KMC Forums - ESB Bounty Hunters, no Boba Fett

A. I think it would have been Dengar - if I remember correctly, he found the Millenium Falcon before Boba did, and Boba attacked Dengar's spaceship and incapacitated it. Even so, Dengar made it to Cloud City before the end of ESB. Zuckess and 4-Lom never even made it all the way to Cloud City; neither did Bossk. IG-88, however, did make it there, and attempted to take down Fett, so he could maybe win this, too, if he goes to Cloud City and takes out Dengar, and then takes the Bounty.

B. For #1 I think that Bossk would go down first - he doesn't seem as impressive as the others, and is alone. Zuckess and 4-Lom, even as a team, are the next weakest - Zuckess has bad lungs - although he has quote a few weapons, IG-88 still has a lot more and is betetr at using them, too. I don't know a lot about 4-Lom, but I doubt he is greater than IG-88 - he is just a protocol droid, after all.

Since even together 4-Lom and Zuckess would lose, naturally they and Bossk would be the first 3 down in #2 as well - not sure about the order.

Either way it ends up being: Dengar vs. IG-88:
Dengar is really impressive, likely a lot more impressive than a lot of people realize. He got into a Swoop Racing Accident when he was younger and had been forced to become part cyborg. He was an Asassin for the Empire for some time. During much of his career he was considered more ruthless than Boba Fett himself, and usually performed assassinations rather than live captures. Dengar's carried a Valken-38 blaster rifle, a blaster like Han Solo's, concussion grenades and a vibroblade.

In Payback: The Tale of Dengar is says: "He saw better, heard much that was inaudible to men with lesser ears. And he felt... almost nothing. Little pain. Little fear. No guilt. No love. They'd sought to make him a perfect assassin". In the book, he also runs one kilometer (0.621371192 miles) in "but a few seconds". In the story, Sinick Kritkeen "reached down to his hip, to press a portable alarm that would call more stormtroopers. Before he could blink, Dengar crossed ten paces of ground, then reached down and snapped Kritkeen's index finger. Dengar pulled the alarm from Kritkeen's belt, placed it in his own pocket. Then Dengar pulled his blaster with one hand and shoved the barrel into Kritkeen's mouth until it clicked against the enamel of his teeth. All of these actions took him less than a second."

A few pages later: "Kritkeen swiveled his weapon, fired. Dengar watched the barrel, calculated where the shot would hit, and found that he had to step aside to avoid taking a blast in the chest. The white-hot blaster fire sizzled past him, and Dengar moved back into place so quickly that Kritkeen cried out in shock, believing that the blaster bolt had somehow gone through Dengar. Dengar stepped forward, pulled the blaster from Kritkeen's hands, and lifted the man off the ground with one hand."

At the same time, however, this is how much stuff IG-88 has:
*BlasTech DLT-20A blaster rifle
* Flamethrower
* Pulse cannon
* DAS-430 electromagnetic projectile launcher
* Repeating blaster
* Sonic stunner
* Paralysis cord
* Poison gas
* Concussion grenades
* Throwing flechettes
* Trifaraleen gas
* Computer input port
* Ability to alter body temperature at will
* Blaster reflective palms
* Highly advanced trackers
* Armor nearly impenetrable from external attack

Yes, his armor is nearly completely invulnerable to attacks - Dengar's Vibroblade and blaster are esentially useless against IG-88. His blaster rifle might do a little damage, but it'd take loads of hits with it to take down IG-88. The Grenades could do to job, but Dengar only has a limited supply of those, which IG-88 could run away from. So while Dengar would have a hell of a time taking down IG088 because of his armor, IG-88 can't hit an opponent who can move fats enough to dodge blaster bolts. And yes, he can deflect blaster bolts off his palms and direct them abcm on the attacker, like what Jedi do with lightsabers and blaster bolts. The first IG-88 to be activated, without weapons, wtf pwnd 15 technicians at once. Sure they were just technicians, they stood no chance - even when one of them grabbed a blaster rifle, "Loruss pointed the rifle and fired without hesittion -- but a human's aiming capabilities were not as sophisticated as IG-88's. As the bolt roared toward him, IG-88 assessed his body parts, chose the smooth reflective portion on the palm of his left hand, and raised it in a flash, calculating the precise angle of incidence. The burning laser bolt struck the mirrorized hand and spanged back toward Loruss. The beam struck her in the center of her bald forehead, and her skull popped in an explosion of wet black-and-red smoke.". During the battle, IG-88 "moved with blurring speed". Against Dengar, if he just pointed both of the repeating blasters mounter to his wrists at Dengar and opened fire at him, well, sooner or later he'd be bound to hit him, right? Dengar couldn't dodge him forever. Though on Ednor he could dodge him for a while probably. If IG-88 let out Poison gas Dengar could get miles away from it in a few seconds and then find IG-88 later and atatck him again. So definitely a close fight, but I see IG-88 winning it.