Dengar Roth

**Dengar Roth**, also known as **Dengar the Demolisher**, “**Payback**”, and later **Rothgar Deng**, was a human male Corellian bounty hunter operating since the early

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## Biography

### Early life

Dengar was a human male from the planet Corellia. During his youth, Dengar worked repairing and tuning swoops, eventually becoming a swoop racer. He quickly became one of the most successful and well-known swoop racers in all of Corellia. Eventually, Dengar left Corellia, and served as a gladiator. Eventually, Dengar became a bounty hunter.

By the time he reached pre-adolescence, he was considered

### Clone Wars

#### Safe cargo objective

"*So… what do you think is in that box?*"
"*Whatever it is, it better be worth all this effort.*"
―Dengar and Asajj Ventress contemplate the contents of the box
He was part of an operation alongside fellow hunters Boba Fett, Bossk, Latts Razzi, C-21 Highsinger, and Oked. The hunters were hired to escort a subtram containing cargo valuable to Otua Blank, the leader of the Belugan people of Quarzite. While preparing for the mission in Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina, Oked was murdered by the wayward dark side user Asajj Ventress, who promptly agreed to take the dead hunter's place on the mission roster.

Dengar and company set off in Bossk's ship, the *Hound's Tooth*, to Quarzite, where the Belugan Major Rigosso transported the team to the train's subterranean loading dock via a space elevator from an orbital skyhook. Dengar, along with Ventress, were assigned to guard the rear of the train. After unsuccessfully flirting with Ventress, a team of skilled Kage Warriorsboarded the train in an attempt to retrieve the cargo. Dengar managed to fight off many of the attackers due to his skilled hand-to-hand combat techniques, and even managed to kill two using sticky explosives. Dengar was eventually overwhelmed by the attackers and was thrown from the train, landing safely on the subterranean surface. Dengar and his allies, who were likewise thrown from the train, returned to the skyhook to await Ventress, who had betrayed the mission objective by swapping the cargo with Boba Fett, who was bound and gagged. Before departing, she hands over the rest of the team's share of unmarked credits.

#### Working for the Hutts

"*Come on, let's get out of here.*"
―Latts Razzi, to her team after their job for the Hutts went south

Dengar was later employed by the Huttsalongside Latts, Embo, and Sugi as protection on Nal Hutta. They were present when the renegade Sith Lords Maul and Savage Opressas well as the Death Watch leader Pre Vizslacame to ally with the Hutts. When the plan went sour, the four bounty hunters attacked, though they were pushed by the Mandalorian's flamethrower. The trio soon received reinforcements and attacked. When the battle was clearly lost, Dengar and Latts saved the beaten Embo and Sugi by covering their escape with smoke bombs. The group of mercenaries fled the Death Watch and their Sithallies.

### The swoop accident

"*Thought you could run from me, hey Solo?*"
―Dengar Roth, to Han Solo
At some point between the Clone Wars and the Galactic Civil War, Dengar was constantly compared to a young swoop jockey on the private circuit named Han Solo. Eager to prove his superiority, Dengar challenged Solo to a winner-takes-all race through the crystal swamps of Agrilat. On the final stretch of the race, Solo brought his swoop down directly over and in front of Dengar, burning his face in the swoop's exhaust and locking the repulsor fins of both swoops. The maneuver sent Dengar flying off of his swoop to crash headfirst into crystalline plants. Dengar was kicked out of professional swoop racing for engaging in the illegal race and was abandoned by his friends on the Ferini team. Part of the Agrilat Swamp Racing Circuit eventually became known as *Dengar's End*, in honor of his accident. With his life in ruins, Dengar became viciously embittered with Solo, upon whom he vowed his vengeance.

As it was, to save his life, Dengar was forced to become part cyborg through Imperial experimentation. The parts of his brain controlling his senses of compassion, mercy, and pity were removed, leaving him an emotionless killer. He was only left with rage and hatred, the only emotions the Imperial doctors decided he would need to fulfill his new duties as an assassin. He was also fitted with a number of cybernetic implants, to make him more powerful. Though Dengar eventually left the Empire to return to bounty hunting.

