Boba Fett/Legends

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

- Darth Vader

Boba Fett (31.5 BBY&mdash;) was an unaltered clone of Jango Fett, a skilled bounty hunter, and later leader of the Mandalorians. Fett was known for his mysterious air, legendary skill and complex information network.

Early years (32 BBY to 19 BBY)
Boba was ordered by his "father", Jango Fett, before the start of the Clone Wars, intended to be both Jango's heir and "Jaster's Legacy". As a young boy, Fett grew up on the planet Kamino, where he was raised and cared for by a Kaminoan, Taun We, who ultimately took on the role of being a foster mother to him. Along with the Clawdite Zam Wesell, she was the sole female influence in the young Fett's life.

Boba Fett was ten years old when Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi came to Kamino to investigate the mysterious creation of a Clone Army for the Republic. Fett's father, Jango, realized that he and his son would have to leave Kamino before the Jedi unraveled the mystery behind the attacks on Senator Padmé Amidala. After narrowly escaping, the two blasted off the planet in their ship, Slave I.



En route to Geonosis, they realized that Kenobi had tracked them. Boba encouraged and intently watched his father outsmart and outmaneuver the Jedi and eventually watched what they thought was the death of Kenobi. As the Battle of Geonosis, started, Boba stood with Jango on the platform in the arena with Count Dooku and several Separatist leaders, including Nute Gunray and Wat Tambor. When Jedi Master Mace Windu arrived, Jango kept Boba from harm as the Jedi task force attempted to rescue the captive Obi-Wan, Anakin Skywalker, and Padmé Amidala. During the battle, Boba watched his father get trampled by a reek, and eventually decapitated by Mace Windu's lightsaber when Jango attempted to challenge him. While the Grand Army of the Republic and the Droid Army clashed for the very first time, Boba emerged from his hiding place to pick up his father's helmet.

After Geonosis, Boba buried his father and tried to escape, but was captured by Aurra Sing and given to Tyranus (Dooku), who gave Sing Slave I as payment (Boba eventually recovered the ship). He was taken to Raxus Prime to meet with Tyranus, who was then searching for the Force Harvester. The Sith Lord attempted to detain his young charge, but a Republic attack allowed Fett to escape.

Fett was taken by clone troopers and sent to an orphanage on Bespin. He managed to escape with Aurra Sing, who had come searching for the boy, and began the pursuit of his inheritance.

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



Constantly on the run, Fett managed to secure a minor bounty on an assassin before reaching safety. His first major hunt was after Techno Union foreman Wat Tambor, who had a base on Xagobah. The planet was under assault by the Grand Army of the Republic, so Fett encountered difficulties sneaking past both attack forces. He managed to get inside the base and brutally finished off Nuri, but the arrival of General Grievous foiled his plans as Fett proved no match for the Kaleesh warrior. Escaping, Boba finally acquired his one and only chance at Mace Windu, but could not kill the Jedi Master.

Fett had already cashed in on a string of bounties by the age of thirteen and was quickly acquiring a level of notoriety in the criminal underworld.

By the end of the Clone Wars, Boba Fett was already a fully-fledged bounty hunter, but he would soon abandon the line of work in pursuit of other goals.

Early Imperial era (19 BBY to 0 BBY)


For years to come, Fett stayed on the run from bounty hunters and assassins. Eventually he found the Mandalorian armor of Jango's old mentor and leader, Jaster Mereel. Along with his new attire, he had honed his skills as an assassin and mercenary, which would one day make him the most feared and sinister bounty hunter in the galaxy.

For a time Fett worked for Malorum, a vicious Imperial Inquisitor, operating on far flung worlds such as Polis Massa, Naboo, and Bellassa.

In the decades between the Clone Wars and the Galactic Civil War, Fett took a leave of absence from the hunt, and attempted to live a normal life on the world of Concord Dawn. He attained the rank of Journeyman Protector and as such was mistaken by many to be the long-dead Jaster Mereel, the mentor of Boba's dead father.

It was during this time that Boba met Sintas Vel, a Kiffar bounty hunter, in what was perhaps Boba's only true close relationship since the death of his father. Boba and Sintas eventually married and had a daughter&mdash;Ailyn Vel. Unfortunately, the marriage did not last.

The title of Journeyman Protector was stripped from Fett after he had killed another fellow Protector, and he was forced to leave the planet in exile. All alone in the Galaxy once again, Boba hoped to banish the disappointing memories of his failed attempt at a "normal" life through honing his craft.

One of his attempts, in 12 BBY, brought him back to Kamino, where he led a special detachment of the 501st Legion on a mission to eliminate a group of clones bred to fight against the Empire. Fett was selected to lead this mission due to his intimate experience with the Kaminoans and his knowledge of Tipoca City.

A rumor is said that Fett had enrolled at&mdash;or infiltrated&mdash;the Imperial Academy on Carida, serving as a stormtrooper, but deserting after he killed his commanding officer. Whether this is true is unknown, however, as it is natural for such rumors to have spread because he shared the same face with millions of stormtroopers.



Early in his career, he met Fenn Shysa and Tobbi Dala, who also wore Mandalorian armor. Jodo Kast, a fraudulent irritant, also wore the garb, though it was mostly just to cash in on Fett's reputation.

Later, Darth Vader hired Fett to capture an Imperial named Abal Karda. On Maryx Minor, Vader arrived to end the deal and take the prisoner himself. Fett, still under contract, wanted the bounty, and the pair fought. Vader's superior abilities won the day&mdash;but only just.

Not long after, Fett met Han Solo for the first time, in a brawl on the world of Jubilar. It was the beginning of a long rivalry. Many times Fett was sent to capture Solo, but due to continual bad luck and interference (once from Solo's friend Lando Calrissian), Fett failed to apprehend his quarry time and time again.

Fett's hatred for Solo never died.

Early Galactic Civil War (0 BBY to 4 ABY)
Fett eventually returned to the occupation of a bounty hunter, earning a place in the palace of the crime lord Jabba the Hutt. As a member of Jabba's gang, he accompanied the Hutt to confront smuggler, and long time rival of Fett, Han Solo, about a spice shipment he failed to deliver. A few months later, Fett was hired to kill Kyle Katarn because of Katarn's intrusions into the secretive Dark Trooper Project, but, despite Fett's prowess, Katarn escaped and went on to destroy the project.



In 3 ABY, Boba Fett was one of many bounty hunters employed by the Empire to track down and capture Han Solo.

He was the only hunter to figure out how the Millennium Falcon eluded Imperial pursuit by hiding among garbage (no doubt due to observing Obi-Wan Kenobi playing a similar feint on Jango over twenty years ago) and tracked the ship to Cloud City on Bespin.

In his pursuit, he followed the Falcon to Cloud City where he informed Darth Vader of their destination, and in response, Vader then sent a detachment of stormtroopers to infiltrate the city. When Vader arrived, he forced the city's leader, Lando Calrissian, into a twisted agreement that left him no other choice but to betray Solo and his friends, including selling him out to Fett. After the capture of Solo and his companions, Lord Vader used Solo as a test subject for carbon freezing that he would later use on Luke Skywalker.



After finding that Solo survived the freezing process, Vader gave him to Boba Fett, who in turn returned him to Jabba for a hefty bounty. Many bounty hunters attempted to steal Solo from Fett, including an IG-88 unit which caused Fett to stop at Gall for repairs. Dash Rendar followed him but could not defeat Fett. Boba eventually escaped, destroying the IG-2000 and continuing to Tatooine.

Jabba was so pleased that he could display the captured Solo that he paid 250,000 credits for him, rather than the original 100,000 credit bounty. This was in addition to the hefty bounty the Empire had already paid him.



When Princess Leia Organa, Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, and Luke Skywalker attempted to rescue the frozen Solo from Jabba's palace, they were captured, with Jabba finding different ways to dispose of each of the erstwhile heroes. Apparently, when Leia unfroze Solo and was to be Jabba's slave girl, Jabba sent her to Fett to "entertain" the hunter. Boba declined, but did not send Leia back up as it would be an insult to the crime lord. Instead, Fett and Leia argued about the Rebellion's wrong doings and Boba's blindness to what Jabba has really done. Fett would stay up that night, looking at her and wondering.

Fett remained on-guard, but found his stay entertaining, flirting with dancers and even laughing along with Jabba as Luke battled the vicious rancor. When Luke killed the monster, an outraged Jabba sentenced Luke, Han and Chewbacca to be cast into the Pit of Carkoon where the ghastly Sarlacc lived. On the path to the Sarlacc, Boba was aware of the large reward on Skywalker's head for his capture to the Empire. Unfortunately, Jabba wouldn't have it. They killed his Rancor, they pay the price. The hunter hated the Hutt for this. Luke staged his own rescue and Fett attempted to stop him along with several of Jabba's hapless guards.

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

Late Galactic Civil War (4 ABY to 19 ABY)


"The Sarlacc found me somewhat indigestible."

- Boba Fett

Although accounted for dead, Fett survived the clutches of the foul beast and went on to continue his career. He managed to blast his way out after days of agony, barely alive. As he lay dying on the surface of Tatooine, fellow hunter Dengar found him and nursed him back to health.

In return for this rescue, Fett allowed Dengar to accompany him on a labrynthine mission involving the Bounty Hunters' Guild and Prince Xizor's ultra-secret Black Sun. With so many potential leads, Boba eventually found out the head of the serpent was wealthy industrialist Kuat of Kuat. For the mission, Fett stole the freighter Hound's Tooth from his rival Bossk, leaving Slave I behind on Tatooine. The ship fell into Alliance hands and rusted in an impound lot on Grakouine. He would subsequently use three more ships bearing the name during his career, until he eventually recovered the original.

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

Six years passed until Han Solo discovered his nemesis was still alive. During the clone Emperor's reign of terror, Fett took a new bounty on Solo. Along with Dengar, he surprised his target on the moon of Nar Shaddaa, but once again Solo escaped.

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

They would meet again in 19 ABY, when, after securing his financial situation by collecting a five million credit bounty on the Devaronian criminal known as "The Butcher of Montellian Serat", Solo and Fett faced each other on Jubilar.

Ultimately, both combatants agreed to drop their long-standing feud and go their separate ways. Fett even elected to retire from the hunting business, but when he returned to Kamino to have his bad leg replaced, the Kaminoan cloner he saw&mdash;his old associate, Taun We&mdash;had other ideas. Remembering the Mandalorian attacks on Kamino during the Clone Wars, Taun We asked Fett to hunt down the last surviving Mandalorian responsible&mdash;Fenn Shysa.

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

Post Galactic Civil War (From 19 ABY)
Boba would replace Shysa as Mandalore, ascending to the leadership of the Mandalorians and ending a 45 year career of bounty-hunting. However, Ailyn Vel, his estranged daughter, would begin to pose as him in her own career, trading off his reputation like Jodo Kast had before.

Boba Fett surfaced again in the Yuuzhan Vong War, where he and his Mandalorian warriors aided Fett's old enemy, Han Solo. Boba and his Mandalorian Protectors helped liberate planets from the Yuuzhan Vong, such as Gyndine and Tholatin.

Physical appearance and equipment


As an adult, Boba Fett stood 1.83 meters tall. He was garbed in traditional Mandalorian armor with a string of Wookiee scalps at his shoulder. Fett owned a variety of specially-modified starcraft bearing the names Slave I through V.

Despite his weapon-laden suit of armor, Fett was a subtle hunter and relied more on his cunning and intelligence than on pure muscle and combat skill. Speaking with a raspy, gravelly voice (but still retaining his father's accent), Fett allowed few to see his face and even less to know his origins, giving the hunter a mysterious aura and a psychological edge over his prey.

Though Boba was a perfect genetic clone of Jango Fett, a different lifestyle produced some changes from his father's appearance: while Jango was focused on combat skill, Boba's emphasis on wit over muscle gave him a thinner build.

Even with the thinner build, Boba Fett was usually operating at peak human fitness. He had enough strength to hold Bossk (an infamous Trandoshan bounty hunter whose species is known for its brute physical power) at bay.



Boba's face remained hidden, but it was a given that he looked more or less like his father did. Beyond his actual features, Fett's face may have had less or more scars, tattoos, or facial hair. Even though Jango Fett's face was well-known, this only gives a very basic idea of what Boba Fett may have looked like.

Like his father's, Boba Fett's armor had many powerful and hidden weapons. His main weapon was his EE-3 rifle that was more powerful then a stormtrooper's blaster and could be used for sniping. His gauntlets had a grappling hook, flamethrower, a wrist laser and could fire darts with stun, poisonous or explosive tips. He had kneepads which could fire darts of the same kind. Down his legs near his shoes, he had 2 small pockets with an anti-security blade, a survival knife, jet-pack adjustment tool and a sonic-beam weapon. His armor was durablast which could survive many attacks (i.e. his many battle scars). His helmet could find targets from 100-meters, hear even the tiniest sound, filter out many poisons and could even call Slave I from miles away.



His father Jango Fett had a very similar set of weapons though he preferred a set of Westar-34 blasters to Boba's rifle, weapons that were very powerful at close range. Both had a jetpack with enough fuel for one full minute of flight. It also had an anti-tank missile which could be modified to be used as a grappling hook.

Behind the scenes


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

His first live appearance in a Star Wars movie was in The Empire Strikes Back, in which his name is not actually heard in the dialogue. He is first seen as one of a group of bounty hunters hired by Darth Vader to track down Han Solo and the crew of the Millennium Falcon ("I want them alive. No disintegrations!").

Fett's dialogue in The Empire Strikes Back, indeed in the entire original trilogy, consisted of the lines "As you wish", "He's no good to me dead", "What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me" and "Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold", in that order.

In Return of the Jedi, Boba Fett was at Jabba the Hutt's palace when Luke, Princess Leia, and Chewbacca rescued Han from his carbon prison.

When the special edition of Star Wars was released in 1997, a scene with Han Solo, and Jabba the Hutt was added to the film, before the Millennium Falcon took off from Mos Eisley, in which Boba Fett is shown in Jabba's retinue to improve the trilogy's continuity. Additional shots of Fett in Jabba's palace were filmed for the Return of the Jedi Special Edition.

Boba Fett's origin is revealed in Attack of the Clones. Boba is the son of bounty hunter Jango Fett, last of the Mandalorians, or more specifically, Boba is a clone of his "father."

As revealed in the Marvel Star Wars comics series, Boba Fett was believed to have served with a group of supercommandos from the planet Mandalore towards the end of the Clone Wars. According to reports, only three Mandalorians survived: Boba Fett, Tobbi Dala, and Fenn Shysa. However, it was later revealed that this "Boba Fett" was not Boba Fett at all, but a rogue ARC trooper named Spar who had become obsessed with returning the Mandalorians to their former glory.

Boba Fett played a prominent role in the miniseries Dark Empire where it was revealed that he had survived the Sarlacc somehow, and continued his hunt for Han Solo. The story of Boba's first escape and recovery (there being three of them) is documented mainly in the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy and the anthology book Tales From Jabba's Palace. Interestingly enough, Fett was found lying outside the Sarlacc pit by a fellow bounty hunter named Dengar, whom Boba had previously left to die earlier on in the novel Tales of the Bounty Hunters. Boba Fett also played a prominent role in the comic book version of Shadows of the Empire and has had several comic book miniseries. Post-Attack of the Clones, the comics now often depict Fett helmetless, appearing nearly identical to Jango Fett. Currently, a series of young adult novels starring the young Boba Fett from Attack of the Clones is being published, showing his evolution into a bounty hunter.

Boba Fett also made a cameo appearance in The Unifying Force, the conclusion of the New Jedi Order series. He is slated to appear in the nine-part Legacy of the Force series, specifically in the three novels written by Karen Traviss.

In addition to Legacy of the Force, Boba Fett is a prominent figure in the Star Wars novels, comics, and games. Initially, the novels revealed tidbits of Boba's past&mdash;that he was once a Journeyman Protector called Jaster Mereel, an alias he took to honor his father's mentor.

There is a long-standing belief that Darth Vader and Boba Fett have an unspoken mutual respect for each other (ironically, Boba was eager to see Anakin die in the arena in Attack of the Clones). The bounty hunter is sometimes considered to be the closest thing Vader has to a right-hand man, even though Fett and Vader were at odds (with Fett actually in the position to kill Vader) in the Enemy of the Empire story arc taking place a few years before A New Hope. In The Empire Strikes Back, Fett is seen questioning Vader in an informal manner, a deed which would probably get any one but Emperor Palpatine strangled. It is possible that Fett's respect comes from the fact that Vader all but wiped out the Jedi Order (epecially Mace Windu, the one who killed Jango Fett), only thing Fett truly hated, while Vader's may have come from the fact that Fett came from the same genetic stock as the Army of the Republic, so Vader would have been well aware of what Fett was capable of.

Likewise, Fett has a grudge of sorts against Han Solo. Few details are known, but Fett did seem to consider himself morally superior to Solo, simply because Solo smuggled spice. No matter the reasons, Solo is one of the only people to elude capture by Fett on multiple occasions.

Actors
Boba Fett was played by Jeremy Bulloch in both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and voiced by Jason Wingreen in ESB (his only line in ROTJ was a scream). A young Boba was played by Daniel Logan in Attack of the Clones. In a controversial move, the 2004 DVD re-release of the Star Wars Trilogy had Wingreen's voice replaced by Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett in AotC, to match the accent Boba and Jango were heard to have in that movie. Fett was voiced by Alan Rosenberg in the Empire Strikes Back NPR dramatization and by Ed Begley Jr. in the Return of the Jedi dramatization.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive
 * Boba Fett: Crossfire
 * Boba Fett: Maze of Deception
 * Boba Fett: Hunted
 * Boba Fett: A New Threat
 * Boba Fett: Pursuit
 * The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission
 * The Last of the Jedi: Dark Warning
 * Outbid But Never Outgunned
 * Empire at War
 * Star Wars Battlefront II
 * The Hutt Gambit
 * Rebel Dawn
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Special Edition)
 * Star Wars: Dark Forces
 * The Star Wars Holiday Special
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Shadows of the Empire
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Tales From Jabba's Palace
 * Tales of the Bounty Hunters
 * The Mandalorian Armor
 * Slave Ship
 * Hard Merchandise
 * Dark Forces: Rebel Agent
 * Dark Empire
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
 * The Unifying Force
 * Return of the Ewok (non-canon)