Jango Fett/Legends

"I'm just a simple man, trying to make my way in the universe."

- Jango Fett

Jango Fett was a renowned bounty hunter and the "father" of Boba Fett (his clone). Fett was the leader of the Mandalorians from 52–34 BBY, and later served as the template for the clones of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Early life (66 BBY to 32 BBY)
"Welcome to the Mandalorians."

- Jaster Mereel

Jango Fett was born to a family of farmers on the world of Concord Dawn, a planet long associated with the heavily-armored super-soldiers known as the Mandalorians.

Fett's father served as Journeyman Protector, having taken over the role when former Protector Jaster Mereel was exiled.

Jango was a young boy when the war began between the true Mandalorians, led by Jaster Mereel, and a traitorous scion of their ranks, Vizsla. In 58 BBY, the civil war spilled on to Jango's homeworld in the Battle of Concord Dawn. The rebel Death Watch pursued the Mandalorian loyalists to the Fett homestead, where Mereel and his followers were granted refuge by the Fett family.

The Death Watch caught up with the True Mandalorians and, in attempt to root them out of their hiding place, murdered every member of Jango Fett's family. Young Jango survived, however, rescued by the Mandalorian loyalists.

Jango was taken in by the Mandalorian leader, Jaster Mereel, who raised the young boy as he would his own son. He served with Mereel's forces for the rest of the Mandalorian Civil War, until the Battle of Korda 6. Here, Mereel was betrayed by his second-in-command, Montross, who abandoned the Mandalore to the Death Watch. Mereel was killed, and Jango alone returned to the Mandalorians with the leader's corpse.

Montross attempted to seize control, but his apparent betrayal of Mereel left the other Mandalorians cold. They denounced Montross, and proclaimed that they would follow only Jango.

Jango Fett became Mandalore, and Montross slipped off into exile.

Fett led the Mandalorians for the rest of the war until the disastrous Battle of Galidraan where the Death Watch led them into a trap. Except for Jango, the Mandalorians were wiped out. Jango, the sole survivor, demonstrated his amazing physical abilities by killing many of the attacking Jedi with his bare hands, but finally surrendered and was sold into slavery. The Death Watch was victorious.

Or so it seemed. Fett eventually escaped from slavery, and tracked the Death Watch to Corellia. There, he avenged Jaster Mereel's death, killing Vizsla and a good many of his followers.

With the civil war finally over, the Mandalorians were all but extinct, the remaining few Death Watch members fleeing to the far reaches of the galaxy. Jango, using his combat skills, weaponry, and mercenary mindset, became a bounty hunter, piloting his ship, Jaster's Legacy. Jango soon became famous for his accomplishments throughout the galaxy, not least of which were the Jedi he killed during the Battle of Galidraan. Despite this, he always considered himself a simple man trying to make his way.

He took up residence at Outland Station where, with the help of an associate named Rozatta, he became a mercenary and hunter for hire. It was also most likely during this time that Jango developed a brief romance with Sheeka Tull, a woman from Ord Cestus.

The hunt for the prime clone (32 BBY)
"I am the best...always was."

- Jango to Montross.

Shortly after the Battle of Naboo, Jango was contacted by a man named Tyranus, who offered him a bounty on his former Padawan apprentice, Komari Vosa, the deranged leader of a crime syndicate known as the Bando Gora. Jango had to compete with Montross, the former Mandalorian traitor whom Tyranus had also contacted about the bounty. Fett’s journey began on Coruscant, where the trail led from a deathstick dealer named Jervis Gloom, straight to Senator Trell, who was organizing a brand new type of deathstick from his supplier, a ruthless Dug named Sebolto.

In order to gain access to the Dug, Jango traveled to Oovo IV to retrieve Bendix Fust, a criminal serving time there that had a bounty on his head. However, just as Fett reached his cell, his mission was delayed when a novice bounty hunter named Zam Wesell managed to capture Fust first. Her interference ultimately caused Jango to lose his ship, Jaster's Legacy. Stealing a police interceptor, his new starship became his and his son's trademark ship—Slave I. Jango formed a partnership with Zam and they mutually agreed to split the bounty when they delivered Fust to Sebolto.

