Rango Tel

Rango "Tank Head" Tel (&mdash;32 BBY) was a bounty hunter during the waning days of the Galactic Republic.

Biography
Tel was a human male from Sernpidal, an out of the way planet located in the Outer Rim Territories. He spent the early years of his life as an orphan living on the streets, until one day when he was caught in the middle of a fight in a local cantina. By accident the drunken cantina patron that Tel had subdued had a bounty out on his head. After collecting his bounty, Tel booked passage off Sernpidal to find his fortunes among the stars as a bounty hunter.

The naive young man soon encounter a shady junk dealer and trader, who sensing that Tel was easy money in the bank offered his services in helping the young bounty hunter get started. Eager to make a name for himself, and with nothing to guide him but the stories he had heard as a child, Tel wanted a suit of Mandalorian armor. What he got was a suit of used vac-exposure armor, and not knowing any better paid the dealer handsomely. It was from this ungainly suit that Tel earned the nickname "Tank Head", due to its bulbous helmet, however he was oblivious to its true meaning.

Tel's first assignment was given to him by a small time gangster. The crime lord had just hired Aldar Beedo to kill his main rival, a Fluggrian named Borzu Nale and wanted to make sure his son Kam Nale was not a threat to his new criminal empire.

Tel spent months relentlessly tracking his prey following Nale across the Galaxy through countless aliasas. Over time it became apparent that the younger Nale wanted no part of his father's business. But in Tel's mind it was all just a job, and he finally caught up with him at the Boonta Eve Podrace on Tatooine, in 32 BBY where Nale was going by the name Elan Mak. With visions of credits and closure dancing in his head, Tel moved in for the kill, cornering Nale in a deserted alley in Mos Espa.

But for Rango Tel, his first bounty was to be his last. As he made his move his barely-developed skills and second-rate armor were no match for Nale's blaster, and it was in a dusty alley on Tatooine that Tel's short bounty hunting career came to a quick and untimely end.

Behind the scenes
Rango Tel was one of the first characters added to the Databank as part of the What's The Story? campaign. The character's backstory was written by Aaron Sinner and named by Captain Daultay Dofine, members of Hyperspace.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace