Boba Fett/Legends

Boba Fett (32 BBY&mdash;) was an unaltered clone of Jango Fett, a skilled bounty hunter, and later leader of the Mandalorians. Boba was raised by Jango as his son until Jango's death.

Early Years (32 BBY to 19 BBY)
Boba was an unaltered clone ordered by his "father", Jango Fett, before the start of the Clone Wars. As a young boy, he grew up on the planet Kamino, and was cared for by a Kaminoan, Taun We, who ultimately took on the role of being a mother to him. When Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi went to Kamino to investigate the mysterious creation of a Clone Army for the Republic, Jango realized that he had to leave before the Jedi unraveled the mystery behind the attacks on Senator Padmé Amidala. After narrowly escaping, the two blasted off the planet in their ship, Slave I.

En route to Geonosis, they realized that Kenobi had tracked them there. Boba encouraged and intently watched his father outsmart and outmaneuver the Jedi and eventually watched what they thought was the death of Kenobi. During the Battle of Geonosis, Boba stood with Jango on the platform in the arena with Count Dooku and several Separatist leaders. When Jedi Master Mace Windu arrived, Jango kept Boba from harm as the Jedi task force attempted to rescue the captive Obi-Wan, Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala. During the battle, Boba watched his father get trampled by a Reek, and eventually decapitated by the lightsaber of Mace Windu when Jango attempted to challenge him.

After Geonosis, Boba sought out Darth Tyranus to claim the rest of his father's payment. He spent a short amount of time in the custody of the Sith Lord before venturing on his own to begin his career at an early age, already making modifications to both the Slave I and the Mandalorian armor inherited from his father. He met his future employer Jabba Desilijic Tiure, fought the Separatist commander General Grievous and lost, and had several minor bounties under his belt before the age of thirteen.

Early Imperial Era (19 BBY to 0 BBY)
For years to come, Boba stayed on the run from bounty hunters and assassins. Eventually he found the Mandalorian armor of Jango's old mentor and leader, Jaster Mereel. Along with his new attire, he had honed his skills as an assassin and mercenary, which would one day make him the most feared and sinister bounty hunter in the galaxy.

For a time Fett worked for Malorum, a vicious Imperial Inquisitor, operating on far flung worlds such as Polis Massa, Naboo and Bellassa.

For a time between the Clone Wars and the Galactic Civil War, Boba took a leave of absence from the hunt, and attempted to live a normal life on the world of Concord Dawn. He attained the rank of Journeyman Protector and as such was mistaken by many to be the long-dead Jaster Mereel, the mentor of Boba's dead father.

It was during this time that Boba met Sintas Vel, a Kiffar bounty hunter, in what was perhaps Boba's only true close relationship since the death of his father. Boba and Sintas eventually married and had a daughter - Ailyn Vel. Unfortunately, the marriage did not last.

The title of Journeyman Protector was stripped from Fett after he had killed another fellow Protector, and he was forced to leave the planet in exile. All alone in the galaxy once again, Boba hoped to banish the disappointing memories of his failed attempt at a "normal" life through honing his craft.

Following this incident, he enrolled at-or infiltrated-the Imperial Academy on Carida. He became a stormtrooper, but deserted after he killed his commanding officer.



Early Galactic Civil War (0 BBY to 4 ABY)
He eventually returned to the occupation of a bounty hunter, earning a place in the palace of the crime lord Jabba the Hutt. As a member of Jabba's gang, he accompanied the Hutt to confront smuggler, and long time rival of Fett, Han Solo, about a spice shipment he failed to deliver. Later, Boba Fett was employed by the Empire to track down and capture Han Solo.

He was the only hunter to figure out how the Falcon eluded Imperial pursuit by hiding among garbage (no doubt due to observing Obi-Wan Kenobi playing a similar feint on Jango over twenty years ago) and tracked the ship to Cloud City on Bespin.

In his pursuit, he followed the Millennium Falcon to Cloud City where he informed Darth Vader of their destination, and in response, Vader then sent a detachment of Stormtroopers to infiltrate the city. When Vader arrived, he forced the city's leader, Lando Calrissian into a twisted agreement that left him no other choice but to betray Solo and his friends, including selling him out to Fett. After the capture of Solo and his companions, Lord Vader used Solo as a test subject for carbon freezing that he would later use on Luke Skywalker.

After finding that Solo survived the freezing process, Vader gave him to Boba Fett who in turn returned him to Jabba for a hefty bounty that had been placed on him. Jabba was so pleased that he could display the captured Solo that he paid 250,000 credits for him, rather than the original 100,000 credit bounty. This was in addition to the hefty bounty the Empire had already paid him.

When Princess Leia Organa, Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, and Luke Skywalker attempted to rescue the frozen Solo from Jabba's Palace, they were captured, with Jabba finding different ways to dispose of each of the ertswhile heroes.

