Pons Limbic/Legends

Pons Limbic, known by the nickname "Braniac" by the smuggler BoShek, was a male Siniteen who was present in Chalmun's Cantina when Luke Skywalker and Han Solo met for the first time. BoShek gave him that name because he could calculate hyperspace jumps without any help of a navigation computer. He was sitting at a table with Arleil Schous, Bom Vimdin, and an unidentified gold-skinned man.

Behind the scenes
During production of A New Hope, the character was referred to as "Brainee," "Cranium Head" and "Crater Head." It was the CCG that first gave him his nickname "Brainiac," and his true name was not revealed until the article "Cantina Roll Call: Shedding Light on Some Alien Aliases" was updated for the 2008 StarWars.com site redesign.

Both the pons and the limbic system are structures within the human brain.

Brainiac is also the name of a character in the DC Universe.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * The Star Wars Holiday Special

Notes and references
Brainiac