### Galactic Civil War

#### Witness

Though weathered and grizzled by years of bounty hunting, Dengar was still active around the time of the assault on Cymoon 1. He was present in Jabba's court when Darth Vader, on a mission to negotiate with the Hutt, arrived at the crime lord's palace. On Vader's command, Jabba ordered Dengar and the rest of the audience out the of room so that "negotiations" could commence.

#### The hunt for Han Solo

In 3 ABY, Dengar was one of the bounty hunters, alongside Boba Fett, Bossk, IG-88, 4-LOM, and Zuckuss, summoned to the *Executor*, the Imperialflagship of Darth Vader, who resorted to using hunters to track down the *Millennium Falcon*, the ship of Captain Han Solo, who slipped away from Vader during the evacuation of Hoth. Dengar lost out on the Solo bounty to Fett, who delivered the now carbonite-encased Solo to the Hutt crime lord Jabba on Tatooine.

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Eventually, Dengar tracked Solo to the Hoth system.

Unfortunately for Dengar, he exited hyperspaceinto the Hoth system in the midst of the Rebel evacuation of the planet. Dengar landed on Hoth, but was too late to find Solo.

Aboard the *Executor*, Darth Vader offered him a reprieve of his death warrant, allowing him the freedom to hunt down Solo and the *Millennium Falcon*. Disgusted with the fleet's inability to capture the fugitive ship, Vader then recruited Dengar and five other bounty hunters to bring him the passengers of the *Falcon*, possibly believing Luke Skywalker was one of them. By this time, his bounty hunting record was still unimpressive. He had yet to claim one remarkable bounty.

While searching for Solo in the Hoth asteroid field, the engines of the *Punishing One* were crippled by a bomb placed by Boba Fett, who may have heard of Dengar's death warrant, only to leave Dengar helplessly watching the *Millennium Falcon* slowly limp out of the system followed closely by the *Slave I*. He managed to repair his craft and followed Solo's particle vapor trail to Bespin's Cloud City, where he arrived a few days later, again, to see the *Slave I* leaving the city with the carbonite frozen Han Solo on board. However, it was on Cloud City that Dengar was reunited with Manaroo, where he saved her and several other dancers, for a time, from the Imperial subjugation of the city. The woman would soon become a permanent part of his life.

With Manaroo accompanying him away from Cloud City, the Aruzan woman, pitying Dengar's near-emotionless state, tried to share her own feelings with him through her *Attanni*, an Aruzan custom in which two people shared emotions cybernetically. Dengar was able to feel what it was to be Human again, feeling what she felt and seeing what she saw. It was from this emotional experience that Dengar was finally able to work with the Rebel Alliance by assisting in the evacuation of the Aruzans from their world, freeing them of their Imperial tormentors. Dengar's primary interest in the matter was to free Manaroo's parents.

Sometime during 3 ABY, a contract had Dengar teaming up with fellow bounty-hunters 4-LOM, IG-88, Bossk, and Zuckuss on a mission for Domina Tagge to steal a sacred gem from a temple in the Red Nebula.

#### At Jabba

Dengar, Bossk, and Fett were later present at Jabba the Hutt's palace when chaos broke loose after the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker arrived to free Solo. When Jabba's court left to the Great Pit of Carkoon, Dengar decided not to go, a decision that saved his life because the crime lord's sail barge, the *Khetanna*, was destroyed by Skywalker and his allies.

### New Republic era

#### Skirmish on Corellia

"*Things are changing now. Our profession is about to get marginalised, too. Those rebels won't put up with our special brand of sauce for too long, will they? It's why we gotta band together. Form a proper union. We'll be a force to reckon with.*"
―Dengar, to Mercurial Swift

Some time after the Battle of Endor, Dengar got into a fight with the young bounty hunter Mercurial Swift, in a holoplex rooftop on Coronet City, Corellia. Dengar offered guidance, trying to convince him to join a bounty hunter alliance, but Mercurial refused, claiming he was old and ineffective. Dengar managed to have the advantage, aiming his particle array gun at his opponent, but was easily distracted and taken down when the hunter pretended to see Boba Fett standing behind him. Mercurial let him live, claiming to have no reason to kill him without a bounty to his head. The two hunters went on their separate paths, but not before Dengar gave him one last warning, saying times would be different for their kind with the New Republic in power, with the new government potentially forcing bounties on other bounty hunters.

