Boba Fett/Legends

"I see why they call you the best bounty hunter in the Galaxy."

- Darth Vader

Boba Fett was an unaltered clone&mdash;the "son" of Jango Fett&mdash;who became an infamous bounty hunter, perhaps the most infamous, in the Galaxy.

Boba lived through the Clone Wars and the Galactic Civil War, surviving both, yet never allying outright with either the Galactic Republic, the Separatists, the Galactic Empire, or the Rebel Alliance.

After the conclusion of the Galactic Civil War, Fett would become the leader of the Mandalorians.

Early years (32 BBY to 19 BBY)
"I want the first clone for myself, unmodified." "Might I inquire as to why?" "You might."

- Jango Fett and Count Dooku

Boba was created by Kaminoans as an unaltered clone, at the request of his "father," Jango Fett, before the start of the Clone Wars. He was intended to be both Jango's heir and "Jaster Mereel's legacy." As a young boy, Fett grew up on the planet Kamino. Jango raised and cared for him with the assistance of the Kaminoan, Taun We, who ultimately took on the role of being a foster mother to him. Along with the Clawdite Zam Wesell, she was the sole female influence in the young Fett's life.

Boba was very fond of books, especially those about starfighters, which he commonly checked out and read from the library of Tipoca City. The chance to see Obi-Wan Kenobi's Delta-7 was a relished opportunity considering his love for the vehicles. Boba was roughly ten years old when Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi came to Kamino to investigate the mysterious creation of a clone army for the Republic. Fett's father, Jango, realized that he and his son would have to leave Kamino before the Jedi unraveled the mystery behind the attacks on Senator Padmé Amidala. After Jango and Obi-Wan fought, Jango and Boba blasted off the planet in their ship, Slave I.



En route to Geonosis, they realized that Kenobi had tracked them. Boba encouraged and intently watched his father outsmart and outmaneuver the Jedi. He eventually watched what they thought was the death of Kenobi. As the Battle of Geonosis started, Boba stood with Jango on the platform in the arena with several Separatist leaders, including Count Dooku, Viceroy Nute Gunray, and Foreman Wat Tambor. 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, as a result, eventually decapitated by Mace Windu's lightsaber when Jango attempted to challenge him. While the Grand Army of the Republic and the Separatist Droid Army clashed for the very first time, Boba emerged from his hiding place to pick up his father's helmet.

After Geonosis, Boba buried his father and tried to escape. All he had left of his father was his helmet and a "book" that Jango left to help instruct him, in the event of his death. Boba was later captured by Aurra Sing and given to Tyranus (Dooku), who gave Sing Slave I as payment (Boba eventually recovered the ship). He was taken to Raxus Prime to meet with Tyranus, who was then searching for the Force Harvester. The Sith Lord attempted to detain his young charge, but a Republic attack allowed Fett to escape.

Fett was taken by clone troopers and sent to an orphanage on Bespin. He managed to escape with Aurra Sing, who had come searching for the boy, in order to gain access to Jango Fett's rather large bank account on Aargau.

On Aargau, Fett lost 500,000 credits of his father's money due to the betrayal of a Clawdite named Nuri, but received the rest. Jango's "book" told Fett to visit Jabba the Hutt, but Fett had a run-in with the dangerous Separatist Commander Durge. The Gen'Dai's hatred of all Mandalorians caused him to attack the young Fett.

One of the reasons Jabba accepted Boba was to repay the favor Jango Fett did him by killing Gardulla the Hutt a decade earlier.



Constantly on the run, Fett managed to secure a minor bounty on an assassin before reaching safety. While working for Jabba the Hutt, Boba had befriended one of Jabba's cooks and his daughter (whom he had rescued earlier, after first arriving on Tatooine). In gratitude, the two had Jango Fett's body armor re-sized to fit the young Boba's frame. This couldn't have come at a better time, since Jabba was about to give him his first off-world assignment. His first major hunt off-planet was after Techno Union Foreman Wat Tambor, who had a base on Xagobah. The planet was under assault by the Grand Army of the Republic, so Fett encountered difficulties sneaking past both attack forces. He managed to get inside the base and brutally finished off Nuri, but the arrival of General Grievous foiled his plans, as Fett proved no match for the Kaleesh warrior. Both Wat Tambor and General Grievous escaped.

