Boga/Legends

"Good girl, Boga."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

Boga was a female varactyl native to Utapau. Like all members of her species, she was a large reptilian quadruped with a beaked mouth and feathers splaying from her scaled skin. Boga was one of the fastest varactyl to be tamed by the Utai beast tamers. Obi-Wan Kenobi used Boga as his mount while tracking General Grievous on Utapau.

During his search for Grievous on Utapau, Obi-Wan chose Boga as his mount, based on her proud and loyal spirit as he saw through the Force. Astride Boga, Obi-Wan reached the tenth level of Tion Medon's Pau City in record time. Boga proved a worthy match for General Grievous in his wheel bike, chasing the cyborg general through the city, using her clawed feet to climb the sinkhole walls in pursuit. With Boga's help, Obi-Wan confronted and destroyed the General.



Unfortunately for Boga, the clone troopers turned against her Jedi rider on the orders of Palpatine. Showing an extreme devotion to her rider, Boga was hit by the debris from the blast of an AT-TE, and the two were thrown into the deep lakes at the bottom of the sinkhole. Obi-Wan, presuming the faithful varactyl to have perished in the fall, left in hopes of finding means of escape.

Survival
It is shown in the novelization that Boga took the brunt of the clone trooper's blast protecting Kenobi, but in the comic it is opposite showing Kenobi blocking laser fire protecting Boga. Either way Boga did most likely survive due to her loyalty to Kenobi, her speculated obligation to him and least important her tough durable build. Some even go as far to speculate that after delivering Luke to his uncle Owen Lars, Kenobi returned to Utapau to search for Boga during his search to rendevouz with Ferus Olin, found her and returned to Tatooine with her.

Behind the scenes

 * Some fans believe that the reason Obi-Wan's yell to ward off the Sand People in A New Hope was changed in the DVD version was to make it seem that Obi-Wan was copying Boga's yelp.


 * "Boga" was the name of a soft drink found in Tunisia that the crew became familiar with during the filming of A New Hope, and it was after this that the varactyl Boga, as well as the beverage Boga noga, was named.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

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