Bossk / Legends Bossk ( meaning " Devours His Prey " in Dosh ) was a male Trandoshan bounty hunter who was the pilot of the " Hound ' s Tooth " and held the title of monarch of the Qotile system . He was not particularly fond of Chewbacca and his Human partner Han Solo . He would face them several times , and would be one of the six bounty hunters Darth Vader hired to track down and capture the " Millennium Falcon " . Despite the fact that Bossk loved to hunt and skin Wookiees , he would unknowingly aid in the freeing of hundreds of Wookiee slaves on the island world of Lomabu III . He was also a frequent partner and foe of both Boba Fett and Zuckuss , both fellow bounty hunters . After being repeatedly beaten by Boba Fett , Bossk would eventually boost his reputation as a bounty hunter by defeating Fett on Tatooine . Biography . Early life . Bossk was born on Trandosha , the son of Cradossk , the leader of the Bounty Hunters ' Guild . After hatching , Bossk devoured each of his unhatched siblings , which made his father proud . As was customary for a Trandoshan , Bossk began his career by hunting Wookiees , typically considered suicidal if attempted by any other species . During this time , Bossk made a name for himself and began accepting bounties on non - Wookiees as well , becoming one of the galaxy ' s most feared bounty hunters . Before his acceptance into the Bounty Hunters ' Guild , Bossk prowled the Kashyyyk system in a Sabaoth starfighter during the Clone Wars . With it , he engaged in a dogfight with Jedi Master Bant Eerin and her apprentice during the Republic ' s hunt for the Confederate scientist Bitt Panith . However , Bossk was defeated in the scuffle . At some point during the Clone Wars , Bossk was a wanted individual , and a thirty - five thousand credit bounty was placed on his head for " crimes against the Republic . " Following that incident , Bossk teamed up with fellow bounty hunters Aurra Sing , a young Boba Fett — who was going under the code name " Lucky " — and the Klatooinian Castas on a hunt for the renowned Jedi Master Mace Windu . After Fett destroyed the engines of the " Venator " - class Star Destroyer " Endurance " , making it crash on Vanqor , the bounty hunters went inside and took three hostages : Admiral Kilian , Commander Ponds and a clone officer . However , the trio retreated after watching Windu ' s fighter escape them by making the jump to hyperspace . As the bounty hunters stopped on Florrum to request services of space pirate Hondo Ohnaka , Bossk was left in charge of the ship , the " Slave I " , holding their two Republic hostages which survived the trip . As he was about to kill the hostages , the Padawan Ahsoka Tano swooped in on a speeder bike , subdued Bossk and freed the hostages . Bossk was then held at gunpoint by Kilian , with the Trandoshan ' s own weapon . Aurra Sing then arrived in on a speeder bike , and during the brief battle that followed , Aurra tried to escape with " Slave I " , but crashed after Ahsoka cut off one of the wings . Later , both Bossk and Boba Fett were taken as Republic prisoners to the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center on Coruscant . While in prison , Bossk opted to serve as a bodyguard to Boba . When he saw a fight take place between Obi - Wan Kenobi disguised as Rako Hardeen and his young charge he chose to stand up for Boba and threw Hardeen across a dining table creating a distraction for the prisoners to escape . Bossk and Fett escaped in the chaos . Bossk continued working with Boba Fett when they went to Tatooine . Bossk , along with fellow bounty hunters Dengar , C - 21 Highsinger , Oked and Latts Razzi went to Chalmun ' s Spaceport Cantina . After seeing Oked killed , Bossk and Latts invited his killer , Asajj Ventress , for a drink and blackmailed her into taking Oked ' s place on their team for a job . After Ventress agreed , Bossk and Latts took her to meet their leader , Boba Fett , and the other team members . Fett ' s team had been hired by the Belugan Major Rigosso to protect a large chest while it was delivered via subtram to his Lord . While on the job , the tram was attacked by Kage Warriors . After several minutes of fighting , Bossk was sent to help Ventress defend the rear . On the way , however , a Kage Warrior blew Blinding dust into his face . Unable to see , Bossk was kicked off the tram . He hit the ground hard , bellowing his fury . Later , he and the rest of the team collected their shares of the payment . . At some point , after his imprisonment , Bossk teamed up with Skorr and several other bounty hunters in a hunt for the Rebel agent known as Kestrel . They caught up with her on Ord Mantell , but failed to capture their prey . Bossk then met up with rival Boba Fett outside a cantina during Fett ' s hunt for Connor Freeman . Bossk didn ' t think Freeman ' s bounty was worth enough and didn ' t want to be in the middle of Fett ' s fight with the League of Bounty Hunters . Bossk walked away and told Fett to have fun playing with stupid dead bounty hunters . At a point early in his career , Bossk had a run - in with Chewbacca and Han Solo that left him vengeful and angrier than most other Trandoshans . The hunter and his partners had uncovered a Wookiee safe planet and caught the Wookiees , led by Chewbacca , just as they were settling in . Just before Bossk could capture the entire group , which Bossk saw as a bounteous gift for his goddess , the Scorekeeper , Han Solo returned and destroyed Bossk ' s ship by landing the " Millennium Falcon " on it . The Trandoshan hunter was stranded and left to his own helpless rage . After his first ship was destroyed , Bossk purchased a YV - 666 light freighter , which he named the " Hound ' s Tooth " , and continued his hunting . He continued to harbor a grudge against Chewbacca and Han Solo . Under the Cartel and Consortium . Bossk then accepted a job from the Hutt Cartel to eliminate Tyber Zann after he deactivated the droideka Mark II s on Hypori , but Zann later hired him away from the Cartel with promises of triple Jabba ' s pay . The Trandoshan then assisted Tyber in defending himself from the Hutt Cartel ' s landing forces . Bossk later assisted the Zann Consortium in several missions around the galaxy , up until Tyber came to Carida to meet Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn . Bossk then stole a Sith artifact from the Consortium and sold it to the Galactic Empire — although this was apparently all part of a plan concocted by Zann . Afterward , Bossk was not welcome back to the Consortium . Emperor ' s Most Wanted . Following the battle of Talus , Bossk became involved in capturing Emperor ' s Most Wanted , individuals from a list of high - paid bounties on critical Rebel Alliance leaders . Bossk delivered his captive to Tatooine and escorted him to an Imperial prison facility near Dee ' ja Peak on Naboo . He later escorted the captives being held there to an Imperial prison facility near Bestine on Tatooine . Back at the Bestine spaceport , Bossk was loading a repulsorlift stacked with cargo onto the " Hound ' s Tooth " , when he was approached by a Rebel agent pretending to be working for Borvo the Hutt . The agent tried to learn the location of the facility where Rebel prisoners were held , but Bossk was unwilling to share such information with whom he assumed to be Hutt ' s lackeys and , summoning some of the thugs who worked for him , tried to teach the messenger " a lesson " . However , the Rebel did not come unprepared and , with a help of his backup , was able to defeat the thugs and subdue Bossk . The Trandoshan was asked about the location of the facility again . Bossk taunted the Rebels , but since he was already paid , he was losing nothing when he described the location . He was certain that the Rebel could not even get close to facility , but to prevent him from alerting the Imperials of the upcoming raid , he was temporarily held in Mos Eisley for a few hours of questioning . Taking control of the Guild . As the direct heir of the Bounty Hunters ' Guild , Bossk had been plotting his father ' s demise for some time . The Guild was everything to the brutal hunter , and he refused to watch his father ' s senile claws destroy what was rightfully his . After enacting a brutally efficient plot to overthrow Cradossk and set himself up as leader , Bossk went on a bounty with Boba Fett , IG - 88B , Zuckuss , and D ' harhan where he narrowly avoided an assassination attempt by Zuckuss ( who was working with Cradossk ) by bribing the other hunter to his side . Bossk returned , to the surprise of his father , and violently murdered him using his father ' s own weapon , an ornamental dagger , and devoured him as the Guild complex erupted into a massive firefight . After this , however , the Guild had been split in half . Bossk was the leader of the Guild Reform Committee , which consisted mostly of younger hunters , and was fixed on destroying the True Guild , which he saw as old , lazy hunters . Recruitment with Fett . Against his better judgment , Bossk again worked with Boba Fett to track down the rogue stormtrooper Trhin Voss ' on ' t . After nearly dying , Bossk managed to help Fett capture the defect Imperial only to double - cross the other hunter . Bossk reasoned that Voss ' on ' t ' s bounty could help give the Committee the upper hand in the Bounty Hunter Wars , and would do it much better