The vambraces were painted red for the majority of their usage,[6] despite being painted green for a time[8] before returning to the prior hue.[6] Additionally, the armor contained a chain code within the left vambrace. The encoded file held information regarding the armor's owners, from Jango to Boba Fett.[3]
The Fett armor as it was during Boba's bounty hunting career
The armor also included a Z-6 jetpack that allowed the armor's wearer to engage in aerial travel and combat over short distances.[12] The jetpack contained an explosive missile that could be launched from it.[15] In addition to the Z-6 model, Jango owned a JT-12 jetpack.[5]Kneepad rocket dart launchers were integrated in the right kneepad of the armor as well.[3]
The armor was forged from beskar.[7] It was originally silver and blue while in Jango's possession.[5] Its sleek design[15] was eventually altered to a green and brownish red appearance[8] after Boba inherited it.[3] By the time of the Imperial Era, the armor featured a Mythosaurskull sigil[8] as well as braids made from Wookiees that Boba had defeated in combat.[16]
Boba Fett restored his armor after regaining it and used it as leader of his own criminal family.
Despite its battle worn condition by the time of the New Republic Era, the armor was still an effective tool that allowed the individual who wore it to shrug off blaster bolts and defeat multiple opponents in a firefight.[4] Boba replaced his father's destroyed Z-6 jetpack with a nearly identical model, as well as an additional pack distinguished by its green color scheme that he used interchangeably. After recovering his armor[17] in 9 ABY,[18] Boba promptly restored it, giving it a new paintjob.[17]
History
Armor of Jango Fett
I recently encountered a man who wore Mandalorian armor. Jango Fett." "Jango Fett was a common bounty hunter. How he acquired that armor is beyond me.Obi-Wan Kenobi and Almec
Boba Fett's armor was inherited from his clone template—or "father"—Jango Fett, who received it from the Mandalorians after he became a foundling.[3] Fett originally bore his armor as a Mandalorian warrior[20] during the Mandalorian Civil Wars, the conflict during which he was given the armor in the first place.[21] During his storied career as a bounty hunter,[15] Jango used his armor to great effect, collecting bounties for various clients. When Fett was hired to be a clone template, he was wearing the armor.[22] He continued to wear the armor during the last days of his life, when he was employed by the SeparatistHead of StateCountDooku.[5] Regardless, Prime MinisterAlmec of Mandalore did not consider Jango a member of his people, but rather a simple bounty hunter who somehow acquired Mandalorian armor.[19]
The armor was used to great effect by Jango Fett as a bounty hunter.
You are a disgrace to your armor." "This armor belonged to my father." "Don't you mean your donor?Bo-Katan Kryze and Boba Fett
Jango's armor was inherited by his cloned son, Boba Fett, who became a deadly bounty hunter.
With Jango's death, his armor passed to Boba.[3] During the Clone Wars, Boba tried to kill Windu with a bomb that he planted inside his father'shelmet. Although the explosive was triggered by Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, Windu not only survived but also saved Skywalker in the process. While trapped under the wreckage of the Endurance, Windu inspected the damaged helmet of the hunter that he defeated on Geonosis, having realized that Boba was involved in the plot against him.[24] The helmet used as a trap to lure Windu was destroyed by a baradium charge explosion. Fragments of the helmet were later recovered by the Republic, and metallurgical analysis confirmed its unparalleled besker purity.[25]
Boba ultimately followed in Jango's footsteps, donning the Mandalorian armor as a bounty hunter during the reign of the Galactic Empire.[12] The armor became a defining characteristic of Fett and his reputation.[26] He was one of several hunters hired by the Sith LordDarth Vader to track a Rebelstarship, the Millennium Falcon,[12] during the Galactic Civil War. By then, Fett had a reputation for disintegrating his prey, which Vader, who wanted the Falcon's crew taken alive, warned him against. Eager to gain Jabba Desilijic Tiure's bounty on the Rebel-aligned smugglerHan Solo,[8] with whom Boba had prior dealings,[27][28] Fett helped in the early stages of the Imperial occupation of Cloud City and left with Solo's body frozen in carbonite.[8]
Boba Fett paints his armor black and enters an arena under his father's name to avoid the eyes of the Kanji Criminal Enterprise.
