Laze Loneozner/Legends

"...Skywalker...You made it off this sandpile. But Camie an' me are stuck here... We've got to get by as best we can!"

- Fixer

Laze Loneozner, better known as Fixer, was a skilled mechanic and one of Luke Skywalker's childhood friends. Laze was the husband of Camie.

King of the sandsurfers
"That guy's crazy, but boy can he surf!"

- Biggs Darklighter

As a kid, Fixer was tired of always being beaten at everything by his friends Luke and Biggs, so he created his own sport, "sandsurfing," that he could be the best at. In the sport, a person would wear repulsor disks on their feet and would grab on to a set of handles that connected to a sand skiff by a thin cord. As the skiff moved along, the "surfer" would perform all manners of flips and tricks. But as it turned out, Biggs and Luke were also quite good at sandsurfing. When Biggs did three double-flips in a row, even Camie was impressed, and she hung on Biggs' arm when they returned to Tosche Station later to celebrate. This pushed Fixer over the edge; Camie was his girl! So the next morning they all went out to the Dune Sea where Fixer claimed he would attempt the "greatest stunt of all time." He had programmed a skiff's autopilot to drive itself.

His run started out well, with him performing loops, a half-moon, and even a double backwards loop (which no one had ever done before). After all that, his friends thought he was done, so they went to congratualte him. But then the skiff sped up and took a sharp turn, heading itself for the Pit of Carkoon. Unable to stop him, all his friends could do was watch. Fixer had planned the whole thing and had already prepared ramps of sand on both sides of the pit. While he hit the first ramp perfectly, he fell a half meter short of the landing and he hit the side of the pit, engulfed in an explosion of sand. Camie, tears streaming down her face, would have dived in after him had Luke not stopped her. Biggs flew his skiff over to the unconscious Fixer, who was slowly sliding down to the mouth of the Sarlacc. The situation got even worse when the Sarlacc started probing the sand with one of its tentacles. Biggs tied a cord around his waist and jumped down into the pit, being careful not to shift the sand and cause Fixer to slide even faster. Just as Biggs reached him, the Sarlacc's tentacle wrapped around Fixer's chest. Biggs whipped out his vibroblade, but as he went after the tentacle, more and more tentacles went after him. Then Luke grabbed his punch gun and, despite the bad angle and long range, shot the tentacle that was holding his friend. Luke then took off in the skiff, pulling both his friends to safety. Fixer suffered only a minor concussion and a broken nose—the first from the crash, the latter from Camie after he healed from the concussion. Though he was fully recovered in two weeks, he spent the next month at home, grounded for being so reckless. Biggs and Luke had no problem admitting that Fixer was indeed the king of the sandsurfers and that they couldn't duplicate his stunt, but that just didn't make Fixer feel quite as good as he thought it would.

The war comes to Tatooine
Fixer had a job at Tosche Station in Anchorhead. Since the owner, Merl Tosche, was rarely around, and neither were many customers, Fixer pretty much ran the place himself. He and his friends usually worked on their skyhoppers or landspeeders there. Fixer had a five-engined landspeeder, and he was also secretly rebuilding a Podracer that he planned to sell for a very high price in Mos Espa in order to have enough money to throw a huge wedding for him and Camie.

The day Biggs Darklighter returned home from his training at the Imperial Academy and went to Tosche Station, Fixer and Camie were lounging around when Luke Skywalker, whom they more often referred to as "Wormie," walked in to tell everyone about the space battle he had just seen. The four of them walked outside to check it out, but while the other three all looked through a pair of electrobinoculars, Fixer wasn't interested enough to look, and instead kept his attention on Camie. As they went back inside, he told Luke that he doubted if the Empire would even fight to save the system. A number of weeks later, Fixer and Camie got married. Fixer quit his job at Tosche Station when TaggeCo came to Tatooine and started buying up moisture farms. Tagge set him and Camie up at the Darklighters' old home and made Fixer a caretaker for their new properties, one of which was the old Lars homestead. Fixer was at the Lars house one day when he caught someone snooping around. He pulled a blaster on the trespasser, but when he had the traveler toss his own blaster, the man spun around and destroyed Fixer's gun with a lightsaber. This intruder turned out to be none other than Fixer's old friend, Luke Skywalker. He told Luke about his new business, but when Imperials started to show up, Luke had to run. Though Fixer didn't have much use for politics, he felt he had to do whatever he could to protect his job. He caught up with Luke in Mos Eisley to warn him: because he suspected Luke of being a Rebel, he and Camie sold him out to the Empire.

Behind the scenes
The Anchorhead scene from A New Hope has been portrayed more or less the same in every adaptation over the years. However, the creators of the comic Darklighter decided to change the previously established events. In the comic, when Biggs Darklighter returned to to Tosche Station, Camie joyfully greeted him with a kiss on the cheek. But she was getting to close for Fixer, and he told her to cut it out and quickly jumped out of his seat, pushed his girlfriend out of the way, and grabbed Biggs' jacket. He was ready to let loose on him when Luke walked in to report the space battle he had just seen.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Empire: Darklighter
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (novel)
 * Classic Star Wars: A New Hope
 * ''Tales from Mos Eisley
 * We Don't Do Weddings: The Band's Tale
 * Marvel Star Wars 31: Return to Tatooine
 * Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike