Fennec Shand

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**Fennec Shand** was a human female bounty hunter, elite mercenary, and Master Assassin who worked for the top crime syndicates during the age of the Galactic Empire.

## Bio

In 19 BBY, when the galaxy was moving on from the freshly-concluded Clone Wars, the human female Fennec Shand had recently begun her career as a bounty hunter and gun for hire. Though not as experienced, she was dangerous and especially skilled, and quickly achieved a reputation of deceit and ruthlessness. Eventually, even the Duros veteran bounty hunter Cad Bane became aware of her.

In time, she began work on a direct commission from Kaminoan scientist Nala Se to bring in the unaltered clone girl Omega, as Se wanted to protect Omega—who had escaped the planet Kamino with the rogue clone commando team Clone Force 99, otherwise known as the "Bad Batch"—from Prime Minister Lama Su. During this time, she was contacted by the Sullustan security manager Raspar Six, who had located the Bad Batch's modified *Omicron*-class attack shuttle *Marauder* in the city Ro Station on the moon Pantora. Six offered the location to Shand for a price. Communicating from her own ship, Shand opened a hologram of Omega. She promised to compensate Six well and ordered him to prevent the Bad Batch from escaping, before jumping to hyperspace.

### Personality

A capable and confident individual, Shand advised the young hunter Toro Calican that the best way to work as a bounty hunter was to make deals in one's own best interest, ensuring their personal survival. Through her words, she believed that she had tricked the rookie gunslinger into freeing her by convincing him to turn on his partner. Calican, however, had assumed that she would betray him and shot her; Shand's overconfidence nearly cost the assassin her life.

After being rescued from death by Boba Fett, Shand dedicated her services to him as repayment, later vowing to do the same for Din Djarin after his ward was kidnapped by Gideon's forces, proving Shand was not without honor and later showed compassion in freeing a Twi'lek slave from Bib Fortuna. During Boba Fett's tenure as crimelord of Mos Espa, Shand displayed fierce loyalty to Fett, fighting side-by-side with him against a group of Night Wind assassins and followed Fett's order to capture an assassin alive without question. She later helped capture the Wookiee Krrsantan after he attempted to assassinate Fett. She also had a deep appreciation for manners and gratitude, something she noted after Drash thanked Shand for saving her life.

## Physical Appearance

Shand is a female human had tan skin, brown eyes, and black hair braided with brown-and-red cording.

## Equipment

Shand wielded an MK sniper rifle as her primary weapon, and kept a small throwing blade hidden in the stock. Shand also carried a blaster pistol. She wore a black jacket with orange stripes, pants with brown boots, and an orange and black helmet. During the early weeks of the Galactic Empire, Shand also flew her own ship, but, after allying with Boba Fett during the New Republic Era, the two shared Fett's modified *Firespray*-31-class patrol and attack craft *Slave I*.

## Skills and Abilities

Shand was a highly skilled mercenary, with a reputation Din Djarin had heard of that made him hesitate in attempting to capture her. She possessed a mastery of firearm usage, particularly in regards to sniper rifles. During her time on Tatooine, Shand was able to successfully shoot Djarin off his Zephyr-J bike from a great distance, even after being partially blinded by the hunter's flash charges. Her marksmanship was also deadly at shorter ranges, a skill she displayed on Tython when she managed to drop several stormtroopers within a matter of seconds. Shand was able to meet her mark even while airborne; by her own word, she never missed a shot, though was seen to have missed multiple times on Tatooine and Tython.

Shand was also a capable fighter in hand-to-hand combat. She was capable of matching the clone Hunter in a close-quarters duel on Pantora. She also easily bested Toro Calican on Tatooine with a series of punches and kicks that ended with the would-be hunter in a crushing headlock between Shand's legs. She was only stopped when Djarin held her at gunpoint. She has also fought evenly against accomplished bounty hunter Cad Bane. She also possessed very quick reflexes, grabbing a lid to block a knife thrown by Hunter with incredible speed. An athletic individual, Shand possessed enough martial skill to knock out Wrecker with his own momentum and later pushed a boulder down a hill on Tython after using it as cover from an E-Web heavy repeating blaster cannon. She also had enough combat prowess to defeat stronger species such as Gamorreans. Like other hunters who had attained a reputation like her own, she was typically only hired for jobs that a client deemed to be truly important.

## Trivia

* Fennec Stand will encounter Hiatt Grey's Engines in *Hiatt Grey's Engines' Adventures of Star Wars: The Bad Batch*
* Fennec Shand will encounter the Skarloey Engines in *The Skarloey Engines join The Bad Batch*
* Fennec Shand will encounter the Backyardigans, The Miao siblings, and Rockhopper Crew in The Backyardigans meet The Mandalorian