cienie-isengardu · 1 year ago
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The following morning dawned bright and clear and hot, and Boba Fett was in a vile mood. It was Tatooine, of course. All the mornings were bright and clear and hot. But the Hutt was going to kill Skywalker. And Solo, and Chewbacca, though that was hardly the point. Skywalker. That was the source of Fett's vile mood. He'd tried to talk Jabba out of killing Skywalker - not that he cared whether Skywalker lived or died; Fett expected the galaxy would be a better place with that fool subtracted from it. He'd seen a lot of remarkably stupid things in his day, but the spectacle of a beardless young man trying to face down Jabba the Hutt in his own throne room was near the top of the list. But, though Fett had argued with him more than was perhaps wise, Jabba was not behaving like the Jabba whom Fett had known all these years. The point was that Darth Vader would pay for the fool - the Emperor would pay for him. The largest posted bounty Fett knew of in the galaxy was five million credits; but Fett was certain that Luke Skywalker would bring more. Jabba didn't want to hear about it. He wasn't willing to share the bounty; he wasn't willing to take the bounty himself, and pay Fett as go-between with Vader. His pet Rancor had died; and Skywalker was going to die for it. Some days Fett was convinced he was the only sane businessperson left in the entire galaxy. It galled him. He planned out scenario after scenario; none of them tempted him. He thought about kidnapping Skywalker out of Jabba's hands, but time was short and Jabba's security was good; even for millions of credits the risk was too high. And so he walked around on the sail barge's upper deck, with uncharacteristic nervous energy, the morning after Skywalker's arrival, the morning that Skywalker and Solo and Chewbacca were to be executed, trying to decide what he was going to do next, as the sail barge headed out to the Great Pit of Carkoon, taking the condemned to their deaths. It came to him as something of a surprise that he hoped Solo died well. Years previously Fett had seen Jabba drop half a dozen of his own guards into the Great Pit of Carkoon, allegedly for conspiring against him; he'd offered them all a chance to grovel for their lives. Two of them had, and Jabba, of course, had fed them to the Sarlacc anyway. He knew Chewbacca wouldn't beg; he hoped Solo wouldn't. Maybe Skywalker would beg for his life. That wouldn't be so bad.
- The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett by Daniel Keys Moran
FOR THE CONTEXT: this is pre-AotC Boba Fett's backstory - Jaster Mereel and Boba are the same person. Retconned in 2002
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cienie-isengardu · 1 year ago
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They took him to see Lord Vader. Vader stood on the bridge, watching the remnants of the battle. Stars glittered and asteroids tumbled across the black sky beyond him. Vader did not look at Fett and wasted no words in greeting, and as always the deep voice seemed more the work of a machine than a man. "How did you know?" Fett glanced around before replying; the bridge crew was so busy at its duties, or busy appearing to be busy at its duties, that none of them had even looked at him as he was brought in; and as usual Fett found himself touched by a certain grudging admiration for Vader's leadership.
- The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett by Daniel Keys Moran
FOR THE CONTEXT: this is pre-AotC Boba Fett's backstory - Jaster Mereel and Boba are the same person. Retconned in 2002
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cienie-isengardu · 1 year ago
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The target was young, younger than the man who had taken the name of Fett had been led to believe; indeed, tonight's target was not long out of his teens. In itself that was not a problem; Fett had collected children many years younger than that. Among his earliest collections, not long after leaving the stormtroopers, had been a boy of barely fourteen Standard years; the boy had dishonored the daughter of a wealthy businessman who had, even in Fett's wide experience, a rather remarkable vindictive turn. Most fathers, Fett knew, on most planets, would not have killed a boy for such behavior; indeed, most bounty hunters would have turned down such a job.
Fett was not among them. Laws vary, planet to planet; but morality never changes. He had delivered the boy to his executioners and he had never regretted it.
- The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett by Daniel Keys Moran
FOR THE CONTEXT: this is pre-AotC Boba Fett's backstory - Jaster Mereel and Boba are the same person. Retconned in 2002
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