Jodo Kast Jodo Kast was a member of Alliance SpecOps who became a bounty hunter in the time of the Galactic Civil War . Kast wore Mandalorian armor similar to Boba Fett ' s , while he was not a Mandalorian himself . After the famed bounty hunter Boba Fett ' s fall into the Sarlacc pit , Kast even re - painted his armor to look almost identical to Fett ' s , in order to gain notoriety and demand larger payments . Valuing credits over ideals and loyalties , Kast worked for the Empire , Black Sun , the New Republic , or anyone who would pay him . Kast participated in a number of hunts , some successful , some , like those of Cornelius Evazan and Adar Tallon , unsuccessful . He worked for a time with fellow hunters Puggles Trodd and Zardra , before eventually going solo . Having once modeled his career after Boba Fett , Kast later established himself as a rival to Fett , concerning himself with building his reputation . Forsaking even the rules of his profession , Kast took Fett ' s name for the sake of higher - paying jobs , while setting the goal for himself of taking Fett ' s place in the top echelons of bounty hunting . Kast ' s impersonation of Fett eventually caught up with him , though , when the other bounty hunter sought to reclaim his own reputation . Fett baited a trap on Nal Hutta , using an alias to offer a bounty on a nonexistent man . When Kast came to Nal Hutta , Fett attacked and defeated him , leaving Kast to be killed by his own exploding jetpack . Biography . Rebel career . Jodo Kast was once a SpecOps resistance member , fighting for the Rebellion when it was still confined to local insurrections . Kast was less concerned with the ideals of freedom and justice , though , than he was with tangible credits . However , a Rebel mission to Goratak III changed his life . A Plexus Droid Vessel with sensitive information on Rebel manufacturing operations crashed on Goratak III , ejecting an I2 - CG droid carrying the information into that world ' s Crystal Forests . The Rebellion dispatched three squads — Red Smoke , Safari One , and Buzz Boys — one of which Kast was in , as well as Grindol Maal and the Force - sensitive Wuwuhuul to retrieve it . The Empire sent their own forces , including the Mandalorian Feskitt Bobb . The battle was chaotic , and in the middle of the fighting Kast mistook Bobb for Boba Fett and killed him . After the battle he realized his mistake , but in doing so had an idea : he realized that with Fett ' s reputation , anyone who looked like the bounty hunter would gain an advantage in the field . Kast retrieved a suit of Mandalorian armor from the planet Zaadja , deserted the Rebellion , and took up bounty hunting , using Fett ' s name to get himself into the profession . Kast modified his equipment to resemble Fett ' s as much as possible , even repainting his armor to look like the other bounty hunter ' s . As he grew acquainted with the circles of criminal life , Kast realized the danger in stealing Fett ' s name ; he repainted his armor in a unique design and took up contracts under his own name , staying enigmatic about the source of his armor and any connections he had to the Mandalorians . It was not long into his new profession before he joined with fellow hunters Zardra and Puggles Trodd . Kast acquired a " Lambda " - class T - 4a shuttle that he armed , renamed " Foxcatch " , and turned into his base of operations , traveling in it for some time with Zardra and Trodd . Early hunts . Kast did not see much success in bounty hunting , lacking the skills in tracking prey or capturing them without a battle . He stuck to low - level targets , and was more successful in scouting and mercenary work . Kast ' s partnership with Zardra and Trodd often saw them doing the work while he served as backup . At one point , Kast and Zardra took a hunt in the Stenness system , looking for a pair of spice - jackers known as the Thig Brothers . Kast suggested to Zardra that they split up , Kast making it public that he was looking for the Thigs while Zardra stayed out of sight to stun them when they came looking for him . The Thigs eventually came to find Kast in the Red Shadow cantina on the planet Taboon . In the ensuing fight , Zardra killed a Hutt named Mageye . Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure later placed a bounty on her for Mageye ' s death ; when Kast learned of the bounty , he was believed to have warned Zardra . Kast had a run - with the Aqualish thug Ponda Baba a few months before the Battle of Yavin . The bounty hunter promised to split the reward on Baba ' s partner Jothel Merritt with the Aqualish if he helped him to capture the arms dealer ; however , upon killing Merritt , Kast reneged on his promise . Not long after , he set his sights on Cornelius Evazan , a " doctor " who mangled and tortured his patients , and who now had a bounty of a million credits on his head , dead or alive . Kast followed the information from his sources to Truuzdann in the Corellian system , where Evazan was operating a clinic on the outskirts of a small city . He stunned Evazan ' s receptionist , then stormed into the room where the doctor plied his trade , firing a hail of blaster bolts into what he thought was Evazan . Kast then realized that it was a dummy — Evazan had seen him coming and had fled beforehand . Kast pursued him , chasing Evazan to the city ' s docking bays . Evazan entered the wrong bay , and Kast soon had him cornered against a ship , despite Evazan ' s attempts to shoot at him . Kast fired across the doctor ' s face , permanently scarring it , then moved in for the kill . Just then , a turret emerged from the ship and fired at Kast , blowing a hole in his armor . Realizing the odds were against him , Kast used his jetpack to escape , catching a glimpse of the ship ' s pilot in the process — Ponda Baba . Kast vowed to track down Baba and Evazan later , but fortunately for Evazan , he was soon distracted with a job for the Empire . Hunt on Tatooine . When the pirate Quist betrayed the location of Adar Tallon , a hero of the Galactic Republic thought dead , revealing him to be living on Tatooine , Captain Parlan of the " Imperial " - class Star Destroyer " Relentless " hired Kast and his team — including Trodd and Zardra — to go to Tatooine and capture the man alive . Kast , wanting to earn the reputation that he felt was rightfully his , accepted . Parlan planned two other forms of insurance : he placed Quist in the camp of Tallon as a backup in case Kast failed , and issued a bounty across the Arkanis sector on Tallon , bringing dozens of hunters to the planet . Before leaving the " Relentless " , Kast helped deal with a Rebel agent , Dana , who had been aboard working undercover . As the Star Destroyer was docked at Kwenn Space Station undergoing repairs , Dana attempted to rendezvous with a group of Rebels , and Kast shot her in the neck with a Sennari poison - tipped dart . When the Rebels arrived , they ran into Kast , two bounty hunters , and Lieutenant Voor of the " Relentless " standing over her body in the airlock of the " Relentless " . While the others did battle , Kast slipped back into the ship . Kast had arrived on Tatooine as early as 35 : 3 : 6 , days before the Battle of Yavin , when he told the hunter Spurch Goa that Jabba had given the Zardra bounty to Gorm the Dissolver . Kast and his fellow hunters had been given accommodations by Jabba in his Mos Eisley townhouse , where Jabba could keep watch over the bounty hunter . Kast ' s plan was to locate all those who had information on Tallon , extract it from them , then kill them to keep them from warning the man ; the first victim of this plan was the Lepi shopkeeper Heff . Wanting to keep the less competent bounty hunters in line , Kast sent Trodd to sign up the others to accompany him on a journey into the Jundland Wastes to find Tallon . Kardue ' sai ' Malloc , a Devaronian known to the locals as " Labria , " informed Kast that the Ithorian crime lord Slag Flats was seeking Tallon herself . Kast killed Flats with another dart , then left behind a squad of bounty hunters to deal with any of her associates and a datapad threatening the local Old Arno , who knew Tallon ' s location . Arno had vanished , though , and when Kast learned that a group of Rebels — the same ones he had encountered on Kwenn Station — had intended to meet with Flats and Arno , and were themselves looking for Tallon , he decided to eliminate them . Malloc , claiming to have arranged a meeting with Arno , drew them into an ambush at a local cantina . Kast ' s hunters fell upon them , their orders to kill , and Kast himself arrived in the middle of the fighting to fire a poison dart at the group , then fled . The next day , Kast and his hunters set off into the Wastes after Tallon . They came to the town of Oasis , a sanctuary of the Dim - U religious order , but upon receiving no answers to their questions became angry and were sent on their way . Kast later sent Zardra to attack the village until she got answers , but the Rebel group drove them off . Quist , concerned about the Rebels ' intrusion on his plans , at last betrayed Tallon to Kast . The bounty hunter and his group came to Fort Tusken and burst in on Tallon while he was meeting with the Rebels . Kast paralyzed Tallon ' s mercenaries Vytor Shrike and Jungen with his darts and the fight began . But the Rebels were ultimately victorious , and Kast fled . His humiliation in the Tallon hunt would become well - documented . Life as a bounty hunter . After a number of successful hunts , Kast ' s partnership with Zardra and Trodd ended after a botched mission on Dura - Kahn . He forsook his tendency to work in teams and organizations , focusing on solo hunts . He took jobs from Imperial officers , often moving between rivals and taking hunts that let him use the information learned in prior jobs at the previous employer ' s expense , and also occasionally worked for Black Sun . Though the bounties Kast took were not first rate , this did not concern him , and he grew arrogant with his success . He participated in Arden Lyn ' s combat tournament in this time as well . Kast ' s earlier tendencies to imitate Fett eventually gave way to a stark hatred of the man . The reasons for this were speculated on , with some theorizing that Fett had killed a friend of Kast ' s , and others saying that Kast had ruined one of Fett ' s hunts . Other rumors about the two men ' s relationship arose due to their similar armor , with claims that they had served together in a military unit or that Fett had been Kast ' s mentor . For his part , Kast sought to supplant Fett as the most infamous bounty hunter in the galaxy , saying that he would even break the Bounty Hunters ' Creed to do so . He kept track of Fett ' s whereabouts while sticking to the Outer Rim Territories and other remote regions , building his reputation with some degree of success . In 2 ABY , Grand Admiral Mitth ' raw ' nuruodo disguised himself as Kast , using the bounty hunter ' s reputation to get close to Black Sun vigo Zekka Thyne and attempt to kill him . In 3 – 4 ABY , Kast once again teamed up with Zardra . The two were hired by Captain Govin Thane of the Empire to kill a Bothan known as " Silver Fur " in Cloud City , on Bespin , and retrieve a datacard containing the location of Rebel refugees from him . Kast concealed himself in a room of the Grand Bespin Hotel , overlooking the plaza where the Bothan waited to meet with his contacts , while Zardra waited in one of the shops below . When Zardra ran out of the shop and grabbed Silver Fur ' s pouch with the datacard , Kast fired a rocket at the Bothan that killed him . He used the last of his missiles to hold off Silver Fur ' s contacts , who had just arrived . Kast then launched himself with his jetpack down to Zardra , grabbed the pouch from her , and raced off into the clouds while she made her own escape . Boba Fett ' s trap . When Kast heard that Fett had fallen victim to a sarlacc on Tatooine and was now widely assumed to have been killed , he decided it was time again to take Fett ' s name and charge higher prices accordingly . Though Fett had not in fact died , this was not known , and Kast spent much of his time trying to convince people that Fett was still alive . For Fett , Kast posed a double threat : he was both capitalizing on Fett ' s reputation unearned — and sullying it whenever he failed at a job — and he threatened to expose that Fett had survived his fall into the sarlacc . In 5 ABY , Fett at last took action . When the pirate Jerresk ' s cadre attacked New Republic shipments , a bounty was placed on their heads , one that Kast took up . Kast and Fett ' s associate Dengar both independently tracked Nosstrick , the last of Jerresk ' s crew , to the world of Fluwhaka . Nosstrick attempted to ambush Kast with an explosive device , but the bounty hunter avoided it and fired two Frinka venom - laced darts into Nosstrick , who escaped through a door . Kast blew down the door and followed Nosstrick , informing him that he would soon be paralyzed , but the pirate dropped a trapdoor out from beneath Kast . The bounty hunter narrowly avoided falling into a spiked pit , catching himself on the rim . Dengar arrived shortly thereafter , finding Kast , who he believed to be Fett , trying to pull himself out of the pit . He blasted the controls , which raised the trapdoor , and found Nosstrick ' s paralyzed body not far away . However , when he attempted to claim it , Kast pulled a blaster on him . Dengar , realizing that Kast had made more mistakes than Fett would have , and unlike Fett had pulled a gun on