However, Fett's journey to Jabba's Palace on Tatooine to claim the bounty on Solo[26] was distracted by the return of his former ally Nakano Lash,[29] whom Fett held a grudge against[30] and elected to hunt down[29] in revenge.[30] Fett's diversion resulted in Solo's carbonite form beginning to destabilizing, forcing him to again divert his journey to head to the moon of Nar Shaddaa, where he hired the services of DoctorRagon in stabilizing the carbonite. Unable to pay Ragon for his work, Fett agreed to enter the Garkata Fighting Arena and kill the champion Wyrmen Lictor, thereby avenging a fighter Ragon had sponsored previously. As the arena was owned by the Kanji Criminal Enterprise, Fett did not want to directly anger the syndicate and thus used some of Ragon's nano-spray paint to disguise his armor, painting it black and entering the arena under his father's name. While "Beskar Brawler Jango" fought through the arena and killed Lictor,[26] agents of the re-emerging Crimson Dawn syndicate killed Ragon and stole Solo's carbonite form as part of LadyQi'ra's plans.[31]
Returning his armor to its normal color,[26] Fett used his armor in the ensuing War of the Bounty Hunters to reclaim Solo and deliver him to Jabba.[32] Boba later fought against the Jedi apprenticeLuke Skywalker during the mission to rescue Solo on Tatooine. After failing to kill or subdue the Jedi with his weapons, Boba tried to shoot Skywalker while he was distracted.[6] During the fight, Fett's jetpack sustained a gash in the back. Before Fett could land a shot on Skywalker, a blind Solo accidentally hit Boba's jetpack, causing the bounty hunter to careen into the side of Jabba's sail barge before tumbling into the Great Pit of Carkoon where a sarlacc swallowed him.[12]
Boba Fett's armor was stolen by Jawas, who removed it from the unconscious bounty hunter following his escape from the sarlacc.
Fett survived his fall into the sarlacc, and managed to escape by activating his flamethrower to burn through the sarlacc's hide, and dug himself out of the pit. Exahusted and suffering wounds from the enounter with the beast, Fett collapsed near the wreckage of the Khetanna. Some time later, he was found by a group of Jawas that had yellow eyes, who separated him from his armor, which had become acid-scarred from the sarlacc. When Fett attempted to resist their attempts at theft, he was knocked out by the Jawas and left for dead.[11] Sometime after the destruction of the second Death Star, the Jawas traded the armor to Cobb Vanth for a camtono of silicax oxalate crystals.[4]
Cobb Vanth, Lawman on Tatooine
As much as I've grown fond of the armor, I'm even more fond of this town. The Mandalorian is willing to help us slay the leviathan in exchange for returning the armor to its ancestral owners.Cobb Vanth
Cobb Vanth purchased Fett's armor from the Jawa scavengers who took it from him.
Although he used it to protect the residents of Mos Pelgo as their marshal, the Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin demanded that he surrender the suit to him when they met[4] in 9 ABY,[18] as Djarin believed that Mandalorian armor belongs to the Mandalorians. Vanth agreed in exchange for Djarin's help in slaying a krayt dragon. They managed to kill the dragon, and Vanth gave the armor to Djarin.[4]
Return to Boba Fett
I don't want your armor. I want my armor that you got from Cobb Vanth back on Tatooine. It belongs to me.Boba Fett, to Din Djarin
Boba Fett's armor passed from Vanth to the Mandalorian Din Djarin.
Boba Fett attempted to recover his armor following his time with the Tusken Raiders. Joined by Fennec Shand, he returned to the sarlacc pit after retrieving his personal starship, Slave I, unaware that the armor[7] had been taken by Jawas.[11] Shand assumed that the armor had disintegrated within the sarlacc, but Fett knew that its beskar would remain intact. After Fett searched the creature's remains, Shand advised him to cease his efforts to recover it, asserting that the armor served its purpose by allowing him to survive within the sarlacc.[7]
Fett located his armor by the time Din Djarin acquired it from Cobb Vanth.[4] Fett and Shand followed Djarin to the planet Tython, where Fett attempted to reclaim his armor from the Mandalorian. Djarin refused to surrender the armor after Fett denied having any allegiance or loyalty to the Mandalorians, despite his father Jango's past affiliation with them. Their dispute was interrupted by the arrival of stormtroopers loyal to MoffGideon. During the skirmish, Fett took advantage of the situation to reclaim the armor from Djarin's ship, the Razor Crest. Donning the armor, Fett returned to the battle and brought it to a swift end. After Fett presented the armor's chain code, providing proof of ownership and revealing that his father was a Mandalorian foundling, Djarin acknowledged Boba's claim on the armor.[3]
Boba Fett in his repainted armor, with his helmet removed
Before a mission to Morak, Fett repainted his armor, restoring its vivid colors. Fett also produced the missing left kneepad, which was absent during the Jawas' and Vanth's ownership of the armor. Despite wearing his newly restored gear, Fett was unable to help Djarin infiltrate an Imperial refinery during the Morak mission, citing that he could need to remove his helmet and that the Imperials would recognize his face. Fett thus served as their get-away-pilot aboard the Slave I.[17]
Fett encountered the Mandalorians Bo-Katan Kryze and Koska Reeves when Djarin attempted to recruit them for his plan to rescue the foundling Grogu. Kryze denounced Fett, stating that he was not a Mandalorian in spite of the armor that he wore and the fact Jango was a Mandalorian, although Fett countered that he never claimed to be Mandalorian himself even despite his heritage. Recognizing the bounty hunter as a clone by the voice he shared with the clone troopers who fought in the Clone Wars, Kryze told Fett that he disgraced his armor. She also referred to the armor's original owner as Fett's donor rather than his father, causing Fett to threaten Kryze. A physical altercation ensued between Fett and Reeves, both of whom utilized their armor's weaponry against each other until Kryze stepped in to end the fight. The armor remained in Boba Fett's possession following the rescue of Grogu from Moff Gideon's Imperial remnant.[23]
Lord Boba Fett
Would you like your helmet serviced and cleaned while you wait for Madam Garsa?A Twi'lek attendant, to Boba Fett and Fennec Shand
Fett in his restored armor and armed with his blaster carbine
With his debt to the Mandalorian paid, Fett journeyed to Tatooine with Shand. In Jabba's former Palace, Fett killed[23] and replaced Bib Fortuna as a crime lord. The newly styled crime lord established his residence in the Palace, where he kept a bacta pod along with several droids to assist him with putting on his armor. By then, Boba experienced recurring dreams of his past, including the time when he recovered his father's helmet after Jango's death on Geonosis.[11]
Fett wore the armor for official functions, such granting audiences to guests and receiving their gifts as the new Daimyo. Rather than following Jabba's example of ruling through fear, Fett sought to build his gotra by gaining the respect of his vassals. Though he shunned the usual trappings of a crime lord, such as riding in a litter like a nobleman, Fett made an effort to acclimate to the local customs of Tatooine. As such, he permitted one of the Twi'lek attendants at the Sanctuary—Garsa Fwip's cantina in Mos Espa—to clean his helmet.[11]
Behind the scenes
A clip of unfinished animation from a canceled episode of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars was shown during the Animated Origins and Unexpected Fates panel at Celebration Orlando in 2017. The segment featured Boba Fett donning his iconic armor for the first time in the show during a duel with fellow bounty hunter Cad Bane. The episode would have also served to explain the origins of the large dent on Fett's helmet, that being a mark from Bane's blast shot.[33]
"Galactic Tales: The Wesell Run" — Star Wars Insider 209
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Mandalore Plot" (Mentioned only) (Retcon)
"Tales of Villainy: Trade Relations" — Star Wars Adventures (2020) 9
The Mandalorian — "Chapter 9: The Marshal"
The Book of Boba Fett — "Chapter 1: Stranger in a Strange Land"
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LEGO STAR WARS: Celebrate the Season — "Scary Starship"
"Skating in the Rain" — LEGO Star Wars 95
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Star Wars Helmet Collection 2 (Helmets: Boba Fett — Notorious Bounty Hunter) (Picture only)
Star Wars: Build Your Own X-Wing 11 (Starfighter Aces: Jango Fett – Legendary Bounty hunter)
LEGO Classic Star Wars (Set: 75243 Slave I - 20th Anniversary Edition) (Picture only)
"The Battle of Hoth and the Second Death Star" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian — "Making of Season Two"
The Book of Boba Fett | Official Trailer | Disney+ on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
Faithful Friends | Star Wars: List It! on the official Star Wars Kids YouTube channel (content now obsolete; backup link)
Boba Fett in the Databank (backup link)
