Jango Fett was one of the most well known renowned Bounty Hunters in the Galaxy for his incredible
toughness, combat skill and his ability to kill. In the final years of the Republic,
before his death, Jango was even regarded as the best bounty hunter to walk to the Galaxy,
being feared by many. So, we’re going to dive deep into his backstory,
and how he was recruited by the Mandalorian Jaster Mereel,
and was forced to commit some unspeakable actions, at a very young age.
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as the whole series provides a really great origin for Jango Fett.
So the story begins deep in the Bogden system, with Count Dooku Racing to his secret lair
on one of it’s many moons named Kohlmha, also known as the Moon of the Dead.
Dooku hastily lands his interstellar sloop Yacht on one of his landing platforms,
before pacing his way across the narrow platforms to his main base of operations. On the way, he
is forced to cut his way through a slimy serpent which lurks below his base with
his Curved Red lightsaber, before he is able to finally enter his chamber.
Inside, Dooku is shocked to see that his own Master,
Darth Sidious has been waiting for him at his own lair. Tyrannus then bows to his master,
before Sidious tells him that his visit will be very short as he can’t afford to be away
from Coruscant for too long, but he wanted to check on Dooku’s progress in finding the
candidate for the Clone Template of the new Clone Army for the Republic.
Dooku quickly tells his master that he has absolutely no need to worry, as his search
for the prime Clone is nearing its completion. He has found a bounty hunter named Jango Fett,
the Last of the Mandalorians… The sole survivor of the Jedi Raid
of Galidran”. Dooku goes on to say that he’s the perfect soldier in every way,
but Palpatine interrupts, firmly asking “And you’ve researched his past?”.
Dooku, having done a lot of deep research into Jango’s past,
tells his master that he has interrogated his former associates, and even recently
visited Concord Dawn, the planet where Jango Was Born, and his family was slaughtered.
And this leads us straight into a direct flashback of Jango’s past..
We begin decades before Dooku’s meeting with Sidious,
the Mandalorians have been fractured, giving rise to a chaotic splinter group,
who called themselves the Death Watch. The Deathwatch followed a barbaric man called
Tor Vizsla, who held a strong belief that the Mandalorian people should conquer the Galaxy.
Vizsla orchestrated a brutal and bloody plot against the True Mandalorians, who were the
faction of Mandos loyal to a man named Jaster Mereel… Once a Murderer, now a reformed man.
In stark opposition to Tor Vizsla’s beliefs, Jaster Mereel believed that
Mandalorians should simply be highly-paid soldiers, which Vizsla absolutely despited.
On concord Dawn, the world Jaster claimed was his own, the members of the Death Watch,
led by Vizsla, scattered the Mandalorians and began a brutal hunt.
As the hunt began, Tor Vizsla pursues Jaster through the fields of Concord Dawn,
loudly exclaiming “You can’t escape me Jaster!”, before threatening to burn every single hiding
spot on the planet to the ground and execute every person who dared help him to hide,
before finally pledging to viciously take his head off if he is found.
As the horrifying hunt by the Death Watch continues, the son of a young Farmer,
named Jango Fett, is playing in the fields of his family farm with a blaster in hand.
Young Jango eventually finds deep boot markings pacing through his family field,
but before he can investigate any further, his father pops through the tall plants,
holding a mysterious basket, befpre calling his name. Jango’s father firmly tells his son
that he should be fixing the harvester, not playing around out in the fields,
but Jango’s curiosity gets the better of him. He asks his father what is in the basket, and his
father is annoyed, but tells him that there’s food in there for a beggar out in the fields. Jango
continues asking questions, but his father firmly reminds him to get back to work on the harvester.
Following this, Jangi begins repairing the harvester, and as he is starting into the highly
reflective window of the blue machine, he is frightened by a reflection walking up behind him.
Jango turns to see two man, with one being the frightening leader of the Deathwatch, Tor Vizsla.
The two men hold the poor, young Jango at gunpoint ,demanding to know if he’s seen
any strangers around, because they are looking for “bad men”. Jango,
being the sarcastic kid he is, responds saying “apart from you?”. The two Death
Watch members are ready to shoot the kid on the spot for his sarcasm, but Jango quickly cracks,
admitting that his father gave food to a beggar wearing soldier boots earlier.
Because of this, unfortunately Tor Vizsla’s men arrive at the centre of the Fett family homestead,
and horrifically beat Jango’s father to a pulp,
demanding to know where Jaster Mereel is, the man opposing Deathwatch.
The eyes of Jango’s father are brought to a thick purple and black colour, while blood seeps out
of his mouth and nose. His father exclaims in horrible pain that he has not seen Jaster since
he was exiled, before telling Tor that he is the Journeyman Protector here and that he is the law.
In response, Vizsla does something chilling. He says “No. This is the law”,
before demanding one final time to know where Jaster Mereel is. As Vizsla is about to pull
the trigger and put a blaster bolt right through his head, someone in the distance takes a shot,
violently hitting Vizsla’s henchman in the helmet. As Vizsla turns around, he sees that
it is actually Jango’s mother, with his sister by her side, and a rifle in hand, protecting her son.
As Vizsla’s henchmen drops to the ground, Tears flow from Jango’s eyes,
as his father yells at him to run, with all of his might. Jango has no choice but to swiftly
move his way through his family fields, with tears gushing from his eyes every step he takes,
until eventually he runs into another group of Mandalorians.
Back at the Fett family homestead, Tor Vizsla and his men brutally execute Jango’s father,
before doing the same to his sister, pledging to leave absolutely no witnesses to their
atrocious actions. Finally, they use their arm mounted-flame throwers to set fire to the fields
and burn the entire Fett legacy to nothing but thick, black ash.
Following that, the Mandalorians who found Jango beg him to join them,
but he’s locked in fear and shock, crying as he watches his family house burn to a crisp,
and his family horribly murdered. The leader of this mysterious group
tells Jango that his family is dead. Either come with us, or die here too.
Following this one of the Mandalorians yells that the fire is burning too fast, before
revealing Jaster’s name for Jango himself to hear. Jaster pulls Jango through the raging inferno,
with thick smoke blocking their vision and impeding their path, but Jango manages to
clear his mind and direct the group to a nearby irrigation tube. Jango tells them that they can
crawl under the fire, but the rest aren’t too confident… saying… Or we’ll get boiled alive.
The group do eventually make their way out of the pipes without much harm, and Jango still holds
incredible anger at the death watch, offering to take the True Mandalorians to the closest town.
The young Jango is then asked if he knows how to shoot a blaster, and he heartbreakingly responds
that he was taught by his dad, leading the True Mandalorians to take the boy with them.
In the nearest town, the Deathwatch tyrants are rolling through the streets with their tanks,
brutalizing the local citizens, and even going as far as to rob them and push a crippled man.
Once the true Mandalorians arrive on the scene however,
they put a stop to the disgusting behaviour of the Death Watch, opening fire on their forces,
with Jaster ordering his second in command, Monstross to fire directly on Tor Vizsla himself.
While this is happening, Jango, aching for Revenge begins to plant blast charges
on the Death Watch tank, before rushing out of the area just in time for it to
burst into a huge orange fireball, sending debris in every direction.
After this, Jango comes face to face with a Death watch member,
tearfully shouting that he killed his family. The Death Watch member brushes this off as just
the casualties of war, but activates his blade and unsuccessfully attempts to kill the Young Jango.
Jango stumbles and drops his blaster to the ground, but rapidly dives down to retrieve it,
with the death watch member moments away from impaling him on his sharp blade.
In complete shock, and almost pure instinct, Jango pull the trigger on his blaster, filling
the Death Watch member with a series of scorching red blaster bolts, ending his life immediately.
Tears once again roll down the young Jango’s eyes,
but Jaster assures him that he came through, and carries him out of the area.
As the other True Mandalorians continue firing back, Jaster comforts Jango and welcomes him
to the creed of the True Mandalorians, taking him on as a son from here on out.
So that is how Jango Fett became a Mandalorian. Thanks so much for watching, remember to
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