if he collected all of it . After disabling " Slave I " internal defense systems , Bossk captured Fett on his own ship . Luckily for him , Fett had foreseen this complication and had already hired Zuckuss to back him up after gaining the bounty . Bossk was subdued , and then Zuckuss was also double - crossed . Boba Fett forced the pair into the only escape pod , and then blasted both hunters out of " Slave I " . Angrily , Bossk threw a miniature thermal detonator into Fett ' s ship just before he was launched , which gave the pod enough time to escape . Bounty on Skywalker . After the Battle of Yavin around 0 ABY , a mysterious person paid off his debts to Jabba the Hutt by telling him that Luke Skywalker was on Tatooine . Jabba did not care until he discovered that this person was friends with Han Solo . Jabba was angry at Solo since he had not paid off the shipment that he lost after running into an Imperial patrol . When Jabba realized this , he sent Bossk to capture Skywalker and Bossk took the job , having a grudge against Solo because of his friend Chewbacca . Since Trandoshans were enemies of Wookiees , Bossk was happy to capture Skywalker . Meanwhile , Skywalker had come to visit Tatooine with Princess Leia , R2 - D2 , and C - 3PO to attend a funeral for Biggs Darklighter , Skywalker ' s friend , who was killed by Darth Vader in the Battle of Yavin . Later , Skywalker raced against a man he knew named Jaxson . Bossk used a Pulse Generator to disable the skyhopper s electrical systems causing Skywalker and Jaxson ' s skyhoppers crash and explode . While they were both unconscious , Bossk bound them together and dragged them to the Jundland Wastes . When Skywalker woke up , he asked why Bossk had done this . Bossk told him , though he didn ' t tell he did it for Jabba . Jaxson , who was thought unconscious , actually was awake , and later asked Skywalker who Solo was . Skywalker managed to escape by using his lightsaber to unbind Jaxson and himself . Then during the fight he cut off one of Bossk ' s arms and one of his legs . Though Skywalker thought that Bossk wouldn ' t come after him again , Bossk , being a reptile , regrew his arm and leg and went after Skywalker again . He later went in a cantina in Mos Eisley where Skywalker and his friends had gone for a reunion . Once there , Bossk tried to kill Skywalker and his friends . In the process , he killed some patrons in the cantina . Nevertheless , Skywalker managed to best him . Bossk surrendered and limped out of the cantina . Later , after Jabba ' s henchman had caught Bossk trying to get off Tatooine , he had to tell of his failure . Jabba had Bossk put in his rancor pit , but Bossk survived . A chance meeting . In 1 ABY , Bossk was still doing some work for Jabba the Hutt . While taking a small break in the Mos Eisley cantina , he met a spacer , whom he thought could help him with some of his work for Jabba . Bossk ' s first task for the spacer was to find out which smuggler in Jabba ' s employ tipped Lady Valarian off on a spice shipment he was running . Bossk instructed the spacer to kill nearby Valarian supporters until they found the information they needed . The spacer eventually discovered the identity of Jabba ' s traitor and executed him . The spacer returned to Bossk for a 10 , 000 credit reward . Bossk ran into the spacer several days later in the Mos Eisley cantina and offered them another assignment . Jabba and the mayor of Mos Eisley had a disagreement , and Jabba wanted revenge . He planned to trick the Tusken Raiders into attacking Mos Eisley , but one of them had learned of this plan , and was on his way to his people to warn them of the trickery . Bossk instructed the spacer to go speak to one of his contacts in Mos Espa , a Jawa , to learn where the Tusken was . The Jawa gave the spacer for the Tusken ' s last known location . The spacer traveled out to the sand wastes , found the Tusken , and killed him . Bossk rewarded the spacer for a job well done with 20 , 000 credits . Bossk met the spacer a third time , and gave them yet another task to complete . This time , Jabba had made a bet with a fellow Hutt . The bet was to see who could acquire the greatest trophy in the least amount of time . Jabba could think of only one thing to come out on top - the shroud of a Nightsister . The spacer traveled to Dathomir , and after much searching , and an arduous battle with one of the Force - sensitive witches , was able to secure a shroud for Jabba . The spacer returned it to Bossk , but Jabba declared it not good enough , that he needed the shroud of a Nightsister elder . The spacer returned to Dathomir and somehow retrieved the elder shroud and gave it to one of Jabba ' s agents