Boba Fett

**Boba Fett** was a human male crime lord and former bounty hunter whose career spanned decades, from the fall of the Galactic Republic to the end of the rule of the Galactic Empire. Originally code-named **Alpha** and **unit A0050**, he was an unaltered clone of the famed Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett who raised the boy as his son. Boba emulated his father and genetic donor by wearing a customized suit of Mandalorian armor. His personal starship was the *Slave I*, a *Firespray-31*-class patrol and attack craft that once belonged to Jango. Trained in combat and martial skills from a young age, Fett was one of the most feared bounty hunters in the galaxy during the reign of Emperor Palpatine. He became a legend over the course of his career, which included contracts for both the Empire and the extensive criminal underworld. After living among the Tusken Raiders of Tatooine for a time, he took over as Daimyo of Mos Espa during the era of the New Republic.

Boba was created on the Wild Space planet of Kamino as a result of an arrangement between the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus and Jango Fett, a Mandalorian foundling who served as the template of the Grand Army of the Republic. Unlike the clone troopers grown from Jango's DNA, Jango regarded Boba as his son. During the last days of the Separatist Crisis, Boba and Jango retreated to Geonosis where the latter was killed in battle by Jedi Master Mace Windu. Orphaned by Jango's death, Boba sought vengeance by attempting to assassinate Windu, although his plan proved unsuccessful. After serving time in prison on Coruscant, Fett took up his late father's profession as a bounty hunter, working alongside other mercenaries, such as Bossk, Dengar, and Asajj Ventress, while also notably apprenticing himself to his father's infamous brief protégée, Cad Bane.

During the rise of the Galactic Empire, Boba's distinctive Mandalorian armor helped keep stories about the Mandalorians alive in the galaxy after the Empire's subjugation of the planet Mandalore. After the Clone Wars ended with the Empire rising to power, Fett continued to make a name for himself, working for the Hutt gangster Jabba Desilijic Tiure as well as the Sith Lord Darth Vader, whom Fett worked for often. During the Galactic Civil War, shortly after the Battle of Hoth, Boba and other bounty hunters were gathered by Darth Vader to locate Han Solo and the *Millennium Falcon*, hoping to use them to lure Luke Skywalker into a trap. The plot was successful, and Boba took Solo, who was frozen in carbonite, to Tatooine to collect the bounty that Jabba had placed on him. Later, Fett stopped on the moon of Nar Shaddaa in order to make sure Solo would survive his time in carbonite, but he lost Solo while he was away as part of the return of the Crimson Dawn, kicking off a War of the Bounty Hunters for Solo. Ultimately, Fett regained Solo and delivered him to the impatient Jabba.

Fett tried to prevent Solo's rescue by the Alliance to Restore the Republic, only to fall into the Great Pit of Carkoon when Solo accidentally slammed a pole into Fett's jetpack. Thanks to his Mandalorian armor and iron will, Boba was able to fight his way out of the sarlacc's belly. Back his action, Fett slowly began to resume his work as a feared bounty hunter during the reign of the New Republic, taking on missions to planets such as Quarzite, Coruscant, Mustafar, and Scarif. In 9 ABY, Fett returned to Tatooine, intending to take Jabba's throne, but fell into the sarlacc pit once again during a fight against Boba Fatt. Fett survived his encounter with the sarlacc, but this time, after escaping the beast, he lost his armor, which was sold to Tatooinian Sheriff Cobb Vanth by Jawa scavengers. During Fett's stay on the planet, he spent a time in the company of a Tusken tribe, and would eventually heal Fennec Shand after finding her left for dead in the desert. Fett and Shand later tracked the Mandalorian warrior Din Djarin, who had recovered Fett's armor, in order to get the armor back. After getting his armor back on Tython and helping Djarin to rescue the foundling Grogu from the clutches of Moff Gideon, Fett returned once again to Tatooine where he killed Bib Fortuna and claimed the late Jabba's throne with Shand by his side as crime lord. Now the head of his own gotra, Fett intended to rule the territories of Mos Espa by winning the people's respect, though he would face several major challenges to his position owed to the two-facedness of mayor Mok Shaiz such as the Twins' bid for power, the expansion of the Pyke Syndicate's spice trade and the military presence of the Second Union. Ultimately, though, Fett overcame all obstacles - including a confrontation with his old mentor, Cad Bane - and emerged victorious with the help of his associates, gaining the appreciation and approval of Mos Espa's denizens.

## History

### Into the Sarlacc

During the Battle of the Great Pit of Carkoon, Luke Skywalker and the others put their plan into motion, attacking Jabba's guards—and even leading to the death of Jabba himself, who was strangled to death by Leia Organa, whom he had taken in as his slave girl. During the firefight, Boba fought against Skywalker, who used his lightsaber to destroy Boba's blaster. In the ensuing chaos, Solo—still somewhat blind— was alerted to Boba's presence and swung out wildly with a vibro-ax, striking Boba's jetpack as he took aim at Skywalker with his wrist gauntlet. The impact caused the jetpack to ignite, sending Boba slamming into the side of Jabba's sail barge, the *Khetanna*, and then tumbling into the Pit of Carkoon.

### Escaping the Sarlacc

Upon falling into the sarlacc, Fett found himself being digested with a Jawa and Bith and quipped if either had a deck of Sabacc cards with which to pass the time, which the Jawa happily held up. Inside the Sarlacc for some time, Boba Fett was immobilized, being trapped in one of its stomachs, beginning the process of being digested for a thousand years, and his armor heavily damaged by the creature's digestive system. He conversed with Susejo, who was believed to be the Sarlacc's very first victim. At some point during their conversations, Fett figured out that Susejo was "connected" to the Sarlacc. By goading Susejo, Fett made the Sarlacc contract around his jetpack, freeing the bounty hunter from the Sarlacc's grasp. Boba, having gotten some of his strength back, used a knife to cut away the tentacles restraining him, and he ignited his jetpack, blasting his way out of the Sarlacc's mouth. Fett escaped, leaving the Sarlacc, which was badly injured but still alive.

Upon reaching the surface, Boba, exhausted, saw that he was within a field of wreckage left over from the Battle of the Great Pit of Carkoon. He saw the wreckage of the *Khetanna* and collapsed to the ground unconscious, due to his injuries and a lack of hydration. Later, two sandtroopers arrived and saw Boba, still unconscious, on the ground. One of the troopers asked if they should take Fett into custody. Fett awoke just in time to take one of the troopers' blaster rifles and shoot both of them dead. Boba then stole one of the sandtroopers' speeder bikes and fled into the Dune Sea, to a shed where several starships were stored, including his ship, *Slave I*. However, after Fett arrived, he decided to take Ephant Mon's ship ALC-8 instead of *Slave I* because the galaxy believed that he had been killed by the Sarlacc, and so he wanted to keep a low profile before revealing his survival to the public. His departure was witnessed by the dancing girl Herrida, the droid 3B6-RA-7, and Ephant Mon.

Boba traveled to Polis Massa to receive treatment. After being nursed back to full health, Fett prepared to resume bounty hunting.

### Interregnum

Though a number of rumors about his fate eventually circulated, Fett was presumed dead by a portion of the galaxy due to his fall into the sarlacc. During this time, he was remembered even among other bounty hunters, such as Dengar and fellow bounty hunter Mercurial Swift who entered into a fight in Coronet City on the Core World of Corellia. During their scuffle, Dengar pulled out his particle array gun and aimed it at Swift. Thinking of a way to survive, Swift pretended to see Fett on a nearby rooftop and said his name in false confusion, causing Dengar to turn his gun towards the roof. Taking advantage of this, the younger bounty hunter defeated him. However, he let Dengar live, as there was no bounty on his head.

Knowledge of Fett's fall into the sarlacc eventually made its way into Deal-slang in the shape of the expression "boba-ize", which meant to do something unintelligent which would jeopardize or potentially ruin a deal, implying that falling into the Sarlacc was considered the result of stupidity in the eyes of the speakers of Deal-slang.

### The hunt for Jar Jar Binks

#### Getting the target

In 5 ABY, Fett was looking through his analysis computer on ALC-8, and discovered a bounty posted on Jar Jar Binks by Imperial General Maximilian Veers. Fett tracked Jar Jar to Son-tuul, and he infiltrated a cantina on the planet. As he took aim at Jar Jar, the Gungan's vacuum cleaner went wild, and started sucking up a lot of objects and individuals as everybody ran away. Fett chased the "Bombad" Gungan out of the cantina, and Jar Jar fled aboard a G9 Rigger-class light freighter with Fett in pursuit aboard ALC-8.

#### Station 2341, Hoth, and Tatooine

Binks landed aboard the Haven-class medical station Station 2341 and proceeded to walk across a hallway. Fett followed, only to get interrupted when a whole group of stormtroopers ran by chasing a rebel spy. Then, as Fett tried to take aim again, Indiana Jones ran by. After Jones was gone, Fett tried to get across the hall but was too slow and got run over by a large rolling boulder that Jones had been running from. Binks was playing with his vacuum cleaner like a guitar, and got so carried away that he inadvertently pressed the self-destruct button of the station. The medical station exploded, sending Boba and Jar Jar into the vacuum of space. Binks had been jettisoned while standing inside a piece of wreckage, and as result both he and the debris landed on Hoth. A Wampa later picked up Jar Jar and the piece of wreckage he was in, and threw him all the way to Tatooine.

Jar Jar and his piece of wreckage landed onto a group of Tusken Raiders in the Dune Sea. Meanwhile, Fett landed ALC-8 in Mos Eisley. The ship was in much worse condition than it had been in when he had taken it from its owner, Ephant Mon. Venturing into the Dune Sea, Fett hid in the wreckage of the *Khetanna*, and spotted Jar Jar using his vaccum cleaner to suck up debris left over from the Battle of the Great Pit of Carkoon. Fett fired, and Jar Jar tried to flee. As Fett flew out of the wreck with his jetpack, he tried to attack Jar Jar, who was at the same time being attacked by Tusken Raiders. One of the Tuskens' Gaderffii sticks hit Fett's jetpack and set him flying-yet again-into the Sarlacc. Binks let out an exclamation of disgust as the bounty hunter fell into the mouth of the Sarlacc. Later that night, the Sarlacc spit Fett out, sending him flying miles into the air and landing somewhere in the Dune Sea.

Later, Fett was found unconscious by a group of Jawas who mistook him to be either a droid or cyborg the moment they spotted his armor, never bothering to scan him, and claimed him as their own under the impression he was an unintelligent being. They took him into their sandcrawler, fitted him with a restraining bolt, and went on their way. When Fett awoke, he was in the sandcrawler's cargo hold. He used his jetpack to escape the sandcrawler and headed to the same shed where *Slave I* was stored, departing Tatooine in *Slave I*. Meanwhile, the sandcrawler, due to the damage it sustained after being attacked by Tusken Raiders, veered off course and crashed into the maw of the Sarlacc.

#### Finding Binks on Umbara

Fett later learned that Jar Jar Binks was on Umbara by using the tracking fob he was using to track down the Gungan. Using the device, he traveled there in *Slave I* and proceeded to land in the Umbaran forest. After he prowled the briar fen, he found Binks. Fett dispatched a Millicreep droid to subdue the Gungan. The resulting attack did not subdue Binks but shortened out his vacuum cleaner. Fett appeared, and stated he was going to either kill or capture Binks to get paid. However, Jar Jar refused, and Fett said he was going to take Binks in no matter what. Suddenly, Binks randomly brought up the fact that Mace Windu was very cool, and that he was sorry that Windu had killed Jango Fett. As a result, Fett charged Binks. That resulted in the bounty hunter tripping over the appendage of a vixus, and he got ensnared by one of its tentacles. Fett fired his flamethrower, but with no avail; the vixus was dragging him closer into its maw. However, Fett got out his knife and sliced apart the tentacle that was holding him, causing him to fall to the ground. Unfortunately for Fett, the beast grabbed his leg and threw him into its mouth.

The vixus, however, like the sarlacc before it, could never hold Fett. Fett torched the vixus's mouth and used his jetpack to fly out of the creature's maw. Fett then went on his way to find Jar Jar. In the forest, he was attacked by two native Banshees, and Fett immediately attacked them. He first fired a rope out of his wrist gauntlets, tying up one of the creatures and slamming it against a tree. He then launched into the air and jumped on the other banshee, punching it in the back and sending it flying to the ground. Fett finished it off with one shot from his blaster carbine. Boba then realized Jar Jar had left Umbara, and immediately went the closest airbase to try and stop him, having no time to go back and retrieve *Slave I* to pursue. After fighting off the Umbaran Soldiers guarding the landing platform, he used his jetpack to shoot himself up to the departing GS-100 salvage ship that Binks had apparently boarded, entering undetected through one of the ship's emergency exits. Fett stowed away in the cargo hold of the salvage ship, which was headed for Jakku. On the other hand, Binks was able to hide in one of the cargo containers in the hold, evading Fett.

#### Jakku

After the salvage ship landed on Jakku at the town known as Cratertown, Fett located Jar Jar, who had exited the cargo container he was hiding in once it was carried out of the ship, and started blasting at his target. However, Jar Jar escaped once more, stowing away on a Gozanti-class cruiser that was heading towards Nar Shaddaa. Fett, after firing a homing beacon onto the departing cruiser at the last minute, learned from a Toydarian named Garri that *Slave I* had fallen into Rebel Alliance hands and was sitting in an impound lot on nearby Grakouine. Fett purchased a Y-TIE from Garri to fly to Grakouine, successfully retrieving *Slave I*. After this, Fett immediately set course for Nar Shaddaa, following the signal emitted from the homing device he put on the Gozanti-class cruiser.

#### The final pursuit

> "*Oh, shit!*"
> ― Fett, moments before his grenade explodes
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Boba Fett landed on Nar Shaddaa and trailed Jar Jar across the planet's cityscape. After coming across an RA-7 protocol droid, Fett asked the droid if he had seen a Gungan with a vacuum cleaner. The droid said he had seen Jar Jar, and pointed which direction the Gungan headed, though this actually led Fett to a dead end. Afterwards, the protocol droid pointed his blaster rifle at Fett, intending to kill him. However, Fett acted first, gunning down the RA-7 droid with his blaster carbine. He then used his jetpack to escape from the scene.

Fett found Jar Jar on the roof of a building and proceeded to attack him. Binks got scared, and in a frightened manner, activated his vacuum cleaner and shot pieces of salvaged he sucked up at Fett as an ironic way of self-defense. Fett activated a grenade, but one of the pieces shot by Jar Jar hit him, sending him tripping over the roof's edge. Boba, still holding the grenade, realized that it was about to explode and let go of it, but it was too late. The grenade exploded, injuring Fett. This sent him in casts to a nearby hospital. Binks fled off-world and was soon celebrating on Endor. In the hospital, Fett was lying on a bed watching the celebration being broadcast on the TV, while several bounty hunters were shouting and booing at the screen. Fett groaned in frustration. Wanting to change the channel, he fought with his old mentor Cad Bane, who was also in casts and on the bed next to his, over the remote. As they fought, the remote fell to the ground, meaning that they still had to watch the celebration. Fett later departed Nar Shaddaa, giving up the bounty on Binks.

### Capturing Qi'ra

Boba Fett was later hired to capture Qi'ra, leader of the fallen Crimson Dawn, by Zorba Desilijic Tiure, Jabba the Hutt's father. Fett learned that Qi'ra was on Naboo with Indiana Jones, and traveled there aboard *Slave I* to capture her. After Fett arrived, he, remembering Qi'ra stealing the carbonite-frozen Han Solo from him during the War of the Bounty Hunters, immediately drew out his blaster carbine. Fett and Jones fought in a brief brawl that ended when Fett punched Jones in the face. Fett fired at Qi'ra, but she used her sword to knock Fett's blaster carbine away. Fett drew out a knife and fought Qi'ra in meelee combat. As Jones tried to blast Fett with his blaster pistol, Fett used his boot to kick the archaeologist in the face, knocking him out. Fett, launching himself into the air with his jetpack and making use of his wrist blasters, continued to battle Qi'ra, who drew out a blaster of her own. After Jones regained consciousness, he charged at Fett at one point when the bounty hunter landed on the ground and attempted to tackle him down. Angered, Fett tried to shake Jones off, and ultimately succeeded, sending the daredevil archaeologist falling into a nearby lake. Fett continued to fight Qi'ra until he fired a wrist rocket, disarming her. Qi'ra had no choice but to surrender to Fett, who locked energy binders on her hands and loaded her onto *Slave I*. After that, Fett took off to meet Zorba at the Hutt's palace on Enara IV in the Southern Rim. Unknown to Fett, however, Jones had managed to survive the skirmish.

Fett met with Zorba and received his reward of 5,000 credits. Boba decided to stay at the palace, watching as Qi'ra was made Zorba's personal slave girl and later locked in the palace dungeon. Later, Indiana Jones arrived to rescue Qi'ra. After a lengthy skirmish, Jones succeeded in freeing Qi'ra from Zorba's clutches. During the chaos, Fett fought against Jones, but lost when he was knocked unconscious against a wall when Jones assaulted him with a whip. After this turn of events, Fett departed Zorba's palace. He flew *Slave I* through the Hoth asteroid belt. As he passed by an asteroid, an Exogorth lunged out from a crater and attempted to eat *Slave I* but could not close its mouth on the ship in time, and so Fett was able to safely leave and continue with his course.

### Recovering Darth Sidious's long-lost lightsaber that fell out a window

#### Vizsla Keep 09

Boba later became interested in recovering Darth Sidious's lightsaber (the one that had fell out a window during Sidious's duel with Mace Windu, while the second one had been stowed away in the Imperial Palace on Coruscant) from Vizsla Keep 09, where it was in the possession of the wealthy Neimoidian merchant Nute Monchar. He boarded *Slave I* and departed from Ord Mantell, setting coordinates for Vizsla Keep 09. He was unaware that the droid ZZ-4Z was also heading for the Keep, with intent to collect the late Galactic Emperor's weapon.

Inside the station, Fett killed Monchar after he refused to give the bounty hunter the lightsaber's location. After fighting his way through the battle droid guards, Fett got the lightsaber with the help of ZZ-4Z, whom he encountered and convinced to assist him. However, during the escape, ZZ-4Z was destroyed before he could board his ship. However, after a brief skirmish with the droid guards, Fett escaped.

#### Selling the lightsaber for a profit

Leaving Vizsla Keep 09, Fett prepared to travel to Korriban, where he intended to sell the lightsaber to the Acolytes of the Beyond to make a profit as he knew they were the ones who would definitely accept the weapon. As he traveled there in *Slave I*, he was attacked by assassin droid HELIOS-3D, who was piloting the *AA-4D*, and the droid tried to take Sidious's lightsaber for himself. The two engaged in a fierce dogfight, and Boba used *Slave I*'s laser cannons to inflict heavy damage on the *AA-4D*. With his ship heavily damaged, HELIOS-3D was forced to withdraw. Afterwards, Fett arrived on Korriban and delivered the lightsaber to the Acolytes of the Beyond, receiving a reward of 4,000 credits. Shortly afterwards, Fett departed for Tatooine.

### The Crystal Skull

#### Utapau

On Tatooine, Fett began thinking about his next job. After getting a job from Hondo Ohnaka, who had been an associate of Fett's father, Jango, Fett had to work with Indiana Jones, whom he eventually made amends with, to recover the crystal skull, an ancient artifact. He picked the archaeologist up from PM-1203 after contacting him via hologram. Travelling to Utapau on *Slave I*, they started the search for the skull, which was believed to be inside the old Separatist Core Ship, the *Unlimited Projection*, but the two were captured by Amani nomads.

The Amani took both Fett and Jones to the *Projection*, after taking away their weapons. After they arrived in the core ship. the Amani leader greeted them, and said he knew Jones well. After Indiana toyed with him, the Amani brought them into the *Unlimited Projection*'s interiors. As they went through the cargo hold, Fett and Jones, both at gunpoint, talked about when the signal was to be given for them to attack their captors. After they arrived at the Crystal Skull's location, they turned the tables on the Amani. Fett punched one of them in the face, sending him tumbling to the floor. The Amani raised their weapons, ready to attack. They ordered Fett and Jones to drop their weapons, which the duo reobtained, but only Jones complied. As his pistol fell to the ground, it mysteriously fired once it hit the ground, killing one of the Amani. Fett and Jones continued their attack.

During the skirmish, Jones managed to get the Skull, putting it in a bag. They split up, creating a diversion. The Amani, joined by several Sugi enforcers, tried to stop the duo. Some of them boarded speeder bikes to pursue Fett and Jones. However the hard part was that they went different directions. Fett dealt with the pursuers with ease, easily shooting his flamethrower into them and using a rocket shot from his jetpack to blow up some of the vehicles. The Amani Chief then attacked him, and they fought in combat. They exchanged blows, while Fett managed to disarm the Chief and deal a massive punch to his face. Meanwhile, Jones escaped in a UT-60D U-wing starfighter/support craft. Fett realized what had happened, and finished his fight with the bruised and battered chief by chaining him to a 74-Z Speeder Bike. Fett sent the bike zooming towards the edge of the hangar they were in. The speeder bike plummeted from the edge, taking the chief with it. The resulting explosion killed the Amani Chief. After that, A group of Sugis arrived to capture Fett. However, the infamous bounty hunter lobbed a grenade into where the Sugi were standing. The grenade then exploded, killing the Sugis.

Boba used his jetpack to blast his way out of the *Unlimited Projection* to the top of the sinkhole he was in. After he landed on the ground, he realized there were several Amanin ready to capture him. The Amanin got into rolling position, and Fett tackled several of them before killing them. Fett used a weapon accelerator to disintegrate the rest of them, leaving no bodies. Boba Fett then found *Slave I* and escaped Utapau, hoping to find Jones and the Crystal Skull.

#### Stobar

Fett followed Jones to Stobar. He went to the Stobar Spaceport and found Jones at the entrance. He got mad at the Archaeologist for leaving him behind and making it off with the Crystal Skull without him. They went into the Plop Dribble's restaurant which was just in the spaceport. They got some food and drinks while arguing over Jones leaving Fett behind. After they finished, they discovered the Skull had been stolen, as they saw a series of small footprints around where they had left it.

#### Lotho Minor

Fett and Jones got to the landing area just in time to see a group of Jawas escaping in Jones' U-Wing. Just before the ship took off, Fett fired a tracer onto its hull. This enabled him and Jones to track the ship, even through hyperspace. The two boarded *Slave I* and tracked the U-Wing all the way to Lotho Minor. After they landed, they discovered the U-wing, but the Jawas had abandoned it. Fett and Jones began searching for the pesky scavengers across the hostile environment. They encountered Fire-breathers, and saw them destroying all the trash in their path, including those dumped by passing ships. There were also Junker scavengers on the planet's surface.

After escaping from the fire-breathers, the two then encountered a tribe of native Junkers, whose extreme territoriality sparked a confrontation. During the chaos, Fett cut through the Junkers with his arsenal of weaponry, slaying at least thirteen of the scavengers. The Junker tribe subsequently retreated, and the two continued through the scrap heaps to find the Crystal Skull. Presently, an acid rainstorm forced them to seek cover in a nearby shelter of debris. Jones searched fervently through the trash and Junker corpses, finding the skull sitting on the floor. However, there was no sign of the Jawa thieves. After the acid rain died down, the pair found the U-wing abandoned nearby. After this, the pair departed for Tatooine to meet with Hondo, with Fett flying *Slave I*, and Jones flying the U-wing, which was named the *Bravo Adventurer*.

#### Tatooine

Fett and Jones landed on the desert sands of Tatooine. On their way to the rendezvous point with Hondo, they were attacked by military forces of the notorious criminal organization known as the Second Union.

### Quarzite

Boba Fett made his way to Mos Eisley, where he was involved in an altercation on the streets one night and prevailed against his attackers. The next morning, in Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina, he managed to have a conversation with Lyn Me, whom he had saved from slavery many years ago. They talked about recent events. Not long afterward, Fett was approached by the Ithorian bounty hunter Herf Nadon, who teased him about the events from that night. An impatient Fett shot and killed Nadon for making fun of him. Nadon's murder attracted the attention of Bossk'wassak'Cradossk and Toro Calican, both fellow bounty hunters. They summoned Fett, who said goodbye to Me, to their table and informed her that Nadon had been a member of their team of hunters, and that they now needed a replacement for their upcoming job. Bossk insisted that Fett join in Nadon's place given that he was the reason for the newly opened position. Fett accepted, needing a job at the moment. They then met with the other bounty hunters of the team, who were IG-11, Zuckuss, and 4-LOM. Their mission was to protect cargo on an underground tram on Quarzite from being attacked and stolen by a band of raiders. It was very similar to the mission he had undertaken there during the Clone Wars as it involved the transportation of a valuable cargo. The team left Tatooine aboard *Slave I* and proceeded to an orbital elevator station above Quarzite where they meet their employer, the Belugans, and received the specifics of their assignment. The crew was to protect the contents of a chest, which would be delivered to the Belugan Museum, via an underground tram, as the planet's atmosphere rendered delivery via spacecraft impossible. The chest needed protection from the band of raiders, which was why the bounty hunters were hired.

The team embarked on their mission by taking the space elevator down beneath the surface of the planet, where they boarded the tram and made their preparations to defend the chest from the raiders. The raiders boarded the tram during its journey and attacked, killing the Quarzite personnel. Most of the bounty hunters were thrown off of the tram. During the struggle against the raiders, Boba was able to kill many of them using his various weaponry. At some point during the chaos, he inadvertently knocked the chest over, revealing its contents: a suit of Mandalorian rally master armor. Upon realizing its value, Fett thought if he took the armor and gave it to a more prominent museum he would get an even greater reward. However, he still decided to go on with the current job as he had already agreed to it. Boba then single handedly fought with the leader of the raiders, knocking him off the tram.

Once the tram arrived at its destination, Fett delivered the chest to the museum and claimed the bounty, departing. He regrouped with the other bounty hunters, paying them their shares of the bounty before parting company with them.

### Investigation on Coruscant

Sometime later, the Twi'lek Firith Olan hired Fett to investigate the activities of the Second Union on Coruscant, and also find a copy of *Clone Wars Painting*. During the course of his investigation, Fett eventually made his way into the underworld metropolis of Level 1313.

### Above Churruma

While flying in orbit of Churruma on *Slave I*, Fett was intercepted by an incoming Cantwell-class Arrestor Cruiser. The bridge of the Arrestor Cruiser made contact with *Slave I*, requesting identification. Fett immediately activated a convincing transponder, claiming that he was on a mission for Darth Vader. Without waiting for *Slave I*'s identification to be scanned, Captain Barse Neomen of the cruiser ordered the crew of the ship to activate the tractor beam. Reacting quickly, Fett began activating countermeasures pre-placed on his own ship to fight back against the increasing tractor force emitted from the cruiser. He released a seismic charge, taking advantage of the increased tractor force emitted by the cruiser to suck the charge right into the tractor beam generator. The frontal tractor beacon disintegrated and allowed *Slave I* to move freely, to captain Neomen's frustration. Neomen immediately demanded the cruiser's air wing to be deployed, raising his voice even more. Three TIE fighters and one TIE brute were deployed into battle, lasers firing. Expertly piloting his ship, Fett was able to shoot down the fighters. He then quickly jumped into hyperspace after entering random hyperspace coordinates, leaving the crew of the Imperial cruiser in shock.

### Fighting A'Sharad Hett in the Unknown Regions

Fett emerged from hyperspace the Unknown Regions. After realizing where he was, he planned to go to the Guild Concourse 447 to look up information about hyperspace routes leading back to the wider galaxy. En route, he came across a lone ship that he immediately identified as an aggressor. Using *Slave I*'s laser cannons he shot down the other ship which crash-landed onto Umaren'k. Fett followed, discovering that the pilot was fallen Jedi Master and bounty hunter A'Sharad Hett upon landing at the crash site. The two fought in a fierce fight. Hett was able to overpower Fett for a time, at one point using the Force to push the bounty hunter into a rock wall, almost knocking him out due to the force of the impact. Eventually, Fett gained the upper hand and used the element of surprise to defeat the former Jedi by shooting him in the shoulder and shin, wounding and incapacitating him. After this, Fett departed on *Slave I*, leaving Hett behind to his fate.

### Finding the Glove of Darth Vader

Fett returned to Tatooine, meeting with Indiana Jones in the Crystal Moon restaurant. While they sat at their table, Beedo, approached them. He demanded that the pair step outside instantly, but Fett grabbed a nearby Gran and punched him, calling everyone in the restaurant bastards. Beedo started yelling, instigating a riot. A brawl in the restaurant started, and Jones and Fett ran outside with Beedo and his associate in pursuit. Beedo's associate, a Gamorrean, went for Fett. Upon seeing the thug, Fett expressed his satisfaction with the situation. They fought in hand-to-hand combat in the street, with Fett emerging victorious after cutting the Gamorrean with his retractable wrist blades and then shooting him to death. On the other hand, Beedo was taken out when Jones shot him in the shoulder, causing him to stumble into the middle of the street and get hit by a passing landspeeder. Fett and Jones then walked through the streets of Mos Eisley, where Jones brought up the legends surrounding the Glove of Darth Vader, which was allegedly indestructible. At the same time, a man named Wilde, an associate of Jones, contacted him via hologram and informed him that while exploring wreckage that was deposited on Mon Cala, he scanned a five-fingered object within the debris, thus concluding that it could be Darth Vader's glove. After this, Jones asked Fett if he was up to recovering the glove from the oceans of Mon Cala. Fett accepted, having no current assignments.

They traveled in *Slave I* to Bast Castle on Vjun, as there was a ship, the *Trident*, that they would need to use to go into the ocean depths. Once they arrived at the castle, upon entering they were attacked by ASP-38 Droids who were the security guards of the fortress. After repelling the droids, Fett and Jones encountered MD-5, whom Fett proceeded to interrogate for the location of the *Trident*. At first, MD-5 hesitated, but when Fett threatened to melt him down into spare parts, the droid informed him that the ship was kept in one of the fortress's starfighter bays. After this, Fett fitted MD-5 with a restraining bolt, and he and Jones went on their way. Commandeering the *Trident*, Fett and Jones traveled to Mon Cala. When Fett and Jones entered the Valley of the Giant Oysters under the sea and located the glove within the wreckage, which turned out to have come from the Death Star II, they used the *Trident* to create a whirlpool that sucked up bits of debris from the seabed, successfully stirring up Vader's glove into their sights. When Jones retrieved the glove, they prepared to leave when they were attacked by two sharks. After a brief battle, they were able to fend off the creatures, with a diversion being made when a torpedo was jettisoned from a sunken Quarren submarine and hit one of the underwater mines nearby, causing a large explosion. Fett and Jones returned to Vjun, ditching the *Trident* and leaving in *Slave I*. The two discussed what to do with the glove of Darth Vader, as it was a symbol of evil that could wreck havoc on the galaxy if it fell into the wrong hands. Jones decided that it should be put in a warehouse on Wayland due to the dangers it posed. Subsequently, the two traveled to Wayland, putting the glove inside a crate in the warehouse, where countless other mysterious items were stored as well.

### Bounty on Rask Odai

Fett took on the bounty for the Mon Calamari crime lord Rask Odai wanted alive for two thousand credits. Fett managed to track him to his home on the planet Balnab. Fett infiltrated the Mon Calamari's perimeter defenses by discarding his Mandalorian armor and high end weapons, opting for only a simple crossbow. Fett captured Odai, transporting him in *Slave I* to Corellia, where the Mon Calamari was to be handed over to the custody of the droid 8t88. Before being delivered to 8t88, Odai requested Fett to send his extensive collection of artwork, long suppressed by the Empire, to a art publishing agent for the wider enjoyment of the galaxy.

### Finding the sacred water of Rugosa

In 6 ABY, Fett teamed up with Indiana Jones to find the last remaining water of the coral moon Rugosa. There, they met with IG-11, who proved to be a useful ally to them on their mission.

### Helping the Dugs of Malastare

Fett was eventually hired by the Dug Doge of Malastare to kill a Zillo Beast that was terrorizing the Dug population on the planet, as the bounty hunter's reputation had inspired so much fear and respect throughout the galaxy and so the Dugs believed that he was the only warrior who was cunning enough to perform such an action. Fett would come up with strategies for the Dugs on how to take on the beast, having been shown its weaknesses by the Doge. After this, the ultimate battle happened between the Dugs, backed by Boba himself, and the Zillo Beast. During the long and difficult battle, the beast killed many Dugs who used rail guns to bomb it, but then Fett allowed himself to get swallowed by the Zillo Beast after using his jetpack to fly up to its mouth; this was all part of his plan to kill the creature from the inside due to its outer layers being indestructible. As the Zillo Beast was about to wipe about several more Dug fighters, it suddenly collapsed and died. Fett had killed the creature from within, where it was vulnerable, via torching its inner parts with his flamethrower and blasting it; the bounty hunter survived being swallowed by the animal due to his beskar armor, which gave him protection. Fett then managed to use his jetpack to blast his way out of the beast's corpse, exiting through its mouth. He returned outside to the Dug forces, covered in the blood of the beast. After Boba declared to the Dugs that their burden was now dead once and for all, the Doge gave him his payment and said the people would finally be able to rest peacefully on Malastare thanks to his actions. As he departed for *Slave I*, the Dugs cheered for and praised him, this indicated that he had fully gained their deep respect.

### Exploring the past with Indiana Jones

Sometime later, Fett met up with Indiana Jones once again. He took the archaeologist on a tour of his past life, taking him to places like Geonosis, Kamino and Mandalore. While on Mandalore, they were attacked by several Alamites. Fett used his weaponry to dispatch several of them, forcing them to retreat. When Fett was finished telling Jones about his past, they parted ways.

### Meeting with Tarr Kligson on Daiyu

Fett traveled to Daiyu for a rest stop and to find Tarr Kligson, who had connections to Jango. He walked through the urban sprawls of Daiyu City, trying to find someplace to have a drink. A Harch thief then appeared and tried to pick a fight with Fett in the streets. Fett tackled the thief, breaking two of his arms. This scared the Harch enough that he ran away and left Fett alone. Fett found Kligson at the Daiyu marketplace, asking if there was someplace quiet where they could sit and talk.

### Dealing with Grand Moff Kaine

At some point, Fett was hired for a job by Grand Moff Ardus Kaine of the Pentastar Alignment, being summoned to meet with him aboard the moff's flagship *Reaper II* above Thanos. Kaine, knowing of Fett's reputation, even allowed the bounty hunter his own room aboard the ship to stay in. Sometime into Fett's stay, two stormtroopers came per order of Kaine to tell him of his "assignment," and when Fett moved the two troopers tried to cuff him. However, Fett was able to incapacitate them and go into the hallway. He encountered Kaine, who revealed Fett's opponent—Booba Fett, a clone Fett grown with cloning technology. With the mental pressure of being so close to his duplicate, Boba was unable to fight the clone effectively, escaping on his jetpack to another part of the corridors.

### Working with 4-LOM and Zuckuss

At some point after the events with the Pentastar Alignment, Fett was hired to bring in Scurto Tobbs, who was wanted for transport of class 4 contraband. For this mission he worked with Zuckuss and 4-LOM. They tracked down Tobbs' Baleen-class heavy freighter in space, boarding it using *Slave I*. The trio fought their way through Tobbs' BX-series droid commando and Droideka guards and captured him on the freighter's bridge. However, this was when Zuckuss and 4-LOM turned the tables on Fett, activating the freighter's self-destruct and leaving him to die. However, Fett, with Tobbs in tow, was able to catch up with the two duplicitous bounty hunters, defeating them and escaping in *Slave I* just as the freighter exploded. After delivering Tobbs into custody, Fett received his reward.

### Mission with EV-A4-D

In 7 ABY, Fett traveled to Batuu where he met up with Lyn Me. The two ventured around the Black Spire Outpost, going to places like Oga's Cantina. Not long afterward, he was hired by the aging T-series military strategic analysis and tactics droid TA-175 to retrieve modules from the wreckage of the *Malevolence* on the Dead Moon of Antar. The droid told him that the EV-series medical droid EV-A4-D, who was incarcerated at The Prism, would be a form of assistance. Fett then left Lyn Me and Batuu to go to Diab 6, where the Prism was located. Successfully navigating the electrical storms of the moon, Fett landed *Slave I* at the prison. Walking through the seemingly abandoned facility, he made his way to a main control panel linked to the Prism's security protocols. Fett hacked into the prison's systems, overriding them so he could release all of the remaining prisoners in order to find EV-A4-D more easily. When he did so, he was immediately attacked by the dangerous inmates who rushed out, EV-A4-D being among them though all he did was stand to the side and watch the violence unfold. During the intense confrontation, Fett viciously defeated and killed a large number of his attackers with the various weapons of his arsenal. In the end, the remaining inmates retreated, allowing Fett to find EV-A4-D and tell him his reasons of recruiting him. The two later departed The Prism in *Slave I*, successfully dodging the electrical storms and leaving the Diab system, heading to the Dead Moon of Antar where the *Malevolence*'s wreckage was located.

*Slave I* dropped out of hyperspace at the Dead Moon of Antar, with Fett flying to the exact spot of the *Malevolence*'s wreckage. After landing, Fett and EV-A4-D disembarked, and immediately started searching the rubble for the modules that they were seeking. They found computer parts which originated from Kynachi, and also some schematics/blueprints of the *Malevolence.* Fett examined those parts, and concluded that they were the parts that he was looking for. Then, the pair returned to *Slave I*, their mission successful.

### Fighting Mace Windu

After retrieving the parts from the *Malevolence*, EV-A4-D requested that Fett drop him off on Innton II. Subsequently, Fett piloted *Slave I* to the planet, disembarking with the droid upon arrival. In a cavern, the two encountered Mace Windu, the Jedi who killed Jango during the Battle of Geonosis all those years ago. Windu had survived the Great Jedi Purge and was hiding in the Outer Rim on Innton II for all these years. Fett recounted witnessing Windu kill his father, and the two subsequently fought in a ferocious fight as EV-A4-D watched, with Fett hoping to finally avenge Jango's death at Windu's hands. Both Fett and Windu seemed to be evenly matched despite Windu's old age, and the pair eventually progressed to the abandoned Defiant Core rebel base's grounds. When the fight reached its climax, the two stood, battered and wounded, each ready to deliver a final blow with their weapons, until Fett gained the upper hand when he fired a rocket that knocked Windu's lightsaber out of the Jedi's hands and forced him to the ground. Fett prepared to finish off Windu with his blaster. However, he suddenly paused, as something flashed in his mind; he remembered trying to kill Windu during the Clone Wars and afterwards regretting the destruction he had caused despite not forgiving the Jedi Master. Fett lowered his weapon, stating to Windu that he had a code of honor and would let him live in this occasion, much to the Jedi's surprise. As a result, both combatants agreed to drop their long-standing feud and go their separate ways. Fett later departed Innton II in *Slave I*, leaving Windu and EV-A4-D behind on the planet. Shortly thereafter, Fett delivered the salvaged *Malevolence* modules to TA-175 back on the Cosmatanic Steppes and received his payment.

### Finding Jaster Mereel's armor

As time passed, Boba took an interest in recovering the armor of Jaster Mereel, who had been Jango's mentor. While on Panna Prime, he learned that the armor was in the possession of Pablo on the planet Nal Hutta. After recovering the armor, Fett traveled to Maldo Kreis, where he inserted himself into a movie scene that George Lucas was trying to film. Fett ended up getting yelled at by Lucas who had to remind him that he was not in "that" specific scene. Later, Fett traveled Planetoid A.17 where he was attacked by the Second Union, who wanted to steal the armor. He also encountered King Bob-omb and the Bob-ombs. Later Fett was chased to Jakku by the Union, fighting them in an intense battle in the Starship Graveyard. During the battle Fett managed to kill Truman Dovchenko in combat by knocking him into a swarm of attacking Siafu, forcing the Union forces to retreat.

### Hunting for Chattar Lal

#### Dilonexa XXIII

At some point, Indiana Jones himself gave Fett the task of hunting down Prime Minister Chattar Lal of Dilonexa XXIII, who was suspected to have ties with the Sith. Lal, in secret, was a Sith cultist in league with the Sith Eternal, having a secret base on the volcanic planet of Mustafar. Jones offered a reward of 10000 credits, but Fett demanded triple that, because this time he was up against an "unpredictable" target rumored to be allied with Sith worshippers. He considered this mission to meet his sense of justice and code of honor. Fett made his way to Dilonexa XXIII, arriving at Lal's palace and claiming to him that he was here for a honored visit. Lal invited him to dinner in the dining hall, and at the same time Fett plotted how he would capture Lal. Later in the evening, while staying at his room in the palace, Fett snuck through the hallways and went outside and spotted Lal attempting to make his getaway. Lal's Palace Guards tried to stop Fett, and subsequently a fierce fight occurred, with Fett gunning down several of the guards. Just as Lal's shuttle was taking off, Fett returned to *Slave I* and gave chase.

#### Mustafar

Fett tracked Lal's shuttle to Mustafar, shooting down the rogue Prime Minister, though Lal managed to survive the crash. After landing on the planet, Fett was able to locate Lal's Sith temple by making his way through a tunnel that eventually lead to the vast underground temple. He witnessed the Sith cultists perform one of their occult rituals. Lal, using stimulated Force power from Darth Vader's right-hand glove, removed the heart from a helpless victim, and then lowered the Mustafarian toward certain death in an underground river of molten lava. After the cultists left the temple ground, Fett made his way down towards the large statue of Darth Vader, where several Alazmec of Winsit ambushed surrounded him. Lal and the High Priest attempted to feed him a Sith potion that would make him succumb to a trance in which he would be fully obedient to the Sith Eternal. After this, Fett had become a shadow of his former self, now completely under the spell of the Sith. They then made their way out to the main grounds by the pit of lava. One of the cultists tripped over a rock and dropped the torch he was holding, and the flames from the torch inadvertently touched Fett's leg, freeing him from the Sith spell. Determined to finish what he came there to do, Fett violently confronted the Sith cultists, making short work of several of them including the High Priest and even fighting Lal, whom he incapacitated. During the chaos he was caught in a fight with a giant thug. After a brawl, Fett managed to defeat the thug, who was crushed to death at the end of a conveyor belt. At the same time, Lal escaped on a mine cart, and Fett gave chase on another cart with several Sith cultists in pursuit. Fett was able to shake off the cultists chasing him, and back at the temple an enormous reservoir of water had been released, forcing Fett to take cover on the other side of the tunnel once he reached outside. Lal, who was wielding the same lightsaber that Fett had recovered from Vizsla Keep 09 years ago, attacked Fett. Fett brandished a lightsaber of his own that he had taken from a Jedi at some point in his career to hold him back. Eventually, Fett was able to defeat Lal in their duel.

#### Dueling Ochi of Bestoon

After defeating and capturing Lal, Fett prepared to leave Mustafar with his quarry when he saw a ship touching down near his position. The ship was the starship of Ochi of Bestoon, an assassin of the Sith. During the fight in the Sith temple and prior to his capture by Fett, Lal had ordered the droid R4-S9 to send a distress beacon that reached Ochi, who then set off to rescue him. Fett subsequently engaged Ochi in a duel across Mustafar's hellish landscape. The pair took their duel to the lava sea, with Fett standing on a Mustafar Panning Droid and Ochi standing on a large repulsorlift platform as they clashed. Fett then used his jetpack to propel himself off the nimble mining droid and into Ochi's lava skiff. The repulsorlift veered off course following Fett's attack and smashed onto the shore, spilling both combatants onto the ground near the lava. Suddenly, Fett brought out his lightsaber, using it as a form of surprise attack for Ochi, who was not Force-sensitive, as well as a means of defense against the assassin's Sith dagger. He was able to hold his ground against the Sith assassin despite having only basic skill at using a lightsaber. The two continued dueling at the grounds of the Mensix Mining Facility, and Fett launched a missile from his jetpack at Ochi, knocking the assassin back and disarming him. Defeated, Ochi retreated after cursing Fett. Later, Fett returned for Lal, taking him to the mining facility to freeze him in carbonite. He ordered the Mustafarians in the carbon-freezing chamber to perform the carbon freezing process on Lal. Before Lal was encased in the carbonite, he told Fett he would find "answers" in Fortress Vader, Darth Vader's castle. After this, Fett chose to stay in Mustafar Apts nearby. During his stay there, he kept Lal's carbonite-frozen body in his room, being concerned about the possibility of it getting lost or stolen and having learned a lesson from what happened when Han Solo's carbonite block was stolen from him.

### Vaneé's tales

After staying on Mustafar in Mustafar Apts for a few days, Fett finally decided to head to Fortress Vader to find the "answers" Lal assured were there. Upon arriving at the castle, he was greeted by Vaneé, who had once been the aide to Lord Vader. After talking and fighting with Vaneé, the aide revealed Vader would be reborn when the late Sith's spirit possessed Fett's body. However, Fett understood that Vaneé was merely hallucinating Vader's voice from the unfiltered lava fumes. Pretending to be the restored Vader, Fett trapped Vaneé in a chair and escaped the fortress. He then met up with Jones, delivering Lal's carbonite slab and receiving his payment. At some point after this, the Lal mission was said to be one of the most bizarre bounties ever accepted by Fett, especially as it had to do with Sith dealings.

### "Death" of Boba Fett

At some point between 7 ABY and 8 ABY, Fett lamented the direction his career had taken since his fall into the Sarlacc. Later, while hunting Jhor on Ryloth, he was apparently killed by a team of hired mercenaries led by the Ubese bounty hunter Brene and the Rodian soldier Kubisiak at the behest of the crime lord Kichur Rahm. News of his death was spread across the galaxy by Brene. Two days after his "death", Fett took a Pursuer-class enforcement ship and went to Rodia to track down Kubisiak. Fett killed Kubisiak after he was told that Rahm had arranged the hit on him. Fett made his way to Lothal, where Rahm was living at. After taking down Rahm's guards, Fett brought him to *Slave I* and interrogated him and poisoned him with venom from a Balyeg's tooth. Rahm told him that it was Rango Gabnit who arranged the hit on him in revenge for Fett's murder of his son, Zingo.

Fett went to Arvala-7 in *Slave I*, finding Rango. He took out Rango's goons, but spared Brene in exchange for her silence on Fett's personal information. Then, Fett personally confronted Rango. After listening to Rango say that it was terrible for a parent to outlive his own child and muse how old his son would have been, if he had still been alive; and that he needed to settle scores by extinguishing his son's murderer for revenge, Fett, knowing that Rango would never drop his personal vendetta against him, killed the businessman.

### Hunting Mir Tork and Leonis Murthé

Fett was hired by Slique Brighteyes to kill Mir Tork and Leonis Murthé, the commanders of the Imperial "Death Ship" *Azgoghk*. Brighteyes offered Fett the entire wealth of the last surviving Gulmarids: 100 credits. Fett scoffed at such an offer and took it as an insult. Brighteyes told Fett how his name used to inspire such fear and respect throughout the Galaxy until he got eaten by the sarlacc. He also appealed to Fett's code of honor and justice. Giving in to his claims, Boba accepted the job. After taking down the ship on Malicar 3, Fett returned to Brighteyes on Basteel with the severed heads of his targets and received his payment.

### Hunting a Quarren

Fett was hired by Graballa the Hutt to bring in a Quarren bounty. The Hutt supplied Fett with a tracking fob to aid in the hunt. Using the tracking fob, Fett tracked his target to an Imperial junkyard in space. He arrived undetected in *Slave I*, proceeding to hide among the direct ships that were floating in space in order to evade notice by his quarry, after turning off the power to all his ship's systems. Fett waited for the right time to strike on his target. The Quarren, who was hiding among the wreckage in his HH-87 Starhopper as he knew there would be bounty hunters coming after him for the price on his head, departed moments later, making the jump to hyperspace. Fett followed, using the tracking fob to track the bounty.

#### Eadu

Fett tracked the Quarren to the stormy planet of Eadu. However, as he entered the atmosphere, he had difficulty flying *Slave I* due to a raging storm, and the ship hit one of the cliffs, causing it to crash on the surface near the wreckage of LMTR-20, the U-wing that was used by a team of Rebel agents led by Jyn Erso and Captain Cassian Jeron Andor to arrive on Eadu with the intention of locating Galen Erso years ago. Deeming *Slave I* inoperable due to the damage it sustained in the crash, Fett departed on the hunt for the bounty, having to find a new means of transport off-world.

Fett tracked the Quarren to the ruins of the Eadu Energy Conversion Laboratory. Using his jetpack, he blasted his way to the entrance, entering and searching for his bounty. Unbeknownst to Fett, however, fellow bounty hunter Durge touched down on the planet, being after the same bounty as well. Fett encountered the Quarren bounty in the ruins of the laboratory and tried to blast him, but the fugitive fled, resulting in a cat-and-mouse chase within the Imperial kyber refinery's ruins; in the end Fett did not catch his target as the Quarren was able to sneak out a hidden back end. Fett returned to the entrance, and used his rangefinder to spot Durge on the horizon, ambushing him, stating that the bounty on this Quarren was his to take and no one else's, and that he intended to get paid for the job. Fett blasted Durge in the back, though the Gen'dai survived due to his tough armor. The two hunters then engaged in a scuffle until Fett spotted the Quarren running past them and in another direction. After subduing Durge with his flamethrower, Fett chased the Quarren all the way to the Eadu Flight Station nearby. Fett stunned the Quarren and prepared to cuff him, but Durge, who had recovered, appeared, grabbing Fett and throwing him to the side, sending him slamming against one of the Zeta-class cargo shuttles parked at the shuttle depot. Durge got out his quad-barreled rifle and prepared to finish off Fett, but the latter fired a wrist rocket that knocked the weapon out of Durge's hands. Fett then attacked with his carbine rifle, though Durge was able to resist the shots, firing back with his gatling gauntlet. Fett saw a nearby fuel canister and blasted it, causing a large explosion that knocked back Durge; Fett then walked over to him and prepared to kill him in order to capture the bounty for himself, and to prevent him from interfering with the job. Durge then swung a fist at Fett, who pushed him back and tried to pull back with a grappling line. Durge instead pulled his opponent to him and dealt a blow to Fett before using his jetpack to throw him to the side. As the pair used their flamethrowers at each other, Fett used his free hand to secretly get out a flash grenade and lob it to the ground; Durge failed to notice this because he was too focused on trying to kill Fett, shooting his flamethrower. The grenade detonated, creating a large energy flash that blinded Durge and disoriented his hearing. Fett on the other hand was able to duck for cover before the detonation happened.

Boba intended to trick Durge into going into one of the shuttles, and then he would lob a thermal detonator inside and trap him in the ensuing detonation. Fett threw a Dasani canister into one of the nearby shuttles trick Durge; the other bounty hunter, having been blinded, fell for the ruse and thought that the noise was created by Fett himself, tracing it to the shuttle. As Durge went inside, Fett got out a thermal detonator, lobbing it inside the cargo shuttle's entrance. Durge realized too late that he had been tricked once he heard the grenade clattering across the deck and beeping; the detonator exploded, destroying the entire vehicle and creating a large explosion. Fett was able to duck as the explosion happened, taking cover from the flaming debris. As this whole fight happened, the Quarren had apparently made his getaway. As Boba looked up, he saw the Quarren taking off in his HH-87 Starhopper. Fett then took one of the other cargo shuttles at the shuttle depot, SW-1983, giving chase. Unknown to Fett, however, Durge had in fact survived the explosion.

#### Ring of Kafrene

> "*I can bring you in warm, or I can bring you in cold.*"
> ― Boba Fett to the Quarren bounty
>
>

Fett pursued his target to the Ring of Kafrene trading outpost in the Kafrene asteroid belt. After landing the cargo shuttle in one of the docking bays, Fett made his way into the crowded streetways, walking past different beings, while again using the tracking fob to hunt for his target. He tracked down the Quarren bounty in a cantina, restraining him at blasterpoint and stating that he could bring him in warm or he could bring him in cold. Fett cuffed the Quarren and prepared to leave when a gang of Niktos appeared and tried to pick a fight with him. Boba patiently told them not to cross the line, but the gang leader replied by saying he had heard many threatening voices in the past, and in response Fett warned the gang by saying that his voice could be the last one they hear. Fett then proceeded to attack the Nikto aggressors. He dispatched the Nikto gangsters with ease, viciously killing all of them as the rest of the cantina's occupants watched. After this, Fett tossed a bunch of credit chips at the bartender to pay for the mess, leaving the cantina with the Quarren in tow.

Fett departed the Ring of Kafrene in SW-1983 without any more interruptions, having the captured and cuffed Quarren sit next to him on the co-pilot's chair in the cockpit. As Fett made the calculations for the jump to hyperspace, he encountered two New Republic X-wing pilots, Sash Ketter and Trapper Wolf, informing him that his ship was an Imperial era shuttle and that he needed to hand in his transponder for identity confirmation, though Fett merely said he was just a bounty hunter trying to complete his mission. As the pilots told him to stand by to be boarded, Fett blasted off in SW-1983 towards another corner of space, dodging their X-wings. Once Fett finished his calculations, he jumped into hyperspace, escaping from the New Republic starfighters.

Emerging from hyperspace at the Belgaroth asteroid belt, Fett landed the cargo shuttle aboard the *Rancor's Fist* and met with Graballa, who was surprised to see that he wasn't in his "usual ride." After handing in the Quarren, Fett received his payment from the Hutt, departing in SW-1983. Returning to Eadu with the intent to retrieve his ship, Fett left the shuttle behind and ventured to the crash site of *Slave I*, using parts stripped from LMTR-20 to repair the damage to his ship. After this, Fett departed Eadu.

### The hunt for Nien Fenoob

At some point after the hunt for the Quarren, Fett took on a job to hunt down Nien Fenoob, whom he had hunted for in 3 ABY but dropped the job to meet with Darth Vader and subsequently gave it to a rookie bounty hunter. This time, Fenoob was wanted by Gorga Desilijic Aarrpo for breaking a deal and going rogue. Fett chased Fenoob's R-28 starfighter right into a massive battle between the New Republic and the Dark Empire, with Fenoob landing his ship aboard the *Eclipse*. As a result, Fett landed his ship aboard the massive flagship and proceeded to track down Fenoob as a onboard battle raged between Republic and Imperial forces. Eventually, Fett, who fought his way through Imperial forces who saw him as an intruder, found Fenoob and captured him. He then departed the *Eclipse* in *Slave I* without being noticed by either the New Republic or Dark Empire, returning to Gorga and receiving his reward.

### Scarif

In between 8 ABY and 9 ABY, Fett was hired by Andressa Divo to recover the *Black-Saber* data tape from the remains of the Citadel Tower on Scarif, with Divo explaining the purpose of the data tape being recovered. He flew *Slave I* from Denon all the way to Scarif, flying past wreckage from the Battle of Scarif many years earlier, including the ruins of the Shield Gate, the wreckage of the Star Destroyers *Intimidator* and *Persecutor*, and the remains of a Corellian corvette as well as destroyed TIE fighters, Y-wings and X-wings. Touching down on landing pad eight at the remains of the Imperial security complex on the surface, Fett saw the remains of the Citadel Tower, noting that it would be unstable to walk on given the appearance of its remains. Boba walked past the corpses of both Rebel and Imperial Troopers, wondering how they were still there after all these years of being out in the open without being moved. Fett entered the Citadel via Railspeeder, but what he didn't notice was that as he entered, he was noticed by XJ9-CS15, a Viper probe droid that had been dispatched there years earlier to search for the Rebel Alliance's new base. XJ9 transmitted its findings to General Veers aboard the *Avenger*.

Meanwhile, Fett entered the abandoned corridors, walking past scattered objects alike. The interior was unstable due to damage to the tower caused by the fireball at the end of the Battle of Scarif, and there were rumbling noises caused by the tower's damaged state happening at all times. As Boba, using a map of the Citadel given to him by Divo, entered an elevator, he had to press the start button three times to get it working, as it had been unused and partly broken down for nearly nine years. Later, Fett got to the area where the entrance to the data vault was. He passed several stormtrooper corpses, even coming across the unmoved body of K-2SO. Fett noticed that the data vault's entrance was locked, as K-2SO had destroyed the controls to it during the Battle of Scarif to ensure that Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor would succeed in stealing the Death Star plans. So he attached a specialized thermal detonator to the vault entrance, blowing it open.

In orbit of Scarif, Veers and his ships dropped out of hyperspace; this was all unknown to Fett who was busy completing his objective down below. Two Imperial transports and a Sentinel-class landing craft were dispatched to the planet's surface. There, the stormtroopers aboard the crafts would be tasked with recovering the *Black-Saber* data tape before Boba himself could. A squad of the troopers was deployed to enter the Citadel Tower in order to do this.

Upon entering the vault and seeing the partially-destroyed data tower, Fett skimmed through the files in search of the plans and stopped at *Black-Saber*, realizing that they were the plans he was looking for. However, he had to go outside the vault to use the near-destroyed control computer outside, partially repairing it using his tools; to highlight the data-tape's position. After he did this, he proceeded to use the still-functioning retrieving mechanism to get it, and succeeded, even though there were small objects collapsing and rumbling noises. As Fett prepared to leave, he turned around and saw a stormtrooper, part of the squad dispatched to enter the tower, who was pointing at him with a blaster and telling him to raise his hands. Fett grabbed the trooper, easily wrestling him down and pushing him out of the broken window, sending him falling to his death. Boba then encountered the rest of the stormtrooper squad outside of the vault, engaging them in combat and dispatching them easily.

