A.K.A.: Jaster Mereel
Species: Human
Sex: Male
Hair Color: Unknown
Eye Color: Unknown
Height: 1.8 meters
Homeworld: Concord Dawn
Weapons of Choice: Mandalorian Battle Armor
Vehicles of Choice: Slave I, Slave II
As calculating as he is ruthless, as capable as he is resourceful, Boba Fett is the very manifestation of bounty hunting. Merely the mention of his name or even the hint of his presence has caused the most dangerous criminals in the galaxy to quiver in uncontrollable fear. Many caught by him have killed themselves at the first chance, preferring death to whatever fate he may bring them to. His dark-visored helmet, battle-scarred armor, and immediately recognizable ship are simply extensions of his being; they are part of him; everyone knows it. He is Boba Fett, bounty hunter extraodinaire; he is the best.
Born and raised on Concord Dawn, Jaster Mereel became a Journeyman Protector, a local police organization. The ugly, arrogant man didn't last long here, though; he killed a fellow Protector with absolutely no remorse, claiming the galaxy was a better place without him. After being exiled from his home planet, Mereel joined the Imperial Academy and became a stormtrooper. Not surprisingly, this did not last long either, and Mereel voluntarily left the service to become a bounty hunter. This is all the information known about the hunter's origins; where he acquired his famous battle armor is as unknown as how he manages to learn some of the things he learns. Fett is the most well-established -- and wealthy -- bounty hunter in the galaxy and has worked for the Empire and nearly every crimelord who has ever graced the galaxy with its presence. Everyone knows he's the best, and the prices they're willing to pay for his services proves this. In fact, Fett holds the current record for the largest bounty ever collected: a heretic named Nivek'Yppiks who brought in 500,000 credits for the hunter.
Boba Fett's career has been most astonishing, simply because of the mystifyingly efficient way he collects acquisition after acquisition. His network of contacts and sources is second to none, which allows him to get the jump on nearly everyone he hunts. He rarely joins with a partner because he rarely needs one; after all, sometimes bait can serve a useful purpose. Fett is fiercely independent and loyal to no political organization or any other group, including The Bounty Hunters Guild. This fact has made him rather despised by other hunters, although their hatred is typically attributed to a jealousy of his skills.
Shortly after the destruction of the first Death Star, Fett joined the Bounty Hunters Guild with the secret intentions of breaking it up. He teamed up with several hunters to collect a bounty on an architect, despite the fact that he knew the acquisition was already dead. Fett used the other hunters to kill a dangerously vengeful Hutt named Gheeta. Upon their return to the Guild, Bossk killed his father (and leader of The Guild) Cradossk, and Fett mysteriously disappeared. Despite his hand in destroying the BHG, Fett teamed up with Bossk to collect the bounty on the rogue Imperial stormtrooper Trhin Voss'on't. The pair captured Voss'on't, and Bossk attacked and nearly captured Fett onboard The Slave I in an attempt to be the sole receiver of the bounty on Voss'on't. Fett's second (and secret) partner, Zuckuss, emerged from behind Bossk and subdued the Trandoshan hunter; but Zuckuss himself was double-crossed by Fett and he and Bossk were jettisoned in an escape pod off The Slave I. With his cargo and a ship badly damaged by a bomb the desperate Bossk had thrown on just before the pod launched, Fett left to the hive of Kud'ar Mub'at, a famous middleman, to deliver the bounty. Unwittingly, the hunter stumbled into a trap laid for him by Prince Xizor and barely escaped with his life after crashing the Slave I into Mub'at's web and holding Xizor himself up at gunpoint. He bravely collected the bounty on the stormtrooper Voss'on't from Balancesheet, Ku'dar Mub'at's subnode accountant and eventual replacement, but was unaware that the little creature kept half of the substantial bounty for himself. As Fett flew off in his nearly crippled Slave I to the nearest repair dock, he swore revenge on Balancesheet.
