Lando Calrissian’s administrative aide, and Cloud City’s computer liaison officer. Lobot has been fitted with a cybernetic implant wrapped around his skull, which increases his intelligence and allows him to directly communicate with most computers, including Cloud City’s central computer core. Lobot assisted Lando in Cloud City’s daily operations and was instrumental in the rescue of Princess Leia and Chewbacca from Imperial forces.

Often considered the real mastermind behind Bespin’s Cloud City Lobot’s life did not always hold the promise of a bright future. He was born the son of a slaver and was apprenticed in hat vile profession early in life. However, when Lobot was only 15, his father was killed by pirates during a raid into an Outer Rim system. The murderers took Lobot captive and forced him into a grueling life of slavery, much as he and his father had done to so many others.

After serving his pirate masters for two years, Lobot managed to escape and fled to Cloud City. Unfortunately, he found himself alone, impoverished, and on the verge of starvation. In order to survive, Lobot became a thief, but the lifestyle did not suit him well and he was soon captured. Although convicted of his crimes, Lobot attracted the attention of Cloud City Baroness Administrator Ellisa Shallence. For quite some time, the Baroness had been troubled by Cloud City’s

Complex computer core, which controlled all of the floating city’s functions but needed constant maintenance, upgrades, and repairs. In Lobot, Shallence saw a solution to her dilemma. The Baroness approached Lobot with an enticing offer: Rather than spend the next several decades in prison, as had been his sentence, Lobot could repay his debt by becoming Cloud City’s first computer-liaison officer. Lobot readily accepted, although he understood that he would be enslaved to Cloud City for quite some time.

To serve his new post, Lobot needed a method for communicating with Cloud City’s central computer core. Thus, he was fitted with numerous cybernetic enhancements including a computer bracket implanted into the back of his head. These modifications drastically increased Lobot’s intelligence and gave him full access to the central core, allowing him to control all of Cloud City’s computers, security devices, comm systems, repulsorlifts, gas-mining equipment, and life-support systems. In exchange for this vast power, the cybernetic enhancements damaged his speech centers, limiting him to brief and infrequent sentences.

For the next fifteen years, Lobot served Cloud City faithfully. Around the time that the Emperor dissolved the Imperial Senate, his case was reviewed by the Bespin authorities and he was officially released from his forced servitude. However, Lobot so enjoyed his new life and position that he chose to remain on Cloud City. His loyalty was rewarded with a promotion and Lobot became the chief administrative aide to the Baron Administrator.

In his new capacity, Lobot served under a variety of Baron Administrators, some of whom did little to improve conditions on Cloud City. When the foppish Baron Administrator Raynor came to power, Lobot began plotting a subtle overthrow. He recognized his opportunity when the gambler Lando Calrissian arrived on Cloud City. Calrissian challenged Raynor to a game of sabacc, with the title of Baron Administrator at stake. Although Lando’s skill at the game placed him at a great advantage over Raynor, Lobot secretly aided the rogue in his endeavor ensuring Lando’s victory.

Almost immediately, Lobot realized that he had made a wise choice in Lando. Under Calrissian, Cloud City began to flourish as profits and production increased dramatically. Lando also introduced gambling casinos and expensive restaurants to the mining colony in order to attract the wealthy from across the galaxy. Although Lando had difficulty parting with his roguish ways and often used Cloud City as the site for illegal transactions, he greatly strengthened the police force to keep violence and petty crimes in check. Together, Lando and Lobot also managed to secretly supply the Rebellion with needed resources and even cleared a group of Rebels falsely accused of murder.

Lando’s dangerous lifestyle eventually caught up with the soldier-of-fortune on Cloud City. On one occasion, the deranged droid EV-9D9 planted bombs throughout Cloud City in order to escape the colony. When a few of these explosives ripped through the floating metropolis, Lando was almost thrown into Bespin’s upper atmosphere where he would have surely died. Fortunately, Lobot was on hand to rescue Calrissian.

