Tam Posla

"We know who you are Posla. Milvayne's most celebrated lawman. Gone rogue when the Imperials wouldn't let you do your job."

- Rebel officer Bini contemplating Posla's past during his visit to the rebel flight school

Tam Posla was an interstellar lawman representing the Milvayne Authority who investigated claims of kidnapping, forced servitude, and surgical alteration of victims from the desert moon of Jedha, which resembled a rash of crimes on Milvayne attributed to a pair of visiting spacers using the suspected aliases of "Roofoo" and "Sawkee." Though taken off the case by his superior officer, Posla voyaged well beyond his jurisdiction and, determined to bring the criminals to justice, became a bounty hunter. He carried a modified BlasTech Industries DH-17 blaster pistol.

On Vandor-1
During 10 BBY, Tam Posla was at Fort Ypso on Vandor-1. There he spectated a game of Sabacc between Lando Calrissian and several others. During the game, a human named Han Solo entered the room and took a seat near to Posla. Solo began beating Calrissian and the other players and Posla was among those who cheered every time the man raked in more money. Solo was soon beaten by Calrissian after the man slipped a card out of his sleeve to form a winning hand.

Chasing Dr. Evazan
Tam Posla was a lawman of the Milvayne Authority, a law enforcement agency based on Milvayne. He worked on a case involving a series of crimes on Milvayne including kidnapping, forced servitude and surgical alteration, all thought to have been carried out by a pair of visitors to the world using the aliases Roofoo and Sawkee; in reality the criminals Cornelius Evazan and Ponda Baba.

Posla was taken off the case by his superior officer but learned of a similar string of crimes taking place in the streets of Jedha City on the moon Jedha. Determined to bring justice to the pair, Posla traveled well outside his jurisdiction and became a bounty hunter in order to track the duo down on Jedha. When at Jedha, he met one of Evazan's cyborg prototypes, Caysin Bog, in the midst of chaos as the Galactic Empire's new project loomed over Jedha City. Posla missed Evazan by seconds and he and Caysin were forced to evacuate before Jedha city was destroyed.

Hired by the Son-tuul Pride
"Tam Posla. A former Milvayne cop. Threw down the lawbook to go chase an unhinged psycho. Now well on his way to becoming one. Doing merc work to fund the hunt"

- Doctor Chelli Lona Aphra describing Tam Posla upon meeting him

Posla got into a relationship with Bog and some time later, they joined a crew of mercenaries led by the archaeologist Chelli Lona Aphra. The team comprised of: a cyborg mercenary called Rexa Go, an Alderaanian called Rabael Dir Glorio, a Skakoan called Hallio Bas, a 1st generation Droideka called Dek-Nil, a former Isopter death cult member called Sister Six and a female Defel named Glahst Ombra.

Mission to Skako Minor
The crew was hired by the Son-tuul Pride, which had recently come under the control of 0-0-0 and BT-1, and were tasked with going to Skako Minor to find information about 0-0-0's origins in the Techno Union. But first 0-0-0 ordered Aphra leave one of the mercenaries behind, Rabael being the one chosen to face approaching Imperial forces. The crew arrived at Skako Minor and eventually got to the entrance of the abandoned facility, where a dozen stormtroopers waited to arrest them. Hallio revealed himself to have turned them in and demanded his side of the deal, which the Imperial officer refused. Aphra offered Hallio a Tooka she had with her and, without realising it was explosive, Hallio accepted it. Aphra recited a code word which detonated the Tooka and killed the majority of the stormtroopers.

Aphra opened the large box Rexa was carrying and Posla and the others assumed it carried booze. However it carried sixty more shrink frozen Tookas, one of which Aphra took out as a replacement to the one she detonated. A surviving stormtrooper attempted to run from them and Posla and Bog refused to chase it. But Glahst got the stormtrooper as it entered the tree line. The team entered the abandoned facility and found a room full of machines and artefacts. They searched the place but were soon stopped by Magna Tolvan as she flew in with her troopers on a Delta-class T-3c shuttle. The stormtroopers open fired on Aphra's crew and the mercenaries took cover. However the skirmish had activated a large cyborg machine in the middle of the room called the Chthonic worm god. It attacked them all and Aphra asked Bog to use his bayonet to stab at it. But Posla stopped him saying it was not part of the contract. Aphra threw the second Tooka at the machine and detonated it with the code word, briefly stopping the machine from attacking. It then chased Aphra and Tolvan and trapped them in a small space.

