Why does boba fett have a lightsaber

He quickly discovered what Boba had witnessed; the Millennium Falcon was attached on the hull of the Avenger.

As Ashon started to make plans on claiming the bounty, he was interrupted by Boba Fett. Ahson proposed splitting the bounty between him and Boba. Boba seemingly agreed before proceeding to knock Ashon unconscious. Fett then placed Ashon within a stripped-down Lambda shuttle that was promptly ejected from the Avenger , ensuring that Ashon would not interfere with Boba's plan. Boba and the Empire arrived before the Millennium Falcon , which allowed Vader to manipulate Solo's friend and the leader of Cloud City, Lando Calrissian , into helping them capture Solo and the others.

At some point Boba visited the Azure Den , an underground gambling spot known for inviting only longtime players. While there, the establishment's owner, Elad Zhalto , attempted to speak to him.

Vader promised the bounty hunter that he would be compensated by the Empire for the loss of any potential bounty earnings if Solo was to be killed. Solo survived the process, however, and Vader turned the frozen smuggler over to Boba, who had Solo taken to Slave I. He was pursued by Organa, Calrissian, and Chewbacca, all of whom were attempting to save Solo from being taken to Jabba the Hutt.

Their attempt failed, however and Boba successfully left Bespin. After killing the bar patrons, Boba had Jhorstek tell him where to find Lash. Boba was told that Lash on Galmerah. There, he boarded Lash's ship where he [50] shot and wounded T'onga. As he prepared to kill Lash, Boba was attacked by Valance. The two fought until Boba shot Valance with a bioenergy disrupter. Boba then confronted Lash and Cadeliah.

Lash and Boba shot at each other. As Lash got Cadeliah aboard a escape pod, Boba grabbed Lash by her tentacles. The two then fought again until Valance grabbed him. However, Boba was able to subdue Valance with his flamethrower. At the same time, an alarm signal from the carbonite block sounded and Boba discovered that strange stains had formed on the surface of the frozen Han Solo.

He cut off his call with Fortuna and left for Nar Shadda, where he met with his old contact Doc Ragon. The doc informed him that the carbonite matrix with an organic being in it was unstable, but he also offered to solve the problem.

When Boba explained that he would be unable to pay at the moment, Ragon gave him the alternative of killing Kanji Hutts' arena pit warrior Wyrmen Lictor , whom the Doctor had hated since she killed a fighter he had bet a lot of money on. At first, Boba did not want to anger the Kanjis, especially since they would recognize him by his armor. However, Ragon offered to make his armor unrecognizable with a nanospray , finally revealing to Boba that Wyrmen Lictor was the current champion of the arena.

In now all black armor, Boba competed in the arena under the name of his father. As "Beskar Brawler Jango", Boba killed many fighters, including Jonny the Sting , Skullicon and Bigbot , in order to finally fight against Wyrmen Lictor, despite the warning of another gladiator.

With the arena designed as a web for their fight, Lictor and Fett started their conflict. After he shot her blasters out of her hands, Lictor ripped off his jetpack with a thread that she shot out of her body. Fett managed to sever one of her legs but was hit in the shoulder by another. When Lictor stood over him and felt confident of victory, Fett let his jetpack explode, which led to the previous arena champion falling into the depths and being crushed by the falling stones.

After Fett asked for his credits from the Pa'lowick who worked at the entrance to the arena, he was denied by several Kanjis who wanted him to fight in the arena for them, as they wanted to win back the money they had bet on Lictor. Unwilling to return to the fighting arena and knowing he had to return to Ragon, Fett refused and returned to Ragon's quarters, where he found the doc to be dead and Han Solo to be stolen.

At the same moment, Fortuna contacted him again, telling him that Jabba was slowly getting impatient for his prey. Fett assured the Twi'lek that he would not disappoint Jabba, but that the Hutt would have to be patient.

Afterwards, Boba visited a bar on the moon and told the bartender that whoever took Solo from him was going to die. He then saw a reflection in a glass of one of the patrons aiming their blaster at him, to which he quickly shot them down.

As he left the bar, Fett left a message for Fortuna, reassuring the Twi'lek that he would deliver Solo as agreed. However, as Fett entered his ship, he noticed a thermal detonator, which promptly exploded and sent him flying back. He was then met by Zukuss, who told Fett that he had questions for him.

