Montross Montross was a Mandalorian – turned – bounty hunter who competed with Jango Fett to become the template for the clone troopers of the Galactic Republic . Originally one of Jaster Mereel ' s True Mandalorians , Montross fought in the Mandalorian Civil War , where he was known for his brutal tactics and acts of recklessness . When a young boy called Jango Fett joined the Mandalorians and was treated like a son by Mereel , Montross was angered by Mereel ' s favoritism of Fett and became contemptuous of him . In an engagement on Korda Six , Montross left Mereel to die . He attempted to claim the title of Mandalore , but was thwarted by Fett , who told the true story of Mereel ' s death to the other Mandalorians , took over , and banished Montross . Montross became a bounty hunter ; known for his ruthlessness , he almost never took a live bounty . In 32 BBY , he and Fett , now also a bounty hunter , were selected by the ex - Jedi Count Dooku to participate in a hunt to capture or kill the leader of the Bando Gora cult , Dooku ' s former apprentice Komari Vosa . Montross did battle with Fett on Coruscant and Malastare , then later set about tracking the other bounty hunter to lead him to Vosa ' s lair . After killing Fett ' s friend and contact Rozatta , Montross learned that the Bando Gora headquarters was on the graveyard moon of Kohlma . On that world he once again fought with Fett and was defeated , before being torn to shreds by the Bando Gora . Biography . Life as a Mandalorian . Montross was a member of the Mandalorians , a centuries - old mercenary group . A brutal man , he was feared by his enemies and allies alike . In approximately 60 BBY , the Mandalorian Civil War broke out , a conflict between a splinter faction known as the Death Watch , led by a man called Tor Vizsla who believed the Mandalorians should conquer the galaxy , and the True Mandalorians led by Jaster Mereel . Montross sided with the True Mandalorians , and though he followed Mereel , he was often at odds with the man over issues of tactics and his own tendency to inflict levels of collateral damage that Mereel found unacceptable . In 58 BBY Montross was on Concord Dawn , Mereel ' s homeworld , when the Death Watch struck . Mereel and his fellow Mandalorians only escaped Vizsla ' s squads with the help of a local boy , Jango Fett , whose family had been killed by the Death Watch . From his family ' s farm Fett led them to the closest town , where the Mandalorians expected Vizsla to go to resupply ; Montross joined up with Mereel ' s band in town , and they prepared to ambush the Death Watch . As Mereel and the others hit the Death Watch at street level , Montross sniped them from an upper - story window . With Fett ' s help , they were able to eliminate most of the Death Watch there ; Mereel recruited Fett on the spot and the Mandalorians pulled out , Montross shooting down Death Watch stragglers as Mereel ' s group retreated . Six years later , the Mandalorians received an assignment from the Korda Defense Force ; a rookie security squad of theirs was pinned down on the world of Korda Six by hostile natives — who were initially believed to be presenting only minimal resistance — and needed extraction . Montross , who handed out the assignments at the mission briefing , would lead Vertigo Squad , a group composed of those with jetpack flight experience who would be hitting the enemy from on high . Headhunter Company , led by Mereel , would retrieve the security team , while a squad led by Fett — in his first mission as a squad commander — would hold down the extraction point . Montross did not care for the way Mereel treated Fett as a son and made his feelings clear to Fett before the mission , reminding the younger man that Mereel would some day need to pick a successor . When they arrived , the resistance proved to be greater than they had been told . The firepower of the amassed natives cut down the Mandalorians quickly , forcing Fett ' s squad to take cover in a system of trenches . Mereel followed Fett , ordering Montross to abort his run and do the same . Montross , however , continued his flight , not wanting this to be his first abandoned mission , and told Mereel to bring his squad up behind them . Attempting to take a heavy gun emplacement on a nearby ridge , many of his squad were shot down . A grenade thrown by one of the natives knocked Montross down , but he was saved by the arriving Mereel . Fett , meanwhile , used Montross ' attack as a diversion to take