Boba Fett tried to give pursuit in Slave I, but the ship was damaged in a dogfight with Asajj Ventress. Slave I was actually saved from destruction because of the intervention of a young Jedi Knight named Anakin Skywalker, who drove off Ventress. After forcing Slave I to land on a nearby moon, Skywalker and Fett met for the first time. Skywalker, knowing that Fett was obviously not a Separatist, assisted Boba in repairing his ship. During this time, Boba repainted his armor, which was identical to Jango Fett's, into the green color scheme that he is most identified with, thus making it his own. Even though Skywalker had helped him repair his ship, he was intent on taking Fett in for violating air space in a Republic controlled military zone. Boba convinced Skywalker, however, that he had information vital to the Republic's survival. Information he would only tell the Supreme Chancellor. The information Boba had was knowledge that Count Dooku and Darth Tyranus were one and the same person. He would trade this information in order to get close to the one person he hated the most&mdash;the Jedi who had killed his father on Geonosis, Mace Windu.

After being escorted to Coruscant by Governor Tarkin, Boba finally acquired his one and only chance at Mace Windu. Boba followed and waited for the Jedi in the Supreme Chancellor's chambers, of all places. Boba engaged Mace Windu in combat but could not kill the Jedi Master. The two stood, battered and wounded, each ready to deliver a final blow with their weapons. The fight was actually halted by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, before either one could make a move. Boba was surprised to learn that the Chancellor already knew that Dooku was Tyranus. He also knew that Boba would hunt down Mace Windu, once he arrived on Coruscant. "I believe we share a common enemy," the Chancellor told Fett. Palpatine paid Fett for his information and told him never to speak of their conversation again. An agreement that Boba wisely kept. Then the Chancellor sent him on his way.

By the end of the Clone Wars, Boba Fett had reached the age of thirteen&mdash;the traditional start of adulthood in Mandalorian culture. Fett was now a fully-fledged bounty hunter.

Early Imperial era (19 BBY to 0 BBY)
"Everyone dies. It is the final and only lasting justice."

- Boba Fett



For years to come, Fett's reputation grew among bounty hunters and assassins. Boba continued to acquire and upgrade pieces of Mandalorian armor. It is said he had at least three complete sets of armor from which to use, one of which was mostly left in the Sarlacc pit. 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 Grand Inquisitor, operating on far flung worlds such as Polis Massa, Naboo, and Bellassa. At the Red Twins, Fett battled the fugitive Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ferus Olin, forcing them out of the system before crash-landing Slave I in a nearby nebula.

In 15 BBY, Sise Fromm hired Boba Fett to eliminate the racing team of Jord Dusat and Thall Joben as they prepared their modified landspeeder, the White Witch, for the Boonta Speeder Race. Failing to sabotage their racer before the race began, Fett entered the race in his own craft, the Silver Speeder, and harassed Thall throughout the event until one of his own weapons backfired on him, knocking him out of the race and allowing Thall to win. An unhappy Boba Fett decided to turn Sise Fromm over to Jabba the Hutt for the bounty that the Hutt crime lord had placed on his rival.

Three years later, in 12 BBY, Fett returned to Kamino, where he led a special detachment of the 501st Legion on a mission to eliminate a group of clones bred to fight against the Empire. Fett was selected to lead this mission due to his intimate experience with the Kaminoans and his knowledge of Tipoca City. When he ran into Taun We, Boba explained that it was only a hired job for the Empire and that he held no ill feelings towards Kamino and especially to her, the Kaminoan who was kind to him. Taun We understood and the two would remain friends throughout the rest of Fett's life. The Kamino uprising was the only time Fett ever regretted participating in, mainly because of his childhood memories there and his friendship with Taun We.



Rumors would later emerge that Fett had enrolled at&mdash;or infiltrated&mdash;the Imperial Academy on Carida, serving as a stormtrooper, but deserting after he killed his commanding officer. Whether this was ever true is unknown, however, as it is natural for such rumors to have spread because he shared the same face with millions of stormtroopers. It may have been a simple distortion of his exploits on Kamino.

In the decades between the Clone Wars and the Galactic Civil War, other unsubstantiated rumors of Fett's exploits prevailed. One such rumor had Fett as a Journeyman Protector on Concord Dawn, using the name of Jango Fett's old mentor, Jaster Mereel. The title was then stripped from him, after he killed another fellow Protector, and he was forced to leave the planet, in exile. The fact that Fett wore the honor sash of a Journeyman Protector tended to lend credit to this story. Boba himself, however, never did anything to dissuade these rumors. In fact, he sometimes encouraged them, as they hid his true origins, and added to his mystique.

