Dud Bolt/Legends

A gruff pilot with a sleek, mean racing machine, Dud Bolt served as Sebulba's midair bodyguard. The Dug would give him a cash bonus for every Podracer he could bring down on the track, with an even further bonus for casualties. As a result, Dud Bolt's racing strategy was not to reach the finish line as quickly as possible, but to aggressively take on anyone who happened to be nearby. In fact, Podracing spectators would typically make bets not on whether or not Dud would finish first, but on how many vehicles he would destroy along the way. It was a slow day for Bolt during the Boonta Eve Classic, in which he only managed to take out one other pilot -- Ark "Bumpy" Roose -- during the third lap and destroyed his own Podracer, a Vulptereen 327, in doing so. Sebulba gave him a hefty bonus for putting the Nuknog out of action, but refused to finance Dud's need to purchase a new racer, and grew less and less forgiving with the Vulptereen as time went on. Eventually, Bolt simply abandoned all ties with Sebulba and went solo, racing his replacement Vulptereen 557 on the courses of Malastare and other worlds. His first priority remained destroying his fellow Podracers, but this was now simply a habit, and not a career in itself. Sebulba, for his part, soon found a new bodyguard in the form of Aldar Beedo. Dud Bolt still watched Sebulba from a close range, and, he eventually got revenge by destroying Sebulba's podracer during a race. Sebulba survived. Unfortunately for the Vulptereen, he crashed later on in the race. He did not survive the crash.

There have been reports about Dud Bolt's supposed survival, since his pod had been seen on one of the screens inside an Outlander club on Coruscant.

Appearances

 * Podracing Tales
 * Star Wars: Episode I Racer
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace