~Fett History~

Partially proofread by Janos.

The earliest thing known about the Fetts is about Cassus Fett, who lived about 4,000 millenia before TPM. He wore Mandalorian armor, but it was the old type. He became famous for killing a high-ranking official during a battle.

The next thing known starts with Jango's parents. We don't know where they came from originally. But we do know that they were part of a colonizing group. The group went to Concord Dawn, which looks something like Kansas, I think. We also don't know if Jango was born on Concord Dawn, or on his parents' planet. His parents started a farm, where they raised Jango and his older sister.

Now we backtrack to a man called Jaster Mereel, who was a Journyman Protector on Concord Dawn. They're a sort of police force. But Jaster was different than the other Protectors: he had a different sense of justice. When a fellow Journyman Protector did something wrong, Jaster killed him. The last thing he said on Concord Dawn before he was exiled off-planet was this:

"Everyone dies. It's the final and only Justice. Evil exists, it is intelligence in the service of entropy. If the side of a mountain slides down to kill a village, this is not evil, for evil requires intent. Should a sentient being cause this landslide, then there is evil and requires Justice as a consequence so that civilization can exist. There is no greater good than Justice, and only if law serves Justice is it good law. It is correctly said that the law exists not for the just, but for the unjust. For the just carry the law in their hearts and do not need to call it from afar. I bow to no one and I give my service only for cause."

We don't know what happened to Jaster for several years. But he ended up the leader of a mercinary group called the Mandalorians. The Mandalorians, though a mercinary group, had a code of justice laid down by Jaster. And they never broke it. But one of the Mandalorians, Vizsla, wanted to rule. He thought the Mandalorians were good enough to take over the galaxy. And they probably could have gotten pretty far at it if Jaster hadn't said no. So Vizsla took what Mandalorians he could and they started their own group called the Death Watch.

The Death Watch and the Mandalorians fought with each other. Eventually, Jaster ran. He snuck back to Concord Dawn where he found a farmer who allowed him to hide on his farm. It didn't take the Death Watch long to find the Fett farm.

The second-in-command of the Death Watch found ten-year-old Jango fixing a peice of farm equipment. They held a blaster to him and asked him if he'd seen Jaster. Jango said no, because he didn't know his dad was hiding Jaster. The Death Watch took Jango back to the farmhouse, where they already had Jango's dad, held at blaster-point. They held Jango next to his dad and told him that if he didn't tell them were Jaster was, he'd be wearing his kid's brains. Just then, Jango's mom and sister stepped out onto the porch.

Before anyone could do anything, his mom shot the guy holding Jango and Jango took off. He ran right into Jaster and a few other Mandalorians... and heard three blaster shots behind him.

The Death Watch set the farm on fire, and Jango led the Mandalorians off the farm through an irrigation canal.

Jaster felt sorry for Jango, and took him in, and took care of him. A few days after his family's death, Jango and the Mandalorians ambushed the Death Watch in a nearby town. Since Jango was the smallest, they sent him to put a bomb under the Death Watch's speeder. He'd succeeded and was running out when the second-in-command chased after him. He trapped Jango and was about to kill him when Jango grabbed at a dead Mandalorian's blaster and shot the guy.

Jaster and Jango became close in the following years. A high-ranking Mandalorian, Montross, once commented, "...sometimes I think he forgets you're not really his son." And it was true. Jaster was going to pick someone to take over the Mandalorians soon, and everybody knew it was either going to be Montross or Jango. But a majority of people thought it would be Jango.

Well, when Jango was in his late teens and early twenties, the Mandalorians were paid to come in and rescue some people. But when they got there, it turned out to be an ambush set up by the Death Watch. During the fighting, Montross and Jaster were cornered by an armored tank. Montross had a jetpack and Jaster didn't. So Jaster asked Montross to get them out of there on his jetpack, but Montross just said, "I'm through taking orders from you." and jetted off. Leaving Jaster to be killed.

Jango saw Jaster killed, and it was only another Mandalorian that kept him from running to save him right there and then. After the tank was gone, Jango went to Jaster and he died in Jango's arms.

Montross went back to the Mandalorians and proclaimed himself in charge, telling them that Jango died in an effort to save Jaster and that they should get out of there. Just then Jango walked up holding Jaster and aimed a blaster at Montross. He told Montross to leave the Mandalorian order. Montross asked, "What? You want a kid to lead you?" And all the Mandalorians responded, "I'll follow no one but Jango!"

So Montross left. He became a bounty hunter, an awful one at that. He was a skilled bounty hunter, one of the best--but he was horrible. For example in one scene:

Bounty, who's cornered against a cliff, "Montross, please! Please don't kill me! I'm worth more alive!"

Montross, "You're worth enough dead," before shooting him.

So then, Jango led the Mandalorians. He was a great leader and led the Mandalorians to glory and fame. They were a great mercinary group, never harming those who didn't deserve the justice they had coming to them. They were sort of a police force for hire. A police force that actually enforced justice...for a price.

But then, the Death Watch interferred again. The planet of Galidraan hired the Mandalorians to take out the Govenor's enemies; a group of rebels. In return, the Govenor would tell Jango where Vizsla was. Jango wanted revenge on Vizsla for what he did to Jaster. But when Jango got to the Govenor, Vizsla appeared with some of the Death Watch and they started to shoot at Jango. Jango escaped by jumping out a window. But the Death Watch shot his jetpack, and Jango fell to the snow-covered ground.
Overhead, Jango saw a fleet of ships approaching, and he knew they would be coming after the Mandalorians. Jango tried to warn the group, but his comlink failed, and he got to their camp only in time to see the Jedi approaching. The Govenor had begged the Jedi to come, telling them that they'd murdered a group of people. Which was kinda true..... but they'd been hired to do it by the Govenor. The Govenor also told the Jedi that the Mandalorians had murdered women and children too, even though they hadn't done that. The Death Watch made sure there was proff of women and children being killed. And since both groups wore Mandalorian armor, it was impossible to tell the difference between Death Watch and Mandalorians.
Now, I don't know why the Jedi were so stupid as to believe the Govenor. Obviously, if they've got the Force, they could have sensed that it was the Death Watch they were after. So maybe they had a thing against the Mandalorians for stealing some of their glory and title "keepers of the peace". Maybe they didn't like it that they only did things for money. Or maybe they were just bloodthirsty (which is against the Jedi Code, but that didn't stop the leader of the Jedi, Mace Windu, during the Battle of Geonosis). Who knows.