After disposing of the stormtroopers, Boba then went outside onto the ruined forward landing pad of the tower. He noted that there would be more Imperial Troopers in the surrounding grounds. Suddenly, a group of Jumptroopers appeared out of nowhere and attacked Fett. During the ensuing confrontation, both Fett and the troopers used their jetpacks and weapons to fight each other both on the ruined pad and in the sky. After he disposed of the jumptroopers, Fett then rocketed away, hoping to ambush the stormtroopers who were in the surrounding grounds below.

Out in the surrounding area on the beach, stormtroopers were patrolling the waters and grounds outside for any trace of Fett's presence. Suddenly, a grenade thrown by the bounty hunter appeared at their position, where it exploded, killing several of the troopers. Fett then appeared, engaging the stormtroopers, killing several of them with ease. Two Imperial shock troopers arrived, engaging the bounty hunter in close quarters. Despite their heavy weapons, Fett was able to kill one of them using his flamethrower, and blasted the other in his head, knocking the trooper into the water, where a few shoretrooper and stormtrooper helmets left over from the Battle of Scarif were lying in the water. Then, Fett engaged the Stormtrooper Commander of the deployment, easily killing him with a blaster. Fett then went to landing pad eight, hoping to leave with the data tape as his mission was done, but he saw that a Lambda-class T-4a shuttle containing reinforcements had landed there, and its troopers were securing the landing pad. Fett appeared, and one of troopers stated that they didn't want Fett, as they wanted the data tape. However, Fett got out a blaster pistol and shot a fuel container, causing it to explode and knocking the troopers aside. Fett then proceeded to again engage the stormtroopers, defeating them all. As Fett got out a grenade in order to destroy the shuttle, an Imperial sharpshooter climbed onto the top of the bunker entrance, taking aim at Fett. However, Fett sensed the sniper and shot him down, causing the trooper to fall onto the ground. Boba successfully lobbed the grenade into the shuttle, destroying it instantly.

Fett then watched as the Imperial transports fled from a distance, and, while standing atop a crashed Blue Squadron X-wing nearby to get an angle of his target, launched his jetpack missile into one of the transports, causing it to crash into the other transport, destroying them both. At that same moment, Fett saw the Sentinel-class craft escaping from another position within the Areca nut palm trees, and gave pursuit in *Slave I*. Fett gave chase, chasing the Sentinel-class shuttle into the sky, seeking to bring it down. After some time, he had his target locked, but was then attacked by four TIE/IN interceptors. Fett quickly shot at the landing craft's engines, disabling one of it's engines before breaking off to fight the TIE interceptors. Boba and *Slave I* went into the clouds, confusing the interceptors, and then suddenly came out and destroyed one of the TIEs with the laser cannons. Fett, with this advantage, gained the upper hand and resumed his pursuit of the landing craft that was remaining low due to the damage it sustained. Finally, Fett disabled the Sentinel-class craft with a single ion torpedo, sending it plunging into the oceans of Scarif. Still, the remaining three TIE Interceptors were in pursuit, so Fett unloaded a seismic charge from *Slave I*, causing it to fall to the interceptors' vicinity, where it exploded, destroying them.

Boba Fett blasted into space, where he encountered the *Avenger,* another other Star Destroyer, and an Imperial light cruiser in orbit. Fett noticed that the ships were positioned to prevent the possibility of him escaping from Scarif. Aboard the *Avenger*'s bridge, General Veers ordered a squadron of TIE Fighters to engage Fett's ship, and the squadron was deployed from the *Avenger*. Fett would then engage the TIEs in combat in space, around the ships, and also around the space debris left over from the Battle of Scarif. After destroying several of the fighters, Boba detected several New Republic ships emerging from hyperspace, and, determined to hide his involvement in the incidents at Scarif, jumped into lightspeed, fleeing the Scarif system a few moments before the New Republic forces arrived.

Afterwards, Fett met with Divo on Denon, where he handed over the *Black-Saber* data tape. When Divo explained that this was a trying time in the Age of the New Republic, Fett remained focused on the money he was owed, demanding to be paid after all he had been through at Scarif. After this, Fett received his reward, departing Denon in *Slave I*.

### Fighting Jodo Kast

During the last period of time, Jodo Kast, a would-be bounty hunter, managed to acquire his Mandalorian armor in an attempt to imitate Fett after getting it back, and made others believe that *he* was the infamous bounty hunter. Boba himself eventually learned of this right after his mission to Scarif. Tracking him to Nevarro, Boba waited until Kast, using Fett's own name, was done receiving his new "assignment" from Greef Karga, and then prepared to make his move. However, in reality, that new bounty was in fact a fake one, as Boba, with the help of the slicer Jem Lavar had sliced into the Bounty Hunters' Guild's systems, inserting a bounty on a non-existent man, Madak, who was in fact him in disguise, complete with a reward, information and hologram; even Greef Karga fell for the ruse when he came across the bounty in the list of available jobs from the Guild. In the end Boba ambushed Kast and finished him off by causing his jetpack to overload.

### Dealing with IG-88A and the Second Union

Marg Krim gave Fett the job of tracking down an Aqualish criminal who owed him a large debt.

### Bounty on Bar-Kooda

Fett once again found himself working for the Hutts when Gorga the Hutt hired Boba to locate the pirate Bar-Kooda. Even though the standing bounty was 100,000 credits, Boba demanded double that; Gorga grudgingly accepted. On this mission, Fett enlisted the help of Wim Magwit, an illusionist who had spent four years aboard Bar-Kooda's starship, *Bloodstar*, performing for the pirates. When first confronted by Fett, Magwit effectively faked his own death to avoid the bounty hunter—who was not fooled. Magwit agreed to help Fett in exchange for freedom from an outstanding bounty on his own head. Using Magwit's mystifying hoop, Fett was able to bring Bar-Kooda out in the open. With the help of Wim and the pirate, Toxus Li, Boba finally subdued Bar-Kooda after firing his flamethrower into Bar-Kooda's face. Meanwhile, Magwit had fled back to the escape pod. With Bar-Kooda in tow, Fett and Magwit blasted free from *Bloodstar* and returned to Gorga with his prize. Shortly afterwards, Fett gave his corpse over to Gorga the Hutt and his guests to dine on.

After the Bar-Kooda bounty, Fett was attacked by a vengeful Ry-Kooda, Bar-Kooda's elder brother, who sought revenge on Fett and Gorga. After a confrontation on Rutal IV, Fett and Ry-Kooda collided on Abafar, and violence ensued. Boba was confronted with Ry-Kooda, a larger and more ferocious—to the point of being psychotic—opponent than his brother. Ry-Kooda was beaten by Fett, who fired a wrist rocket into a wrecked ship they were fighting next to, collapsing debris onto him. However, Ry-Kooda survived and would face Fett a second time. This time, Fett quite literally blew up Ry-Kooda, killing him and ending the threat against Gorga and himself. After this, Fett fended off Boz, who swore revenge on him.

### On Hypori

On Hypori, Fett encountered three Gotal assassins near the wreckage of a downed Acclamator-class assault ship. After the assassins attempted to engage Boba with ion disruptors, he disintegrated them using a weapon accelerator. After this, he encountered Zuckuss and 4-LOM, who were revealed to have sent the Gotals after him when they learned of his arrival on Hypori. The three bounty hunters recalled the last time they had met, which was during the hunt for Tobbs. Ultimately, all three combatants agreed to drop their feud, which had started when Zuckuss and 4-LOM betrayed Fett on the Tobbs job, and go their separate ways.

### Capturing Khey'et

Fett was later hired to capture fellow bounty hunter Velk Khey'et, whom he had met before. Khey'et was living on The Island on the planet Nordis. Upon arriving, Fett slowly descended from the air using his jetpack upon finding Khey'et. Fett soon revealed his holopuck for Khey'et. Desperate and uncertain, Khey'et pulled a blaster and thermal detonator out on Fett, to which Fett instinctively raised his blaster and wrist gauntlet at his fellow hunter. The pair stood in silence waiting for one of them to make their move. Eventually, Khey'et shot at Fett, causing Fett to shoot the blaster out of his hand in response. Fett tackled Khey'et to the ground and knocked the other hunter's thermal detonator away. Some castaways watched as this happened. Fett turned around and aimed his blaster at them, warning them not to come any closer. The castaways backed away from the bounty hunter to let him continue on with his business. Later, Fett left the Island in *Slave I* with Khey'et.

### Return to Tatooine

#### Losing his armor

At some point in 9 ABY, Boba returned to Tatooine and landed *Slave I* in Docking Bay 94, planning to take the throne of Jabba Desilijic Tiure. However, he was ambushed by Boba Fatt, a pig who worked as a bounty hunter, at the Great Pit of Carkoon. During their fight, Fatt's jetpack malfunctioned and went crazy after being knocked against the wreckage of the *Khetanna*, causing him to inadvertently slam into Fett who was taking aim and knock him into the sarlacc's mouth. For the third time in his life, Fett survived being eaten by the sarlacc, where he was knocked unconscious for an unknown length of time. Fortunately for the bounty hunter, he eventually awoke suddenly, gasping for air. Fett activated his helmet light and discovered the corpse of one of the two sandtroopers he had killed right after his first escape from the sarlacc back in 4 ABY; the sandtrooper's corpse had been thrown into the sarlacc pit sometime after Boba killed him. In hopes to escape the Sarlacc like he did before years ago, he yanked out the trooper's air tube and attached it to his own helmet, and took a deep breath. Thinking quickly, Fett activated his flamethrower to burn through the Sarlacc's hide and dug himself out of the pit. Exhausted and suffering wounds from this third encounter with the beast, Fett collapsed near the wreckage of the *Khetanna*. Some time later, he was then found by Jawas who separated him from his armor, which Fett somewhat helplessly witnessed. When he attempted to resist their attempts at theft, Fett was knocked out by the Jawas and left for dead. His armor was later acquired by the Tatooinian sheriff Cobb Vanth, who had lost his previous armor sometime before. Having no memory of losing it, Vanth subsequently believed Fett's armor was the same suit of armor.

#### Prisoner of the Tusken Raiders

Fett, still injured and lying in the middle of a sandstorm, was found by a group of Tusken Raiders who took him as a prisoner. Fett was forced to travel a very long distance by foot, dragged along in chains by a Bantha ridden by a family of Tuskens. Some distance into the journey, Fett gave in to his dire pain, exhaustion, and dehydration and collapsed in the desert once more, dragged against the sand. A little while longer, he awoke after the party had stopped at their home camp. Several adolescent Tuskens beat him with gaderffii sticks, knocking him unconscious again. That night, Fett awakened at his post, close to a Rodian prisoner, and guarded by a massiff. Fett drew the attention of the massiff, which lunged at him. Fett knocked out the beast and used its sharp teeth to cut his bonds. Fett asked the Rodian if he wanted him to cut his bonds, but the prisoner cried, alerting the rest of the Tusken tribe. Fett fled into the desert with the massiff in hot pursuit. The creature caught up with him and they fought, until the Tuskens caught up with him and call the beast back. One of the Tuskens approached him with a gaderffii stick. After sizing each other, the two broke into a duel. The Tusken had knocked Fett to the ground, and beaten him repeatedly when he attempted to rise and fight again. The other Tuskens surrounded the bounty hunter, with one kicking him to the ground. Fett slips into unconsciousness.

Following his unsuccessful escape attempt, Fett was woken up by a young Tusken and led away by his bound hands, with his feet chained to the captive Rodian who followed. They reached a sand dune and watched a homestead, with several Kajain'sa'Niktos beating a man. The Tusken child instead led the Rodian and Fett to a separate place and told them to start digging for black melons. The Rodian complied immediately, although the bounty hunter had trouble understanding the Tusken's orders. After realizing what the child wanted, Fett proceeded to dig under the watchful eyes of the Tusken and the massiff. Fett attempted to drink from one of the melons, but was promptly stopped by the child, who proceeded to dump the water out for his massiff. Continuing to dig for the melons, Fett told the Rodian that they could have both escaped had he kept his snout closed. Fett said that if he could get to Anchorhead, he could get them offworld. Fett grumbled about strangling the Rodian and feeding him to the watchdog. The Rodian returned an insult in Rodian.

While continuing their dig, the Rodian discovered a Tatooine sand ape, which attacked him. The massiff attempted to counterattack before being thrown away by the creature, which then killed the Rodian. Fett was lifted up by his chains by the beast and the Tusken stabbed the creature's foot while it was distracted, resulting in the creature throwing the bounty hunter and hitting the Tusken, causing him to hurtle onto the sand. The creature turned from Fett and went after the Tusken adolescent. However, Fett wrapped his chains around the beast's neck and asphyxiated the creature. After this encounter, the youngling presented the deceased creature's decapitated head as a trophy to his tribe, earning Fett respect from the tribe's chief. The chief wordlessly handed Fett a melon, which Fett drank.

#### Living among the Tuskens

Fett learned to wield a gaderffii stick from a Tusken, who taught him to hold the stick properly before parrying. She knocked the staff out of Fett's hand before telling him to practice again. He asked the Tusken to show him. An animal's roar was heard in the background and the Tuskens took up position as an armored hovertrain approached and its Pyke occupants fired on the group, leaving several Tuskens killed and wounded as the train rode away. Fett watched the tribe attending to their wounded and dead, and later that night, the Tuskens cremated their fallen. Fett himself carried the remains of a young Tusken.

After watching several speeder bikes passing their encampment. Fett spoke to the tribal elders, vowing to stop the train with a cycler rifle and his training gaderffi stick, promising to be back by morning. Fett travels to Tosche Station, where several Nikto miners were harassing two patrons at a cantina. Fett, armed with his gaderffii and rifle, interrumped and fought the Nikto, wounding and killing some. After stopping for a drink, Fett inspected the speeder bikes that belonged to the Nikto, and returned to the camp with several bikes in tow as a gift to the Tusken Raiders.

Fett then offered to teach the Tusken how to operate and ride the speeder bikes, and helped them prepare for an assault on the hovertrain. As the Tusken got better with handling the bikes and leaping from their vehicles, Fett continued practicing with the gaderffi stick and learned how to knock the weapon out of his opponents' hands.