At some point during this time, Boba met Sintas Vel, a Kiffar bounty hunter. Fett and Sintas later conceived a child, Ailyn Vel. Fett's job allowed for few attachments, however, and the relationship failed to last long.



In 12 BBY, Fett met Han Solo for the first time, in a brawl on the world of Jubilar. It was the beginning of a long rivalry. Many times Fett was sent to capture Solo, but due to continual bad luck and interference (once from Solo's friend Lando Calrissian), Fett failed to apprehend his quarry time and time again.

Later, Darth Vader hired Fett to capture an Imperial named Abal Karda. On Maryx Minor, Vader arrived to end the deal and take the prisoner himself. Fett, still under contract, wanted the bounty, and the pair fought. The two battled until Vader turned his attention away from Fett momentarily, at which point Fett debated executing him, but decided against it, due to the fact that if he did, the Empire would trouble him to no end. Thus, the fight ended in a draw, and the two set aside their differences.

Early Galactic Civil War (0 BBY to 4 ABY)
"He's no good to me dead."

- Boba Fett



During the Battle of Thyferra, in which pirate codes were found on Rebel weaponry, Fett was recruited by Darth Vader to eliminate pirate defenses over Ilum to allow Imperial reinforcements to move in to flush out the leader.

Boba Fett was often employed by the Imperials as a bounty hunter, and chose not to belong to the Bounty Hunters' Guild. If anything, he felt contempt for their rules and the needs that had brought them together. Boba Fett accepted a commission to infiltrate the Guild and destroy it. He had beaten two Guild members, Bossk&mdash;an old rival&mdash;and Zuckuss, to a bounty. When Boba delivered his quarry to his contact, Kud'ar Mub'at&mdash;a strange spider-like alien called an Assembler&mdash;he was offered the job. He accepted, though he did not know then who was behind the contract. He went to the Guild station under the pretense of joining. The head of the Guild, Bossk's father, Cradossk, welcomed him, but the younger hunters were greatly displeased with his decision to join.

Once part of the Guild, Boba assembled a team of hunters, including his old friend, the cyborg D'harhan, to go after Oph Nar Dinnid. The Lyunesi had a huge bounty on his head. The trail led to a clan of Shell Hutts for whom Dinnid hoped to work&mdash;but by the time Boba got there, one of the Hutts had killed Dinnid in a fit of rage. In the bloodshed that inevitably followed, D'harhan was killed. Zuckuss reported that Bossk had also been killed. Cradossk was pleased. He had been about to initiate a purge anyway. However, Bossk appeared and tore his hapless father apart. The result was exactly what Fett had been employed to engineer. The Guild was split in two along age lines.

Despite their long-standing rivalry, Fett and Bossk teamed up to trap Trhin Voss'on't&mdash;a renegade Imperial stormtrooper who had killed his crew and absconded with secret encryption codes&mdash;by making it look as if Bossk had managed to kill both Zuckuss and Fett, and now wanted to team up with Voss'on't. This scheme worked up to a point, but Voss’on’t eventually caught on. Boba and Bossk managed to capture him, but he triggered an earthquake device and injured both hunters severely.

A resentful Bossk tried to take revenge on Fett for his part in the Guild's destruction, but Boba, aided by Zuckuss, got the drop on him. The alliance with Zuckuss was a brief one, for Boba, still under the employ of Mub'at, turned the tables on both of them. They barely made it out of Slave I alive.

Boba took Voss'on't to Mub'at's web, chased the whole way by the renegade Imperial's men. Boba ignored them, but when he dropped out of hyperspace, Slave I was immediately attacked. Faced with two alternatives&mdash;flee or fight his attacker&mdash;Boba found a third. He put Slave I between his assailant and Mub'at's web, then ploughed the ship straight into Mub'at.

The arachnid alien was terribly wounded, but refused to pay Boba, informing him that he had not set the bounty. Boba then realized that it had been set by his attacker, whom he had identified as Prince Xizor, the infamous underlord of Black Sun. Mub'at told Boba that Xizor was also the one behind the plan to break up the Guild. When the crime lord arrived, Boba captured him, only to find that Xizor had negotiated a deal with Balancesheet, a now renegade subsystem of Mub'at's that had declared its own autonomy.