But anyway, the Jedi were standing in front of the Mandalorians, sabers ignited. Never threaten a hardend mercinary group. The Mandalorians open fired, and the Jedi attacked. (which is also against the Code. Like Yoda said, "A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense. Never for attack.") The Jedi attacked with a bloodthirst I wouldn't have thought possible in a Jedi. Jango was weaponless, having lost his weapons from his fall. He killed over four Jedi with his bare hands. In self defense. He watched his comrades die. One of them fell right next to him, having been cut in two. After the Mandalorians were all dead, Jango collapsed in the middle of them.
"You killed them... you killed them all. We're all dead..." The Jedi handed Jango over to the Galidraan government, who sold him to slavers.

I think that was the worst time Jango'd ever had. All his friends and buddies... gone. Destroyed. Dead. Him a slave. A Fett should never be a slave. They're proud and like the ability to think for themselves. (which is why neither Jango nor Boba ever drank or took drugs or smoked or anything like that; so they'd always be able to think for themselves and think straight) Jango was treated very badly. Which is how he got some of the scars he has. When pirates attacked the slave-ship, he escaped. More dead than alive, but he was alive. The phsycalogical trama, however, screwed him up for life. (...if losing his parents and killing someone withen a few days when you're ten doesn't already mess you up) He had no one. He was totally alone.

The first thing Jango did after escaping was to go back to Galidraan. The Govenor had an ancient Mandalorian battlesuit that he'd fixed up, and put on display. Jango stole it, and made it his. He forced the Govenor to tell him where Vizsla was. The Death Watch were over Corellia when Jango got to them. Jango rammed his ship into thiers at full speed, using his jetpack to blast his way into the ship through the viewport. Jango set off after Vizsla. They managed to get into an escape pod, and on the surface of Corellia, they continued fighting. Vizla had Jango down and wounded, but with his last strength, Jango used a knifeblade and wounded Vizsla. But didn't kill him. Dire-cats killed Vizsla.
Jango fell unconcious, later found by a small group of kids. After they woke Jango up, Jango walked off, "...to find a job".

He met a Toydarian named Rozatta, Roz for short. She was an information dealer who owned a space station. She and Jango became something like friends. Roz tried to look out for Jango and take care of him, which was something Jango needed.

Now we backtrack again. There once was a Jedi named Komari Vosa. She was a good Jedi, but leaned towards the Dark Side. A little too far to the Dark Side. She was sent on a mission to see why a certain type of spice (drugs) was having such a bad and spooky affect on people. She was captured, along with the other two Jedi sent. Vosa was the first to fall to the spice. She killed the other two Jedi and soon became the leader of the group of people who used the spice. They became known as the Bando Gora. The spice can make people into mindless drones, only doing what Vosa tells them to do. "Everywhere and no where at once," Roz once said. And no one wanted to mess with the Bando Gora. Because if you did, you ended up dead. The Bando Gora wanted to take over the galaxy (...must be a favorite passtime or something. "How can I attempt to take over the galaxy?")

So then, Darth Sidious wanted Vosa out of the way. So he told his new apprentice Darth Tryanus to eliminate her, and also to find a good specimen to be the template for the clone army, "...perhaps among the galaxy's most dangerous mercinaries." So Dooku decided to do both at the same time. He knew where Vosa was, knew he could easily kill her. But he placed a bounty on her for 5 million credits, dead or alive.

Among the bounty hunters he sent after her, Jango and Montross were the top two.
As Jango was searching for Vosa, Roz commented on his ship:
Roz, "I can't believe you're still flying that relic, Jango. Why don't you spend some of your hard-earned cash on a new ship?"
Jango, "She belonged to Jaster Mereel."
Roz, "I know, I know. The Mandalore warrior who took you under his wing. You don't suppose perhaps you hang on to that ship, those memories, because you're looking for someone to take under your own wing?"
Jango, "Heh, Roz, you're sounding like a Psych droid."

So then another instance during the hunt for Vosa:
Roz, "Give up this crazy hunt! You have money! Why don't you meet a nice girl? Settle down? Have a kid? You aren't going to live forever you know. Not in this business!"

Jango, "...not in this lifetime, Roz."

Anyway, to find Vosa, Jango tracked the spice to a Dug crime king. But in order to see him, Jango decided to get an invitation instead of barging in there. So he went on a side-hunt for someone Sebolto (the Dug crime king) had put a bounty on. The guy was in a maximum security republic prison, on an asteroid called Oovo IV. Jango snuck in there, and was about to get the bounty when another hunter got there first and took the bounty. She started a riot among the prisoners to cover her escape.
It annoyed Jango that another hunter, a female one at that, at gotten to the bounty before him. It chipped his ego. But that was what started the attraction, I guess.

Jango returned to his ship, where he and Zam Wesell met face-to-face, blaster-to-blaster. They were arguing over who got the bounty when a Firespray Pursuit Special zoomed in and blew up Jango's ship. Jango looked up at it as Zam said that she'd snuck onto the asteroid by way of a provisions shipment and was planning to sneak out on Jango's ship. Jango said he was going after the ship and did so. He captured it, and blew up the other five of its kind. He learned that the ship was one of six manufactured for the prison. A prototype. He named it the Slave I.

He and Zam delivered the bounty and found that Sebolto had a death stick factory (death sticks are what Vosa put the spice into--normally they're a dangerous drug that literally take years from your life.) Zam was waiting in Slave I, while Jango checked out the ship used to transport the spice. He recognized it as a slaver's ship (...he recognized it with disgust) and noticed the Huttese markings. He decided to go to Tatooine.

