Bala - Tik Bala - Tik was a human male who worked as a negotiator for the Guavian Death Gang . He handled a deal with the famed smuggler Han Solo by paying for Solo to haul rathtar s , a deal that Solo also made with Kanjiklub . Biography . Associate of Solo . The human male Bala - Tik served the criminal Guavian Death Gang as a leader and frontman during the reign of the New Republic . During his time with the gang , he encountered the smuggler Han Solo and managed to shake several profitable leads out of him , although Solo let the Guavians down at least once . The smuggler eventually took out a loan of fifty thousand credit s from the gang in order to hunt rathtar s for King Prana ; however , he failed to pay it back within a timely manner and the leaders of the gang soon became tired of his delays and excuses . Less than a year before the First Order ' s attack on the village of Tuanul in 34 ABY , Bala - Tik was on the planet Kaddak on the forty - fifth level of the city known as the Sliver with three Guavian security soldier s . While in the Sliver , the Guavians were approached by four members of Kanjiklub , a criminal group with whom the gang were often in conflict . Kanjiklub ' s leader , Tasu Leech , had overheard the protocol droid C - 3PO mention that Solo had borrowed money from the Guavian Death Gang , and revealed to Bala - Tik that the smuggler had also borrowed fifty thousand credits from Kanjiklub to hunt rathar . The two groups of criminals found common ground in their hatred of Solo and agreed to confront him together over his debts , with Leech and Bala - Tik shaking hands on the agreement . Debt collector . In 34 ABY , Bala - Tik and a group of security soldiers caught up with Solo while he was hunting on the planet Nantoon and then followed him in a nonmilitary transport when he left the world in his " Baleen " - class heavy freighter " Eravana " . Solo , who was unaware of the criminals pursuing him , traveled to the Western Reaches in order to locate his old YT - 1300 light freighter the " Millennium Falcon " . The " Eravana " stopped in the Jakku system , where a tracker onboard the " Falcon " had signalled from , and managed to pick up the freighter . Shortly after the " Falcon " was pulled onboard the " Eravana " , Bala - Tik and the Guavians revealed themselves by docking with Solo ' s freighter . Bala - Tik and a five - man team of security soldiers disembarked their ship and began marching through the ship until they found Solo and his co - pilot Chewbacca in one of the " Eravana ' s " corridors . The frontman demanded Solo repay them their money , also revealing that he knew about the loan from Kanjklub . The smuggler claimed Kanjiklub were lying , to which Bala - Tik responded that Solo could tell that to the group himself . Five members of Kanjiklub then revealed themselves in the corridor behind Solo , led by Leech . The smuggler promised both groups that he would deliver what he owed them , but Bala - Tik and Leech were unimpressed due to his previous work for them . Runaway rathtars . Bala - Tik then noticed the BB - series astromech droid BB - 8 , who was hiding between Solo and Chewbacca . Remembering that the group known as the First Order was searching for a similar BB unit and two fugitives , Bala - Tik pointed out BB - 8 , causing Kanjiklub to start searching the ship for the fugitives . Before Bala - Tik could make a move for the droid , the three rathtars that Solo had caught on Nantoon were set free by Rey and Finn , the two fugitives that Bala - Tik had mentioned who had been on the " Falcon " when Solo found it . Hearing the rathtars roar , Bala - Tik ordered his men to kill Solo and Chewbacca and grab BB - 8 ; however , one of the rathtars attacked his team from behind before they could open fire and grabbed two of the soldiers . Bala - Tik and his remaining men fled forward toward Solo and then down a corridor to their left while the rathtar killed the pair it had grabbed . Kanjiklub were also attacked by a rathtar and forced to flee , allowing Solo and his companions to escape . Bala - Tik managed to regroup with one member of his gang in one of the ship ' s corridors to take account of their loses , although as he spoke the frontman witnessed a third member of his gang being killed by a rathtar and was forced to flee while firing ineffectually at the beast . Solo managed to reach the " Falcon " with Chewbacca , BB - 8 , Finn and Rey and then escape onboard it , killing one of the rathtars in the process . Bala - Tik witnessed the " Falcon " depart through one of the " Eravana ' s " hangar doors and then gave orders via comlink that his men should contact the First Order and warn them that Solo had the droid . Personality and traits . Bala - Tik stood 1 . 8 meter s tall and had fair skin , brown eye s and brown hair . He spoke with a harsher form of the clipped accent commonly found in the galactic Core Worlds . He had a cybernetic left leg , which he concealed . Bala - Tik frequently used Solo and Chewbacca as sources of information , a relationship that he valued for the Death Gang despite growing increasingly impatient with the Corellian smuggler ' s schemes . He knew enough about Solo to bring several guards with him aboard the " Eravana " , believing Solo to be foolish enough to start a blaster fight near a ship ' s airlock . Bala - Tik was a confident and experienced individual , not one to waste time on false pleasantries . When he met Solo on the " Falcon " , he was bursting with barely controlled anger and spoke in clipped tones . Equipment . Like all Guavians , Bala - Tik carried the latest in black market weapons technology . This included a percussive cannon manufactured by Tostovin Munitions , which fired particularly explosive blaster bolts . He wore a black gorraslug - leather long coat with armor ed lining , a pair of black sparadillo armored boot s and a pair of ribbed black pants that concealed his cybernetic right leg . Behind the scenes . Bala - Tik was portrayed by Scottish actor Brian Vernel in the 2015 film . The of the film written by Alan Dean Foster contains notable differences to the film in terms of Bala - Tik ' s dialogue , with most of his lines being extended . During his initial interaction with Solo , the smuggler suggests that the Guavians accompanying him in bringing the rathtars to Prana so that they can claim the reward together , but Bala - Tik rejects the idea as he believes Solo will try and escape . As these scenes contradict the amount of dialogue shown in the film , this article assumes them to be non - canon . LEGO appearances . Bala - Tik also appeared in two episodes of the non - canon series of video shorts " " voiced by James Arnold Taylor . In the episode " Hunting for Han " , Bala - Tik brings a pair of musical instrument s to the castle of Maz Kanata , which Kanata had hired him to locate . The frontman then demands that in exchange for the instruments , Kanata must tell him where Han Solo is so that he can track him down to reclaim his debt . As the pair discuss Solo ' s debt , Tasu Leech and several Kanjiklub members enter the castle enter the castle also demanding to know where Solo is . Leech , Bala - Tik and several other patrons of the castle argue over who has the greatest claim to vengeance on Solo which quickly turns into a full on brawl . Kanata then ends the fighting by using a lightsaber to partially collapse part of the castle ' s roof on the fighters . To prevent further fighting , Solo ' s old friend Lando Calrissian directed the fighters to Jakku to search for Solo . Bala - Tik quickly leaves with the other patrons , forgetting to collect the instruments he had brought Kanata . In the following episode , " Rey Strikes Back " , Bala - Tik and his comrades arrive on Jakku onboard a Resistance transport and immediately spot the " Millennium Falcon " . The group races toward it , but are run down by Rey ' s speeder before they can reach it . bala - tik is introduced as an official lego minifigure along with the guavian death gang in the set " rathar escape "