It was
during the Starkiller clone crisis, when the rogue force user escaped his confines on Kamino
and was going rogue in the galaxy.
Darth Vader hired Boba Fett as a result in order to capture Juno Eclipse and to bring
her back to the water world, as a means to use her as bait to lure Starkiller back to
the Sith Lord.
Following his successful capture of the woman Starkiller loved, Boba Fett brought her back
to Kamino and handed her over to Vader.
Despite wishing to leave the planet immediately afterwards, Boba was forced to stay as Darth
Vader wanted the bounty hunter to remain at his side when Starkiller arrived and help
capture him.
Having seen Starkiller’s destructive work firsthand during his hunt for Eclipse, from
the countless Stormtroopers butchered to the massive beast defeated at the Cato Neimoidia
arena by the rogue force user, Boba Fett showed a rare glimpse of fear to actually having
to confront Starkiller face to face.
But such a confrontation never came to fruition, as the Starkiller clone arrived with an entire
Rebel Fleet.
Overwhelmed by the initial Rebel assault on Kamino, Boba Fett was barely able to survive
long enough to retreat toward one of the cloning laboratories on the water world.
As the bounty hunter entered the cloning laboratory, he soon saw himself facing a deformed being
holding a red lightsaber.
It was one of the failed Starkiller clones, who instantly attacked the intruder, disarming
Boba as it sliced at his blaster rifle.
Using his flamethrower, Fett was able to push back the clone long enough to give himself
a safe distance from its blade, eventually ending the deformed clone’s life by launching
his jetpack missile toward its head.
Following that confrontation, Fett was able to explore the cloning facility he had entered,
slowly witnessing the horror it had been transformed into by the Empire.
He was able to see firsthand in the experiments the Empire was conducting on not only the
Starkiller clones, but also those that shared his own DNA.
Nearly all the clones in their growth pods appeared deformed and ill, almost as if the
Empire was intentionally making them appear to be more like monsters than Human
Fett eventually came across one of the cloning scientists, who was making his escape from
the Rebel attack.
Fett confronted the scientist, demanding he explain himself.
The scientist explained how the cloning process had failed and that those nearly complete
clones were likely going to die.
Boba put his second blaster rifle up to the scientist’s head, ordering the man to stay
and save the clones from their cruel fate.
That they were his father’s legacies and he wasn’t going to have his name be disrespected
in such a manner by having his greatest contribution to the galaxy fall apart like this.
But the scientist threw a curve ball back at the bounty hunter, explaining that those
clones Boba saw were not of his father Jango Fett, but rather they were clones created
from his own DNA.
Going on further to explain how Darth Vader had earlier hired a female bounty hunter to
obtain Boba’s DNA and even acquired his brain patterns for the memory flashes, which
would have detailed portions of Boba’s life to the clones to make them feel like they
grew up a normal life despite being created in mere weeks.
Which at this point in the cloning process, was how quickly clones were produced compared
to the Clone Wars, which was 10 years.
Anyway, perhaps feeling betrayed by the Empire for going behind his back, and maybe even
threatened that the Empire would soon have soldiers that had glimpses into his life through
their memory flashes, Boba Fett opened fire on the scientist killing him instantly and
then began to destroy all the cloning pods that contained his own clones.
He fired upon them, set them on fire and finally had the entire facility that contained clones
made from his DNA set to explode.
With all the evidence linking him to their destruction gone, Boba reentered the battlefront,
but now with a completely different view toward the Empire he served, later hoping under his
breath for Starkiller to kill Darth Vader when the Sith Lord was at the clone’s mercy.
But that of course never happened, with the Rebel Alliance ultimately capturing Vader
instead following their victory at Kamino.
Despite his initial wariness in the Empire from earlier, Boba decided to honor his original
deal with Vader and went on to track him to whatever prison the Rebels were taking him
to, likely rescuing the Sith Lord shortly afterwards.