After the Battle of Hoth, Fett answered the call of Darth Vader on the search for Han Solo, who had long been a nemesis of the hunter's. The five other hunters hired by Vader blasted off immediately, but Fett somehow knew where Solo already was. When The Millenium Falcon drifted away with the dumped waste from the Star Destroyer, The Slave I was hot in pursuit. Fett finally confronted Solo in Cloud City (after killing one of the IG-88 droids) and, with the assistance of Vader himself, captured the smuggler and froze him in carbonite.
After fighting through some of Solo's Rebel friends (and another of the IG-88 droids), Fett successfully delivered his acquisition to Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine, and was thus paid both Jabba's bounty on Solo plus the Empire's bounty. Fett was paid by Jabba to stay at the Palace for protection for a time, and the hunter (for unknown reasons) kept an eye on the memory-wiped dancing girl named Neelah. The notorious bounty hunter accompanied Jabba to the execution of Solo and the friends who tried to rescue him, when disaster struck. The Jedi Luke Skywalker had already planned out an escape, and in the ensuing fight, Boba Fett's jetpack was fired from behind, sending him careening into the gaping maw of the Sarlacc Pit.
News spread quick of Boba Fett's demise in the Dune Sea, but they were not entirely correct. In actuality, Fett had managed to use his jetpack and various weaponry to blast his way out of the Sarlacc's gullet. Armorless and dying, he was discovered by Neelah, a dancing girl he had looked out for, who placed him in view of another hunter: Dengar. When Dengar realized who the near-corpse he found was, he immediately took Fett to an underground safehouse to nurse him back to health. Unfortunately, because of Boba Fett's knowledge (and possession of evidence) of a plot devised by Kuat of Kuat Yard Drives to connect Black Sun's Prince Xizor to the death of Luke Skywalker's family (in hopes that Skywalker would eliminate Xizor, who was becoming a threat to the shipyards), the entire Dune Sea was scatterbombed on Kuat's command and the safehouse collapsed. Once Fett was capable of walking again, he assisted Neelah and Dengar in fighting off some thugs they encountered while trying to escape the desert and the trio left the planet in The Slave I.
After forcing Bossk out of his ship, The Hound's Tooth, Boba Fett abandoned The Slave I to make his apparant death appear more real and began using The Hound as transportation. He, Dengar, and Neelah stayed together for sometime while fighting their way through several deadly conspiracies linking most of the big organizations of the galaxy, including The Empire, The Rebellion, Black Sun, and Kuat Drive Yards. Neelah went in search of her past, Dengar in search of money, and Fett in search of both credits and information on who wanted him dead and why. After returning to Tatooine to transact business with an angry Bossk, who had stolen the evidence against Xizor from the Slave I, Boba Fett hooked back up with Dengar and went straight to Kuat Drive Yards (Neelah had already been taken away by Kuat Security Forces).
When it became apparant to Kuat of Kuat that his chief of security was trying to take over Kuat Drive Yards, and could in fact do it, he rigged the entire shipyard to explode with himself still inside. Fett and Dengar flew through the sequence of explosions in The Hound's Tooth, and Fett got the truth from Kuat while Dengar, double-crossing his partner, fled in the Hound. Boba Fett managed to pilot a star destroyer out of the explosions (inadvertantly saving 80% of the docks by removing the destroyer, a key link in the explosion sequence) and save his life. He gave the destroyer to Neelah, whose true identity as Kateel of Kuat, a member of one of the ruling houses of Kuat, had long been discovered. Dengar was saved by his fiancee Manaroo, piloting the Punishing One, and Fett took the Hound's Tooth to his next, unknown, destination. Eventually, it is believed that Bossk regained possession of his ship, and Fett began using The Slave II which he had in hiding for years.
Despite everything known about him, Boba Fett is one of the most secretive men in the galaxy. His most current whereabouts and actions are, not surprisingly, unknown, although it is almost guaranteed that he is tracking down yet another acquisition.
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