Jodo Kast



Jodo Kast was a bounty hunter active in the Galactic Civil War era. Kast wore modified Mandalorian armor, and was sometimes mistaken for Boba Fett as a result. However, he had no known connection with the Mandalorians. He also was known to occasionally work for Black Sun.

In 5 BBY, when most of the activities of the Rebel Alliance were local affairs, Jodo Kast was actually a SpecOps resistance fighter. However, Kast valued credits over political ideals like justice and freedom. During a messy engagement on Goratak III, Kast killed a bounty hunter named Feskitt Bobb, who he had mistaken for Boba Fett during the confusion. Afterward, he realized his mistake, but the encounter did give him an idea. Using the Mandalorian armor he salvaged from the planet Zaadja, Kast deserted his resistance group and began working as a bounty hunter. He initially impersonated Boba Fett, as a way into the profession, but later began operating under his own name. Early in his career, he worked with two other hunters, the graceful Zardra and the diminutive Puggles Trodd. The trio ran a series of successful hunts before a botched job on Dura-Kahn soured things.

Jodo Kast became a successful bounty hunter, though he was particularly known for two incidents where he failed to capture his target. The first was an attempt to capture Doctor Evazan on Corellia. Kast did manage to scar Evazan with a blaster bolt to the face, but the capture was foiled by Ponda Baba's interference. The second incident was a manhunt on Tatooine commissioned by the Galactic Empire, with retired Old Republic naval strategist Adar Tallon as the target. Despite the impressive array of bounty hunters sent on the hunt, including Kast, Zardra, and IG-72, Tallon managed to escape to the Rebellion. Despite these major failures, Kast maintained a fearsome enough reputation that Grand Admiral Thrawn impersonated Kast in 3 ABY when he needed to disguise himself as a bounty hunter.

With his track record, Kast grew arrogant. The fact that his bounties were rarely first rate hardly bothered him. In 6 ABY, Kast ultimately out-smarted himself. By this time, believing Boba Fett to have died after his encounter with the Sarlacc on Tatooine, he had started to impersonate the infamous Mandalorian again. On Paquallis III, the overconfident hunter allowed Boba Fett to lure him into a trap, beat him, take his armor, and leave him to die in an explosion.

Appearances

 * Bill Slavicsek and Daniel Greenberg, Tatooine Manhunt, West End Games
 * (as impersonated by Thrawn) Michael A. Stackpole and Timothy Zahn, "Side Trip" in Tales from the Empire, Bantam Spectra
 * Andy Mangels, Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction, Dark Horse Comics