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Boba Fett is a ruthless bounty hunter, clone, Mandalore from the Star Wars universe. The famous hero first appeared in the movie “Attack of the Clones” as a little clone boy. His history is filled with Legends and only a small part of the Canon (original history).
Boba was created on the planet Kamino around 32 BBY, at the request of Jango Fett ten years before the Clone Wars. Django wanted an heir, which he received in the form of a young boy clone, unlike other clones, which were made exclusively as adults.
The boy grew up under the supervision of Fett, who took care of him as if he were his own son. In addition to Django, Boba was looked after by the hunter Zam Wesell and the Kaminoan Ton Vi, who was considered the boy's adoptive mother.
Boba did not go to school and received most of his knowledge from travel and books. He acquired his fighting skills by training with adult clones.
Little Fett followed his father almost everywhere, who carried out dangerous missions, hired by Darth Tyranus known as.
Attack of the Clones (Canon)
In Attack of the Clones, we first see Boba, played by Daniel Logan.
Boba was about 10 years old when a Jedi arrived on Kamino to investigate the assassination attempt on the Naboo senator (which was committed by Django). Then Kenobi and the Jedi Council learned of the creation of a clone army for the Republic.
Django and Boba urgently left the planet on the ship “Slave 1”. There was also a small battle with the Jedi, which ended in a draw.
Boba and his father went to Geonosis, to their employer Dooku, trying to shake the persistent Kenobi off his tail. On the planet, the mercenary and son witnessed the beginning of the Clone Wars. When Separatists opposing the Republic tried to execute the captured Jedi: Kenobi, as well as Senator Amidala, clone troops invaded Geonosis.
Boba watched his father from afar and saw how the bounty hunter, having fought with the master, was defeated and lost his head. After the battle between the Separatists and the Republic clones left the Arena, Boba was finally able to emerge from hiding and retrieve his father's helmet. He swore revenge on Windu.
“Maybe I would have grown up to be a nice guy if the Jedi hadn’t cut off my father’s head right in front of me!”
Becoming a Bounty Hunter (Legends)
The death of his father came as a shock to young Fett. The boy blamed the Jedi Order, especially Master Windu, for the fact that he was left alone. The desire to get even with the Jedi forced Boba to team up with the bounty hunters Bossk, Aurra Sing and Castas.
To begin with, Boba was introduced into a brigade of young clones who worked together with Anakin Skywalker and Windu, but nothing came of it. All attempts to kill the master ended in failure.
Along with Aurra, Bob was shot down by the Star Destroyer Steadfast., taking hostages and demanding Windu's appearance. When Sing killed Castas's companion, Boba finally saw how cruel she was and repented of what he had done, however, it was already too late, as the Jedi Plo Koon and the Padawan were on Fett's trail.
After Fett's arrest, Kun found out from him the location of the hostages who had been freed by Tano. Along with Bossk, Boba was sent to prison on Coruscant. There, the boy personally met with Windu, to whom he told about his hatred of the master and regret for what he had done.
In 21 BBY, Boba managed to escape from prison. He traveled to Tatooine, where he was recruited by Jabba the Hutt in return for a debt to his father.
In 19 BBY, the hero learned that Windu had died. At the same time, the Republic was reorganized into the Galactic Empire.
In 15 BBY, Fett decided to start a “normal life”, after which he married the bounty hunter Sintas Vel. The girl gave birth to a daughter from Boba, whom she named Eileen. Unfortunately, Fett had to leave his family.
In 5 BBY, Boba received an order for Han Solo., but he managed to escape.
At this time, the mercenary also carried out some tasks from. Among the orders from the Sith Lord was an investigation into the death of Padmé Amidala.
The Empire Strikes Back (Canon)
The subsequent hunt of the matured Boba was to capture the elusive Han Solo. Fett followed him everywhere until Darth Vader gathered mercenaries who could track the movement of his ship. Boba was the only one who succeeded and Together with Vader, he set a trap for the Falcon on Bespin.
Solo was frozen in carbonite and given to a mercenary by agreement. Finally, the smuggler was caught and Boba went to Tatooine to join Jabba.
For Solo, Fett received 250,000 credits, instead of 100,000.
“Is this little sculpture Han Solo? No. What I brought was art, art created by the Dark Lord who used Solo as material."
The Hutt asked Fett to stay in the palace in case the captain's friends came for him.
Return of the Jedi (Canon)
Boba appeared in the 6th film, where his role was quite small.
As Jabba expected, his friends came to save Khan, and, who were also captured. Princess Leia was given to Boba as a concubine, but Fett refused her due to moral concerns.
Boba stayed behind to execute his friends at the Carkoon Sinkhole, trying to convince Jabba to give Skywalker to him. After the Hutt refused, the mercenary decided to rescue Luke and then deliver him to Vader.
During the execution, the prisoners managed to free themselves and practically destroy all of Jabba's apprentices, including himself. Boba himself fell into a Sarlacc pit in a fight with Solo and was considered dead.
Afterlife (Legends)
After killing the Sarlacc with a rocket, Boba was saved.
He was in the shadows for a long time, since everyone believed him to be dead, but when an impostor appeared, Boba was forced to appear in order to deal with the scoundrel who had appropriated his name and achievements.
Soon, Fett replaced as head of the Mandalore– Fenna Shisu, on the planet Mandalore.
24 ABY, Boba made a deal with Nom Anor (Yuzhan Vong), not realizing who he really was.
When, in 25 ABY, a bloody war broke out with the Yuuzhan Vong, a previously unknown race, Boba decided not to terminate the treaty and ingratiate himself with the invaders in order to learn their weaknesses. Fett secretly passed information to the New Republic, however, his efforts were not appreciated.
The Mandalorians managed to work for the enemy for a long time, sending information to the Republic, until they were figured out in 29 ABY. Boba, together with his people, managed to conquer such planets as Ord Mantell, Tolatin and Gindin. As a result, the war was ended in victory through joint efforts.
In 40 ABY, when Boba turned 73 years old, he learned that he was seriously ill and had only two years to live. Before Fett died, he decided to find his daughter Eileen and choose a new leader to take his place.
Looking for my daughter Boba was saddened to learn that she had been killed by Han Solo's son -. Now this Jedi has become the number one target for the mercenary. Despite the sad news, Boba found out that he has a granddaughter Mitra Gev, who found him herself and tried to kill him because he abandoned her grandmother and mother. The grandfather and granddaughter, who became a bounty hunter, reconciled, after which they reburied the body of Jango Fett and Eileen on Mandalore.
Soon, Fett was cured with the help of a bone marrow transplant. After learning what was happening to Jacen Solo, who had become a Sith Lord, Fett sent Han a sympathetic gift, hinting at his son.
Together with his granddaughter, Boba found out that his wife Sintas was still alive and returned her to Mandalore. In return for the lost years, Fett gave his wife a pendant that contained all the codes for the hunter's huge property.
After a while, Han's daughter flew to the planet, who wanted to learn from Fett the techniques of killing Jedi, because she wanted to kill her brother Sith.
“Fett, you can teach me how to destroy the Jedi. You did this quite often."
Solo became very friendly with Mythra and helped Fett's Mandalorians in several military operations, becoming their friend in arms. Although Jayna made friends with Boba's people, he treated her strictly and rudely, since he did not see the difference between the Jedi and the Sith.
After Solo's victory over her brother, Fett witnessed the wedding of Mythra, who married the Mandalorian Ges Orade.
A minor character in the Star Wars universe, a bounty hunter from the planet Kamino, a human, a clone. Boba Fett stands on the side of the Galactic Empire, collaborates with. He captured a smuggler and froze him in carbonite.
