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faceless enforcer, Boba Fett's distinctive armor strikes fear in the hearts of
fugitives. He is a legendary bounty hunter, accepting warrants from both the
Empire and the criminal underworld. He is all business, laconic, and deadly.
Fett has
carefully guarded his past, cultivating a curtain of mystery around his
origins. He is in truth a clone, an exact genetic replica of his highly skilled
"father," Jango Fett. From Jango, Boba learned valuable survival and
martial skills, and even as a child he was proficient with a blaster or laser
cannon.
Fett was
raised in isolation in the hermetic cities of Kamino, where he was protected
not only from the ceaseless storms, but also the harsher elements of his
father's career. Young Boba's life changed when a tenacious Jedi Knight, Obi-Wan
Kenobi, came looking for his father. Sent to apprehend the bounty hunter for
the attempted assassination of a Naboo Senator, Kenobi brawled with Jango as
the Fetts sought to escape from Kamino. Young Boba helped his father by pinning
the Jedi down with explosive laser fire from the Fett starship, Slave I.
Fleeing from
Kamino, the Fetts journeyed to Geonosis, where Jango's benefactor resided. Boba
watched as his father's enemies were sentenced to death, but Jedi prove very
hard to kill. A huge battle erupted as Jedi reinforcements stormed Geonosis to
free their fellow Jedi. Jango entered the fray, only to be killed by Jedi
Master Mace Windu. Boba was shocked to witness his father's swift death, and he
quietly cradled Jango's empty helmet as Geonosis erupted into all-out war.
During the
time of the Empire, Boba Fett emerged as the preeminent bounty hunter of the
galaxy. Boba Fett's armor, like his father's, is a battered weapon-covered
spacesuit equipped with a rocketpack. His gauntlets contain a flamethrower, and
a whipcord lanyard launcher. His kneepads conceal rocket dart launchers.
Several ominous braids hang from his shoulder -- trophies from fallen prey -- that underscore
this hunter's lethality.
Shortly after
the Battle of Hoth, Darth Vader desperately wanted to capture the fugitive
Rebel craft, the Millennium Falcon. To that end, he hired a motley
assortment of bounty hunters, including the legendary Fett. Vader specifically
pointed out to Fett that the Falcon's passengers were to be taken alive.
"No disintegrations," rumbled the Dark Lord, obviously familiar with
Fett's reputation.
It was Fett
who successfully tracked the Falcon from Hoth to Bespin. Arriving at the
gas giant before the Falcon, Fett and Vader sprung a trap on the ship's
hapless crew. Fett, a shrewd negotiator, received his bounty for capturing the
crew, but also was given custody of Han Solo. The bounty hunter was set to
collect the reward on Solo's head placed there by the vile gangster Jabba the
Hutt.
Whisking the carbonite-frozen
form of Han Solo away from Bespin, Fett eventually arrived on Tatooine aboard
his starship, the Slave I. Fett delivered Solo to Jabba, his some-time
employer, and was many thousands of credits richer. Fett stayed at Jabba's
palace, and was present when Solo's friends attempted to rescue the
carbon-frozen smuggler.
Jabba, enraged
at the attempted prison break, brought his captives out to the Tatooine desert,
to execute them in the Great Pit of Carkoon. In the sandpit lay the immense Sarlacc,
a vile creature that would digest its prey over thousands of years. Rather than
let themselves be thrown in the Sarlacc's maw, Solo's friends, led by Luke
Skywalker, fought against their captors. In the chaos that followed, Fett
entered the fray.
Solo, free of the carbonite and suffering
blindness from hibernation sickness, wildly swung a vibro-ax into an
inattentive Fett's rocketpack. The pack activated, and the bounty hunter soared
into the air, out of control. The airborne Fett slammed into the side of
Jabba's sail barge before tumbling into the Sarlacc's mouth. With a sickly
belch from the desert creature, it seemed as if Fett's career as the galaxy's
most notorious bounty hunter was brought to an end.
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