Boba Fett:
Boba Fett must be the best, well-known bounty hunter in the galaxy. He always gets his prey. His exploits are enough to fill a library. Little is known of this mysterious bounty hunter. Fett may have been born Jaster Mereel. As a young man Fett was a Journeyman Protector (law enforcement officer) on Concord Dawn. It is said that he killed another Protector who was accused of being unjust and corrupt. Fett went to trial, stripped of all he owned, and exiled.
It is also said that Fett fought in the Clone Wars. He now wears armor of the Mandalorians, feared ancient warriors. Included in his modified Mandalorian armoe are infrared capabilities, a helmet with macrobinocular viewplate, internal commlink with the Slave I, motion and sound sensors, broadbaqnd antannea for intercepting and decoding transmissions, fibercord whip/grappling device, wrist guantlets with lasers, mini flame projector, backpack jet pack with turbo- projected magnetic grappling hook with a twenty-meter lanyard, spiked boots, and finally knee-pad rocket dart launchers. He also carries a BlasTech EE-3 rifle and a concussion grenade launcher. Over his right shoulder hangs braided Wookiee scalps.
Boba Fett has worked as a soldier, guard, mercenary, assassin and to this point; bounty hunter. He has demanded and gotten some of the highest bounties. For his capture of Nivek'Yppiks, a Ffib religous heretic, for the Lorahns he earned a record 500,000 credits.
He has worked for the Empire and several of the Hutts including Jabba the Hutt. Since he is accustomed to catching his prey he doesn't hold grudges. Although he has had many encounters with Han Solo, Chewbacca, the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 who have managed to elude him and sometimes foil his plans.
On the red-water moon in the Panna System Fett seemed to be aiding Solo and Luke Skywalker but in truth he was trying to trap them for Darth Vader. Threepio and R2 foiled his plan.
Later Jabba the Hutt hired Boba Fett to capture Han Solo. Fett almost captured Solo on the planet Ord Mantell but again solo eluded him. Later, Fett answered a call by Darth Vader and joined other bounty hunters on board the ship, the Executor. Vader offered a bounty for Solo's head. Fett tracked Solo to the Bespin System where he and Vader captured him, Chewbacca, and Leia Organa. Solo was then encased in carbonite and given to Boba Fett. As Boba Fett came out of hyperspace near Tatooine, he was attacked by another bounty hunter named IG-88. Using his skill Fett destroyed IG-2000, IG-88's ship, but his Slave I was damaged. He flew to Gall for repairs where a Rebel attempt to free Han failed.
Fett turned han over to Jabba the Hutt and collected his bounty. After a failed attempt to rescue Han Jabba ordered that Luke, Leia, Chewbacca, and Han (who was freed from the carbonite by Leia) be thrown into the Pit of Carkoon to be digested slowly by the Sarlacc. During the attempt to put them into the pit they broke free. When Fett tried to stop them he was knocked into the mouth of the Sarlacc. Amazingly he escaped the Sarlacc and was found near-death by Dengar, another bounty hunter, who nursed Fett back to health.
For years now Fett has pursued the only being to elude him, Han Solo. He and Dengar met up with Solo on Nar Shadda but solo and Leia managed to escape in an old friend's ship, the Starlight Intruder. Later, on the same planet Fett managed to shoot Chewbacca on the side but the Wookiee ripped Fett's helmet off and send him flying. After he recovered he went after the Millenium Falcon but Han entered an Interstellar Cloud and because the Slave I was damaged Fett could not pursue. Days later Solo emerged from the cloud and shot the Slave I causing it to spin out of control and into the gas cloud. Again Solo had eluded him, but Fett will always be prepared to encounter him again and again.
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