his own squad to where the security team supposedly awaited . Upon arriving , though , they were ambushed by the Death Watch , and Fett realized that the supposed job from the Kordans had in fact been intended as a trap for the Mandalorians . As Fett fought them , Vizsla appeared in an armored vehicle on a ridge above Montross and Mereel . Mereel told Montross that they would have been off the planet by then were it not for Montross ' charge , and if they survived Montross would no longer be a Mandalorian . Vizsla began firing on Mereel , who called to Montross for an airlift out . Montross flew away and left Mereel to die , telling him he would take care of the Mandalorians . Montross returned to the other Mandalorians , ordering them to retreat and telling them that Fett had died trying to save Mereel . Just then , Fett appeared with Mereel ' s body ; Montross tried to persuade Fett to let him take over the Mandalorians , but Fett told those gathered that Montross had left Mereel to die . Fett ' s friend Silas backed up Fett ' s claim to the title of Mandalore with his blaster . Montross tried to persuade the other Mandalorians not to follow his rival , but the only reaction was more blasters being drawn on him . With a parting shot at Fett that he ' d lead the others to their deaths , Montross left the Mandalorians and disappeared for a time . He took Mereel ' s armor from the dead man and mounted it in his home as a trophy . Tyranus ' offer . In the wake of his banishment , Montross became a bounty hunter , using the brutality he had exemplified as a Mandalorian and the acts he committed as a hunter to strike fear into his targets . Montross exclusively killed his bounties , hunting them not for the money they paid but for the sport of the hunt . From one of his targets , a land baron with a large price on his head , Montross acquired his starship " Hell ' s Anvil " after killing him . He stripped the interior , removed the stations for the copilot and navigator , and installed a hydraulic pilot ' s seat that would allow him to access the ship ' s large computer array . In 32 BBY , Montross pursued one of his targets to a backwater world . The other man pleaded for his life , offering to pay Montross more than the bounty on his head ; deciding that his prey was worth enough dead , Montross killed him and collected the five thousand credit bounty back aboard the " Hell ' s Anvil " . Shortly thereafter , the bounty hunter received a message from a man calling himself Tyranus . Tyranus offered Montross a chance to hunt the rogue Jedi Komari Vosa , leader of the Bando Gora cult , for a bounty of five million credits . He was not the only one to receive the offer , though , and amongst his competitors was Jango Fett , who had become a bounty hunter himself in the intervening years . Unknown to either of them , the winner of the competition would also be the prime clone for a clone army that Tyranus was building . Showdown with Fett . Since the Bando Gora were involved in the production and distribution of narcotic death sticks , Montross and Fett both set their sights on the death stick market . Montross tracked traffic of the drugs to a supplier on Coruscant called Groff Haugg . He found Haugg in one of Coruscant ' s industrial districts and interrogated the drug dealer . Haugg , more scared of the Bando Gora than Montross , lied to the bounty hunter and directed him to the Gazzari system . To silence Haugg , Montross froze him in carbonite , which killed him . Fett arrived not long after , also in pursuit of Haugg , and the two bounty hunters battled . After being beaten back , Montross escaped through a hatch in the freezing chamber and sealed it behind him . Fett did not pursue , instead following leads of his own , and Montross set off for the Gazzari system in the " Hell ' s Anvil " . Upon arriving in the system , Montross learned from his ship ' s computer that death stick traffic had been stopped by the Galactic Republic some time ago and realized that he had been lied to . He also learned that some of the smugglers who had been arrested had turned over information in exchange for reduced prison sentences ; amongst them was one Bendix Fust , who was also wanted alive by the Dug crime lord Sebolto . Fust , Montross learned , was serving time in the Republic prison on Oovo IV ; a prison riot had just taken place there , cutting off all communication with the asteroid . Montross connected the two and realized Fett was involved , then set off