Tobias Beckett
Tobias Beckett is a male film character who features in Star Wars.
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Biography
Tobias Beckett was a male human born a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. He was a native of Glee Anselm where he grew up to be a professional thief.
He and his crew saw an opportunity for a big score which was to steal coaxium from an Imperial conveyex on Vandor. However, lifting a cargo car off the tracks would not be easy. To pull it off, Beckett, Val and Rio Durant decided to head to the battlefields of Mimban in order to steal an AT-hauler. At the time, the Galactic Empire was engaged in a campaign with the Mimbanese Liberation Army. Beckett disguised himself as a captain of the Imperial Army while the others disguised themselves as troopers. At some point during a battle, Beckett asked who was in charge, since their commanding officer had recently perished. Han Solo, a mudtrooper with the 224th Imperial Armored Division, informed Beckett that he was in fact the ranking officer, which amused his cohorts. Beckett led the Imperials successfully through the battle. Later, while observing an AT-hauler, he was approached by the young Solo, who wanted to join their crew. However, when Solo pressed the point by threatening to expose Beckett as an impostor, Beckett used his phony rank to have Solo locked up for desertion. Solo was put in a chamber, where he was to be fed to the Wookiee Chewbacca. Solo ultimately was able to escape with Chewbacca. Beckett left with his crew, stealing the AT-hauler they observed earlier, but while in mid-takeoff they found Solo and Chewbacca running towards them, waving for them to let them onto the ship. Beckett ordered Durant to lower the hauler to let Solo and Chewbacca board.
Beckett was instructed to retrieve a crate of coaxium from a 20-T Railcrawler conveyex transport on the planet Vandor; he went on this mission with Val, Durant, Solo and Chewbacca. Upon arriving at Vandor, the crew ate dinner over a campfire and had a brief conversation about Solo's and Chewbacca's motivation for participating in the mission. Solo simply stated that there was someone he left on Corellia and that he wanted to return there to free her from her horrible life there. Val stated that everyone needed someone, even Beckett. Beckett began deconstructing one of his blasters and chucked it to Solo. In the morning, Beckett, Val and Solo observed the transport carrying the coaxium as well as some patrolling viper droids, while discussing the plan for the heist. The conveyex was moving towards a bridge over a ravine. The plan was for Val to place explosives on the supports of the bridge. The other members of the crew were to board the conveyex and attach cables from the carriage which contained the coaxium to their ship. Then, as the conveyex neared the bridge, Val was to destroy the bridge while the crew disconnected the coaxium carriage from the rest of the conveyex, allowing the ship to lift the target carriage away while the rest of the conveyex fell to the bottom of the ravine. Val noted that if the viper droids were alerted, the heist would become much more difficult, prompting Solo to also survey the viper droids.
Soon the heist began. Val went further up the track to place thermal detonators, Durant flew their ship over the transport, and Beckett, Solo and Chewbacca leapt aboard the transport. They opened up a hatch and gazed upon the coaxium inside, enough to power a whole fleet. A fight ensued with range troopers aboard the transport, but Chewbacca disconnected the troopers' portion of the conveyex, leaving them behind as the rest of the conveyex moved onwards. The crew then connected four cables from their ship to the last carriage of the conveyex in order to lift it. The heist did not proceed smoothly, however, as Val spotted the Cloud-Riders, led by Nest, moving towards the conveyex. One Cloud-Rider boarded the crew's ship and had a brief firefight with Durant, who was gravely injured, diminishing his ability to pilot the ship. Val was surrounded by a swarm of viper droids. She told Beckett over the comm how much she loved him, and detonated the explosives while still near them. Solo took Durant's place as pilot and tried carrying the shipment with only one cable attached to the carriage. Nest and the Cloud-Riders had cut off the other three and replaced them with their own. Shortly afterwards, Durant also perished from the wounds he sustained in the battle.
Chewbacca uncoupled the carriage from the others so that they could lift the shipment off the tracks. Solo and the Cloud-Riders had to eventually lift the shipment, for they were running out of track. Both tried to take the shipment with them but failed as they were both pulling opposite directions. As both Solo and the Cloud-Riders neared a mountain, Solo detached the shipment of coaxium, fearing a crash. The Cloud-Riders did so as well resulting in the coaxium being lost to everyone as a result. After they landed, Beckett made tombstones in remembrance of his fallen comrades. Tobias then reported to Vos and was able to avoid execution by promising to retrieve unrefined coaxium from Kessel. Beckett had to make room for Qi'ra on his crew in accordance with Vos' wishes. Taken to Kessel by Calrissian and L3-37 on the Millennium Falcon, Beckett, posing as a guard named Tuul, successfully obtained the necessary amount of coaxium and traveled with his accomplices to Savareen so the unstable material could be refined and they could rendezvous with Vos. During the mission, Beckett posed as a guard for Qi'ra, directing the fake captives, Solo and Chewie, out of the Falcon. He later followed Qi'ra, L3, Quay Tolsite, a Pyke who administered the Pyke Syndicate's operations on Kessel, and his guards. While Qi'ra went into another room to negotiate with Tolsite, Beckett took out the guards, then watched Qi'ra fight Tolsite. After a moment of unnerving silence from the room, he opened the door, only to be astonished to see Tolsite lying on the floor with Qi'ra walking out of the room telling him that Vos had taught her Teräs Käsi. Once they got to the consoles to help Solo get to the vault of coaxium, L3 freed some slave droids, who also freed the other slaves in the mine. The slaves rebelled against the guards, allowing Beckett and the others to escape aboard the Millennium Falcon.
Overview
Personality and attributes
He was always aware of the angles and uncertainties.
Beckett was always ready to unholster his blasters if something were to go wrong and always recognised such a possibility.
Tobias had learned the hard way that trust had its limits.
Beckett is great at manipulating people and improvising during tough situations during the Mimban Campaign, Beckett manages to convince several mudtroopers that he is the "captain" after Solo points it out and shows remarkable leadership skills that lead to the Imperial victory.
According to underworld rumor, the legendary bounty hunter Aurra Sing met her end because of Beckett’s pistols.
Powers and abilities
Tobias Beckett was born a human being with all the natural traits of the species. By adulthood, he was a capable fighter who often drew blasters in both hands. This led to his life as a professional thief and a skilled gunslinger.
As a dual wielder, he tended to use the DG-29 Sideloader Heavy Blaster Pistol in his left hand that sported an image-intensifying macroscope for long-range shots. Meanwhile, his right hand made use of a RSKF-44 Heavy Blaster Pistol whose end was ringed with colors left by oxidation from heat exposure.
Notes
- Tobias Beckett was created by Jonathan Kasdan and Lawrence Kasdan where he was portrayed by actor Woody Harrelson in Rogue One (2016).
- According to screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan and Jon Kasdan, Beckett is based on Long John Silver, the main antagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.
Appearances
- Solo: A Star Wars Story: (2018)
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