Xizor did at least pay the bounty on Voss'on't. All Boba could do was limp away in his damaged ship. That was when he realized that Balancesheet had played a last trick&mdash;he had taken half the bounty to cover "expenses." For that, Boba vowed, there would be a reckoning.

Within a year after the Battle of Yavin, Fett was hired by Rom Mohc to kill Kyle Katarn because of Katarn's intrusions into the secretive Dark Trooper Project but, despite Fett's prowess, Katarn escaped the encounter on Coruscant and went on to destroy the project. As a member of Jabba's gang, Fett accompanied the Hutt to confront Han Solo, a smuggler and a long time rival of Fett, about a spice shipment he had failed to deliver.



Around 0 BBY, the Empire employed Fett to find where the Rebels were hiding after they had escaped Yavin IV. Both the Empire and the Alliance had been searching for a mystical talisman and Solo had captured it on the Falcon. On his way back to the rebel base, Solo contracted a sleeping virus from the talisman. This caused him to lose control of his prized ship, Millennium Falcon, and crashland on the water moon of Panna.

Luke Skywalker arrived on Panna just as Boba Fett arrived riding a creature. It was then that he witnessed this creature attacking Luke's downed BTL Y-wing starfighter. Stopping the creature, Boba introduced himself, and, in an effort to find information about the Rebels from Luke, befriended him and led him to the downed Falcon. Promising to get an antidote, Boba Fett traveled with Chewbacca to a nearby spaceport and sent a transmission to Darth Vader, which was inadvertantly intercepted by R2-D2. Upon returning to Millennium Falcon with the antidote and the intention of capturing Skywalker and Solo, C-3PO alerted Luke of Boba's involvment with Darth Vader (referring to him as Darth Vader's right hand man). Boba quickly used his jet pack to escape through the top hatch of the Falcon, knowing that if he killed Luke, Han, and Chewbacca, neither he nor his employer would ever be able to get the information they sought in the future. It was then they understood that this entire run-in with Boba was merely an Imperial plot. Fett had apparently been the one who allowed the talisman on the ship, as he knew of the sleeping virus that would affect Solo. The plan had been to use this to his advantage, so that (through a false friendship) he could learn the location of the hidden base.



In about 0 BBY, Fett took a job from Imperial Governor Malavander.

Some time after the Battle of Kalist VI, Fett was recruited by Lieutenant Manech to depose the monarchy of Troska.

In 1 ABY, while Fett tracked Han Solo from Hoth to Tatooine, Vader was not far behind. Fett eventually located Solo in a cantina and placed a trap near the back entrance. As Fett waited for his prey to enter the trap, Vader appeared and attempted to take Solo by force. Fett, not wanting the bounty taken from him, engaged Vader in battle as Solo tried to escape out the back. Solo ran into Fett's trap, a stasis-field, which immobilized him. Vader took the upper-hand in battle until Fett made an unexpected move, unleashing a lightsaber of his own. The two clashed briefly, and though Vader's skills with the lightsaber greatly out-matched Fett's, Boba's brute force, ferocity, and pure determination allowed him to hold his own. In the fray, the stasis-field was damaged and Solo escaped. Vader, more interested in catching Solo, removed himself from the fight, though Fett would lose Solo's bounty. Angered, Fett declared that he would find Solo, wherever he hid. Fett's hatred for Solo never died.

Also in 1 ABY, Fett decided to accept a bounty from Darth Vader for the capture of Zak Arranda, Tash Arranda, and Mammon Hoole. After tracking them to Dagobah, Fett was knocked out in a fight with a monstrous dragon snake and found by cannibalistic descendants of an Old Republic survey team who called themselves the "Children". Held in a primitive cage and stripped of all his essential gear, Fett convinced Zak Arranda to free him. Once freed, Fett killed the Children in the tent and proceeded to chase down the Arrandas, leading to a brief encounter with Yoda in which Fett fell into the same dark cave Luke Skywalker would enter not much later. Before he could recapture them, they fled the planet and instead of completing the capture he was contacted by the very person who'd given him the mission in the first place; Darth Vader. He was instructed to forgo the Arranda's bounty and attend to more pressing concerns&mdash;namely, being one of many bounty hunters employed by the Empire to track down and capture Han Solo.

He was the only hunter to figure out how Millennium 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 before) and tracked the ship to Cloud City on Bespin.

In his pursuit, he followed the Falcon to Cloud City where he informed Darth Vader of their destination. 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. Many bounty hunters attempted to steal Solo from Fett, including an IG-88 unit that caused Fett to stop at Gall for repairs. Dash Rendar followed him but could not defeat Fett. Boba eventually escaped, destroying both IG-2000 and IG-88C before continuing to Tatooine.



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 erstwhile heroes. Apparently, when Leia unfroze Solo and was to be Jabba's slave girl, Jabba sent her to Fett to "entertain" the hunter. Boba, due to his moral code, declined, but did not send Leia back, as it would be an insult to the crime lord. Instead, Fett and Leia argued about the Rebellion's wrong doings and Boba's blindness to what Jabba has really done. Fett would stay up that night, looking at her and wondering.



Fett remained on-guard, but found his stay entertaining, watching 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. On the path to the Sarlacc, Boba was aware of the large reward on Skywalker's head for his capture to the Empire. Unfortunately, Jabba would not have it. They killed his rancor, they would have to pay the price. The hunter hated the Hutt for this. Luke staged his own rescue and Fett attempted to stop him along with several of Jabba's hapless guards.

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



But the Sarlacc could never hold Fett. Shortly after the Battle of Endor, the Sarlacc, finding Fett somehow indigestable, "burped" him out, throwing him onto the sand. It was there that he was found by a group of Jawa's who took him to be either a droid or cyborg (they never bothered to scan him, of course) and, doubting he was intelligent, claimed him as their own. They took him into their sandcrawler, fit a restraining bolt on him, and went on their way. He would soon be joined by an old face when the Jawa's stole R2-D2 from a hangar bay in Mos Eisley.

R2-D2 immediately recognized Fett but the meeting was interrupted as Han Solo and Leia Organa attacked the sandcrawler in an attempt to get R2 back. It was at this point that Fett awoke for the first time since being freed from the Sarlacc, just in time to see Solo enter the Sandcrawler in his attempt to rescue R2. Unfortunately, the sandcrawler had been damaged during Han's attempts to enter it and so was on a collision course with the Sarlacc, the Jawa's being too busy to fix it as they had just been attacked by Sandpeople. Solo was as surprised as R2 had been to find Fett alive once more, but somehow Fett had temporarily lost his memory and in fact helped Solo rescue R2 from the doomed sandcrawler. Though against his better judgement, Solo then tried to help Fett escape also as he couldn't leave a helpless man to die.



Unfortunately for Fett, it was at this point that his memory came back due to Leia shouting Han's name repeatedly. Fett fired on the unarmed Solo before he managed to free him from the Sandcrawler, causing Solo to jump onto the sand. The Sandcrawler, with Fett still in it, crashed into the mouth of the Sarlacc, trapping Fett once more. Solo once more thought of Fett as dead, though it was not the last time he would escape the Sarlacc.

Late Galactic Civil War (4 ABY to 19 ABY)
"The Sarlacc found me somewhat indigestible."

- Boba Fett

Although accounted for dead, Fett survived the clutches of the foul beast&mdash;although with a lot of genetic damage&mdash;and went on to continue his career. After conversing with fellow captive, the Choi known as Susejo, for some time and indeed growing to hate him, Boba managed to blast his way out after days of agony, barely alive. As he lay dying on the surface of Tatooine, fellow hunter Dengar was searching for anything valuable left from the explosion, but found Boba Fett instead, and nursed him back to health.

In return for this rescue, Fett allowed Dengar to accompany him on a labrynthine mission involving the Bounty Hunters' Guild and Prince Xizor's ultra-secret Black Sun. With so many potential leads, Boba eventually found out the head of the serpent was wealthy industrialist Kuat of Kuat. 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.



The Galaxy thought Fett was nothing more than a half-digested morsel in the bowels of the Sarlacc, and Fett used this to his advantage. Utilizing the less recognizable Slave II, Fett only took jobs from the most subtle and discreet clients. It became even worse when Jodo Kast, a would-be bounty hunter who managed to acquire Mandalorian armor in an attempt to imitate Fett, made others believe that he was the infamous bounty hunter. Boba ambushed him using a hologram of a bounty Jodo was after and brutally finished him off by causing his jet pack to overload.

8t88 ran into Fett one of the few times he surfaced after his rescue from the Sarlacc in the Rimmer's Rest in 4 ABY and tried to hire him to capture Kyle Katarn, but Fett declined, arguing that it would be tactically unwise to take jobs against the victorious and succesful Alliance.

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 assignments from Gorga the Hutt. While working for Gorga, he captured Bar-Kooda with the aid of Wim Magwit and Toxus Li, and saved Anachro from kidnappers. However, Solo would never leave the back of Fett's mind.

In 14 ABY, Boba Fett encountered the Jedi Jaden Korr on Ord Mantell. Korr's mission was to destroy a large weapons cache hidden in the wastes of a ruined city. Fett had been hired, presumably, to transport the weapons off planet and arrived at the same time. His attempts to stop the fledgling Jedi failed and all seven stockpiles were destroyed. Boba Fett then tried to exact revenge on Korr. They battled to a draw, and, seeing no profit in his actions, Fett flew off.

Fett would meet Solo 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, the planet where Fett first saw Solo. They had come full circle.

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&mdash;his old associate, Taun We&mdash;had other ideas. Remembering the Mandalorian attacks on Kamino during the Clone Wars, Taun We asked Fett to hunt down the last surviving Mandalorian responsible&mdash;Fenn Shysa.

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

Post Galactic Civil War (19 ABY to 25 ABY)
"Just wanted to remind you, Solo, that my personal fight was always with the Jedi. You were nothing more than cargo."

- Boba Fett



Boba would replace Shysa as Mandalore, ascending to the leadership of the Mandalorian Protectors and ending a 45 year career of bounty hunting. However, Fett's daughter, Ailyn Vel, would begin to pose as him in her own career, using the Mandalorian armor of Alpha-Ø2 and trading off Fett's reputation like Jodo Kast had before. Such actions only served to further muddy the waters as to whether Fett was always "himself" when he put in an appearance on the galactic stage. Sometime after this, Boba was able to restore Slave I, which he flew from then on.

Yuuzhan Vong War (25 ABY to 30 ABY)
Under Boba Fett, the Protectors initially chose to ally with the Yuuzhan Vong in the first months of the Yuuzhan Vong War, under the lure of the immense amount of credits offered by the invaders. To this end, Fett initiated a brutal training regimen for his forces on Raxus Prime, killing many of them. By the last year of the war, however, the Protectors had switched sides, possibly due to the end of Vong payment or a (possibly subsequent) attack on Mandalore, and fought at several worlds in the Outer Rim Territories.

Fett in Slave I and his group of warriors in Gladiator assault fighters would later aid Fett's old enemy, Han Solo on Caluula Station from being overpowered from Yuuzhan Vong forces. Boba and his Mandalorian Protectors helped liberate planets from the Yuuzhan Vong, such as Ord Mantell, Tholatin, and Gyndine.

Legacy of the Force (From 40 ABY)
Despite being in his seventies, Fett continued to lead the Mandalorians, and still operated as a bounty hunter after the resolution of the Yuuzhan Vong War.

Fett pursued a 500,000 credit bounty posted by the Traders' Coalition, for the retrieval of the Atzerri glitterstim dealer H'buk. When he caught up with his quarry in the Atzerri system, H'buk offered to pay double the bounty. When Fett had Slave I securely grappled to the H'buk, the prisoner made all sorts of offers in exchange for his freedom; including his own daughter. This made Fett angry. Landing on Atzerri, Fett delivered H'buk to the Coalition members who had posted the bounty.

Fett then headed for Kamino, where he was to meet with his doctor. Fett was ill, and suspected that he was dying. He began to go about accomplishing three things&mdash;one: find Ailyn Vel, his daughter who he had not seen for 50 years; two: find a new Mandalore; and three: cheat death.

He eventually teamed up with his old rival, Han Solo, during an escalating civil war within the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.

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.

Despite his weapon-laden suit of armor, Fett was a subtle hunter and relied as much on his cunning and intelligence as on pure muscle and combat skill. Speaking with a raspy, gravelly voice (but still retaining his father's accent), 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.

He is also known to have obtained gruesome scars from his time spent in the Sarlaac. Whether these scars extend to his face is unknown, but Dengar hinted this to be true.

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 amazingly strong human fitness. He had enough strength to hold Bossk, an infamous Trandoshan bounty hunter whose species was known for its brute physical power, at bay. Very few, if any, in the Galaxy were as skilled in physical combat as he was.

Helmet
Boba Fett's Mandalorian helmet recorded video and played it back on command, dispensed water, picked up on minute sounds and amplified them and could connect with the onboard computer of Slave I, assuming the transmission wasn't blocked (by being underground inside the Sarlacc for example.) Fett could control weapons, sensors, and his jet pack with verbal commands. The environmental filter system could filter out poisons and contaminants as well as provide Fett with a two hour reserve air tank. The helmet's broad band antenna was capable of intercepting and unscrambling comlink and starship comm transmissions. A macrobinocular viewplate with infrared scanner magnified up to 50 times. The infrared scanner magnified light up to 100 times or displays heat gradations. At the top of the antenna was a rangefinder capable of tracking up to 30 targets from a distance of 100 meters. The rangefinder fed data to a display overlay inside the helmet showing range and movement for targets in 360 degree radius. The overlay also linked to Fett's weapons systems to display fire vector and range data.

Armor/clothing


Fett's Mandalorian armor was constructed from duraplast, allowing it to sustain a great deal of damage without degrading. His armor also had two shoulder pads which were orange (like his kneepads). The left shoulder pad exhibited the Mandalorian skull logo, while his right chest plate displayed an emblem of unknown origin. The symbol is also seen on Jaster Mereel's ship.

Fett wore a power armor liner. This liner shirt had a micro energy field projector and two layers of thin ceramic plates, in order to disperses physical and blast impacts, reducing injuries and likelihood of knockdowns. The power liner also gave him increased protection from fire, acid, intense heat, and cold. His main clothing was a reinforced armor mesh battle suit/flight suit. The inner lining of the suit blocked poisons and corrosives for a period of time. This suit had pockets on his hips and thighs (one on each side).



Fett wore a leather utility belt that usually had ten leather pouches (but sometimes less). Below this he wore a Journeyman Protector honor sash. Attached to his right shoulder were three braided wookiee scalps. The battle/flight suit had pockets on his shins which contained an anti-security blade, a survival knife, a jet-pack adjustment tool, and a sonic-beam weapon. Fett wore spats around his ankles to help prevent debris from going into his boots. They were smaller than standard spats, were made of a light colored cloth and attached behind the ankle as opposed to under the boot.

Fett wore a pair of versatile boots that had two spikes attached to the front of each.

Rocket/jetpack


Fett wore a Mitrinom Z-6 Jetpack. The fuel tank held enough fuel for one minute of continuous operation (20 three-second blasts). Each three second blast moved Fett up to 100 meters horizontally or 7 meters vertically. Fett could reach a top speed of 145 kilometers per hour with a maximum range of two kilometers. Directional thrusters featured gyro-stabilizers to apply counterthrust for manuevering and landing.

The top of the jet pack had a turbo-projected magnetic grappling hook with 20-meter lanyard (replaceable with 100 meters). A winch inside the launcher could lift up to 100 kilograms. The grappling hook unit was replacable with an anti-vehicle homing missile.

Weaponry


Fett's main weapon was a EE-3 carbine rifle, more powerful than a stormtrooper's blaster. It was outfitted with a scope for sniping and a fast draw shoulder sling. A later version of the EE-3 had hand grips going lengthwise down the barrel.

Boba Fett used two different sidearms during his time as a bounty hunter. The first was a standard blaster pistol similar to those used by Bespin's Cloud City security force. The other sidearm was a concussion grenade launcher that included a short shoulder stock for stability and accuracy when firing. Fett kept these smaller guns in a holster on his right hip though didn't equip both sidearms at the same time.



Boba Fett's wrist gauntlets were a mounting point for many of his weapons. His left gauntlet had a Czerka ZX miniature flame projector, which creates a cone of fire five meters long and one meter in diameter. Directly below this was the BlasTech Dur-24 wrist laser. Comparable to a blaster rifle in power, these wrist lasers had a range of 50 meters. Originally exposed, a protective shield was later added to the left gauntlet enclosing and concealing both weapons.

A corded fuel line connects to a backpack canister holding fuel for three minutes of operation. Fett's left gauntlet also had a Kelvarex Consolidated Arms MM9 mini concussion rocket, which utilized computer target tracking. Fett used Type-12A anti-personnel rockets, Type-12B stun rockets, and Merr Soww 1126 rockets.



Fett's right gauntlet had a Fibercord Whip with a grappling device: a 20-meter-long fibercord whip used to entangle and immobilize a target.

Fett also had knee pads with rocket dart launchers. These small launchers used Malkite Them Far or FEX-M3, molecular acid, stun agents, or explosive tips.

Fett was known to have used a modified Wing-Blast rocket pack. The Wing-Blast rocket pack transformed the user into a flying, weapons platform capable of operating in deep-space as well as planetary atmosphere.