#### Working for Mercurial Swift

In the days leading up to the Battle of Jakku, Dengar along with his fellow bounty hunters Embo and the Rodian Jeeta accepted work as Mercurial Swift's crew. Swift wanted to collect the Black Sun crime boss Gyuti's bounty on the Zabrak Jas Emari, the niece of the hunter Sugi. In the past, Dengar had once worked with Sugi, who had always hated Dengar. Dengar in turn was unpopular among many of his fellow bounty hunters including Swift. After learning that the Hutt crime lady Niima had taken Jas captive, Dengar and his fellow bounty hunters traveled to Niima's temple of the Inner Rim world of Jakku to take Jas into custody.

However, Jas escaped from her captors and wounded Swift. She then managed to convince Embo, who was a friend of her aunt Sugi, to allow her to escape in Swift's Corellian shuttle. Dengar rushed back to the ship to apprehend her but was unable to stop Jas from escaping. After Jas returned with her friend Norra Wexley and the B1-series battle droid Mister Bones to Niima's temple, Dengar and his fellow hunters cornered Niima and Jas. Niima had earlier agreed to provide Jas and Norra with Imperial uniforms, an Imperial shuttle, and clearance codes to enter the Main Imperial base on Jakku out of gratitude for ferrying her back to her temple.

Niima initially refused to hand over Jas and grabbed Swift by the neck. However, Dengar pointed his blaster at Niima's throat and forced the Hutt to give up Jas. While the hunters were preoccupied, Norra and Bones escaped on the Imperial shuttle.

#### Teaming

"*Times, they are a-changing, my little gompers. We're gonna need to watch each others' backs, eh?*"
―Dengar on striking a deal with Jas Emari
After taking Jas captive, Dengar and his fellow hunters returned to Swift's shuttle. Swift wanted to depart for Nar Shaddaa to hand Jas to Gyuti but was forced to delay his departure due to the Battle of Jakku. While Jeeta landed the ship in a canyon, Jas tormented Swift. Dengar then demanded that Swift tell them his plan.

When an enraged Swift struck Jas, Dengar mocked Swift, who had sustained a facial scar from Jas' horns. Despite Swift's objections, Dengar indicated that he was willing to listen to Jas' counter-offer. Dengar and Embo reacted positively to Jas' offer that the New Republic would reward them for helping to capture the Imperial Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, the alleged mastermind behind the Liberation Day attacks. When Dengar opined that working for the New Republic was not exactly "cozy-making," Jas promised to secure them full pardons if they worked with her. Jas also promised to share the money with Dengar and Embo.

Swift tried to reassert his authority but Dengar countered that he and Embo did not like him. Dengar clubbed Swift in the head with his blaster. Swift managed to grab Jas by the neck and take her hostage. However, the Zabrak headbutted Swift and then punched him in the middle before throwing him out of the shuttle's door. Disliking Swift and accepting Jas' offer, Dengar complimented her. Embo also expressed agreement. Jeeta, who was piloting the ship, also agreed to to work for Jas. Jas and her new crew then flew to the Jakku Observatory where they evacuated Norra.

The Battle of Jakku ultimately ended the Galactic Civil War as a New Republic victory. Following the signing of the Galactic Concordance, Jas managed to secure Dengar, Embo, and Jeeta full pardons and some money from the New Republic. While it was not a huge sum, the money was enough to stop them from killing her and to convince Dengar and his fellow hunters to continue working as Jas' crew. Dengar was particularly pleased by this turn of events and remarked that they needed to watch each others' backs because times were changing.

### Second Galactic Civil War

#### Life as Rothgar Deng

At some point after the Galactic Civil War, Dengar underwent cybernetic surgery in an attempt to remain competitive. The surgery left him barely recognizable. Some rumors claimed Dengar in fact became the hunter Rothgar Deng.

During 45 ABY, Deng was on Kijimi.