Boba Fett's armor

**Boba Fett's armor** was a suit of customized Mandalorian armor worn by Boba Fett, a human clone who became a bounty hunter. The armor was made from beskar. It consisted of a helmet, a cuirass, vambraces with retractable wrist blades, and a Z-6 jetpack. In addition, the armor featured an array of weapons and gadgets, such as a Czerka Arms ZX miniature flame projector, a BlasTech Industries Dur-24 wrist laser, and a Kelvarek Consolidated Arms MM9 mini concussion rocket launcher. In addition, the armor contained a chain code which identified the Fetts as its owners. The armor was originally owned by Jango Fett, a foundling whose genetic template served as the foundation for Boba and the clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic. For a time, the armor was in the possession in turn of Cobb Vanth and the Mandalorian Din Djarin.

Jango was killed in battle by Jedi Master Mace Windu while wearing the armor, which ultimately came into the possession of Boba. The armor was repainted in distinctive colors and used by Boba during his career as a bounty hunter. Following a fight with Boba Fatt, a group of Jawas scavenged the armor from Boba who was injured after falling into a sarlacc at the Great Pit of Carkoon. After this, Boba's armor was sold by Jawas to Cobb Vanth.

Vanth used the armor to protect the inhabitants of Mos Pelgo, a settlement on the desert planet Tatooine, in 9 ABY. He surrendered the armor to Din Djarin in return for the Mandalorian's assistance in destroying a krayt dragon. The armor was subsequently reclaimed by Boba whom Djarin encountered on Tython. After working with the Mandalorian, Boba returned to Tatooine with his armor and became the new crime lord of a criminal empire.

## Characteristics

The customized Mandalorian armor that was worn in turn by Jango Fett and Boba Fett featured an arsenal of deadly weaponry. The vambraces included retractable wrist blades, a snare, a Czerka Arms ZX miniature flame projector, a BlasTech Industries Dur-24 wrist laser, a display that was connected to Imperial Enforcement DataCore to help locate bounties, and a Kelvarek Industries MM7 rocket launcher which was later replaced with a MM9 mini concussion rocket launcher.

   The vambraces were painted red for the majority of their usage, despite being painted green for a time before returning to the prior hue. Additionally, the armor contained a chain code within the left vambrace. The encoded file held information regarding the armor's owners, from Jango to Boba Fett. The armor also included a Z-6 jetpack that allowed the armor's wearer to engage in aerial travel and combat over short distances. The jetpack contained an explosive missile that could be launched from it. In addition to the Z-6 model, Jango owned a JT-12 jetpack. Kneepad rocket dart launchers were integrated in the right kneepad of the armor as well.

The armor was forged from beskar. It was originally silver and blue while in Jango's possession. Its sleek design was eventually altered to a green and brownish red appearance after Boba inherited it. By the time of the Imperial Era, the armor featured a Mythosaur skull sigil as well as braids made from Wookiees that Boba had defeated in combat.

Despite its battle worn condition by the time of the New Republic Era, the armor was still an effective tool that allowed the individual who wore it to shrug off blaster bolts and defeat multiple opponents in a firefight. Boba replaced his father's destroyed Z-6 jetpack with a nearly identical model, as well as an additional pack distinguished by its green color scheme that he used interchangeably. After recovering his armor in 9 ABY, Boba promptly restored it, giving it a new paintjob.

## History

### Armor of Jango Fett

   Boba Fett's armor was inherited from his clone template—or "father"—Jango Fett, who received it from the Mandalorians after he became a foundling. Fett originally bore his armor as a Mandalorian warrior during the Mandalorian Civil Wars, the conflict during which he was given the armor in the first place. During his storied career as a bounty hunter, Jango used his armor to great effect, collecting bounties for various clients. When Fett was hired to be a clone template, he was wearing the armor. He continued to wear the armor during the last days of his life, when he was employed by the Separatist Head of State Count Dooku. Regardless, Prime Minister Almec of Mandalore did not consider Jango a member of his people, but rather a simple bounty hunter who somehow acquired Mandalorian armor.

With the armor, Jango was able to fight the Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi while attempting to leave the planet Kamino. His combat gear allowed him to compete against the Jedi's lightsaber combat skills and Force-sensitive abilities. After his Z-6 jetpack was destroyed, Jango fled from Tipoca City along with Boba, his cloned son, before Kenobi could stop them. Jango later replaced his loss Z-6 with a JT-12 jetpack.

