Jaster Mereel...

hi all
after reading the Bounty Hunter Tales and comparing them with episode 2 and the boba-fett-books which play between episode 2 and 3, i started to wonder if authors ignore each other... or is there any explanation for things like: Jester Mereel is the original name of boba fett. he got the name boba fett when he was a young man, but not as a boy...

plz help

 

For all i know Jaster Mereel was once the captain of Jango Fett, and was killed by the Mandalorian Traitor, Montross. This story comes to light in the Bounty Hunter videogame.

 

for a while, part of Boba Fett's back story was that he used to be Jaster Mereel, but in light of AotC, those stories have been retconned by saying that Boba Fett's armor was once Mereel's armor, making people believe he is Mereel. It's supposed to add to the mystery surrounding his origins.

 

Jango Fett lived with his family. His father was a Journeyman Protector, who had taken the job after the former protector, Jaster Mereel, had killed his superior officer.

Jaster Mereel had joined the Mandalorian mercenaries. This group of mercenaries had splintered into two factions: the Death Watch, commanded by a man named Vizsla, which wanted to conquer the galaxy, and the main force of Mandalorians, which remained true to their millennia old tradition of soldiers-for-hire, and was commanded by Jaster Mereel. The two groups fought on Concord Dawn, and ended up killing Jango Fett's family. After the Death Watch was (apparently) defeated, Jaster took Jango under his wing, and became his mentor.

Unfortunately, the Death Watch still remained active. Vizsla and his forces fought the Mandalorians years later on Korda Six, where a Mandalorian named Montross turned traitor battle, and Vizsla killed Jaster Mereel.

The two groups met in battle again on Galidraan. This time, the Jedi, led by Master Dooku, were called in, and every Mandalorian perished?except for Jango.

Jango spent time as a slave to the governor of Galidraan, but was eventually freed two year later when a transport he was serving on was attacked by pirates. He returned to Galidraan, recovered a set of Mandalorian armour, and set out to kill Vizsla. He succeeded at last, and later became a bounty hunter, one of the best in the galaxy.

Many years later, Jango was recruited by Lord Tyranus on one of the moons of Bogden. He was one of several bounty hunters hired by the Sith Lord to defeat the leader of the Bando Gora cult. The one to eliminate this leader would be used as the source for the Clone Army planned by his master, Lord Sidious.

Another bounty hunter in Mandalorian armour joined the competition?Montross, wearing the armour of Jaster Mereel. Fett, of course, came out the winner. He also killed Montross, and took Mereel's armour from him.

Jango received a considerable sum for his contributions to the clone army. He also received, upon request, an unaltered clone that he would train as Jaster Mereel's legacy. One who would be called Boba Fett.

As the novelization of

The Empire Strikes Back states, the last of the Mandalorian warriors were defeated by the Jedi during the Clone Wars, when Mace Windu slew Jango Fett at the Battle of Geonosis. But Boba survived. He returned to the Slave I, where he would find a last gift from his father: the green/gray armour of Jaster Mereel.

Boba Fett would have many adventures during the Clone Wars, on Bogden, Bespin, Aargau, and many other worlds. During the last days of the Clone Wars, he served with a group of Supercommandos from the planet Mandalore. They were brought into the Wars on Palpatine's side, against the Jedi. Only three Mandalorians survived?Boba Fett, Tobi Dala, and Fenn Shysa.

Not long after, Boba visited his father's homeworld of Concord Dawn, and joined the ranks of the Journeyman Protectors under the name of Jaster Mereel. He was exiled from that planet after he killed a fellow Protector. Following this incident, he enrolled at?or infiltrated?the Imperial Academy on Carida. He became a stormtrooper, but deserted after he killed his commanding officer.

Finally, Fett went back to bounty hunting, and he quickly became known as the best bounty hunter in the galaxy.

?TalonCard

 

Jaster and Jango's story is told in the Jango Fett - Open Seasons comics (available as a tpb).
Some of the Jango/Montross story is also told in the Star Wars: Bounty Hunter game.

 

Jaster:

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..was looking for his "unmasked pic".

 

I know who Jaster Mereel was. And that's right, you guessed it...

Frank Stallone.

 

As an interesting note if we are to keep continuity, the Mandalorians apparently reformed sometime after all this to fight in the Clone Wars on both sides.

 

That's the Mandalorians of Mandalore, though.

TC

 

Sssh...you don't want to attract you-know-who.

 

Who...him??

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"Darth Duck! Somehow I knew you must be behind all this!"

"Yes, young one. Now, you must battle my apprentice, Duck Vader!"

"I am the terror that flaps in the night!"

"You're going down, Duck!"

*cuts off Vader's wing*

"Ahhhh! Master, he cut off my wing!"

"Send me the bill."



TC

 

Anyways, who trained Jaster Mereel originally? And when did the Supercommandos and the Death Watch originally splinter?

 

The Mandalorians and Death Watch split off a unknown time before Jango joined, but since Jaster and Viszla were the main players in the split, it can't have been more than around a decade.

So, I put it around the time of Jango's birth. Which would be around 62 BBY.

 

Oh my dear sweet Lord...

It's the duck of the damned...