Bala-Tik

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An agent of the feared Guavian Death Gang, **Bala-Tik’s** black leather coat and percussive cannon indicate his status within the galactic underworld. Bala-Tik negotiates business for the Guavians, backed by faceless, voiceless cybernetic soldiers awaiting the signal to take action. Bala-Tik considers Han Solo a capable smuggler and a valuable source of information, but his patience with the slippery Corellian and his endless excuses has all but run out.

## Biography

### Confrontation with Solo

**Bala-Tik** was an agent of the Guavian Death Gang in the decades after the Galactic Civil War. During this time, Bala-Tik came to know the famed smuggler Han Solo. For a time, Bala-Tik considered Solo to be a source of valuable information and obtained a number of a profitable leads from him. During the conflict between the First Order and the Resistance, the Guavian Death Gang paid him and his first mate, the Wookiee Chewbacca, to acquire rathtars for King Prana. Unknown to the Death Gang at the time was that Solo also acquired the same amount of credits from Kanjiklub with the intention of swindling both factions. When the two groups learned of Solo's scheme, they confronted him aboard his freighter, the *Eravana*. Bala-Tik, out of patience, arrived first and told Solo that he knew about the smuggler's deceit, and that Solo's game was too old—there was no one in the galaxy left for the Corellian to swindle.

### Aftermath of the Confrontation

After Kanjiklub arrived, Bala-Tik noticed that Solo was in possession of BB-8, an astromech droid that was being pursued by the First Order because it contained part of a map to the location of the self-exiled Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. Rey and Finn, two fugitives who were with BB-8 and who Solo had hidden in his ship, heard Bala-Tik's threats to kill Solo and Chewbacca and take the droid. Hoping to close the doors between Solo and the two gangs, Rey instead accidentally released the rathtars, and the fearsome creatures went on a rampage throughout the ship, killing members of the Guavian Death Gang and Kanjiklub alike. Solo and the others escaped aboard Solo's recently-recovered ship, the *Millennium Falcon*, and Bala-Tik watched them depart. He ordered his men to inform the First Order that Solo had the droid aboard the *Falcon*.

## Personality and Traits

Bala-Tik was a human male with brown hair and light skin, and 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.

## Equipment

Like all Guavians, Bala-Tik carried the latest in black market weapons technology. That included a percussive cannon by Tostovin Munitions, which fired particularly explosive blaster bolts. He used this weapon against Solo and the rathtars on the *Eravana*.