire to kill . During much of his career , he was considered more ruthless than Boba Fett himself , and usually performed assassinations rather than live captures . Nevertheless , traces of self - recrimination and foggy memories of his past plagued his thoughts , resulting in deep self - loathing and despair . After he met and married Manaroo however , his emotions were restored , thanks to the Aruzan Attanni device and Manaroo ' s will to change him . Following her wishes , Dengar , who no longer needed his cybernetics , had them removed . After the removal process , he was still a man of formidable strength and speed , and possessed acute senses . Even when he re - received his emotions , only a small portion of his former self resurfaced and he was still regarded as a cold man by all , save for Manaroo . Equipment . Armor . Dengar ' s worn and faded body armor was a conglomeration of various Imperial armor components which served as an ever - present reminder of his Imperial past . The chest plate and undersuit were from a snowtrooper , while the shoulder bells , gauntlets , midsection , codpiece , kneepads , and thighs were standard sandtrooper armor , which was a slight variant of stormtrooper armor , with Dengar wearing two kneepads instead of the usual one . His facial wrappings , used in his younger days as a fashionable turban , later helped to cover and hide his cybernetic implants and scar tissue . During an assassination , he would often cover his mouth and nose , hiding his identity and adding to his intimidating demeanor . Weaponry . Dengar carried with him an impressive array of weaponry . His weapon of choice was the Valken - 38 blaster rifle , a sniper rifle that he used to kill or wound his prey from a long distance . He also possessed one DL - 21 blaster pistol , concussion grenades , and a vibroblade . He was proficient , and in some cases overly enthusiastic , about using grenades and other explosives to complete a bounty . Vehicle . Dengar ' s personal flagship was the " Punishing One " . Initially a JumpMaster 5000 scout ship , Dengar had it heavily modified with greatly improved sublight engines , and an array of weaponry including a mini - ion cannon , proton torpedos and an R2 unit controlled , quad - blaster cannon system . Behind the scenes . The character ' s depiction in " " by Dave Wolverton was inspired by the author ' s time as a prison security guard during college , capturing the air of " inner deadness " that incarcerated killers possessed . Portrayal . Dengar was played by British actor Morris Bush in . He briefly appears in , although it was unknown if it was still Bush in the role until Jeremy Bulloch confirmed it in the Celebration Europe II panel , The Fett - Tastic Four . He is played by voice - actor Joe Hacker in the audio adaption of " Dark Empire " . In the Star Wars series , his armor consists of bits of sandtrooper and snowtrooper armor , that were repainted from their original white . This was to point to his Imperial past . Simon Pegg voiced Dengar in " Bounty " , an episode of the of " " , which causes him to speak with a British accent . In pre - production still photographs from , Dengar is pictured holding a modified WWII - era German machine gun ( the basis for both the W - 90 concussion rifle and BlasTech DLT - 19 ) . In the film , though , that weapon was held by bounty hunter droid 4 - LOM , and Dengar was armed with a modified German ( as seen in the main profile image above ) . Other Appearances . Dengar was slated to appear in the comic " " , a prequel series to " " , however the comic was canceled . There is an easter egg in " " that features a rendition of the bounty hunter scene from Empire Strikes Back . Dengar is featured in this , along with all the other bounty hunters featured in the scene with Darth Vader .