Razor Eater Razor Eaters were a type of bipedal assassin droid designed by criminal droid engineer Hurlo Holowan . Among the fiercest killing machines ever invented , they stood 2 . 25 meters tall and their two claw - tipped durasteel arms were capable of punching holes through armored hulls . They also possessed a wide jutting jaw lined with jagged , razor - sharp teeth . Their photoreceptors were red , which dimmed to a dull black when the droids were deactivated . History . Rigorra ' s Razor Eater . While working on Balmorra in 31 BBY , bounty hunter Jango Fett was nearly killed by a Razor Eater , which inflicted him with lingering scars and memories . Fett had tracked a wanted spice dealer to the planet , and a race through the capital ended just outside Rigorra the Hutt ' s castle , where Fett shot and killed the spice dealer . Alerted by the exchange of fire , the Hutt ' s security guard s deployed one of Rigorra ' s recently acquired droids — an assassin droid purchased from Holowan . The droid , which Jango later learned was a Razor Eater , nearly took off his head , but he managed to cripple it sufficiently to make it back to " Slave I , " setting his ship to autopilot towards Wild Space and his residence at Kamino before passing out . Holowan had tried to sell more than one Razor Eater to Rigorra , but the Hutt never saw any need to own more than one , especially since he knew it was stronger than the slightly inferior models that his brother Groodo had purchased for his own fortress on Esseles . And unlike the other Razor Eaters , Rigorra ' s was equipped with a vocabulator . Fett ' s recovery time of three months on Kamino certainly wasn ' t worth the bounty he ' d collected on the spice dealer , but the knowledge and experience he gained from his traumatic encounter with the deadly droid " was " : for he ' d discovered , through his vicious tangle with it , the Razor Eater ' s weak spots . Groodo ' s Razor Eaters . In 23 BBY , Fett again encountered a Razor Eater in the mammoth enclosed hangar of Groodo Starship Yards , which orbited the planet Esseles ( where was fabricated the replica of the ancient colonial transport , the " Sun Runner " ) . He incapacitated the droid by seizing the controls of the hangar ' s tractor beam projector and trapping the automaton mid - air within the projected force field , where he left it suspended . Groodo the Hutt ' s palatial compound on Esseles was also patrolled and defended by a squadron of four Razor Eaters , which Fett was forced to contend with in his Darth Tyranus - commissioned search of the Hutt and his accomplices , Holowan and Senator Rodd of Fondor . One of the droids at the compound ( named " Sparky " ) Fett eliminated using an antique music player called an Audiobulb , the battery of which was highly combustible ; two were deactivated by Fett ' s pulling of a remote - control switch ; and the final droid ceased functioning by a voice - command from Groodo ' s son Boonda : " " Night - night , Metal - mouth ! " " In the encounter with Groodo ' s Razor Eaters , Fett captured Senator Rodd . Hurlo ' s Razor Eater . Bounty hunter Zam Wesell also encountered one of Holowan ' s Razor Eaters at the droid engineer ' s own laboratory in the House of Holowan in Kuat City . Confronted by Wesell , whom Jango Fett had subcontracted to bring Hurlo in alive at the request of Darth Tyranus , Holowan activated a hidden switch that caused a Razor Eater to ascend from an exposed pit . " " You need a dentist ! " " Zam taunted . The droid attacked Wesell , but the Clawdite quickly responded . She fired at its photoreceptors to blind it , then jumped at the droid , knocking it off balance . The Razor Eater fell back into the pit and was crushed by the closing floor - hatch door . After Hurlo hurled one last expletive and desperate trick at Zam — unleashing a monstrous , genetically altered felinx that retreated to its cage when Wesell stunned its jaw and hind leg with her KYD - 21 blaster pistol — the bounty hunter clamped Holowan with binder s and hauled her away to rendezvous with Fett at Commenor to collect her bounty . The return of Rigorra ' s Razor Eater . For the second time in his life , Fett would again encounter a Razor Eater on Balmorra , at the castle of Groodo ' s brother , Rigorra . Simply anticipating yet another confrontation with Holowan ' s twisted creation where he ' d first encountered