another hunter , realized that Kast was not Fett and warned him about imitating the other bounty hunter . Kast let Dengar leave , and Dengar , angry that Kast had pulled a gun on him , decided to call Fett and tell him about his impersonator . Fett disguised himself as " Sava Brec Madak " and approached the House Benelex bounty hunters ' guild to hire Kast . According to " Madak , " a man called Satnik Hiicrop had stolen his name and reputation ; Hiicrop , " Madak " said , could be found in a clan keep on Nal Hutta , and he wanted Kast to bring him in . When Kast arrived at the keep , he was immediately sealed in by the doors closing behind him . Kast fought his way past Fett ' s traps , escaping a room full of laser webs by blowing apart the ceiling and launching himself through it on his jetpack . Finding himself at the control station for the keep ' s defenses , Kast shut them down , only to be attacked by a swarm of leech - like quamillas . Kast destroyed them with his Blastech J3 - E left handed blaster rifle and moved on , promising to make Hiicrop pay for the trouble he was causing him . At last Kast spotted what he believed to be Hiicrop escaping down a stairwell ; Kast pursued , catching up with Hiicrop , who was now sprawled on the floor . The bounty hunter approached the prone form , only to watch in confusion as it faded from view . At that moment Fett appeared behind Kast , a blaster to his head , informing him that " Hiicrop " had been a hologram , and pronouncing Kast dead . Kast tried reasoning with Fett , informing him that he would be violating the Bounty Hunters ' Creed , but Fett replied that he wasn ' t the first one to break the creed , and ordered Kast to remove his helmet . As Kast moved to do so , he ignited his jetpack , sending Fett flying backwards and himself forward . Kast fired at Fett , who took cover , and then Kast attempted to escape on his jetpack so he could fight on his own terms outside . Fett fired a grappling hook at him , catching him around the ankle , then rocketed up and began beating him . Fett damaged Kast ' s jetpack , causing the fuel to spill out , then fired a paralyzing nerve toxin into his neck , and Kast crashed to the ground . Fett stripped Kast of his jetpack , then removed his helmet ; angrily informing Kast that he was " no one . " Fett pulled off Kast ' s armor as he informed the bounty hunter of the dangers of taking a reputation unearned . He left Kast with three vials , claiming that one contained the antidote for the nerve toxin ; if Kast had enough strength to get it , Fett said , he could escape before his jetpack exploded . Kast was unable to , though , and the ensuing detonation killed him . Personality and traits . Even in his time during the Rebellion , Jodo Kast cared more about money than he did about ideals . Credits took precedence over ideals in his new career as well . In his years as a bounty hunter , Kast took on only the best - paying jobs , holding no loyalty to his previous customers and indeed specifically picking jobs that could allow him to use their secrets against them . He cared little for the Bounty Hunters ' Creed , either , breaking it if it helped him gain an edge on Fett . Kast could be vengeful , wanting to inflict pain on those who caused him a great deal of trouble in a hunt or those who themselves inflicted pain indiscriminately . " Jodo Kast never forgets , " he was to known to have said , a vow to track down those bounties that escaped him at first . The bounty hunter was a perfectionist , planning out his hunts beforehand and thereby making each one take longer . He was cold and calculating , and enjoyed it when his prey squirmed , getting a feeling of power from it . He was nonetheless lacking in the skills necessary to be a top bounty hunter , like tracking targets or bringing them in without setting off a battle . An ambitious man , Kast wanted to make a name for himself . He cared deeply about his reputation , feeling that he deserved one and taking on risky missions that would establish himself . At this , he had some degree of success ; some believed Kast to be one of the best , and Grand Admiral Thrawn even used his name and reputation to establish credence with Zekka Thyne . He could overextend himself in this quest , though , becoming humiliated as he was at the loss of the Tallon bounty . Nonetheless , Kast grew increasingly arrogant the more bounties he took , though they were not the first - rate jobs . He prided himself on his skills , believing that he never missed a shot or that no one could outmaneuver him . Kast was , at least , capable in a stand - up fight . Kast initially patterned himself after Boba Fett , dealing with situations the way he imagined Fett would deal with them . He eventually moved to taking Fett ' s name , capitalizing on the bounty hunter ' s own reputation , a practice that cost him his life when Fett sought to preserve his own reputation . Kast believed that no one cared who was in the armor anyway , that simply its appearance was reason enough to hire him . He came to think of Fett as a " fossil , " even thinking of himself as better than the older bounty hunter . He was not as skilled as Fett , though , a fact that Dengar pointed out to him shortly before his death at Fett ' s hands . Equipment . Kast wore a modified suit of Mandalorian armor . It was smaller and less equipped than that owned by Boba Fett , but like Fett ' s it included a jetpack and a magnetic grappler on his back , as well as a flamethrower . He also had incorporated into it a comlink , net , and syntherope , as well as poison dart launchers . Kast at first repainted his armor to look more like Fett ' s , later modifying it again to give it a unique appearance . Kast was equipped with a number of weapons outside his armor , including a Blastech J3 - E left handed blaster rifle , blaster pistol , grenades , and a stun collar . When he first started posing as Fett , the bounty hunter rigged a heavy blaster to resemble Fett ' s carbine . Poison darts were his preferred weapon , though , which he coated with a number of killing and paralyzing toxins including Frinka venom and his favorite , the lethal Sennari . Kast ' s personal vessel and base of operations was the " Foxcatch " , a " Lambda " - class shuttle that he loaded with guns . Behind the scenes . The cover of " Tatooine Manhunt " displays a group of bounty hunters , originally concept art from " " , showing the group of bounty hunters hired by Darth Vader posing on Bespin . All but 4 - LOM have similar - appearing counterparts within the book , with Jodo Kast as the analogue to Boba Fett . That same source includes a black and white promotional image of Fett inside , labeled as Kast . Kast was in fact created as a stand - in for Fett , to be used in roleplaying game scenarios when an equivalent to Fett was needed , only scaled down in power to be an appropriate challenge for novice players , or who could be safely killed without drastic effect on continuity . Kast ' s armor made him popular amongst fans . In late 1996 , after appearing almost exclusively in media , Kast was at last killed off . His death was first described in Daniel Keys Moran ' s short story " " , and a month later shown in Andy Mangels ' " " . Because of the close proximity in the publishing times of these two stories , which of them conceived the idea of Fett killing Kast first is unknown . West End Games later commissioned a prequel to " Twin Engines " from Mangels , titled " " . Intended to be a 2 - 3 issue comic , it would tell the story leading up to " Twin Engines " : a pirate attack occurs on a New Republic vessel , and Kast and Dengar take bounties to find the escaped pirates . The plot was approved by Lucasfilm Ltd . , asking for a few changes ; as they were being worked on , WEG went bankrupt , and the comic was canceled along with it . Author Abel G . Peña , a self - professed " big Jodo fan " , added the details of Kast ' s time with the Rebellion , his history with Feskitt Bobb , and the end of Kast ' s partnership with Puggles Trodd and Zardra in his " Star Wars Insider " article " The History of the Mandalorians " . Peña has also unofficially proposed that Boba Fett ' s appearance in " " , in which the bounty hunter pursues Cornelius Evazan , might be Kast , tying the novel in to Kast ' s earlier pursuit of Evazan in " One That Got Away " , a vignette from " " . Kast was voiced by Neil Ross in " " . He appears in the game as a playable character , though one that is unlocked through gameplay ; it is therefore unknown whether he canonically takes place in the events of the game , or whether his appearance is a non - canon game mechanic . Kast was released as an action figure in Fall of 2008 by Hasbro . The figure ' s package naturally uses a recolored image of Boba Fett , this time from the cover of " " . A second Jodo Kast figure was released by Hasbro in August 2010 , this time with a removable helmet , as an exclusive for the retailer Kmart . In the Swedish version of " Tatooine Manhunt " Jodo Kast is misspelled as " Jodo Karst " .