Jodo Kast

"You called me a 'fossil'. If you were going to be me, you should have learned from this fossil."

- Boba Fett

Jodo Kast was a bounty hunter active in the Galactic Civil War era. Kast wore modified Mandalorian armor, and was sometimes mistaken for Boba Fett as a result. However, he had no known connection with the Mandalorians. He was an independent bounty hunter, who was known to occasionally work for Black Sun.

Biography


In 5 BBY, when most of the activities of the Rebel Alliance were local affairs, Jodo Kast was actually a SpecOps resistance fighter. However, Kast valued credits over political ideals like justice and freedom. During a messy engagement on Goratak III, Kast killed a bounty hunter named Feskitt Bobb, who he had mistaken for Boba Fett during the confusion. Afterward, he realized his mistake, but the encounter did give him an idea. Using the Mandalorian armor he salvaged from the planet Zaadja, Kast deserted his resistance group and began working as a bounty hunter. He initially impersonated Boba Fett, as a way into the profession, but later began operating under his own name. Early in his career, he worked with two other hunters, the graceful Zardra and the diminutive Puggles Trodd. The trio ran a series of successful hunts before a botched job on Dura-Kahn soured things.

Jodo Kast became a successful bounty hunter, though he was particularly known for two incidents where he failed to capture his target. The first was an attempt to capture Doctor Evazan on Corellia. Kast did manage to scar Evazan with a blaster bolt to the face, but the capture was foiled by Ponda Baba's interference. The second incident was a manhunt on Tatooine commissioned by the Galactic Empire, with retired Old Republic naval strategist Adar Tallon as the target. Despite the impressive array of bounty hunters sent on the hunt, including Kast, Zardra, Trodd and IG-72, Tallon managed to escape to the Rebellion. Despite these major failures, Kast maintained a fearsome enough reputation that Grand Admiral Thrawn impersonated Kast in 3 ABY when he needed to disguise himself as a bounty hunter. With his track record, Kast grew arrogant. The fact that his bounties were rarely first rate hardly bothered him. In 6 ABY, Kast ultimately out-smarted himself. By this time, believing Boba Fett to have died after his encounter with the Sarlacc on Tatooine, he had started to impersonate the infamous Mandalorian again. On Nal Hutta, the overconfident hunter allowed Boba Fett to lure him into a trap. There, the Mandalorian beat him, took his armor, and left him to die in an explosion.

Starship
Jodo Kast piloted a heavily modified Lambda-class T-4a shuttle. All three wings were shortened considerably, and six Incom 4L4 fusial thrust engines were mounted on its wings and body. The ship's armament was increased by adding two additional laser cannons on the wings, for a total of twelve.

Appearances

 * The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook
 * One that Got Away
 * Tatooine Manhunt
 * Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi
 * Side Trip in Tales from the Empire (as impersonated by Thrawn)
 * Cloud Cover
 * Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction