RpTheHotrod Posted April 19, 2002 Share Posted April 19, 2002 EDITED-scroll down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schizophrenic Posted April 19, 2002 Share Posted April 19, 2002 GAH! PARAGRAPHS PLEASE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RpTheHotrod Posted April 19, 2002 Author Share Posted April 19, 2002 BAH!!!! Forum doesn't allow spaces. Fine, one more should do it. Boba Fett was the son of noted bounty hunter Jango Fett. At one time, he was known as the Journeyman Protector Jaster Mereel. (There are also rumors that Fett was an extremely dedicated Imperial stormtrooper who, for reasons known only to him, attacked and killed his superior officer. These rumors have never been substantiated.) What is known is that Jaster Mereel killed a corrupt Protector but was imprisoned for the murder anyway. He was exiled from the planet Concord Down, and found employment as a bounty hunter, learning the skills that would make him a formidable adversary in the future. In his travels, Boba Fett acquired a full suit of Mandalorian Shock Trooper armor. The unique weapons systems of the armor suited a number of purposes, including enhancement of his arsenal as well as increasing the mystique behind his reputation. He also acquired an old Kuat Systems Engineering Firespray-class ship, which he named Slave I and had heavily modified at Kuat Drive Yards. Many of the modifications to Slave I were developed by Kuat of Kuat himself, and helped further the design of other starships. Fett employed the best microsurgeons in the galaxy to remove as many of the pain-sensing nerves from his body. He also had many of his body's pleasure sensors eliminated as well. As his proficiency as a bounty hunter grew, so did his reputation. This led to his being hired by Kud'ar Mub'at, in an intricate plan to eliminate the Bounty Hunters Guild. The plan, masterminded by Prince Xizor, involved Fett actually joining the Guild, which he had felt was too restrictive in its bylaws. The plan worked, resulting in the breaking of the Guild into two rival factions. During this time, Fett also discovered the schemes of Kuat of Kuat, and would have exposed the leader of Kuat Drive Yards if Kuat hadn't been intent on his own suicide. Fett later became one of the bounty hunters commissioned by Darth Vader to hunt down the Millennium Falcon. This occurred at about the same time as Jabba The Hutt hired him to capture Solo. These two commissions fit together perfectly for Boba Fett, who used his knowledge of Han Solo's background to predict Han's maneuver of floating away with the Avenger's garbage, and tracked the Falcon to Bespin and Cloud City. Boba Fett then took possession of Han's frozen body and returned to Tatooine, only to be intercepted over the desert world by IG-88. In a brief firefight, Boba Fett was able to destroy IG-88's ship, but Slave I was so damaged that landing on Tatooine would be impossible. Fett travelled to the Outer Rim world of Zhar, and landed on Gall. There, he was further beset by bounty hunters, including Zuckuss and 4-LOM, who wanted to steal Solo's body. Fett managed to escape them as well, only to be assaulted by Alliance starfighters from Rogue Squadron. Fett escaped them as well and transported Solo to Jabba the Hutt, collecting the large bounty on Han's head to go with his Imperial payment. It was at time that Fett discovered Ree Duptom's personal starship adrift and Duptom himself dead. He took possession of the droid in Duptom's hold and the young woman in his holding cell. The droid contained data on Kuat of Kuat's plot to discredit Prince Xizor, and the woman turned out to be Neelah. Jabba then offered him a large sum of money to remain on Tatooine as his personal bounty hunter. This allowed him to hide Neelah from the rest of the galaxy, but Fett stipulated that he would remain a freelance bounty hunter on retainer. Although the work was extremely simple for Fett, he believed that there would be a rescue attempt made on Solo, and he wanted to be there when it happened. After slightly underestimating Leia's disguise as Boussh, Boba Fett's instincts went into overdrive, and he was ready when Luke Skywalker showed up at Jabba's palace. Unfortunately for Boba Fett, when Luke, Han, and Chewie were about to be thrown into the Sarlacc pit, Fett's rocket backpack was accidentally activated by the then-blind Han Solo. Fett careened into the side of Jabba's sail barge and was knocked unconscious. Fett was thought to have been killed in the Sarlacc's acid-filled belly, but he managed to set of a series of explosions which destroyed much of the beast and allowed him to escape. He lay dying in the twin suns of Tatooine until he was discovered by Dengar and Manaroo, who recognized him by the tattered armor that still clung to his skinless body. Dengar also found Neelah,and took them both to his hideout in the desert. There, with the help of some of Jabba's medical droids, Dengar nursed Fett back to health. Once recovered, Boba Fett set out to clear up the situation with Kuat of Kuat and Neelah. They managed to put all the pieces together, with the help of Balancesheet and Kuat himself, before Kuat killed himself. After recovering the heavily-damaged Slave I from the Alliance, he limped to Nar Shaddaa and commandeered a second ship for his use. He designated this ship Slave II, and was again commissioned by the Hutts, this time to kill Solo once and for all. He almost succeeded at Nar Shaddaa, but was again thwarted. When Han Solo and Princess Leia returned to Nar Shaddaa to take Vima-Da-Boda into custody, Boba Fett again nearly captured Solo, but Chewbacca overpowered him, ripping off his helmet and igniting his rocket-pack. Fett careened into the ceiling of the spaceport's lowest levels and was knocked unconscious. It was believed that he sustained near-fatal head injuries, but Fett returned to action shortly afterward. His spent much of his career tracking down the two most elusive targets, Han Solo and Rivo Xarran. Fett caught Rivo on Ladarra, but let him live after discovering that Rivo was caring for a group of children. He later caught Solo on Jubilar,and the two decided that they had been adversaries too long to kill each other, and they went their separate ways. Boba Fett was portrayed by Jeremy Bulloch in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, and by Daniel Logan in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. He was also portrayed by Alen Rosenburg for the The Empire Strikes Back Radio Drama on National Public Radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkling19 Posted April 19, 2002 Share Posted April 19, 2002 cooooooool, you got more info on the other bounty hunters from the crew from empire strikes back? especially IG-88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KordKelly Posted April 19, 2002 Share Posted April 19, 2002 No, no; a thousand times no. To yank a quote from LucasBooks' Chris Cerasi right out of its context: "When it comes to absolute canon, the real story of Star Wars, you must turn to the films themselves - and only the films." So there. And Boba Fett's dead, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCanr2d2 Posted April 19, 2002 Share Posted April 19, 2002 It's hard to know what really happens to a lot of characters after ROTJ, since they decided to tie up a lot of loose ends in doing the movie. There is no conclusive proof other than Boba Fett falling into the Sarlac Pit, but we never see him die, it is just assumed that he did. Remembering that it takes 1000 years to be slowly digested by the Sarlac. It is up to LFL to make the decisions on what is and isn't canon in the SW EU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vestril Posted April 19, 2002 Share Posted April 19, 2002 You can just keep on believing a lot of that until Episode II comes out and washes away your logic like the tide. For example...IS Boba Jango's son? In his travels, Boba Fett acquired a full suit of Mandalorian Shock Trooper armor. The unique weapons systems of the armor suited a number of purposes, including enhancement of his arsenal as well as increasing the mystique behind his reputation. He also acquired an old Kuat Systems Engineering Firespray-class ship, which he named Slave I and had heavily modified at Kuat Drive Yards. Many of the modifications to Slave I were developed by Kuat of Kuat himself, and helped further the design of other starships. NO! That much you can tell by watching the trailers, he gets his ship and presumably armor from his pop. It doesn't matter where you got your information from, it's not from the movies so it doesn't count. After this next movie destroys so much of what people held true about Boba Fett and some other EU stuff I guess Author's are just going to have to start ignoring the movies...it sucks, but are YOU going to tell George Lucas that he can't do whatever he wants with HIS movies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RpTheHotrod Posted April 19, 2002 Author Share Posted April 19, 2002 I'm just saying, this is the collection of the information when they decided to expand on each of the character's histroy and future. No way they could fit it all in 1 movie series, so they let everyone else finish the story. Also, Boba may not have been his SON son, Boba ,in the CLones story, was the FIRST clone of Jango, in which BOba was considered his son. Let me try to look pu that other bounty hunter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RpTheHotrod Posted April 19, 2002 Author Share Posted April 19, 2002 Also..... "In his travels, Boba Fett acquired a full suit of Mandalorian Shock Trooper armor. The unique weapons systems of the armor suited a number of purposes, including enhancement of his arsenal as well as increasing the mystique behind his reputation. He also acquired an old Kuat Systems Engineering Firespray-class ship, which he named Slave I and had heavily modified at Kuat Drive Yards. Many of the modifications to Slave I were developed by Kuat of Kuat himself, and helped further the design of other starships." he said he ACQUIRED the ship and amor....probably from Jango...I enver said he bought/stole/etc it. EDIT- and why does people always say "and remember, it takes 1,000 years to be digested in the sarlac pit". You wouldn't live for a thousand years down there, you'd die from not having food/water at LEAST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RpTheHotrod Posted April 19, 2002 Author Share Posted April 19, 2002 IG-88 this assassin droid, manufactured by Holowan Mechanicals to specifications provided by Imperial Supervisor Gurdun, was one of the first five droids to enhance its sentience and escape from the Holowan Laboratories. The first IG-series droid recognized itself as IG-88, when a sudden flash of sentience ran wild in its memory banks. After killing all of Halowan scientists on the IG project, IG-88 downloaded its complete programming into the other four droids. Three of the four were exact copies, and they designated themselves IG-88B, IG-88C, and IG-88D, with the first droid assuming the designation IG-88A. The fifth droid was flawed,and recognized itself as IG-72. After killing more than twenty Holowan employees during their escape, the IG-88s and IG-72 parted company. The IG-88s fled to the Galactic Core, landing on Mechis III to plot their domination of the galaxy, and began working toward hunting down its designers. Their escape from the Holowan labs forced Supervisor Gurdun to issue a "dismantle on sight" mandate against the droids. IG-88 intercepted this order and felt that, if it could eliminate its designers, then they couldn't find a way to deactivate him. This would ensure that they were unstoppable when they launched their assault on the galaxy. The IG-88 droids became obsessed with Darth Vader when the Dark Lord of the Sith developed the Viper probe droid. Manufactured on Mechis III, the Vipers were given extra programming that made them IG-88's advanced scouts. In order to avoid notice, the droids sent IG-88B into the galaxy as a bounty hunter, hoping to draw attention away from Mechis III. IG-88B was efficiently successful, and grew in reputation until he was commissioned by Darth Vader to hunt down the Millennium Falcon. After stealing the data stored in the computer core of the Executor, IG-88 realized that it could upload Itself into the computer core of the second Death Star and take control of the weapon. This would ensure that it could not be stopped in taking over the galaxy. IG-88B was destroyed on Cloud City, trying to intercept Han Solo. IG-88C and IG-88D was destroyed over Tatooine, trying to take Solo's body from Boba Fett. IG-88A managed to complete its mission, insinuating itself into a faked computer core which ended up installed in the second Death Star. IG-88A planned to allow the Imperials to control the station so a short time, lulling them into a sense of security before taking control for itself. When the Alliance attacked at Endor, IG-88A felt confident that the Imperials would destroy the small fleet, but this assumption proved wrong. IG-88A was destroyed with the Death Star. One of the IG-88 droids somehow returned to Mechis III, where it was discovered by Jaina Solo. Knowing the droid's bounty hunting ability, she reprogrammed it to search out Bornan Thul. IG-88A This IG-series assassin droid was the first to suddenly become sentient during the initial power-up tests. The cascading intelligence flared within its systems, and it realized what its purpose was. Upon awakening, IG-88A realized something was wrong, and thought that his creators were under attack. When he realized that they were trying to shut his rapidly-growing sentience down, he rebelled against them. IG-88A killed them all, then downloaded his programming and memory to the other four assassin droids. It was IG-88A which modified the security net on Mechis III to allow the droids to land there and set up a base. IG-88A was nominally the leader of the four droids, and was relegated to the only survivor when its three counterparts were destroyed by Boba Fett as they attempted to steal Han Solo's body from him. IG-88A created a number of stormtrooper-replica droids and laid an ambush for the convoy carrying the original computer core. IG-88A's small fleet of droid ships attacked, disabling the transport ships. He stole the data fromt he original core and stored it in his memory banks. Then, using the false computer core the IG-88s had created for the second Death Star, IG-88A downloaded its entire sentience and memory into the core, and shut itself down for transport. When it "awakened," IG-88A watched the Imperials try to ready the station for the Battle of Endor. He believed in the station's abilities, and planned to wait for the Imperial victory before taking control. IG-88A used itsself to fire on the Alliance ships, determining targeting accuracy while the Imperial believed they were doing the firing. IG-88A felt elated, ready to issue the order to its droid soldiers on Mechis III as soon as the organics finished their petty squabble. However, organic determination defeated the massive station, and IG-88A's sentience was destroyedin the cataclysmic explosion of the Death Star. IG-88B This first of the IG-series droids to be activated by IG-88A became the group's external "spokesman." When the IG-88 droid realized that they were being hunted down, they arranged to have IG-88B show up far from their base on Mechis III, posing as a bounty hunter. They felt that a trail left behind by IG-88B in some remote system would prevent spies and other hunters from locating them on Mechis III. The first bounty was collected on Peridon's Folly. At one time, IG-88B's batteries drained, and he was placed on a droid barge for shipment to Olag Greck. Greck believed that IG-88B was sent by one of his enemies as part of a plot to kill Greck. Greck had planned to wiped IG-88B's memory banks and use him as a battle droid, but IG-88B was not completely incapacitated. He had enough of a charge left to trigger a programm trap upon arrival at Hosk Station, where he kidnapped R2-D2 and fled into the station. He forced R2-D2 to help him make repairs to his body and sneak him to the spaceport's docks, where he could steal a ship and escape. C-3PO, who was helping Greck locate IG-88B, was mixed up with them, and the three droids fled the station. IG-88B, realizing that the two droids would be excess baggage, jettisoned them in one of the stolen ship's lifepods after shaking Greck's pursuit. Later, IG-88B was sent to the Hoth System by IG-88C, in hopes of gaining favor with Darth Vader. IG-88B responded to the call for bounty hunters to capture Han Solo, and the "dismantle on sight" order was ignored in the hopes of capturing Solo. IG-88B linked to the Executor's computer banks, downloading the entire database while placing microtracers into each of the other bounty hunters' ships. Within the data was the knowledge of the construction of the second Death Star, which IG-88b uploaded to its companions. IG-88B learned that Solo was on Cloud City, and went to complete its secondary mission. However, Boba Fett had discovered the microtracer, and set up a trap for the droid. Fett linked several ion cannons together, and when IG-88B crossed a trigger beam, they fired on it. IG-88B's systems went haywire, shutting down major portions of itself before it could recover. Fett placed two of IG-88B's concussion missiles in strategic body cavities, and the detonation destroyed IG-88B. However, just before its destruction, IG-88B sent a frantic message back to Mechis III, informing its three conuterparts of the failure of the mission. IG-88C Tis droid, the second to be activated by IG-88A, was the first to discover an Imperial spy in the Mechis system. 3D-4x had used faked holotransmissions to placate a Ranat spy, and reported the inquiry to IG-88C. IG-88C brought the matter to the attention of its three counterparts, and they decided to have IG-88B pose as a bounty hunter to draw attention away from Mechis III. IG-88C also discovered the destruction of the Arakyd Viper probe droid on Hoth, and learned that Darth Vader was personally hunting down the members of the Alliance High Command. He signalled IG-88B to be ready to intercept any Alliance ships, in hopes that the assassin droids would attract Vader's notice. When IG-88B was destroyed on Cloud City, IG-88C was dispatched - along with IG-88D - to intercept Boba Fett before he could leave Cloud City. Flying a replica of IG-2000, IG-88C missed Fett on Cloud City but activated a dormant tracer on the Slave I. The two droids laid an ambush for Fett near Tatooine, with IG-88C in position to intercept Slave I when it emerged from hyperspace. IG-88C had determined that Fett would be surprised to see it there, after IG-88B's destruction on Cloud City. This conclusion proved correct, but IG-88C underestimated Fett's reactions. Fett was able to halt his progress toward Tatooine, swing around, and fire on IG-88C's ship. Before it could respond, IG-88C realized that the ship was about to explode. He signalled IG-88D just before the ship ripped itself - and IG-88C - apart. IG-88D Te third droid activated by IG-88A, IG-88D was the last of the true IG-88 droids. The fourth droid activated was flawed, and was designated IG-72. IG-88D was used when IG-88B was destroyed on Cloud City. Along with IG-88C, IG-88D attempted to intercept Boba Fett on Cloud City, taking Han Solo and recovering the bounty placed on his head. The two droids missed Fett at Bespin, but laid a trap for him near Tatooine. After Fett destroyed IG-88C, IG-88D hurled out of hyperspace to intercept Fett. The other bounty hunter used all his ship's power to fire an intense ion cannon barrage at IG-88D, an assault which left its version of IG-2000 adrift. Fett used the small tractor beam on Slave I to draw IG-88D closer before firing several concussion missiles at it. The third incarnation of IG-2000 exploded, taking IG-88D with it. There you go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChampionMrSocks Posted April 19, 2002 Share Posted April 19, 2002 Never mind the pequels, have you seen what Lucas had in mind for Episodes VII - IX? Set forty years after ROTJ, Han dead, Leia still in galactic politics, no children, Luke as an Obi-Wan style Jedi Master who spends most of the trilogy getting "bored" and battling a tendency to the darkside, including falling in love and bearing children (sorry, fanboys... no Mara Jade). The EU would have had a massive chunk completely invalidated. Still, they'll most probably never be made so it's a moot point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RpTheHotrod Posted April 19, 2002 Author Share Posted April 19, 2002 Again.... George Lucas didn't want/plan/etc to make more sequels, so he let everyone else make the future for the characters. He'd never make those movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChampionMrSocks Posted April 19, 2002 Share Posted April 19, 2002 Yeah, but he still had Star Wars originally plotted out as nine episodes. My point was we shouldn't bother trying to rectify the EU with Lucas's canon as they're no doubt vastly different or were intended to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RpTheHotrod Posted April 19, 2002 Author Share Posted April 19, 2002 Plans change. Originally, Star Wars was going to be the only movie out, period...but it was so successful and interesting in the making, then decided to make more episodes. Not alot of people know this, since it's more of a "behind-the-scenes" information. Let me end up the discussion in one character . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChampionMrSocks Posted April 19, 2002 Share Posted April 19, 2002 Yeah, but that's fairly common knowledge to anyone acquainted with the history of the films (the 'Episode IV' subtitle being left out on it's original theatrical release, etc.). And anyway, now that you bring it up, one film became three then became six. If the next two films do as well as the first prequel the last three may well end up being made after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KordKelly Posted April 19, 2002 Share Posted April 19, 2002 Originally posted by RpTheHotrod Plans change. Originally, Star Wars was going to be the only movie out, period...but it was so successful and interesting in the making, then decided to make more episodes. Not alot of people know this, since it's more of a "behind-the-scenes" information. Let me end up the discussion in one character . GL has said numerous times that he has always had 9 stories in the Sw saga. When he was given approval from 20th. Century Fox for a movie, he decided to make Episode Four first, since it was the strongest story, and the only one that could stand on it's own with out any sequals. That's why when ANH was released originally, it was just Star Wars. No Episode Four, no ANH, just Star Wars. There were never any plans to make any more movies, that is until Fox saw how successful the 1st one was, then they begged him to make another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vestril Posted April 20, 2002 Share Posted April 20, 2002 he said he ACQUIRED the ship and amor....probably from Jango...I enver said he bought/stole/etc it. I know, but why would he go become a stormtrooper if stormtroopers were all a bunch of clones?... Or a journeyman protector, he would have had access to Jango's stuff and would have fought along his side presumably...it's a sad fact, but EU just can't match up with the movies anymore, and if you go by the movies Boba Fett is dead and Jango Fett's son (or clone...don't TELL me, I don't wanna ruin my fake shock...lol). Anyway, I try to give myself amnesia and forget that I ever read those 'facts' about Boba Fett *procedes to destroy the books*... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RpTheHotrod Posted April 20, 2002 Author Share Posted April 20, 2002 I heard Boba Fett eventually died way later...but I don't know how. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi_Monk Posted April 20, 2002 Share Posted April 20, 2002 It's so great to finally find people of like mind! I had to quit this fan club I'd been a part of for four years because they all converted to the Dark Side. They trusted in the books, rather than Lucas, and called Lucas such things as a money-grubbing hack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leagle Posted April 28, 2002 Share Posted April 28, 2002 ...but many years later Fett's life was ruined when it turned out he had been bitten in 1/2 by the sarlac that swallowed him. Distraut at the news, Fett died on the spot from time lagg bodily severence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalas Posted April 28, 2002 Share Posted April 28, 2002 Just go to http://www.starwars.com and go to the Data Base area, its has stuff on most the SW charactors and what happend to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_FinnSon Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 My theory goes something like this: Boba really died in the belly of Sarlacc, just like Lucas said, but there was this other guy left naked in the desert whom Dengar found and he imposed himself as Boba. Think about it, not many people saw his face and he could easily say, he crowled out of Sarlacc's mouth just when Dengar(who recognized him by his armor) came to rescue him. This came to my mind, after I read one SW comic where there's actually one other guy pretending to be Boba Fett and real Boba kills him. So, there could be many Boba wannabes, and even real Boba have had hard times getting back his lost respect after Sarlacc "incident". BTW, even those older background stories of Boba that different writers came up could be easily explained as rumours, because not many people in SW universe knew about his past(and those few died long before the events of RotJ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpanRah Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 hmm, nice to know that some1 else ahs read the bounty hunter war series, and the tales of the bounty hunters they are both great books btw, and a very recommened read for back info on all the bounty hunters, and going on to stuff about what they did later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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