Dengar Groth


 * Dengar Groth.webp"Hahahaha! I can't believe I'm gettin' paid for this."
 * ―Dengar, heading into battle

Early Life

Dengar Groth, also known as Dengar the Demolisher, was a human male from the planet Corellia. During his younger years, Dengar got involved with swoop racing. He became very popular very quickly, and enjoyed what he was doing. He loved the thrill, excitement and the sense of danger that came with it. Dengar continued as a swoop racer until the age of 22, when he became a gladiator. He was chosen because of how tough he was believed to be. Dengar wasn’t fond of this however, and left after only a few months. One day, he took a sudden interest in bounty hunting. He was very gifted at the job, and was considered to be a natural.

The Clone Wars

Dengar's bounty hunter career was considered to be at its prime during the galaxy-wide Clone Wars conflict, during which he attained a remarkable track record. He was part of an operation alongside fellow hunters Boba Fett, Bossk, Latts Razzi, C-21 Highsinger, and Oked. The hunters were hired to escort a subtram containing cargo valuable to Otua Blank, the leader of the Belugan people of Quarzite. While preparing for the mission in Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina, Oked was murdered by the wayward dark side user Asajj Ventress, who promptly agreed to take the dead hunter's place on the mission roster.

Dengar and company set off in Bossk's ship, the Hound's Tooth, to Quarzite, where the Belugan Major Rigosso transported the team to the train's subterranean loading dock via a space elevator from an orbital skyhook. Dengar, along with Ventress, were assigned to guard the rear of the train. After unsuccessfully flirting with Ventress, a team of skilled Kage Warriors boarded the train in an attempt to retrieve the cargo. Dengar managed to fight off many of the attackers due to his skilled hand-to-hand combattechniques, and even managed to kill two using sticky explosives. Dengar was eventually overwhelmed by the attackers and was thrown from the train, landing safely on the subterranean surface. Dengar and his allies, who were likewise thrown from the train, returned to the skyhook to await Ventress, who had betrayed the mission objective by swapping the cargo with Boba Fett, who was bound and gagged. Before departing, she hands over the rest of the team's share of unmarked credits.

Dengar was later employed by the Hutts alongside Latts, Embo, and Sugi as protection on Nal Hutta. They were present when the renegade Sith Lords Maul and Savage Opress as well as the Death Watch leader Pre Vizsla came to ally with the Hutts. When the plan went sour, the four bounty hunters attacked, though they were pushed by the Mandalorian's flamethrower. The trio soon received reinforcements and attacked. When the battle was clearly lost, Dengar and Latts saved the beaten Embo and Sugi by covering their escape with smoke bombs. The group of mercenaries fled the Death Watch and their Sith allies.

Around the time of the end of the Clone Wars, Dengar disappeared from circulation for a brief period of time, and was believed to have been recovering from a near-fatal injury.

Return to Corellia

In 15 BBY, Dengar was called to the private tour, where more dangerous challenges awaited him. He was constantly compared to a young swoop jockey on the private circuit named Han Solo. Eager to prove his superiority, Dengar challenged Solo to a winner-takes-all race. On the final stretch of the race, Solo brought his swoop down directly over and in front of Dengar, burning his face in the swoop's exhaust and locking the repulsor fins of both swoops. The maneuver sent Dengar flying off of his swoop, leaving him in a condition so perilous that only the Empire's doctors had the ability to repair him to a near-natural state. Dengar was kicked out of professional swoop racing for engaging in the illegal race. Part of the Racing Circuit eventually became known as Dengar's End, in honor of his accident. With his life in ruins, Dengar became viciously embittered with Solo, upon whom he vowed his vengeance.

As it was, to save his life, Dengar was forced to become part cyborg through Imperial experimentation. The parts of his brain controlling his senses of compassion, mercy, and pity were removed, leaving him an emotionless killer. He was only left with rage, hope and, accidentally, loneliness, the only emotions the Imperial doctors decided he would need to fulfill his new duties as an assassin. Particularly, the doctors allowed him to feel hope at the empty promise that if Dengar was successful in serving the Empire, he would be returned to his old self. He was also fitted with a number of cybernetic implants, such as new, more powerfully-enhanced eyes and ears, and a drug-induced flawless memory, which left him susceptible to hallucinations. His hypothalamus gland was cut out and replaced with a central computer module to control his new systems.

The Galactic Civil War In 3 ABY, Dengar was one of the bounty hunters, alongside Boba Fett, Bossk, IG-88, 4-LOM, and Zuckuss, summoned to the Executor, the Imperial flagship of Darth Vader, who resorted to using hunters to track down the Millennium Falcon, the ship of Captain Han Solo, who slipped away from Vader during the evacuation of Hoth. Dengar was still enraged at Solo and was desperate to claim the bounty, however, he lost out on the bounty to Fett, who delivered the now carbonite-encased Solo to the Hutt crime lord Jabba on Tatooine.

Dengar, Bossk, and Fett were later present at Jabba the Hutt's palace when chaos broke loose after the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker arrived to free Solo. When Jabba's court left to the Great Pit of Carkoon, Dengar decided not to go, a decision that saved his life because the crime lord's sail barge, the Khetanna, was destroyed by Skywalker and his allies.

Cybernetic Surgery

At some point before the Second Galactic Civil War, Dengar underwent cybernetic surgery in an attempt to remain competitive. He continued with his dangerous profession, however, his face was later burned during a mission, and Dengar had to go through surgery again to simply stay alive. The surgery left him barely recognizable. Dengar started operating under the alias Rothgar Deng, to avoid being recognised by those hunting him.

The Second Galactic Civil War

During the Second Galactic Civil War, Dengar was often hired by Kylo Ren, the grandson of his former employer Darth Vader, and the son of his sworn rival Han Solo. In 35 ABY, Dengar visited Kijimi. He was present when Resistance heroes Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron were taking C-3PO to the droidsmith Babu Frik. Later on, Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine would order a Xyston-class Star Destroyer to destroy the planet, as a warning to the Resistance. Dengar walked out the cantina, and saw the planet slowly being torn apart. He then died in the explosion of the planet.