The Fetts retreated to Geonosis where Jango engaged another member of the Jedi Order, Jedi Master Mace Windu, whom he was no match against. As Windu advanced toward Jango, deflecting the mercenary's blaster bolts with his lightsaber, Jango tried to escape but his JT-12 jetpack malfunctioned. As a result, Jango was decapitated by a single strike across his neck by Windu's blade. Jango's death was witnessed by Boba, who recovered his father's helmet after the Grand Army of the Republic—clone troopers bred from Jango's template—arrived to fight the Separatist Droid Army.

### Boba Fett's inheritance

With Jango's death, his armor passed to Boba. During the Clone Wars, Boba tried to kill Windu with a bomb that he planted inside his father's helmet. Although the explosive was triggered by Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, Windu not only survived but also saved Skywalker in the process. While trapped under the wreckage of the *Endurance*, Windu inspected the damaged helmet of the hunter that he defeated on Geonosis, having realized that Boba was involved in the plot against him. Fragments of the helmet were later recovered by the Republic, and metallurgical analysis confirmed its unparalleled beskar purity.

Boba ultimately followed in Jango's footsteps, donning the Mandalorian armor as a bounty hunter during the reign of the Galactic Empire. The armor became a defining characteristic of Fett and his reputation. Around 0 BBY, Fett wore a slightly different colored armor set on Panna. He was also armed with a rarely used double pronged Amban phase-pulse blaster and a Sacros K-11 pistol, known as "The Disintegrator." It was unknown whether this was a repaint to disguise his infamous armor or another set entirely, but the suit consisted of a yellow chestplate and a blue helmet and gauntlets.

Fett was one of several hunters hired by the Sith Lord Darth Vader to track a Rebel starship, the *Millennium Falcon*, during the Galactic Civil War. By then, he had a reputation for disintegrating his prey, which Vader, who wanted the Falcon's crew taken alive, warned him against. Eager to gain Jabba Desilijic Tiure's bounty on the Rebel-aligned smuggler Han Solo, with whom Boba had prior dealings, Fett helped in the early stages of the Imperial occupation of Cloud City and left with Solo's body frozen in carbonite.

However, Fett's journey to Jabba's Palace on Tatooine to claim the bounty on Solo was distracted by the return of his former ally Nakano Lash, whom Fett held a grudge against and elected to hunt down in revenge. Fett's diversion resulted in Solo's carbonite form beginning to destabilizing, forcing him to again divert his journey to head to the moon of Nar Shaddaa, where he hired the services of Doctor Ragon in stabilizing the carbonite. Unable to pay Ragon for his work, Fett agreed to enter the Garkata Fighting Arena and kill the champion Wyrmen Lictor, thereby avenging a fighter Ragon had sponsored previously. As the arena was owned by the Kanji Criminal Enterprise, Fett did not want to directly anger the syndicate and thus used some of Ragon's nano-spray paint to disguise his armor, painting it black and entering the arena under his father's name. While "Beskar Brawler Jango" fought through the arena and killed Lictor, agents of the re-emerging Crimson Dawn syndicate killed Ragon and stole Solo's carbonite form as part of Lady Qi'ra's plans.

Returning his armor to its normal color, Fett used his armor in the ensuing War of the Bounty Hunters to reclaim Solo and deliver him to Jabba. Boba later fought against the Jedi apprentice Luke Skywalker during the mission to rescue Solo on Tatooine. After failing to kill or subdue the Jedi with his weapons, Boba tried to shoot Skywalker while he was distracted. During the fight, Fett's jetpack sustained a gash in the back. Before Fett could land a shot on Skywalker, a blind Solo accidentally hit Boba's jetpack, causing the bounty hunter to careen into the side of Jabba's sail barge before tumbling into the Great Pit of Carkoon where a sarlacc swallowed him. However, Fett was able to escape the beast and resume his career as a bounty hunter. He went on missions to worlds such as Quarzite, Rugosa, Malastare, and Nevarro, taking jobs from the most subtle and discreet clients. During his hunt 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.