Heading to Malastare, Sebolto's homeworld, Fett managed to sneak inside the crimelord's palace with the help of Zam, with the pair of them killing anyone who got in their way. When they confronted the Dug he frantically tried to escape, but managed to fall into a smelting pit instead. Jango then fought hordes of Bando Gora as he made his way deeper into Sebolto's deathstick factory and later fought Montross as well.

Reaching Sebolto's transport ship, Fett discovered Huttese markings, which led Jango straight to Tatooine. Two Hutts, Jabba and Gardulla the Elder, controlled the desert planet, and one of them had connections to the Bando Gora.

In order to gain an audience with Jabba, Jango fought a gang of outlaws led by Longo Two-Guns who had a price on his head which was posted by the Hutt. When Jango came to Jabba to collect his reward, he asked the slimy crimelord about the Bando Gora. However, it turned out that Jabba actually had nothing to do with Vosa or the crime syndicate. Instead he informed Jango that it was Gardulla, not him, that was allied with the cult. In the meantime, Zam managed to sneak inside Gardulla's palace but was captured, leaving Jango to fight his way inside by himself. But when he got there, Jango wanted to leave her in her cell for protection, which Zam mistook for leaving her out of a fair 50-50 share of Vosa’s bounty. She called for the guards, who then knocked Jango out and stripped him of his weapons, and then brought him to Gardulla to decide his fate. The Hutt decided to simply kill Jango by feeding the famed bounty hunter to her pet Krayt Dragon. As Fett was brought to its pen, he managed to kill the guards that were at his side holding him down. Retrieving his weapons, Jango fought the dragon. In the end, Gardulla ended up as being lunch for her own beast, but not before Jango had discovered the information he was searching for&mdash;the identity of Vosa's hideout, Kohlma, a burial moon of Bogden.



Leaving Zam in her cell because of her apparent betrayal, Fett set off to return to Outland Station.

Unbeknownst to Fett, however, Rozatta was at the very moment under attack by Montross. It would seem the other bounty hunter had barely made a move on the bounty, instead tracking Jango through a beacon planted on his ship. Roz, despite Jango's personal motto "trust no-one" was one of the few people who cared about Jango. Revealing the location as the fourth moon of Bogden, her last wish was that he would find something to actually care and live for besides the money. She believed that despite his dangerous line of work, he was a good honorable man and deserved more.

Jango traveled to the system, fighting all matter of Bando Gora along the way. Having one last duel with Montross, he denied his old foe a honorable "warrior's" death, instead allowing the Bando Gora to proudly finish Montross off. Moving deeper into Vosa's lair, Fett was ambushed, knocked unconscious, and stripped of his weaponry.

Having captured Jango, the Bando Gora prepared to turn him into a mindless slave. It was here that Jango acquired most of his facial scars. Vosa herself came to demand of him the name of his employer, but Zam Wesell freed Jango before being injured herself by the insane Dark Jedi. After a long duel, Jango Fett emerged victorious. As he prepared to finish her off, Vosa asked if he would choose to leave her alive. Jango, looking at the ruined female nearing her death, lowered his weapons. Vosa murmured "He...is here." before being choked with the Force to her last breath.



To Jango's surprise, Tyranus was indeed there, and he was impressed. The bounty was a test to determine if the rumors of Jango's skills against Jedi were true. If so, his clones trained under his supervision would be very effective once Order 66, the order to eliminate all Jedi, was issued. While Jango had personally killed many Jedi on Galidraan, Tyranus considered his former apprentice a more challenging test. In addition to the bounty on Vosa, Tyranus offered Jango a tempting sum of money for an unusual task: Jango was to be a template for an army of clones. Jango agreed, and soon millions of clones were created in his likeness at the cloning facility on Kamino. Jango, however, remembered Rozatta's final wish and asked for one clone produced without genetic tampering, an apprentice and son that would become Jaster's legacy and revive the Mandalorians.

