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BIO - The most notorious and fearsome bounty hunter in the galaxy is also the most mysterious. Boba Fett was known as Jaster Mereel, a Journeyman Protector on the planet Concord Dawn. The young law-enforcement officer had killed another protector, and though the victim had been corrupt, disgracing his office and uniform, Mereel was still imprisoned for the murder. Against the wishes of his pleader, the arrogant young man remained unrepentant to the trial court, and was exiled from the planet. It is not documented on how he came to adopt the name Boba Fett, or how he aquired his extremely rare Mandalorian armor. Fett has worked on retainer for Jabba the Hutt and others of the Hutt clan, as well as for the Empire, and has crossed paths with the Rebellion's greatest heroes more than a few times over the years. Fett is slow and methodical and as upredictable as the shifting sands of Tatooine. He rarely loses his quarry, and has, thus far, shown no remorse for their fate. Fett has been known to work with other bounty hunters, but his motives may have been to show the others up; Fett has always emerged as the one who catches the prize. Shortly before the Battle of Hoth, Jabba the Hutt hired Boba Fett to find Han Solo. Working both sides of the fence, Fett met Darth Vader mask to mask for the first time. For reasons unknown to either of them an instant sense of mutual respect was born, and the bounty hunter agreed to work with Dengar, Bossk, and a rookie bounty hunter named Skorr. But on the planet Ord Mantell, the wily Han Solo, Luke, and Chewbacca escaped Fett's clutches, heading back to the newly established Rebel base on Hoth. Despie his failure to capture Solo and the other Rebels, Fett was once again summoned to work with Darth Vader. One of the six bounty hunters instructed to find the Millennium Falcon, Fett succeeded in tracking the ship to the Bespin system. There, he aided Vader in capturing the Rebel leaders and exacted his price in the capture of Han Solo. Unfortunately for Han, Vader wanted to use him as the test subject for the carbonite-freezing process. Solo survived, and Fett took the quick-frozen Corellian to his ship, Slave 1, for transport to Jabba the Hutt's Tatooine palace. When Luke, Leia, and Chewbacca came and were all captured while trying to rescue Han, Jabba sentenced them to death in the Great Pit of Carkoon, the home of the all-powerful Sarlaac. But Jabba had not counted on Skywalker's Jedi powersor initiative, and the Rebels broke free. In the battle that followed, Boba Fett's jetpack was hit and he flew, out of control, into the mouth of the Sarlaac.
Boba Fett somehow escaped the Sarlaac pit, crawling away and lapsing into a painful oblivion. He returns to the Dune Sea of Tatooine each year to burn his ship's thrusters into the mouth of the Sarlaac in a attempt to kill it as it attempted to kill him: slowly.

The previous was edited from the Del Rey book "The Essential Guide to Characters."