In 9 ABY, Fett returned to Tatooine, and during a fight against Boba Fatt, fell into the Great Pit of Carkoon where the sarlacc swallowed him for the third known time in his life. Fett survived his fall into the sarlacc just like he did the previous two times he got eaten by the beast, and managed to escape by activating his flamethrower to burn through the sarlacc's hide, and dug himself out of the pit. Exhausted and suffering wounds from the encounter with the beast, Fett collapsed near the wreckage of the *Khetanna*. Some time later, he was found by a group of Jawas that had yellow eyes, who separated him from his armor, which had become acid-scarred from the sarlacc. When Fett attempted to resist their attempts at theft, he was knocked out by the Jawas and left for dead. The armor ended up in the hands of Cobb Vanth, who had lost his original armor sometime earlier.

### Cobb Vanth, Lawman on Tatooine

Although he used it to protect the residents of Mos Pelgo as their marshal, the Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin demanded that he surrender the suit to him when they met around 9 ABY, as Djarin believed that Mandalorian armor belongs to the Mandalorians. Vanth agreed in exchange for Djarin's help in slaying a krayt dragon. They managed to kill the dragon, and Vanth gave the armor to Djarin.

### Return to Boba Fett

Boba Fett attempted to recover his armor following his time with the Tusken Raiders. Joined by Fennec Shand, he returned to the sarlacc pit after retrieving his personal starship, *Slave I*, unaware that the armor had been taken by Jawas. Shand assumed that the armor had disintegrated within the sarlacc, but Fett knew that its beskar would remain intact. After Fett searched the creature's remains, Shand advised him to cease his efforts to recover it, asserting that the armor served its purpose by allowing him to survive within the sarlacc.

Fett located his armor by the time Din Djarin acquired it from Cobb Vanth. Fett and Shand followed Djarin to the planet Tython, where Fett attempted to reclaim his armor from the Mandalorian. Djarin refused to surrender the armor after Fett denied having any allegiance or loyalty to the Mandalorians, despite his father Jango's past affiliation with them. Their dispute was interrupted by the arrival of stormtroopers loyal to Moff Gideon. During the skirmish, Fett took advantage of the situation to reclaim the armor from Djarin's ship, the *Razor Crest*. Donning the armor, Fett returned to the battle and brought it to a swift end. After Fett presented the armor's chain code, providing proof of ownership and revealing that his father was a Mandalorian foundling, Djarin acknowledged Boba's claim on the armor. Before a mission to Morak, Fett repainted his armor, restoring its vivid colors. Fett also produced the missing left kneepad, which was absent during the Jawas' and Vanth's ownership of the armor.

    Fett encountered the Mandalorians Bo-Katan Kryze and Koska Reeves when Djarin attempted to recruit them for his plan to rescue the foundling Grogu. Kryze denounced Fett, stating that he was not a Mandalorian in spite of the armor that he wore, although Fett countered that he never claimed to be Mandalorian. Recognizing the bounty hunter as a clone by the voice he shared with the clone troopers who fought in the Clone Wars, Kryze told Fett that he disgraced his armor. She also referred to the armor's original owner as Fett's donor rather than his father, causing Fett to threaten Kryze. A physical altercation ensued between Fett and Reeves, both of whom utilized their armor's weaponry against each other until Kryze stepped in to end the fight. The armor remained in Boba's possession following the rescue of Grogu from Moff Gideon's Imperial remnant.

### Lord Boba Fett

With his debt to the Mandalorian paid, he killed and replaced Bib Fortuna as a crime lord on Tatooine. The newly styled Lord Boba Fett established his residence in Jabba's Palace, where he kept a bacta pod along with several droids to assist him with putting on his armor. By then, Boba experienced recurring dreams of his past, including the time when he recovered his father's helmet after Jango's death on Geonosis.

Boba wore the armor for official functions, such granting audiences to guests and receiving their gifts as the new Daimyo. Rather than following Jabba's example of ruling through fear, Boba sought to build his criminal empire by gaining the respect of his vassals. Though he shunned the usual trappings of a crime lord, such as riding in a litter like a nobleman, Boba made an effort to acclimate to the local customs of Tatooine. As such, he permitted one of the Twi'lek attendants at the Sanctuary—Garsa Fwip's cantina in Mos Espa—to clean his helmet.

## 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
* 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*
* Beyond the Dune Sea II (Mentioned only)
* "Desert Sands"—*The Further Exploits of Indiana Jones*
* The Sand Will Provide (Appears in Newsreel)
* The Mandalorian
* *Boba and Fennec*
* *Lyn Me: The Dancer*
* Gambit on Geonosis
* Scary Starship
* 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