Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #42
Star Wars has revealed that Jabba the Hutt has something far worse than his pet rancor. Held in a dungeon underneath Jabba’s palace, the monstrous rancor was fed with anyone who displeased Jabba and fell through the trap door before his throne. However, Jabba had another prized monster that could have made him even more powerful across the galaxy than he already was.
As seen in the final issue of Star Wars: Bounty Hunters by Ethan Sacks, Jethro Morales & Paolo Villanelli, the cyborg bounty hunter Beliert Valance broke into Jabba’s palace. While Valance was subsequently captured, Boba Fett suggested that the Jabba should make an example of the cyborg by unveiling his new prize.
Wanting to send a message to his rivals and other crime syndicates, Jabba forced Beliert Valance to publically fight the very thing he’d come for: the Hutt gangster’s brand-new Megadroid.
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Jabba’s Megadroid Was An Absolute Powerhouse
A Forgotten Superweapon From The Clone Wars
A rare relic from the Clone Wars, the Megadroid was an extremely powerful battle droid created by the Separatists, though it was never mass-produced thanks to Jedi Grandmaster Yoda and Anakin Skywalker who destroyed the crucial factory where they were being built. Having recovered the only prototype, Jabba had the Megadroid upgraded with all sorts of weapons and upgrades, including an extremely advanced neural core. As such, the superweapon was meant to provide Jabba with even more control over the galaxy through fear and sheer firepower.
However, facing the Megadroid was exactly what Valance wanted, and even Boba Fett was in on the plan from the start by giving Jabba the idea in the first place (a bid to remain Jabba’s favorite enforcer). Thanks to his team of hunters and a specially modified blaster capable of piercing the Megadroid’s durasteel armor, Valance used the droid’s weapons against it and ripped out the neural core, destroying Jabba’s powerful “guard dog”. To that end, this was all done so Luke Skywalker’s mission to rescue Han Solo would have a chance at success in Return of the Jedi.
Jabba Almost Had Absolute Power Over The Galactic Underworld
The Pykes Were Ready To Pay Even More
Unfortunately, Jabba the Hutt did not receive the absolute power he was looking for with his Megadroid’s defeat. However, the final issue of Bounty Hunters does provide proof that other criminal factions would have bent the knee. Hilariously, the Pykes took one look at the Megadroid and were instantly ready to pay out even more than they already were as tribute to the Hutt gangster. Instead, all Jabba had was his rancor in Return of the Jedi which was subsequently killed by Luke Skywalker before Jabba himself was murdered by Princess Leia.
Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #42 is available now from Marvel Comics.
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