One Tusken sentry spotted the approaching hovertrain, followed by the Tuskens in the trenches exchanging fire with the Pyke gunners, Fett and other Tuskens riding speeder bikes pursued the train. Fett rescued one and used a grappling hook to latch onto the hovertrain, killing one of the Pyke gunners. Fett and the Raiders jumped across carriages and fight several of the emerging Pykes as they approached the train engine. After the lead Pyke gunner and his companions were defeated, turning the tide in favor of the Tuskens, the driver droid fired up the engine, causing a blast to knock off one of Fett's Tusken allies. After fighting more Pyke guards near the train engine, Fett forced his way into the train engine where he ordered the driver to stop the vehicle. The droid instead jumped out into the desert, leaving Fett to stop the train after a lengthy struggle, causing it to brake in the desert.

The Tusken Raiders rounded up the surviving Pykes. Fett demanded to know who is the leader and asked if he was carrying spice. Fett stated that the Pyke Syndicate would have to pay a toll to the Tusken to cross the Dune Sea. He then allowed the Pykes to go free in the direction of Anchorhead, escorted by a number of Tuskens.

That night, Fett continued to strengthen his ties to the Tusken tribe. The chief presented Fett with a gift, consisting of a small lizard in a basket. The reptile crept into Fett's nostrils, causing him to experience a series of hallucinations. Fett wandered through the desert as his visions showed him a large tree and oceans in the place of the sands of Tatooine. He then saw himself trapped in the maw of the Sarlacc at the Pit of Carkoon, reliving his father Jango's death on Geonosis, and finally saw himself as a child on Kamino, looking from his apartment as *Slave I* landed on Tipoca City*.* The vision ended with him emerging while the ocean roared. The following day, Fett returned to the camp carrying a branch from his night journey. After being greeted by the chief and his followers, the lizard emerged from his nostrils and was asked by the Tusken chief about the branch. The Tuskens led Fett inside a tent where he was clothed him with Tusken robes, scarves, and bandages. After emerging from the tent, Fett, accompanied by the young Tusken whom he saved from the six-limbed creature, headed into the desert towards a wrecked site where other Tuskens helped Fett build his own gaderffi stick from the branch he carried. Later that night, Fett presented his new weapon to the rest of the Tusken clan and took part on the corresponding ritual celebrations around the campfire.

#### Journey to Mos Eisley

The Tuskens watched Fett with a sense of respect as he rode into the desert into Mos Eisley. He asked two Jawas upon entering the town where the Pykes did their business and rode on his bantha through the town, past spikes of stormtrooper helmets. Fett tethered his bantha outside a building guarded by two Pykes. Fett stated that he had business with the Pyke Syndicate. The Pykes admitted him into the building. Fett walked down the stairs and met with the Pyke leader, who had received his message and explains that protection arrangements are all part of doing business in the Outer Rim Territories. Fett said that he would take payment and be on his way.

The Pyke replied that he had spoken with his superiors on Oba Diah, who were unwilling to pay protection to more than one party. Fett replied that he was collecting on behalf of the Tuskens of the Dune Sea. The Pyke leader responded that the Kintan Striders had already collected protection money for the same territory that he laid claim to. Fett then replied that they didn't need to pay protection to that speeder bike gang since the Sand people far outnumbered them. Fett said that the sands have belonged to the Tuskens since the oceans of Tatooine had dried. But the Pyke said that they were willing to do business with either party but that they did not want to be taken advantage of by paying money to both and told Fett that he hoped he understood. Fett vowed to resolve this and said that he would not hear from the Nikto sand flyers again. The Pyke then said that he looked forward to their partnership.

Fett rode across the Dune Sea on his bantha to return to his Tusken camp. As he approached the encampment, he noticed flames in the distance. Fett walked on foot to the Tusken village only to find that the clan had been slaughtered. He discovered burnt tents and several fallen banthas. While surveying the destruction, he found the remains of Tuskens lying on the ground. Fett also recognized the marking of a gang that he had encountered earlier on Tatooine. Fett cremated the remains of his Tusken friends before recovering his Gaderffii stick. After paying his respects to the dead, Fett rode away on his bantha.

#### Wandering the sands

> "*I am Boba Fett.*"
> ― Boba Fett to Rolf
>
>

Fett then donned his second set of armor which he had worn on Panna Prime years ago after retrieving it from his ship in Docking Bay 94. He then trekked across the sands with his bantha, even returning to the Sarlacc pit to taunt Susejo and the Sarlacc, promising to destroy them both one day. Then, he rode his bantha to Mos Espa, where he settled in and watched a podrace, among other things. Later, when Fett, carrying a bag containing the items and clothing the Tuskens had given him, returned to Docking Bay 94 to put the armor away in *Slave I*, he saw that his gunship was missing from where he had parked it. Right after this, Boba found about his ship's theft from a passerby who had witnessed the whole thing happen. He told Fett the ship had been stolen by thieves and moved to Jabba's Palace. Boba then left after removing his Panna armor and resuming wearing the black clothing given to him by the Tuskens, preparing to continue searching for his missing original armor as well as his ship. A few minutes after he left Mos Eisley on his bantha, Fett encountered a Second Union K79-S80 Imperial Troop Transport carrying Second Union soldiers. The soldiers disembarked and surrounded him at gunpoint after he got off his bantha. They mistook Fett for a "travelling nomad" due to his black outfit and the cycler rifle and gaderffii stick he carried on his back; demanding that he "hand over the valuables." Fett suddenly brandished his gaderffii, dodging the soldiers' blaster shots and dispatching them with ease. He then grabbed the remaining soldier by the throat, holding him in chokehold and announcing himself. The soldier was terrified upon hearing the words "I am Boba Fett," and was thrown to ground by Fett who impaled him in the chest with his gaffi stick. After this, Fett continued on his way to reclaim both his armor and the *Slave I*.

##### Saving Fennec Shand

During the search for his armor, Boba traveled to Jabba's Palace, now controlled by Bib Fortuna, to locate the *Slave I*. Upon arriving atop a nearby hill, Fett identified numerous guards protecting the hangar where the *Slave I* was located. Deciding that he could not take the ship without arousing suspicion, he turned away. That night, Fett was eating a meal with his bantha when two flares lit up the sky nearby, and decided to investigate. Boba came across the dying form of Fennec Shand when he arrived at the scene. Boba carried her to his bantha and then traveled to the nearest mod artist to get her cybernetic implants to heal her wound she had suffered from being shot by Toro Calican. After brief persuasion, the artist agreed and Fett spectated the surgery. Later, Shand awakened painfully, after being taken back out into the desert and left near a campfire. As her vision sharpened, she noticed Fett tending to the fire and the bantha sitting comfortably nearby. With difficulty, she propped herself up onto an elbow as Fett cracked a black melon open. He placed it near her and told her to drink, but she first asked him what happened to her. Fett informed her that she was dying, but that he had also saved her life. She looked around suspiciously and then down to her own torso, only to notice the writhing cybernetics in the place that used to be her gut area. Thinking he implanted the cybernetics, she demanded what he did to her. Fett responded by telling her that he took her to the mod parlor at Mos Eisley, which was the best he could do for her under the circumstances.

Fett recognized her as the Master Assassin, Fennec Shand of the Mid Rim, to which Shand assumed that her bounty was higher with her alive. Fett confirms this, and although Shand immediately offered him more than double the price on her head, he told her that he was not after money. She asked him who he was, and although he had answered honestly, she dismissed it, as she thought that Boba Fett was dead, believing he was nothing more than a half-digested morsel in the sarlacc's belly. Fett responded that he was left for dead on the sands of Tatooine, after his third escape form the sarlacc; just as she was. He told her of how the Tuskens had rescued him and accepted him into their tribe, and that he tried to help them, only for them to wind up dead after he attracted the attention of a gang of Nikto speed bikers. Shand expressed her disbelief that mere speed bikers could have defeated the Sand People, but Fett changed the conversation and told her that he wanted her help to recover his gunship. When Shand asked him why he did not simply ask for the ship's return, Fett replied that he may not like the response since he was less persuasive without his armor. Fett assured her that if she helped him, her debt to him would be considered repaid.

After the two recovered the starship, Shand decided to stay with Fett, and Fett used the *Slave I* to wipe out the Kintan Striders. Later, after finding that Fett's armor was not in the Sarlacc, the two sat by a fire, giving Fett a chance to explain to Shand why his outlook on bounty hunting had changed. Hoping to build a crime family that emulated the Tusken tribe that had respected him, Fett convinced Shand to join his new organization by offering her loyalty.

#### Finding his armor

Later, the two stayed with Lyn Me at the Spaceport Hotel in Mos Eisley. The trio ventured around Mos Eisley and took a small journey across the sands, eventually coming across the Desilijic Complex, where they discovered a large amount of valuable artifacts worth looting. Sometime after, Fett found out that his armor was in the possession of Cobb Vanth after interrogating a group of Jawas. Vanth later gave Fett's armor to the Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin in exchange for his help in killing a krayt dragon that was terrorizing Vanth's town of Mos Pelgo. As Din returned to Mos Eisley and his ship, the *Razor Crest*, he was observed by Fett. After watching Djarin, Fett descended from the hilltop where he had been standing.

Eventually, Fett departed Tatooine with Shand on *Slave I*. Together, they tracked Din Djarin and Grogu to Tython. After a tense standoff, the two made a deal with Djarin to protect Grogu in exchange for returning Fett's lost armor to him.

### Helping Djarin

#### Tython

However, Moff Gideon arrived on Tython in force, intent on capturing Grogu. Two Imperial transports were sent down from his cruiser and deployed stormtroopers in a skirmish against Djarin, Fett, and Shand. Boba took on several stormtroopers with his Cycler rifle and Gaderffii, and seeing the *Razor Crest* open and unguarded, took the opportunity to reclaim his armor and bring the battle to a swift end. However, During the fighting, Grogu was taken by the Imperials. After using the armor's chain code to prove his ownership of it to Djarin, Fett and Shand agreed to help Djarin rescue Grogu, saying the child's abduction meant they were still indebted to him to ensure Grogu's safety. As the *Razor Crest* had been destroyed by Gideon's forces, Fett and Shand brought Djarin to Nevarro from *Slave I*; there, Djarin met with New Republic marshal and friend Cara Dune to gain information on Migs Mayfeld, whom Djarin believed could help them locate Gideon.

#### Morak

When Fett and the rest of the group arrived to collect him, Mayfeld confused Fett for Djarin due to his Mandalorian armor, which had now been re-painted. Realizing he had no other choice, Mayfeld reluctantly gave Djarin the location of an Imperial refinery on Morak where they could access information from a terminal. Djarin passed this information over to Fett, who then entered the coordinates. After arriving, the group stood upon a hilltop and formulated their plan. Fett explained that he could not go with Mayfeld to access the terminal, reasoning that the Imperial remnant may recognize his face, leaving Djarin to assume the role of Mayfeld's companion. Once Djarin and Mayfeld completed their mission, Fett flew in with *Slave I* to extract the duo. After boarding the ship, Mayfeld asked Djarin to give him one of the cycler rifles, which Mayfeld used to fire at the rhydonium within the refinery, destroying the cargo they had delivered and setting off a massive explosion. While being chased by two TIE fighters, Fett released a seismic charge, destroying the two pursuing ships. After *Slave I* had landed, Dune and Djarin decided to release Mayfeld from his prison sentence to thank him for his help. Onboard *Slave I*, Djarin sent a transmission to Moff Gideon, warning him that he would be coming to reclaim Grogu.

#### Attack on Gideon's cruiser

After acquiring Gideon's coordinates, Fett and the group used *Slave I* to pursue an Imperial shuttle carrying Doctor Pershing. After disabling the ship with *Slave I*'s ion cannons, it was boarded by Djarin and Dune who, after a brief standoff, captured Pershing. Following this, *Slave I* landed on the desert planet Lafete as Fett and Djarin entered a cantina to speak with Bo-Katan Kryze and Koska Reeves. Djarin attempted to recruit Kryze to help rescue Grogu, but after she said they would not find Gideon, Fett suggested they leave. Upon hearing Fett's voice, Kryze and Reeves declared he was not a Mandalorian, and that he was just a clone of Jango Fett and a disgrace to his armor for insulting Mandalore. Fett and Reeves then entered a brief fight before it was broken up by Kryze, who declared that she and Reeves would help Djarin.

Following this, Fett followed the Imperial Shuttle piloted by Kryze in *Slave I* as part of her plan; to send out a distress signal to the cruiser whilst under attack from *Slave I* in order to board and take over the ship. As the group exited hyperspace, Fett began firing upon the shuttle as it sent out its distress signal. However, Gideon ordered for a squad of TIE fighters to intercept Fett's ship. In the ensuing battle, as Kryze crashed the shuttle into the cruiser's launch tube, with Fett disposed of the fighters before jumping away into hyperspace, leaving the infiltration team to finish their mission.

### Taking over Jabba's Palace

Sometime after Din Djarin's attack on Gideon's cruiser, Fett and Shand returned to Jabba's Palace on Tatooine, now under the control of Bib Fortuna, who acted as Jabba's majordomo prior to his death. Fortuna expressed surprise at Fett's survival after he fell into the sarlacc pit. Without responding to him, Fett shot Fortuna dead and threw his corpse off the palace's throne, taking his place on the throne with Shand by his side.

### Skirmish on Geonosis

Shortly after the takeover of Jabba's Palace, Fett and Shand traveled to Geonosis in *Slave I* to visit Jango's grave. They landed near a small canyon, where a damaged U-wing was parked next to where they touched down. Fett cautioned Shand that they were not alone, as Geonosis was supposedly abandoned due to the Empire's sterilization of the planet years ago. They ventured across the land, coming across remains of Clone Wars-era Separatist military assets. Boba then picked up a restaurant called the Geonosian Grub on his scanners, and told Shand they had found a place to go sit and relax. However, they did not realize that they were spotted by spies affiliated with General Veers, whose forces Boba had faced on Scarif some time ago. The spies reported to one of Veers' officers, who was with the general nearby on the planet as a group of Dark Empire forces was overseeing old Geonosian droid factories in order to make battle droids to fully restore the Empire's glory.

