Boba Fett Killed The Lars

just came across this article that gives 10 reasons why it was boba fett and NOT stormtroopers that killed uncle owen and aunt beru. i have to say that i'm convinced...

Top 10 Reasons Proving Boba Fett Killed Luke Skywalker's Aunt and Uncle - Toptenz.net

reason #11. stormtroopers don't use fire. boba fett does.

 

Obviously, you've never seen Troops. The true story of the Lars Homestead starts at roughly the 4:00 mark.

 

yeah ha ha! i still think it's fett though.

 

As the PT points out, blaster strikes can make flesh burn. I don't mind this new Fett theory though.

 

Interesting theory! Don't know if I want to believe it or not.

 

The Rise & Fall of Darth Vader has Vader talking (radio, or SW equivalent) with the stormtroopers on the scene. He says "extend them the same courtesy you showed the Jawas".

 

That's a pretty good set of circumstances... someone has obviously though this through.... I'm with Master Fisto that I'm not sure I'm buying completely into it yet....

 

Exactly. I fall on the side of stormtroopers killing them party.

 

I appreciate that the article backs up its claim and is intelligently written. It's not too outlandish either.

But Boba Fett not being envisioned as a character at this point is the reason I'm not fully accepting it. Though if there is a reason behind the "no disintegrations" line besides just making Fett look cool, that'd be an interesting twist to the story.

 

Stormtroopers were ordered to find the plans.
Stormtroopers figured out that the plans were carried by droids.
Stormtroopers searched Mos Eisley for the droids after the deaths of the jawas and the Larses.

Boba Fett spent his time in Mos Eisley hanging around with Jabba.

Stormtroopers killed the Larses.





- Look, sir. Droids!
- It's an invasion army.
/LM

 

Yep, it was the stormtroopers who killed the Larses.

 

Interestingly, in the ESB book, there's more lines in the Vader duel than there are in the film. One of which, was Vader saying "I destroyed your family. Take your revenge!" before Luke knocks him off the platform in the carbon-freezing chamber.

 

well since everything is retconned anyway i like the boba fett theory much better. obviously it wasn't written that way but if you go by films alone and not scripts or comics this theory holds up. we know vader wasn't luke's father in the original film and leia wasn't his sister but that worked out well.

btw, have we ever heard any explanations of why vader spared chewie? i remember wondering if the prequels would address this.

 

Vader spared Chewie for no better reason than killing off Luke's friends would have made it that much harder to turn him.

 

One of the best theories I heard was that Vader didn't want Threepio to get shot, since he was on Chewie's back at the time. After all, Vader was the one who put the box of Threepio's parts in Chewie's cell, so Vader evidently has some warm memories about him.

 

why? wouldn't it have been easier? if han is gone and chewie is dead he still needs to save leia and luke would be hella pissed off making it easier to make him hate.

 

also there is plenty of time for fett to be at the lars' place and then at jabba's.

esb tells us vader had used fett before and was angry at his killing against orders. i think it makes way more sense this way than the other.

 

Unfortunately for you, this theory is untrue. Davin Felth's tale in Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina shows the Larses' deaths from the point of view of a stormtrooper who was there. Fett was not involved.

 

If Boba had been hired to find the plans, he would've been looking for them in Mos Eisley. It would make zero sense for him to go through all that trouble to track the droids down and then just give up.
Did Vader take him off the case? Then where is the clue to suggest this? There's not even the tiniest hint that Boba was involved with the Empire during ANH.
Vader's "No disintegrations" line suggests that he knows something about Boba's methods, but that's all.

I wouldn't go too deep with Vader's reasons for stopping Boba from blasting Chewie, BTW. The situation was difficult enough without having to deal with the possible consequences of a dead - or worse, injured - wookiee.
Vader wanted to give Han a chance to calm Chewie down, to save them unnecessary trouble. He was being practical.





- I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
- You swindled me!
/LM

 

Didn't seem to bother the Emporor in ROTJ where he was prepared to kill the entire Rebellion force in the Endor System...

 

that's eu nonsense.

 

The Rise & Fall of Darth Vader was written by Ryder Windham- one of the main writers of Star Wars background books. It used much material from the A New Hope radio dramatization, but I'm not sure if this scene was one of them- maybe GrandAdmiralJello will know.

The relevant scene:

After the meeting, Vader was informed that he had an incoming message from the Tatooine system. He had already been notified that Commander Praji's stormtrooper squad had learned that the Tantive IV's missing escape pod had carried two droids to Tatooine's surface, and that the droids had been picked up by a Jawa sandcrawler. Vader walked over to a communications console, where a holoprojector flickered to life and projected an image of two fully armed Imperial sandtroopers standing beside a middle-aged man and woman who wore robes and were kneeling on the ground. Near the four figures, there was a partial view of a structure, which Vader recognized as an entry dome for a desert dwelling.
Addressing the sandtrooper squad leader, Vader said, 'Report via closed circuit."
"Lord Vader," said one of the sandtroopers, adjusting a control on his helmet so that only Vader could hear his voice. "The Jawas sold a protocol droid and an astromech to these moisture farmers, but both droids are gone."
Moisture farmers? Intrigued, Vader examined the holograms of the kneeling couple and said, "The farmers' names?"
"Owen and Beru Lars, sir," the sandtrooper responded. "They say they don't know where the droids are, but it looks like a landspeeder is missing from their garage."
Owen and Beru, Vader recalled. The resolution of their holograms was clear enough that he could make out their worn, weathered features. Neither of them looked comfortable having blaster rifles aimed at their backs. Remembering how they'd looked on the day Anakin Skywalker had met them, Vader thought, The years have not been kind. It's time for them to pay for their repeated weaknesses.
"Your orders, sir?" said the sandtrooper.
"Tell Mr and Mrs Lars that they seem to have trouble keeping protocol droids on their property."
Not certain if he had heard correctly, the sandtrooper said, "Sir?"
"Then you may extend to them every courtesy you showed the Jawas before you continue your search. Establish checkpoints to detain any droids entering Mos Espa or Mos Eisley spaceports. And one more thing."
"Yes, Sir?"
"Do not stop transmitting until I break the connection."
"Understood," said the sandtrooper.
Vader watched the sandtroopers carry out his orders on their helpless victims. He found the sight of rising flames—even holograms of flames burning millions of light years away—to be most satisfying.
When the Lars family homestead had been transformed into an inferno, Vader deactivated the holoprojector. He proceeded to the nearest lift tube, and was quickly transported to sublevel five of detention area AA-23, which was reserved for political prisoners.
Time to talk with the Princess.

 

What a killjoy Iron_lord... It would've been alot cooler if Boba did it....

 

That Vader is a Sadistic SOB