But first, Montross showed up.
Montross, "You've made it this far? Jaster would be proud."
Jango, "You killed Jaster!"
And then they fought. Zam swooped in with Slave I and Montross took off. She and Jango then went to Tatooine where they split up. Jango went to interrogate Jabba the Hutt, while Zam went to Gardulla the Hutt. They were the two leaders of Tatooine, but they'd been fighting some.

Jabba wasn't with the Bando Gora, but he knew Gardulla was. He told Jango that after he was done with Gardulla, to kill her. Jango agreed.

So, Zam was caught by Gardulla's guards and Jango snuck in the back way. He found Zam in her cell. She told him how to get to Gardulla's Bando Gora stuff, and then asked him to get her out of the cell, because Gardulla was planning to feed Zam to her Kryat Dragon. Jango told her he'd be back for her and was about to leave when Zam yelled for the guards because she didn't trust Jango.
Jango was caught and sent before Gardulla. She said she'd feed him to the Kyrate Dragon and sell Zam to slavery. Jango escaped the dragon, and pushed Gardulla into the pit where she was eaten by the dragon (surprisingly, the dragon didn't choke...)

Jango sent the info he gathered to Roz to decipher, and then went back to Zam. He told her she was lucky he didn't shoot her. She asked him why he didn't. Jango told her she'd sit in the cell and think for a while and then he left.

Once in space, he tried to contact Roz, but instead of her, he got Montross. Montross had found Roz and took the data. He'd nearly killed Roz, and when he told that to Jango, Jango said, "You've just signed your death warrant, Montross."

Jango got to Roz's space station in time to watch her die. Before she died she said, "Finish this hunt. Collect your reward. Only find something... something to live for besides the money. You deserve more." She also gave him a datadisk containing Vosa's location.

Jango found Vosa's palace. And right outside it was Montross.
Montross, "You've come to the right place for a burial, Fett."
Jango, "You first."
Montross, "Like this? Without giving me a chance to fight? That's not your style, Fett. It's not the... Mandalorian way."
Jango, "You left our ways! Remember?"
Montross, "Imagine it, Fett. Being able to control people like she[Vosa] does."
Jango, "Not much money in anarchy."
Montross, "It's not about the money, Fett. It's about hunting your prey. Seeing him begging for mercy before you take his life. But you know this feeling better than anyone, Fett. You and me...we're the same."
Jango, "Now you're just being mean."
Then they start fighting, Montross saying, "May the best man win!" To which Jango replied, "I am the best man. Always was."
Jango nearly killed Montross. Had Montross down and at blaster point. Montross told him to go ahead and kill him, but Jango didn't. He walked away.
The Bando Gora killed Montross.

Jango was captured soon after he was in Vosa's palace. She tortured him, which is how he got the scars on his face. She told him soon he'd fall. Soon he'd be her slave. His reaction was to stuggle even harder against his bonds.

Just then, though, Vosa felt someone else's presence. Someone who wanted revenge. Vosa turned and told Zam to come out. Zam jumped around the corner and killed the two guards. She then turned her blaster to Jango, who only weakly slumped against the bonds. A few moments later, she was shooting at Vosa instead. She deflected the shots with her lightsabers, and one of the bolts hit Zam. She went down and Vosa was about to kill her. Zam turned then and fired two shots, which released Jango. He grabbed his blasters and shot at Vosa who ran. Jango, instead of running after Vosa, kneeled next to Zam, who told him to go after Vosa.

Jango and Vosa fought. Jango injured her and she lay there, and asked him, "Which will it be, bounty hunter? Dead or alive?" Jango remembered what Montross had said. Knew that if he killed Vosa when he had a chance to let her live, he'd be no better than Montross. Jango put down his blaster and watched at Vosa started choking and died saying, "He's here". Dooku walked out of the shadows (obviously having just Force-choked Vosa) and told Jango about his offer to be the template for the clone army. Jango accepted on one condition. That he be given the first clone for himself, unaltered. Dooku agreed and Jango went back for Zam and carried her to his ship.

Jango wanted Boba for many reasons. Primarily because he wanted someone to take care of and to love. He wanted Boba to do what he couldn't. He wanted Boba to grow up with a real family. To be loved and to love. He wanted Boba to have a life; to be happy.

When Boba was about five, Jango got called away for another mission. This one was to get a Force-filled statue. He and Zam got there almost at the same time. After a bit of flirting and almost being killed by a monster and Jango heroically saving Zam, they went off in their own seperate directions, Jango taking the bounty for the statue. But, a short while later, the Jedi Council discovered that the statue was Force-filled and was going to be used to destroy a major world. Different Jedi were sent to different planets to find the statue. Mace Windu was originally going to investigate Coruscant, but Jedi Council Member Yereal Poof said he'd like to do it, so Mace let him.

Zam Wesell found out that it was going to be used to destroy Coruscant. But she knew she'd need help to get the statue back. So she went to Jango. Jango started off saying he wasn't going to do it and that he had to stay there and take care of his son.
Zam, "How many sons do you think are on Coruscant?"
Jango, "...I was an orphan, did you know that? I don't know what I would have done if someone hadn't come along and... We'll take my ship."

So they got the statue after a big fight, which also resulted in Poof being killed. No one knew that they saved Coruscant. No one ever knew it was Jango Fett and Zam Wesell who had saved the entire planet of Coruscant with a population of one trillion sentient beings from destruction, for absolutly no pay.

When they got back to Kamino, Zam asked him, "How does it feel to do something for the right reason instead of just the profitable one?"
Jango, "Like I'd better go find some paying work."
Zam, "Oh, please. There's a part of you that's not half as cold as you'd have people believe. But if you want to get something from all this..."
Zam then kissed him on the cheek and walked off just as Boba ran up to greet Jango.