Fett and Shand arrived at Geonosian Grub, and were greeted by the restaurant owner, who led them to their table. Fett ordered their food and drinks, and he and Shand settled in. A second later, he noticed someone familiar sitting nearby, who turned out to be none other than Indiana Jones, Fett's old friend. The duo reunited, and Fett even introduced Shand to Jones, saying that she was his new partner. They talked about what they had been up to for the last period of time. Fett talked about him and Shand repaying their debt for Din Djarin, referring to him as “another bounty hunter.” Shand then added that she and Boba took over Jabba’s Palace. Jones was impressed by these events, calling Jabba's Palace a place of wretched villainy, complimenting the pair. Then, the trio settled in for their food and drinks. Shortly afterward, per order of General Veers, a squad of death troopers opened fire on the restaurant, killing the Geonosian owner and his B1 battle droid workers. Fett and his compatriots quickly took cover behind a table. When the firing stopped, the group proceeded to take cover behind the diner's pillars, and looked outside to see that they were surrounded by the death troopers reinforced by an entire company of stormtroopers. The group then saw a TIE Advanced x1 land outside with its pilot, General Veers, exiting the ship. As the situation unfolded, Jones hailed his droid, K-7R3 on the comlink and told him to get their U-wing repaired as fast as possible. However, the transmission was intercepted by two scout troopers, who sped to the ship's position on their speeder bikes.

Trapped in the restaurant, Fett, Shand, and Jones discussed their escape route, until Fett pointed out that the sewers underneath would lead to a safe place in the underground catacombs. Using his visor, he discovered a hidden trapdoor which could be cut open to enter the sewers. As Veers' troops began readying their weapons, Shand and Fett attempted to open the floor door to no avail, as it was tightly shut. Veers utilized the situation to negotiate with the group, revealing that he had great respect for Fett, but with the events that had happened on Scarif with the *Black-Saber* data tape, he was here to make sure he would avenge himself upon the bounty hunter for stealing the data tape, and gave the trio until nightfall to surrender before leaving.

Because of this, Fett indirectly revealed what happened on the mission to Scarif to Shand and Jones, and warned that Veers was fearsome for being one of Darth Vader's best generals. When Jones attempted to hail K-7R3 again, the comlink was silent until the droid responded, revealing to the group that he had "taken care of" the two scout troopers. Soon afterward, K-7R3 arrived at outside the Geonosian Grub aboard a speeder bike, and attacked Veers' forces.

Fett ordered Shand to provide covering fire, while he and Jones exited the cantina to combat the Imperials. During the fight, the bounty hunter was attacked by two death troopers, but he was able to fend them off. Then, he faced Veers one-on-one, incapacitating him just as a group of battle droids from the droid factory was arriving. Seeing K-7R3 being overwhelmed by laser fire, Fett quickly obtained a heavy blaster cannon and fired at the troopers and droids. However, Veers returned to the area and shot nearby fuel packs, knocking Fett back. Shand then carried Fett while the group retreated to the diner.

The four then watched as a Shadow trooper prepared to enter the restaurant to finish them off. When K-7R3 managed to remove the grating on the hidden trapdoor, Shand remained behind, wishing to buy the group time to escape. While Fett, Jones and K-7R3 escaped into the catacombs, Shand was able to defeat the shadow trooper and kill him.

Shand later reached the group in the underground catacomb tunnels. As they made their way through the tunnels, a group of B1 battle droids sent by Veers to stop them attacked. The group was able to defeat the droids with ease. Fett, Shand, Jones and K-7R3 then escaped towards the exit to the tunnels leading outside, thinking that they were safe. Through his visor, Fett identified heat signatures of a group of stormtroopers waiting to ambush the group at the mouth of the tunnel, and he and the rest of his group readied their weapons once again, ultimately eliminating the troopers in a brief firefight. Outside the tunnel, the group came under fire from Veers' TIE Advanced fighter. While the General circled around for another volley, Fett equipped his jetpack and immediately flew upwards and used his whipcord to pull himself towards the fighter. Struggling to hold on to the TIE, Fett successfully placed two detonators on the TIE, which damaged the ship's wing and caused it to crash into the landscape.

Believing Veers to be dead, Boba returned to the group, where he and Shand parted ways with Jones and K-7R3; heading back to *Slave I* and flying it to visit Jango's grave. After they arrived at Jango’s grave, Boba explained that this was his father’s resting place. Then, he and Shand paid their respects for the late Mandalorian bounty hunter. Afterwards, Boba and Shand departed Geonosis, heading back to Jabba’s Palace on Tatooine, where they intended to rule with respect, unlike Jabba the Hutt who had ruled with fear. When they arrived on Tatooine, Fett and Shand soon entered the throne room after parking the *Slave I*, not knowing that Lyn Me, who had stayed at the palace, had thrown a disco party with several guests. While Me watched nervously, Fett found a drumstick on the throne which he bit. He shared the drumstick with Shand, who finished it. Everyone laughed with joy and relief.

### Daimyo of Tatooine

#### Scary Starship

Fett, Din Djarin (who had traveled to Tatooine), and Shand approached the *Slave I*. With Halloween approaching, they had hung several bat-shaped decorations on the hull of the ship. Djarin activated his jetpack and painted the *Slave I*. Fett laughed at Djarin's handiwork.

In response, Fett wrapped a tarpaulin around the *Slave I* and flew the ship to simulate a ghost. Everyone laughed, but the tarpaulin caught fire during the takeoff. After exiting the cockpit, Fett hurled several pumpkins into the air. Djarin fired holes through them, creating improvised eyes and mouths. Djarin also lighted them up. Fett laughed, and the competition continued.

Djarin wrapped a large toilet roll across the ship, making the *Slave I* resemble a mummy. However, Fett unraveled the roll, causing Djarin to hit his head on the canopy. Fett decorated the *Slave I* with artificial spider webs, trapping Djarin. Djarin freed himself with his flamethrower. While the two Mandalorians were distracted with the competition, Shand flew away with the ship.

Later, Fett and Djarin consoled themselves by roasting marshmallows over fire. Shand returned with several stormtrooper helmets, which she had fastened to the ship's hull and exhaust. Fett and Djarin were spooked by the stormtrooper helmets on the exhaust vents.

#### Scum and Villainy

After establishing himself as the Daimyo, Fett healed himself in a bacta tank. As he healed, he experienced memories of his homeworld Kamino, the death of his father, and his third escape from the Sarlacc. Fennec then awoke Fett and told him to prepare for the guests about to arrive. Back on his throne, he was gifted with tributes by Garfalaquox and Dokk Strassi, who he noted as having previously worked for. However, he was not paid tribute by Mayor Mok Shaiz's majordomo, though Fett chose to let him off with a warning. When two Gamorrean guards were presented to Fett, he spared their lives and informed the torture droid who brought them before him that he had no intentions of harming them. After hearing of their loyalty to both Jabba and Fortuna, Fett recruited them to be his own personal bodyguards.

Later, Fett and Shand visited the Sanctuary, a local cantina and announced their claim to power to the cantina's owner, Garsa Fwip, who in turn gifted them with riches. While on their way back, they were ambushed by mercenaries dressed in red uniforms. Fett was beaten and had to be taken back to his bacta tank. Meanwhile, Shand tracked down two of their attackers, pushing one of them from the top of a building and taking the other as a prisoner. While in the bacta tank, Fett experienced memories of his time at the Tusken Raider camp.

After healing, he interrogated the captured mercenary at his throne, though the assassin of the Order of the Night Wind refused to say anything. When 8D8 explained that the warrior would not answer him, Fett dropped him into the Rancor Pit. Though it was now empty, the opening of the door alone was enough to scare the mercenary, revealing his employment by Shaiz. Fett and Shand returned to Mos Espa with the assassin and confronted Shaiz. Shaiz then had the assassin executed and paid Fett for delivering him. When Fett threatened Shaiz, he denied having hired the mercenary and told Fett to return to the Sanctuary for more information.

#### Power struggle

Upon returning to the Sanctuary, Fett and Shand were met again by Fwip, who informed them that the Twins—a Hutt brother and sister— had returned to claim their late cousin Jabba's territory through kinship. As Fett expressed disbelief over this, he was interrupted by the arrival of the Twins themselves, under the protection of Black Krrsantan. When the Hutts declared their ownership of Mos Espa, Fett asserted his position as the Daimyo of Mos Espa. Neither party acquiesced to the other's demands and Fett told the siblings they would have to kill him for his territory. The Twins reluctantly conceded for the time being, though the brother warned Fett to sleep lightly. Once they left, Fett told Fennec that they would likely have to kill the Hutts, to which Fennec said they would need permission to do so.

##### Investigating the Worker's District

After learning about Mos Espa's three ruling families from 8D8, Fett was met by local water-monger Lortha Peel, who informed Fett that the Mods, a gang of cyborg bikers were stealing his inventory. Peel promised to double his tribute to Fett if he dealt with the bikers. In turn, Fett and Shand left with their Gamorrean guards to meet with the Mods personally. They quickly found the gang at a street corner and confronted them over stealing Peel's water. When one of the bikers, Drash, claimed that they had to steal due to there being no work, Fett offered to hire them himself for security. Peel angrily told Fett that they still owed him thirteen hundred credits, to which Fett gave him five hundred and told him he would have to accept it. The Mods then took Fett's offer and followed him back to his palace on their bikes.

Fett then returned to his bacta tank and continued to heal. However, he was interrupted by Krrsantan, who pulled Fett from the tank and attempted to kill him. After a brief struggle with Fett, Krrsatan was confronted by the Mods. They fought the Wookiee out of Fett's chamber and into the palace throne room. While Krrsantan fought off the bikers and the Gamorreans, Shand opened the trap door beneath his feet and threw a knife at his hand as he held onto the edge, causing him to fall and trapping him in the Rancor Pit. Fett then told the bikers to get one of the Gamorreans to the bacta tank as Krrsantan roared in anger. Afterwards, Fett and Shand sat down to eat while they discussed sending a message to his enemies. They were then informed by 8D8 that the Twins had arrived to speak with him personally.

Meeting Fett by the palace entrance, the Twins admitted they had made a mistake in sending Krrsantan to kill him, apologizing and offering him a rancor calf as tribute. They also announced their departure from Tatooine, as they had learned that Jabba's former holdings had already been promised to another crime syndicate by the Mayor and they had no interest in starting a war over a “worthless rock”. Fett offered the shackled Krrsantan back to the Twins, to which they allowed Fett to keep the Wookiee before leaving the palace. Fett then released Krrsantan and advised him not to take anymore jobs from the Hutts before the Wookiee ran off into the desert.

Bringing the rancor to the Pit, Fett was told by its keeper that it would imprint on the first human it saw. Fett removed the rancor's blinders and formed an immediate bond with the calf. However, he was interrupted by 8D8, who informed him that the Mayor was still unavailable. This did not deter Fett though, as he, Shand and the Mods returned to Mos Espa to confront the Mayor's majordomo. But this time, the majordomo fled in a landspeeder, leading the Mods to give chase. After pursued and damaged his speeder through the streets of Mos Espa, the majordomo crashed into a meiloorun stand and was confronted by Fett, to whom he finally confessed that the Mayor was working for the Pyke Syndicate.

#### War for Mos Espa

Soon after, Fett and Shand were informed by Skad that at least a dozen Pykes had arrived in Mos Espa. Fett told him to keep an eye on them before Shand ended the transmission. Shand pointed out that this was only the first wave and that the Pykes were going to war, to which Fett said that they would be ready. After one final healing session, Fett was informed by Shand that the majordomo was confessing, but the Mayor remained missing. As such, the Mods were combing the streets of Mos Espa to find him. Despite this, Fett still insisted on going to Mos Espa himself, as power hated a vacuum and Fett needed to make his presence known. He then returned to the Sanctuary and witnessed Fwip try and fail to talk down Krrsantan from ripping a Trandoshan's arm off. Following this, Fett greeted the Wookiee on the street and told him that he looked like he could use a job, to which Krrsantan obliged.

Upon returning to his palace, Fett hosted a dinner for the heads of Mos Espa's three ruling families. Fett explained that he was there to make a proposal in light of the Pyke Syndicate vying for control of Tatooine. When the head of the Klatooinian family threatened to simply kill Fett and take what he wanted, he and the rest of the attendants were frightened by the rancor calf directly beneath them. After giving the rancor a scrap of food, Fett asked his guests to remain seated while he made his proposal. He proposed forming a defensive alliance with the families until the Pyke Syndicate was vanquished. The Klatooinian then pointed out that the Pykes were only after Fett's territory and asked why the families should spill their blood for Fett's feud with them. To this, Fett claimed that he would fight off the Pykes himself and that he only asked for the families to remain neutral if the Pykes approached them to betray him. The families then agreed to Fett's proposal before taking their leave. As Fett and Shand watched the families depart, Shand asked Fett if he trusted them, to which Fett answered that he trusted them to work in their own self-interest. When Shand asked him how much treasure they had in reserve, Fett assured her that he had plenty of credits, though he was short on muscle. Shand replied that credits could buy muscle if one knew where to look.

Shand traveled to Peli Motto’s hangar to recruit Din Djarin. Djarin accepted the offer, but asked to travel to Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Temple to see Grogu first. Shand later recruited Indiana Jones and K-7R3 at Docking Bay 87. Meanwhile in his palace, Fett had arranged a meeting with members of his criminal empire, save for Jones and K-7R3, figuring out the best course of action to defeat the Pyke Syndicate. When Fett was unsure where to find foot soldiers, Djarin travelled to Freetown to recruit Cobb Vanth and his people. Vanth considered the offer, valuing the freedom of his town. Meanwhile, the Pyke Syndicate sent two enforcers to plant a bomb in the sanctuary in order to send a message. They successfully accomplished this, killing Garsa Fwip and many other patrons. After this, Fett realized that the war had begun.

Fett, Shand and Djarin traveled to the sanctuary to investigate the attack. Meanwhile, Krrsantan was sent to the Mos Espa city center to keep an eye on the Tatooine Trandoshan family, the Mods were sent to watch over the Aqualish family, and the Gamorreans were sent to keep an eye on the Klatooinian family. All three families betrayed Fett’s enforcers, and before Fett had a chance to send support, 8D8 informed him that he had a visitor. Fett walked out to confront him. The mysterious figure lifted his head to reveal himself to be Cad Bane, Fett’s old mentor whom he had not heard from in almost 30 years. Bane informed Fett that he is negotiating on behalf of the Pykes. Fett told his old mentor that he would not negotiate with a cold blooded murderer, before Bane remarked that Fett held the same reputation. Fett warned Bane that the syndicate was outnumbered before Bane told him Cobb Vanth was dead, and his people wouldn’t be coming to help. As Bane became more enraged at Fett, Djarin and Shand pointed their blasters at him. Bane informed them that he also had backup. Bane revealed to Fett that it was the head of the Pyke Syndicate who ordered the execution of his Tusken family. Shane stepped forward and reminded Boba that they needed to remain in control, and he shouldn’t act on his emotions. Bane taunted Fett over how soft he had become, before leaving the trio under the watch of the Pyke enforcers.

