Lalo Spare Bits

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"Simple logic. Del shot out their hyperdrive. They need a new unit—and we've staked out the closest supply depot in the spaceport. We'll be ready for them when they get here."
―Iden Versio, to her team[1]

Lalo Spare Bits was a supply depot at the black-market spaceport Depatar that sold technology such as hyperdrives. Around 3 ABY, the bounty hunter T'onga and her crew visited Depatar to acquire a new hyperdrive for her ship, the Edgehawk. T'onga and assassin droid 4-LOM planned to shop at Lalo Spare Bits until they were attacked by Inferno Squad, an Imperial unit that had been pursuing them.

Description

Lalo Spare Bits was a supply depot located on a planet, specifically in the black-market spaceport Depatar. The depot sold technology that included hyperdrives. Lalo Spare Bits had a yellow sign with the name of the store written in Aurebesh. Next to the name was a depiction of a gray figure.[1]

History

"For-Elloem, you come with me. I need your help purchasing and carrying back a replacement hyperdrive."
―T'onga enlists 4-LOM to help her buy a new hyperdrive from Lalo Spare Bits[1]
Inferno Squad surveil Lalo Spare Bits

Inferno Squad surveil Lalo Spare Bits

Around 3 ABY,[2] after the hyperdrive of her ship, the Edgehawk, was damaged by the Imperial Special Forces unit Inferno Squad, the bounty hunter T'onga and her crew visited Depatar to acquire a new hyperdrive unit. Inferno Squad traveled to the far side of the planet and planned a stealth attack. After assessing their enemy, Commander Iden Versio, knowing the crew were in need of a replacement hyperdrive, staked out Lalo Spare Bits, as it was the closest depot to the docking bay where the bounty hunters had landed.[1]

T'onga and the assassin droid 4-LOM made their way to Lalo Spare Bits to get the new part. Just as they reached the depot and T'onga identified what they needed, the two were ambushed by Inferno Squad. 4-LOM was quickly rendered immobilized, and after a brief fight between T'onga and Versio, fellow Inferno Squad member Gideon Hask knocked T'onga out after she fled from the area outside of Lalo Spare Bits.[1] Intent on locating T'onga's associate Beilert Valance, Versio disguised herself with T'onga's cloak and, with[3] her seeker droid Dio[4] controlling 4-LOM, returned to the Edgehawk with a hyperdrive unit to surprise-attack the rest of the group, followed closely by both Hask and Del Meeko, the third member of Inferno Squad.[3]

Behind the scenes

Lalo Spare Bits appeared in the thirty-third issue of the 2020 comic series Star Wars: Bounty Hunters. The issue was written by Ethan Sacks, illustrated by Paolo Villanelli, and published by Marvel Comics[1] on April 12, 2023.[5]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Bounty Hunters 33
  2. ↑ The flashbacks of Star Wars (2020) 50 take place approximately twenty-two years after Sheev Palpatine's ascension to Emperor, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 19 BBY, meaning they must occur around 3 ABY. The flashbacks also take place after the events of Star Wars (2020) 43, which occur after the Star Wars: Dark Droids crossover event, an event StarWars.com Charles Soule Unleashes Dark Droids on StarWars.com (backup link) places after Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters, which is dated to 3 ABY by Timelines. As Bounty Hunters 33 takes place between War of the Bounty Hunters and Dark Droids, its events must take place around 3 ABY.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bounty Hunters 34
  4. ↑ Star Wars Battlefront II
  5. ↑ Marvel-TemplateLogo Star Wars: Bounty Hunters (2020) #33 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)