Boba Fett
Species: Human
Sex: Male
Hair Color: Unknown
Eye Color: Unknown
Height: 1.8 meters
Homeworld: Unknown
Political Affiliation: Free-lance bounty hunter
Weapon(s) of Choice: Mandalorian battle armor and various weapons
Vehicle of Choice: Kuat System's Engineering limited-production, high-speed
Firespray-class ship Slave I
MandalMotors Pursuer enforcement ship Slave II
First Appearance: Star Wars Holiday Special
The most notorious and fearsome bounty hunter in the galaxy is also the
most mysterious. Many legends and stories have arisen over the years, but
few facts are known of the man called Boba Fett, or of his inextricable
link to Han Solo.
Long before Luke Skywalker journeyed of Tatooine to fulfill his destiny
as a Jedi, Boba Fett was also known as Journeyman Protector Jaster Mereel.
Years past, the ugly young law-enforcement officer on the world of Concord
Down had killed another protector, and though the dead man had been corrupt,
disgracing his office and uniform, Mereel was still imprisoned for the
murder. Against his wishes of his pleader, the arrogant young man remained
unrepentant to the trial court, and Jaster Mereel was exiled from Concord
Down, stripped of all he owned.
Mereel's adoption of the name Boba Fett, and the manner in which he
acquired his rare battle armor, are tales lost in time, remembered by no
living being except for Fett himself.
Fett wears the armor of the Mandalorians, a group of evil warriors who
were defeated by the Jedi Knights during the Clone Wars. Fett's modified
Mandalore armor includes a helmet that has macrobinocular viewplate,
motion and sound sensors, infrared capabilities, an internal comlink to
his ship, the Slave I, and a broadband antenna for intercepting and
decoding transmissions. Wrist gauntlets house lasers, a miniature flame
projector, and a fibercord whip/grappling device; a backpack jet pack
includes a turbo-projected magnetic grappling hook with twenty-meter
lanyard.
Fett also carries kneepad rocket dart launchers, spiked boots, a
concussion-grenade launcher, and a Blas Tech EE-3 rifle. Braided Wookiee
scalps hang over his right shoulder to complete the outfit.
Beyond Fett and Fenn Shysa, the only other living person known to wear
the Mandalorian armor is Jodo Kast, an ambitious young bounty hunter who
patterned his career after that of Boba Fett.
Prowling the Outer Rim Territories, Kast wears armor with much of the
same external weaponry that Fett utilizes. It is unlikely, however, that
he has much hidden weaponry and modified circuitry in his suit. In the
past, Kast has allowed people to believe he was Fett, adding even greater
mystery to the legends surrounding the older hunter.
Throughout his life, Fett has worked as a mercenary, a soldier, a
personal guard, an assassin, and, most frequently, as a bounty hunter --
the most expensive bounty hunter in the known systems. He collected 150,00
credits for the capture of pirate Feldrall Okor, and took a record 500,000
credits when he caught the religious Ffib heretic Nivek'Yppiks for the
Lohrans.
Fett has worked on retainer for Jabba the Hutt and other of the Hutt
clan, as well as for the Empire, and has crossed paths with the
Rebellion's greatest heroes more than a few times over the years.
Fett is slow and methodical and as unpredictable as the shifting sands
of Tatooine. He rarely loses his quarry, and has, thus far, shown no
remorse for their fate. Fett has been known to work with other bounty
hunters, but his motives may have been to show the others up; Fett has
always emerged as the one who catches the prize.
Sometime in the years before the Battle of Yavin, Boba Fett had his
rirst meeting with R2-D2 and C-3PO. On the desert Planet of Ingo, the
droids had become the property of speeder racer Thall Joben and his
friends, Kea Moll and Jord Dusat. Joben had angered the criminal Fromm
gang, and Sise Fromm traveled to the Boonta speeder races to find them.
There, Sise hired the mysterious, armor-clad bounty hunter to kill the
young racing team, a job Fett took as a favor owed Fromm, even though
Fromm himself was wanted by intergalactic crime lord Jabba the Hutt. After
the contract to kill Joben was finished, Fett noted that all debts were
paid.
Fett's robot, BR-17, befriended C-3PO and turned him against R2-D2 while
Fromm's gang put a bomb in Joben's racing ship, the White Witch. Fett
chased Thall and Kea, but they escaped, joining in the speeder race. At
the same time, C-3PO learned of the treachery of BR-17 -- who was
then crushed by falling machines -- and discovered the bomb planted in the
witch. Unaware of the bomb, Fett followed Joben into the race and
attempted to stop him, using every weapon at his disposal. When he tried
magnets, Fett accidentally pulled the bomb onto his own speeder and had to
escape at the last minute before it blew up. Angry at the loss of his
droid and his speeder, Fett took Fromm and his gang hostage, to turn them
over to Jabba the Hutt. He expected a great reward for the corpulent trio
of villains.
Several years later, shortly after the Battle of Yavin, Luke Skywalker
took R2-D2, C-3PO, and a Y-wing fighter to go look for Han Solo. The
Corellian was due back from his search for an invisibility talisman, a
mystic item the Empire also sought. When Luke crashed-landed on a red-
water moon in the Panna system, he was rescued by the mysterious Boba
Fett.
Luke was felled by a strange sleeping virus that had also knocked out
Han, so Fett and Chewbacca snuck into the Imperial-guarded city to get an
antidote. While there, Boba contacted Darth Vader, who called him the
"best bounty hunter in the galaxy." It was at this point that the droids
intercepted Fett's message that he planned to capture the Rebels and claim
the talisman.
Back at the Millennium Falcon, following a harrowing chase by
stormtroopers, Boba administered the antidote to Han and Luke. Still
groggy, Han didn't recognize Boba, and didn't object when Luke offered
the hunter a place in the Rebellion. C-3PO and R2-D2 interrupted, telling
the Rebels of Fett's transmission to Vader. Fett rocketed away, vowing
vengeance.
Prior to the Rebels' establishment of the Hoth base, Fett reappeared in
pursuit of "the Mole," a man wanted for leaving the service of Darth
Vader. Piloting a TIE fighter, Fett was chased down by Luke Skywalker in
an X-wing. Luke chased the mercenary's ship through ice canyons of the
frozen world of Ota, and both ships crashed. Fett got the drop on Luke,
but both of them were captured by the apelike Snogars. The Snogars' city
was growing colder, and they were convinced the off worlders could restore
their heat-providing machines.
Meanwhile, Han, Chewie, Leia Organa, and the droids had come to Ota to
find Luke. While Luke and Boba made a break from the Snogars, Han himself
was captured. Ever the opportunist, Boba agreed to go with Luke to rescue
Han, planning to capture the smuggler for profit.
It a wild sequence of events, the Rebels and the Mole were caught
between the Snogars and Fett. When Fett tried to take both the Mole and
Han prisoner, the Mole used a giant magnet to pin the bounty hunter to the
wall. The Rebels and the Mole made their respective escapes, Fett swearing
vengeance yet again.
Fett sometimes used his bounties against each other. Once, for example,
Fett found out that the magician, Magwit, was performing small frontier
settlements in the wasteland. The dwarf had a minor Imperial bounty on his
head, but Fett knew Magwit could help him in acquiring another bounty;
Gorga the Hutt had hired Fett to bring the notorious space pirate
Bar-Kooda. Fett forced Magwit to buy his freedom by smuggling the hunter
in his magic props. Magwit was "captured" and taken aboard Bar-Kooda's
massive pirate vessel, Bloodstar, where the savage carnivore demanded the
magician's final performance. Magwit's most impressive trick used a hoop
to cause objects to appear and disappear. The hoop was connected to a
short-range matter transmitter, with Fett waiting on the other side.
Working in concert with Magwit, the hunter pulled Bar-Kooda through the
hoop and escaped, causing carnage along the way. Magwit survived via a
speedy exit, and true to his word, Fett gave the magician his freedom.
Shortly before the Battle of Hoth, Jabba the Hutt hired Fett to find Han
Solo. Working both sides of the fence, Fett met Darth Vader mask to mask
for the first time. For reasons unknown to either of them an instant sense
of mutual respect was born, and the bounty hunters agreed to work with
Dengar, Bossk, and a rookie bounty hunter named Skorr. But on the planet
of Ord Mandell, the wily Han Solo, Luke, and Chewie escaped Fett's
clutches, heading back to the newly established Rebel base on Hoth.
Despite his failure to capture Solo and the other Rebels, Fett was once
again summoned to work with Vader. One of the six bounty hunters
instructed to find the Millennium Falcon, Fett succeeded in tracking the
ship to the Bespin system. There, he aided Vader in capturing the Rebel
leaders and exacted his price in the capture of Han Solo.
Unfortunately for Han, Vader wanted to use him as a test subject for the
carbonite-freezing process. Solo survived, and Fett took the quick-frozen
Corellian to his ship for transport to Jabba the Hutt's Tatooine palace.
On the way to board the Slave I, he exchanged shots with the wary Luke
Skywalker, who was attempting to save his friends.
As he neared Tatooine, Fett was angered to find that IG-88, one of
Vader's other bounty hunters, had tracked him. Fett used evasive
maneuvers and his weaponry to blow up the starfighter IG-2000 and its
pilot. He continued on his way, delivering to Jabba his Han Solo "wall
sculpture," and collecting his bounty. Arguing that the carbonite piece
was actually the art of Darth Vader, Fett was able to talk Jabba into
raising Solo's bounty from 100,000 credits to 250,000.
For the following year, Boba was steadily employed, and a constant
presence in Jabba's court. Although the Hutt would never admit it, he was
afraid that the Alliance would retaliate for the capture of Solo, so he
gave Fett assignments to keep him around, knowing how valuable the
hunter was. One such job offered a 100,000 credit bounty to capture a live
krayt dragon to be placed in battle with the Hutt's monstrous rancor.
When Luke, Leia, and Chewie came to Tatooine and were all captured while
trying to rescue Han, Jabba sentenced them to death in the Great Pit of
Carkoon. But Jabba had not counted on Skywalker's Jedi powers or
initiative, and the Rebels broke free. In the battle that followed, Fett's
backpack was hit and he flew, out of control, into the mouth of the
Sarlacc.
Fett somehow escaped the Sarlacc, crawling away from the pit and lapsing
into a painful oblivion. A short time later the bounty hunter Dengar, who
had also been in Jabba's employ, set out a search for the Hutt's body.
Instead, he found Boba Fett, devoid of armor and covered in scars and
fibers from the Sarlacc. Dengar nursed Fett back to health, using Jabba's
medical droids. A month later, Fett was well enough to travel, and since
the Alliance had confiscated the Slave I, the two hunters set off in
Dengar's ship for the spaceport moon of Nar Shaddaa, the smuggling center
of the galaxy.
Boba had little-used backup ships on Nar Shaddaa: The Slave II was a
MandalMotors Pursuer enforcement ship, and few sentients in the galaxy
even knew that Fett had one. The hunter used this to his advantage,
knocking out old enemies who thought him dead, and collecting bounties
quickly, sometimes working with the tagalong Dengar. Meanwhile, the
Alliance let the Slave I sit on Grakouine, gathering dust.
Wary of another encounter with Solo and Skywalker, Fett decided to buy
his ship back legally. With the help of an old employer, Crystalboy, he
used a system of dummy corporations, paper trails, and forged requisition
forms, eventually getting the Slave I as part of a "surplus liquidation"
deal. Fett repaired his ship and put it in orbit of Nar Shaddaa. He would
use it again, but for now, he was profiting more from the anonymity the
Slave II and his "death" had given him.
It wasn't long before the galaxy realized Fett was alive. When he
captured an infamous pirate, Feldrall Okor, Fett took a page from the plan
Princess Leia had used when she infiltrated Jabba's palace. He presented
Feldrall to Imperial Governor Isis, but when she balked at his bounty
price, he charged a thermal detonator. As tense seconds ticked by, the
governor argued, while Fett calmly upped his price. Ultimately, the
governor trusted her fortunes more than she trusted Fett's sanity, and she
gave the hunter his ransom.
Six years after the death of Jabba the Hutt, Han and Leia went to Nar
Shaddaa, the galactic smuggling center. There, Han was surprised to find
that Fett and Dengar were waiting for him in his quarters. Fett told Solo
that the Sarlacc had found him "indigestible," adding that the descendants
of Jabba the Hutt wanted Han and Leia, dead or alive!
In a hail of blaster fire, Leia and Han made it off world, escaping in
Salla Zend's Starlight Intruder. Fett and Dengar followed in the Slave II,
snatching the Intruder's coordinates and jumping into hyperspace.
Although Slave II arrived at Byss before the Starlight Intruder, only
Salla's ship had been cleared to get through the planetary security
shields, which closed, locking out Fett's ship and breaking off a control
rudder. As they spun away, trying to regain control of the ship, Dengar
angrily informed Fett this was the last time he'd ever work with him.
Although he was grateful to Dengar for saving him back on Tatooine, Fett
was glad to get rid of another hunter.
When Han and Leia again returned to Nar Shaddaa seeking the Jedi Master
Vima-Da-Boda, they were afraid Fett might be lying in wait. In fact, two
Imperial Dark Side Warriors were attempting to blackmail the bounty hunter
into working for them. They claimed knowledge of his past -- that Fett had
been a stormtrooper who had murdered his superior officer. Fett rejected
their attempts and fought back as the two warriors attacked him. He
escaped even as Solo's Millennium Falcon prepared to touch down.
Fett bided his time, and when the Falcon prepared to depart, the Slave I
rushed forward on a suicidal run. Fett expected Han to turn tail; instead,
the Corellian used his freighter to clip the Slave I's stabilizers.
Although Fett lost some control, he was still able to blast the Falcon,
causing the ship to lose all sensor frequencies.
The bounty hunter tracked the Falcon to the lower levels, where he
ambushed Leia and Han shortly after they found Vima-Da-Boda. In turn, he
was ambushed by Chewbacca. During the ensuing firefight, Boba shot
Chewbacca in the side, but the Wookiee managed to rip off Boba's helmet
and send him spiraling into the roof high above.
Fett recovered quickly enough to board the Slave I and pursue the Falcon
through the floating space debris of the spaceport moon. Scoring a hit on
the freighter, Fett figured he finally had his bounty. He was surprised
when Solo piloted the Falcon into an interstellar gas cloud. His ship's
sensors were useless, so Fett hung back, waiting several days before the
Falcon reemerged. Unfortunately for Fett, Solo had beefed up his firepower
and used it to pay havoc with the Slave I. Fett's ship spun out of control
into the gas cloud.
Though Fett disappeared, and has not reappeared on Han Solo's trail, new
reports of the bounty hunter's adventures have surfaced throughout the
galaxy. Han Solo knows that one day, he will once again -- perhaps for the
final time -- face the toughest and most feared bounty hunter in space --
Boba Fett.
Slave I
Modified Kuat Systems Engineering Firespray-Class Patrol and Attack Ship
Slave I is Boba Fett's unique starship. It is quite similar to its
owner: dangerous and with many deadly suprises for those who would dare
challenge it.
Slave I is a highly modified Firespreay-class patrol and attack ship
originally designed for law enforcement and interdiction duty. Fett has
rebuilt this outdated vessel to be the perfect bounty-hunting ship. It
has several hidden weapon systems, a dedicated sensor masking and
tracking system, interior prisoner cages, reinforced armor plating, and
powerful shield generators, all of which enable Fett to fend off
assailants and disable the craft of his quarry.
The ship has an unusual aspect: it lands with its engines down, and in
flight, it flies effectively "standing up". Two thirds of Slave I's
interior is dedicated to the powerful Kuat Engineering Systems F-31
drive engines and the four Kuat X-F-16 power generators, giving Slave I
the speed of an Alliance Y-Wing fighter.
The interior sections are cramped, containing only enough room for
Fett's living quarters, his equipment locker, and six prison cages,
which include a contraband Force cage to contain Force-using
individuals.
The bottom rear section of the hull has fully rotating twin blaster
cannons. Slave I also conceals a forward-firing concussion-missile
launcher and ion cannon as well as a turret-mounted tractor-beam
projector and a pair of proton torpedo launchers that are also on a
turret. Combatants normally are so intent on avoiding the blaster cannons that they blunder right into the hidden torpedo launchers' field of
fire.
In addition to combat-grade shields and sensors, Slave I has an illegal
sensor masking and jamming system that allows it to slip through sensor
grids undetected. This system, thought to be an Imperial Navy military
secret, was somehow acquired by Fett and has given him a decisive
advantage on many hunts. he can use this system to sneak onto many
worlds undetected, much to the dismay of his targets and planetary
law-enforcement agents.
Slave I has dummy proton torpedoes mounted with homing beacons and
S-thread trackers. By tagging a ship with one of these dummy beacons,
Fett can use his contraband
HoloNet tranceiver to track ships through hyperspace. In other words,
once he has found you, it is almost impossible to dodge the infamous
Boba Fett.
After Fett's apparent death, Slave I was captured by Rebel Alliance
forces and held in impound on the planet Grakouine. Fett managed to get
the ship back without alerting the New Republic that he was alive. In
his most recent encounter with Han Solo, Boba Fett used Slave I to chase
down the Millenium Falcon on the smuggler's moon of Nar Shaddaa, but
once again Solo evaded capture by his old foe.
Slave II
MandalMotors Pursuer Enforcement Ship
After escaping the jaws of the Sarlacc on Tatooine, bounty hunter Boba
Fett vowed revenge on han Solo. Solo would pay, and so would the Hutt
crime clans, if Solo was delivered to them. As Fett recovered from the
encounter, he set into motion a plan.
Slave I was in impound, but a new ship would help Fett keep a low
profile until he actually confronted Solo. Fett picked out a
MandalMotors Pursuer-class patrol ship that was popular with Malandorian
police units because it was tough enough to handle pirates but had
enough cargo space for standard policing duties. Using a false identity,
Fett purchased the Slave II and began modifying this new prize for his
hunt for Solo.
Slave II is essentially a heavy patrol craft with a superior hull and
powerful Torplex military-grade shield generators. Dual Tion Mil/Sce
Mil-StarIV engines propel this ship, while three Corellian Engineering
x41 manuvering thrusters are mounted in the port-side stabilizer brace.
The three thrusters can be individually directed and provide excellant
performance, especially for a heavy patrol ship.
For weaponry, Slave II has forward-firing twin blaster cannons and an
ion cannon turret. Fett, always a suspicious type, has a rear-firing
torpedo launcher with a magazine of six torpedoes-an unwelcome suprise
for anyone who has decided to follow too closely. Like Slave I, Slave II
has a sophisticated sensor array system, although the ship at present
lacks the stealth systems of Slave I.
Rumors have suggested that Boba Fett placed five force field-enclosed
prisoner cages aboard Slave II. Knowing that his prime target's best
friend is a Wookiee, Fett probably also installed molecularly
reinforced cell walls and gravitic restraints in his cells.
Fett encountered Solo on the smuggler's moon of Nar Shaddaa, and the
Corellian and his companions barely escaped. Slave II jumped into hot
pursuit of the fleeing Millenium Falcon (which had been secreted aboard
Salla Zen's Starlight Intruder). By cross-checking the Intruder's
hyperspace vector, Fett was able to track Solo to the new Imperial
capital of Byss. Slave II was severely damaged over Byss when Fett,
attempting to follow the Falcon down to the planet's surface, smashed
into the planetary shield. The stabilizer bar was ripped off in the
crash, and the ship was disabled. All things considered, Fett got off
lightly-if Slave II's shields had been down, the shield would have
incinerated his ship. Rather than get the ship repaired, Fett has placed
Slave II in drydock while retrieving Slave I to contimue his pursuit of
Han Solo
Cyber Darth Vader
Darth Vader epitomized the Emperor's New Order. Standing two meters tall and dressed in flowing black robes and black body armor, Vader was a tangible evil and symbol of the Emperor's doctrine of rule through fear and terror. He was the servant and emissaryof the Emperor, and later commanded the vast fleet charged with finding and destroying the Rebel Alliance.
Vader was once Anakin Skywalker, expert pilot, hero of the Clone Wars, and disciple of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Learning to use the Force by Kenobi's methods was too slow for the impatient Anakin. He wanted a quicker,less difficult path to the vast power he sensed all around him. Emperor Palpatine offered him just such a path - the dark side. All Anakin had to do was give in to his anger, fear, and aggression. Ambitious and headstrong, he stepped into the dark side's embrace and became Darth Vader.
According to 'Return Of The Jedi' novel, when Kenobi saw what had become of his friend and student, Anakin Skywalker, he tried to draw him back from the dark side. But Vader wanted none of that. The two fought, and Vader fell into a molten pit. His shattered body, however, had to be sustained by life-supporting armor. When Kenobi learned that Vader lived, he helped Anakin's wife and newborn twins (whom Vader was not aware of) escape into hiding - Luke to Tatooine, and Leia and her mother to Alderaan.
Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, helped the Emperor hunt down and exterminate the Jedi Knights during the last days of the Old Republic and the opening moments of the Empire. Later, he was sent to help Governor Tarkin develop the original Death Star battle station. Once the Rebellion demonstrated that it posed a significant threat to the New Order, Lord Vader was put in charge of the Imperial fleet assigned to find and destroy the Alliance leaders. The mission took on personal significance when Vader discovered that the Rebel's newest ally was his own son, Luke Skywalker. Both the Emperor and Vader wanted to convert young Skywalker to the dark side, but Vader had his own agenda. He wanted himself and Luke to rule the galaxy side by side as father and son.
The first time that father and son met was on Cloud City. Luke rejected Vader's claims and offers, electing to fight him. But Vader was too powerful for the still-developing young Jedi. Luke barely escaped with his life, though he lost his right hand to his father's lightsaber. Vader was confronted by his son a second time, at Endor. Luke did not arrive as a half-trained apprentince Jedi this time, but as a full-fledged Jedi Knight. Luke's faith in his father's innate goodness won the day, bringing Anakin out of the darkness of Darth Vader and back into the light. He saved Luke and destroyed the Emperor, but at the cost of his own life. Vader's final act - as Anakin and not as the Dark Lord of the Sith - was to look upon his son and tell him that he was right.
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