Bastard

"Don't take any chance with this local scum… and keep your blaster ready. These bastards will as soon kill you as look at you."

―Alima to Davin Felth^[src]

Bastard was a Galactic Basic Standard word which referred to a child born from unwed parents,^[1] but was more commonly used as a derogatory slang term to describe a contemptible individual.^[2] As a Basic word, it could also refer to a person or item of unusual or irregular origins.^[1]

Known usesEdit

The information broker Lorn Pavan, while getting intoxicated at the Coruscant bar Green Glowstone Tavern following a botched transaction in 32 BBY, referred to his droid companion I-5YQ as a bastard.^[1] Alima, a Lieutenant with the Galactic Empire who was tracking down with tracing the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 on Tatooine in 0 BBY, used the word in reference to the local residents of Mos Eisley.^[2] Wuher, a bartender at Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina on Mos Eisley, also considered bar owner Chalmun a "cheap bastard" because of his tendency to import only a minimal amount of drinking materials.^[3]

Corran Horn, a pilot with the elite Rogue Squadron of the New Republic, referred to Imperial TIE fighter pilot as bastards during the Second Battle of Borleias in 6 ABY.^[4] Smuggler Booster Terrik once half-affectionately referred to fellow smuggler Talon Karrde as a bastard during a negotiation over whether Karrde would allow Terrik to feed false information to Melina Carniss, a spy for the Imperial leader Ysanne Isard who had infiltrated Karrde's organization.^[5] Tyria Sarkin Tainer, a pilot with the New Republic's Wraith Squadron in 7 ABY, called the Bothan slicer Eurrsk Thri'ag a bastard after Thri'ag offered to slice into her pilot simulation records and improve her scores.^[6]

Wraith pilot Myn Donos also referred to his fellow pilots by that word after they tricked him with an X-wing simulator into reliving a previously traumatic event in which Talon Squadron was wiped out, with the hopes of helping him cope with the tragedy.^[6] During the Black Fleet Crisis, Han Solo referred to Nil Spaar, head of the Duskhan League government during that conflict, as a bastard in 16 ABY.^[7]