With the beast distracted, Rexa opened fired with her heavy machine gun. The other members of the team considered saving Aphra but Posla reminded them it was not part of their contract. Sister Six then realised that the machine had attacked Bog and used it as an excuse to make Posla attack the beast. Posla mobilised his cybernetic missile launchers and launched them at the machine. Dek then shot a hole in the Machine and it's fluid fell on one of the surviving stormtroopers. The confused trooper shot with his rocket launcher at the machine and killed it. After defeating the Machine, the team began looting the place. Rexa found Aphra with Tolvan, who Aphra kissed minutes before, and Aphra killed Rexa to save Tolvan. They then finished looting and left but Posla wondered there Rexa was. Aphra said it didn't matter. They left Skako Minor with rough information on 0-0-0's origins.

Capturing Hera Syndulla
"We have a plan. It's foolproof"

- Posla explaining to Hera Syndulla that they have a plan to get into Hivebase-1

The next key to finding 0-0-0's past was his memories which were stored in Hivebase-1 the R&D hub of the Tarkin Initiative. Posla and the others went to the rebel flight school (a re-purposed Lucrehulk-class battleship) where Hera Syndulla was training Rebel pilots. Glahst slipped away as they left the hanger. They were greeted by a Rebel officer called Bini who thought they were signing up for the Alliance to Restore the Republic. However, Posla made it clear that they weren't signing up and he attempted to make an proposal to Syndulla. Realizing they were mercenaries, she had them arrested and put them into cells.

Meanwhile, Glahst was roaming the ships vents and came back to them in their cells. When arriving at Aphra's cell Glahst revealed herself to be Magna Tolvan in the Defel's skin. Aphra was horrified to think she would skin Glahst. Tolvan then pointed her gun at Aphra before Dek, who was on low power before, sprung to life and shocked her. Tolvan shot her blaster, hitting shield generator detaining them and freeing the band of mercenaries.

The alarms sounded and Posla and but the others stayed put as they didn't want to ruin the plan by angering the rebels. Syndulla acknowledged this and offered them to leave on their ship. But Aphra, Posla and Bog explained that they knew how to get into Hivebase-1 and all they needed was their help. Syndulla was willing to listen to this but when Posla was about to explain it, Bog launched six blasters out of his compartment. Sister Six caught them and stunned all of the rebels in the room in a matter of seconds. Posla, not knowing this was going to happen, was confused to what they were doing but soon realized they were kidnapping Syndulla. But he was still furious as he thought their plan would be more honorable than this. Bog tried to explain why they didn't tell him but he was still very furious at Aphra who almost left him behind as rebel reinforcements closed in. They flew out of the flight school and Aphra almost immediately got to the next part of their plan: She borrowed a transmitter from the others and used it to contact an Imperial officer from Hivebase-1, asking for his superior. When the man asked her business with his superior Aphra claimed she wanted to make a trade.

Infiltrating Hivebase-1
On the way to Hivebase-1, Aphra repaired Bog's diagnostics, which had been damaged from their encounter with the beast on Skako Minor. What Aphra was actually doing though was installing orders into Bog's brain in case Posla refused to fight again. Whilst tinkering with Bog's wiring, Aphra complemented the work of Doctor Cornelius Evazan. Posla scowled at her comment and explained the story of how he tracked Evazan to Jedha and met Bog.

Posla and the other arrived at Hivebase-1 where the Imperial officer gave them specific directions to enter their base over the comms. Aphra used Syndulla's tracker&mdash;on her general plaque&mdash;to lure the rebel flight school to their position. This created chaos as the flight school found itself overwhelmed by the acidic fauna in the system. During the chaos, Aphra sneaked their ship into one of Hivebase-1's hangers and they began searching the place. They entered a room full of frozen prototypes which had been rejected before they could be produced. As they searched around, Aphra got news that the bridge of the rebel flight school had been commandeered by Magna Tolvan and Aphra got onto the comm to convince her not to screw their plan up. Tolvan spared the flight school but in doing so, she revealed that Aphra and the others were in Hivebase-1.

Posla and the others soon realized that the rejected prototypes were being unfrozen and they took cover as they open fired at them, disabling Dek-Nil. Aphra demanded that Posla use his cybernetic weapons to help them. Posla refused to help once again saying that the prototypes had done nothing wrong. That's when Aphra ordered them back to their ship and she used the commands she had put into Bog. This made the cyborg advance towards to prototypes, being gunned down in the process. Posla was furious and released the weapons from under his armor. Aphra, Syndulla and Sister Six left Posla to face the swarm of prototypes alone.

Posla survived the fight and returned to the others at the data core of Hivebase-1. Posla, now traumatised from seeing his soulmate gunned down. Aphra and the other two eventually found themselves under attack from Commander Yewl and his troops and Posla remained at rest by one of the terminals. That's when Aphra put the final part of her plan into motion: she had bugged the control core of the flight school during their visit there to capture Hera. Therefore she used Rexa's old headset to control the ship to cling onto Hivebase-1 and rip the data core out with it's tracker beam. Meanwhile, the rest of the Tooka's escaped Aphra's crate where they roamed Hivebase-1 before detonating and destroying the complex.

Double crossed
"Madam General, this villain instructed me to rescue an infiltrator hiding in your air ducts whilst she distracted you" "Posla, you rat. What're y--" "Instead I have tranquilized the intruder. Here is her location data."

- Magna Tolvan revealing Posla's location to Syndulla whilst posing in his armour and Aphra calling her a rat unintentionally

Posla, Aphra, Sister Six and Syndulla made made it safely on board the flight school, where Hera pardoned them for what they did. However, Tolvan was still present on the flight school and Aphra told Posla to save her whilst she talked to Syndulla. However Tolvan attacked Posla and took his armor as a disguise to get off the flight school. Tolvan then revealed Posla's location to the rebels as they left and the rebel soldiers were shocked to see it was Posla in the vents and not Tolvan. Aphra wasn't surprised to see Tolvan was in Posla's armor and they kissed as they left the system.

Personality and traits
"I am an instrument of justice, not murder"

- Tam Posla refusing to attack the prototypes at Hivebase-1

Tam Posla was a dedicated lawman. He chased Doctor Cornelius Evazan to the point where his Superior officer took his badge. By that time, Posla was already too attached to the case and continued to chase Evazan. His investigations on Jedha led him to meet Caysin Bog, one of Evazan's victims. Posla and Bog fell in love and turned to being bounty hunters in order to fund their hunt for Evazan.

Posla cared very much for the rights of individuals. He refused to kill anything that wasn't on his contract or hadn't broken the law. When a stormtrooper was getting away on Skako Minor, Posla let the soldier go as they were only following orders and hadn't broken any law. Posla also refused to help Chelli Lona Aphra when they were under attack from the Chthonic worm god as it wasn't part of his contract to do so. Although Posla made exceptions when harm came to his Bog, such as when the Chthonic worm god attacked the Cyborg, prompting Posla to attack the beast with his cybernetic rocket launchers. Posla also used his weapons at Hivebase-1 when a swarm of prototypes gunned down Caysin Bog. Posla faced off with the army of rejected projects and when he returned to Aphra and Sister Six, he was left traumatized from Bog's death.

Equipment
"You've got more firepower in one pinky than the rest of us put together!"

- Doctor Aphra describing the firepower Tam Posla possesses

Tam Posla covered his face with a black and white colored helmet marked with the symbol of the Milvayne Authority and equipped with a targeting array on an articulated stalk. He wore a brown padded jerkin and gray pants as well as black shoulder pads and brown gloves. He kept his Imperial Peace-Keeping Certificate in a patch pocket on his pants and on his belt he carried a portable scanner array in a Electromagnetic pulse proof pouch. While on Jedha he was armed with a black DL-17 blaster rifle modified with an extended magazine and equipped with a long strap.

During the mission to Skako Minor, Posla's helmet lost it's black paint. His full white helmet was attached to the cybernetics on his head. Posla also bore many cybernetic enhancements throughout the rest of his body. The many features could be hidden under Posla's armor with his helmet being able to split in two to release a large gun out the top and two rocket launchers and a laser out the sides. Posla also had rocket launchers tucked into his left knee and shoulders. Further to them, Posla had a gun in his other knee and could semi-detach his hands to show two more guns with blades coming out of his knuckles. Furthermore, Posla had several more guns on his Torso and a twin gun on his right thigh.

Behind the scenes
Tam Posla first appeared in the film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which was released on December 16, 2016. The film did not identify Posla, but his name and back story was provided by Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide, a reference book written by Pablo Hidalgo and released on the same day as the film. Posla later appeared with a larger role in Doctor Aphra 15: Remastered, Part II and has appeared in the following four issues in the story arc. In April 2018, Posla appeared in the official trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Appearances

 * Solo: A Star Wars Story
 * Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
 * Doctor Aphra 15: Remastered, Part II
 * Doctor Aphra 16: Remastered, Part III
 * Doctor Aphra 17: Remastered, Part IV
 * Doctor Aphra 18: Remastered, Part V
 * Doctor Aphra 19: Remastered, Part VI