Jango and Zam teamed up a lot, but never for very long. They still didn't trust each other completly, and they both prefered to work alone. Jango and Boba grew closer. Boba idolized Jango. Wanted to be just like him.
Jango was his hero, he looked up to Jango, loved Jango. There was no one on Kamino for him. His only friends were Jango, Zam and the droid librarian.

Boba read a lot. He prefered books to movies, because he liked the image he created in his head better than the ones in the movies. Jango didn't like reading much. Said the only things worth reading were warnings and instruction books. Zam's the one who got Boba interested in reading. Boba read mostly things that'd be useful to him. Like books on ships and weapons. But he read other stuff too. He knew about friends and mothers and pets from books. All three sounded good to him. He sometimes pretended he had friends. Sometimes pretended he had a mother. But in the end, he really did like only having Jango. Still, he wanted a mother.

When he was young, he once asked Jango where his mother was, and Jango told him he was a clone. Boba liked this. It made him special. It meant he was exactly like Jango. Then he learned about the clone troopers. He didn't like them. It made him feel less special. He felt it was creepy to have millions of "brothers". He didn't like the clone troopers at all.

Jango left with Zam to kill Padme, and left Boba a bowl of seamice to feed Jango's pet sea eel. Boba didn't like the eel. Didn't like his thin, cruel eyes. Didn't like the way the eel took all day to digest it's food. He liked the sea mice. Thought they were cute, and thought they didn't deserve to be eel-food. So he set them free. But that failed. The first was eaten by an unknown preditor in the grass of an indoor garden. The second was eaten by a fish-monster. Sadly, Boba went ahead and fed the other mice to the eel. He'd accepted perhaps not all things deserved to be free. He was depressed after that and wished Jango and Zam would hurry up and get home.

When Jango did get back, Boba kept asking where Zam was, but Jango wouldn't tell him at first. Jango seemed stressed and sad. Finally, Jango told Boba that Zam was dead, said she would have done the same if it were him. When Boba asked how Zam had died, Jango told him that he didn't want to know. Boba agreed. Zam was indestructable! How could she die? If she died, could the same happen to Jango? No! He didn't want to think about it. Nothing could get the best of Jango in a fight. So if it wasn't going to happen, why think about it?
Still, Boba went out walking in the rain. It's a good thing to live on a planet where it's always raining because you can take a walk outside and no one will know you're crying. When Boba got back to the apartment, he saw that Jango had been out walking in the rain too.

And then, Obi-Wan arrived. Boba didn't like Obi-Wan. Jango didn't like Jedi, so Boba didn't like Jedi. Jango had a good reason not to like Jedi. It was because of them that he was sold into slavery.
Anyway, Boba was glad to see (or think he saw) Obi-Wan die on Kamino. The nosy Jedi had tried to kill his dad.

Then when they got to Geonosis, Boba spotted Obi-Wan on the sensor. We saw the asteroid fight.

Once on Geonosis, Boba was bored. There was nothing to do. It was even lonelier than before. Especially since Zam was gone. Jango told Boba to "be here when I get back" and left for a while. After counting all the cracks in the floor and stones in the walls, Boba decided that "be here when I get back" just meant he could leave, but be back before Jango got back. So he went exploring and made it back in time, not before discovering that Count Dooku was Darth Tryanus.

The next day, Boba went out again. This time he went outside the city and climbed around on a mesa. He found a cute fuzzy snake being attacked by two massiffs (they're the dog-monsters that were in the Tusken Raider scene in AOTC). Boba rescued the snake by killing one of the massiffs (by accident. The massiff jumped at him and Boba ducked and the massiff went over the edge of the cliff) and making the second one run off. This and the last scene and a few other things has convinced me that Boba has a soft spot for animals.

Soon after that, Boba found the Delta 7 starfighter and Obi-Wan, the Jedi who wouldn't die. He used a peice of reflective rock to signal back to the city and a Geonosian came. Boba snuck back into the city, only to be caught by Jango. Jango grounded him for going out of the city, which was against the rules. Boba's lonely life got even lonelier. He couldn't do anything anymore on Geonosis.
Finally Jango came and got him to go to the arena. Boba saw the three prisoners to be killed. He wanted Obi-Wan to die; Obi-Wan had embarrassed Jango twice by escaping! Was there no way to kill him? He didn't care what happened to Anakin. But he thought Padmé was the prettiest girl he'd ever seen. And he didn't want her to die. He was excited to be out of the apartment and doing something. Excited to see the monsters fighting (...he was able to recognize all three of them). But he closed his eyes when the nexu attacked Padmé.

When the Jedi appeared and fighting started, Boba got even more excited. It was his first time in any kind of fight or battle. And Jango told him to keep down. But Boba was still able to watch. Jango saw Mace, the Jedi who'd threatened him. Shouldn't Mace know who he was? That he shouldn't have messed with him? Jango's arrogant streak caught up to him and he told Boba, "Stay here, Boba. I'll be back." then jetted down into the arena.

Boba flinched when he saw Jango trampled by the reek. And what came next made him scream, "No!" Boba leaned back, shocked. He couldn't believe what he'd just seen. Surely it had all been a nightmare. A trick of his eyes and the light. But, try as he might, he couldn't see Jango anywhere. Boba stood and ran into the arena. It was a nightmare, an illusion. Jango couldn't be dead. He'd find Jango and Jango would tell him it had all been a bad, bad dream.... But then Boba saw Jango's empty, bloodstained helmet. Boba couldn't think, couldn't do anything. He dropped to his knees and held Jango's helmet. And then he started walking mindlessly. He didn't care where he was, who he was, what he was doing or anything. He didn't even feel much; he was too numb. Dazed, he walked around and carried the broken peices of his father through the broken peices of droids, walking in the broken peices of his life. Blaster bolts hit at his feet and wizzed through the air near his head. A clonetrooper pulled Boba down and a blast went through the air where Boba had just been standing.
Clonetrooper, "Just a kid! I thought you were one of us."
Boba, "I am not one of you! And I never will be! I am Jango Fett's real son!"