Jango Fett left Kohlma and said his goodbyes to Zam Wesell (who, thanks to trauma received on Kohlma, had seemingly forgotten what Jango looked like beneath his helmet when they next encountered each other, some five years later). After parting ways, he returned to Dooku's estate to finalize his deal with the Sith Lord. His wish for an heir was granted and he was awarded Boba Fett. Contrary to his later claims, Jango was aware that Tyranus was also former Jedi Master Count Dooku, the Separatist leader, having already met Dooku on the Battle of Galidraan who led the Jedi forces.

Final Years (32 BBY to 22 BBY)
"Apart from his pay...which was considerable, Fett demanded only one thing..."

- Lama Su

Jango did not fully retire from his career, but he took fewer jobs and spent more time on Kamino, where he raised Boba in the Mandalorian ways while assisting the Kaminoans in developing training programs for the clone troopers. In short, he recruited one hundred training sergeants, mostly former Death Watch members, to assist in the matter. These men became known as the Cuy'val Dar -- "Those Who No Longer Exist".

Fett and the Cuy'val Dar taught the clones Mandalorian culture, including the language and chants of their people. The clones' white armor was even based on the Mandalorian armor Fett wore.

Shortly before the Clone Wars, Ashaar Khorda employed Jango to retrieve the statue known as the Infant of Shaa. Khorda hoped to use the Infant's power to destroy Coruscant in the upcoming conflict. Fett succeeded in attaining the statue, but was convinced by his rival and contemporary Zam Wesell to re-steal the statue from Khorda to save the galactic capital. A last minute effort by Fett and Wesell saved the Infant from unleashing its power within a central Coruscant power core. Jedi Master Yarael Poof sacrificed himself to contain the fracturing statue and prevent the destruction of Coruscant and Fett returned the statue to Seylott for safe keeping. This would be one of the final missions Fett undertook in his life.

During the cloning process, Fett automatically became one of Tyranus' bodyguards (effectively placing him in the CIS). Had he already not known, Fett probably now realized that Dooku (the Jedi Master who led the attack on Galidraan) and Tyranus were the same person. This knowledge would greatly help his son later on.

The Eve of War (22 BBY)
"They'll do their job well, I guarantee that."

- Jango Fett



Ten years after the cloning process had begun on Kamino, the clones had come far. 200,000 units were ready and Jango was hired to assassinate Senator Padmé Amidala, who could have become a threat due to her successes during the Battle of Naboo. The plot failed and Jango was forced to murder his partner, Zam Wesell, to keep his identity secret. Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi traced one of Jango's weapons to Kamino and learned of the clone army of which the Jedi were previously unaware. Jango and Kenobi initially met on civil terms but, when Kenobi tried to intercept Jango for further questioning, later clashed in a titanic battle.

Jango and Boba escaped in the Slave I, but Kenobi tracked them to Geonosis, where he learned that Jango and Count Dooku (Darth Tyranus) were in league with the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Kenobi was captured and sentenced to death in the arena for espionage, as were Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala, who had come to rescue him. Count Dooku, Jango and his son Boba were special guests of the Geonosian Archduke Poggle the Lesser and watched the execution from a private box.



However, the execution ceremony was not going as planned, as all three prisoners managed to escape. At one point, Nute Gunray became so furious that he told Jango to finish Amidala off. Suddenly, using the Force to move quietly, Mace Windu snuck into the box and held Jango at lightsaber point. As several battle droids arrived to deter the Jedi, Jango fired his wrist-mounted flamethrower at Mace, who jumped out of the box and into the arena, throwing off his burning cloak. Just then hundreds of Jedi who had been hiding in the crowd activated their lightsabers as one and a massive battle broke out between the Jedi and the CIS' battle droids. Jango joined the melee and even killed Jedi Council member Coleman Trebor. At one point, Windu dropped his lightsaber and Jango flew down to challenge him. However, Windu retrieved it and Jango was trampled by the massive Reek which was still running around. With one blast to the head it fell dead, but Jango did not realize his jetpack was damaged when he was trampled. As Windu rushed in, Jango's attempts to blast him proved futile and he tried to fly off. The jetpack malfunctioned due to the damage and Jango was ultimately beheaded, fulfilling the Mandalorian prophecy of the Sith Lord, Darth Traya:
 * "They will die a death that will last millennia, until all that remains is their code, their history, and in the end, the shell of their armor upon the shell of a man, too easily slain by Jedi."