Fett responded by firing a rocket from his jetpack, which Zuckuss dodged. Zuckuss was then joined by 4-LOM, who took aim at Fett and forced him to stand down. Fett asked them what the attack was about and 4-LOM ordered him to tell them where Solo was. Angered that they had gone inside his ship, Fett remotely turned on its weapons and flew out of the way as they fired on the two bounty hunters.

Once the firing stopped, Fett came back down and found Zuckuss hanging by the edge of the landing platform. Fett went to kick him off, but Zuckuss tried to stop him by telling him his future.

The future he described was of Fett drowning in a sea of red. However, Fett said he wasn't interested and kicked Zuckuss off the edge, sending him plummeting into the city below. Fett then discovered 4-LOM, blasted in half and telling Fett to stay back.

However, Fett used one of his wrist blades to sever the droid's head and took it onto the ship with him. Fett then connected 4-LOM's head with the ship's computer and placed a restraining bolt on him. When Fett asked the droid who sent him and how he had learned of Solo's whereabouts, 4-LOM revealed that an open contract had been placed on Fett himself, dead or alive with Solo's delivery as a bonus.

When Fett asked who had placed the bounty, the droid responded that the client was Jabba. Armed with this new information, Fett returned to Jabba's Palace on Tatooine. As he approached the palace, 4-LOM tried to convince Fett that he could still be useful to him, to which Fett promptly tossed his head over the side of the bridge. Upon reaching the palace's entrance, Fett was stopped by two Gamorrean guards, who he told to stand aside lest they end up like the droid.

He was then met by Bib Fortuna , Jabba's majordomo, who told Fett that they could resolve the matter without violence. Fett disagreed before quickly dispatching the two guards.

Fortuna attempted to threaten Fett, but Fett aimed his wrist-mounted flamethrower at the Twi'lek and demanded to know why Jabba had placed a bounty on him.

Fortuna revealed that Jabba had learned about Fett's loss of Solo and assumed the bounty hunter had sold him. Fett retorted that Solo had been stolen from him and demanded to see Jabba. But Fortuna replied that Jabba was not there at the moment. When Fett asked the Twi'lek where his boss was, Fortuna answered that he had received an invitation from the ones who had stolen Solo to buy him from them. With more palace guards gathering around them, Fortuna suggested that Fett leave the premises.

However, Fett threatened them and asked them if they truly wanted to die for Fortuna. They then responded by clearing the way for him, allowing him to enter the palace and see the invitation that Jabba had received. The invitation was a recording of a hooded woman with the still frozen Han Solo. In the message, she announced the return of crime syndicate Crimson Dawn and invited Jabba to a celebration on Jekara. After viewing the invitation, Fett told Fortuna that he was going to fix his ship for him.

Then, he was going to fly to Jekara and get his property back. Upon arriving at Jekara, Fett scoped out Crimson Dawn's fortress-flagship, the Vermillion and saw that it was well guarded. He then saw another group of gangsters heading towards the Vermillion and told their leader to give him their invitation and cloak. However, Fett was then attacked by Bossk, who had come to claim Jabba's bounty. With his flamethrower and jetpack, Fett managed to blow off the Trandoshan's legs, subduing him.

Bossk reminded Fett of their history together and asked if he was going to kill him. But Fett said he was going to use him as a message to dissuade any other bounty hunters from coming after him. He then tied up Bossk and left him out in the cold as he retrieved his disguise and infiltrated the Vermillion.

Once inside the ship, Fett found himself amongst a crowd of representatives from every major criminal faction in the underworld. Among the crowd, he recognized a particular face; Doctor Chelli Aphra. Fett approached Aphra and took her by the arm, telling her associate Sana Starros to lower her blaster. Being a noted archaeologist who knew her history, Aphra recognized from Fett's voice that he was a clone.

Fett then told Aphra to help him or he would alert Crimson Dawn to her presence. Giving her a comm button, he told Aphra to create a diversion once he triggered the button. However, they were then interrupted by Lady Qi'ra, who presented Solo to the bidders and commenced the auction. After telling Aphra to be ready, Fett disappeared from the crowd.

With the auction underway, he removed his disguise and got back into his armor. But as he went to retrieve Solo, he ran into Leia Organa, Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca, who were also there to rescue the smuggler. At the same time, Jabba won the auction and told his fellow Hutts to wrap Solo up for him so they could leave. However, the auction was then interrupted by the arrival of Darth Vader.

