Thune (bounty hunter)

Thune was a female bounty hunter who owned and operated the starship Faceted. She was once hired by Dominic Raynor to hunt down and capture Lando Calrissian following Calrissian's winning of Cloud City from Raynor.

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Thune, named for a Dantoonian pack animal, was a Human female bounty hunter who operated during the Galactic Civil War. Her vehicle of choice was the YT-1300 light freighter Faceted, which featured a heavily modified array of weaponry. To aid her in her work, the bounty hunter employed a crew aboard the ship. Thune invested in an expensive holoprojector, which had the ability to make the Faceted appear to be an Imperial-class Star Destroyer. The bounty hunter also purchased an echo tractor beam, which would allow the Faceted ' s beam systems to mimic those of a Star Destroyer. To further augment the ship's disguise, equipment was installed to mask the ship's appearance on other sensor readings. Thune frequently worked for the Galactic Empire, and made allies throughout the government. In return for her services, her allies made sure that no record was kept on her background.

In 1 ABY, Thune was hired by Dominic Raynor to capture the Baron Administrator of Cloud City, Lando Calrissian, and his cyborg assistant, Lobot. Raynor had been the Baron-Administrator until Calrissian won the title from him in a game of sabacc, with the aid of Lobot. The fee for their capture was 200,000 credits. In preparation, Thune had a homing beacon installed in Calrissian's ship, the Cobra. Raynor had previously sent a Gank to kill Calrissian and Lobot, but it had failed twice. A further attempt was made, when a Human replica droid of Queen Sarna of Drogheda was wired to explode upon meeting Calrissian. In the wake of the third attempt on his life within a week, Calrissian decided to feign his death, and leave Cloud City, so as to discover who was trying to kill him. As the Baron-Administrator and his assistant departed from Bespin in the Cobra, Thune, piloting the Faceted, decided to move in.

Using the ship's holoprojectors, Thune used the Faceted ' s Imperial-class Star Destroyer disguise, and fired upon the Cobra. She then caught Calrissian's ships with her tractor beam, and pulled him into what appeared to be the docking bay of a Star Destroyer. While doing so, Thune hailed Calrissian, and ordered him to deactivate the Cobra ' s engines. The Baron-Administrator did not comply, and responded by firing on the ship's holoprojectors and tractor beam. The Cobra then destroyed one of the gun turrets on the Faceted. Thune, livid at the damage to her ship, opened fire with her highly modified weaponry and severely damaged the Cobra, bringing what she thought was an end to the brief confrontation. She contacted Calrissian once again, and swore that he would pay for what he had done to the Faceted.

She began dispatching her men to board the Cobra, but as they secured an airlock on the Baron-Administrator's ship, Calrissian sent his craft hurtling toward the Faceted. Acting quickly, Thune opened fire, but the Cobra was able to evade the attack, before stopping short just in front of the bounty hunter's freighter. The Cobra then jumped into hyperspace from a standstill, and the resulting flushback disabled some of the Faceted ' s systems, preventing an immediate pursuit. The homing beacon on the Cobra, however, allowed Thune to track Calrissian and Lobot to Quilken in the Roon system. Landing on Quilken, she found the parked Cobra, and gave it a cursory inspection. Breaking and entering, she perused Calrissian's communications logs, and discovered that he was meeting with one Mungo Baobab at the Club Baobab casino.

Making her way to the casino, she entered the gaming room and scanned it for Calrissian, ready to draw her blasater at any instant. She spotted her quarry instructing Baobab in the art of sabacc, and hurriedly made her way over to their table. Thune held both of them at blaster-point, warning Baobab that she would gun him down, even though she was only there to retrieve Calrissian. She sensed movement from one of Club Baobab's security guards, and sprang into action. Rolling across the floor, she managed to hold a drunken Zeltron patron at knifepoint, while pressing her blaster up against Calrissian's forehead. The security guard punitively tried to fire at Thune, but she quickly shot her assailant dead. Another guard attempted to rush the bounty hunter, but she managed to kill him as well.

Personality and traits
"Stow it, Calrissian. I know you fancy yourself a ladies' man, but I'm immune."

- Thune

When dealing with targets such as Lando Calrissian, Thune took on a particularly curt and impatient demeanor. The bounty hunter was immune to Calrissian's charm, and did not engage in pleasantries, instead preferring to simply talk business.

Appearances

 * Lando Calrissian: Idiot's Array