Jango said that "imagination is a warrior's best weapon", and the clones took any orders. Boba didn't want to be like that. He had the ability to make his own desicions. He would never be a clone trooper; taking any order.

Boba found Jango's body. A droid carrier was taking the droid parts to a dump site. Boba managed to get one to take him and Jango's body too. Boba felt sadness taking over, but he knew he couldn't yet. He still had one thing to do. "First things first" as Jango had said. Boba knew he had to bury Jango. Then he could be sad. Boba pulled Jango's body to a peaceful looking spot and took off his armor. He hid the armor in a cave, knowing he was too small for it yet. All he took was the helmet, knowing it probably contained usefull information. Boba burried Jango then fell asleep. He woke up to find the fuzzy snake he'd saved had wrapped around him like a blanket. He shoved the snake off, then looked at the mound that was now Jango. It made everything seem so much more real. More sadder. Boba cried long and hard then.

Boba marked Jango's grave with droid arms "JF". Gone but not forgotten. Never forgotten. Jango's death haunted Boba forever. It changed his life and made him into what he grew up to be. He was psychologically scarred and left without love or a real chance at a normal life.

After Jango was gone, Boba was alone, in a galaxy that didn't give a damn about him. Boba went with the only life he knew, bounty hunting. All the people he ran into betrayed him. They betrayed him, a little child. No one cared about him. No one took care of him. There was no one to make sure he had food and shelter and love. And at such a young age, isn't love what he needed? At only ten, Boba had to act like an adult. His naiivette went fast, as did his innocence. When he was 11, he killed someone. Not directly, but he arranged it in self-defense.
It isn't fair, really. The galaxy treats you like crap, screws you over, takes all your money and gives you a sharp kick in the ribs. Then, it hates you for what you are even though it made you that way.

Boba missed Jango. But he could still feel Jango. Could hear him talking in his head, "Boba do this..." "Boba do that..."

Boba got Jango's book. It looks like a book, only it's a message unit made by Jango. It told Boba what to do. For self suffeciency, go to Tryannus. For knowledge, go to Jabba. And then miscellaneous helpfull things at random whenever he opened it. Like "Money is power", "Never tell the whole truth in a trade", "A favor is an investment" and such.

Well then, Boba tried to find Tryannus, but was betrayed by some bounty hunters who claimed to want to help him. That nearly got him handed over to the Jedi. He was also betrayed by two strangers who also claimed to want to help Boba, one of which picked Boba's pockets.

Another bounty hunter named Aurra Sing caught Boba and took him to Dooku. Dooku pretended to wanted to help Boba, but in reality he wanted to know how much Boba knew about the Tryanus-Dooku connection. After he knew that all Boba knew was that he had two names, he ordered Boba to be killed. Just then, the Republic attacked and Boba was rescued by clonetroopers, who assumed he was a war orphan.

Boba was put on a ship taking orphans to an orphanage on Bespin. He called himself "Teff" so the Jedi wouldn't know "Fett" was on board the ship. He also made a friend with another orphan. Overall, Boba didn't like the orphans. When he first saw them all, he thought he was in a middle of a storm back on Kamino. All the noise! It got to him bad. He thought, "Boba Fett. Jango Fett's son. Stuck here with a bunch of noisy, underage, brats!" Garr, his friend, thought the same thing. So they escaped to the library a lot. Garr liked watching people, while Boba liked watching space. And if you wanted to find Boba, all you'd have to do was go to an observation deck and you could find him sitting there, staring at the stars. Boba finally realized there was a certain star that seemed to always be in the same place. He learned it was a ship. He recognized the ship. Slave I. Aurra Sing (who'd stolen Slave I when she delivered Boba to Dooku) was following them.

Once on Bespin, Boba took off, and Garr followed. Garr and Boba ran into Aurra Sing and she told Boba if he wanted his ship back to meet her at a different city. Garr took off and told the Jedi what he'd heard.

Of course the Jedi followed Boba and started shooting at Boba and Aurra Sing to capture her, as a bounty hunter. The Jedi wanted Boba alive for questioning. Then again, the so-called "keepers of the peace" were just as corrupt as the Republic.
Well, Boba and Aurra escaped and Aurra told Boba that she had only come for Boba because she needed him. She knew where Jango's bank account was, and Boba had the password. The password was Jango's DNA. Since Boba was the only unaltered clone, that meant Aurra couldn't just grab the first clonetrooper she saw, she had to get Boba.

So the two went to the bank world of Aargau. Aurra was stopped for wearing weapons, which wasn't allowed. While it was being sorted out, Boba escaped. He met up with another clone that looked his age. The clone, of course, mistook him for one of his own and talked to him as such. Then when Aurra caught up with them, Boba pushed the clone at her and she assumed he was Boba, who ducked off. He met up with a Bimm who helped Boba get to his money. Then the Bimm turned out to be a changeling and stole all but a little bit of Jango's assets. Boba took what money he had left and got offplanet before Aurra could catch up with him.

Boba headed off to Tatooine, landing in a docking bay owned by a mechanic Boba found listed in Slave I's memory. where he saw the famous Durge, a Jedi killer and Mandalorian hater. Escaping from this encounter, Boba ran into a girl who stole Jango's helmet, the only thing he'd taken with him. Chasing this girl, he discovered she was a part of a group of orphans working for a Neiamodian named Gilramos Libkath, stealing items for him, helping him because he throws them table scraps from time to time. The one who'd stolen Boba's helmet was a young girl named Ygabba.

After leaving the orphans, he finally found Jabba the Hutt, like the message in the black book had told him to do. Jabba made him bet on a podrace, if he lost, he died, if he won, he lived and Jabba would listen to him. Wisely, Boba told Jabba that the one whom Jabba wishes to win would be the winner. This amused Jabba, and so he decided to take Boba back to his palace and give him an audience. All the time, Boba was wearing his helmet, so none knew his face, only that he was short.