Shortly after the Battle of Hoth, Lando and Lobot were faced with a difficult choice between losing their beloved city to Imperial forces or committing a heinous act of betrayal. Darth Vader, the Emperor’s personal enforcer, had arrived on Cloud City and decreed that the colony would fall under the Empire’s rule unless Lando helped Vader capture a group of Rebels, including Calrissian’s old friend, Han Solo. Lando reluctantly agreed and Solo was frozen in carbonite. However, when it became apparent that Vader could not be trusted, Lando planned a desperate escape attempt and turned to Lobot for aid. At Lando’s behest, Lobot gathered a dozen of Calrissian’s most trusted guardsmen. Under the cyborg’s leadership, this strike force ambushed the Imperial troops transporting Princess Leia and the Wookiee Chewbacca to Vader’s personal shuttle. The Imperials were forced to surrender and the Rebels escaped, with Lando in tow. Lobot chose to remain behind, despite the Imperial presence that was sure to materialize.

Over the next year, the Empire took full control of Cloud City and Lobot was again forced into servitude until shortly after the Emperor’s death at the Battle of Endor, when rebellious Ugnaughts finally revolted against Imperial rule. In the ensuing chaos, the Imperials were routed, but Lobot’s motivational-programming capsule was damaged by the Ugnaughts, leaving the cyborg violently deranged. A few months after he destroyed the second Death Star, Lando returned to Cloud City. In his confused state, Lobot ambushed Calrissian, who barely managed to subdue the cyborg. Lando removed and repaired the damaged capsule, restoring Lobot’s sanity. Lobot then used his cyborg abilities to find and disarm 11 bombs that the Ugnaughts had hidden around Cloud City, rescuing the colony from utter destruction.

Shortly after Lobot and Lando were reunited, Cloud City was stormed by Imperial forces under the leadership of Imperial Navy Captain Treece. The officer confronted Lando and, in the subsequent fight, Calrissian was pitched from the floating colony. Lando would have surely died if not for Lobot, who used life-jets to rescue his ill-fated Baron Administrator. After being ousted from Cloud City, Lobot and Lando allied themselves with the Ugnaughts, Luke Skywalker, and Lieutenant Shira Brei. Together this small army defeated Treece, although the Imperial officer managed to shoot Lobot’s headpiece, destroying the cybernetic implant. Lando, of course, had Lobot repaired immediately and the cyborg once again took up his duties as Cloud City’s chief computer-liaison.

About a year after the Battle of Endor, Calrissian lost Cloud City to Zorba the Hutt during a rigged game of sabacc. Rather than remain and serve the vile crime lord, Lobot fled Bespin and disappeared amid the stars. Eleven years later, he finally resurfaced during the Yevethan crisis. Lando had taken it upon himself to plumb the mysteries of the Teljkon vagabond, a ghost ship that always jumped into hyperspace before it could be boarded. With the promise of a "vacation," Calrissian convinced Lobot to join him on the quest. Accompanied by C-3PO and R2-D2, they managed to dock with and board the vagabond, but the quartet was then taken hostage when the ship leapt into hyperspace.

During their efforts to escape, Lobot interfaced with Artoo and learned the droid’s language. Together, the pair communicated with the ship and discovered that it was built by the Qella, a race destroyed by the Empire to prove Imperial might. Although Lobot conversed freely with the vagabond ghostship, he was unable to gain control of the vessel and it appeared as if Lando and his team would be trapped forever. Fortunately, Luke used the Force to prevent the ship from escaping into hyperspace when it appeared at Matha Obex.

Six years after his misadventures aboard the vagabond ghost ship, Lobot was still closely allied with Lando. When Calrissian devised GemDiver station, a mining colony in orbit around Yavin, the cyborg once again became Lando’s chief aide. At one point the industrial complex was visited by Jacen and Jaina Solo Han and Leia’s children, and Chewbacca’s nephew, Lowbacca, all trainees at Luke Skywalker’s Jedi academy. During this field trip, GemDiver was assaulted by Imperial ships and the Dathomir Nightsister Tamith Kai, who wanted to capture and convert the young Jedi. Lobot fought valiantly alongside Lando, but the children were ultimately captured. Guilt-ridden, both men offered to pursue Kai across the galaxy, but the mission had already been assigned to Luke and Tenel Ka, one of the Witches of Dathomir. Undaunted, Lobot decided to devote all of his energies toward ensuring that GemDiver would never again be the setting of a successful invasion.

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