Before the Clone Wars had even begun, many of the Clone Troopers being trained on Kamino
began to feel a horrible hatred towards their Kaminoan creators and wanted absolutely nothing
to do with being a soldier.
Some even began to question what their true purpose in life was.
This same feeling brewed deep inside one very brave clone trooper, causing him to desert
the Clone Army just weeks before the Battle of Geonosis.
Tragically, because of the information that this Trooper knew about the Clone Army’s
true purpose, Count Dooku ordered his most ruthless bounty hunter, Jango Fett to assassinate
him, and leave no trace.
So, I’m going to breakdown the tragic day that Jango Fett was Hired to execute one of
his own Clones.
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So, the story begins inside the deep lair of a long dead beast where Jango Fetts warns
his son Boba to hold still, as he fixes his mandalorian jetpack to his back.
Boba asks his father if he is finally being allowed to do more flying practice, and Jango
simply responds “something like that”.
After this, Jango then pulls out a canister, and Boba wonders what is is, Jango quickly
explains that inside the little cylinder is the scent of the Pardlam, which is the primary
food source of the massive and ferocious balyeg creature, which is lurking in an earby cave.
This of course terrifies Boba and only moments after being sprayed with the scent, one of
the gigantic creatures emerges out of its lair to eat young Boba.
As the creature emerges, Jango instructs his son to bring back a tooth from the creature,
which leaves Boba confused, but he is forced to move quickly as the massive monster growls
with tremendous power.
While this is happening, jango fett waits outside, listening to the terrifying sounds
of the creature coming from the nearby cave, but has confidence that his son can pull the
task off.
Moments later, Boba zooms out of the dark cavern with his jetpack blazing and drops
a tooth from the massive creature on the ground in front of Jango.
Jango is very proud of Boba, but Boba is angry and scared, asking how his father could do
that to him.
Jango quickly explains that he sent Boba into a very tough situation like that “because
there are moments when you won’t have time to be scared” “you have faced the most
terrifying thing in the galaxy.
Now, no matter how long you live, no matter what you come up against…
You have faced the balyeg…
You need never fear again.
Not long after this, the two board their Slave I, and Boba quickly tells his father that
they have an incoming transmission.
As the blue projection appears inside of the cockpit, Jango quickly realizes it is Count
Dooku.
Dooku asks that Boba be… move away from the transmission, but Jango holds firm and
tells Dooku that “anything you have to say to me, you can say in front of Boba”.
Dooku doesn’t argue with Jango any further, and is certainly not going to offer parenting
advice to an assassin.
Dooku then tells Jango that he has a mission for him… a very personal mission.
He tells Jango that this man represents a large danger to the Cloning Operation on Kamino,
and that he has sensitive information that must not find its way into the wrong hands.
Dooku then shows Jango a hologram of the target, which is just a helmeted figure who is located
in the city of Talos, on the planet Atzerri.
Dooku tells him that this man never removes his helmet.
It may hide his identity but it certainly doesn’t make him hard to find, before calling
him foolish and stupid.
Jango however fires back and says that it is not foolish.
If he has information in his head, it makes sense for him to protect his head from being
shot off, before adding “trust me.
I get shot a lot.
Jango then asks “but why do you need me if you know where this man is”.
Dooku replies by saying “I need to guarantee this happens.
This man is dangerous, Jango.
This leads Boba to chime in and tell Dooku that no one is as dangerous as his father,
and dooku agrees, informing Boba that this is the main reason he has asked his father
to perform the task…
Also adding that his involvement in the killing cannot be discovered.
Dooku finally says that he should explain how he obtained the information on this mysterious
figure, but being the honourable bounty hunter that he is, Jango says he doesn’t care,
as long as he is paid well.
Soon after, the Slave I arrives on the planet Atzerri, and is quickly intercepted by “air
traffic control”, and by air traffic control, they mean thugs.
The thugs aboard the air traffic control ship ask Jango if this is his first time on the
planet, and he simply responds no.
This leads the two to ask Jango to pay the typical “landing-fee” to them, but he
quickly announces himself as the infamous bounty hunter, Jango Fett.
This absolutely terrifies the Gotal man inside of the ship, but the human has absolutely
no idea who Jango Fett is.
This leads the two into massive argument, before they eventually come back onto the
comms channel and tell the Slave I “sorry sir..
Fett, we’re, ah, training new recruits.
Very stupid new recruits.
They then ask Jango to provide his identity before they let him pass, but Jango is not
playing any more games, and instead deploys two devastating missiles from the bottom of
slave I, completely obliterating the air traffic control ship.
As Jango suits up in his armor, Boba asks to come with his father on the mission, telling
him that he can handle himself… and says “besides, nobody’s stupid enough to steal
*your* ship, dad”.
Jango then replies “you’d be surprised how stupid people can be, but veyr quickly
agrees to take his sone with him on the mission.
As the two walk out of the back of the Slave I, Jango jets off, high above the skyline
of the planet, holding Boba as the zooms through the air.
The father and son bounty hunting pair soon discover the location of helmet man, Jango
tells Boba that if there’s a way to neutralize a target without direct confrontation, it’s
always the better option.
Boba is of course confused at this, as he was made to face the Balyeg not long ago,
but Jango brushes this off, telling him it was a different lesson.
Following this, he allows Boba to aim his weapon and take a shot if the mysterious helmeted
man entered his scopes.
After many agonizing minutes of patience and waiting ,finally the unique helmet enters
Boba’s crosshair, and he doesn’t hesitate to blast the man right through the head.
Unfortunately, Boba’s shot just barely grazes the man’s helmet, leading Jango to immediately
jetpack down to the rainy street below, and burst open the scary helmeted man’s door.
As Jango enters the building where the man is, the grabs Jango by the throat and rips
his helmet off, before angrily demanding to know who sent him.
Unfortunately, moments later, Jango is able to break free from the man’s grip and blast
him directly into the chest, causing an immense, radiating pain to fill his insides.
Jango then coldy says “It doesn’t matter.
Nothing matters for YOU anymore.
But before he takes the final killing blue, the helmeted man tells Jango that he knows
him.
Jango of course responds that he doesn’t care, but the man removes his helmet anyway,
revealing that he is a clone of the man who is standing right in front of him, holding
a blaster to his face.
This deeply shocks and chills Jango to the core, as it was the first time a Fett had
ever held a blaster to his own face.
When Jango realizes it is a Clone he flies into a rage, and the Clone Tries to explain
himself saying that he hasn’t leaked any information about the Clone Army…
He just wanted to live his own life, the way he wanted.
And as is tradition, make sure you let me know in the comments what you think this Clone
Trooper’s name should be, since he doesn’t get an official name in the story.
After this, The Clone Trooper then coldly asks Jango “Can you really do it?
Can you shoot yourself?
But Jango throws the question back in his face, asking “Could you do it?”, to which
the clone trooper simply says no…
Without a moment of hesitation, Jango fires his blaster, filling his Clone with a scorching
bolt of energy and killing him.
As he walks off, Jango says “that’s because you’re not me”.
As Jang osi leaving the building, he is then confronted by a young woman and her baby,
begging Jango not to pull the trigger on her.
Jango points his blaster directly at the baby, and very soon asks if it is the child of the
Clone Trooper.
The mother confirms it and begs Jango not to hurt him, before Jango asks what his name
is.
The mother then tells Jango that his name is Connor.
Connor Freeman.
A wave of realization quickly rushes over Jango’s mind as he knows exactly why the
kid is called Freeman.
At this same moment, he is also thinking about his own Son and how he just took away a father
from a young boy...
This terrifies Jango, and as he walks out of the building, the mother desperately wonders
why Jango has the face of her husband.
Because she doesn’t understand, Jango lets her live, and zooms out of the city, back
to young Boba.
As he returns, Boba floods his father with questions, asking if he killed the target..
But Jango is stunned in silence.
When he returns to the ship, he looks out at the lightning filled sky of the planet
and reflects on his actions… wondering if he did the right thing.
He saw himself in that Clone Trooper, and wonders what it would be like to leave Boba
without a father.
And finally, Jango tells his son that bounty hunting is a nasy business, and allows Boba
to take control of Slave I and take it anywhere he wants to go.
The Fetts are taking a well earned day off, after Jango was forced to kill one of his
own.
And to end the story, Boba asks Jango what exactly happened on that mysterious, rain-filled
planet, to which Jango Responds “We’ll talk about it later”...
Unfortunately…
Later never came.
Only a short while after, the amethyst blade of Mace Windu tore the head of Boba Fett’s
father off right in front of his eyes… never giving them the chance to talk about that
one dark day.
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