Gizor Dellso

"Some fools don't know when to stay beaten."

- Unknown 501st stormtrooper

Gizor Dellso was the head Geonosian technician in the Confederacy of Independent Systems who had helped design and construct a signal override device for the Separatist Droid Army, easing the Trade Federation's fears that the army might be used against them.

Clone Wars
Living his whole early life on Geonosis, Gizor Dellso never quite made it to as high a rank as his rival, Sun Fac. Dellso served as an engineer in the Stalgasin Hive and assisted in the activation procedures of the droid army. He was responsible for the army's last-minute preparation when the Battle of Geonosis broke out and ignited the Clone Wars. During the final days of the Clone Wars, Gizor Dellso was, in fact, on his way to Mustafar (the final location of the Separatist Council). At that time, his ruler, Poggle the Lesser, and the other Separatist leaders were murdered personally by Darth Vader, the notorious agent of the newly-formed Galactic Empire. After their deaths during the Mission to Mustafar, the Clone Wars had supposedly been brought to an end, but not in Dellso's mind. The battle droid deactivation signal was transmitted across the Galaxy by Darth Vader, after the massacre, and Dellso arrived only a few days later to find the Separatist Council members dead. He also discovered the small, abandoned droid factory on Mustafar and immediately dreamed up a plan that he hoped would continue the Clone Wars and declare him as the leader of the remaining Separatists. He formed the Confederate Remnant.

Confederate Remnant
"Once we arrived on the molten surface of Mustafar, it soon became apparent Dellso had been a busy little bug."

- Anonymous 501st stormtrooper

Stealing plans for an experimental Imperial starfighter and entitling himself the "final commander" of the Confederacy of Independent Systems (and self-proclaimed leader of a new Separatist movement), the Geonosian holed up on Mustafar, along with his Geonosian bodyguards. He raised a "hibernating" battle droid army, and sent up many CIS ships to create his own fleet. Darth Vader finally decided to take action. He sent the 501st Legion to Mustafar to assassinate Dellso and crush his uprising. Thus, the Battle of Mustafar broke out. After breaking through his fleet, raiding the bunker, and destroying Gizor's plan for a new, superior battle droid, and ultimately a new droid army, Dellso hid himself away in his volcanic stronghold. When the Imperial troops raided the complex control room, the power hungry Geonosian was nowhere to be found. Engineers who were inside the room and communicated with him inside his bunker were gunned down. Upon losing contact with his accomplices, Dellso knew of his revolt's imminent failure. Not wanting to be trapped in his stronghold while the Empire bombarded his refuge out of existince, Dellso made a bold attempt to escape the battle area alive. Flanked heavily by armed Geonosian bodyguards, Dellso tried to break Imperial ranks, taking many lives with a strange weapon that resembled a sonic blaster but fired rockets. However, he was impossibly outnumbered and soon saw his uncoordinated associates fall around him and was thus left exposed to crossfire. He was almost immediately killed in the firefight. After his demise, the facility was destroyed by orbital bombardment and Mustafar reclaimed by the Empire. With Dellso slain, the last real influence of the CIS was finally destroyed.

Name confusion

 * In Star Wars: Battlefront II, his name is spelled as "Gizor Delso". However, on the official Star Wars Databank, it is spelled "Dellso". Since his name is spelled "Delso" only in the game, and "Dellso" is used in the Databank, "Dellso" is used as the correct spelling, although the Databank may have had made an error. In the Prima official strategy guide, his name is spelled "Delsa" in some places.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Battlefront II