Skorr Skorr was a cybernetically - enhanced Humanoid bounty hunter active during the waning days of the Old Republic and the early reign of the Galactic Empire . A member of the Bounty Hunters ' Guild during the Separatist Crisis , after 19 BBY Skorr worked almost exclusively on Ord Mantell . He had a particular loathing for an agent named Kestrel , who had encroached on his territory , though on several occasions he narrowly missed out on capturing her . Several months after the Battle of Yavin , Skorr and his diminutive associate , Gribbet , kidnapped Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa in the hopes of luring Han Solo to their safehouse in the Ord Mantell outback so that they could cash in on Solo ' s hefty bounty with Jabba Desilijic Tiure . Solo was able to rescue his companions , however , and in the ensuing dogfight , Skorr was captured by Imperial forces and sentenced to the Spice Mines of Kessel for inadvertently distracting the Imperials and allowing Solo to flee . Skorr escaped and swore to enact his revenge on Solo ; some time later , he teamed up with several other bounty hunters and kidnapped Solo on the planet Hoth . The bounty hunters were due to hand Solo over to Boba Fett , who would present him to Jabba , but when Skorr learned that Fett was working with the hated Empire , he decided he would rather see the Corellian dead than in Imperial hands . Skorr confronted Solo and his companions as they attempted to escape their cells , though Solo was able to wrestle him to the ground ; in the ensuing struggle , Skorr accidentally turned the weapon on himself , and died . Biography . Bounty hunter . A pointy - eared , yellow - skinned , Humanoid male , Skorr had become a notorious bounty hunter by the time of the Separatist Crisis . At some point in his life , he had an accident that made the left side of his face so scarred that he had to wear a cybernetic face plate . He was a prominent member of the Bounty Hunters ' Guild , working directly for the Guild ' s leader , Cradossk , and alongside Cradossk ' s son , Bossk . Just before the outbreak of the Clone Wars , Cradossk sent Skorr to retrieve Bossk from a prison on Kuat . Bossk had been imprisoned during a hunt for droid designer Hurlo Holowan , and Skorr was tasked with freeing the Trandoshan and relaying the message that the bounty on Holowan and several others who Bossk had been hunting had been called off . Skorr was able to free his fellow bounty hunter , but Bossk insisted that they continue the hunt , hoping to enact his revenge on bounty hunter Jango Fett , who had twice inflicted severe stun blasts to the back of Bossk ' s head , ultimately resulting in Bossk getting imprisoned in the first place . Skorr and Bossk set a course for the planet Balmorra , where they planned to capture Groodo the Hutt . They made it to Rigorra ' s fortress , where Groodo was residing , but were incapacitated by a toxic plant . Jango Fett and another bounty hunter named Aurra Sing had also been caught in the trap ; the four bounty hunters were sent to a subterranean arena , filled with traps and other hazards , to face off for Groodo and Rigorra ' s amusement . They were told that the plant that had poisoned them would kill them if they did not take the antidote in time — vials of which were located in the arena — and that there would not be enough for each hunter , requiring them to have to fight for it . Fett and Sing captured the antidotes , though both Skorr and Bossk were immune to the poison ' s effect . Upon escaping from Rigorra ' s clutches , however , the two bounty hunters were , in the end , captured by Fett , who returned them to Cradossk in his ship , " Slave I " . Hunting Kestrel . By the beginning of the Galactic Civil War in 2 BBY , Skorr worked almost exclusively on the planet Ord Mantell , alongside other such hunters as Cypher Bos , Beilert Valance , and Giles Durane . He also worked alongside a small Rybet named Gribbet , who acted as his assistant , performing tasks of reconnaissance and espionage . Skorr had something of a grudge against an agent called Kestrel , who had stolen something from him and strayed onto what he considered his turf . Teaming up with Bossk — whom Skorr paid for his assistance — Skorr tracked Kestrel into a network of sewers on Ord Mantell , though Kestrel fled and they were forced to follow her through the dank tunnels . They almost caught up with Kestrel and fired multiple blaster shots at her , but Kestrel dove into a pool of sewage and hid from the two hunters . Bossk , not content with how the hunt was progressing , decided to leave Ord Mantell ; with few other options , Skorr decided to call off the hunt . While in a local cantina , Skorr and Gribbet overheard a group of four aspiring Rebels talking of their attempts to join up with the Rebellion , and contacted Mar Barezz , an Imperial Security Bureau operative who was working in the system , telling him to travel to the surface . Skorr tracked the suspects to an Ord Mantell spaceport , and enlisted the help of several other bounty hunters — Furlag , 4 - LOM , and Zuckuss — offering to split the bounty with them . He intended to capture the Rebels and hand them over to Barezz , making a hefty profit . When they arrived at the docking bay , Skorr realized that Kestrel was among the Rebel recruits ; desperate for revenge , he attempted to capture her while the other hunters opened fire on the Rebels ' ship . However , their efforts ended in failure , as the Rebels escaped with minimal damage to their ship , leaving Skorr furious . Furlag and the other hunters were also unhappy with him , and left Ord Mantell . The Imperials soon arrived on the scene , though Skorr had one last trick left up his sleeve . Skorr located the man who had provided the Rebels with the ship , and , hoping to salvage something from the botched hunt , took him to Barezz and his men . Skorr watched as Barezz conducted the interrogation personally ; the old Human was initially unhelpful , but eventually caved and provided them with the Rebels ' coordinates . Skorr was dismissed and told that he would be compensated if the coordinates yielded success . Hunting Solo . After the Battle of Yavin , a fleet of Imperial warships began to orbit Ord Mantell , which greatly affected Skorr ' s work . After successfully capturing many low - paying , low - profile bounties , he and Gribbet considered moving on to find pickings on another planet . As they prepared to leave , however , the two discovered something that persuaded them to remain on Ord Mantell : Han Solo , a man who had had a massive bounty on his head by Jabba Desilijic Tiure , and his Rebel companions , Leia Organa , Chewbacca , and Luke Skywalker , had landed in his damaged ship , the " Millennium Falcon " , on Ord Mantell . Skorr preached caution , however ; Solo was talented with a blaster and had a knack for escaping , while his Wookiee friend , Chewbacca , was extremely strong , physically . Knowing that direct confrontation would likely result in his own death , Skorr formulated a plan with Gribbet to kidnap Organa and Skywalker — whom he believed were far more vulnerable targets — and use them to get to Solo . Gribbet and Skorr followed the group of Rebels for a time , waiting for an opportunity to strike at Skywalker and Organa if they separated from Solo and Chewbacca . They were presented with no such opportunity , though , and the group returned to their ship without dividing . Skorr tasked Gribbet to spy on them during the night while he himself prepared to pounce . Eventually , Gribbet reported that Organa had left the ship ; Skorr intercepted her and wrestled her to the ground . Organa fought back , though , and it eventually took a nerve pinch to incapacitate her . Skywalker soon arrived and attacked Skorr with his lightsaber , but Gribbet arrived in the nick of time to shoot him in the back with a stun pistol . Skorr took Skywalker ' s lightsaber and fitted it with a homing beacon ; Gribbet drove past the " Millennium Falcon " in a landspeeder and dumped the lightsaber at Solo ' s feet , so that he would know his friends had been captured . They also provided Solo with a datapad , which included a prerecorded message of Skorr ' s telling Solo to travel to the bounty hunter ' s safehouse in Ord Mantell ' s outback , without Chewbacca , whom Skorr saw as a major threat . While awaiting Solo ' s arrival , Skorr took his two prisoners and bound them together , leaving them on the end of a thin metal beam hanging over the large canyon situated next to Skorr ' s safehouse . Gribbet reported that the " Millennium Falcon " was still in the docking bay , with its engines warming ; Skorr and Gribbet assumed that it was being manned by Chewbacca , ready to lift off . Solo eventually arrived in a T - 16 skyhopper , pleading with Skorr to recall the hostages and negotiate . Knowing Solo was stalling so that Chewbacca would have time to arrive in the " Falcon " , Skorr refused , and Solo climbed out of his skyhopper , ready to swap positions with Skywalker and Organa . However , Skorr was left confused when Gribbet reported that the " Falcon " was still in the docking bay ; he was unsure why Chewbacca would leave the engines running if he did not plan to assist Solo . Apprehension . The Rebels took advantage of this momentary confusion , and a small cargo flyer piloted by Chewbacca arrived at the safehouse . The cargo flyer had been flying at the bottom of the canyon , so Gribbet ' s sensors had been unable to detect it . With little other option , Skorr decided that he would have to take Solo to Jabba the Hutt dead , and began to fire at the Corellian on the metal beam . Solo was able to dodge the shots , however , and he , Organa , and Skywalker each dove off the beam . Chewbacca used the cargo flyer ' s tractor beam to gather up his friends , and the Rebels escaped Skorr ' s grasp . Skorr was not overly perturbed , though : Solo would be escaping in the " Falcon " , and Skorr ' s tracking signal was still in place . The hunters pursued Solo for a time in Skorr ' s starship until the " Millennium Falcon " set down on one of Ord Mantell ' s moons in the hopes of evading the bounty hunters . Skorr and Gribbet hovered around the moon , waiting for Solo to assume he had lost them and make a move . Eventually , the homing beacon showed that the ship was on the move , and Skorr sped after it as it approached one of the orbiting Imperial Star Destroyers . Skorr had been played by Solo , however ; Skywalker had discovered the tracking signal and they had relocated it to one of the " Falcon " escape pods , which they sent toward the Star Destroyers . Before Skorr could act on this revelation , the Imperials used their tractor beams to capture him , and he and Gribbet were taken aboard . Despite Skorr ' s insistence that he was a licensed bounty hunter , they believed he had purposely distracted them — and allowed the " Millennium Falcon " to escape — and Skorr was sentenced to prison in the Spice Mines of Kessel . Skorr spent many months on Kessel , suffering greatly . As a result , he was left with a deep lust for revenge on Solo , and spent his entire time in prison plotting how he would pay the Corellian back . Skorr also harbored an immense hatred of the Empire because of his stay in the mines on Kessel , and cared as much — if not more — about enacting his revenge on the Empire than he did Solo . Revenge . Skorr eventually escaped , though , and teamed up with several other bounty hunters — including Bossk and Dengar — to capture Solo on behalf of Boba Fett . Skorr was more interested in revenge , but he agreed to allow Solo his life until they brought him to Fett on Ord Mantell . Solo had been captured by a pirate named Raskar on the planet Hoth , but the bounty hunters were able to commandeer the pirate ' s ship and themselves capture Solo , Skywalker , and Chewbacca . Upon seeing Solo , Skorr made a wild attempt to attack him with his fists ; he had agreed to take Solo to Fett " alive " , but nothing more . The other bounty hunters did not wish to jeopardize their chances of cashing in on Solo ' s bounty and stopped Skorr , eventually ordering Solo and his companions to be relocated , away from Skorr ; the cyborg took Skywalker ' s lightsaber , hanging it on his belt . Dengar was able to calm Skorr down , telling him that Solo would suffer far greater at the hands of Jabba the Hutt than Skorr did on Kessel . When they exited hyperspace and arrived at Ord Mantell , however , they realized that Darth Vader ' s flagship , the " Executor " , was in orbit , indicating that the Empire had business on the planet . Skorr was worried that the Empire might snatch Solo from their hands or imprison the bounty hunters , though Dengar was confident in their chances of evading the Imperials . Skorr had Raskar and his men ejected in escape pods , before the bounty hunters put the ship down on Ord Mantell ' s outback . They received a comlink transmission from Fett ordering them to take Solo and Skywalker to meet with him and Darth Vader ; Skorr was furious that Fett would work with the Empire that he loathed , and decided that he would rather have Solo dead than in the hands of the Empire . Showdown . Unknown to Bossk and Dengar , Skorr sneaked into the holding pen where Solo , Chewbacca , and Skywalker were being kept and began to beat the Corellian smuggler , with the intention of killing him . Chewbacca ' s howls alerted Dengar and Bossk , though , and the two hauled Skorr away from the Rebels . The entire act had had a double purpose , though ; Skorr was