History of creation
The concept of Boba Fett was born from early designs on Darth Vader. The creators of the Star Wars film saga initially conceived Darth Vader as a space mercenary and bounty hunter. However, this image transformed along the way and took the form of a certain galactic fallen knight. The "criminal element" did not come out of Vader, but the ideas and sketches of that time, created by artist Ralph McQuarrie, formed the basis for the image of Boba Fett.
The character first appears on television in the film "The Star Wars Holiday Special", in an animated sequence that lasts only 11 minutes. This insert tells how Luke Skywalker went in search of Han Solo. Luke's fighter crashes into a celestial body, and Boba Fett comes to the hero's aid. The two characters search for Han Solo's ship, but then it turns out that Boba Fett is a supporter of Darth Vader. A skirmish occurs between the heroes, after which Boba disappears.
After appearing in The Star Wars Holiday Special, minor character Boba Fett unexpectedly became a favorite of the public, who began to look forward to Boba's appearance in The Empire Strikes Back. The role of Boba was played by British actor Jeremy Bullock, who was replaced by John Morton in one of the scenes. The same Jeremy Bullock plays the role of Boba in the film Return of the Jedi.
When developing the image, Boba paid special attention to the armor, which continued to be perfected during filming. Many fans attribute the popularity of Boba to its bright and memorable appearance. At the same time, the hero has no more than four phrases for the entire original Star Wars trilogy.
Still from the movie "Star Wars" In the 2002 film Attack of the Clones, Boba's role expands. Viewers see the hero as a child, performed by a young actor from New Zealand, Daniel Logan. Boba's past comes to light. Mandalorian mercenary Jango Fett raises his own clone as the son, giving him the name "Boba". Later, Boba's father is killed by a Jedi, and the hero vows to avenge the death. Boba's father was also played by a New Zealand actor, and the filmmakers gave the Mandalorians features of the Maori - the indigenous people of New Zealand.
Boba appears again in the special edition of the film "A New Hope", which was released in 2004. There, the character appears on the landing pad, where Han Solo talks with. In the original version of the film, released in 1997, this scene was cut, Boba Fett was completely absent from it, and Jabba the Hutt looked completely different.
Boba Fett also appears in the Star Wars books. There are even novels where Boba became the main character - Boba Fett: Fight to Survive and Crossfire by Terry Bisson. Here the hero's past, childhood and Boba's life after the murder of his father are revealed. Bob's boy is lonely, friendless and driven by a thirst for revenge and the desire to become a bounty hunter. On the planet Raxus Prime, the orphaned hero meets the Count, the leader of the Separatists. Boba becomes embroiled in the Clone Wars.
There is also a comic book series called Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire. And in the Star Wars comic book series, there is the arc “Blood Ties: Boba Fett is Dead,” where a group of mercenaries deals with Boba, but a mysterious stranger immediately begins to take revenge.
"Star Wars"
Boba Fett is a clone of bounty hunter Jango Fett from the planet Kamino, whom he raised and trained as his son and heir. As a child, Boba did not attend school because he traveled with his father. Young Boba met Count Dooku, the Sith Lord, thanks to the fact that Jango Fett carried out some missions on behalf of Dooku.
During another trip, Jango Fett used his own son as bait, wanting to lure out into the open the man he was going to kill. Boba was not at all offended by his father’s “trick” and continued to remain loyal to Fett Sr.
When Boba was ten years old, he and his father had to flee the planet Kamino because of a Jedi who arrived to investigate an assassination attempt on a senator and discovered a huge army of clones created for the Republic. It was safer for the Fetts to disappear from the planet until the investigation was officially completed.
Boba and his father fly to the planet Geonosis, but Obi-Wan tracks down the heroes. The Fetts tried to throw Obi-Wan off his tail in the asteroid belt, but the maneuver failed, and the Jedi quietly followed them. On Geonosis, a skirmish occurs between the Jedi, who arrived to save “their own,” and the soldiers of the Republic. Jedi Mace Windu blew off Boba's father's head right in front of the hiding boy. After the battle ended, the hero came out of hiding to pick up his father's helmet and swore revenge on the Jedi.
