BOBA FETT   Species: Human Sex: Male Hair Color: Unknown Eye Color: Unknown Height: 1.8 meters Homeworld: Unknown Weapons Of Choice: Mandalorian Battle Armor And Various Modified Weapons Vehicle Of Choice: Kuat System's Engineering Limited-Production, High-Speed Firespray-Class Ship SLAVE I and a MandalMotors Pursuer Enforcement Ship SLAVE II   FETT'S EARLY YEARS Jaster Mareel may be a fictional origin that Fett concocted to cleverly cover his true origin and identity. The Clone Wars transpaired around 35 years before A New Hope. We know from numerous sources that Boba Fett was involved in the Clone Wars, so if he got involved when he was 15, that would make him no younger than 50 in Empire Strikes Back. Twenty-Three years before Luke Skywalker met Obi-One Kenobi and started his destiny to becoming a jedi, Boba Fett was known as Journeyman Protector Jaster Mereel. Jaster Mereel, a young law-enforcement officer on the world of Concord Down, had killed another Protector. And although the Protector had been corrupt, disgracing his office and uniform, Mereel was still imprisoned for the murder. Against the wishes of his pleader, the young arrogant man remained unrepentant to the trial court, and Jaster Mereel was exiled from Concord Down, stripped of all he owned. It is reported that Jaster Mereel's last statement before exile was "I bow to no one and give service only for cause." (Some have argued that the quote ended with "credits" rather than "cause.") After being exiled he joined the Imperials and became an Imperial Stormtrooper. Becoming disgruntled about this current occupation, Jaster went AWOL. He then either joins the Mandalorians (the Mandalorians Warriors are an ancient group of warriors who fought the Jedi Knights in the Clone Wars) or finds Mandalorian battle armor, and becomes the Bounty Hunter Boba Fett. According to various sources, Fett is not a Mandalorian but he has "strange ties" to them. It may be that he retains these trappings in memorial to some unknown friend or foe, or perhaps as a reminder of an era gone by. Boba Fett has modified the Mandalorian armor to suit his own needs.. The helmet has a macrobinocular viewplate with 360 degree field of view, motion and sound sensors, infrared capabilities, microcomputer, internal comlink with his ship, the Slave I, and a broadband antennae to intercept and decipher transmissions. His 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, a Blas Tech EE-3 rifle and various unknown weaponry. Fett wears Braided Wookiee scalps (latest sources suggest that it may be Padwan Jedi Braids that Fett has killed) over his right shoulder to complete the outfit. To find out more detailed information on Fett's armor go HERE. What is certain is that no single Hunter has attained as high an acquistion record as Fett. Although Fett is a loner, he has been known to work with other Bounty Hunters, Fett has always emerged as the one who catches the prize. Once engaged in a hunt, Fett uses sources of intelligence apparently available only to himself. Fett is extremelly methodical and unpredictable. He takes his time and makes his final move on the bounty at a place and time of Fett's own choosing. Witness of Fett in action remark on how he continually strikes when his opponent least expects it. And how Fett never shows no remorse for his Bounty's fate. One of Fett's first known Bounties, was a job hunting Hallolar Voors. Voors had angered Jabba the Hutt by daring to establish an independent spice trade. The search for Voors led Boba Fett to the penal colony Planet Jubilar, where Fett chanced to see a young Han Solo fight for his life in the Regional Sector Number Four's All-Human Free-for-all extravaganza. Boba Fett developed an almost unconscious respect for the brave young humanoid who would someday become his most elusive Bounty. Hallolar Voors ended up dead by neural toxin. Years later, when Solo was smuggling spice for Jabba, a powerful Hutt lord named Aruk offered a tempting sum for the Corellian's capture. Fett cornered Han on Nar Shaddaa, and injected him with a drug that turned Solo into a zombie who was at the mercy of his captor. Had Lando Callrissian not shown up at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, Solo would not have lived. Then Jabba actually paid Boba Fett to lay off of the hunt for the Corellian, for reasons unknown. Sometime in the years before the Battle of Yavin, Boba Fett had his first 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 crime gang leader Sise Fromm. Sise hired Boba Fett to kill the young racing team at the Boonta races, a job Fett took as a favor he owed Fromm, even though Fromm himself had a bounty on his head and was wanted by Jabba the Hutt. Fett's robot, BL-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 BL-17 (who was then crushed by falling machines) and discovered the bomb planted in the Witch. Unaware of the bomb, Fett turned his attention to Joben, following Joben into the race. Fett used every weapon at his disposal. But when Fett tried to use 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 damage done to his droid, his speeder, and his Quarry, Fett took Fromm and his gang hostage, to turn them over to Jabba the Hutt, where he received a great reward for them.   NEXT PAGE - AFTER THE BATTLE OF YAVIN       FETT'S EARLY YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF YAVIN AFTER THE BATTLE OF HOTH AFTER THE BATTLE OF ENDOR FETT'S ARMOR SLAVE I AND SLAVE II