During the trip to the palace, on board Jabba's sailing barge, Boba met up with a chef named Gab'borah, who was kind to him, and gave him a few tips about Jabba, as well as inviting him to the kitchens later on.

Arriving at Jabba's Palace, Boba got his audience. He was repulsed by Jabba, thinking him to be the most disgusting Hutt he'd ever seen, and thought the palace itself stunk, he knew Jabba was his only hope. Jabba was also the one Jango had told him to find for knowledge. As Boba was talking with Jabba, he saw Durge standing besides Jabba, and Durge was not happy about Boba's presence. In fact, Durge made an attempt to kill Boba. Fortunately for our young bounty hunter, all that happened was that his helmet was knocked off, and his youth was exposed. Jabba found it highly amusing that Boba was a child, and decided to keep him around, give him a job even! His first hunt ever. The hunt for a Neiamodian named Gilramos Libkath. Of course Boba remembered Libkath from when he'd ran into the children. However, Durge was furious that Boba had gotten the job instead of himself. He chased after Boba, intent on killing him. Boba ran for his life, ending up in the kitchens. From there, he found his way to Gab'borah's kitchen. Luckily for him, Gab'borah was indeed someone he could trust, and so Gab'borah lent him a jetpack he'd been hiding for an emergancy, and Boba took off. This was Boba's first encounter with a jetpack, and he loved it very much, almost as much as he loved flyin. Boba took off for Mos Espa, nearly draining the jetpack's fuel. Though, he couldn't help having a bit of fun with it by flying through Mos Espa, explaining himself by saying, "Beats walking!"

Once again finding the hideout of the children, Boba stayed with them until Gilramos came to pick up a shipment of weapons the children had stolen from Jabba. The girl Ygabba was nice to him, and gladly allowed him to stay with them until Gilramos showed up. And finally, he did come, ready and waiting for the weapons. It was during this time that Durge appeared, having followed Boba, and fighting started. In the fighting, the Gilarmos's hat fell off. We all know how fond Neiamodians are of their hats! If a Neiamodian loses his, then it's a good assumption that this Neiamodian is dead, because a Neiamodian will not part with his hat otherwise. Boba was able to steal this hat, and ran out of the building as it was exploding, Durge and Gilramos inside.

Returning to Jabba, Boba presented the hat, proof that Gilramos was dead. Jabba was well-pleased with this, and told Boba he would be able to stay in the palace as Jabba's bounty hunter. During dinner that night, Boba saw Gab'borah again, and this time he was accompanied with someone. Ygabba. Ygabba was Gab'borah's daughter, who had been kidnapped from him years before. Now Boba finally felt as if he'd found a home. He had a secure future as a bounty hunter, he had something of a father figure, and he had a friend. Life seemed good for him... something that wouldn't happen all too often.

A year passed, with Boba quickly becomming Jabba's favorite hunter. He was extremely well skilled for a child of 12. He'd even hunted a Noghri assasin, succeeding in that mission without a scratch.

Boba still lived with Jabba, chatting with Gab'borah and Ygabba whenever he was waiting for a new mission. It was during one of these times when Gab'borah and Ygabba surprised him with his own set of Mandalorian armor. Boba had gone and rescued Jango's old armor. It had been difficult for him, to see Jango's grave once more. Memories haunted him, but we all know how strong Boba is. He was able to push himself aside and do what needed to be done. He took Jango's armor back to Tatooine. And now Gab'borah and Ygabba had fixed up the armor to make it smaller so as it could fit Boba. When he tried it on for the first time he loved the feel. It seemed to fit him perfectly, as though it were his own skin.

Boba was still merely a child at this time, and yet he already had a steady job, one he was successful in. He was twelve, and yet any would claim him to be as much an adult as any 30-year-old. Except Boba still had childish moments, which were good. Because Boba deserved to have something of a childhood... Although, thanks to the evil Jedi Windu, Boba didn't have much of a life at all. He had a job, sure, he had success, sure... but was he truly happy? Maybe a bit right now, because of the friends he had. But how long would it be before they too betrayed him? And why not? All others had betrayed him as well. It was only a matter of time. But thoughts like these were not in Boba's mind yet, they would come much later, after it was too late...

Soon after he aquired his armor, Boba was sent on another mission. This one a lot more dangerous, a lot more deadly. His biggest mission yet. He was to track down and capture Wat Tambor. Not an easy mission. Already a small group of Jedi and Clonetroopers were attempting the same feat. Wat Tambor's layer was inside a pyramid-like structure, with thick walls and lots of security features. None who entered ever made it back. The world, Xagobah, was deadly enough. It was off color and the air was slightly poisinous. The plants lived and attacked those they didn't like. There were some plants that harmed all who touched them no matter if they liked the person or not. All this and more... for Tambor was guarded by none other than... General Grevious himself...

But this didn't stop Boba at all. 12-year-old Boba Fett could not be stopped by any danger! If anything it only made him more eager to do the job. But even he had trouble, and proved himself to still be a child. For he nearly got killed by a tree in the first five minutes he was outside Slave I.

Upon nearing the pyramid, he saw the Jedi and Clones. Among the Jedi were Glynn-Beti and Ulu Ulix, the Jedi he'd met on the Republic orphan ship bound for Bespin. Another was Anakin Skywalker, leading the air forces. Boba was impressed by his flight skills, admiring the way Anakin flew. But he couldn't stand there watching the fighting forever! As he was making his way to the pyramid, Boba saw Ulu Ulix about to be killed. Ulu had been kind to him on the ship years before, and Boba felt that Ulu wasn't like other Jedi, that he was too soft and not evil enough. So Boba rescued him, proving that he still had humanity in him, as well as kindness.

Setting Ulu free, Boba rushed to the pyramid, where there was a small side entrance droids were using to exit. Boba rushed inside, and began searching. It was like a maze, and it took a while to find his way around. However, before he could find Wat, he found Nuri... a Clawdite working as a guard for Wat Tambor. They were fighting when suddenly Nuri fell unconcious. This was very curious as Boba hadn't injured him yet. Looking around, Boba found out that Nuri had touched an unfriendly mold-plant. It hadn't killed him, just knocked him out.