Later, young Boba Fett becomes disillusioned with Count Dooku and flies to Tatooine, where he offers his own services as a bounty hunter to Jabba the Hutt. The hero does not forget about his intention to take revenge on his father’s killer and for this purpose he arranges the crash of an entire space cruiser. Ultimately, the hero goes to prison for assassination attempt, but never kills the Jedi who killed his father.
One of Boba's big "achievements" was capturing Han Solo. Darth Vader promised a huge reward to anyone who could capture Han Solo's ship, the Millennium Falcon. Boba tracked down Solo and informed Vader where he was. Vader and a squad of stormtroopers arrived on the planet where Han Solo was hiding and demanded the hero's extradition.
Having obtained Solo, Vader freezes him in carbonite. Vader then gives the frozen Solo to Boba, who intends to take Solo to Tatooine and give it to Jabba the Hutt, to whom Solo owes a debt.
On Tatooine, Boba received the desired reward from the Hutt, and friends tried to save Solo - and Chewbacca. The Rescuers, however, are themselves captured, and Jabba the Hutt sends Leia as Fett's slave and concubine. Here the villain Boba shows high moral stability and refuses to use the princess as a concubine, but keeps her with him so as not to offend Jabba the Hutt.
Later, an angry Hutt takes Solo and his failed saviors away to feed them to the sarlacc monster. Fett rides with them and engages Luke in a fight. During the battle, Boba's jetpack is damaged and the hero ends up inside the Sarlacc. However, Boba remains alive, kills the Sarlacc with a rocket and gets out.
In the films of the Star Wars series, Boba Fett is not given much attention, but a detailed biography of the hero can be found in books on the Star Wars universe. The character of the hero is also revealed more fully in the books, while in the movies Boba appears as a secondary evil character. In the movies, a hero can only be seen by a child without a helmet or mask.
Quotes
“Maybe I would have grown up to be a nice guy if the Jedi hadn’t cut off my father’s head right in front of me!”
“I am not a slave or a servant! I will work for you for money - but I will name the price myself!”
“Is this little sculpture Han Solo? No. What I brought was art, art created by the Dark Lord who used Solo as material."
“Fools! You will never understand the weapons I use!”
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Typically, Fett, in addition to hidden combat devices such as a flamethrower and poison darts, used his own modification of the E-3 rifle. But also a significant element of his weapons was a jetpack. After the death of his father, Boba was immediately surrounded by the same famous bounty hunters as his father (Orra Sing, Bosk, Castes (less known, he was killed by Orra Sing on Florum when he tried to transfer an important and dangerous for her and her accomplices information)), but one of them, Aurra Sing, very soon betrayed Boba when Jedi Master Plo Koon and Anakin's Padawan, Ahsoka, were on their trail. Few people have seen Boba Fett's real face. Before the events of the Star Wars films, Darth Vader and Boba collaborated for quite a long time. According to the game, when a clone of Galen Marek (Starkiller) attacked Vader and escaped from the cloning center on Kamino, Vader hired Fett to lure Galen to the center. Fett demanded a squad of stormtroopers (Vader also highlighted the latest development of the Terror Destroyer, a super-droid created to destroy rebel bases). According to the comic based on the game, Vader told him to kill Starkiller, but he did not shoot him, saying to himself: “We will meet another time and I will complete the task, but not now, not like this.” Also, according to the comic, Boba finished off Gorog, a monster on Cato Neimoidia. According to the version of the game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, according to a non-canonical scenario (Starkiller killed Vader and became Emperor Palpatine's apprentice), Boba met with Palpatine's assassin, but he put him to flight by knocking off the Mandalorian helmet. In the classic "old" Star Wars trilogy, Fett first appears in the fourth episode, "A New Hope" (in the background during a conversation between Han Solo and Jabba the Hutt). He also appears in the next episode, "The Empire Strikes Back", but is