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BOBA
FETT
AFTER THE BATTLE OF
ENDOR
Since the Alliance had confiscated the Slave I,
Boba Fett and Dengar set off in Dengar's ship for the
spaceport moon of Nar Shaddaa, the smuggling center of the
galaxy. Fett had a backup ship 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 teaming up with 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.
While the galaxy assumed that the renowned Boba
Fett was dead, a Bounty Hunter named Jodo Kast donned a suit
of Mandolarian Armor and masqueraded as the Fett to get
higher bounties. Prowling the Outer Rim Territories, Kast
wore armor with much of the same external weaponry that Fett
utilizes. It is unlikely, however, that he had much hidden
weaponry and modified circuitry in his suit. When Fett found
out about this, he tracked Kast to Nal Hutta (Nal Hutta
translated means "Glorious Jewel"), Homeworld of the Hutts,
and quickly put an end to the impostor's ruse and his life.
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. When Fett
presented Feldrall to Imperial Governor Isis, she balked at
his Bounty price, so Fett pulled out a charged 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.
While delivering a Bounty named Tsumoi to
Corellia, Fett intercepted a distress transmission from the
ship Mingula, a ZZ class freighter. Forcing Tsumoi to go
with him, Fett boarded the presumed empty ship in hopes of
salvaging it for many credits. While searching the cargo
hold, Boba Fett discovered the death casket of Volpau, the
third cousin of Emperor Palpatine. While the Fett was
distracted, Tsumoi found a blaster and attempted to shoot
Fett. Fett beat him to the draw and wounded his captive.
Suddenly, a swarm of Ubuugan Fleshborer parasitic winged
worms flew out of the casket, and Tsumoi was soon dead.
Fett's armor protected him for a moment, but he quickly
discovered that they secreted a corrosive. Fleeing to the
Slave I, he set himself ablaze with his flame-thrower,
effectively destroying the deadly pests and his coveted
salvage prize at the same time.
Fett continued to work for the relatives of the
late Jabba. Gorga the Hutt was smitten by Anachro, the
daughter of Orko the H'unn. Gorga knew that Orko despised
him, so he wanted to hire Boba Fett to track down and kill
the pirate Bar-Kooda, who had destroyed three of Orko's
trading ships. Gorga hoped that this gesture would appease
Anachro's father enough to allow the two love-stricken Hutts
to marry.
At the time Boba Fett was busy capturing Magwit,
a dwarf who was known as the Magician. Magwit's most famous
trick involved a "magic" hoop through which objects would
appear and disappear. Magwit was performing in small
frontier settlements in the wasteland. Magwit only had a
minor Imperial Bounty on his head but Fett knew Magwit could
help him in catching Bar-Kooda. When Magwit heard Boba Fett
was near, he feigned his own death to escape, by taking a
drug to simulate death. At his funeral, Fett arrived and
administered a drug to counteract the one Magwit had taken.
Fett formulated a plan involving the Magician,
who had once been a captive on Bar-Kooda's ship, Bloodstar.
The pirate was known for holding entertainers captive,
making them perform for him, and then eating them
afterwards. Fett forced Magwit to buy his freedom by
smuggling the Hunter in his magic props. Fett promised
Magwit his freedom in exchange for returning to Bar-Kooda.
Magwit was "captured" and taken aboard
Bar-Kooda's ship, Bloodstar. The Magician performed his hoop
trick, inviting Bar-Kooda to step through to discover its
secret. The hoop was connected to a short-range matter
transmitter, with Fett waiting on the other side. When the
pirate stuck his head through, Boba Fett pulled Bar-Kooda
through the hoop. A fierce battle ensued and Fett killed
Bar-Kooda. True to his word, Fett gave Magwit his freedom.
Gorga held a feast for Anchro and her father. The
main course sealed the marriage bargain. It was barbecued
Bar-Kooda. Upon hearing of his brother's death, Ry-Kooda
swore vengeance on Boba Fett and Gorga. Ry-Kooda kidnapped
Anchro, but Fett found his gang's hideout and managed to
rescue her. Anchro The Hutt swung from a rope attached to
Fett's speeder bike. Ry-Kooda's thugs pursued them to a
cavern mine, where Fett dropped Anchro into a mine vehicle,
which he jumped into and piloted. Ry-Kooda eventually caught
Fett, but Fett fired a concussion grenade into the cavern
roof, which fell on Ry-Kooda, effectively burying him
beneath a ton of debris.
