Jango Fett

Jango Fett was a Mandalorian human male who lead the True Mandalorian faction through much of the Mandalorian Civil War as Mand'alor. Over the decade leading up to the Clone Wars Fett became the clone template of the Grand Army of the Republic.
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Born to a family of farmers, Fett grew up alongside his older sister Arla on the world of Concord Dawn, an agricultural planet in the Mandalore sector, known for being long associated with the Mandalorians.
Fett was just a young boy when the Mandalorian Civil War began between the True Mandalorians, led by Mand'alor Jaster Mereel, and a traitorous scion of their ranks, Tor Vizsla—leader of the violent Mandalorian splinter faction, the Death Watch. When the war spilled on to Fett's homeworld in 942 ARR, his father granted Mereel and his men refuge at their homestead. The Death Watch eventually caught up with the True Mandalorians at the homestead and Vizsla took Fett as a hostage, using him in an attempt to root Mereel and his men out of hiding. Vizsla savagely beat Fett's father in front of the boy while he demanded the location of the hidden Mandalorians, even going so far as threatening to shoot him in the head right in front of his son. However, Fett's mother intervened, shooting one of the Death Watch in the face with a blaster rifle and in the ensuing chaos, Fett's father ordered his son to run. After the fighting was over Fett was taken in by the Mand'alor, who raised the boy as his own son.
=== Life as a Mandalorian ===
Now a Mandalorian, Jango Fett would continue to fight alongside Mereel and his forces into his teenage years and until the Battle of Korda VI. His first time as a squad commander, the mission promised to be little more than a basic extraction operation. Employed by the Korda Defense Force, the Mandalorians were to recover a team of rookie security personnel pinned down under fire by a group of local hostiles, supposedly poorly armed and with no formal training. Fett and his team were in charge of providing cover fire and ensuring that the extraction point remained clear of danger. However, the intelligence reports turned out to be inaccurate and the claims of "minimal resistance" turned out to be a much heavier force. It was then that Montross reveled his true loyalty and stabbed Mereel between the armor plates on his torso, having been acting under Vizsla's orders, leaving him to die by Viszla's hand. Though Fett rushed to the aid of his adoptive father, he was too late to save him, as Viszla opened fire on Mereel with his tank's blaster cannons, mortally wounding him. It was in Fett's arms that Mereel passed away. Montross returned to the landing zone and urged the Mandalorians to heed Mereel's final orders and pull out, claiming that both Mereel and Fett were dead, and that Mereel had chosen him to take over as the new Mand'alor. However, Fett, having suvived Viszla's ambush, arrived moments later carrying Jaster Mereel's body, revealing Montross' duplicity. The other Mandalorians denounced Montross at blaster point and proclaimed that they would follow only Fett. Montross was allowed to leave, while Jango Fett became the new Mand'alor, leader of the Mandalorians.
=== Leading the Mandalorians ===
As the new Mand'alor, Fett led the Mandalorians much as Jaster Mereel had done before him. In 956 ARR, Fett and his Mandalorians were hired to put down an insurrection on the planet Galidraan. When the fighting was over and the rebels defeated, Fett ordered his men to return to their camp while he met with Galidraan's governor to collect their payment. In addition to their pay, Fett demanded the whereabouts of Tor Vizsla whom the Governor of Galidraan was not only harboring, but funding in his attempts to rebuild the Death Watch. Vizsla revealed himself there in the governor's castle and attacked Fett with a small cadre of Death Watch soldiers, forcing Fett to flee the building through a large window. Unfortunately, Vizsla and the governor had already put a plot into motion, claiming that Mandalorians were murdering "political activists", along with women and children—with Vizsla's own forces providing the body count of innocents—and begging the Jedi Council to step in and put a stop to them. The Jedi, led by Knight Yan Dooku, took the Governor at his word, demanding the surrender of Fett's forces. Fett calmly denied any wrongdoing by his forces, attempting to explain that the Death Watch, not the True Mandalorians, were responsible for the massacre, offering to provide proof. However, Dooku's Padawan, Komari Vosa, denounced Fett as a "monster" and declared that there would be no negotiations. Despite attempts by the Jedi to restrain her, Vosa charged Fett down and attempted to behead him, only for Fett's second-in-command, Myles, to take the hit in his stead. Enraged at this, Fett ordered his troops to open fire, he himself managing to kill six Jedi using no weapon beyond his own hands, feet, and armored body. Ultimately, the True Mandalorians were decimated; Fett, the sole Mandalorian survivor of the battle, was subdued by the Jedi and delivered into the custody of the Governor of Galidraan, who claimed his armor as a trophy and sold him into slavery.
=== Hunting Vizsla ===
Fett spent the next five years as a slave aboard a spice transport, until his chance at freedom came when pirates attacked the ship. Though his slave masters promised him freedom if he helped them fend off the attack, Fett had already broken free of his restraints and with a stolen blaster pistol, killed the slaver before fighting his way off the ship. Once free of the spice freighter, he set his sights on Galidraan, going after his lost armor and his revenge upon the governor. Slipping by all of the Governor's security, Fett infiltrated his castle, recovered his armor, and offered to spare his life in exchange for the location of the Death Watch. Intercepting Vizsla's personal starship over Corellia, Fett used a starfighter to cripple the ship's engines while assaulting the bridge, using his jetpack to fly through the viewport. He clashed with Vizsla in a lengthy fight that spanned the halls of the dying ship and even into an escape pod, continuing on after crashing to the surface of Corellia. After tumbling into a river, Vizsla stabbed Fett with a poisoned blade, taunting him that Jaster Mereel would be disappointed. In response, Fett used the blade on his gauntlet to carve a deep wound across Vizsla's abdomen, drawing a pack of nearby dire-cats that attacked and killed Vizsla but spared Fett due to the poison.
=== The hunt for Komari Vosa ===
In 968 ARR, Fett was tracking the muttani criminal Meeko Ghintee. Wanted by the Republic Correctional Authority for a substantial list of crimes including assault, larceny, and murder, Fett found Meeko on Outland Station where he was attempting to win a pit fight by utilizing a control device on his own borhek. When Fett surprised Meeko and offered him the chance to be taken in alive, Meeko fled, commanding his borhek to attack Fett. After defeating the creature, Fett pursued Meeko on a lengthy chase through Outland Station's Merchant Row that ended with Fett disabling Meeko's ship and capturing the criminal. Shortly after, Fett met with friend and Outland Station's owner, Rozatta, to collect his fee. While there, "Roz"—as she was affectionately known to the bounty hunter—passed along a message she had taken for him. In it, a man calling himself Tyranus offered Fett the chance to participate in an exclusive hunt for former Jedi Komari Vosa, who had fallen to the dark side of the Force and become High Priestess of the Bando Gora cult. Although Roz would warn Fett of the danger and the Bando Gora's ominous reputation, she still provided him with a lead on Jervis Gloom, a death stick dealer with possible ties to the cult operating on Coruscant.
After several weeks spent chasing leads across the quadrant, Fett set off to return to Outland Station. Unbeknownst to Fett, however, Rozatta was under attack by Montross at the very moment. The other bounty hunter having barely made a move on the bounty, instead tracking Fett through a homing beacon. Roz, despite Fett's personal motto "trust no-one", was one of the few people who cared about him. Revealing the location as Kohlma, her last wish was that he would find something to actually care and live for besides money. She believed that despite his dangerous line of work, he was a good and honorable man and deserved more out of life.
Fett traveled to the Bogden system, fighting all manner of Bando Gora along the way. Having one last duel with Montross, he denied his old foe an honorable "warrior's" death, instead allowing the Bando Gora to proudly finish Montross off. Moving deeper into Vosa's lair, Fett was ambushed, knocked unconscious, and stripped of his weaponry.
Having captured Fett, the Bando Gora prepared to turn him into a mindless slave. It was here that Fett acquired many of his facial scars. Vosa herself came to demand of him the name of his employer, but Zam Wesell freed Fett before being injured by the insane Dark Jedi. After a long duel with Vosa, Jango Fett emerged victorious. As he prepared to finish her off, Vosa asked if he would choose to leave her dead or alive. Jango, looking at the ruined female nearing her death, lowered his weapons. Vosa murmured "He… is here." before being choked with the Force to her last breath.
To Fett's surprise, Tyranus was indeed there, and he was impressed. The bounty was a test to determine if the rumors of Fett's skills against Jedi were true. While Fett had personally killed many Jedi on Galidraan, Tyranus considered his former apprentice a more challenging test. In addition to the bounty on Vosa, Tyranus offered Fett a tempting sum of money for an unusual task: Fett was to be a template for an army of clones. Fett agreed, and soon millions of clones were created in his likeness at the cloning facility on Kamino. Fett, however, remembered Rozatta's final wish and asked for one clone produced without genetic tampering, an apprentice and son that would become Jaster's legacy and revive the Mandalorians.