He determined that this group must have been the fugitives he sought, so he took off for Aduba-3. Returning to Telos-4, he discovered a patient named Don-Wan Kihotay mumbling to himself about his team of "heroes" from Aduba-3, which included a droid. This was a concept so alien to Valance, that it filled him with even greater rage. Moreover, he learned how Luke Skywalker was frequently seen in the presence of two droids and regarded them as his equals. As these Rebel fugitives were now wanted by the Empire, Valance knew that capturing them would net him a hefty fee. In the months following the Battle of Yavin, Valance discovered a recording detailing the actions of a small group of Rebels who were responsible for destroying the Empire's super-station the Death Star. In some cases, he would even accept droids as payment, just so he could extract some small measure of satisfaction from blasting them into shrapnel with his heavy artillery. Valance preferred accepting jobs which required the destruction of droids. Striking out on his own, Valance became a bounty hunter and formed his own hunting squad to accompany him on various missions. Valance had always hated droids and other non-sentient "mechanicals", but to be turned into a cyborg himself was more than his sanity could bear. In Valance's perspective, it may very well have killed him, for although he survived, it was only due to a complete cybernetic overhaul. Valance's body was so devastated from the explosion that his fellow Stormtroopers left him at Telos-4 to die. During a skirmish with Rebel forces, he was critically injured by an aerial torpedo dropped from an X-wing fighter. Along with his squadron, he was deployed to the Telos-4 medical station on an outworld system. Beilert Valance was once an Imperial Stormtrooper who hailed from the planet known only as "Shinbone".
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