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The Book Of Boba Fett

In-universe I suppose a simple way to go is to have Jango take the ship from a slaver ring while on a job. Kept it because it's (not surprisingly) suitable for bounty hunting, and just neither he nor Boba ever bothered to change the name, because: "who cares, it's just a ship."
 
Side note, Grevious' ship is called the 'Soulless One' and Dengar's ship is called 'Punishing One', though I believe their ships always use 'One', they're never spelled with just a '1' like 'Slave 1' is.
 
Though, both of those cases are grammatical phrases, being adjectives. A ship could be "the punishing one," "the soulless one," "the grateful one," "the cute one," "the funny one," and so on (note to self: boy-band themed starfighter squadron). Slave 1 (or Slave One) pretty much has to be counting something. It's not like it's "Enslaved One" or "Enslaving One."

Seriously, just start calling it "the Firespray." It's fine. We'll all be fine. They changed the name of Bail Organa's ship in Episode III like three times, and all those names were better than "Slave 1."
 
Over at CBR there is a fan theory about Fett killing Luke’s family. And a tragedy could be made of that.

But first, a little in the way of an introduction.

The most fearsome character in Star Wars?

Lars.

Coming from the South, I know what monsters look like. Read up a little on Phenix City Alabama. Or Rick Bragg.

Here is how I would set the scene. On occasion drunk Stormtroopers disappear here and there. Lars hates these young punks who hide their eyes behind masks. No harmless denizen of FARGO he. More like a Walker County coal miner on a picket line. Fett learns this to his detriment.

Though mostly quiet and taciturn, he can be a Dennis Rader monster. Fett is tipped off that a Skywalker is living nearby. Lars needs the boy to help. He has had enough of these fly over types…working…slaving away. He slaps the Fett’s Blaster and rips the helmet off with a blinding ferocity his wife hasn’t seen since he killed a man messing with her. Poor Boba doesn’t have a chance. Lars is beating him to death, threatening to put him in a Sarlac pit with the other troopers.

His wife comes up from behind…they argue…he knocks her down on her face…where we last saw her.

Lars turns around as Boba finally gains his footing…and gets the flamethrower.

Boba has never been so humiliated.

The worst beating of his life came not from a Sith Lord, or Jedi Knight…but from…a redneck?

He empties every blaster he can find into Lars’ corpse…and it isn’t enough. He screams as he bends over…firing his missile and destroying the compound, before killing Jawas in a spree.

Just like Obi knew he would when he had Luke’s whereabouts tipped off. Boba puts on his mask…and never takes it off.

Lars was an unknowing ruthless protector of Luke. Even Vader flinched when he tried to find Luke but Lars primal rage masked everything…for a time. Obi himself knew what was coming. Lars had to be dealt with, for Luke to leave. It didn’t take much to push Lars over the edge, as Obi knew when he tried to retrieve Luke just before ANH. He couldn’t bring himself to use his lightsaber on Lars.

As the Luke speeds away to his destiny, he fails to see the desiccated corpse of a Jedi in the sand…his new master a Force ghost even then.

Come for Star Wars, and I’ll give you CHILDREN OF THE CORN meets PREACHER
 
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publiusr said:
Over at CBR there is a fan theory about Fett killing Luke’s family. And a tragedy could be made of that.
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I'm not for that idea. That opens up a whole other world of unfinished business for Luke. His beef was with Vader and the Empire. Adding this makes no sense unless Luke shows up again in Book of Boba.
 
Star Wars is starting to feel a bit 'small galaxy' with the amount of cameos and connections, I don't think Fett killing Luke's family will help with that (or is a good idea regardless).
 
Tuskin38 said:
Other than the stuff set thousands of years before, these connections have always happened.
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Hell, it still happens there :D Right now I'm playing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, where the player meets the Republican pilot Carath, who previously befriended Zayne Carrick from the Knights of the Old Republic comics series. Zayne is friends with Jarael, who was created from the DNA of Jedi master Arca who originated in the Tales of the Jedi comics, and was also the master of the parents of Zayne Carrick's former master.
 
publiusr said:
Over at CBR there is a fan theory about Fett killing Luke’s family. And a tragedy could be made of that.

But first, a little in the way of an introduction.

The most fearsome character in Star Wars?

Lars.

Coming from the South, I know what monsters look like. Read up a little on Phenix City Alabama. Or Rick Bragg.

Here is how I would set the scene. On occasion drunk Stormtroopers disappear here and there. Lars hates these young punks who hide their eyes behind masks. No harmless denizen of FARGO he. More like a Walker County coal miner on a picket line. Fett learns this to his detriment.

Though mostly quiet and taciturn, he can be a Dennis Rader monster. Fett is tipped off that a Skywalker is living nearby. Lars needs the boy to help. He has had enough of these fly over types…working…slaving away. He slaps the Fett’s Blaster and rips the helmet off with a blinding ferocity his wife hasn’t seen since he killed a man messing with her. Poor Boba doesn’t have a chance. Lars is beating him to death, threatening to put him in a Sarlac pit with the other troopers.

His wife comes up from behind…they argue…he knocks her down on her face…where we last saw her.

Lars turns around as Boba finally gains his footing…and gets the flamethrower.

Boba has never been so humiliated.

The worst beating of his life came not from a Sith Lord, or Jedi Knight…but from…a redneck?

He empties every blaster he can find into Lars’ corpse…and it isn’t enough. He screams as he bends over…firing his missile and destroying the compound, before killing Jawas in a spree.

Just like Obi knew he would when he had Luke’s whereabouts tipped off. Boba puts on his mask…and never takes it off.

Lars was an unknowing ruthless protector of Luke. Even Vader flinched when he tried to find Luke but Lars primal rage masked everything…for a time. Obi himself knew what was coming. Lars had to be dealt with, for Luke to leave. It didn’t take much to push Lars over the edge, as Obi knew when he tried to retrieve Luke just before ANH. He couldn’t bring himself to use his lightsaber on Lars.

As the Luke speeds away to his destiny, he fails to see the desiccated corpse of a Jedi in the sand…his new master a Force ghost even then.

Come for Star Wars, and I’ll give you CHILDREN OF THE CORN meets PREACHER
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Gods, that sounds awful.

Not because of small universe syndrome (I have no problem with that), but because of everything else about it. It's so...unnecessary and dumb.
 
Lars family was a victim of overkill. Same with the Jawas. Assassin’s work would be cleaner. Two shots…no fires. Something really went wrong here. In my scenario Vader hears of the massacre and thinks Luke did it chafing at the bit…reminding him of his own outrage with the children and leading him to think Luke can be turned…then too, maybe I’ve watched too much of Better Call Saul.

Dismal endings seem truer than happy ones.

They wanted ‘dark’ so…
 
Do they just happen to make BoBoFe before Mando3, or is Mando's third season delayed to get this out?
 
Markonian said:
Do they just happen to make BoBoFe before Mando3, or is Mando's third season delayed to get this out?
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It sounds like this was always the plan, from reports they haven't even started filming Mando season 3 yet, apparently that won't happen until the end of this year/beginning of next, so expect the Andor and Obi-Wan shows to release before it.

A good thing imo, let them take their time getting Mando right, and I think it'll be nice to have some new shows out in the mean time.
 
Speaking of "small galaxy", why isn't Disney doing crossovers within the Star Wars universe and their other properties?
So far, there's only been games (like Palpatine announcing the galactic threat on planet Fortnite) but no TV shows with that.
 
fireproof78 said:
This is not new.
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I realise that Star Wars has always had characters across the franchise running into each other. Obviously that is a thing.

My point is that in the space of the first eleven episodes of a brand new show we've gotten: Saw Gerrera, Cut Lawquane, Fennec Shand, Bib Fortuna, Trace and Rafa, Rex, Cad Bane, Cham and Hera Syndulla and Chopper.

My point was the 'small galaxy' thing is feeling especially pronounced at the moment, that's all.
 
It is increasingly more pronounced but C3PO built by Vader, deleted scene of Greedo fighting with Anakin, and even Leia as Luke's sister started it.
 
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Markonian said:
Speaking of "small galaxy", why isn't Disney doing crossovers within the Star Wars universe and their other properties?
So far, there's only been games (like Palpatine announcing the galactic threat on planet Fortnite) but no TV shows with that.
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Even more than TV, I'm more surprised we haven't gotten a comic book crossover with Star Wars and the Marvel Universe superheroes.
When they got Conan back one of the first things they did was a big crossover where he shows up in the Marvel Universe. I believe he's also still a regular character in Savage Avengers, which takes place the regular MU, and has characters like Venom and Elektra on the team with him.
Hell, they even brought Godzilla into the MU when they had the rights to him back in the '70s or '80s.
 
JD said:
Even more than TV, I'm more surprised we haven't gotten a comic book crossover with Star Wars and the Marvel Universe superheroes.
When they got Conan back one of the first things they did was a big crossover where he shows up in the Marvel Universe. I believe he's also still a regular character in Savage Avengers, which takes place the regular MU, and has characters like Venom and Elektra on the team with him.
Hell, they even brought Godzilla into the MU when they had the rights to him back in the '70s or '80s.
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I'd imagine what helps is that both Conan and Godzilla are generally set on Earth (or during its history), whereas Star Wars's only connection to Earth is the "a long time ago in a galaxy for away" opening, which sort of implies that it exists in the same universe as Earth. So you either have to get into weird alternate universe travel stuff, that is quite normal in the Marvel Universe, but would feel really weird and out of place (like time travel) in the Star Wars universe. Or you have to go with the EU "Earth exists in the Star Wars galaxy and Indiana Jones lives there" route, which, eh no? If you have both in the same universe that opens up tons of continuity questions, along the lines of "why is no one in the MU force sensitive", "why are SW ships confined to hyperspace travel, whereas MU ships often travel to different galaxies" and of course "If Vader force chokes Galactus, what happens?". The only way I could see it work is if they explicitly make it non-canon to both the MU and the Star Wars universe.
 
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