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, a fact he capitalized on when possible. However, he had no known connection with the Mandalorians. He was an independent bounty hunter, who was known to occasionally work for Black Sun.

Early career


In 5 BBY, when most of the activities of the Rebel Alliance were local affairs, Jodo Kast was serving as an Alliance Special Operations resistance fighter. However, Kast valued credits over political ideals like justice and freedom. During a messy engagement on Goratak III in 3 ABY, 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. On his missions he piloted a heavily modified Lambda-class T-4a shuttle called Foxcatch. 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.

Years as a bounty hunter


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 Galactic 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.

The final stand


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 trap Kast by shooting him with a poisonous dart. Rigging Kast's jet pack to explode and placing the antidote for the poison just beyond his reach, Fett explained that if Kast reached the antidote before the pack exploded, he would survive. As he left the Rebel-turned-bounty hunter to his fate, Fett added that he wouldn't survive because in reality he was only an impostor, and there could only be one Boba Fett. Kast did not obtain the antidote in time and was killed in the explosion.

Behind the scenes


The cover of Tatooine Manhunt displays a group of bounty hunters, presumably meant to represent the ones featured in the book. This picture was originally concept art from The Empire Strikes Back, showing the group of bounty hunters hired by Darth Vader posing on Bespin. Thus, the picture actually does not depict Kast, but Boba Fett.

Appearances

 * The One That Got Away
 * Tatooine Manhunt
 * Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi
 * Side Trip
 * Cloud Cover
 * Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction
 * The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett