The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett, and LOTF

I recently reread this story from Tales of The Bounty Hunters.
Obviously the Jaster Mareel stuff is burnt, but the later stuff....what do you think?
Will Han and Fett's "final stand" be referenced in LOTF?
Or did Daniel Keyes Moran just *forget* to mention that whole Yuuzahn Vong War thing? (haha)

Id like to see the later half of this awesome story included.
What about y'all?

 

Its not their last stand. It happens a number of years before the NJO.

 

I meant that second question as a joke.
Im not funny.

 

Oh...

Uh, carry on!

 

I'm sure its pretty established that Fett won't be going after Han anymore, over the years between their meeting on Jubilar and the TUF incident they havent seen each other (except for that Tales issue). He has passed the bad blood they had, Han has become too personal to him at this point. And I'm sure since that Karen Traviss is writing Fett in her Legacy books, she'll have that last meeting as a big reference. Thats a pretty big character change Fett made on Jubilar, why pass it up?

 

The entire story is canon. As in all of it.

Only two lines have needed retconning:

"...the Hunter later known as Boba Fett..." becomes "...the Hunter formerly and later known as Boba Fett..."

"He had never so much as held a woman in his arms..." becomes "He had never so much as held a woman in his arms, not since Sintas Vel..."

And thank God nothing else has changed. It's my favorite EU story ever.

 

Actually, it's still not established if the person in the story is Jaster Mereel, or Boba Fett under the name Jaster Mereel...

Since they were both Journeyman Protectors of Concord Dawn...

 

Yeah it is, because in the story Jaster Mareel is a man that has changed his named to Boba Fett and become a bounty hunter, and has a personal vendetta against Han Solo. In canon, Jaster Mareel trainst Jango Fett, and is killed long before Jango is contacted by Dooku.

 

wierd, I was just about to start a new thread on this.

It's slightly off topic, but I might as well ask it here.

I have the old 1995 essential guide to characters. The entry for Boba says there are various stories about his origin, one says jasteer mereel from concord dawn, another says former stormtrooper. Basically this translates to "nothing solid is known about his origin." When I played the Bounty Hunter video game and read Jango Fett: Open Seasons, I found it quite cool how the writers worked the earlier stuff into the stories.

My question is: are there any EU stories from before the time AOTC was written that imply a solid origin story for Boba Fett? In other words, do AOTC, JFS and the bounty hunter videogame contradict anything previously written about Boba?

 

I think there's a comic that shows him without his helmet on, besides ESB: Infinities.

 

Just ESB: Infinities and an issue or two of Tales.

 

The most obvious contradiction is in Fenn Shysa's account of Fett's backstory; this says that "the government of Mandalore" sent the 212-strong protectors/supercommandos into the Clone Wars on the Emperor's side, that Fenn first saw a picture of Leia in an intell briefing on the Empire's enemies, and that when the war was finally over, their chief officer turned bounty-hunter - "That, of course, was Boba Fett" - while the other two survivors, Tobbi Dala and Fenn, friends since childhood, returned together to Mandalore...

Now, we're told that the Mandalorian Protectors fought for the CIS in the Clone Wars, led by the rogue clone Spar, and were wiped out before Geonosis. We're expected to believe that Fenn had been doing nothing very effective for fully twenty years by the time of the Marvel story, and that he confused Spar and Amidala with Boba and Leia...

I can understand that there might have been "tactical", or else G-canon-driven, reasons for retconning this like they did, but it still sits awkwardly. A more lucid retconn, IMHO, would have had the Mandalorian Protectors serving from the Clone Wars until a few years before Yavin, with Fett serving as their commander at the end - perhaps as a bounty-hunter beforehand as well...

I'm not really sure why they didn't do that.

Personally, I'm still also rather keen on the idea of multiple Fetts, a sort of "dread pirate Boba" thing. Yes, it's possible that "Jaster Mereel" is an alias used by Boba Fett on Concord Dawn (but if so, is the shot showing him in Mandalorian Protector armour with a baby Ailyn canon?) but I'd rather think that Jaster!Boba is someone the original Fett met on Concord Dawn...

We don't definitively see a Jango-clone "Boba Fett" again until The Unifying Force, when he tells Han that it was always about the Jedi (debatable, considering "Jaster"-Boba's POV)...

Now, that funny little Tales story seemed to hint that the new Mandos included multiple Jango clones, and I suggested a while back that Mandalorian armour would be a useful cover for Thrawn's clone sleeper-cells, especially considering that the Grand Admiral could do a passable impersonation of a Mando himself...

But I'm pretty sure that LotF will make out that Boba was always Boba...

Perhaps Boba Fett was assimilated by the Killiks, and there's a Nest out there that runs a profitable sideline in bounty-hunters who think they're all the same Boba Fett?

- The Imperial Ewok

 

All I have to say to that is PLEASE GOD NO MORE JANGO CLONES!!!!!