Dengar

Dengar, also known as 'Payback', is a revered bounty hunter in the Force Galaxy who operated primarily during the Galactic Civil War. His appearance is due to an accident he had when he was swoop racing with Han Solo in his youth. Dengar was selected to be rebuilt as part of a program devised by a sub-sect of the Galactic Empire Biological Research Division to create cyborg warriors designed to obey commands without question.

Dengar was trained as a formiddable warrior but as a consequence he was given implants that suppressed his emotions, meaning that he was transformed into a ruthless, cold-hearted killer. To make matters worse, he developed a bitter hatred of Han Solo, which was extrapolated by the Empire to train him up to destroy the Rebel Smuggler. Darth Vader himself oversaw the indoctrination of Dengar but Dengar eventually rebelled against the Empire to become a freelance gun-for-hire, still hunting Solo for his own ends.

Darth Vader inevitably tracked Dengar down and imprisoned him, but revoked the death warrant against the rogue cyborg and recruited him alongside the other bounty hunters like IG-88, 4-LOM and Boba Fett to hunt down Solo. Dengar's ship, the Punishing One, was disabled by Boba Fett for a time but Dengar was still able to track Slave I to Bespin, where he landed in the city during an Imperial occupation. There Dengar found Manaroo, a dancer who was saved from the Imperials by Dengar and followed him around, eventually earning his affections.

Manaroo learned that, if she placed her ring between two mechanisms in his head, she disabled his emotional inhibitors and allowed him to feel. It was through this that she was able to eventually counsel Dengar back to sanity, and the two eventually planned to marry. Dengar still expressed an interest to hunt Solo, but as time passed he became more interested in getting revenge on Boba Fett.

After the death of Jabba the Hutt and the apparent death of Boba Fett, Dengar and his wife travelled to the wreck of Jabba's sail barge to scavenge for parts, and they found a naked, burned and dehydrated man lying by the carcass of the Sarlacc. After some time they realised that this man was Boba Fett himself, who had survived falling into the Sarlacc but was close to death.

Nursing him back to health, Dengar forgave Boba and formed a friendship with the bounty hunter, agreeing to retire from bounty hunter work to aid Boba in recovering. Dengar, Manaroo and Boba eventually departed from Tatooine in an attempt to recover Boba's ship, Slave I.