purposely careless with Skywalker ' s lightsaber in the hopes that the Jedi would use it to escape , allowing Skorr a clear shot at Solo . While the bounty hunters awaited Fett ' s arrival , their captives cut through the cells and escaped . As Fett arrived in " Slave I " , he saw the Rebels fleeing into the desert , and remonstrated with his fellow bounty hunters for their apparent ineptitude . Skorr knew that it was another of Solo ' s ruses , and while Fett and the others rushed off into the desert , he made for where the " Millennium Falcon " had been left . Solo , Skywalker , and Chewbacca arrived within minutes , thoroughly surprised to see Skorr waiting for them . Skorr held them at gunpoint , knowing that his best revenge against both Solo and the Empire would be to kill all three Rebels there and then — retribution he did not care about . Solo pleaded with the bounty hunter to at least make it a fair fight and allow him a blaster , though Skorr refused . Just as he was about to pull the trigger , Skorr ' s arm moved and he fired wildly high ; Skywalker had used the Force to stop him from shooting straight . Meanwhile , Solo tackled the bounty hunter heavily , sending the two of them over a small cliff . Although injured by the fall , Skorr attempted to grab his blaster ; so desperate to shoot Solo , he accidentally turned the weapon upon himself . Skorr died on Ord Mantell and Solo escaped , though his encounter with Skorr would make him seriously rethink his allegiance to the Alliance , and the Corellian began to contemplate living a less high - profile life . Ultimately , Solo would be captured by the Empire and turned over to Jabba the Hutt . Solo ' s encounter was well known among the other Rebels in Echo Base , and it was reported on the Galaxywide NewsNets . Almost twenty years later , Solo would recount the tale of his encounter with Skorr to his eldest son , Jacen Solo . Personality and traits . Skorr was driven by revenge and old grudges , and he never forget when someone did something to anger him . He tried to kill Kestrel because she had encroached on his territory and stolen items from him , and was relentless in his hunts for her . Skorr built up an incredible amount of hatred for Han Solo while imprisoned on Kessel , and cared more for revenge than he did for success , credits , or his associates . He also hated the Empire with a passion , and was willing to risk his life to get back at it . Throughout his career , Skorr showed a tendency to work alongside other hunters while searching for quarry , rarely ever participating on hunts alone . During the Separatist Crisis , he worked with Bossk to track down Holowan , later working with Bossk again while hunting Kestrel . He enlisted the aid of fellow hunters Zuckuss , 4 - LOM , and Furlag while searching for Rebels on Ord Mantell , while he made great use of Gribbet during his career , having the Rybet perform a multitude of tasks . In his final hunt , Skorr worked alongside over six other bounty hunters , including Bossk and Dengar . Behind the scenes . Han Solo ' s reference to " the bounty hunter we ran into on Ord Mantell " in " " spawned many stories that attempted to document the incident . Han Solo had a brief , two - panel encounter with a fan - eared bounty hunter in of the Marvel Comic in 1980 . The first full story was a comic strip written by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson in 1981 , named " The Bounty Hunter of Ord Mantell " , which gave the previously unnamed character the identity of Skorr . However , numerous other sources have also tried to document the story , and so the hunters Cypher Bos , Alfreda Goot , Boba Fett , and Czethros have also been said to be that bounty hunter . The official StarWars . com Databank establishes that Skorr , whose story was told first , is the bounty hunter to whom Han Solo is referring . Archie Goodwin originally created Skorr for use as a recurring villain in his " Star Wars " daily comic strip . He felt that overexposing Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader in the series would cause them to lose their mystique , and so Skorr was created to serve as an antagonist to the strip ' s main characters instead . Skorr has featured in several works set chronologically before his initial appearance , such as " " and " " . It has been postulated by Leland Chee that pointy - eared Humanoids like Skorr might be related to the Sephi . In 2018 , a character resembling Skorr appeared with Jaxxon in the " " episode " Bounty Hunted " .