Shand rushed off to help the Mods. Meanwhile Fett and Djarin fought off against the Pykes. They defeated most of the troopers before being knocked to the ground and shot at. At the very last second however, the people of Freetown arrived to save the pair, and fend off against the Syndicate. Krrsantan and the Mods returned, however, the Gamorreans had been killed by the Klatoonian family. As Krrsantan ran for cover he got hit and took multiple shots to the back. Fett ran out to save him and promised to take him back to his bacta tank when the fight was over. Fett ordered everyone to run, after the Pykes sent two droids after them. Djarin distracted the droids while Fett returned to his palace to collect his Rancor. Fett returned at the last minute with his Rancor to save Djarin’s life. The Rancor successfully defeated the two droids.

Before Fett could finish of the Pykes, Bane returned. Fett’s Rancor attacked the bounty hunter, before Bane activated his flamethrower, harming the creature and knocking Fett off its back. As the Rancor fled, Fett and Bane were left alone outside the ruins of the sanctuary. Bane reminded Fett of his dark history as a bounty hunter, and told Fett it was in his blood and he couldn’t run from his past. The pair had a showdown. Before Fett could even aim his weapon, Bane had shot him to the ground. Bane then took another shot and walked up to Fett, kicking him and ripping off his helmet. Bane raised his blaster and told Fett that his last lesson to him is that he should only look out for himself. As Bane prepared to fire upon Fett one last time, Fett swung at him with his gaderffii stick, knocking him away. Fett then knocked Bane to the ground, and, in a final blow, stabbed him in the chest with the stick's bladed end, taking out the infamous bounty hunter. He left Bane for dead on the sands of Tatooine once more.

After the battle, Fett thanked Djarin for his services, before Djarin departed the planet now reunited with Grogu. Fett and Shand took a walk through the streets of Mos Espa, watching the town being rebuilt. As they passed through, their people cheered them on and payed their respects. Fett enjoyed this, and bowed back to them. A group of children ran up to Fett and offered him Meiloorun fruit as a gift. Fett accepted the fruit and thanked them. They caught up with Krrsantan, Drash and Skad, and the group joked around, celebrating their victory. A few moments later, they were joined by Jones and K-7R3 though the pair apparently did not participate in the massive battle. After this, Fett obtained two old IG-100 MagnaGuards as replacement bodyguards for his two Gamorrean guards who were pushed off a cliff by the Klatooinians.

#### Conflict renewed with the Second Union

Not long after Fett's victory in Mos Espa, forces of the Second Union that had been stationed on Tatooine in Station Bravo immediately made their move, installing a garrison in Mos Espa, also having military convoys nearby going in and out in the desert. Mayor Shaiz, sometime prior to his death at the hands of Fennec Shand, had offered Fett's territory to the Union in the event that the Pykes lost control. In the palace, Fett was informed by 8D8 that Dietrich, having terms to discuss with the Daimyo, was there to see him. Fett then watched as Dietrich and his escort of Second Union soldiers entered the throne room. Dietrich spoke, saying that the Union forces on Tatooine were seeking a truce with the Fett gotra in exchange for Fett allowing safe passage for Union military forces through the Dune Sea, telling him to forgive their past conflicts. Fett, however, conversed with Shand about it to decide the best course of action, and told Dietrich that the proposal of a truce was denied, as he did not trust anyone associated with the Second Union. In response, Dietrich explained that Mos Espa would be theirs and not Fett's, before leaving the palace.

Fett's suspicions about the Union's presence on Tatooine would later be proven correct when intelligence confirmed that the criminal organization was planning a mass takeover of Mos Espa, having established a garrison there for preparations. The Daimyo decided he would keep a close eye on the Union's forces as he knew them very well due to their many encounters in the past, waiting for the right time to make his move.

Later, Fett and Shand traveled to Mos Eisley, where residents sweltered under the summer heat of Tatooine's twin suns. Younglings played with water cannons but quickly ran out of water. A resident spat out a caf-like drink served by a Tusken Raider. A lady's umbrella meanwhile caught fire. Shand exited a building, finding it hot. A boy came to her with an empty cup of water but she was unable to help. Shand told Boba Fett to do something, and the Daimyo returned to his palace.

Later, Fett and his entourage including the two MagnaGuards arrived in *Slave I* with large blocks of ice for the residents. Working with the residents, Fett and his minions used the ice blocks to build a giant ice slide for the children to slide down. Other residents enjoyed icy drinks. Fett also slid down to demonstrate but slipped and fell down. Fett got up and laughed, reassuring them that he was unharmed.

#### Missions on Batuu

Sometime after the second victory at Mos Espa, Fett and Shand traveled to Black Spire Outpost on Batuu on a mission, looking for hidden Pyke Syndicate and Second Union members and recruiting to the Fett gotra. Fett was reunited with Djarin and Grogu, as they walked through the streets together and interacted with the locals. At another point, when Djarin returned to Mos Eisley to ask Peli Motto for an IG-series memory circuit, Motto jokingly asked if Djarin had come to depose Fett.

### Legacy

Fett was remembered as one of the best bounty hunters in the galaxy, with a reputation that eclipsed his father's.

## Personality and traits

As a child, Boba developed a strong bond with his father, learning much from Jango's years as a bounty hunter. Boba was suspicious of Obi-Wan Kenobi upon the Jedi Knight's arrival on Kamino, recognizing him as a potential threat to both himself and Jango. He took pleasure in fighting Kenobi both on Kamino and in orbit of Geonosis, expressing joy at the thought that the Jedi had been killed. Having been much more enthusiastic and open-minded as a boy, his personality hardened after Jango's death, as a traumatized Boba swore vengeance on Mace Windu, yet he did not take any pleasure in the collateral damage wrought by his mission. His better nature eventually won over in honor of his father's memory, as Boba turned against his bounty hunting allies and allowed himself to be taken into the custody of the Galactic Republic. Despite realizing the errors of his ways, he swore he would never forgive Windu for the murder of his father. During the Clone Wars, Boba expressed aversion to being compared to clone troopers. He did not want to see himself as being the same as other young clones or a clone in general, as he saw himself as Jango Fett's son. He nonetheless did not care to harm the clones, and briefly considered leaving his bounty hunter companions to stay with the other young clones who escaped the *Endurance*. He apologized to his brief friend Jax, only leaving him and the rest of the clone cadets to die at the insistence of Aurra Sing. He also told Aurra that while he wanted to kill Windu for Jango's death on Geonosis, he did not wish the crew of the *Endurance* any harm. Prior to the destruction of the *Endurance*, he incapacitated a clone trooper while infiltrating the reactor core, assuring him to not be worried about dying, which possibly meant that Fett harbored some sort of attachment to his clone brethren.

After being released from prison and forming a bounty hunter team, Fett became somewhat more ruthless than he had been previously, focused on achieving the goals of his mission. During the mission to Quarzite, Fett wanted to hand Pluma Sodi over to Otua Blank, despite her pleas for mercy. Only Ventress's betrayal allowed Sodi to escape.

As the years went by and the Clone Wars gave way to the reign of the Galactic Empire, Fett became known for his lethality and even displayed trophies of his prey on his armor. During the Imperial Era, the confident bounty hunter had a penchant for disintegrations and proved to be ruthless, willing to kill those who had wronged him. He was still able to find enjoyment in life, particularly enjoying the surprise less experienced hunters showed at his mere presence. While working on Carajam, Fett received a reputation as a hunter of criminals after saving a village, but he insisted that he was only interested in pursuing bounties regardless of the ideals of his victims. Over the years, Fett developed a code of honor, and only accepted missions which met the sense of justice that came with and served the purpose of his code. He paid close attention to all details and double-checked his surroundings to calculate the best option to solve a problem. This helped Fett get the drop on IG-88 on Cloud City, who had placed a tracking device aboard *Slave I* prior to take-off to intercept Han Solo.

Beyond becoming one of Jabba the Hutt's favorite bounty hunters, Fett also realized the Hutt may have considered him the closest person in his life to a friend, though Jabba referred to Fett as his "pup." In truth, Jabba had his only friend in Ephant Mon.

Still, on some nights, if everyone else in the palace was asleep, Jabba shared a bottle of gardulla with Fett and, after waking up Max Rebo and ordering him to play a sad song, tell private, personal stories to Fett. Even though he made sure to never take off his blaster, the bounty hunter agreed to his boss's request, taking off his helmet and listening. Though Fett could never understand what Jabba was telling him, he found the Hutt's company tolerable, considering how much the crime lord paid him for work. Fett worked for Darth Vader so often that in some instances, he was even referred to as Vader's "right-hand man". He once justified this apparent contradiction to Leia by pointing out that the Rebel Alliance had started the Galactic Civil War, not the Empire, and that the Rebels brought only chaos and strife to galactic society, whereas the Empire created order. As Fett believed that order was preferable to chaos regardless of how that order was achieved, he preferred to work for the Empire rather than the Alliance. He also mentioned at one point that he preferred working for clients who would be around to hire him again, and as such refused to work for the Alliance because he thought its existence would be very short.

Additionally, Fett continued to hold his father, Jango, in high regard even during his adult years. He remained haunted by his death, remembering himself as a child holding his father's helmet on Geonosis after signing up for the Nar Shaddaa fighting ring under Jango's name. When the *Slave I* was slightly damaged by 4-LOM and Zuckuss on Nar Shaddaa, he deemed it to be a slight against both himself and his father.

Years after the Empire's fall and after escaping the sarlacc pit for the third time, Fett had mellowed considerably because of his time with the Tusken tribe; after spending his life working for employers who led him to near death experiences, Fett realized most crime lords in the galaxy had no loyalty to their hired hands, while the tribe he had spent years with had respected and accepted him. Certain that he could do better than the crime lords who jumped into situations without thinking them through, Fett set out to form his own crime family, stating it would be an organization that would respect its members and protect their lives. As he told Fennec Shand, crime families built without both "brains and muscle" had killed many of "[their] kind," so he was tired of letting "the idiocy of others" bring his fellows to their deaths. He believed that he needed to build a crime family that instead emulated the tribe he had been a part of.

He no longer isolated himself from others, as shown when he worked with Indiana Jones on a few occasions after the Battle of Endor; this was an early stage of this trait a few years before spending time with the Tusken tribe. Additionally, Fett willingly saved Fennec's life and accepted her partnership in 9 ABY. In addition, Fett had seemingly gained a sense of honor and humility, viewing himself as a simple man making ends meet. However, after fulfilling his part of the deal he had made with the Mandalorian Din Djarin, he went back to Tatooine and killed the crime lord Bib Fortuna, who had taken Jabba's Palace, and took over the palace's throne to establish a criminal empire that would offer loyalty and respect. Despite this, Fett still displayed ruthlessness when fighting against foes like Second Union soldiers and Imperial stormtroopers. When asked by Djarin about whether or not he followed the Mandalorian way, Fett replied that he swore allegiance to no one, indicating that he retained his profound sense of independence. Still, after Djarin formally recognized Fett's ownership of his Mandalorian armor, the bounty hunter honored the deal they had made earlier and promised to help the Mandalorian rescue Grogu after the latter was kidnapped, displaying a strong code of honor.

After losing his armor, which had once belonged to his father, Fett was determined to reclaim it, despite not identifying himself as Mandalorian. During his negotiations with Djarin, the bounty hunter repeatedly pointed out that the armor was previously his father's possession, showing a desire to preserve and protect Jango's legacy. Upon encountering Bo-Katan Kryze, who claimed that he was not a Mandalorian, Fett acknowledged her statement, as he did not consider himself a true Mandalorian, but declared that he had the right to bear the armor as it had belonged to his father, who had been a Mandalorian foundling. When Kryze referred to Jango as his "donor" due to his clone origins, Fett responded with hostility, angered by her mockery of his father. He quickly engaged in a brief scuffle with Kryze's partner, Koska Reeves, before the fight was broken up by Kryze herself.

Fett was also an expert marksman and had access to considerable weaponry. Despite having this high-tech arsenal, he was not dependent on it. In his search for Rask Odai, Fett had to capture him without his armor, equipped only with a bow, some arrows, and a crystal knife, due to electronic detecting equipment installed on the Mon Calamari's compound. After he lost his armor on Tatooine, despite his body condition, Fett was still capable of using strategy, tactics and brute force to make short work of a stormtrooper contingent with a gaderffii stick. He was dedicated to whatever job he was doing, and would often suspend grudges if it meant completing his mission. Also, during his time with the Clone Youth Brigade, he was able to shoot down all of the targets with one shot each on the *Endurance*, while the other members couldn't even hit the targets.

In addition to his skills as a marksman, Fett was an extremely adept unarmed combatant. His combat skill, tactical ingenuity, and strength of will even allowed him to engage in personal combat with Mace Windu at one point and survive.

As an adult, Fett was very puritanical, and claimed he had not so much as held a woman in his arms. Similarly, he felt that sex between non-married individuals was immoral.

## Appearances

* Beyond the Dune Sea (First appearance)
* Bombad Bounty
* Wait for It
* The Enormous Profit
* Remastered
* The Quest for the Crystal Skull
* Counterattack
* A Job Worth Payment
* Coruscant Nights I
* Coruscant Nights II
* Coruscant Nights III
* Dark Force Rising
* Raiders of the Lost Darth
* Pursuit
* The Sacred Water of Rugosa
* Crisis on Malastare
* Shards of the Past
* Shadows of the Empire
* Friends and Enemies
* Orders
* Legacy
* Hard Merchandise
* The Final Stand
* A Practical Man
* Agent of Doom
* Ochi of Bestoon
* *The Armor* (Mentioned only)
* Tales from Vader's Castle, Part I
* Tales from Vader's Castle, Part II
* An Apology
* Armed to the Teeth
* Bounty
* Into the Crossfire
* Into the Great Unknown
* Twin Engines of Destruction
* Fallout
* Bounty on Bar-Kooda
* A New Threat
* The Last One Standing
* Twas the Night Before Life Day
* *A Third Time*
* "Desert Sands"—*The Further Exploits of Indiana Jones*
* Beyond the Dune Sea II
* The Sand Will Provide
* The Mandalorian
* *Boba and Fennec*
* *Lyn Me: The Dancer*
* Gambit on Geonosis
* Scary Starship
* "The Gathering Storm"—*The Further Exploits of Indiana Jones* (Mentioned only)
* From the Desert Comes a Stranger
* Invaders on Their Land
* The Sun Sets and It Rises
* The Believer
* "The Wookiee's Paw"—*The Further Exploits of Indiana Jones* (Vision to Indiana Jones)
* It's Not A Matter of Luck
* *From a Certain Point of View* (Mentioned only)