Caysin Bog

"Caysin Bog. Victim of aforementioned unhinged psycho. Note the hand. Damn. Couples mean complications."

- Aphra's notes on Bog, including his history with Evazan and relationship with Posla

Caysin Bog was a humanoid male from a high-gravity world. He was blown apart in an insurgency strike on the moon Jedha, only to be surgically pieced back together by a surgeon calling himself Roofoo. Bog was present in Jedha City in 0 BBY and witnessed an attack by the Partisans on an Imperial patrol shortly before the city was destroyed by the Galactic Empire's Death Star superweapon.

Bog managed to avoid being killed by the Death Star and following the Battle of Yavin, he was working as a mercenary with his lover Tam Posla. The pair accepted a job from the Son-tuul Pride crime syndicate to travel to the planet Skako Minor under the command of Doctor Chelli Aphra. Once on the world, the mercenary group was led into an Imperial trap by the Skakoan Hallio Bas; however, Aphra managed to kill Bas and the Imperials with an exploding tooka.

The group then made their way inside the lab, where they were attacked by another group of Imperials led by Magna Tolvan. The arrival of the Imperials disrupted a techno-totem that triggered the awakening of a chthonic worm god, that then attacked Bog and his allies. The mercenaries chose to hide in cover rather than fight the beast as it was not covered by their contract. After the mercenary droideka Dek killed the beast by collapsing the roof of the lab, Bog and the others looted the lab and then returned to their shuttle.

Bad luck on Jedha
A male humanoid originating from a high-gravity world, Caysin Bog was blown apart during a raid by the Partisans, a rebel group led by the insurgent Saw Gerrera, on the moon Jedha. He survived his injuries thanks to the work of the surgeon Cornelius Evazan, who, under the alias Roofoo, pieced Bog back together using techniques similar to those he used to create the subservient Decraniated cyborgs.

In the year 0 BBY, Bog was present in Jedha City and stood to the side of a street near Gesh's Tapcafe to make room for an oncoming Imperial patrol that included a TX-225A Occupier tank. As Bog waited for the patrol to pass, a group of Partisans ambushed the Imperials and began hurling explosives at them, causing the nearby civilians to scatter in fear. The Imperial forces were evacuated from the city shortly after, allowing the Galactic Empire to destroy the settlement with the Death Star superweapon.

Merc work
Bog managed to escape Jedha City prior to its obliteration, and following the destruction of the Death Star by the Rebel Alliance at the Battle of Yavin, he was working as a mercenary alongside the former Milvayne Authority officer Tam Posla, with whom he was in a romantic relationship. Posla was obsessed with hunting down Evazan for his crimes, and was using pay from his mercenary work in order to fund this goal.

The pair were amongst several mercenaries who accepted a job to travel to the planet Skako Minor for the Son-tuul Pride criminal syndicate on the planet Son-tuul. The group waited for their leader Doctor Chelli Aphra in a patrol transport near a settlement on Son-Tuul and while in the vehicle, Bog and Posla sat together holding hands as Posla listened to music. When Aphra arrived she scanned and read up on each member of her new crew, noting Bog's history with Evazan and his relationship with Posla.

A trap on Skako Minor
"&hellip;conquest, experimentation, petty acquisition&hellip;''" "''An unrepentant villain!"

- Bog and Posla discuss Aphra's crimes

Before the group could leave for Skako Minor, Aphra was tasked with choosing one member of the team to leave behind, as together they weighed too much for the ship to take off. When Imperial forces began surrounding the transport and demanding its occupants disembark, the doctor ordered Viscount Rabael Dir Glorio to prevent them from reaching the ship; however, as the viscount fought against the Imperials, Aphra piloted the ship with Bog and the others on-board away and left Glorio behind.

Upon reaching Skako Minor, the group began following their Skakoan guide Hallio Bas, whom they believed was going to lead them to the workshop of deceased Techno Union leader Wat Tambor. Instead, Bas led them to a clearing full of Imperial stormtroopers with whom he had a deal to bring looters. Before the Imperials had a chance to execute Bog and his comrades, Aphra begged that they spare her pet, the genetically spliced tooka clone Flufto. Bas took the pet from her in order to later eat it, after which the doctor uttered a code phrase that caused the tooka to explode and kill the Imperials and Bas.

From one trap to another
"Command: Stop him.''" "Why bother? We can't untrigger'' the alarms."

- Go orders Bog to stop a fleeing stormtrooper

Bog and the rest of the mercenary team survived the explosion unscathed, and as they regrouped one surviving stormtrooper attempted to flee. The cyborg mercenary Rexa Go ordered Bog and Posla to stop the trooper from escaping, but the pair refused, reasoning that the alarms were already triggered and so there was no need to kill someone who had broken no law. The Defel Glahst Omera then killed the trooper instead, after which the mercenary team all moved inside Tambor's lab.

Inside the lab, Bog's attention was drawn to a sparkling techno-totem on display, which he reached out to touch; however, Aphra screamed for the cyborg to stop, as she suspected that the totem was a trap. Her fears were confirmed when, moments later, an Imperial Delta-class T-3c shuttle crashed through the wall of the laboratory and landed on the sparkling object. Stormtroopers led by Magna Tolvan then emerged from the shuttle and opened fire, forcing Bog and the others to take cover.