Fett remained on-guard, but found his stay entertaining, flirting with dancers and even laughing along with Jabba as Luke battled the vicious rancor. When Luke killed the monster, an outraged Jabba sentenced Luke, Han and Chewbacca to be cast into the Pit of Carkoon where the ghastly Sarlacc lived. Luke staged his own rescue and Fett attempted to stop them along with several of Jabba's hapless guards.

While he fired at Luke, in his obsession with killing Jedi he failed to notice that Solo, still blind from hibernation sickness, accidentally activated Fett's jet pack, rocketing him against the sail barge and down to the sand, rolling right into the waiting maw of the Sarlacc.



Late Galactic Civil War (4 ABY to 19 ABY)
Although accounted for dead, Fett survived the clutches of the foul beast and went on to continue his career. He managed to blast his way out with Velken Tezeri after days of agony, barely alive. As he lay dying on the surface of Tatooine, fellow hunter Dengar, found him and nursed him back to health.

In return for this rescue, Fett allowed Dengar to accompany him on a mission to apprehend wealthy industrialist Kuat of Kuat. As for Velken, he left Dengar to live with his cousin, Malakili. For the mission Fett stole the freighter Hound's Tooth from his rival Bossk, leaving Slave I behind on Tatooine. The ship fell into Alliance hands and rusted in an impound lot on Grakouine. He would subsequently use three more ships bearing the name during his career, until he eventually recovered the original.

Six years passed until Han Solo discovered his nemesis was still alive. During the clone Emperor's reign of terror, Fett took a new bounty on Solo. Along with Dengar, he surprised his target on the moon of Nar Shaddaa, but once again Solo escaped.

During this time, Fett took on a number of assigments from Gorga the Hutt. While working for Gorga, he captured Bar-Kooda with the aid of Wim Magwit, Toxus Li, and saved Anachro from kidnappers. However, Solo would never leave the back of Fett's mind.

They would meet again in 19 ABY, when, after securing his financial situation by collecting a five million credit bounty on the Devaronian criminal known as The Butcher of Montellian Serat, Solo and Fett faced each other on Jubilar.

Ultimately, both combatants agreed to drop their long-standing feud and go their separate ways. Fett even elected to retire from the hunting business, but when he returned to Kamino to have his bad leg replaced, the Kaminoan cloner he saw - his old associate, Taun We, had other ideas. Remembering had the Mandalorian attacks on Kamino during the Clone Wars, Taun We asked Fett to hunt down the last surviving Mandalorian responsible - Fenn Shysa.

On the planet of Shogun, both Fenn Shysa and Boba Fett met. The details of their encounter are unknown to this day, but Shysa met his death - not at Fett's hands, but, ironically, by saving Fett from an unknown threat.

Post Galactic Civil War (From 19 ABY)
Boba would return to Concord Dawn, and, gathering recruits from there and other worlds, ascended to the rank of Mandalore, reforming the scattered Mandalorian clans. He was retired from the game by now, but his estranged daughter, Ailyn Vel, would begin to pose as him in her own career, trading off his reputation like Jodo Kast had before.

Boba Fett surfaced again in the Yuuzhan Vong war, where he and his Mandalorian warriors aided Fett's old enemy, Han Solo. It's also known that Boba and his Mandalorian Protectors helped liberate a few planets from the Yuuzhan Vong like Gyndine and Tholatin.

Physical appearance
As an adult, Boba Fett stood 1.83 meters tall. He was garbed in traditional Mandalorian armor with a string of Wookiee scalps at his shoulder. Fett owned a variety of specially-modified starcraft bearing the names Slave I through IV.

Despite his weapon-laden suit of armor, Fett was a subtle hunter and relied more on his cunning and intelligence than on pure muscle and combat skill. Speaking with a raspy, gravelly voice, Fett allowed few to see his face and even less to know his origins, giving the hunter a mysterious aura and a psychological edge over his prey.

Though Boba was a perfect genetic clone of Jango Fett, a different lifestyle produced some changes from his father's appearance: while Jango was focused on combat skill, Boba's emphasis on wit over muscle gave him a thinner build.

Even with the thinner build, Boba Fett was usually operating at peak human fitness. He had enough strength to hold Bossk (an infamous Trandoshan bounty hunter whose species is known for its brute physical power) at bay.

Boba's face remained hidden, but it was a given that he looked more or less like his father did. Beyond his actual features, Fett's face may have had less or more scars, tattoos, or facial hair. Even though Jango Fett's face was well-known, this only gives a very basic idea of what Boba Fett may have looked like.

Behind the scenes
Boba Fett's first appearance on-screen was in a cartoon as part of The Star Wars Holiday Special, an element of Star Wars that apparently George Lucas would prefer to have forgotten. His popularity and mystique are also contributed to by the fact that Kenner released a Boba Fett action figure before The Empire Strikes Back was released. His first live appearance in a Star Wars movie was in The Empire Strikes Back, in which his name is not actually heard in the dialogue. He is first seen as one of a group of bounty hunters hired by Darth Vader to track down Han Solo and the crew of the Millennium Falcon ("I want them alive. No disintegrations!").

