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Jun. 4th, 2018 06:02 pmNOTE: This history is based on Expanded Universe material that pre-dates The Clone Wars TV show and Disney’s new Star Wars trilogy. For this reason, certain aspects of Boba’s history and personality will not match that of TCW!Boba. In particular, this Boba is based on his portrayal in the Expanded Universe Fight to Survive and Legacy of the Force series of novels, as well as bits and pieces from a few other novels and comics.
Boba Fett did not have anything like a normal childhood. The cloned son of the infamous bounty hunter Jango Fett, he grew up on an isolated, little-known planet called Kamino, where his existence was kept a secret from the rest of the galaxy. As such, he spent most of his life in a very sheltered environment, with very few people ever laying eyes on the boy.
Boba thus had a very lonely childhood. There were only three people with whom he interacted with any regularity: Jango, Zam Wesell, and Taun We. Jango was not only Boba’s father, but also his hero; he could do no wrong in his son’s eyes. Jango also loved his son dearly and would do anything to keep him safe. However, he also knew that in his line of work, he couldn’t guarantee he’d always be there for his son and so did his best to teach Boba how to be self-sufficient despite his sheltered environment. Besides Jango, Zam Wesell was the closest thing Boba had to a second parent. Zam was a fellow bounty hunter and friend of Jango’s who met Boba when he was very young and quickly befriended the boy. The two regularly swapped jokes and stories, and it’s suggested that Zam and Jango took turns looking after Boba when the other was out hunting. Finally, Taun We was a Kaminoan cloner who oversaw Boba’s growth and helped tutor him. Though Boba counted her as a friend, in reality, her interest in him was mostly scientific.
It was Zam who suggested Boba combat the loneliness and boredom of life on Kamino through reading books. It was through books that Boba learned about the outside world and what life was like for other children. He found concepts such as “school,” “mothers,” and “other children” foreign, but fascinating. He also developed a keen interest in starships and enjoyed talking about them at length.
In all, Boba Fett as a young child did not seem the type destined to become a ruthless bounty hunter. Though he idolized his father as something akin to a superhero and naturally wanted to follow in his footsteps, he seemed disturbed by the thought of killing anything or anyone who meant him no harm. On one occasion, his father tasked him with feeding aquatic rodents known as sea-mice to an eel every morning. The thought disturbed the boy to the point that he spent those days feeding the eel his own breakfast instead and attempting to release the sea-mice into Kamino’s ocean. It wasn’t until he saw the sea-mice die the instant they hit Kamino’s waters that he resigned himself to their fates and began giving them to the eel—an act that seemed to depress him considerably. Later on, he displayed the same compassionate streak when he was watching Anakin, Obi-wan, and Padme being prepared for execution in the Geonosian arena. Though he didn’t care about the two Jedi, whom he believed had hunted down him and his father, he quietly hoped that Padme would escape, seeing as she looked like a good person and had done him no wrong.
But Boba’s gentle childhood would not last for long. At ten years old, Boba experienced Zam’s death followed by his father’s within days of each other. He watched his father decapitated in the Geonosian arena by Jedi Mace Windu, an event that sharpened his fear towards the Jedi Order into hatred. In the aftermath of the battle, he buried his father’s body in the Geonosian desert. The memory of his father’s death and burial would haunt him for the rest of his life.
Boba then took his father’s ship Slave I and returned to Kamino. There, he asked Taun We to shelter him—but to his shock, the Kaminoan who he believed to be his friend told him she had already alerted the Jedi when she detected his approach in Slave I. Betrayed and hunted, Boba fled. His only possessions were his father’s armor plates and helmet and a “book” (really a holo projector) his father had left him, full of his father's posthumous orders and advice for his son.
(The following is taken from the wiki) ”Aurra Sing gave Fett to Darth Tyranus, who gave Sing Slave I as payment (Boba eventually recovered the ship). He was taken to Raxus Prime to meet with Tyranus, who was then searching for the Force Harvester. The Sith Lord attempted to detain his young charge, but a Republic attack allowed Fett to escape.
Boba was taken by clone troopers and sent to an orphanage on Bespin. He managed to escape with Sing, who had come searching for the boy, in order to gain access to Jango Fett's rather large bank account on Aargau.
On Aargau, Fett lost 500,000 credits of his father's money due to the betrayal of a Clawdite named Nuri, but received the rest. While on Aargau, Boba managed to elude Aurra Sing after she failed to steal Jango's credits. Jango's "book" told Fett to find Jabba the Hutt.
Boba thus traveled to Tatooine, the seat of Jabba’s power. His first act there was to get mugged by a gang of thieving children who attempted to steal his father’s helmet. Fortunately, Boba was able to get it back by reasoning with the gang’s leader, a girl named Ygabba. He learned that the children were actually slaves to the gang’s adult leader, a Neimoidian named Gilramos Libkath, who used the children to smuggle weapons and explosives. Libkath controlled the children with eye-shaped sensors embedded in the palms of their hands. If any tried to escape, the sensor would release a deadly toxin into their bloodstream, killing them instantly. Boba was horrified and promised to return to help her one day.
Boba then went on to locate Jabba, who was in a local gambling den betting on a podrace. Wearing his father’s helmet, Boba posed as an adult (not difficult in a universe full of short-statured alien races) to gain an audience with the Hutt. Jabba was intrigued by the small stranger without weapons who claimed to be a great bounty hunter. He offered Boba a trip to his palace—as an indentured servant. Outraged, Boba demanded what he could possibly owe the Hutt. He was then immediately set upon by one of Jabba’s guards.
Though Boba’s opponent was much bigger and stronger, Boba was faster, more evasive, and clever. Grabbing a small nearby table to use as a shield, he baited the guard into stabbing the table, pushed the table up into his face to get him off balance, and then kicked his knees out from under him. Still indignant, Boba took the opportunity to address Jabba again, telling him, “I am no one’s slave or servant! I will work for you, for a price—but I will name that price!” Both entertained and impressed by the stranger’s nerve and skill, Jabba agreed to take him on as a bounty hunter.
However, Boba’s troubles were far from over. Back at Jabba’s Palace, he encountered Durge, a bounty hunter with a notorious hatred for all Mandalorians. As Boba was at that moment still wearing his father’s Mandalorian battle helmet, things went about as well as you’d expect them to go. Durge threatened Boba in front of Jabba and, in an effort not to look weak in front of the crime lord, Boba insulted him back. Durge attacked him and a fight broke out between the two right there in the throne room. Boba held his own but his helmet was knocked off during the scuffle. Suddenly, everyone in the throne room knew that the self-proclaimed “great bounty hunter” was a child. The charade was over.
Fortunately, Jabba was only further amused by the revelation. He granted Boba an assassination contract, seemingly as a cruel joke, as he refused to give the boy any weapons and sent Durge to pursue him all the while. Boba’s target: Gilramos Libkath and his gang of thieves.
Before the hunt for Libkath could even begin, Durge was already hunting Boba through the palace. Boba only managed to escape thanks to the kindness of a kitchen slave named Gabborah, who lent him a jetpack he himself had been saving as a means of escape. With Durge only meters away, Gabborah pushed the boy through a secret door hidden in a storage closet—that led to a straight drop out of the palace, hundreds of meters above the desert below.
Free from Durge, Boba began his hunt for Libkath. Thanks to his earlier encounter with Ygabba, he knew exactly where to find the Neimoidian. He returned to the gang’s hideout and found Libkath inspecting the children’s latest handiwork—crates of explosive weapons, disguised as water shipments. Boba knew he had to strike now while Libkath was still there. But he had no weapons. Undaunted, Boba improvised, picking up a stone and hurling it at Libkath’s head. A scuffle ensued, during which Boba attempted to make use of his new jetpack in the fight—and promptly knocked himself out against the ceiling.
When Boba awoke, Libkath was about to implant an eye-shaped sensor into his hand. Fortunately, before the Neimoidian could complete the process, Durge barged in, intent on killing everyone inside the hideout. What everyone else knew that Durge didn’t was that firing off a bolt inside the hideout would be a very bad idea as the crates around them held a huge amount of explosives. Boba immediately wriggled out of Libkath’s grasp and threw himself to the ground while yelling at the rest of the children to flee, just in time to dodge a blaster bolt that wounded Libkath instead. He then grabbed Libkath’s hat (as proof of the completed bounty, since Neimoidians would quite literally die before being parted with their hats) and used his jetpack to dart towards the crates of explosives. Enraged, Durge fired a shot at the boy and missed. His blaster bolt hit one of the crates and the hideout was immediately engulfed by a huge explosion, just as Boba made a break for the exit. Boba narrowly escaped being killed himself as he fled the explosion.
With Libkath dead, the sensors in the hands of the other children deactivated, freeing them from his slavery. Durge was likewise nowhere to be seen. Boba returned to Jabba’s palace with Ygabba and told the crime lord that he had killed Libkath. Jabba was impressed that the boy had survived at all and even moreso that he had brought back proof of Libkath’s death. From then on, Boba’s position in Jabba’s court was secured. It also helped that Ygabba ended up being the long-lost daughter of Gabborah, the kitchen slave who Boba had befriended earlier. As the months went by, the two of them would prove an invaluable source of palace intel (and food) to the fledgling bounty hunter.