Bog and the beast
"Ah. Actually I'm&mdash;I'm okay. Just a bit winded."

- Bog reassures Posla that he is alright

The shuttle's disturbance of the totem triggered the awakening of a Chthonic worm god, which then erupted from the floor beneath the lab and attacked Imperials and mercenaries alike. Bog and Posla retreated to a different piece of cover, where Aphra order Bog to use his bayonet to harm the god, who was targeting any weaponry it could reach with its tentacles. Posla then advised Bog to ignore the order, as their contract only covered entering and holding the facility.

Aphra then hurled another explosive tooka at the creature, but failed to kill it, instead trapping herself and Tolvan in a part of the lab where the god could not reach them. While the creature tried to reach the trapped pair it incapacitated Bog, leaving him draped across a low wall in the laboratory. When the harm that had befallen the cyborg was pointed out to Posla by the pair's teammate Sister Six, Posla became enraged and leapt into action, launching several missiles at the beast. The attack abruptly halted though, once Bog recovered and revealed that he had in fact only been slightly winded.

Death of a god
"Okay, here we go. Looting, looting, looting."

- Aphra orders Bog and the others to begin looting

The pair reunited in cover, where they held each other for comfort. The final member of the mercenary team, the droideka Dek, then fired a single shot into the roof of the laboratory, causing it to collapse and killed both the god and the remaining stormtroopers. Aphra emerged and ordered the team to start looting, which they did, only stopping briefly when they heard the sound of Aphra shooting Go in order to save Tolvan. Unaware that Aphra had fired upon their teammate, Bog and the others then returned to their shuttle with the loot they had managed to recover. Onboard the starship, Aphra then informed the team that they had been tasked with a near-suicidal mission: attacking the Imperial archive known as Hivebase-1. It was the R&D headquarters for the Tarkin Initiative.

Capturing Hera Syndulla
Aphra planned to get into Hivebase-1 by offering something valuable to the trade with the Imperial officers. So Aphra, Bog and the others went to the rebel flight school, a re-purposed Lucrehulk-class battleship that trained Rebel pilots. They found the ship thanks to the files from the facility on Skako Minor. When they got there Glahst slipped away and a Rebel officer greeted them thinking they were new recruits. But when General Hera Syndulla arrived, Poslo made it clear they weren't signing up and told Syndulla they had a proposal. Realizing they were mercenaries, Syndulla had them arrested and put into cells. Whilst they were in their cells, Glahst returned and jumped into Dek and Aphra's cell. Aphra was relieved at first but quickly discovered it was Magna Tolvan. Tolvan had skinned the poor Defel and used her skin as a disguise. Tolvan drew her gun but didn't realize that Dek was aware of her. Dek stunned Tolvan and she shot once reflexively with her blaster disabling the shields keeping them in the cell.

The alarms went off but the mercenaries did not flee as it would anger the rebels more. Syndulla noticed this and offered to let them leave. Aphra was still on for their proposal so Syndulla let them speak. Aphra explained that they knew how to get into Hivebase-1 and that they needed Syndulla's help. Syndulla was curious to know their plan but as Posla was about to explain, Bog opened his compartment and shot out several blasters. Sister Six caught them and started stunning the rebels. In a matter of seconds all the rebels in the room, including Syndulla, were unconscious. Posla had not been told of this plan and was furious. Bog tried to explain why they didn't tell him but Posla wasn't happy about any of it. They almost left the man behind as they escaped with Syndulla. Once they were away from the flight school, Aphra contacted one of the Imperial officers in Hivebase-1 offering a trade with Syndulla.

Personality and traits
"It's not a question of sanity, dear. It's a simple matter of knowing what matters the most."

- Bog chides Sister Six for calling him and Posla insane

What skin Bog had left after his cybernetic reconstruction was fair in color. He entered into a same-sex relationship with the mercenary Tam Posla, and upon meeting Aphra warned her not to disturb his lover as he was listening to what Bog referred to as "his happy tunes". While on Skako Minor, Bog informed Posla of Aphra's criminal history.

Bog refused to kill a fleeing stormtrooper despite orders from Rexa Go, since he was not being paid per kill he made on the mission and the Imperial had broken no law. He and Posla also refused to fight against the chthonic worm god that they encountered in Tambor's laboratory, as it was not covered in their contract. When Sister Six declared that Posla and Bog were crazy while they hid from the god, Bog chastised her and claimed that knowing what mattered the most was more important than sanity.

Equipment
Following his cybernetic reconstruction, Bog lacked a head, instead having orange and white cybernetics built around his neck. His legs and lower abdomen were also replaced with cybernetics, which left a portion of his guts exposed around his waist. Bog carried a blaster while on Jedha, and had a bayonet attached to the weapon while on Skako Minor.

Behind the scenes
Caysin Bog first appeared in the film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, debuting in the first teaser trailer, which was released on April 7, 2016. The trailer scene featuring Bog was not used in the final release of the film, although he can still briefly be seen during the Jedha City ambush. The character was not named in the film but received identification in Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide, a reference book written by Pablo Hidalgo and released on the same day as the film, December 16, 2016.

Appearances

 * 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