in Wayfar , who rewarded the spacer with 50 , 000 credits and a specially modified carbine rifle . Bossk met with the spacer a fourth and final time in Chalmun ' s Cantina . Jabba had become worried about the activities of the Black Sun criminal syndicate , and paid an informant to spy on them . Sadly , the informant was discovered . Jabba now needed someone to test the Black Sun ' s strength . The spacer infiltrated the Death Watch bunker on Endor and battled many of the Black Sun agents inside , gathering information along the way . Satisfied that they had tested the strength of the Black Sun ' s , the spacer returned to Jabba ' s agent in the Wayfar cantina and was rewarded with 100 , 000 credits and a special pair of gloves which improved the user ' s accuracy . Not much later Dominic Raynor , formed Baron Administrator of Cloud City hired Bossk to hunt down the city ' s new owner , Lando Calrissian . Knowing that his target would be well protected , Bossk brought along an unsavory band of mercenaries and cutthroats . Bossk and his crew managed to slip through Cloud City ' s security and planned an ambush for Lando in one of the Maintenance Decks . Bossk sabotaged some vital equipment to lure the Administrator to a trap . Lando was unable to summon reinforcements , so he and his guards were forced to fight their way out . The Hunt for the " Millennium Falcon " . Even though Han Solo and Chewbacca again slipped through his claws due to help from Luke Skywalker , Bossk was one of six hunters hired by Lord Vader to hunt down and capture Solo . The Trandoshan hunter took it as a point of honor and revenge to capture his wretched Wookiee enemy and his weak Human counterpart . He grudgingly teamed up with the amateur bounty hunters Tinian I ' att and Chenlambec , believing they had inside information about Solo ' s whereabouts . They also offered information on a Wookiee intelligence network that , if hacked , could give information to Bossk that would allow him to track down and kill thousands of Wookiees . They traveled to Lomabu III in the Aida system . They were able to hack into the Hound ' s computer , trap Bossk in a meat locker , and take over the ship . Using the " Nashtah Pup " they attacked an Imperial Wookiee prison , allowing countless Wookiees to rebel against their captors . They then used the Hound to transport the hundreds of Wookiee slaves and delivered them to the Rebellion . They then delivered Bossk to the Empire , who paid a bounty on him , for illegal Wookiee pelting , which was really a lie used by the pair of false bounty hunters to receive extra credits and get Bossk off of their hands . When given over , an Imperial planned to have Bossk skinned and made into a dress for his wife . Bossk escaped from his prison and retrieved his ship , which Chenlambec the Wookiee had taken . Murder of Hal Horn . In 3 ABY , Bossk somehow ran afoul of the Corellian Security Force . The bounty hunter killed Hal Horn and the two men he was meeting , and was apprehended by Corran Horn shortly after . However , he was released from custody by CorSec ' s Imperial Liaison Officer , Kirtan Loor in exchange for taking a job for the Empire . When Boba Fett visited a cantina on Gall , the bounty hunters Bossk and Zuckuss attempted to bring Fett to their side and work together in order to share the bounty of Han Solo . He firmly refused and shot a sniper placed to shoot him , then his system warned him that " Slave I " has been breached by 4 - LOM and left the cantina . Sometime later , 4 - LOM still inside the " Slave I " called Bossk who tracked Fett down . The " Hound ' s Tooth " approached them stranded in an asteroid field . Bossk sent Zuckuss and a team of colleagues to board " Slave I " and apprehend Fett in order to capture the carbonite slab for themselves . However Fett trapped Furlag and caused a havoc . Shortly after , Bossk received a message by Zuckuss that they are returning with the carbonite slab in their shuttle back to the " Hound ' s Tooth " ; when Bossk ' s co - pilot looked inside the shuttle , he saw their fellows dead , along with a detonation device which exploded at the " Tooth " ' s bay . As Bossk cursed Fett , the " Slave I " jumped to hyperspace . During the Heroes of Yavin ' s infiltration of Jabba ' s Palace in 4 ABY , Bossk was briefly spotted in the immediate vicinity of Boba Fett during performances of both " Lapti Nek " & " Jedi Rocks " by the Max Rebo Band . He later accompanied Jabba ' s retinue aboard the " Khetanna " making his escape sometime during the Battle of the Great Pit of Carkoon . The final encounter with Fett . Quite some time later , after Boba Fett ' s " death " , Bossk had another run - in with the hated