Jango never lived to see his clones participate in the Clone Wars, which tore the galaxy apart and cleared the way for the Galactic Empire. Nor did he ever see his son Boba continue his bounty hunting legacy, using his father's weapons and ship, as well as the suit of Mandalorian armor once worn by Jaster Mereel.

In honor of the legendary bounty hunter, a gladiatorial pit that became known as the Jango Fett Arena was built in the city of Mos Eisley on Tatooine.

Weapons
Jango Fett wore the signature armor of the Mandalorians, restored by the Governor of Galidraan. Fett was also armed with Westar-34 twin Dallorian blasters, BlasTech Dur-24 wrist laser, Czerka ZX miniature flame projector, Kamino Toxic Darts (among other kinds). 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.

He had two jetpacks, a Merr-Sonn JT-12, the jetpack was a personal manufactured by Merr-Sonn Munitions prior to the Clone Wars.

The JT-12 was a compact jetpack featuring a warhead missile launcher. This model was similar to the more heavily-armored Mitrinomon Z-6 jetpack. Both models were favoured by Jango.

The Mitrinomon Z-6 was a more common model of used by the Mandalorians. Many famous Mandalorians used this type of jetpack, including Jango Fett and Boba Fett. The jetpack included a targeting computer, flight gyros, and a missile/grapple launcher.

Oddly enough, both Jango and Boba were thwarted by their jetpacks: while fighting Obi-Wan Kenobi on Kamino, Jango's jetpack detached itself and flew out of control, exploding against a column. Also during his final battle, it was the malfunction of his jetpack that ultimately resulted in Jango's death. While battling Luke Skywalker over the Pit of Carkoon, Boba's jetpack was activated by Han Solo, launching him into the side of Jabba's sail barge and into the sarlacc.

Vehicles
After the death of his mentor, Jaster Mereel, Jango inherited Mereel's personal ship. Renaming it Jaster's Legacy, he used it in many of his bounty hunting contracts. During the hunt for Komari Vosa, which led to Oovo IV, the ship was sabatoged by Zam Wessel. Needing a replacement, he found a prototype fleet of Firespray-class starships in one of the hangers of the asteroid prison. Stealing one and demolishing the others, he christened it "Slave I", which he used up until his death. The ship will later go into the hands of his son, Boba Fett.

Behind the scenes

 * Jango Fett was played by Temuera Morrison in Attack of the Clones and voiced by Morrison in video games such as Star Wars: Bounty Hunter and Star Wars: Battlefront II.
 * While Jango's official height is 1.83 meters, his actor is significantly shorter. This can be seen in every scene Jango appears in with Obi-Wan Kenobi, who is 1.79 meters tall.
 * George Lucas chose the name "Jango" as a reference to the titular character of the movie Django. Like Jango, Django is also a loner mercenary with a harsh past.
 * www.ambufett.com was a domain name purchased by LucasFilm before the release of Attack of the Clones. It is possible that Ambu Fett may have been considered as the original name of Jango, or another Fett family member, or perhaps another clone. Another name proposed for the character was J'mee Fett.

Appearances

 * Jango Fett: Open Seasons
 * Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
 * Fett Club
 * Republic Commando: Triple Zero
 * Star Wars Adventures: Jango Fett vs. The Razor Eaters
 * Star Wars Adventures: The Shape Shifter Strikes
 * Star Wars Adventures: Warlords of Balmorra
 * Star Wars: Jango Fett
 * Star Wars: Zam Wesell
 * Full of Surprises
 * Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter
 * Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars Republic 52: The New Face of War, Part 2
 * Jedi: Count Dooku
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
 * Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (video game)