Zam Wesell/Legends

"You're no lady."

- Jango Fett

"Sometimes I am."

- Zam Wesell

Zam Wesell was a shapeshifting Clawdite bounty hunter from the planet Zolan. In her true form, Wesell was a green-skinned reptilian, although she often appeared as a beautiful woman with short reddish-blonde hair, a tight-fitting purple bodysuit and a veil over her face.

Biography
Wesell was born on Zolan, a member of the changeling Clawdite race that was constantly at war with the native Zolanders, a race similar to the Clawdites but lacking their chameleon abilities. Wesell was trained in the ways of the Mabari, an ancient order of warrior-knights from Zolan. She left Zolan at a young age to work as a corporate security officer on Denon, an ecumenopolis second only to Coruscant. She rose from officer to sergeant to executive bodyguard in short time before she decided that she did not earn enough and became a professional bounty hunter.



One of Wesell's earliest missions was the capture of Bendix Fust, a smuggler wanted by Malastarian Dug crime lord Sebolto. Fust was an inmate at the infamous Oovo IV asteroid prison, but that did not stop Wesell from breaking in, capturing him, and staging a riot in order to cover her escape. Unfortunately, the notorious Jango Fett had also broken in at the same time, for the same target. Their mutual interference botched their respective plans and they were forced to work together to escape. Wesell cost Jango his ship and he was forced to steal a prototype Firespray-class Patrol Craft, which he would eventually dub the Slave I.

They continued to collaborate after Fust was turned in to Sebolto. Jango had been working a larger job, tracking Komari Vosa, a former Jedi who had become the leader of the death-obsessed Bando Gora cult. After Sebolto's clues led Jango and Wesell to Tatooine, Wesell was forced to betray Jango to save herself from Gardulla the Hutt. Nevertheless, Jango escaped certain death and found what he needed from Gardulla, killing her as a favor to Jabba the Hutt. For her treason, Jango left Wesell in Gardulla's dungeon.

Somehow, she managed to escape and track Jango to one of the moons of Bogden, headquarters of the Bando Gora. Jango was captured by Komari Vosa and only Wesell's timely interference saved him, though her blasts were deflected by Vosa's twin lightsabers. Before Vosa could finish her, Zam blasted the bonds holding Jango, allowing him to rush for his weapons. Startled, Vosa fled, but not before Jango reached her and after a long battle, defeated her.

As Jango carried the wounded Wesell back to the Slave I, he explained that he had been hired by Darth Tyranus, otherwise known as former Jedi Count Dooku, to become the template for an army of clones on Kamino, and stranger still, he had asked Tyranus to give him one unaltered clone to raise as his son. Though Wesell thought the idea rather silly, she eventually had an almost maternal relationship with Jango's son, Boba Fett. Though she and Jango considered each other romantic interests, their relationship never went beyond partner, as their careers came first.





Though both Wesell and Jango preferred working alone, they would team up from time to time over a period of ten years. A few years before the Battle of Geonosis, she had learned that Fett was hired to steal the Infant of Shaa. When she realized that Khorda was going to use it to destroy Coruscant, she convinced Fett to steal it back as the Republic and billions of people would be destroyed. Around ten years after they first met, Jango was hired by Count Dooku and Nute Gunray to assassinate Senator Padmé Amidala. In order to keep the plot a secret, Jango sub-contracted the hit to Wesell. At first, she planted explosives on the senator's landing platform, but killed her decoy instead. Jango then provided her with deadly kouhuns, which she loaded into her assassin droid ASN-121 to slip them into the senator's bedroom.

Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi used the droid to track her down and as she escaped in her personal speeder, they chased her through the skies of Coruscant, until Wesell crash-landed near the seedy Outlander Club. She hid for a few moments attempted to sneak up on Kenobi, but his Jedi reflexes allowed him to dismember her. When Skywalker pressed Wesell to reveal who had hired her, Jango was forced to silence her with a Kamino saberdart. Jango then returned to Kamino, and his return marked the only occasion his son had ever seen him emotionally disturbed.

Behind the scenes

 * Zam Wesell was played by Leeanna Walsman.
 * Originally, Zam Wesell was designed to be a "Corporate Alliance Trooper."
 * Zam Wesell is the only acting female villain to appear in the Star Wars series. Other female villains have appeared (Rogwa Wodrata, Denaria Kee, Tey How, Shu Mai, Cat Miin and Aurra Sing), but did not act as proper villains in terms of plot involvement.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
 * Star Wars: Jango Fett
 * Star Wars: Zam Wesell
 * Jango Fett vs. the Razor Eaters
 * The Shape Shifter Strikes
 * Warlords of Balmorra
 * Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Labyrinth of Evil