Boba’s canon point is taken just after Libkath's death, just as Boba escapes the explosion.
Boba Fett did not have anything like a normal childhood. The cloned son of the infamous bounty hunter Jango Fett, he grew up on an isolated, little-known planet called Kamino, where his existence was kept a secret from the rest of the galaxy. As such, he spent most of his life in a very sheltered environment, with very few people ever laying eyes on the boy.
Boba thus had a very lonely childhood. There were only three people with whom he interacted with any regularity: Jango, Zam Wesell, and Taun We. Jango was not only Boba’s father, but also his hero; he could do no wrong in his son’s eyes. Jango also loved his son dearly and would do anything to keep him safe. However, he also knew that in his line of work, he couldn’t guarantee he’d always be there for his son and so did his best to teach Boba how to be self-sufficient despite his sheltered environment. Besides Jango, Zam Wesell was the closest thing Boba had to a second parent. Zam was a fellow bounty hunter and friend of Jango’s who met Boba when he was very young and quickly befriended the boy. The two regularly swapped jokes and stories, and it’s suggested that Zam and Jango took turns looking after Boba when the other was out hunting. Finally, Taun We was a Kaminoan cloner who oversaw Boba’s growth and helped tutor him. Though Boba counted her as a friend, in reality, her interest in him was mostly scientific.
It was Zam who suggested Boba combat the loneliness and boredom of life on Kamino through reading books. It was through books that Boba learned about the outside world and what life was like for other children. He found concepts such as “school,” “mothers,” and “other children” foreign, but fascinating. He also developed a keen interest in starships and enjoyed talking about them at length.
In all, Boba Fett as a young child did not seem the type destined to become a ruthless bounty hunter. Though he idolized his father as something akin to a superhero and naturally wanted to follow in his footsteps, he seemed disturbed by the thought of killing anything or anyone who meant him no harm. On one occasion, his father tasked him with feeding aquatic rodents known as sea-mice to an eel every morning. The thought disturbed the boy to the point that he spent those days feeding the eel his own breakfast instead and attempting to release the sea-mice into Kamino’s ocean. It wasn’t until he saw the sea-mice die the instant they hit Kamino’s waters that he resigned himself to their fates and began giving them to the eel—an act that seemed to depress him considerably. Later on, he displayed the same compassionate streak when he was watching Anakin, Obi-wan, and Padme being prepared for execution in the Geonosian arena. Though he didn’t care about the two Jedi, whom he believed had hunted down him and his father, he quietly hoped that Padme would escape, seeing as she looked like a good person and had done him no wrong.
But Boba’s gentle childhood would not last for long. At ten years old, Boba experienced Zam’s death followed by his father’s within days of each other. He watched his father decapitated in the Geonosian arena by Jedi Mace Windu, an event that sharpened his fear towards the Jedi Order into hatred. In the aftermath of the battle, he buried his father’s body in the Geonosian desert. The memory of his father’s death and burial would haunt him for the rest of his life.
Boba then took his father’s ship Slave I and returned to Kamino. There, he asked Taun We to shelter him—but to his shock, the Kaminoan who he believed to be his friend told him she had already alerted the Jedi when she detected his approach in Slave I. Betrayed and hunted, Boba fled. His only possessions were his father’s armor plates and helmet and a “book” (really a holo projector) his father had left him, full of his father's posthumous orders and advice for his son.
(The following is taken from the wiki) ”Aurra Sing gave Fett to Darth Tyranus, who gave Sing Slave I as payment (Boba eventually recovered the ship). He was taken to Raxus Prime to meet with Tyranus, who was then searching for the Force Harvester. The Sith Lord attempted to detain his young charge, but a Republic attack allowed Fett to escape.
Boba was taken by clone troopers and sent to an orphanage on Bespin. He managed to escape with Sing, who had come searching for the boy, in order to gain access to Jango Fett's rather large bank account on Aargau.
On Aargau, Fett lost 500,000 credits of his father's money due to the betrayal of a Clawdite named Nuri, but received the rest. While on Aargau, Boba managed to elude Aurra Sing after she failed to steal Jango's credits. Jango's "book" told Fett to find Jabba the Hutt.
Boba thus traveled to Tatooine, the seat of Jabba’s power. His first act there was to get mugged by a gang of thieving children who attempted to steal his father’s helmet. Fortunately, Boba was able to get it back by reasoning with the gang’s leader, a girl named Ygabba. He learned that the children were actually slaves to the gang’s adult leader, a Neimoidian named Gilramos Libkath, who used the children to smuggle weapons and explosives. Libkath controlled the children with eye-shaped sensors embedded in the palms of their hands. If any tried to escape, the sensor would release a deadly toxin into their bloodstream, killing them instantly. Boba was horrified and promised to return to help her one day.
