Gorm ( cyborg ) Gorm , also known as Gorm the Dissolver , was a cyborg assembled by the Renegades of the Arkanian Revolution . One of the few beings to survive the Arkanian battlefield , Gorm went on to a long and tumultuous career as a bounty hunter , surviving multiple encounters with the Jedi Knights — including one particularly brutal fight with Mace Windu himself . Biography . In a galaxy filled with strange life forms , Gorm the Dissolver was undoubtedly one of the stranger ones . Standing a full two - and - a - half meters tall , he was designed to be the ultimate warrior , yet his war would soon leave him behind . Origins . Fifty years before the Battle of Yavin , a vicious civil war broke out on Arkania . Widely known for their brilliant — though sometimes morally questionable — scientific work , Arkanian geneticists began a program of implanting cybernetics in the Yaka , a species from a neighboring system , in order to bring them up to what the Arkanians deemed a more appropriate level of intelligence . While sanctioned by Arkania ' s Dominion government and ignored by the Galactic Republic , the program was strongly opposed by many of Arkania ' s more conservative scientists . Ultimately , these opponents launched a coup against the Dominion , constructing what was meant to be an unbeatable army to bring down the planet ' s government . Though the Dominion proved to be no match for the Arkanian Renegades ' ruthless cyborgs , the Arkanian Revolution , as it became known , would end in utter failure . Not only did the Republic quickly send an intervention force — including a young Mace Windu — to aid the Dominion , but the rebellious Jedi Master Aqinos soon joined in on the fighting with his controversial cadre of Iron Knight s in tow . The Renegades were crushed swiftly and with little fanfare , but some of their fantastic creations would survive the fighting and disperse throughout the galaxy . One of them , perhaps the most fearsome , was known as Gorm . Exploits . The brutal fighting on Arkania behind him , Gorm elected to pursue a career as a bounty hunter . In seemingly no time at all , his name became synonymous with doom amongst those he might someday be employed to hunt down . Rumors connecting him to the indefatigable army of cyborg Arkanian warriors only served to heighten his menace . Gorm ' s most legendary battles , however , still lay ahead . One of Gorm ' s earliest targets was a Trandoshan criminal known as Vultar the Ugly , who had a bounty placed on him after inciting a bloody power struggle among his local underworld . How Vultar met his end was unknown ; suffice it to say that one of Gorm ' s most conspicuous modifications to his original form was the addition of a battered left arm of Trandoshan origin . It was unclear whether the recycler appendage that earned Gorm his moniker " The Dissolver " was present from the beginning , or added voluntarily later on , but what was known for certain was that Gorm developed a fondness for quickly reducing many of his early targets to their constituent molecules , and he became all the more feared for it . Also unclear were the exact circumstances surrounding his loss of the appendage , though a team of Jedi including Mace Windu — whom Gorm had fought against in the Revolution years before — was known to be involved . By then , however , the sobriquet Gorm the Dissolver had stuck . In 39 BBY , eleven years into Gorm ' s career , he joined a group of bounty hunters arranged by Magus to assassinate a group of twenty prominent leaders , all political enemies of Corporate Alliance Magistrate Passel Argente . The job was a disaster . A boy named Talesan Fry caught wind of their plans and the group was forced to divert their attention to his apprehension , and by the time they had Fry in their hands , two Jedi Knights — Qui - Gon Jinn and Adi Gallia — and their Padawans were on their trail . Magus ' s team planned to hit the leaders during a conference on Rondai - 2 , but the Jedi forced them into open confrontation . Two of the hunters were killed , and only Magus himself would escape the battle entirely . Gorm was taken into custody for a time , but eventually he found his way to freedom and continued his work . As the Republic crumbled and the Empire rose in its place , Gorm continued to work actively , though few details of this time period ever came to light . Not until shortly before Yavin did he resurface , this time on Nar Shaddaa , where he ran afoul of a young Greedo while attempting to collect a debt from Spurch Goa and Dyyz Nataz . Looking to insinuate himself into the local bounty hunter circles , Greedo took it upon himself to interrupt the argument — which had by then turned violent — by shooting Gorm in the back of the head , taking him out of the fight . Though he was soon back in working order , Gorm could arguably be counted as Greedo ' s first , and last , kill . After regaining function , Gorm headed to Tatooine , possibly in pursuit of Nataz and Goa , but was sidelined by Jabba Desilijic Tiure , who offered him the most valuable contract he had running at the time : fifty thousand credits for another bounty hunter named Zardra . Zardra had been a victim of simple bad luck ; while trying to collect a bounty herself , she had been forced to kill a Hutt named Mageye , and had thus incurred Jabba ' s ire . It appeared that Gorm was unable to apprehend Zardra , however , because she soon resurfaced in pursuit of ex - Republic officer Adar Tallon . No one could say what became of Gorm after his hunt for Zardra , but few doubted that a being as resourceful as him would continue to live — if , indeed , he could be said to have ever lived — for years to come . Composition . Gorm ' s makeup included parts from no less than six biological species , and seven generations of droids and machines , but what no one could say was which form he ' d started life as . An ancient Ithullan infantry helmet concealed whatever form his head may have taken ; the only clues to what lay beneath were two glowing red photoreceptor eyes . Perhaps Gorm ' s most perplexing aspect , however , was his personality . While few of the beings he came into contact with lived long enough to tell of his character , Gorm was in actuality a coarse and boisterous being , even known to laugh callously at his prey before ending their lives . While loutish droids were not without precedent , this seemed to indicate that Gorm possessed the mind , at least , of a biological . For the most part , however , it was a rare individual who could conclusively identify a piece of Gorm . What few components were known are as follows : Mechanical . Also worth noting were a set of calcified tentacles that bridged the gap between Gorm ' s Trandoshan limb and his left shoulder . Evidence suggested that the tentacles were in fact biological in nature , but their origin was a mystery . All in all , Gorm ' s creators were nothing if not creative . After losing the aforementioned recycling droid arm in combat early in his career , Gorm soon reappeared with a more standard mechanical arm as a replacement , confirming suspicions that he was capable of repairing and upgrading himself autonomously . It was said that the only way to kill him was , fittingly , to dissolve him .