Fett's dialogue in The Empire Strikes Back, indeed in the entire original trilogy, consisted of the lines "As you wish", "He's no good to me dead", "What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me" and "Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold", in that order.

In Return of the Jedi, Boba Fett was at Jabba the Hutt's palace when Luke, Princess Leia, and Chewbacca rescued Han from his carbon prison.

When the special edition of Star Wars was released in 1997, a scene with Han Solo, and Jabba the Hutt was added to the film, before the Millennium Falcon took off from Mos Eisley, in which Boba Fett is shown in Jabba's retinue to improve the trilogy's continuity. Additional shots of Fett in Jabba's palace were filmed for the Return of the Jedi Special Edition.

Boba Fett's origin is revealed in Attack of the Clones. Boba is the son of bounty hunter Jango Fett, last of the Mandalorians, or more specifically, Boba is a clone of his "father."

As revealed in the Marvel Star Wars comics series, Boba Fett was believed to have served with a group of Supercommandos from the planet Mandalore towards the end of the Clone Wars. According to reports, only three Mandalorians survived: Boba Fett, Tobbi Dala, and Fenn Shysa. However, it was later revealed that this "Boba Fett" was not Boba Fett at all, but a rogue ARC trooper named Spar who had become obsessed with returning the Mandalorians to their former glory.

Boba Fett played a prominent role in the miniseries Dark Empire where it was revealed that he had survived the Sarlacc somehow, and continued his hunt for Han Solo. The story of Boba's first escape and recovery (there being three of them) is documented mainly in the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy and the anthology book Tales From Jabba's Palace. Interestingly enough, Fett was found lying outside the Sarlacc pit by a fellow bounty hunter named Dengar, whom Boba had previously left to die earlier on in the novel Tales of the Bounty Hunters. Boba Fett also played a prominent role in the comic book version of Shadows Of The Empire and has had several comic book miniseries. Post-Attack Of The Clones, the comics now often depict Fett helmetless, appearing nearly identical to Jango Fett. Currently, a series of young adult novels starring the young Boba Fett from Attack Of The Clones is being published, showing his evolution into a bounty hunter.

Boba Fett also made a cameo appearance in The Unifying Force, the conclusion of the New Jedi Order series. He is slated to appear in the nine-part Legacy of the Force series, specifically in the three novels written by Karen Traviss.

In addition to Legacy of the Force, Boba Fett is a prominent figure in the Star Wars novels, comics, and games. Initially, the novels revealed tidbits of Boba's past—that he was once a Journeyman Protector called Jaster Mereel, an alias he took to honor his father's mentor.

There is a long-standing belief that Darth Vader and Boba Fett have an unspoken mutual respect for each other (ironically, Boba was eager to see Anakin die in the arena in Attack of the Clones). The bounty hunter is sometimes considered to be the closest thing Vader has to a right-hand man, even though Fett and Vader were at odds (with Fett actually in the position to kill Vader) in the Enemy of the Empire story arc taking place a few years before A New Hope. In The Empire Strikes Back, Fett is seen questioning Vader in an informal manner, a deed which would probably get an Imperial officer strangled.

Likewise, Fett has a grudge of sorts against Han Solo. Few details are known, but Solo, along with Kyle Katarn, is among the only people to elude capture by Fett on multiple occasions.

Actors
Boba Fett was played by Jeremy Bulloch in both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and voiced by Jason Wingreen in ESB (his only line in ROTJ was a scream). A young Boba was played by Daniel Logan in Attack of the Clones. In a controversial move met with mixed reviews, the 2004 DVD re-release of the Star Wars Trilogy had Wingreen's voice replaced by Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett in AOTC, the reasoning being that as a clone of Jango, Boba should sound like him as well.

Quotes
What are you!?!- The young Boba Fett when he meets General Grievous in Boba Fett: A New Threat.

He's no good to me dead.- Boba Fett in reference to the tortured Han Solo during The Empire Strikes Back.

''What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me.- Boba Fett, questioning Darth Vader's decision to freeze Solo in The Empire Strikes Back''.

The Sarlacc found me somewhat indigestible.- Boba Fett in Dark Empire

I'm one of those faces that used to appear familiar to everyone. - Boba Fett, The Unifying Force

Reality doesn't care if you believe it. - Boba Fett, Tales from Jabba's Palace

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive
 * Boba Fett: Crossfire
 * Boba Fett: Maze of Deception
 * Boba Fett: Hunted
 * Boba Fett: A New Threat
 * Boba Fett: Pursuit
 * The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission
 * Outbid But Never Outgunned
 * The Hutt Gambit
 * Rebel Dawn
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Special Edition)
 * Star Wars: Dark Forces
 * The Star Wars Holiday Special
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Shadows of the Empire
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Tales From Jabba's Palace
 * Tales of the Bounty Hunters
 * The Mandalorian Armor
 * Slave Ship
 * Hard Merchandise
 * Dark Empire
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
 * The Unifying Force
 * The New Essential Guide to Characters