Finally, Boba did find an inner room in the bottom of the pyramid where Wat Tambor was hiding. Boba started to try to capture Wat, but Wat put up a good fight, even able to dodge a laser from Boba's blaster. It was around this time that Boba discovered the pyramid was alive, that it was a plant, a giant plant! The inner room was where the heart was, the plant fed off anything and everything, and so any blaster shots only served to feed it. The heart started sending tendrils of plants at Boba, and any he cut off were just absorbed by the plant. Grabbing onto another tendril, he was lifted high in the air. Boba tried to aim for Tambor, but he moved too fast, and Boba landed on the floor, hurting his leg badly. Tambor heard something and turned towards the entrance-way. In this time, Boba crawled behind a stack of metal to hide. Peeking out from behind the metal, Boba saw General Grevious.

One of Grevious's bodyguards fired, hitting Boba in the chest, cracking a peice of his armor. A firefight started, with Boba inching towards the door. It seemed as if no amount of blaster-fire could harm these bodyguard droids. Boba managed to make it to the door and start running. Before he could make it very far, however, he was stabbed from behind by Grevious. Twice. As Boba fell, he saw Grevious held a lightsaber. Shock ran through Boba. Not only was the same man helping both sides of the war, but he had a Jedi on his side too? Or at least that was what Boba was thinking.

Boba's mind was fast, and thought hard for a quick way to get out of the trouble he was in. Boba went with his first instinct, which was to reach for his weapons. But the pain he was in from his wounds was too much, and he couldn't get to his weapons... The walls were still covered with the mold, and Boba was able to move just enough to slip is glove off slightly, and touch the mold. Within moments he was paralized. Withen the next few moments Grevious and Tambor walked off, leaving Boba for dead, saying the plant-pyramid would eat his body soon enough. In the next few moments... Boba slipped into unconciousness, his leg hurting, a cracked chest-plate, and two lightsaber wounds in his back...

The situation seemed impossible to escape, but somehow he managed it, because Boba is not someone who just gives up. Oh, no, the only moment Boba will give up is the moment of his death, and even then he'll be fighting it.

Years passed. Boba Fett grew up. He got cold, ruthless... burrying his emotions so deeply that even if someone had offered him unconditional love, he would have automatically turned it down and avoided it. It became reflex to avoid love and compassion. He avoided emotion and burried himself in his job. As long as he was working, he couldn't think; he couldn't feel. He became honor-bound to his work. He quickly became the best bounty hunter the galaxy had ever seen. Even better than Jango had been. But he wasn't happy.
It was too late for that.

Boba prefered working alone. He trusted no one. Talked very little (even before Jango was killed Boba didn't like to talk much). Never showed his real face. His helmet was his face. Like in this scene:
Jodo Kast, "Take off your helmet so I can see your face."
Boba Fett, "This is my face."
Boba became a bounty hunter, and only a bounty hunter. Jango had two facets: of the fearless warrior, and the worried father. Boba was just a fearless warrior. Though if he did fear something, it was his nightmares.

He was caught in his own reputation. He was known for disintegrating bounties, for being the most ruthless and unfeeling. He didn't fear pain or death. Why should he? He was already dead. Mace might as well have killed him when he killed Jango.

Boba followed the same code of Justice that Jaster and Jango had followed. Boba wore Jaster's armor. He surounded his past in mystery. Among the legends of who he really is, there's one story that he is Jaster Mereel.
This was the most popular.
Boba never drinks, never smokes, never does drugs, doesn't have sex before marrige--he's perfectly moral.
He never does assasinations and brings the bounty in alive if at all possible--not because he valued life like Jango did, but because he simply didn't care enough to put in effort if he wasn't paid. He and Jango both have a "personal dislike of assassinations". The difference is that Jango would do them. Boba wouldn't.
This one time, Boba was asked to assassinate someone, and said, "You mean murder?" and refused.

Another time, Boba went on a hunt, and then gave all the money from it to an orphanage...I have a feeling he'd been thinking a lot about Jango around that time.

After ANH and before ESB, Boba was hired to bring down the Bounty Hunter's Guild. He didn't like the Guild much anyway. And the pay was good. So he did it. He pitted the old members against the new ones. It ended with Bossk killing his father, the leader of the Guild and trying to take command. Of course, it was also a double-cross. Prince Xizor, the one who hired Boba, wanted to take over the galaxy. (*sigh* Does everyone want galactic domination?) Xizor had people on the planet Kuat who were going to help him. But the sister of one of them found out and tried to stop them. They memory-wiped her, and Boba stumbled across her. He found out about the plot.
He was a loose thread. And Xizor planned to kill Boba after he'd brought down the Guild (Xizor wanted to bring down the Guild so the hunters would be scattered and become more rough and cheap). So when Boba went to collect his reward, he ran into Prince Xizor's entire starfleet. And Xizor's fleet is second only to the Empire's. Boba managed to dodge the ships and make his way to the go-between who was to pay him. Boba got his money and left, his ship badly damaged (Xizor was later killed by Darth Vader).

Boba had a thing against Han Solo. A personal thing. Boba had been sent after Han pre-ANH. He was going to use a mind-controlling spice (....something just went *click*! what if that spice is the same stuff the Bando Gora used?) to bring Han in. Instead, Lando Calrissian helped Han by injecting the spice into Boba and telling him to take Slave I and fly to a far away planet.
And Boba doesn't like being taken advantage of, or being controlled.

A trick never works twice on Boba. That's how he knew of Han's hiding-trick. Boba learns from others. Learned from Jango's mistakes. Learned from Aurra Sing's mistakes. Learned from Durge's mistakes.

