Bane Malar/Legends

Bane Malar was a telepathic male bounty hunter in the employ of the Galactic Empire. He was hired to track down and apprehend any inmates who escaped from the Spice Mines of Kessel&mdash;Malar was quite good at his job, and soon enough mere mention of his name struck fear into the hearts of the inmates. While on Kessel, Malar developed an addiction to glitterstim. Though it enhanced his telepathic abilities, it also made him increasingly paranoid.

While on Kessel, Malar accepted jobs from other entities, such as Jabba Desilijic Tiure and Black Sun. In 4 ABY, Black Sun hired him to assassinate Jabba, and he accepted, making his way to Tatooine. Once reaching Jabba's Palace, where he had an open invitation, he telepathically encountered the Jedi Luke Skywalker. The encounter scared Malar, and he departed Tatooine, ruining the operation. In the hopes of staving off any trouble from Black Sun, he tried to liberate one of their agents from the Spice Mines but failed in the attempt, and was subject to a death mark.

Biography
A male bounty hunter, Bane Malar was hired by the Galactic Empire to monitor and track down escaping prisoners from the Spice Mines of Kessel. He armed himself with a Noslo-19 slug rifle from Czerka Arms and donned a black enviro-suit that gave him an advantage in Kessel's thin atmosphere. In addition to his equipment, he was telepathic, giving him another advantage over his quarry. Malar would track any escaped inmates across Kessel's surface and usually return them. In time, his was greatly feared by those working in the Spice Mines, and those he returned to confinement were usually haunted by him for a considerable amount of time afterward.

Enhancing his abilities was the glitterstim spice from Kessel's mines. The spice allowed him to actually touch the minds of those he targeted, affecting them, and making him an even more effective hunter. Unfortunately for Malar, he became heavily addicted to the glitterstim, to the point where he had to outfit his suit with inhalers, allowing him to enjoy regular doses of the spice. Although his skills continued to be above par, Malar became increasingly paranoid. He began taking contracts from other employers while on Kessel&mdash;if someone the Hutt crime lords wanted dead was working in the spice mines, Malar made sure they were killed while trying to escape. He also made a profit by selling materials to the troops stationed on the planet.

Although he rarely left Kessel, Malar had an open invitation to the palace of Jabba Desilijic Tiure, one of the Hutt crime lords, on Tatooine. He was later offered a considerable sum by the Black Sun crime syndicate to assassinate Jabba in 4 ABY, and, seeing it as a way to obtain more money for spice, Malar accepted the task. Traveling to the Hutt's palace, the bounty hunter planned to kill Jabba by placing some tainted spice in his hookah pipe.

On arrival, he telepathically connected with the Jedi Luke Skywalker, and was given reason to believe that Skywalker would somehow cause his death. The job botched, Malar fled Tatooine and returned to Kessel. In order to placate Black Sun, he attempted to help one of their agents escape from Imperial custody but failed in the attempt. Left with no other choice, Malar was forced to depart from Kessel, the source of his glitterstim, and found that he now had a death mark on his head.

Personality and traits
Despite being proficient in his craft, Malar became highly unstable when addicted to glitterstim, and it affected his ability to operate as a bounty hunter. Nevertheless, he was universally feared by prisoners, due to his telepathic abilities. Malar's addiction evolved to such a stage that he was reluctant to leave Kessel, and his only loves became money and glitterstim.

Behind the scenes
Although the character of Bane Malar is believed to have appeared in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, he did not, being the relic of a deleted scene. Malar was first brought into canon with the "Jabba's Palace Limited" set of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game. The character's story was later elaborated upon by Edward M. Erdelac, writing as "caledre," through StarWars.com's Hyperspace feature, "What's the Story?" Malar was the last Star Wars element put up in the feature, before it finished in 2008. On the Jedi Council Forums, Erdelac mentioned that he had intended to identify the character as a Draethos, but the reference was cut.

A Bane Malar action figure was created for Hasbro's 2008 Star Wars: The Legacy Collection series. In 2009, Malar was illustrated in Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game: Galactic Hunters.

Bane Malar should not be confused with the character Doallyn, whom Chewbacca knocks down the stairs of Jabba's throne room in Return of the Jedi, a common misconception.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi