User:Lord Hydronium/Fett

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

- Darth Vader

Boba Fett was the unaltered clone and adopted son of Jango Fett who would grow to become one of the most notorious bounty hunters in the galaxy. Raised on Kamino until he was orphaned at the age of 10, Fett turned to bounty hunting after his father's death. During the Clone Wars and beyond, into the era of the early Empire, Fett would use the skills learned from his father and the armor of his father's mentor Jaster Mereel to cement his position among the bounty hunting elite. Fett spent a brief stint as a Journeyman Protector on Concord Dawn under Mereel's name, during which time he was married to Sintas Vel and fathered a daughter, Ailyn. He was later exiled after killing a fellow Journeyman Protector.

Fett would go on to take several jobs for the Empire and Darth Vader in particular, many of them involving Luke Skywalker and one of Fett's chief enemies, Han Solo. He also spent time in the employ of Jabba the Hutt, to whom he delivered the carbon-frozen body of Solo after helping to apprehend the smuggler on Bespin. During the course of a Rebel rescue mission, Fett was knocked into the mouth of the sarlacc of the Pit of Carkoon.

Fett managed to escape the sarlacc, and spent the next several years rebuilding his finances and reputation. After multiple unsuccessful attempts to capture Han Solo, Fett fought his last battle with his old enemy on Jubilar, where the two men at last agreed to a truce. Not long after this, Fett received the title of Mandalore, leader of the Mandalorians, from Fenn Shysa. He would lead the Mandalorians to fight in the Yuuzhan Vong War, first on the side of the Yuuzhan Vong, later on that of the Galactic Alliance. In 40 ABY, Fett met his granddaughter Mirta Gev and with her returned to Mandalore, where he helped rebuild the Mandalorians into a galactic power and brought them into the Confederation-Galactic Alliance War.

Creation
When the bounty hunter Jango Fett agreed to be the prime clone of the Kaminoan clone army being built for the Galactic Republic, he requested an unaltered clone in addition to his payment. Unlike Fett's other clones, this one&mdash;whom Fett named Boba&mdash;had no genetic alterations, such as those that increased docility and growth rate. Boba was born in a clone incubator on Kamino in 31.5 BBY.

Raised by Jango
"A warrior must stay focused, alert, and ready for anything. He must never let anything sway him from his mission."

- Jango Fett, giving lessons to Boba

Jango raised Boba on Kamino as his own son. He kept a sparse apartment in Tipoca City where he could raise Boba safely, far from the dangers of his professional life. Fett was not raised speaking Basic. In later years, he would compare his childhood to living in a religious autarchy. When Jango went offplanet to hunt his bounties, Boba was taken care of by Kaminoan aide Taun We or the droid MU-12. Fett often missed his father in these times, asking MU-12 when he would return. When Jango did come home, Boba would beg him not to leave again. Jango would remind Boba that he loved him and, when he got the opportunity, made time to spend with his son.

Fett enjoyed playing with action figures, with which he pretended to stage battles between his father and the Trade Federation, or perform mock fights between starships. When his father was home, the two of them would often play starships with each other or play ball outside. It was on one such occasion that Zam Wesell arrived on Kamino to speak with Jango and met Boba. After Boba introduced himself, Jango ushered his son back inside so he and Wesell could discuss business.

Fett was routinely trained by his father in the use of bounty hunting equipment, including armor and starship systems, and he was well-versed in fighting stances. Jango taught his son by example, training him to understand the value of training, weapons, and good judgment. Jango also taught Boba self-reliance and confidence in his own skills. He trusted his son to be discrete and allowed him to be present for important meetings.

Boba would sometimes go into combat with Jango, learning from Jango's actions. His first mission took place in 23 BBY, when Jango took him on an assignment to Kuat to eliminate a group of anarchists who posed a thread to Kuat's ruling families. Fett was sent into the anarchists' camp ahead of his father; he ran in, pretending to be a stray child, and was taken before their leader Larbo. Fett surprised them by announcing that his father was coming, and with that threw a thermal detonator into their midst. In the confusion, Fett escaped into a tent, and as Jango appeared on the edge of the camp and began shooting, Larbo followed Boba in and held him at gunpoint. When Boba announced that his father was Jango Fett, Larbo became terrified and began pleading with Boba, telling him of his people's plight and begging to be let go. As Jango appeared outside their tent, Larbo took Boba hostage. Boba was able to escape the man's grip, and Jango grabbed him as he threw another thermal detonator into the tent and rocketed away. Later, once again aboard the Slave I, Jango informed his benefactor Count Dooku of his success, emphasizing Boba's skills during the mission. Boba had doubts about the rightness of their mission, but Jango assured him that their loyalty to their client was paramount above all else. Boba realized at that point that he truly wanted to follow in Jango's footsteps.

Encounter with Kenobi
Ten years after Fett's birth, Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi came to Kamino. Fett immediately knew Kenobi was trouble. After a fight with Kenobi, Jango and Boba fled to Geonosis, where they escaped the Jedi in that world's asteroid ring.

The Battle of Geonosis
Other Jedi soon came to Geonosis, and Jango Fett was killed by Jedi Master Mace Windu in the petranaki arena. Boba left the planet in Jango's ship Slave I.

Bounty hunter (19 BBY&mdash;2 BBY)
Fett, with his father's natural abilities and ship, and the armor of his Jango's mentor Jaster Mereel, was prepared to become the galaxy's greatest bounty hunter. At some point he served with the Imperial stormtroopers, until he murdered his superior officer.

Life as a hunter
On several of Fett's early missions, he teamed up with D'harhan, a cyborg with a laser cannon in place of a head.

Fett became aware that there were others with Mandalorian armor in the galaxy. Supercommandos Tobbi Dala and Fenn Shysa remained in the vicinity of the planet Mandalore, and did not interfere with Fett's work.

At one point, Fett took a bounty on the pirate Feldrall Okor; he received a hundred and fifty thousand credits for Okor. Another bounty, this one on Nivek'Yppiks, a heretic to the Ffib religious autarchy that ruled his world of Lorahns, netted Fett half a million credits.

The Boonta race
Fett participated in a speeder race against Jord Dusat and Thall Joben on Boonta.

Encounter on Jubilar
Fett first encountered Han Solo while working for Jabba the Hutt on Jubilar. Solo's victory in that world's Free-For-All fight left an lasting impression on Fett.

The hunt for Han Solo
Around 4 BBY, the high priest of Ylesia, Teroenza, hired Fett to capture Solo in revenge for a humiliation that had been inflicted on him. Fett captured Solo on Nar Shaddaa. Lando Calrissian, however, arrived just in time to find Solo under gunpoint. Calrissian able to free Solo, place Fett under the influence of obedience drugs, and send him away in Slave I. Jabba eventually convinced Fett to drop the Solo bounty, though the bounty hunter retained a hatred for Calrissian.

Fett later went on a hunt for Bria Tharen, who he eventually tracked to a passenger liner. This hunt, however, was also foiled by Calrissian. Only a large payment convinced Fett to leave without retribution.

The cask of Abal Karda
Not long before the Battle of Yavin, Darth Vader hired Fett to hunt down Abal Karda, an Imperial deserter. Fett soon discovered, however, that Vader's true goal was a cask belonging to Karda, which held the disembodied, yet living, head of an Icarii soothsayer. Fett and Vader fought for the cask on Maryx Minor, with Vader barely winning.

The High Priest
In the weeks before the Battle of Yavin, Fett took on a bounty for Teroenza, the Ylesian High Priest he had worked for before. Fett killed the priest in his sanctuary on Ylesia moments before the man was to kill Han Solo and Bria Tharen. Fett, however, pointed out that the rescue meant nothing and was only business.

The Yavin Vassilika
Shortly after the events on Ylesia, Fett competed with Han Solo in a search for the treasure known as the Yavin Vassilika.

Encounter on Dargulli
"Just remember that that guy had a shot on you. You were outnumbered, and I helped you." "Perhaps you're simply shrewder at reading the odds than you give yourself credit."

- Boba Fett and Darth Vader

Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, Fett visited the world of Dargulli. In one of the local cantinas, Fett joined a card game with other bounty hunters, joining a discussion on whether they would take a bounty for the Rebellion. They were interrupted when a man burst in, shouting that Darth Vader was on Dargulli alone, and several other freelancers were trying to kill him. Fett joined the crowd rushing out of the cantina.

As Fett arrived, he drew on the Dark Lord, but as he saw Vader slice down several other hunters with his lightsaber, he changed sides. A man near Fett had a bead on Vader, and Fett turned and shot him, then joined Vader at his side, shooting down the other assailants. The two of them eliminated the group, only to be joined by another party: a young woman with a lightsaber who wanted to join the Sith, and was in fact the reason Vader had come to Dargulli. Fett kept his gun trained on her as Vader spoke with her. When she was done making her offer to be Vader's apprentice, Fett suggested they leave before more arrived to take down Vader. Vader agreed and killed the woman. Fett reminded Vader that he had covered his back, Vader suggested that he had simply read the odds correctly, and the two parted ways.

In Jabba's employ
After the search for the Vassilika, Fett remained working for Jabba. When Jabba visited Docking Bay 94 in Mos Eisley, Fett and several other bounty hunters went with him. They provided a silent threat as the crimelord threatened Han Solo and his partner Chewbacca. Jabba soon posted a large bounty on Solo, but Fett had other business to worry about.

Bounty on Solem
Days later, Fett was hired by Governor Malvander of Solem to hunt down the leader of the local resistance, Malvander's brother Yolan Bren. Fett showed a hologram of Bren around Solem until he encountered a wounded soldier who knew the resistance leaved. The soldier initially refused to tell Fett anything, but after Fett stomped down on the stump of his leg he relented, telling the bounty hunter that Bren had been held in a nearby schoolhouse but had already been taken away. In the schoolhouse, Fett found a paper with an encrypted message, which he sent to an unidentified contact. As Fett returned to his speeder bike, the injured soldier attempted to shoot him, but Fett disarmed and killed the man.

Not long after, Fett's contact replied to him with the translation of the paper. One of the names on it pointed him to Rabutz, a shoemaker in the city of G'ai Solem. When Fett began showing Bren's hologram around, a resistance member made contact with Rabutz to warn him. Fett, who had been watching Rabutz's shop, trailed the man as he went to Bren's hiding place to warn him. Fett burst through the doors and began taking down the resistance members as others herded Bren through the back tunnels, away from him. Those who had stayed then fired on the supports above Fett's head, and the roof collapsed on him. With this moment's pause, they followed Bren and the others out. Fett escaped the rubble, then followed the rebels, who had already fled on speeder bikes. Fett's own bike was equipped with rockets, however, with which he shot down the escaping rebels. Rather than allow the fighting to continue and more of his men to die, Bren turned himself over to Fett.

As the remaining resistance members began storming Malvander's keep, Fett took Bren to the governor. Malvander did not have enough to pay Fett, though; he gave him a fraction of the agreed price and promised to pay him the rest later. Fett refused to leave. Malvander prepared to have his guards shoot the bounty hunter, but Fett disarmed them all with shots from his own blaster. The bounty hunter then took his own payment, pulling off the governor's valuable neckpiece. At that moment, the resistance charged into Malvander's room. Malvander asked Fett to kill them, but Fett simply turned and left. Bren let him pass, knowing that as he had been paid, he was not their enemy anymore. Fett left Malvander in the hands of the resistance and left Solem behind in the Slave I.

The Bounty Hunters' Guild plot
Months after the Battle of Yavin, Fett took a job for Kud'ar Mub'at, a middleman, to join the Bounty Hunters' Guild and destroy it from the inside. When Guild members Zuckuss and Bossk went after Nil Posondum, Fett outwitted and embarrassed the two, then said he wished to join the Guild. Bossk was hostile to Fett, but Guild leader Cradossk accepted him.

Fett, Zuckuss, Bossk, Cradossk, and IG-88 launched a mission against the Shell Hutts of Circumtore, during which Fett's former companion D'harhan and Cradossk were killed. With Cradossk's death, the guild divided along age lines and began warring amongst itself. Zuckuss and Bossk teamed up with Fett shortly thereafter to capture Imperial defector Trhin Voss'on't, but Fett again outsmarted them to take the bounty.

Fett later learned that the plan to destroy the Guild had been masterminded by Prince Xizor of Black Sun, with the backing of Emperor Palpatine.

The Arrandas
Six months after Yavin, Fett killed Cornelius Evazan on Necropolis, where the doctor had been experimenting in reanimating the dead. On that world he encountered the siblings Zak and Tash Arranda, and their Shi'ido guardian.

Only months later, he was sent after the trio by Darth Vader. Fett followed them as far as Dagobah, but upon encountering a group of shipwrecked cannibals, he was forced to leave without his bounty.

The Anya Karu
Seven months after Yavin, Fett took a mission for Imperial Captain Aron Harcourt. The Anya Karu, Harcourt's old command, had been destroyed by Rebel saboteurs, and was now scheduled for destruction by the Star Destroyer Adjudicator. Harcourt wanted something retrieved from the wreckage of the ship: a hologram of his late wife Janelle. He hired Fett to bring it to him.

Fett, in the Slave I, destroyed the TIE fighters guarding the Anya Karu as they awaited the Adjudicator, then landed and made his way into the ship, with thirty minutes left before the Star Destroyer arrived. He passed through the ruined halls of the ship, still filled with corpses, and was attacked by a herd of mynocks. After fighting them off, Fett broke his way through a door, only to run into a hunter trainer droid, one of Harcourt's former bodyguards. Fett destroyed it, though no before taking several hits from the droid. He eventually reached where the hologram was being stored and retrieved it with five minutes to spare. Fett rushed out of the Anya Karu as the Adjudicator arrived and settled into position over the vessel, and took off in the Slave I as the ruined ship exploded under the Adjudicator's bombardment.

Fett returned to Coruscant to give Harcourt the hologram and collect his payment. Harcourt was relieved to see his late wife, but informed Fett that he had no money and was unable to pay him. He offered to keep silent about the matter if Fett let him go without paying, but did not expect the bounty hunter to take him up on his offer; he was correct. As Harcourt continued to watch the hologram of his wife, Fett shot him in the back of the head.

The Panna encounter
"Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett."

- Fett, introducing himself to Luke Skywalker

Later that year, Fett joined with Vader in a plot to locate one of the Rebellion's hidden bases. The mission took him to a mud-covered moon in the Panna system, where he acquired a Paar's ichthyodont to serve as transportation. The Rebellion, meanwhile, had acquired a special talisman, which, unbeknownst to them, was infected with an Imperial sleeping virus. The Millennium Falcon, carrying Chewbacca and Han Solo, was transporting the talisman when Solo was infected. The Falcon landed on the moon, and Luke Skywalker, along with the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO, followed in a Y-wing starfighter.

When Skywalker landed his Y-wing in the muddy ocean of the moon to search for the Falcon, a massive native creature surfaced and began eating away at it. Fett arrived on his ichthyodont and saved Skywalker and the droids by hitting the creature with an Amban phase-pulse blaster, driving it away. Fett introduced himself to Skywalker and offered to help him, claiming that he had no love for the Empire. Fett stated that he had seen the Falcon land not far off and would lead them to it.

Mission to Ota
"That's the trouble with you Rebels&hellip;you waste time talking!"

- Boba Fett, to Luke Skywalker

When Vader placed a bounty to capture Mole, a traitor to the Empire, alive, Fett determined to collect on it. Fett tracked Mole to the planet of Ota. When he flew down to the planet in a TIE fighter, however, he was attacked by Luke Skywalker, who disabled Fett's craft with his own X-wing. Fett, attempting to lose Skywalker, dove towards Ota's polar ice cap and flew into its narrow canyons. However, he collided with an overhang, unleashing an avalanche of snow and ice that crashed both starfighters. Fett escaped his own fighter, and as Skywalker approached it, he leaped out and began firing. Skywalker, who did not recognize him, shot back. The two were soon interrupted by the arrival of the native Snogars, who quickly captured the two men with electro stun nets.

The Snogars took the pair to their ice city, where they told Fett and Skywalker why they had been abducted. The Snogars kept themselves warm using a system of machines that had been built in ancient times. No Snogar knew how to work it anymore, though, and with the machinery failing, they needed to capture off-worlders who knew how to fix it. Fett immediately spotted the problem&mdash;an overloaded circuit breaker that had been triggered by a fault within the power generator&mdash;and realized how he could make an escape, while Skywalker convinced the Snogars to untie their hands. When Fett started the generator up again, it began screeching loudly; with that distraction, the two men bolted for the city entrance, where they absconded with a pair of power-sliders to make their escape.

They soon spotted Han Solo, who had come to rescue Skywalker, being ambushed by more Snogars. Fett realized he could cash in on Solo's bounty as well. He pretended to side with Skywalker to rescue Solo, claiming that he only wanted a way off the planet. Solo was taken to the ice city, and Fett and Skywalker followed him. While Han was being ordered to fix the power systems, Fett told Skywalker to stay put and watch his back as he brought Solo out. As Skywalker called out a warning, a group of Snogars jumped Fett, who used his flamethrower to take them down. Fett revealed his identity during the fighting, and Skywalker realized he was going after Solo. Fett beat Skywalker to Solo, though, and prepared to take the smuggler into custody. Solo, however, picked up a Snogar and threw him into Fett, knocking the bounty hunter to the ground. Fett prepared to fire his flamethrower, but at that moment Skywalker swung in on a cable and knocked Fett off balance. Solo then grabbed him and held him fast.

Skywalker and Solo intended to give Fett over to the mob of angry Snogars, who wanted revenge for those of their people who had been killed during the fighting. Fett, however, let loose a jet of liquid at Skywalker from a cannon on his knee and, in the confusion, broke free from Solo's clutches. He then cut a deal with the two Rebels; he would hold the mob at bay with his arsenal for all three of them while he searched for his target, Mole. The Snogars were no longer perturbed by his flamethrower, though, so Fett turned his weapons on something they did care about: the city's power systems. With the source of their heat and light destroyed, the Snogars turned and fled the city. Solo, however, spotted a part of the city still under power, and Fett realized that Mole would be hiding there. He blew open a locked door and ushered Solo and Skywalker in, where they encountered Mole and Chewbacca, whom Mole had found unconscious in Ota's barren snows. Fett placed all four others&mdash;Mole, Chewbacca, Skywalker, and Solo&mdash;under gunpoint and herded them out of the city, intending to take the Millennium Falcon offplanet and turn Mole and Solo over to Vader and Jabba, respectively. Mole managed to surreptitiously activate a console, releasing a cloud of gas that knocked the other four briefly unconscious. Fett recovered and attempted to capture Mole again, but Solo and Skywalker had also regained consciousness and began fighting him. Mole then activated the magnets used by the city's power system, pinning Fett against the wall. Fett ineffectually threatened the group of Rebels, but was unable to free himself from the magnets before they left.

Hunt for Katarn
General Rom Mohc eventually hired Fett to kill the Rebel agent Kyle Katarn. Fett followed Katarn to Coruscant; however, he bungled the kill, and Katarn escaped.

The Vryssa garrison
After failing to kill Katarn, Fett determined to reclaim his reputation. On Vryssa, he eliminated an entire Imperial garrison with no backup to claim a bounty hiding within it. This was considered to be Fett's most incredible feat.

Encounter on Ord Mantell
Shortly before the Battle of Hoth, Fett and several other hunters caught Han Solo and Luke Skywalker, and imprisoned them on Ord Mantell. Fett attempted to get two bounties from the capture, one from Jabba and one from Vader, but his quarry escaped.

Pursuit of Captain Solo
When the Millennium Falcon fled Hoth, Vader hired Fett to find it. Fett beat the other bounty hunters on the Falcon's trail, but the droid IG-88B had used a tracking device to follow him to Cloud City. Fett ambushed IG-88 in one of the city's lower smelting chambers, shooting and paralyzing him with a heavy ion cannon, then blasting him apart with grenades. Fett left the scraps of the droid for the Ugnaughts. He later left Cloud City with Solo encased in a slab of carbonite.

As he left Bespin, Fett felt a fondness for the smuggler, or at least for the bounties he would receive on him. He fell asleep en route to Tatooine, musing on his upcoming payment.

Escaping with Solo
"Boba Fett! Surrender your prisoner and you have a thirty percent probability of surviving this encounter."

- IG-88

IG-88C and IG-88D, each in their own copy of the starship IG-2000, hurried to Cloud City, only to find Fett had left. They decided to set their own ambush for him.

Fett awoke before arriving at Tatooine and began speaking with Solo about the impending bounty. As Slave I dropped out of hyperspace into the Tatooine system, he was interrupted by a security alert from the ship, informing him that a homing beacon had just activated in the lower hold. Fett realized that it had been planted while he was on Cloud City, and with little time to spare, neutralized the entire hold with a burst from his flamethrower. The beacon stopped transmitting, and Fett hastened to the cockpit while ordering the ship to extinguish the flaming hold.

The bounty hunter immediately demanded a trajectory back into hyperspace from his ship's computer, then scanned for, and finally detected his enemy&mdash;the IG-2000, coming over the horizon in front of him. He opened fire and the ship was destroyed in moments, but realizing that the victory had been too easy, Fett knew that it had been a decoy. At that moment, the second IG-2000 dropped out of hyperspace behind him and, trapping him between itself and the planet, opened fire, damaging Slave I. Fett dove for Tatooine's atmosphere as IG-88 ordered a surrender from him; however, Fett realized that if the droid destroyed his ship, it would lose Solo too. As the IG-2000 closed behind him, Fett engaged the inertial damper and decelerated hard, bringing the droid's vessel into his sights. He fired his ion cannon to take out the IG-2000 ' s deflectors, locked the ship into place with his tractor beam, then fired a missile directly at the IG-2000 and ended its existence.

With Slave I heavily damaged and many systems in need of repair, Fett knew he would be vulnerable to any other bounty hunters if he attempted to land at Tatooine. He determined instead to head to the Imperial enclave at Gall, where he could make the necessary repairs.

The search for Fett
The Rebellion, particularly Solo's friends, determined to track down Fett and retrieve Solo. Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, and Chewbacca, with the permission of Admiral Ackbar and Mon Mothma, formed a small group and took their leave of the Rebel fleet.

Word of Fett's battle with IG-88 escaped and eventually reached the Rebellion, who realized that Gall would be the closest safe place for him to go to. Months after the events on Cloud City, contacts of Calrissian&mdash;including Dash Rendar&mdash;confirmed that Fett was on Gall. Prince Xizor, who believed that Fett was the perfect bait to capture Luke Skywalker, meanwhile began his own search for the bounty hunter, advising anyone seeking to claim the bounty on Skywalker to find Fett first. Not long after, sightings of Fett's ship on Gall reached Xizor as well.

Battle with the bounty hunters
"Curse Fett! He thinks he's real smart." "He is real smart, Bossk. That's why he's the best."

- Bossk and Zuckuss

While Fett was on Gall, several bounty hunters, including Zuckuss and Bossk, contacted him. He met them in a cantina, where they made an offer&mdash;they and Fett would all work together to get Solo to Jabba, and in return split the bounty. It was a subterfuge, though; as Zuckuss and Bossk spoke to Fett, another bounty hunter in the cantina took aim at him with a blaster, while others including 4-LOM infiltrated Slave I at the spaceport to take Solo. Fett, alert to the danger, suddenly shot the man targeting him; upon picking up the alert from his security systems, he overturned Zuckuss and Bossk's table and raced from the bar towards his ship. At that moment, the Rebellion, intent on taking back Solo from Fett, began their attack on the Imperial forces around the planet while the Millennium Falcon and Outrider approached the spaceport where Slave I was berthed.

Fett arrived back at his ship in time to catch the intruders in the act, whereupon he killed the organics and disabled 4-LOM. His ship then picked up the approaching Rebel vessels, and so Fett cursed Solo and prepared to leave. By the time he lifted off, the Falcon was too damaged to follow and the Outrider had left, and so Fett escaped Gall without pursuit. With both the Rebellion and his fellow bounty hunters after him, Fett was forced to hide out in an asteroid field. 4-LOM, however, had managed to reactivate and repair himself, and triggered a beacon that Bossk and his peers on the Hound's Tooth soon detected. Fett's own ship detected it, interrupting his rant at Solo for the bad luck that had befallen him, and the bounty hunter headed down to the mid-level hold to find the now-active 4-LOM. He shot the droid repeatedly, blowing off its arm and driving it into the lower levels of the ship. Before Fett could finish it off, though, 4-LOM tore out one of the ship's power units, disabling Slave I ' s weapons and leaving Fett a target. Fett blasted his way into the hold where 4-LOM was hiding, but even as he shot the droid it gloated at his apparent defeat.

It was too late for Fett to fix it, though, as the Hound's Tooth arrived and fired a warning shot at him. Bossk told him to prepare for boarding, and the other bounty hunters took a shuttle over to dock with Slave I. They found Fett with Solo and demanded his surrender, but Fett turned his gun on Zuckuss, declaring that now he had hostages to negotiate with Bossk. Bossk, growing tired at the delay and believing that they all might be plotting against him, fired another shot at the Slave I. Seeing that Bossk was willing to destroy the ship and everyone on it to get at Solo, Fett dropped his weapons and allowed himself to be led into a cell by the bat-like Furlag. He turned the tables on his captor, though, activating a trap door that dropped Furlag into the cell below. Fett grabbed the being's weapon and set off to free his ship and reclaim his cargo.

As the bounty hunters carted Solo to their shuttle, Fett dropped from the roof and shot everyone but Zuckuss. Holding the Gand hostage, he forced Zuckuss to speak over the comm with Bossk as if everything were going as planned. Fett then loaded up the corpses of the bounty hunters he had killed into the shuttle, along with a thermal detonator. As Bossk suggested to Zuckuss that he might kill Fett anyway, the shuttle docked with the Hound's Tooth, and Bossk's men moved onboard. Fett at last made himself known to Bossk, just as his package detonated and crippled Bossk's ship. Fett stated his regret that he could not have set one powerful enough to kill Bossk and, as the Trandoshan swore vengeance against him, made the leap to hyperspace.

Fett at last repaired his weapons systems and set a course for Tatooine. He had grown to despise the inanimate Solo, ranting at him about the trouble he had brought. The bounty hunter meanwhile placed the captive Zuckuss in a cell, and while the Gand warned him that he would never make it to Jabba's palace with all the bounty hunters in the way, Fett informed him that he, Zuckuss, would play a role in helping Fett reach his goal.

As it turned out, the role was as a decoy. Fett dressed Zuckuss in a spare set of his armor and chained him to a swoop bike, then attached a repulsor cart behind it, upon which he placed the covered remains of 4-LOM. As he approached Tatooine and requested landing clearance at the spaceport, Jabba realized that he could avoid paying the bounty hunter's fee if he offered a lesser reward to whichever one of his own men could bring Solo to him. A crowd of hunters and swoop gang members arrived at the spaceport as Fett made the final approach and touched down. Immediately the disguised Zuckuss rocketed out of Slave I, and the hunters set off in pursuit of it. A squad of stormtroopers approached Fett as he disembarked his ship, warning him that he had entered a restricted area. Fett promptly killed them all and headed towards the palace, where Bib Fortuna greeted him and directed him towards the palace's side entrance. As Fett approached the entrance, Fortuna set a krayt dragon to attack him. Fett shot the beast, then found Fortuna and held him at gunpoint, demanding that he be taken to Jabba.

By the time the hunters discovered the duplicity, it was too late; Fett had reached Jabba's throne room with Solo. Fett gladly handed the carbonite slab over to the Hutt, stating that he would not have delivered Solo for ten times the amount had he known the trouble that would ensue, and demanded his payment in currency. The crimelord initially intended to pay him seventy-five thousand credits; Fett, however, convinced him that he was not merely obtaining Solo, but a work of art in its own right, with Solo as the medium and Darth Vader as the artist. Jabba ultimately agreed to pay Fett a quarter million credits for the "art", and then made another offer to Fett: that he stay on to defend against any Rebel attempts to rescue Solo. His first mission was to capture a krayt dragon to do battle with Jabba's rancor. The bounty hunter accepted.

The demolition games
"You're flashfried."

- Fett, during the games

When Jabba proposed an underground demolition derby, Fett gladly signed on, and after Fett returned to the palace in Slave I, the games began. In the first match of the games the bounty hunter became Jabba's reigning champion, and from then on continued to hold that top spot. With only his armor and jetpack, Fett competed against a number of entrants in their own vehicles, holding his own against them with his special disintegrator rocket. His matches became popular gambling events; Jabba's henchmen often threatened new bettors into betting against the bounty hunter, raking in thousands of credits for Fett and Jabba as long as he continued to win.

Skirmish at Carkoon
"Boba Fett? Boba Fett? Where?"

- Han Solo, shortly before sending Fett into the Pit of Carkoon

Fett was present at Jabba's Palace when the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 arrived with a message from Luke Skywalker, bargaining for Solo's freedom. Shortly after watching a performance of "Jedi Rocks" by the Max Rebo Band, Fett witnessed the arrival of the bounty hunter Boushh&mdash;actually Princess Leia Organa in disguise&mdash;with Chewbacca as "his" prisoner. As the conversation between Boushh and Jabba began to turn violent, Fett stopped flirting with the dancers Rystáll Sant and Lyn Me and approached the confrontation. When Boushh drew and armed a thermal detonator to back up his demand for payment, Fett drew his blaster on the bounty hunter, but soon relaxed as Jabba negotiated a compromise. As the deal was settled and the inhabitants of the throne room resumed their normal business, Fett kept his eye on Boushh, aiming a sneering nod at the bounty hunter. That night, when Organa discarded her disguise and attempted to rescue Solo, Fett waited with Jabba's other cohorts in ambush and caught her in the act.

It was not long before Luke Skywalker, too, arrived to rescue Solo. Fett stood by Jabba's side as Skywalker made his demands. When the crime lord dropped Skywalker into the lair of his pet rancor, Fett impassively watched the fight and Skywalker's victory along with the rest of the throne room. He stood by Bib Fortuna as Skywalker, Solo, and Chewbacca were sentenced to death by sarlacc in the Pit of Carkoon, and later boarded Jabba's sail barge Khetanna en route to the Pit. The execution did not go as planned; Skywalker reclaimed his lightsaber, which had been secreted by R2-D2, and began killing the guards on his skiff. Fett led a charge of Jabba's troops to the upper deck and launched himself across to the skiff to come face-to-face with Skywalker.

Skywalker slashed his lightsaber across Fett's blaster, cutting it in two, as a blast from the sail barge shook the skiff and knocked Solo and Chewbacca to the ground. Fett then fired a wire from his gauntlets, ensnaring Skywalker. Another blast knocked Fett down as Skywalker cut his way loose and leapt over to a neighboring skiff. Fett stood and took aim at Skywalker. But before he could fire, Solo blindly turned and accidentally slammed the pole he was holding into Fett's jetpack, triggering it. The bounty hunter, screaming, flew across the gap, slammed into the side of the sail barge, and rolled directly into the open mouth of the sarlacc, which swallowed him alive.

After the sarlacc (4 ABY&mdash;23 ABY)
"The sarlacc found me somewhat indigestible, Solo."

- Boba Fett, to Han Solo

The first escape
"It is my belief that the monster tasted this creature&hellip;and then regurgitated it, violently."

- A Jawa droid, describing Fett

The sarlacc did not find Fett digestible, though. Disliking his taste, it regurgitated him back into the Dune Sea. There he lay, buried under the sand, until a sandcrawler of Jawas arrived at the site to claim the wreckage of the battle. Digging the unconscious Fett out of the sand, they believed him to be an unintelligent droid or cyborg and took him back to the sandcrawler to clean, fit with a restraining bolt, and then sell or break down for parts as they felt necessary.

The same Jawas later seized R2-D2, who had come to the planet with Han Solo and Leia Organa. R2 found Fett, still unconscious and now propped up in the sandcrawler's hold, and recognized him from Bespin. Meanwhile, Solo and Organa had begun attacking the sandcrawler, attempting to retrieve their droid. Fett at last regained consciousness, though confused and with no memories. When Solo boarded the sandcrawler and climbed down into the cargo hold, one of the Jawas' droids ordered Fett to keep him at gunpoint and protect the cargo of their Jawa masters. Solo recognized Fett, though he was surprised that the bounty hunter did not attempt to shoot him. When the sandcrawler came under attack by a group of sand people, Solo suggested to Fett that they put aside their differences and work together to escape. It was at this point, when Fett asked if he knew him, that Solo realized that the bounty hunter had lost his memory.

With the Jawas abandoning the sandcrawler in the wake of the Tusken attack, it was was hurtling now back towards the Pit of Carkoon, and so Solo worked quickly to get everyone out. Fett first gave Solo a boost up to the hatch on his back, then handed up R2-D2. As Solo reached down to get Fett a hand up, Organa came running up and shouting his name. Fett, recognizing the name "Han", found his memories suddenly returning and pulled his gun on Solo. With the sandcrawler on the verge of falling into the Pit, Solo attempted to help Fett out, but the bounty hunter fired at him. At the last minute he leaped from the sandcrawler as it tumbled into the sarlacc, carrying Fett with it.

Escape from the sarlacc
"But your life and death belong to me now, not you; and they serve my purpose. Recognize and understand your place in things, Boba Fett, for you are not even a real thing; merely a collection of thoughts that has deluded itself into a belief in its own existence."

- Susejo, the Will of the sarlacc

When Fett came to, he found himself in the depths of the sarlacc, restrained against the walls of its internal passages, his feet off the ground and all but his head confined in movement. Fett, confused by his surroundings, realized initially that he was on a planet of some sort. A voice then came out of the darkness around him, telling him "You are Boba Fett." After turning on the macrobinoculars in his helmet, he got a view of his surroundings in the non-visible spectrum&mdash;a tunnel of organic material, its far end invisible, yet with the cracking of sarlacc tentacles and the screams of Jabba's men in the distance. It was at that point that the rest of his memories came flooding back, reminding him of the battle at Carkoon and its end for him&mdash;and making him realize that he was inside the sarlacc, being digested.

As Fett took stock of his situation, the owner of the voice that had first spoken to him pulled his memories of delivering Solo to Jabba to the surface of his mind. The voice at last introduced itself as Susejo, the "Will" of the sarlacc. It had taken a special interest in Fett and his mind, desiring the bounty hunter alive to keep it amused. Fett now belonged to Susejo, it said, and it imparted its philosophy upon Fett: neither of them were real, simply collections of thoughts that believed themselves to be real. Fett, he explained, was too special a mind to kill and eat at once.

At dawn, Fett got a better survey of his surroundings. He was being held in place against the internal walls of the sarlacc, the main cavern some ways away, and hundreds of tentacles and tendrils covering all surfaces, the ones on the wall behind him holding him in place. As he thought about escaping, he felt the mind of another former victim of the sarlacc, a Corellian gambler named Kess who had fallen in with his companion Mica centuries ago. He heard Kess explain that the memories of all the victims were floating around in the sarlacc, and that Susejo was probably its oldest victim. As Fett felt the long-past death of Kess, he found himself filled with rage, propelling him to declare to the sarlacc that he would kill it slowly and driving him to find a means of escape.

Fett's weapons were all on him had he had use of his hands, and he could feel the tentacles of the sarlacc and its digestive acids attempting to penetrate his armor. The creature now began to pull at his left leg, and after a hard jerk caused him to slip and brought his right foot in contact with the floor of the tunnel. He reviewed his helmet holocam recordings of the Carkoon fight, realizing how Solo had accidentally defeated him by slamming the pole into his jetpack's emergency access panel. Fett now used his helmet's sonar and radar capabilities to map out the sarlacc's tunnels.

At this point, another victim's memory, this time of a Jedi pulled in millennia ago, came flooding into Fett's mind. Fett released all his hatred and rage into his mind and voice, and started cursing Susejo. Startled by Fett's hate, the sarlacc's tentacles pulled him tighter against the wall. Fett continued to pour invective at him, and at last, with his back and the emergency access panel of his jetpack pressed into the wall, Fett pushed up with his foot and activated the jetpack. The explosion knocked Fett unconscious for a moment, the burning fuel charring away the tunnel of the sarlacc and Fett's armor. Fett then fired a concussion grenade directly into the roof of the tunnel and threw himself to the ground; the blast tore apart the inside of the sarlacc and rained sand down into the tunnel. When Fett recovered from that blast, he fired a second one, and, climbing the growing hill of sand and discarding his armor, fired his last grenade into the sands above. With only his helmet providing him a small bit of trapped air, Fett clawed his way up through the sand and at last broke free, emerging into the night air of the Dune Sea.

After days of agony, Fett was barely alive. His right leg would be permanently weakened by his time spent within the sarlacc, flame and acid burns covered and blistered his body, and his left arm was broken, yet he had survived.

Dengar's rescue
The bounty hunter Dengar found him lying in the sand and saved his life. Dengar brought Fett back to health, and in turn Fett agreed to join in a partnership with him.

Kuat of Kuat
In return for saving his life, Fett let Dengar accompany him in a mission to unearth a conspiracy masterminded by Kuat of Kuat. After his fellow bounty hunter Bossk, thinking Fett to be dead, attempted to take Slave I, Fett stole Bossk's vessel Hound's Tooth and left Slave I on Tatooine. Slave I was eventually taken by the Rebellion and brought to an impound lot on Grakouine, where it remained rusting.

Fett later returned and offered Bossk a substantial amount of money for evidence held within the data banks of a droid, which he needed to unravel the Kuat conspiracy.

Life in secrecy
Fett was believed by most to have died on Tatooine, and the bounty hunter used this to his advantage. He took to traveling in Slave II, a less recognizable ship, and only took jobs from very particular clients. Dengar stayed on with Fett, serving as the hunter's public face. Though those who had business with Fett could contact him, many, including Han Solo, remained unaware of his survival. Fett eventually obtained Slave I again and kept it in orbit above Nar Shaddaa.

In 5 ABY, a year after escaping the sarlacc, Fett returned in Slave II. He positioned his ship over the pit and blasted its engines directly into the creature's mouth. He soon stopped, though, and when the mind of Susejo questioned him as to why, Fett informed him that he would not kill it all at once. He would return and hurt it again and again.

The impersonator Kast
"It's called a hologram. This is called a trap. And I'm calling you dead."

- Boba Fett, with a gun to Jodo Kast's head

Fett's secret threatened to be blown when the bounty hunter Jodo Kast began encouraging others to believe he was Fett. Kast, who had his own set of Mandalorian armor, had learned that posing as Fett got him higher bounties, and was capitalizing on this fact. Dengar encountered him on Fluwhaka while chasing a bounty, and after Kast pulled a gun on him, Dengar developed a grudge against the man. He advised Kast that pretending to be Fett was unwise, then sent a message back to Fett to inform him that the impostor had been spotted again and recommend that they eliminate the man.

Fett, meanwhile, was on his way to N'ildwab, where the local warlord Nobam Nol was ruling over the populace by pretending to be a Sith Lord. Fett quickly broke the man's neck, killing him. After accepting a reward from the people of N'ildwab, he moved on to Paquallis III to use those same credits for his next mission: hiring Kast. Calling himself "Sava Brec Madak" and disguising himself by wrapping his body and face in bandages, Fett went to the House of Benelex to speak with representative Cas Ennyl Yllek. "Madak" claimed that another man, Satnik Hiicrop, had been using his name and business, and in doing so had ruined his reputation. He told Yllek that he knew where the man could be found&mdash;an abandoned keep on Nal Hutta&mdash;and wanted Kast to bring Hiicrop to him. After leaving Yllek, Fett met with Dengar, and the two returned to Slave I to prepare to move out. They arrived on Nal Hutta six days before Kast was scheduled to show up and began laying out the traps Fett would use to catch his impersonator.

As soon as Kast entered the keep, the trap was set. The doors slammed behind him, and soon Kast found himself up against laser webs and quamillas, a type of local wildlife that Dengar had rounded up. He eventually made his way to a stairwell where Fett waited in ambush. Kast saw a running figure that he assumed was Hiicrop, but when he approached it, it proved to be merely a hologram. Fett then appeared behind Kast, pressed a blaster to his head, and pronounced him dead. Kast pleaded for his life, appealing to the Code, but Fett reminded him that Kast had broken it first. Fett then demanded Kast remove his helmet. As Kast did, though, he angled his jetpack boosters directly towards Fett and ignited them, driving Fett backwards and himself forward in a burst of flame.

As Kast began shooting back at Fett, Fett dived for cover behind a pillar. Kast attempted to use his jetpack to flee, but Fett roped his leg with his grappling hook, then rocketed himself up to Kast's level. Fett pummeled the other man, damaged his jetpack, then as Kast fell, fired a paralyzing nerve toxin into his neck. Kast crashed to the floor. Fett approached him and removed his helmet, but was shocked to find that Kast was, in his words, "nobody"&mdash;not Tobbi Dala or Fenn Shysa, and unworthy of the armor or reputation he had gained. Fett left behind three vials, one of which held the antidote to the nerve toxin, available to Kast if he could reach them before his rocket pack blew up. Fett knew he would not be able to, however, and as he returned to Dengar in the Slave I, the pack detonated, killing Kast. Fett and Dengar left Nal Hutta.

Bounty on Han Solo
When the reborn Emperor Palpatine began his public campaign against the New Republic, Fett decided to take up a new bounty by the Hutts on Han Solo and his wife, Leia Organa Solo. Solo's friend Mako Spince informed Fett where to find them on Nar Shaddaa, and Fett and Dengar went to Solo's old apartment to lie in wait. When the Solos arrived, they were greeted by Han's droid ZZ-4Z, who informed them that "a Mr. Fett" was there to see them. Fett revealed himself, and explained to Solo that he had escaped the sarlacc and was now hunting him. Solo suggested to the malfunctioning droid that he serve Fett some tea, and the droid stepped into Fett's line of fire and crashed into the bounty hunter. Solo opened fire and he and his wife fled, with Fett and Dengar in pursuit. The chase carried the four through the city, with other bounty hunters joining Fett and Dengar along the way. As the Solos took cover, Fett ordered the other hunters out of his way and attempted to hit them with a rocket, only to have it miss and kill the Hutt occupant of a floater. The Solos were able to commandeer it and escape.

As Fett and Dengar reached the nearby Slave II, the Solos reached Salla Zend's vessel Starlight Intruder and left Nar Shaddaa. Fett followed and was able to trace their heading into the Deep Core. Slave II was faster, and Fett arrived at their destination of Byss first. When the Starlight Intruder emerged from hyperspace, Fett dropped in behind them. Though Dengar warned Fett that they would not make it past the security shield around Byss, Fett believed he could follow. He was not quick enough; the shields closed as soon as Starlight Intruder was through, and Slave II collided with them. The ship was wrecked and Solo was lost. Dengar declared that he would never work with Fett again, and so the two men's partnership ended.

The Bar-Kooda bounty
"You're dead meat, Boba Fett!" "Many have tried&hellip;none have succeeded!"

- Bar-Kooda and Boba Fett

Alone again, Fett soon took on a new job for Gorga the Hutt. Gorga wished to marry Anachro the H'uun, but to get her father Orko's permission he needed to provide the Hutt with a gift. This, he decided, would be the pirate Bar-Kooda, who had been preying on Orko's trading ships. Gorga hired Fett to bring the pirate in.

Some time later, Fett was pursuing four bounties on a pair of speeder bikes through Scrapyard City. With his wrist rockets he eliminated one of the bikes, then stunned its passengers as he flew by them. The two riders of the second bike attempted to deceive him by sending their own bike ahead as a decoy while they hid in the wreckage, but Fett's audio sensors picked up their whispers, and the bounty hunter got the drop on them. Fett blew one of them apart, while the other raced for sanctuary in a nearby cantina. Fett was right behind him, and quickly assured that no one in the bar had provided aid to the bounty. The man attempted to kill Fett, proclaiming that he would never be taken alive, and Fett obliged by shooting him. That business now done, he turned to the matter of Bar-Kooda and asked the bartender for the location of the magician Wim Magwit.

Magwit was meanwhile performing a magic show in a distant frontier settlement. In the middle of a trick wherein birds flew into his mouth, a man arrived warning him that Fett was after him. One of the birds become stuck in Magwit's mouth, and as he seemingly choked to death, his audience was astounded by Fett's ability to kill a man without even being nearby. Fett appeared at Magwit's funeral, where he checked to make sure the man was dead as the onlookers mocked that he would never get the bounty on the magician. Later that night, Fett returned to the graveyard with his prisoner from the speeder bike chase to dig up the coffin. Fett had realized that Magwit had actually taken a drug to mimic death, and with his own concoction revived the man, who was surprised to find himself in Fett's clutches, not safe after the bounty hunter had gone.

On his way to rendezvous with Bar-Kooda, Fett spoke with Gorga to settle his payment, demanding two hundred thousand credits. Gorga reluctantly acquiesced. Fett then brought Magwit forth to discuss the matter of Bar-Kooda. Magwit had been in Bar-Kooda's service ever since he had ridden a spaceliner that had been captured by the pirate. Magwit had been forced into performing magic for Bar-Kooda, keeping himself alive only because he did not reveal the secrets of his tricks to Bar-Kooda, and had eventually escaped. Fett offered him a chance to earn his freedom by returning to the pirate, informing him that the price of refusal was death.

Magwit and Fett boarded an escape pod, intending for it to be picked up by Bar-Kooda's vessel Bloodstar. When the pirate gang retrieved it, all they found within were Magwit and his magic equipment, Fett having concealed himself inside a box where, even when it was inspected and opened by Bar-Kooda's crew, he could not be seen. Bar-Kooda ordered Magwit to put on one final show before he was killed, where he would reveal the secret of his famous hoop trick&mdash;a short-range matter transmitter that allowed the magician to "vanish" objects and people by moving them through a hoop, at which point they would materialize at the other end of the hoop backstage. As a pair of Bar-Kooda's crew inspected the backstage end of the transmitter, Fett emerged from his box, shot one of them, and beat the other unconscious. Bar-Kooda, meanwhile, grew tired of Magwit's show and demanded he get to the hoop trick.

Magwit told Bar-Kooda that all its secrets would be revealed if he stepped through it. Not trusting him, the pirate first stuck a hand through to test the device. He was prepared to put his head into the hoop next when Fett grabbed his arm and pulled him all the way through, flinging him into a bulkhead. Fett gave Bar-Kooda a chance to come to his ship voluntarily, but the pirate did not concede. Fett then shot him with a rocket, only for Bar-Kooda to fire several bolts at him, which could not penetrate Fett's armor. The pirate drew a massive axe and charged at Fett, only to have Fett blast him in the face with his flamethrower. The bounty hunter picked up the unconscious body of Bar-Kooda, planted a bomb, and began making his escape. Magwit, now surrounded by angry crewmembers demanding the location of their captain, made his own escape through the hoop and followed Fett. Many of the crew following him were caught in the bomb's blast, and the bounty hunter and magician were able to slide down a pole into the hangar and reach their ship.

The airlock doors stood between them and open space, but a missile from the vessel blew them open, exposing the hangar and its pirate inhabitants to vacuum. As they left the Bloodstar behind them, Magwit accused Fett of leaving him to die. Fett replied that he had not promised where the magician would be freed. The bounty hunter at last brought Bar-Kooda to Gorga, who had him cooked and served to Orko.

The kidnapping of Anachro
"I do hope you know what you're doing, Fett. Next to Anachro, money is the most important thing in the world to me."

- Gorga the Hutt

Some time later, Fett took a bounty on Toxus Li, and found himself in pursuit of the target's ship in Slave I. Though Li attempted to escape from Fett by releasing proximity charges, Slave I ' s shields withstood the assault, and Fett was able to disable the fleeing ship's engines. Fett docked with the vessel and one by one eliminated the crew until he reached Li. The price of Li's bounty was on his head alone, and so Fett decapitated him and took the prize back to Slave I, where he found a message from Gorga. The Hutt was on Skeebo, and informed Fett that his new wife Anachro had been kidnapped. During their honeymoon on the world, a band of criminals known as skavers had taken her, and they now demanded a million credits in ransom.

Fett arrived on Skeebo to speak with Grappa. After getting the particulars of the case from the Skeebo City Konstabulary, Kaptain Voor, Fett was advised by the man to leave it to local law enforcement. Grappa was less than impressed with the Kaptain, and after Voor left, asked Fett for his own suggestion. Fett told him to pay the ransom. When Gorga contacted the skavers, they instructed him to send one man, alone and unarmed, with the money to a rendezvous point. Fett prepared a bag for the ransom with a tracer hidden inside&mdash;the same bag, in fact, that had once held the head of Toxus Li, and now reeked.

At the appointed time and place, a group of skavers on swoop bikes appeared to take the money from Gorga's man. Fett, on a bike of his own, set off in pursuit of them by keeping track of the planted tracer. He quickly gained on them, and coming in sight of the rearmost bike, blew it and its rider up. As the rider with the money raced ahead, the last one doubled back into the shadow of an archway, where he prepared to ambush Fett. As Fett approached the archway, he sprang to its top and shot the skaver from above, then leapt back onto his still-moving bike and continued in pursuit of the tracer, which had stopped moving. When Fett arrived at its location, he found the bag empty and the last skaver nowhere near. His olfactory sensors could still pick up the odor of the money, though, and he was able to follow it to its destination: Kaptain Voor. Fett shot the last skaver and took Voor prisoner, forcing him to lead Fett to where Anachro was being held.

Voor led Fett towards the secret canyon of Skeendu, hidden in the crags of Skeebo, as Fett grew suspicious of the Kaptain's sudden helpfulness. Voor's deception was laid bare by a coincidental appearance of two spaceships&mdash;that of Orko, who suspected Gorga being involved in the kidnapping of his daughter, and that of Ry-Kooda, Bar-Kooda's brother who had learned of Fett and Orko's complicity in his brother's death and now sought revenge. As the two vessels, locked in combat, hurtled across the desert sky, a group of skavers directly in Fett's route opened fire at the ships. They blew Ry-Kooda's vessel out of the air, then set off to collect what they could from the wreck, but as they passed near Fett and Voor, Voor attempted to call for help. Fett grabbed the Kaptain off his bike and held him in front as a shield while shooting down the approaching skavers. As Ry-Kooda burst from the wreckage he saw Fett. Though the bounty hunter was soon gone, Ry-Kooda and his crew captured a skaver mining truck and set off in pursuit.

Fett meanwhile arrived at a cliff overlooking Skeendu. Voor was still beside him, but not for long; Fett knocked the man unconscious and informed him that he would be reporting on his actions to his superiors. Fett rappelled down into the skaver hideout, taking out the men guarding Anachro in silence. He then took Anachro out of the hideout the only way he could figure: by using the robe originally intended to hang her to hoist her from the underside of his speeder bike. Guards attempted to stop him, but Fett quickly dispatched them, only to realize there was a problem. Anachro's weight was slowing his bike's ascent, and what was more, the robe was now threatening to strangle her. He maneuvered her down into the back of a mining truck, then dropped into its driver's seat and ordered his bike to go to a higher altitude and await his orders. As Fett drove the truck down the tracks of an old mining tunnel, more guards attempted to stop him only to get shot. Ry-Kooda's gang, meanwhile, was arriving at the other end of the tunnel. They chased off the skavers at the bottom of the tunnel, who soon found themselves in the way of Fett's truck. Ry-Kooda, meanwhile, stepped into the truck's path, screaming Fett's name. As the truck collided with Ry-Kooda, Anachro went flying off the back and landed safely on Ry-Kooda's gang.

Boz, Ry-Kooda's diminutive sidekick, stepped up to Fett, threatening him and informing him that he was facing Bar-Kooda's brother. Fett cuffed Boz aside as Ry-Kooda charged, then fired several shots into the gangster that knocked him back. Ry-Kooda grabbed a chunk of support beam and hurled it into another, causing part of the mine's ceiling to collapse on Fett. Ry-Kooda hit Fett hard with another piece of beam, then grabbed and prepared to eat him. As the gangster opened his mouth, Fett fired his flamethrower directly into it, then launched a concussion grenade at the already weak ceiling. It came crashing down, burying Ry-Kooda, as Fett raced from the tunnel to safety. Once outside, he now had to find a way to carry Anachro back. He called his speeder bike back to him, and placing her in the bed of Ry-Kooda's captured mining truck, hauled it behind him to Orko's landing site, where Gorga had already arrived. Orko and Gorga's argument, threatening to become violent, was interrupted by Fett and Anachro's arrival. Fett returned Gorga's ransom money, minus his payment, then informed Gorga that he was available if the Hutt needed him. Gorga hinted that he would.

The murder of Orko
Gorga did, in fact, summon Fett later. The Hutt met him in secret at a settlement on Tatooine, where he asked the bounty hunter to assassinate Orko. Fett warned him that killing one as prominent as Orko could arouse the ire of the Empire, and demanded half a million credits in payment, or ten percent of that to merely look into the possibility. Gorga informed him that he had an agent on Orko's staff, Hirsoot, who had been unsuccessful in removing him; he eventually agreed to pay Fett the fifty thousand. After Fett had left, Gorga learned that Anachro was pregnant, and was informed by her doctor that any disturbance could result in the loss of the Huttlet. He immediately sent his servant Ding to recall Fett from his task.

Fett, however, had decided to turn the situation to his advantage. Arriving in Orkana, Orko's domain filled with scrap and toxic waste, he was mugged by two of the land's destitute inhabitants. Fett quickly dispatched them and was on his way. Using a flash grenade to distract Orko's guards, Fett flew up to an upper window on his jetpack and entered the Hutt's tower. Removing several interior guards with a tripline and stunning the rest, Fett at last burst into Orko's chambers, accidentally knocking aside Hirsoot, who was just about to murder the Hutt. With a blaster to Orko's head, Fett informed him that he had not come to kill him, but to demonstrate how easy it was to penetrate his defenses. Fett told Orko that a bounty hunter he knew had been hired by an unknown part to murder the Hutt, but could be bought off for six hundred thousand credits. Orko immediately conceded, promising to have the money by morning if Fett would intercede with the other bounty hunter on his behalf. Fett agreed, then went to a local cantina to await the morning.

Orko would have another visitor that night, though. Ry-Kooda had survived his defeat on Skeebo and come to take his vengeance on the Hutt. He climbed the tower to Orko's chambers and ripped the Hutt to shreds. Fett was still in the cantina when the news came in, and he learned that it was assumed he had done the deed. As the patrons of the bar cheered him, Fett left for Orko's tower. The guards, too frightened of Fett to stop him, let him pass as he went to the Hutt's chamber. There he examined the corpse, saw that bites had been taken out of it, and realized that Ry-Kooda had lived. He contacted Gorga, who assumed like the others that Fett had killed Orko; Fett, however, set him straight, and warned Gorga that Ry-Kooda could be coming for him next. Gorga offered Fett all the money of the original Orko contract, and Fett left the tower by the window, avoiding the guards amassed outside the room.

Anachro, meanwhile, upset at the death of her father and believing that Gorga had been responsible, left Gorga's palace in a speeder. Gorga, realizing she was in danger, followed. Ry-Kooda was waiting, though, and disabled Anachro's speeder with a rocket before attempting to tear her from the vehicle. When Gorga arrived, his own guards were killed off one by one. Ry-Kooda at last dragged Anachro from the speeder and was preparing to eat her when Fett arrived and fired two rockets into the gangster's mouth, knocking him to the ground. He then shot the last of Ry-Kooda's gang members. Ry-Kooda stood up and charged at Fett, who launched himself up, causing the gangster to plow into a pile of scrap. Ry-Kooda recovered and began flinging pieces of scrap at Fett, knocking him down. As he stepped up with a large club and swung it down to crush Fett, the bounty hunter fired a dart into his eye, dodged the descending club, and shot Ry-Kooda in the chest. Ry-Kooda lurched back, directly into a pile of toxic waste. The gangster burst into flames before being dissolved by the toxins.

Now Boz approached him, threatening that he would have his revenge on Fett and punching him in the knee. Fett punted the tiny creature away. He then approached Gorga, who told Fett that he had been worried the bounty hunter had abandoned him. Fett told him that he had, and the only reason he had returned was to deal with the threat of Ry-Kooda. Telling the Hutt that he could help himself now, Fett drove away from Gorga, Anachro, and their newborn Huttlet as Boz once again shouted his vow of vengeance.

Solo, again
"Okay, Solo&mdash;this time I've got you!"

- Boba Fett

With the money he received from the Gorga jobs, Fett was able to turn towards the Solo bounty once more and returned to Nar Shaddaa. There he was accosted by two of the Empire's dark side warriors, Zasm Katth and Baddon Fass, who demanded that he work for the Empire in capturing Solo, with no payment in return. They threatened him with knowledge of his stormtrooper past and the murder of his superior officer, but Fett drew his blaster and ordered them to back off. In response, they began to choke Fett with the Force, bringing him to his knees. Katth ordered one of his shadow stormtroopers to remove Fett's helmet. Fett blew the trooper apart with a wrist rocket, and breaking free of the Force grip ran to Slave I and made his escape. The dark siders promised he would die for it, but upon receiving reports that the Millennium Falcon had arrived on the moon, realized that Fett's services were no longer needed and decided to deal with him later.

Fett realized that he could find the Falcon in the garage of Shug Ninx, and took Slave I into a secret entrance of the garage. The Solos had avoided the Empire and were at this moment taking the Falcon out the very same entrance. In the narrow tunnel, the two ships could not avoid each other without one pilot changing course, and in the resulting collision the Falcon clipped off one of Slave I ' s stabilizers. As Fett collided into the walls of the tunnel, his shields limited the damage, but the Falcon was able to make its escape into the lower levels of the city.

Fett was on their tail, though, and caught the Solos while they were separated from Chewbacca. He pinned them down with a barrage of blaster fire, advising them to turn themselves in alive and still have a chance to escape, even offering to give them part of the Hutt bounty on themselves. He was unaware of Chewbacca approaching behind him, though. As the Wookiee leapt on Fett and pinned him to the ground, Fett fired a shot that hit Chewbacca in the side and forced him to let go. Fett began to exchange further shots with the Solos, thinking that the Wookiee was dying and not realizing that Chewbacca was coming behind him again. Chewbacca ripped Fett's helmet off his head, then activated Fett's jetpack, sending the bounty hunter slamming headfirst into a girder.

Fett recovered and returned to Slave I, where he kept a spare helmet, then took the ship up to hide among the scrap orbiting Nar Shaddaa. As the Falcon left the moon, Fett fired upon it, damaging the freighter. Solo was forced to take the Falcon into a nearby gas cloud, and Fett, his scanners unable to penetrate it, prepared to wait outside until Solo emerged. In the days that followed, Fett patrolled the gas cloud's edge, looking for an opening or a way to scan its interior. Several days after the Falcon vanished into the cloud, it returned. Fett, believing Solo was at last his, began making his attack on the ship, but the Falcon returned fire with its newly installed lightning gun&mdash;given to him by the Ganathan inhabitants of the cloud. Slave I ' s systems shorted out and its reactor went critical as Fett hurtled into the radioactive cloud. Though Solo believed him to have been killed, Fett survived and was forced to get a new ship, the Slave III.

The Azgoghk mission
"If you do this, it will not be because of the money. It will be so that all know who is Boba Fett."

- Slique Brighteyes

Fett's recent failures had taken a toll on his reputation. With his fall into the sarlacc and repeated failures to catch Han Solo, people were questioning the skills of the bounty hunter. After Fett's latest embarrassment at the hands of Solo, the Gulmarid Slique Brighteyes came to him with a story and an offer. Brighteyes and his people had been captured by the Imperial dungeon ship Azgoghk, captained by Mir Tork. Tork and his chief scientist Leonis Murthé were dedicated to the philosophy of Human High Culture and did their part to torture and exterminate non-Human species. While the dying Gulmarid had been rescued from the Azgoghk after a Rebel attack, Tork had reclaimed the vessel and fled. Brighteyes wanted justice for his people by the death of the two Imperials, and he had come to Fett.

When Brighteyes announced the price of one hundred credits, Fett felt that he was being mocked, and threatened the Gulmarid with his blaster. However, Brighteyes pointed out to him that his reputation was even more important; taking down Tork and Murthé was said to be impossible, except for Fett. Brighteyes informed him that if he took the job, it would not be for money, but to prove he was still the same Boba Fett. Fett accepted, and Brighteyes provided him with the location of the Azgoghk and information on its weaknesses.

When the Azgoghk landed on Malicar 3, Fett was waiting with a large ion cannon emplacement. He opened fire on a weak point in the dungeon ship, burning out its engines and knocking the ship over. Fett then opened up communications with the vessel, announcing that Tork and Murthé were his targets, and all others were free to leave or die. He then launched a grenade into the ship's hull, breaching it near the holding pens. Fett quickly killed the guards there, and Tork ordered more to that level to fend him off. Fett then shot open one of the holding cells, freeing the prisoners; he told them to save themselves, as they outnumbered the ship's crew, and suggested they take the guns of the fallen guards.

Fett finally reached Murthé, who wielded a lightsaber. Fett, unimpressed, dodged Murthé's blows with the weapon, then set the man on fire with his flamethrower. Ignoring the scientist's pleas to kill him, Fett then made his way to where Tork waited. The captain sat with his finger on the self-destruct button of the vessel and informed Fett that if he was shot, he would set it off. Fett turned to leave, promising to find the man later and kill him then. Not wanting to live in fear, Tork stood and began firing at Fett, so Fett shot him. Murthé, still on fire, then charged at the bounty hunter; Fett shot him as well.

With the prisoners freed from the Azgoghk, Fett left their next step in their hands, asking only that they remember his name. On Basteel, Fett again met with Brighteyes. He offered the now-dying Gulmarid a bag with proof of his kills, but Brighteyes elected to take him at his word. He gave Fett his payment and the bounty hunter left, satisfied that his name was established once again.

The Butcher of Montellian Serat
Fett soon, however, needed thousands of credits, having replaced Slave III with Slave IV and gotten surgery to obtain a prosthetic replacement for his right leg, which had been damaged by the sarlacc years earlier.

In 19 ABY, Fett took a bounty on Kardue'sai'Malloc, the Devaronian war criminal known as the Butcher of Montellian Serat. For Malloc's capture, Fett received five million credits.

Return to Jubilar
Fett now needed to regain his pride, and he once again faced off against Han Solo on Jubilar. However, the two men agreed to end their decades-long feud and part ways.

Personality and traits
"He's a man with no heart, no feelings, no interest other than the price on another man's head."

- Yolan Bren

As a child, Boba Fett was well-behaved. He was intelligent and observant, having learned to thoroughly apprise situations he found himself in. Fett gained his father's natural instincts for detecting trouble, as well as Jango's reflexes. His youth gave him a distaste for religious autarchy, though he later learned to overcome it in service of payment.

As a child, Fett learned to listen more than he spoke. He retained these lessons in later years, never socializing and rarely speaking. Dengar often chided Fett on his laconism; Fett countered that thinking was more important than speaking. In combat, too, Fett believed that silence was essential. Alone, however, he was known to speak to himself and give monologues to the carbon-frozen Han Solo.

Fett had little in the way of emotion.

None of Fett's bounties saw his face, an aspect he used to encourage speculation about his past. After his incident in the sarlacc, Fett never showed his face, thinking of his armor as his true face.

Fett placed great stock in how his name was viewed. Even money could be put aside in the interests of regaining reputation. The bounty hunter considered his reputation and armor to have been earned by his skills. When Jodo Kast attempted to impersonate him, Fett lectured the man in his last moments that he should have learned from Fett rather than take what he had, unearned.

Fett was not uncharitable, and after receiving a bounty on Nobam Nol, considered leaving some of it for the local orphanage, only not doing so because he needed the money for another mission. During the Azgoghk mission, Fett freed the prisoners being held in that ship, though it was not part of his contract. He did not, however, profess any interest in what they did after escaping. Fett took a similar attitude with the magician Wim Magwit, to whom he gave freedom, then immediately forced to fend for himself while escaping the crew of the Bloodstar.

Fett believed that there was no wrong done by a soldier following orders. He would, however, turn in corrupt law enforcement officers to their superiors for a bounty.

When in pursuit of a bounty, Fett sometimes took great risks at the expense of caution. This could cost him, as it did when he collided with the planetary shield of Byss while chasing Han Solo or when he was knocked into the Pit of Carkoon while attempting to engage Luke Skywalker in close quarters. He was not concerned whether a bounty was troublesome; according to him, trouble was the point of a bounty, and only a bounty hunter who accepted that could get the higher-paying jobs. However, even Fett had his limits; at the end of the mission to bring Solo to Jabba the Hutt, Fett stated that he had he known the trouble that it would bring, he would not have taken the bounty for even ten times the cost. When the possibility presented itself of earning a reward without risk, Fett was also not adverse to taking the opportunity. It was important to him, though, that in doing so he did not break any promises he had made with a client.

After their fight on Dargulli, in which Fett sided with Vader against a mob of bounty hunters attacking him, Vader complimented Fett on his ability to read the odds of the situation. He made it his business never to underestimate a foe.

Yolan Bren, one of Fett's targets, did not believe the bounty hunter to be evil, but rather heartless and emotionless, with nothing to live or die for save payment. Bren found Fett to be a pitiable man. Fett, indeed, did care greatly about money. He was known to kill those who could not make their payments to him, or at the least leave them to the mercy of their enemies. When a client suggested they would not pay Fett for a job, or would pay him a paltry sum, he could take violent offense. Those that caused him a great deal of trouble he would also leave to help themselves.

Even fellow bounty hunters praised Fett's skill and intelligence. Fett was alert, and had such skills as detecting whether he was in an artificial gravity field or on a planet, or distinguishing between an induced death-like state and true death of a body. He could negotiate a good deal for himself as well, playing to the tastes and whims of his clients.

Though Fett often skirted the law, he knew that some aspects of Imperial law even he could not flout, such as the murder of a high-profile individual.

Jango Fett
"Only a son can know his father's heart&hellip;"

- Boba Fett

Fett saw his father as above the avarice and treachery that characterized the underworld. He considered Jango to be honorable and truthful, an ideal to be looked up to, and a personal hero. Jango, in Boba' eyes, was the greatest Mandalorian and the one he would model his own life after.

Jango Fett taught his son many lessons on the proper conduct of a warrior. He emphasized being free of fear, being ready for anything, and committing oneself entirely to an attack. Jango taught Boba that loyalty and honor were more important than anything, and once one's word was given, that mattered over all other things. Mercy, according to Jango, had no place in battle.

As a child, Boba was always glad when Jango came home from his hunts and missed him while he was gone. Jango loved his son and wished he could spend more time with Boba, knowing that his son needed him to be there.

Han Solo
Fett initially held a fondness for the carbon-frozen Han Solo, glad of the two bounties he would receive on the smuggler. However, during the ever-lengthening transport of Solo, Fett developed an intense animosity for the inanimate body, addressing Solo as if in person and accusing him of bringing only trouble.

Fett would not accept Solo's help after escaping the sarlacc for the first time, an attitude that doomed him to be trapped within it again.

By the time of Fett's hunt for the Solos on Nar Shaddaa, it had become personal for the bounty hunter.

Armor
Fett's armor had once belonged to Jaster Mereel, his father's mentor. Its chestplate was durable enough to repel fast-moving projectiles. The armor was equipped with a jetpack, flamethrower, and nerve toxin darts, while his wrists were equipped with attachments that could fire explosive rockets, a weapon that Fett was deadly accurate with. From the underside of the gauntlets Fett could fire a cable to ensnare targets. Fett had a cannon built into his knee pads that could fire a stream of liquid, dangerous to the target in frozen environments. He prided himself on the extent of the weaponry he carried.

Helmet
"This is my face."

- Boba Fett

Fett's helmet was equipped with audio sensors that could pick up very quiet sounds, including distant whispering. It also had olfactory sensors that could detect pungent scent at a good distance.

The helmet was equipped with macrobinoculars that could view into the infrared and ultraviolet. Fett could activate these by a switch flipped with his tongue.

A tube in the helmet provided water to the bounty hunter.

Weapons
During Jabba's demolition games, Fett equipped himself with disintegrator rockets, designed to drain power from and weaken the molecular structure of the enemy vehicles he faced in the match.

Starships
Fett owned four starships: Slave I through Slave IV. His first, Slave I, he inherited from his father. It was disabled by the Millennium Falcon ' s lightning gun in 10 ABY.

One one occasion Fett used a large escape pod specially outfitted with missiles to infiltrate, and later escape from, a bounty's vessel.

Boba Fett, losing scenario
When Fett lost the demolition games, Jabba opened the trap door beneath the bounty hunter to drop him into the rancor pit. However, Fett rocketed out of the pit and escaped the palace.

Otto, losing scenario
Fett captured the Imperial defector General Otto and turned him into the Empire, where he met his fate at the hands of Darth Vader.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Jango Fett
 * Star Wars: Zam Wesell
 * Star Wars Empire: Betrayal
 * Star Wars: Rebellion
 * Star Wars Empire 7: Sacrifice
 * The Rebel Thief
 * Star Wars Empire 28: Wreckage
 * The Frozen World of Ota
 * Shadows of the Empire comic
 * Shadows of the Empire novel
 * Battle of the Bounty Hunters
 * Star Wars: Demolition
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novel
 * Star Wars: Return of the Jedi comic
 * Star Wars Manga: Return of the Jedi
 * Star Wars 81: Jawas of Doom
 * Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction
 * Dark Empire
 * Star Wars: Dark Empire audio drama
 * Boba Fett: Bounty on Bar-Kooda
 * Boba Fett: When the Fat Lady Swings
 * Boba Fett: Murder Most Foul
 * Dark Empire II
 * Boba Fett: Agent of Doom
 * Empire's End
 * Empire's End