Soon, Gorga grew tired of Orko the H'unn, now his
father-in-law, and decided to have him killed. Gorga
summoned Boba Fett but the Bounty Hunter told him that such
an extermination would bring grave consequences. Fett
demanded a half million credits for the deed, fifty thousand
in advance. Gorga reluctantly agreed.
Meantime, Anchro told Gorga she was with Huttlet,
a doctor for the Hutts. The doctor warned Gorga that
anything upsetting might harm Anchro or his unborn child.
Immediately, Gorga told one of his underlings to try and
stop Fett before he carried out Orko's murder. But Boba Fett
was already carrying out his plan. He broke into Orko's
palace, and convinced the older Hutt that an unnamed Bounty
Hunter was out to murder him, but Fett could buy the Hunter
off for six hundred thousand credits. A frightened Orko
agreed to pay the credits the next morning. Fett passed the
night in the cantina thinking about the credits he would
extract from the Hutts with his cleaver ploy, but in the
morning Fett found out Orko had been murdered. Not only was
Orko dead but he was also half-eaten.
Following the clues, Fett determined that only
Ry-Kooda could have committed the foul murder. Sure enough,
Ry-Kooda once again tried to capture Anchro. Fett arrived on
the scene, and the two again fought a deadly battle. Fett
ignited a barrel of toxic waste, and Ry-Kooda was consumed
in a fiery inferno.
FETT'S LATER YEARS
Six years after the death of Jabba the Hutt, Han
and Leia went to Nar Shaddaa, the galactic smuggling center,
on a spaceport moon. 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 "somewhat
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 escaped
in Salla Zend's Starlight Intruder. Fett and Dengar followed
in the Slave II, snatching the Intruder's coordinates and
jumping into hyperspace. Slave II arrived at Byss before the
Starlight Intruder, but only Salla's ship had been cleared
to get through the planetary security shields. The shields
closed upon the Slave II's appoach, 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.
Various reports say Dengar has stated
'that he will never work with Fett again' to Boba Fett
almost everytime they team up.
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. But Fett was busying trying to
escape from two Imperial Dark Side Warriors who were trying
to blackmail him into working for them. They claimed
knowledge of his past--that he had been a stormtrooper who
had murdered a superior officer. Fett rejected their
attempts and fought back as the two Warriors attacked him.
Fett managed to escape even as Solo's Millennium Falcon
prepared to touch down. Boba Fett then waited patiently, and
when the Millennium Falcon took off from the planet, the
Slave I rushed forward at topspeed. Fett expected Han to
turn tail, but Han used the freighter to clip the Slave I's
stabilizers. Fett lost some control but he was still able to
blast the Falcon, causing the Falcon to lose all sensor
frequencies.
Fett tracked the Falcon to the lower levels of
the moon, where he ambushed Leia and Han shortly after they
found Vima-Da-Boda. In turn, Fett was ambushed by Chewbacca.
During the ensuing firefight, Boba Fett 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 pursued the Falcon through the floating space debris
of the spaceport moon. He blasted the Rebels' ship once
again, but Solo piloted the freighter into an interstellar
gas cloud. Fett's ship sensors were useless, so Fett waited
several days until the Falcon reemerged. But, unfortunately
for Fett, Solo had beefed up his firepower and got the drop
on Fett. Solo fired on the Slave I and sent the Bounty
Hunter spinning out of control into the gas cloud.
Throughout his career, Fett has worked as a
mercenary, a soldier, a personal guard, an assassin, and the
most notorious and fearsome Bounty Hunter in the galaxy.
Fett has worked for Jabba the Hutt and other of the Hutt
clan, various private 'organizations', and for the Empire.
Boba Fett has also crossed paths with the
Rebellion's greatest heroes more than a few times over the
years.
Fett collected 150,00 credits for the capture
of pirate Feldrall Okor, and took 500,000 credits when he
caught the religious Ffib heretic Nivek'Yppiks for the
Lohrans.
Boba Fett holds several records for Bounties.
First, Fett is the only person to be paid twice for the same
bounty. He was paid for capturing Han Solo by Darth Vader,
then he was paid for Han Solo by Jabba the Hutt.
Second, Fett holds the record for the largest
Bounty ever: 5 million credits. That was paid for collecting
the Devaronian Butcher Kardue'sai Malloc.
Since Boba Fett is the best he's also the
most expensive Bounty Hunter in the known systems.
His price range normal runs anywhere from 150,000
credits to 500,000 credits.
Boba Fett is still available for hire as a
Bounty Hunter.
Information and Pictures on Boba Fett's
ships the Slave I and Slave
II are available.
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
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