Guarded by two death troopers , Vader declared that Solo belonged to him. Taunting him with an assortment of hair braids taken from slain Wookiees, Fett fought Chewbacca fiercely before subduing him with a blast from his flamethrower. But after remembering how easily Vader defended himself from Solo's fire in Cloud City, Fett decided not to attack. Skywalker refused however and told Vader to come to him. Vader conceded, ordering Romodi to bring Solo aboard his star destroyer and prepare his fighter.

Fett then left the Vermillion to reclaim his property from the Empire. As he watched a squad of stormtroopers transport Solo to Vader's shuttle, Fett was suddenly cornered by Dengar, who aimed his rifle at Fett's heart and ordered him to stand down.

But Fett refused, saying that he was sick of being attacked by nobodies. Dengar was then joined by Beilert Valance before they both attacked Fett. Fett however quickly subdued Dengar with a single rocket, leaving the Corellian stranded on a floating iceberg. While Fett was distracted, Valance held one of his hands to the back of Fett's head and demanded to know where Solo was.

Fett then remarked that Valance was too late as Vader's shuttle departed from Jekara with Solo onboard. Valance initially refused, saying that he should kill Fett for what he did to Nakano Lash and that doing so would prevent Fett from betraying him later.

Fett admitted that would be cleaner, but not easier. He then told Valance that whichever one of them got Solo after, at least the Empire wouldn't have him. With this, Valance accepted Fett's offer and asked him how they would get to the star destroyer, to which Fett told Valance to let him worry about that.

As they approached Vader's star destroyer in Slave I , Valance spotted the Millenium Falcon nearby and warned Fett not to destroy it or else they would have a problem. Fett then deployed a seismic charge dialed back to twenty percent intensity, taking the Falcon out of the fight.

Fett also noticed that the ship's crew had shut down the Imperial shuttle, leaving nothing between them and Vader's ship. But before they could approach it however, they were suddenly met by a massive fleet of Hutt ships. As the Hutts commenced their attack , Fett contacted the Executor and requested access to board, claiming he was working for Vader on an urgent mission. Much to Valance's surprise, the ruse worked and he and Fett were allowed onto Vader's flagship. Once inside, Valance used his knowledge of the Empire to guide Fett towards the detention level.

Upon reaching the level, they were attacked by a KX-series security droid , though Valance managed to dispatch it quickly. However, Valance was then betrayed by Fett, who threw a thermal detonator at him and caused his body to explode. Fett then left Valance to die as he went to retrieve Solo once and for all. But before they could engage one another, a blast from a Hutt ship blew a hole in the room they were in, causing Solo to be sucked out into space.

Fett quickly used his jetpack to fly after Solo, chasing him all the way back down to the surface of the planet before fishing him out of the sea. Although Jabba had cancelled his bounty on Fett's head, Fett nevertheless brought the subject up, but Jabba claimed it had never been a personal decision and even noted he would require Fett's services in the future, given that Crimson Dawn had returned.

While Jabba explained how he had suddenly become the sole leader of the Hutt Clans, as Darth Vader had executed the Grand Hutt Council during the battle, Fett remained focused on the money he was owed. While he advised Jabba to throw Solo into the Great Pit of Carkoon to spare him the trouble the smuggler would bring, he then returned his focus to business matters, demanding that Jabba pay him after all he had been through. Boba continued working for Jabba after delivering Solo to the Hutt.

In the meantime, a plan was developed by Skywalker, Organa, Chewbacca, and Calrissian to rescue Solo from the palace. Sometime later, he witnessed Skywalker and Chewbacca be captured by the Hutt, while Organa posed as the bounty hunter Boushh and Calrissian posed as a guard. Organa was, however, able to free Solo from carbonite freezing, and the smuggler emerged temporarily blind as a result of the freezing process and Organa got captured and made a slave girl for Jabba.

At Jabba's decree, Skywalker, Solo, and Chewbacca were to be taken to the Great Pit of Carkoon, where they would be fed to the sarlacc —a creature that lived in the pit that would digest them over the course of a thousand years. Boba made the journey to the sarlacc with Jabba's entourage.

Once at the Great Pit of Carkoon, Skywalker and the others put their plan into motion, attacking Jabba's guards—and even leading to the death of Jabba himself, who was strangled to death by Leia Organa. During the firefight, Boba fought against Skywalker, who used his lightsaber to destroy Boba's blaster. In the ensuing chaos, Solo—still somewhat blind— was alerted to Boba's presence and swung out wildly with a vibro-ax, striking Boba's jetpack as he took aim at Skywalker with his wrist gauntlet.

The impact caused the jetpack to ignite, sending Boba slamming into the side of Jabba's sail barge [52] and then tumbling into the Pit of Carkoon.

Fett survived his fall into the sarlacc, though he was separated from his armor, which was found by Jawas and later acquired by the Tatooinian sheriff Cobb Vanth. Around the same time as when Vanth traded for the armor, Dengar and fellow bounty hunter Mercurial Swift entered into a fight in Coronet City on [63] the Core World [65] of Corellia.

During their scuffle, Dengar pulled out his particle array gun and aimed it at Swift. Thinking of a way to survive, Swift pretended to see Fett on a nearby rooftop and said his name in false confusion, causing Dengar to turn his gun towards the roof. Taking advantage of this, the younger bounty hunter defeated him. However, he let Dengar live, as there was no bounty on his head. He managed to save her life in a manner that left Shand with a gutful of working machine parts in place of the near-fatal wound [12] she had earlier received from Toro Calican.

Vanth later gave Fett's armor to the Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin in exchange for his help in killing a krayt dragon that was terrorizing Vanth's town of Mos Pelgo. Boba Fett's armor was inherited from his clone template , Jango Fett, who received it from the Mandalorians after he became a foundling.

When Fett was hired to be a clone template, he was wearing the armor. His combat gear allowed him to compete against the Jedi 's lightsaber combat skills and Force-sensitive abilities , but only for a time. After his Z-6 jetpack was destroyed, Jango fled from Tipoca City along with Boba, his cloned son, before Kenobi could stop them. As a result, Jango was decapitated by a single strike across his neck by Windu's blade. While the Separatist Droid Army fought against the Grand Army of the Republic — clone troopers who were, like Boba, bred from Jango's template—on the field of Geonosis , Boba emerged from his hiding place and cradled Jango's helmet.

Inheriting his father's armor, Boba Fett used the gear as a deadly bounty hunter. With Jango's death , his armor passed to Boba. 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. Boba ultimately followed in Jango's footsteps, donning the Mandalorian armor as a bounty hunter during the reign of the Galactic Empire.

By then, Fett had a reputation for disintegrating his prey, which Vader, who wanted the Falcon's crew taken alive, warned him against. After failing to kill or subdue the Jedi with his weapons, Boba tried to shoot Skywalker while he was distracted. 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. Boba's armor fell into the possession of Cobb Vanth after the bounty hunter was left for dead on Tatooine.

Fett's mostly-complete armor had been acid-scarred and ultimately fell into the possession of Jawas , scavengers from the desert planet Tatooine , who patched the damaged section of the jetpack. They subsequently traded the armor to Cobb Vanth for a camtono of silicax oxalate crystals. A rogue, reactivated battle droid detachment previously featured in an episode of the animated series Star Wars Rebels.

Traditionally, when a Padawan graduates to knighthood, their master will cut their thin braid with a lightsaber. Here, when F finds the courage to come out of hiding and stand up for the villagers, she cuts her own braid, effectively knighting herself.

This is likely beyond the end of the Star Wars timeline, either in the new Disney canon or the Legends canon that preceded it.

Using his method, the color of the lightsaber changes depending on who wields it, or appears as colorless when held by someone whose connection to the Force is not fully established. In the current canon, Kyber crystals are naturally colorless until they and their respective Jedi choose each other. There is, however, some precedent for a synthetic Jedi in the old Legends canon.

In the discarded continuity, the Iron Knights were a group of sentient crystals who were capable of using the Force and employed entirely robotic bodies. They fought alongside the Jedi during the Clone Wars, but were denied entry into the Order until it was reformed by Luke Skywalker.

The villainous Elder himself wields what appear to be a pair of lightsaber short swords, not seen in the films but common in the expanded universe. Ahsoka Tano is well-known for employing one full-sized saber and one shoto in combat. Inside a Yasaburo family temple bearing the symbol of the Jedi Order, Lop and her father perform a ceremony by which she officially inherits a lightsaber that a Jedi left to her family hundreds of years ago. Just as the Sith Lord is about to strike Boba Fett down, the bounty hunter extends a green-bladed lightsaber of his own.

The two engage in a furious lightsaber duel. Vader pushes Fett back more and more until Fett is pinned against a wall.

Vader disarms Fett. The lightsaber crashes into the stasis field, freeing Han Solo. Solo runs. Vader takes possession of the Boba Fett lightsaber and Han Solo escapes. Her twin brother Jacen Solo had turned to the dark side and taken the name Darth Caedus and she wanted to learn how to defeat him.