it caused the bounty hunter ' s stomach to tighten . But the nervous feeling Fett quickly dismissed as being foolish , for since his first run - in with a Razor Eater , he ' d battled many others and defeated them without even getting scraped . And while Jango realized he might have benefited by fellow hunter Zam Wesell ' s offer to accompany him to Balmorra , he was determined " for too many reasons " to capture Groodo on his own . But Fett ' s initial foreboding did not prove unfounded , for the Razor Eater he later encountered was the very same Razor Eater he ' d confronted originally eight years before . Rigorra ' s prized Razor Eater , despite being hit by Jango ' s well - placed blaster shots to the knees and torso , was nonplussed , as the energy bolts merely ricocheted away . Gnashing its metal teeth , the hulking droid lurched toward Jango , who was about to aim for its neck when fellow hunter Aurra Sing appeared and fired her Czerka Adventurer slugthrower rifle at the droid . The projectile sailed under Fett , passing between his legs , before it struck the Razor Eater square in the chest and detonated . The Razor Eater ' s entire body exploded to bits . Boba and Razor Eaters . Fett had allowed his clone - son Boba to join him on previous hunts , but those had been minor jobs . The hunt for Groodo and his accomplices was one in which Jango had hoped to teach Boba how to fight and survive . And with the distinct possibility of running into more Razor Eaters , though he instinctively wished to protect his son , Jango knew that Boba would definitely learn from seeing a Razor Eater in action . He also knew that Boba was as resourceful as he was brave , and " there wasn ' t anyone he trusted more : if Jango ever needed help , he ' d want it from Boba . " But in the end , the younger Fett ' s encounter with a Razor Eater would never happen , for Jango was forced to return the boy back to Kamino when he came into contact with the Trandoshan hunter Cradossk , whose acute olfactory sense affiliated Boba ' s " scent " with Jango . " Boba was the most important thing in the galaxy to Jango , and the last thing Jango wanted was for word to leak out that the notorious bounty hunter Jango Fett had a son " . Fett would not further endanger his son by the allure that ransom ( or being able to get to Jango by hurting or killing Boba ) held with those of the Bounty Hunters ' Guild . To further throw Cradossk off the " scent " of his son , Jango commissioned the cloner s of Kamino to create a non - living replica or decoy - clone of Boba , a brainless gene tic construct , to make it appear that he was no longer alive and to dissuade the Bounty Hunters ' Guild from any further inquiry or pursuit of Boba . After Groodo , Holowan , and Rodd were delivered alive to Darth Tyranus on Geonosis , Jango continued on to Trandosha to deliver the bound and unconscious bounty hunters Bossk and Skorr to Cradossk . And while the head of the Guild , taking advantage of the situation , again sought to seduce Fett to become a member , Jango once again refused . Fett feigned to entertain , however , Cradossk ' s outrageous proposition that Jango take on the Trandoshan ' s son Bossk as an apprentice ; this Jango agreed to do if Cradossk , likewise , would take on as an apprentice his own son Boba . Both agreed , and in accord with the exchange , Jango went back to his ship to retrieve a long plastoid box that he ' d acquired when he took Boba back to Kamino . Peering into the coffin - like container , Cradossk , to his consternation , beheld the lifeless body of what appeared to be Jango ' s son . When he asked Fett " why " , the bounty hunter explained that the boy had disobeyed an order on Esseles . Jango then asked Craddosk if he was still committed to an exchange . Cradossk ' s carefully reconsidered response was that he would have to " think about it . " Turning away , Fett began to walk back to his ship , when the Trandoshan , in alarm , protested that Jango had left Boba ' s body - filled coffin behind : " Keep it , " Jango replied , without looking back . Because it was blindingly apparent to Jango that Craddosk genuinely believed that Boba was dead , Fett knew his son would thereafter be safe from the Bounty Hunters ' Guild . Satisfied with the outcome of his somewhat dramatic , yet superbly protective measure , Jango returned back to Kamino . . . and to his son .