Boba then went on to locate Jabba, who was in a local gambling den betting on a podrace. Wearing his father’s helmet, Boba posed as an adult (not difficult in a universe full of short-statured alien races) to gain an audience with the Hutt. Jabba was intrigued by the small stranger without weapons who claimed to be a great bounty hunter. He offered Boba a trip to his palace—as an indentured servant. Outraged, Boba demanded what he could possibly owe the Hutt. He was then immediately set upon by one of Jabba’s guards.
Though Boba’s opponent was much bigger and stronger, Boba was faster, more evasive, and clever. Grabbing a small nearby table to use as a shield, he baited the guard into stabbing the table, pushed the table up into his face to get him off balance, and then kicked his knees out from under him. Still indignant, Boba took the opportunity to address Jabba again, telling him, “I am no one’s slave or servant! I will work for you, for a price—but I will name that price!” Both entertained and impressed by the stranger’s nerve and skill, Jabba agreed to take him on as a bounty hunter.
However, Boba’s troubles were far from over. Back at Jabba’s Palace, he encountered Durge, a bounty hunter with a notorious hatred for all Mandalorians. As Boba was at that moment still wearing his father’s Mandalorian battle helmet, things went about as well as you’d expect them to go. Durge threatened Boba in front of Jabba and, in an effort not to look weak in front of the crime lord, Boba insulted him back. Durge attacked him and a fight broke out between the two right there in the throne room. Boba held his own but his helmet was knocked off during the scuffle. Suddenly, everyone in the throne room knew that the self-proclaimed “great bounty hunter” was a child. The charade was over.
Fortunately, Jabba was only further amused by the revelation. He granted Boba an assassination contract, seemingly as a cruel joke, as he refused to give the boy any weapons and sent Durge to pursue him all the while. Boba’s target: Gilramos Libkath and his gang of thieves.
Before the hunt for Libkath could even begin, Durge was already hunting Boba through the palace. Boba only managed to escape thanks to the kindness of a kitchen slave named Gabborah, who lent him a jetpack he himself had been saving as a means of escape. With Durge only meters away, Gabborah pushed the boy through a secret door hidden in a storage closet—that led to a straight drop out of the palace, hundreds of meters above the desert below.
Free from Durge, Boba began his hunt for Libkath. Thanks to his earlier encounter with Ygabba, he knew exactly where to find the Neimoidian. He returned to the gang’s hideout and found Libkath inspecting the children’s latest handiwork—crates of explosive weapons, disguised as water shipments. Boba knew he had to strike now while Libkath was still there. But he had no weapons. Undaunted, Boba improvised, picking up a stone and hurling it at Libkath’s head. A scuffle ensued, during which Boba attempted to make use of his new jetpack in the fight—and promptly knocked himself out against the ceiling.
When Boba awoke, Libkath was about to implant an eye-shaped sensor into his hand. Fortunately, before the Neimoidian could complete the process, Durge barged in, intent on killing everyone inside the hideout. What everyone else knew that Durge didn’t was that firing off a bolt inside the hideout would be a very bad idea as the crates around them held a huge amount of explosives. Boba immediately wriggled out of Libkath’s grasp and threw himself to the ground while yelling at the rest of the children to flee, just in time to dodge a blaster bolt that wounded Libkath instead. He then grabbed Libkath’s hat (as proof of the completed bounty, since Neimoidians would quite literally die before being parted with their hats) and used his jetpack to dart towards the crates of explosives. Enraged, Durge fired a shot at the boy and missed. His blaster bolt hit one of the crates and the hideout was immediately engulfed by a huge explosion, just as Boba made a break for the exit. Boba narrowly escaped being killed himself as he fled the explosion.
With Libkath dead, the sensors in the hands of the other children deactivated, freeing them from his slavery. Durge was likewise nowhere to be seen. Boba returned to Jabba’s palace with Ygabba and told the crime lord that he had killed Libkath. Jabba was impressed that the boy had survived at all and even moreso that he had brought back proof of Libkath’s death. From then on, Boba’s position in Jabba’s court was secured. It also helped that Ygabba ended up being the long-lost daughter of Gabborah, the kitchen slave who Boba had befriended earlier. As the months went by, the two of them would prove an invaluable source of palace intel (and food) to the fledgling bounty hunter.
Boba’s canon point is taken just after Libkath's death, just as Boba escapes the explosion.