Vehicles
Fett owned a variety of specially-modified starcraft bearing the names Slave I through IV. These included a Firespray-class starship (Slave I), a Pursuer-class enforcement ship (Slave II), and an AIAT/i (Slave IV). It is unknown what class of starship Slave III was. He was also known to have owned the Silver Speeder, which he once used in the Boonta Speeder Race.

Behind the scenes
Boba Fett's first appearance on-screen was in a cartoon as part of The Star Wars Holiday Special, when it aired in 1978. His popularity and mystique were also contributed to by the fact that Kenner released a Boba Fett action figure before The Empire Strikes Back was released.

Ralph McQuarrie was responsible for the concept artwork for the Original Trilogy and helped develop the character of Boba Fett.

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 Millennium Falcon ("I want them alive. No disintegrations!").

Fett's dialogue in The Empire Strikes Back, indeed in the entire Original Trilogy, consists of only twenty-seven words: "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." The total increases to twenty-eight if his single line (an inarticulate scream) in Return of the Jedi is counted.



Despite being a minor character, Fett became famous amongst fans, resulting in his frequent Expanded Universe appearances.

Boba Fett was not seen on film using the updated version of the EE-3 carbine rifle until Return of the Jedi. The updated version featured hand grips and a different scope mounting.

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 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.

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's origins are 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".

Lucas toyed with the idea of having Fett play a role in Revenge of the Sith. Fett would have been partially involved in Mace Windu's death. However, Lucas reallized that Fett would be too young at the time the film was set, and he quickly scrapped the idea.

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. A series of young adult novels starring the young Boba Fett from Attack of the Clones has also been 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. Traviss gave him a cameo appearance in Republic Commando: Triple Zero as a sleeping two year old.

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&mdash;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 anyone but Emperor Palpatine strangled. It is possible that Fett's respect comes from the fact that Vader all but wiped out the Jedi Order (who were responsible for Jango's death), the only thing Fett truly hated, while Vader's may have come from the fact that Fett came from the same genetic stock as the Army of the Republic, so Vader would have been well aware of what Fett was capable of.

Likewise, Fett has a grudge of sorts against Han Solo. Few details are known, but Fett did seem to consider himself morally superior to Solo, due to the honor that Fett upheld and felt that Solo did not. No matter the reasons, Solo is one of the only people to elude capture by Fett on multiple occasions.

Some have suggested that Fett's wookiee scalps are actually Jedi padawan braids, but this is nothing more than fanon.

In 2006, Hasbro produced a die-cast metal series of action figures (the Titanium Series). The series debuted with Darth Vader and Boba Fett, both of which included removable helmets. Unfortunately, the toy line is not canon as it has featured numerous abandoned concepts and toy-original ideas, such as the MLC-3 appearing in an issue of Marvel's comic book in the 1980s.

Film

 * Daniel Logan&mdash;Age 10 (Attack of the Clones)
 * Mark Austin&mdash;Age 32 (A New Hope)
 * Jeremy Bulloch&mdash;Ages 35 and 36 (The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi)
 * Don Bies&mdash;Age 36 (Return of the Jedi)
 * Temuera Morrison&mdash;Ages 35 and 36 (voice) (The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi)

TV

 * Don Francks&mdash;Age 17 (voice) (A Race to the Finish)
 * Don Francks&mdash;Age 32 (voice) (The Star Wars Holiday Special)

Radio

 * Alan Rosenberg&mdash;Age 35 (The Empire Strikes Back NPR dramatization)
 * Ed Begley Jr.&mdash;Age 36 (Return of the Jedi NPR dramatization)
 * Joe Hacker&mdash;Age 42 (Dark Empire audio adaptations)

Boba Fett was originally played by Jeremy Bulloch in Episodes V and VI, and was originally voiced by Jason Wingreen in Episode V (his only line in Episode VI was a scream). In a controversial move, the 2004 DVD release of the Original Trilogy had Wingreen's voice in Episode V replaced by Temuera Morrison's, who had played Jango Fett in Episode II. The idea behind the change was that Boba would have the same voice as his father, since he was a clone of Jango.

It is likely that Fett will appear in the Star Wars live-action TV series, which is set to debut in 2008. Lucas has stated his interest in Daniel Logan (who played a young Fett in Attack of the Clones) reprising his role for the part, and Logan has expressed his interest in returning.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi