The Book of Boba Fett will continue the story of the galaxy’s greatest bounty hunter, and it could also tell stories that tie into the larger Star Wars franchise. The Book of Boba Fett will be produced by The Mandalorian veterans Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, and Robert Rodriguez. Dave Filoni, notably, was the showrunner behind Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, and Star Wars: The Bad Batch, all of which were connected via shared characters and storylines, creating cohesive connective tissue between the films of the Skywalker Saga. Given The Book of Boba Fett’s placement in the Star Wars canon timeline, there is plenty of room for Filoni to connect it to the films, his previous shows, and even bygone continuities.
Of course, Boba Fett was left in the sarlacc pit at the end of Return of the Jedi, and though his survival was confirmed in the Legends continuity, canon left it ambiguous until The Mandalorian. Boba made his triumphant return in The Mandalorian season 2, reacquiring his armor and showing his honorable side as he and Fennec Shand helped Din Djarin rescue Grogu from Imperial forces. The exciting season 2 finale ends with Fett and Shand taking over the late Jabba the Hutt’s palace on Tatooine, killing Bib Fortuna, and commandeering Jabba’s criminal empire.
In addition to confirming Boba Fett’s survival, The Mandalorian also brought fan-favorite elements of the Legends continuity into canon. For a time, canon treated Boba and his father, Jango, as Mandalorian pretenders who used the iconic beskar gear for their bounty hunting careers. Key details from Jango’s Legends-era backstory, such as his mentor, Jaster Mereel, and his participation in the Mandalorian Civil Wars, are now part of both timelines, making Jango a true Mandalorian and Boba the rightful owner of his beskar armor. With this in mind, The Book of Boba Fett may connect to the alternate Legends continuity as well as material within the canon timeline.
Rotta the Hutt, Jabba’s son, was introduced in 2008’s The Clone Wars movie, having been kidnapped by the Separatist Alliance and being eventually rescued by Anakin and his new padawan, Ahsoka Tano. Rotta has only a brief cameo in a Clone Wars episode and several mentions throughout the rest of the canon timeline, and given his relation to one of the Star Wars galaxy’s more notorious crime lords, it may only be a matter of time before he reappears. The Book of Boba Fett, which teases a strong focus on the galaxy’s criminal underworld, could be the story that brings back Rotta.
Jabba the Hutt has been dead for roughly five years by the events of The Book of Boba Fett, and Jabba’s palace had been taken over by Bib Fortuna. Rotta may be an up-and-coming crime boss at this point, making use of his father’s assets to make a name for himself. Boba and Shand may have prevented Rotta from having Fortuna killed and thus reclaiming his inheritance, making the two bounty hunters his new targets. Although Fett and Shand are incredible fighters, they may find themselves outmatched against the vast resources of a Hutt crime boss, especially the son of Jabba.
A notable Star Wars Legend-era one-shot comic, Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction, was set within a year after Return of the Jedi, introducing the bounty hunter Jodo Kast to the Star Wars mythos. Kast wore Mandalorian armor but was a pretender who acquired the beskar gear without earning it. Although Kast was skilled, he was nowhere near as formidable as Boba Fett, who tracked down and killed Kast after finding out that the bounty hunter was using the Fett name to trick clients into paying him more. With Boba Fett returning in The Mandalorian season 2, a canon version of Jodo Kast could have been posing as Boba in The Book of Boba Fett, earning the ire of the real Fett.
If a hypothetical canon version of Jodo Kast makes the same mistake as his Legends counterpart, he could, intentionally or not, serve as a bit of meta-commentary on the ambiguous Mandalorian status of Jango and Boba before The Mandalorian cleared things up. A new version of Kast could perhaps also be far more formidable than his Legends counterpart, becoming a challenging opponent for Fett and Shand and an adversary who plagues them for more than one episode.
Introduced in The Bad Batch, Omega is one of two unaltered Jango Fett clones, with the other being Boba Fett (originally called “Alpha”). As an unaltered Jango clone, Omega never received growth acceleration treatments, making her approximately 41 years old at the time of The Book of Boba Fett. If Omega is still alive at this point, she could make her live-action debut in the series, and the two unaltered clones of Jango Fett would finally meet. Like Boba, Omega did mercenary work for a time, though for her, it was a matter of survival as a fugitive of the Empire. She may have left the vocation behind some time ago in a potential Book of Boba Fett appearance.
Though Omega’s whereabouts during the Galactic Civil War are unknown, she might have joined the Rebellion, fighting for the ideals she and her clone trooper brothers truly believed in and helping to topple a fascist regime. By the time of The Book of Boba Fett's story, however, she could potentially be a member of the New Republic, helping to build a galactic government rather than defeat one. This could put her at odds with Boba Fett, who’d be building a criminal empire at this time, as well as Fennec Shand, a bounty hunter who pursued her in The Bad Batch.
In the Legends continuity, Boba Fett embraced his Mandalorian heritage in his later years. Rather than becoming a crime lord as he does in canon, Fett replaced Fenn Shysa as the Mandalore (Mandalorian ruler). The Mandalorian confirms that Jango Fett was a true Mandalorian, but Boba seems uninterested in the warrior culture, focusing on honoring his father as an individual instead. This may eventually change in The Book of Boba Fett, with Boba becoming a true Mandalorian, though probably not the Mandalore as he was in Legends.
Boba’s granddaughter, Mirta Gev, could potentially have a canon counterpart in The Book of Boba Fett, assuming that the broad strokes of Boba’s Legends-era backstory are brought into canon. Wanting to connect with his descendent and perhaps in need of Mandalorian support for his fledgling criminal empire, Boba may work alongside a new version of Mirta, becoming a Mandalorian and commanding elite warriors who fight for his organization. A story like this would connect The Book of Boba Fett to The Mandalorian and the Star Wars franchise’s Legends-era content.
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September 22, 2021 at 12:32AM
