Was Boba Fett A Stormtrooper?

considering how in the young Boba novels, he ended up going toe to toe with Mace Windu and made it to a stalemate...I would imagine that Jango taught Boba something.

 

Clearly Mace was holding back to avoid cutting down a child.

 

oh trust me i dont like it any more than you do

 

This is what I assumed, too. If I had to guess, he probably deserted the Stormtrooper Corps, too. I doubt the Empire lets their best troops just walk away.

Boba never really had a chance, besides surprise. I mean, Mace kriffing stops his saberdart in midair!

 

I suppose so, but I don't see the need: the added subtext of a Fett clone trying to find a life in the Stormtrooper Corps is attractive, and it also makes the comments in Dark Empire II easier to deal with, even if this means he killed his senior officer twice.

The idea that the Imperials were mistaken might work, depending on the actual comments and reaction; but the retcon that makes him some kind of stormtrooper already on Concord Dawn would, I think, cause more problems than it solves, since "Jaster" clearly regards joning the stormtroopers as an option after being cashiered as an officer on his adopted homeworld.

Why, though? Wouldn't the stormtroopers be rather jealous of their iconic armour?

For what it's worth, "Carida: Heavy Duty" establishes some sort of difference between the "training armour" used by Navy cadets and first year stormtrooper cadets on the courses they share, and the full armour issued to the stormtroopers in their third year.

I wouldn't disagree with this in the slightest. Where canon is concerned, "Carida: Heavy Duty" says as much.

I agree that it's easy to retcon it, but I just don't see any real necessity to interfere with the implications in "Last Man Standing", that he enlisted as an ordinary stormtrooper after leaving Concord Dawn - it makes a lot of sense for a Fett clone looking for somewhere to belong....

- The Imperial Ewok

 

lets face it, the man has a problem with direct authority.

 

Wasn't there a Fett clone that deserted during the early days of the Clone Wars and went back to Mandalore claiming to be the son of Jango Fett or something like that? The one that Fenn Shyssa thought was Boba Fett and that was his commanding officer during the Clone Wars? Maybe he killed an officer when he deserted and that is who the darksider in DE II thought Fett really was. After all, not too many people knew that Jango had a clone that he was raising as his son. With so many Fett clones running around out there, it'd be simple for them to assume Boba was just another one. Ailyn Vel certainly thought he was Boba Fett...

 

Spar was his name. Took the mantle of Mandalore and lead his 212 troops against the Republic on several battlefronts along with BL droids supplied by the separatists. Those on Mandalore didn't realize he was a clone, just that he looked so much like Jango there was no doubt a family connection. So they followed him.

There are stories of more Clones doing things after the Clone Wars, ARC troopers mostly I believe. Suffice it to say there will be stories in the future of them I'm sure, but I doubt they would use the subtlety that Boba was known for (compared to his father anyway).

Tag&Bink comic also used the "I'm a clone" line once or twice, was quite amusing.

 

Right, I don't have a problem with it, but I thought someone was questioning whether it happened or not. I can see it either way, myself.

I think him getting a commission at Kamino is plausible (since he'd have to hold a rank if he was leading troops in anything but a scout capactiy), or he did sign up for the Corps for some reason after Concord Dawn. It isn't hard for me to believe either way. I was just unsure of why some people thought it had to be one or the other. It's one of those things I don't see being damaged by any other continuity, even if it isn't talked about much.

 

>Wasn't there a Fett clone that deserted during the early days of the Clone Wars and went back to Mandalore claiming to be the son of Jango Fett or something like that?<

Spar actually left Kamino before the Clone Wars broke out, and there's no indication (as of yet) that he killed his superior officer before doing so...actually, since he was an ARC, wouldn't this be Jango anyway?

TC

 

Jango Fett would've been his training officer giving the ARC's specialized training until they were sent off to participate in the Clone Wars to never see Jango again, some random Jedi would've been Spar's superior/commanding officer & that Jedi's death would've come with Order 66 at the end of the Clone Wars which as you said, Spar left before that time.

There's this amazingly amazing story in Tales of the Empire where Boba Fett has to hunt the brother of an Imperial Officer who's protecting him in his fully troopered base. It in effect proves that Fett has had some kind of Stormtrooper/Imperial training by virtue of how easily & strategically Fett tears thru the forces of the Empire to get his man.

 

Interesting...

 

Despite being on the cover, neither Boba Fett nor his ship Slave I appear in the anthology. The closest reference is a mention of Fett's name in Side Trip.

 

He meant Tales of the New Republic. And that's not Fett on the cover of TotE, that's Thrawn disguised as Jodo Kast.

 

The story he's talking about is in Tales from the New Republic.

 

Thanks for the correction, guys. The story was amazing enough for me to forget which Tales book it was in. It'd be nice if DR would get more "Tales of" books made, they were quite good.

 

He didn't fight Mace to a standstill. He fought Mace to the point where Mace almost had to use lethal force to avoid injury. So, Mace can fend off young Boba Fett, without hurting him, while Boba Fett is in all out attack mode.

Likewise, Boba Fett didn't know Sidious and Palpatine were the same person during the War. He knew Dooku and Darth Tyranus were the same person.

I just get tired of people bringing that stuff up as an example of the over-inflation of Fett, without getting the facts right.

 

At the same time, it shows that Boba's no pushover.