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a stocky, humanoid BLX-5 robot with long arms and a broad torso, Bollux led an adventurous existence. He was first activated at the shipyards of Fondor, many years before the Battle of Naboo. Because of a number of coincidences, Bollux never received the mandatory memory wipe all droids required, and his personality continued to grow and change. After serving as a maintenance technician, and later as a regimental commander during the Clone Wars, Bollux was later deemed obsolete and sold off. He was purchased by Klaus "Doc" Vandangante and his daughter, Jessa, who did some further modifications to Bollux and eventually gave him the nickname "Bollux," after all the trouble they had getting him operational. During the early years of the New Order, Han Solo was contracted by Jessa to help locate the people stolen by the Corporate Sector Authority. Bollux was Han's primary cargo, serving as a transport disguise for the small supercomputer, Blue Max. Bollux's central cavity was modified to allow Blue Max to be placed inside Bollux's body, which was protected by a plastron plate. While on the mission, Bollux was forced to portray a gladiator droid known as the Annihilator at the Stars' End facility, in order to appease the gruesome entertainment requirements of Viceprex Hirken. During the escape from Stars' End, Bollux was nearly destroyed when Uul-Rha-Shan hit him with a blaster bolt. In an act of self-preservation, Bollux downloaded his entire memory core into Blue Max before shutting down completely. Although its computer systems were destroyed, Bollux was later repaired by Jessa's team and given a new carcass. Because Bollux had fufilled his mission, Doc and Jessa manumitted the droid, as well as Blue Max. The pair decided to see the galaxy, and asked Han Solo to accept them as ship's helpers. Han overrode his instinctual distrust of automatons, after witnessing the two droids' loyalty and talent, and accepted them as crewmembers. They proved invaluable a number of times, helping to incapacitate Zlarb and his thugs on Lur. They were also able to communicate with the Millennium Falcon, and helped to keep it operating at top condition. When Han and Chewie set off to find the Queen of Ranroon, Bollux again proved his worth, finding a way to destroy the Guardian Corp of war-robots. Following the discovery of the Queen of Ranroon, Blue Max and Bollux left Han Solo and went with Skynx to help the Ruurian finish his studies before becoming a chroma-wing flier.