Editing Boba Fett (section)

====''The Bounty Hunter Wars''====
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'''''The Bounty Hunter Wars''''' is a trilogy of novels by [[K. W. Jeter]] set during the events of the original trilogy. The books were published by [[Bantam Spectra]] in July 1998, November 1998, and July 1999, respectively. The trilogy depicts Fett as being more communicative than in the films because its plot requires Fett to show "an ability to convince people as well as kill them".<ref name="jeterinterview" />

The first book, '''''The Mandalorian Armor''''', starts during the events of ''Return of the Jedi'', shortly after Jabba's sail barge is destroyed. Dengar stays with Fett after the latter's near-death experience and encounters Neelah, a dancer in Jabba's palace who has lost her memory, and thinks Fett can help her. Kuat of Kuat, an Imperial executive, reviews footage from the [[Great Pit of Carkoon]], leading him to suspect that Fett is still alive. It is related in flashbacks set between ''A New Hope'' and ''The Empire Strikes Back'' that Fett stole a bounty Bossk and [[Zuckuss]] was hunting on behalf of the Bounty Hunters Guild. After delivering the bounty, Fett accepted a contract to join the Bounty Hunters Guild to break it up. The Emperor met with Darth Vader and [[Prince Xizor]], where the latter revealed that it was he who planned for Fett to join the guild to eliminate its weakest members, leaving only the best for the Empire to exploit.

In the second book, '''''{{visible anchor|Slave Ship}}''''', Fett abandons ''Slave I'' to avoid dispelling rumors of his death, and instead steals Bossk's ship. Riding along, Dengar tells Neelah about the split of the Bounty Hunters Guild. After Bossk killed his father, the guild split into two factions: one composed of the older members, and another composed of Bossk and other younger members. Prince Xizor placed an enormous bounty on a renegade stormtrooper who slaughtered his entire ship's crew. Fett, Bossk, and Zuckuss captured the trooper, but Fett jettisoned his partners in an escape pod.

In the third and final book, '''''{{visible anchor|Hard Merchandise}}''''', it is related that Fett tried to claim his bounty, but found Xizor waiting to kill him to tie up loose ends related to his plot. In an attack on the megalomaniacal prince, Kuat of Kuat had falsified some evidence implicating him in the murder of Luke Skywalker's [[Beru Lars|aunt]] and [[Owen Lars|uncle]]. This information was on the renegade stormtrooper's ship (which is why Kuat wanted to make sure the bounty hunter was dead) but is retrieved by Fett in the present, as Neelah realizes she is from an elite Kuat family and stops her sinister sister from taking over the now-suicidal Imperial executive's shipyard.<ref>{{cite web |last=Asher-Perrin |first=Emmet |title=Okay, Boba Fett Likes Some People: Hard Merchandise |url=https://www.tor.com/2013/08/29/okay-boba-fett-likes-some-people-hard-merchandise/ |website=TOR.com |access-date=September 22, 2019 |date=August 29, 2013}}</ref>