Bollux

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In the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Bollux was a humanoid matte-brown bipedal 1.5 meter-tall male-programmed BLX-5 labor droid once produced by Serv-O-Droid, Inc. He held many jobs over the decades, serving many masters, but is best known for his association with Han Solo and Chewbacca during their time in the Corporate Sector and Tion Hegemony. Because of his antiquity, his vocoder is slow, and he almost drawls.

In UK releases of the books where he appears, the character was renamed Zollux, due to the original name bearing a distinct similarity to a British obscenity.

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[edit] Biography

Bollux started out as a simple labor droid in the Fondor Shipyards, with only the limited personality and intellect needed for his duties. Like other labor droids, he had heavy servomotors and a high-gravity suspension system to haul cargo and perform other tasks. One day, he was ordered to check a fuel module for mynocks. However, the orders did not specify a return time, so the BLX-5 stayed to observe the mynocks until he judged that he had sufficient information. In the intervening three weeks, the droid supervisors assumed that he had fallen prey to the mynocks, and assigned his work designation to a new labor droid. Due to the size of the facilities at Fondor, it was nearly a year before anyone noticed that two labor droids had been given the same designation. Since Bollux had gone without a memory wipe in all that time, he had developed a personality. The staff took a liking to the droid, promoting him to shift overseer and providing him with structural modifications and other upgrades. Despite his popularity, he was eventually replaced with a newer and cheaper droid, and sold off as surplus.

He travelled the Galaxy, working at a variety of jobs. He built survival domes and camps for a scout team, joined a unit of the Galactic Republic's military to construct fortifications, and acted as a technical overseer for a Trigdale Industries mining colony. At every job, he continually sought to improve himself by volunteering for new modifications. Every job ended the same way, however, as he was replaced by a newer model and sold off.

Bollux eventually fell in with a group of smugglers, who won him in a dice game. These smugglers traded him to the outlaw tech Klaus "Doc" Vandangante for an enhanced hyperdrive motivator. Doc and his daughter Jessa treated Bollux as part of the family (before Jessa bestowed his Bollux nickname upon him, he had simply been known as "BLX-5"). Jessa used Bollux as a test subject for her droid engineering skills, giving him access to more and more upgrades. The droid had internal components moved to create a chest cavity for holding the advanced stolen Imperial slicer droid, Blue Max (Star Wars). The two droids became good friends, with Bollux developing almost paternal feelings for the computer probe.

For a mission to free Doc and other prisoners from the Corporate Sector Authority, Jessa loaned Bollux and Blue Max to Han Solo. Bollux snuck Blue Max into Orron III with Solo and his allies to find the location of the prisoners. Bollux helped in their escape from Orron III and later defeated a Mark X Executioner gladiator droid at Stars' End by diving underneath the Mark X's treads and ripping out wires. Unfortunately for Bollux, his chassis was severely damaged during the adventure. After freeing the prisoners and escaping from Stars' End, both Bollux and Blue Max were given their freedom by Doc's techs. Bollux was also given a new, upgraded body.

They chose to stay with Han Solo and Chewbacca on the Millennium Falcon for a time to see the galaxy. They helped the two smugglers on several adventures, including breaking up a gang of slavers in the Corporate Sector, and the hunt for the lost treasure of Xim the Despot in the Tion Hegemony. After that quest wrapped up on Dellalt, Bollux and Blue Max left Han Solo. The historian Skynx recruited Bollux and Blue Max to stay on Dellalt to help catalogue Xim's treasure and to study Xim's war-droids, as they were the last ones to interact with the war droids before Bollux and Blue Max succeeded in tricking and destroying them. Their activities afterwards are not recorded, though they sent holocards to Han Solo for a few years afterwards.

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[edit] References

  • Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook
  • The Essential Guide to Characters

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Droids of Star Wars
Models
Astromech droid | Battle droid | Buzz droid | Tri-Fighter | Pit droid | Probe droid | Protocol droid
Individuals
8t88 | Blue Max | Bollux | C-3PO | EV-9D9 | G0-T0 | HK-47 | MagnaGuards | IG-88 | R2-D2 | YVH 1
Lists
List of minor Star Wars droids
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