for Sebolto ' s lair on Malastare . Fett was also on Malastare and found Sebolto first , causing the Dug to panic and accidentally fall into a vat of chemicals , killing him . Riding a skiff , Montross ambushed the other bounty hunter as Fett escaped through Sebolto ' s death stick factory . They fought again , but it was cut short as Fett ' s new temporary partner Zam Wesell arrived in Fett ' s ship , " Slave I " , and unloaded its missiles into Montross ' skiff . Wesell and Fett made their escape , but Montross followed , activating a listening device he had planted aboard " Slave I " . As Fett and Wesell headed to Tatooine , following Huttese markings in one of Sebolto ' s ships , Montross overheard Fett communicate with his friend and informant Rozatta on Outland Station . While Fett occupied himself on Tatooine , Montross headed to the station . Jamming communications so no signal could get out , he boarded Outland Station . Rozatta attempted to bargain with Montross as he landed , but the bounty hunter would have none of it and tortured her to near - death for the information she had acquired on Vosa ' s whereabouts . He learned that Vosa was hiding on the moon of Kohlma , and when Fett attempted to contact Rozatta after leaving Tatooine , Montross answered him . Mocking the other bounty hunter , Montross told him that she was still alive , but he had the information now . Before leaving , Montross planted thermal charges around the station to kill Fett . Fett escaped the trap , learning from the dying Rozatta where Montross had gone . As Montross headed for Kohlma , Vosa decided that the time had come to end the threat of the bounty hunters and ordered both their deaths . On Kohlma , a graveyard moon of the planet Bogden , Montross landed the " Hell ' s Anvil " in a swamp and , cladding himself in his full set of Mandalorian armor , set out for Vosa ' s lair . At last Fett arrived at the gates of the lair where Montross waited , and the two agreed to do battle like Mandalorians , one - on - one , to the death . They fought a fierce duel until Montross , wounded , was knocked into the center of an ancient ceremonial arena . Though he remained defiant towards Fett , asking for a warrior ' s death , Montross soon found himself at the center of an approaching group of cultists . Fett ignored Montross ' request and left him to be torn apart by the Bando Gora . Personality and traits . Montross was a brutal man , exceptionally so even by Mandalorian standards , and often inflicted a good deal of collateral damage in engagements . His tactics made him feared by his enemies , his fellow soldiers , and in his career as a bounty hunter , his targets . Montross enjoyed hunting and killing his bounties , doing so for sport and not the money they paid , and the cruelties he inflicted only increased his reputation amongst them . He always left his prey dead , even when a bounty would pay more alive . When angry , Montross had violent outbursts . He was not adverse to using torture to extract information . Montross was quite capable in his work ; during the hunt for Vosa , he beat Fett to his targets three times , sometimes tracking him by indirect clues that the other bounty hunter left behind and sometimes directly listening in on his conversations . As a Mandalorian , Montross often exhibited reckless displays of bravado that placed his own allies in danger . He did not like to leave battles unfinished , and sometimes had to be reminded that his group was pulling out while busy killing stragglers . In extreme cases , Montross would disobey orders to fall back , priding himself in the fact the Mandalorians had never abandoned a mission and refusing to end that unblemished record . However , Montross was cowardly ; after letting Mereel die in the ambush at Korda Six , he was quick to order that Mereel ' s last order of a retreat be carried out . After leaving the Mandalorians , he continued to think of himself as a warrior , engaging in his final duel with Jango Fett as if the two were both Mandalorians and , once defeated , asking for a warrior ' s death . When Jaster Mereel recruited Jango Fett to join the Mandalorians , Montross took a disliking to the young man . He grew enraged at the attention Mereel showed Fett , as well as the fact that Mereel considered himself a surrogate father to the boy , believing that it clouded Mereel ' s judgment . Montross was contemptuous of Fett , considering him a child and believing him to be a coward . As an opportunist , he also believed that Mereel ' s attachment would interfere with his picking of a successor . Montross ' desire to lead the Mandalorians led him to betray Mereel at Korda Six and immediately attempt to assume the dead man ' s position . He took pleasure in his victories over Fett during their time as bounty hunters , mocking the other man and passing off their rivalry as " just business . " As of 27 BBY , Fett considered Montross to be the hardest opponent he had ever faced . Equipment . Montross wore a suit of blue Mandalorian armor , with the arms cut off above the elbows . He equipped himself with a jetpack when a mission required one , as well as a blue cape . As a Mandalorian , he used a number of blaster pistols and rifles , both in close - up combat and from a sniper ' s position . He kept his armor after leaving the Mandalorians , though he was not usually known to have worn the helmet , except when facing Jango Fett in a Mandalorian duel . Along with his blasters , Montross used cluster missile s in combat . He kept his jetpack as well . Montross acquired his starship , the KR - TB " Doomtreader " " Hell ' s Anvil " , in the course of his bounty hunting , considering it a bonus for killing his target . He gutted the interior , rearranging it to suit his tastes . Equipped with powerful engines , strong shields , and solar ionization cannon s that ignored shields and melted durasteel , the " Hell ' s Anvil " was a dangerous vessel . The ship had a large cargo hold , with cells used to store prisoners and corpses ; these were located close to the hatch of the engine room , which made them uncomfortably hot . Behind the scenes . Early drafts . Several characters were given the name Montross in early versions of the script to . In a rough draft from May 1974 , Montross is an aide to General Skywalker on Aquilae . In a scene in a war room , Montross places everyone on alert and later reports a giant asteroid or moon — an early version of the Death Star — approaching Aquilae . A character named Montross Holdaack appears in the second screenplay draft of " The Star Wars " from January 28 , 1975 . This Montross is the science officer on board a ship run by Jabba the Hutt and Oxus , and is friends with Han Solo . Solo steals the ship by faking a reactor overload , causing everyone to flee , and keeps Montross and Chewbacca on as his crew ; they later help transport Luke Starkiller and his two droids , coming to his rescue in the film ' s climax . In this draft , Montross is almost all robotic , with only his right arm and head organic ; the name of an Imperial officer from the rough draft , Crispin Hoedaack , was slightly altered to make his surname . By the third draft of August 1975 , Solo has his own ship , which is nonetheless paid for by Jabba . Again he fakes a reactor problem and everyone leaves , except for Montross , but Solo outdraws him and forces him to leave too . The fourth draft , dated January 1 , 1976 , sees larger changes . Montross is now an Imperial bureaucrat , replacing the character of Jabba , who tells Solo that the Mos Eisley spaceport is closed under Imperial decree ; Solo has to outwit him to take off . Actor Richard LeParmentier was originally considered for that part , but Montross was ultimately cut from the script , and LeParmentier received the role of Admiral Conan Antonio Motti . While the making of " Star Wars " was being negotiated with Twentieth Century Fox in 1976 , a budget was drawn up . Due to confusion in the process , a number of items from earlier drafts were budgeted for ; a 150 pirate outfit for Montross was one of them . Bill Bailey was also listed as having been cast for the part of Montross . Brought into canon . The name was brought into canon , and the actual character of Montross created , for the dual project of " " and " " , written by Haden Blackman . Released as part of the Expanded Universe tie - in to , the comic series and game together told the story of how Jango Fett came to be a bounty hunter and the clone donor for the Grand Army of the Republic . Montross ' background with Fett was established in flashbacks in " Open Seasons " , while the conclusion of their story was given in " Bounty Hunter " . In the game , Montross was voiced by Clancy Brown . In an alternate ending to " Bounty Hunter " , if the player loses to Montross in their final fight , Montross stands over Jango Fett ' s dead body , claiming that Vosa ' s bounty is now his , and tells Fett to save a place in hell for him .