Lobot/Legends

"Am I still the only one around here who knows you can talk?"

- Lando Calrissian

Lobot was the assistant to Lando Calrissian in the administration of Cloud City. His brain was connected to a computer which allowed him to communicate directly with the city's computer network.

Biography
"You think Lobot's mute, but he's just too busy talking to the central computer to bother speaking to us 'organics'"

- Lando Calrissian

Lobot was the son of a slaver, who traveled across the galaxy raiding backward and poor worlds for slaves. At the age of 15, his father was killed when their ship was boarded by pirates. However, Lobot managed to evade capture and eventually ended up at Cloud City in the gas giant of Bespin. There, the young Lobot was arrested by the Bespin Wing Guard for stealing. However, he requested that the Baroness-Administrator Ellisa Shallence preside over his case. Ellisa then sentenced Lobot to 15 years of involuntary service to the Cloud City community and to undergo cyborg augmentation. However, Lobot became one of the most hardworking and loyal employees in Cloud City, and when his sentence was fulfilled, he freely chose to serve his community as its computer liaison officer.



In 1 ABY, Lando Calrissian became Baron Administrator after a game of sabacc with the former Administrator Dominic Raynor, losing his ship, the Cobra, in the process. Eventually, Lobot became Calrissian's aide and a close friend.

In 3 ABY, he was present when Lando Calrissian greeted his former friend Han Solo along with his Rebel companions Princess Leia Organa, Chewbacca and C-3PO. When an Imperial force under Darth Vader arrived and arrested Han and his companions, Lobot was essential in helping a repentant Lando to rescue them and escape from the City.

After the takeover of Cloud City by Imperial forces, he served the Imperial garrison's governor Captain Hugo Treece. However, during an insurrection by the Ugnaughts, his motivational-programming capsule was sabotaged by the Ugnaughts as part of their plot to access Cloud City's central computer. Following that brief insurrection, and with a new mean streak, Lobot vowed to hunt down and dismantle EV-9D9 as payback for the droid's attempted destruction of Cloud City. Stealing a cloud car, Lobot traveled to Jabba's palace on Tatooine but was captured by the Hutt before he was able to complete his mission.

"I am the future."

- A malfunctioning Lobot

Though Jabba at first planned to feed Lobot to his rancor, Tamtel Skreej&mdash;a disguised Lando Calrissian&mdash;spoke up for his former companion and asked that Jabba instead place Lobot in his demolition games. Jabba agreed immediately, but Lobot did not realize that Skreej was his friend in disguise and so the two became fierce rivals in the competition. However, he eventually managed to escape Jabba and make it back to Cloud City. When Calrissian returned to Cloud City following the defeat of the Empire at the Battle of Endor, Lobot's malfunctioning borg implant made him attack his former master and friend Calrissian. However, Lando repaired him and used Lobot's cybernetic abilities to repair the damage inflicted on the city by the Ugnaughts.

Lobot would continue to serve Cloud City even when Zorba the Hutt became Baron Administrator and when the city was retaken by the Empire twice by Grand Admiral Thrawn in 9 ABY during the Thrawn Crisis and by the Empire Reborn in 14 ABY. Thus, he became known for being dependable. Lobot would later became the Baron Administrator of Cloud City for a number of years, through at least 17 ABY, during which time Lobot accompanied Lando Calrissian on a New Republic mission to investigate the mysterious ship codenamed the Teljkon Vagabond which had reappeared near Gmar Askilon. There, Lobot played a major role in discovering that the Vagabond was crafted by the long-extinct Qella species as a "tool kit" for melting their frozen homeworld of Qella which was trapped in an ice age. The circumstances surrounding his giving up the title of Baron Administrator are unknown.

Lobot would continue his adventures with Lando in 19 ABY, this time accompanying Han, Lando and Moegid as spies to to the Imperial Capitol of Bastion to attempt to secure a copy of the original Caamas Document and quell the growing instability of the New Republic. Because of his neural implants he was able to act as a puppet for Moegid's expert computer skills to investigate the Imperial library undetected.

In 23 ABY, Lando established the GemDiver Station which harvested minerals from the gas giant of Yavin. A loyal Lobot would continue to serve Lando there though he would later return to Cloud City where he would remain during the Yuuzhan Vong War.

Behind the scenes
Lobot's only appearance in the Star Wars movies is in The Empire Strikes Back, where he is portrayed by John Hollis.

Appearances



 * Lady Luck
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back  novel
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars 43: The Empire Strikes Back: Betrayal at Bespin
 * Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Han Solo Affair
 * Tag & Bink Are Dead
 * Star Wars 56: Coffin in the Clouds
 * Star Wars 57: Hello, Bespin, Goodbye
 * Star Wars: Demolition
 * A Bad Feeling: The Tale of EV-9D9
 * Lando's Commandos: On Eagles' Wings
 * Before the Storm
 * Shield of Lies
 * Tyrant's Test
 * Specter of the Past
 * Vision of the Future
 * Young Jedi Knights: Shadow Academy