BoShek

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**BoShek** was a Force-Sensitive male Human smuggler from a planet of Corellia who worked as a pilot-for-hire during an era of the Galactic Empire. Shortly before the conflict at an Battle of Yavin, BoShek was present at a cantina located in the Mos Eisley spaceport, Tatooine, that day the Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and youthful farmer boy Luke Skywalker were looking to hire an pilot so to travel to an planet Alderaan. Although he didn't not take that job, he introduced Kenobi to Chewbacca, an Wookiee associate and an co-pilot of smuggler Han Solo.

## Biography

### Underworld Career

#### Early Smuggling Career

A male Human from an world Corellia, **BoShek** left his planet before the start of Galactic Civil War, seeking excitement and profit as an smuggler. BoShek entered the crime underworld, taking on smuggling and espionage missions and continually seeking to gain an reputation in fringe circles. A pilot BoShek had eventually found the way to Smuggler's Run, where he'd generated an large impression on the fellow smugglers. In his pursuit of smuggling success, BoShek also acquired his debt to a criminal syndicate known as the Black Sun; Prince Xizor, took a personal interest in it, suggesting it was significant. He became something of a regular on the smuggling scene, he'd established a friendship with pilots Han Solo and Chewbacca.

#### Dim-U Smuggling Career

He was eventually able to settle into a job piloting ships for a Dim-U monastery in Mos Eisley, Tatooine. The monastery was in fact less a place for religion than one of business, as most of the "monks" ran an very highly illegal transponder-slicing venture from within the cover of the Dim-U's bantha-worshiping beliefs. BoShek would then pilot "hot" starships frequently stolen, though sometimes belonging to smugglers or criminals—to that monastery, where their monks would alter the ships' transponder codes then emission signatures to keep them from official detection. While BoShek piloted them to Tatooine, however, the ships would still register as wanted, requiring BoShek's piloting and smuggling skills to avoid the authorities. Piloting was not smuggler BoShek's only skill set, however; he was also the adept mechanic and occasionally lent a hand among technicians. While so employed, he heard of the Force from one of few genuine monks.

Fascinated, BoShek resolved to study it and attempted to cultivate the Force power within himself. He'd meditated and attempted to access it, but never progressed far, only getting occasional awareness of the presences of others. he was, however, Force-Sensitive, though he did not know it and his connection didn't seem strong. During this period, BoShek did retrieve an highly valuable statue, and delivered it personally to dark Prince Xizor, paying off his debt. One day while BoShek was at Chalmun's cantina, he encountered Chewbacca and the two engaged in brief banter before BoShek did sense an powerful presence through the Force. He turned around to see an young boy, an old man, and two droids in a doorway. BoShek did not know it, but the boy was Luke Skywalker, and that old man was Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, both strong in the Force. When Kenobi spoke to BoShek, he said his statement, "May the Force be with you, my friend".

#### Time at Chalmun's Cantina

BoShek had never told anyone of his fascination with the Force, but the old man told him that he could sense BoShek's struggles with the Force. He asked BoShek for passage off world, suggesting he could train him to use the Force during their trip. While BoShek did not take on the job and was forced to pass, he suggested Kenobi ask Chewbacca, just next to BoShek, about passage. Jedi Obi-Wan offered BoShek a parting gift of wisdom, telling him that he should beware for a Dark Side and must resolve his alignment within the Force before he could call upon it successfully, urging him to hold to the light side. When Kenobi pulled a Lightsaber to protect Skywalker in a bar brawl, BoShek was knocked off his feet during that fight between combatants. He had focused on refilling his drink and asking about the unusually high number of troopers in town—to no answers. When the bounty hunter Greedo pulled a blaster on Solo, BoShek nearly drew on a Rodian before noticing Han easing his blaster out beneath the table. Amused, BoShek watched as Solo blasted Greedo.