hunter . He was forced to abandon the " Hound ' s Tooth " in a panic as a bomb calmly counted down the seconds remaining to detonation . Again , Bossk found himself in an escape pod because of Boba Fett and seethed silently to himself . Suddenly , a countdown began echoing in the escape pod . In a frenzy , Bossk tried to find the bomb , managing to discover just as the countdown reached zero , however nothing happened . It was then that the hunter realized that he had been scared off of his own ship , and he now knew that Fett hadn ' t in fact been killed by the sarlacc and was now using the " Hound ' s Tooth " as his own ship . Bossk landed on the surface of Tatooine , where he was stranded without any source of credits . Luckily for him , he had managed to steal an important piece of evidence from " Slave I " that led to another show down with Fett in the Mos Eisley Cantina . Bossk held his ground against the fearsome hunter , refusing to give the location of the evidence without money , even with Fett ' s blaster trained on his forehead . Boba Fett uttered the unthinkable words " You win " and transferred a large amount of credits into Bossk ' s account in exchange for the evidence . It was believed that Bossk used this money ( not to mention the new respect he earned for defeating Boba Fett ) to get back on his feet in the bounty - hunting world . Retirement . Years after the Battle of Endor , Bossk retired from professional hunting . He later ran into Han Solo on a space station orbiting Ord Mantell during the Yuuzhan Vong War . When he heard of Chewbacca ' s death , Bossk rubbed it in Solo ' s face , receiving a broken snout in return . The encounter escalated into a fight , and both Bossk and Solo were put into arrest cells . Solo was allowed to leave shortly before the invasion of the space station , but Bossk had to stay . The station was later destroyed , but just before the explosion , an escape pod jettisoned . Equipment . Bossk ' s primary weapon was a Relby - v10 micro grenade launcher , though he would also use a standard blaster and made use of thermal detonators and a flamethrower . On at least one occasion , Bossk improvised and used other beings as weapons , once throwing Zuckuss at Boba Fett in order to distract the latter . He also utilized a YV - 666 light freighter , named the " Hound ' s Tooth " , as his personal headquarters . The ship was often described as having a repellent odor . Behind the scenes . Similar to Boba Fett , Bossk was one of the few characters who debuted in " Star Wars Episode V : The Empire Strikes Back " to have made a first appearance predating that of the movie ' s release . In Bossk ' s case , he appeared as an advance promotion mail - away by Kenner Products , with a flyer accompanying the mail - in flyer that revealed his role in the " Empire Strikes Back " . Portrayal . Actor Alan Harris portrayed the role of Bossk in . Harris also plays Bossk in and " " albeit uncredited . Trevor Butterfield also took on the role in " Return of the Jedi " when Harris was unavailable . Dee Bradley Baker voiced Bossk in the . Costume . The costume is an unaltered ' High - Altitude Windak Pressure Suit ' developed in 1962 by Baxter , Woodhouse and Taylor Ltd . to fulfill R . A . F . ( British Royal Air Force ) requirements . It is also the same suit used by BoShek and another unnamed extra in the Mos Eisley cantina . The white flack vest is part of the suit , so it is likely that those worn by X - wing pilots were based on these . The leg bands strapped around each of Bossk ' s legs are flare pistol cartridges similar to those worn by the German Luftwaffe during WWII . These flares were also worn by Rebel pilots . There is a continuity problem regarding Bossk ' s physical height . All previous sources put Bossk at 1 . 90 meters tall , while StarWars . com ' s Databank puts his height at the much taller 2 . 08 meters . Video games . In the video game " Star Wars Galaxies " , the player can sometimes find Bossk inside Tatooine cantinas , where they are able to do quests on his behalf in order to gain rare items . In " " and " " , Bossk is a playable character . He also appears in " " , where in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the video game , " Bossk " is an achievement for killing 200 Wookiees in the game ' s prologue level , set on Kashyyyk . Bossk is a playable hero character in Star Wars Battlefront and can be selected to play as with certain power ups which include heat sensing eyes and a toxic escape . In " " , there is a Bossk look - alike on the Ziost Shadow , complete with the other bounty hunters and a Darth Vader look - alike from the bounty hunter scene from " The Empire Strikes Back " .