Billal Batross

Billal Batross was a male Human scoundrel active during the early years of Galactic Civil War.

Biography
Billal Batross was raised on the Trader's Luck, the decommissioned troopship owned by Garris Shrike. Batross was one of the orphans whom Shrike used in confidence tricks and thefts, as was Han Solo at the same time. Once Han Solo got accepted into the Imperial Academy, he offered Billal help to get in there as well, but Batross never showed up.

In 1 BBY Batross faced the necessity of paying the debt to a gangster named Sollima which he had no way to do. He offered Sollima to perform a dangerous theft for him instead - to bring back Sollima's accounting droid stolen by Galactic Empire to use information inside it against Sollima. He was send to perform the job along with his old friend Han Solo, who also owned Sollima money.

Together, they infiltrated the Imperial lab on Moog Mot VI using fake uniforms and managed to retrieve the droid. However, Batross destroyed it with a blaster shot, despite Sollima's direct order to bring the droid back intact. He revealed to Solo that he was skimming from Sollima's accounts and the droid knew it. Shortly after that both were captured by Imperial forces and interrogated; Batross cracked as soon as he was strapped in. Captain Taavin offered both smugglers to help bring down Sollima in exchange for release, and they had no choice but to agree.

They completed the mission and returned the remains of the droid to Sollima. The gangster order to shoot them nonetheless, but Batross revealed that the droid's head now was a shell of a bomb, which he detonated. In erupted chaos Solo used the Imperial passkey to override the Hollow Moon's security and defense, allowing the Imperial Fleet safe passage in. Together, Batross and Solo managed to made it to the Millennium Falcon and escape the Khorya System past the Imperial Fleet.

Personality and traits
Batross was not as sucessful in his business as his old friend Han Solo was. He constanly lost whatever small fortune he could get, he didn't had the skill or incredible luck Han Solo had, he was also much less resistant to torture and even simple threats. He secretly envied Solo, admitting only that he admired him, but nothing more. Han, however, suspected the truth and told Billal to stop blaming other people for his own problems. Solo even admitted that Batross was the better pilot that he himself was, but said that Billal threw it away to get rich quick and had nothing left to show for it. While Billal pretended to betray Solo, he eventually revealed that it was part of their plan and refused to let his partner down. After they made their escape from the Hollow Moon, he became overconfident again, hoping that he could became the third member in Solo and Chewbacca's team. Han, however, was tired of Billal getting him into trouble and left him on Arbra amongst the Hoojibs.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Adventures Volume 1: Han Solo and the Hollow Moon of Khorya