never referred to by name by any of the characters throughout the entire film, only as a "bounty hunter". The name "Boba Fett" appears only in the next episode, "Return of the Jedi". According to the sixth episode of the saga, Boba Fett fell into the jaws of a sarlacc on the planet Tatooine when Luke Skywalker flew there to rescue Han Solo from the clutches of local criminal leader Jabba the Hutt. After some time, he still manages to escape from the sarlacc's stomach with extensive burns from the action of gastric juice; he is found by another bounty hunter, Dengar, who, due to a combination of circumstances, has to deal with Boba Fett. In the game Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Boba Fett appears as the only enemy in a mission on the planet Ord Mantell, and the main character, Jaden Korr, fails to kill him, but only scares him away. Boba Fett also appears in K. Traviss's book Boba Fett: The Practical during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion. He appeared in later eras of Star Wars, and also had to become an ally of his archenemy Han Solo. There is a comic dedicated to Boba Fett, which also refutes the death of the bounty hunter in the Sarlacc's stomach and tells about his further fate. There are several concept art of Boba Fett drawn by Ralph McWarrie, the artist behind all of the classic trilogy.
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Warlord, we too often see things in terms of dualism: Jedi or Sith, light versus dark, right versus wrong. But this blade has three blades, not two; they are opposite and similar at the same time. The third blade is the Mandalorians. All three blades do not distinguish between classes and races; they are faithful only to the unifying code. The Mandalorians remain the Jedi's most dangerous enemies, but the Sith do not always become their allies. The Mandalorians even worshiped war itself, but then turned away from their god. You have to try to understand them one day.
– Verger, explaining galactic politics to the Yuuzhan Vong, shortly before their invasion of the Galaxy, 25 ABY
Coruscant. 24 ABY: lower level, a neighborhood where no one sane would wander at night
Boba Fett raised his blaster and took aim.
“You can run,” he said. “But you’ll only die tired.”
The voice passed through the vocoder sounded like a grinding sound; he never needed to shout - because he was always heard. Fett's target, the Rodian counterfeiter Wak Bur, unusually fat for his race, had forced him to chase him through the confusing and almost hopeless labyrinth of the quarter's depths, and now found himself at a dead end.
In Rodian, "wak" meant "lucky one." Wak Bur was definitely not like that.
“Dead or alive,” Fett reminded him. The blaster's thermal sight gripped Wak firmly; he helped a lot by radiating heat from under the dumped boxes. - It's easier for the dead. Let's. I have a lot to do.
- Why did you attack me? I never crossed your path, Fett.
“I know,” Fett replied. “But you started selling fake art to Gebb.” The Hutts are very sensitive to this.
Just like old times. The cloned leg, a courtesy on the part of his former Kaminoan guardian Taun Ve, still served him well in pursuit. Fett never questioned his mood, good or bad; but now he could say that he felt as good as he had not felt for a long time. He almost felt that something pleasant would happen in the future. He hadn't experienced this since childhood.
The alley was fifteen meters wide, and extended another twenty meters ahead; there were no exits. Just a trap into which a frightened Rodian flew. A quick check for weapons (there was no way to be careless here) revealed that Wak had a hidden blaster, about which there was no need to worry. Fett slowly walked towards the moving and rustling boxes.
“Come on, let’s go,” Fett said, checking the chrono on the ViD.
“You don’t even have a shred of morality!” – what Vack said often came from the lips of counterfeiters. “It doesn’t look like Gebbu is a victim.” Why don't you go after the real criminals?
“Because Gebbu thinks you’re something special.” Are you coming with me or not?
The boxes began to move. Vak didn't come out. That was kind of the answer.
- Fine. “Nothing personal,” Fett noted, raised his blaster, focused on the target visible in the thermal sight, held his breath - like many times before - and pulled the trigger...