Boba Fett seemed out of character in small parts of ROTJ, when he flirts with Jabba's dancers. The movie production explanation for this, of course, is that another actor replaced Jeremy Bulloch (who happens to agree that Fett was far out of character) in those particular scenes. A cannon, explanation, however, can be that Boba Fett was just having a bad day. His helmet recorded how he fell into the sarlacc. Once in the sarlacc, he played it back. And soon closed his eyes, not able to stomach the rest of it.

But the Sarlacc's alive. A Jedi once fell into the sarlacc, and when she was digested, her "blue-jedi-ghost-thingy" remained as a mentality of the sarlacc. She's definitely a weirdo. She went on about how nothing really exists, that we're all just thoughts that managed to fool itself into believing we're real and stuff (in other words, she's the SW galaxy's answer to existentialism.) Boba didn't go for that. "So you're saying I'm not real? That nothing's real? The air in here stinks too badly for me to believe that."

The sarlacc had Boba tied to the wall, but Boba managed to get his foot onto the floor of the belly and push off. That flipped the emergancy switch on his jetpack, which exploded in such a small space that Boba was pushed into the floor, which broke his left arm in two places. Amid the flames from the sarlacc burning, Boba shot three gernades into the ceiling of the sarlacc and climbed out. He collasped on the sand, half dead.

It wasn't just the heat in the Dune Sea that nearly killed him, it was the sarlacc's digestive acids. They'd started damagin on his leg (which is the leg he has trouble with for the rest of his life--some even say it's replaced with a mechanical replica like Luke Skywalker's hand), had scorched a lot of his hair, and left 1st degree burns on his skin.

Now we learn of another hunter. Dengar was in search of Jabba's body. But instead, he found a body that was still living. He recognized it as Boba. Boba was half-concious when he saw Dengar appear. He heard Dengar and Manaroo (Dengar's fiancee) talking about rescuing him and Manaroo convince Dengar to help her rescue him. Boba was mad at himself. He thought it was a hallucination. He was mad that, right before he died, he would imagine being rescued. "Better to die, than to fear dying," he thought. But then he could see. He could feel. He could feel himself jumbling as Dengar carried him, see his hand limply joggling.

Dengar nursed Boba back to health with the help of two meddroids. The droids were amazed and told Dengar that by all accounts, Boba should be dead. That there was something inside him, keeping him going. And that's how Boba is. He never gives up. Never. He has a hardiness inside him that is stubborn and determined to live under his own terms. If he says he's going to do something, he'll do it. If he says he's going to catch this bounty, you can bet your life he'll do it or die trying. If he ever got married, that'd be it. He'd be loyal to the end, no matter what the cost. The "end" would only be death. I think the moment I became a fan, was when I was reading Slave Ship. It was the part where Boba was going after a bounty, and he was fighting back. The guy shot a missile at Slave I, which rocked it so badly Boba was thrown into the viewplate of Slave I. If he'd been wearing his jetpack, his back would have been broken. As it was, he was nearly unconcious and couldn't even see for a few moments. Yet he got right back into the pilot's seat and got his bounty. He didn't give up.

Another time, his ship was on fire and about to explode. He got his bounty out of his holding cell and tried to take him to the cockpit, but the bounty grabbed a pole and hit Boba hard in the stomach/ribs area. That nearly got Boba down, but it didn't. He grabbed the bounty and drug him to the cockpit. ...where the bounty pushed Boba out of it. Boba fired his whipcord into the cockpit and used it to pull himself back into the cockpit. The machine in the whipcord is on his arm. It overheated and burned him. "white hot pain" as the book said. Yet he didn't give up. Didn't even make a sound. He got to the cockit, knocked the bounty unconcious and saved his ship. Because he didn't give up.

Well, after Boba was healed, he and Dengar became partners for a while. But, after nearly being killed a several times, Dengar quit. He quit bounty hunting entirely. He'd been planning to anyway, when he planned to marry Manaroo. So he and Manaroo got married and settled down. But Dengar still ocaisionally comes out of retirement to hunt with Boba. Dengar could be called Boba's only real friend. But even Dengar had made plans to betray Boba, even though he never went through with any of it.

After his partnership with Dengar ended, Boba went off to settle the business about Black Sun that had been started back when he'd been sent to bring down the Bounty Hunter's Guild (Xizor's leader of the largest criminal organization; Black Sun.) But what happens isn't recorded.

Boba does have a sense of humor, though. Bossk hates Boba and is always trying to kill Boba, yet always walks away looking like a fool. Well, one time, Boba placed a bomb on Bossk's ship. Bossk ran to the escape pod and blasted away. Only to find the bomb was in the escape pod. It counted down to 1... and did nothing. Bossk tore open the bomb to find it wasn't a bomb, but meerly a voice recording.
And one time when he and Dengar were hunting, they used codenames. Boba chose his to be "Sarlacc Food".

Boba isn't heard from much after ROTJ. No one knows what he does or where he goes. There's still some who believe the Sarlacc killed him. And others who still don't know if he really exists. They only know of his legend, of what he is. Not who. But what. A ruthless hunter, who'll get you if you're not good, is what they know. They don't know of the little boy who watched his father die.

Boba Fett eventually drifted off into legend. No one knows is he's still alive or not, even those who know he escaped the Sarlacc. He may have died long ago, but he's lived on as a legend. Mysterious as ever.


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Sources:
Knights of the Old Republic
Jango Fett: Open Seasons
Bounty Hunter
Jango Fett (comic book)
Zam Wesell (comic book)
AOTC
Boba Fett 1: The Fight to Survive
Boba Fett 2: Crossfire
Boba Fett 3: The Maze of Deception
Boba Fett 4: Hunted
Boba Fett 5: A New Threat
Han Solo Trilogy 2: The Hutt Gambit
ESB
Tales of the Bounty Hunters
ROTJ
Tales from Jabba's Palace
Bounty Hunter Wars 1: The Mandalorian Armor
Bounty Hunter Wars 2: Slave Ship
Bounty Hunter Wars 3: Hard Merchandise
Tales from the New Republic
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