Bar "Jaraniz". Nar Shaddaa, Hutt Space, 24 ABY
The pagans call this preparing the battlefield. It is a careful job that requires patience - clearing the way for the attacking army of true believers. I prepare well: I leave nothing to chance. I, Nom Anor, am a performer, and my business is infiltration and destabilization.
And in this dirty place I am looking for allies.
Do the Yuuzhan Vong need allies in this disgusting galaxy? No. Sooner or later, we will honor the Great Ones by cleansing the worlds of machines and rotten creatures that went into slavery to them. But I am a practitioner, and practitioners never miss an opportunity, and do not leave the army for their enemies.
Verger says that the warriors called "Mandalorians" are the most persistent enemy the Jedi have ever faced, besides the Sith. So, being a practitioner, I think it’s better to have them nearby than behind your back. And, like all the abominations here, the Mandalorians sell the sacred craft of war - for money. They don't fight for the gods - they don't seem to be any more devout than I am - but for wealth.
What, in their opinion, is more expensive and more important than honor? Why do I even defile myself with contacts with them?
This must be done, and I will gladly endure this pain.
And since the Mandalorians sell their honor and art cheaply, I can buy them and use them.
So it's easy. I will pretend to be a pagan and speak convincingly with the abomination. I can look like them and talk like them; but I must never become like them, and I have been hiding among them for so long... sometimes I fear that I have become like them. As a precaution, I pray to Yun-Harla (if she really exists) to guide me on the path - so that my life of lies does not deceive myself.
Under the table, so the heathens can't see, I run the knife across my palm and use the pain as a prayer and a point of focus. I need to hold out for another year until the fleet arrives.
I don't believe in the Great Ones, but I could be wrong. And I'm a practitioner, so I consider all options.
So I'll... order an ale. And I will sit and wait.
Bar Jaraniz, Nar Shaddaa: Buy-One-Get-One-Night-Free, fifth month 24 ABY.
A sign above the door, crumpled by blaster fire, read: The bar was always open; despite any number of wars, clashes and minor armed disagreements between business partners, it has never been closed.
Goran Beviin walked through the door of the Jar - welded open, for what reason - only one owner knows; lingered, looking at the unusually crowded bar.
“There,” the bartender, busy creating a complex cocktail, shook his head towards the poorly lit booths in the far corner. In his hands were numerous pieces of fruit, sticks, and a two-hundred-credit sky-blue spiral louse bottle with nasty clumps of geref bubbling inside. - A dandy in a black suit. Seeks help from mando.
Beviin turned his head, conducting an old-fashioned inspection - by eye. Ha, the guy was ugly. For real, the face resembled a crumpled speeder and was almost as dirty. Beviin thought that he should offer him an extra helmet so as not to scare off his interlocutors. But they were just as busy as the bartender, studying the foam on the beer, or the lumps in the glasses becoming steamy. In such bars, patrons make every effort not to look at each other - otherwise you might get a vibrating knife in the stomach. The local staff were proud of the bar's strict rules, so Beviin took a bottle of ale, intending to drink it later; here he had no intention of taking off his helmet.
– We are not a beauty salon.
The bartender pushed two bottles towards him, and the mercenary stuffed them into a bag hanging from his belt.
-Have you seen him before?
- Such a face is never forgotten...
A burst of female laughter was heard from the far wall of the bar, and Beviin noticed a human woman and a young girl in full beskar - Mandalorian armor - huddled together at the table, seemingly sharing jokes.
“It’s ladies’ night again, I see.”
– Listen, I don’t need problems.
– I don’t plan them.
Beviin didn't recognize them. They seemed to be having fun - and weren't particularly bothered by the fact that they were the only women in the bar not working. There were small Mandalorian communities in this sector, but "Jara" was a gathering place for mercenaries looking for work, so women could come from anywhere. Their armor was dark red, with a black sword badge on the cuirass - indicating that they belonged to the same clan. Looks like mother and daughter. The helmets were laid on the floor.
