Boba Fett: Pursuit

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Boba Fett: Pursuit is the sixth and final in a series of young reader novels that chronicle the adventures of Boba Fett during the years between Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

Contents 1 Publisher's summary 2 Plot summary 3 Appearances 4 Behind the scenes 5 Cover gallery 6 External links

[edit] Publisher's summary

A father's death. A son's revenge.

Boba Fett is emerging as one of the most skilled bounty hunters in the galaxy. After surviving his deadly battle with the fearsome General Grievous, there's one bounty he wants more than any other: Mace Windu, the Jedi who killed his father.

When fate and Anakin Skywalker bring Boba Fett to the city-planet of Coruscant, Boba plunges into the Coruscant underworld and arms himself for the greatest confrontation of his young life.

It's the bounty hunter vs. the Jedi as Boba Fett takes his one and only chance at revenge.

[edit] Plot summary

The novel opens up with a 12 year old Boba Fett inside a Separatist stronghold on Xagobah. Boba Fett lies on the ground paralyzed by a toxin to escape a near death experience against General Grievous. He gets taken to a blast furnace to be destroyed, but escapes after his paralyses subsides and after destroying the two droids. He makes his way out of the stronghold and reaches his ship called Slave I. Once out in space he spots his primary target, Wat Tambor, and attacks his retreating vessel. After getting in a couple of hits on the vulnerable vessel, he has to break off the attack. The reason he breaks off the attack is because Asajj Ventress, she nearly destroys him if it were not for Anakin Skywalker intervening in time.

Skywalker forces Fett to land on a nearby moon. After exchanging greetings, Skywalker goes to work on repairing Slave I and Fett on fixing his armor. Soon afterwards they both finish and Skywalker moves to detain Fett, but a Giant Space Slug incapacitates Anakin for a few moments, leaving it up to Fett destroy the behemoth himself. He shoots the slug a few times in the head causing it to wimper back into cover and Skywalker agrees not to arrest Fett, but tells him to go to Coruscant as Fett revealed he had information vital to the Republic.

Once he arrives in Coruscant airspace he is escorted by Governor Tarkin to the Jedi Temple. Once inside Fett makes his way to his visiting quarters, but not before he passes by Mace Windu, his arch enemy. Inside his quarters he contacts Jabba the Hutt's crimelord connection on Coruscant Hat Lo. Boba then waits on a landing dock for Elan Sleazebaggano. Elan flies him to a bar that Hat Lo owns and Boba takes various weapons from him before going back to the Temple with Elan. Once inside again he races to Windu's quarters only to be a few minutes late. He breaks through a window and flies to the Senate Building. He breaks into Palpatine's quarters and catches Windu waiting for the Chancellor. They engage in a quick fight with Windu eventually taking out most of Fett's weapons, the fight however ends in a stale mate with each about to strike with their weapons when Palpatine arrives in time to scold Windu.

Boba then tells Palpatine about the trap that the Clone army has become because of Count Dooku. Palpatine acknowledges that he knows and reveals his intentions indirectly to Boba, the Chancellor proceeds to give him a large sum to keep him quiet and leave. The novel ends with Boba contemplating his future and finally shedding his past.

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Behind the scenes

• On the front cover, Anakin Skywalker's appearance is similar to how he looks in Revenge of the Sith.His glove is actually placed on the incorrect hand, however.
• Asajj Ventress and her Fanblade starfighter are also on the cover. She makes an appearance in a dogfight against Boba, despite the fact that she apparently deserted the Separtist cause after the Battle of Boz Pity only one month earlier.
• Two Imperial-class Star Destroyers are shown on the cover, but this would appear to be an oversight as these vessels do not feature in the story.
• Another apparent error has Boba's helmet being shown on the front cover bearing a dent it will not receive until after the events of this novel, in a fight against Vader.
• Wilhuff Tarkin appears in this book, prior to his becoming a Grand Moff.
• Boba Fett confronts Mace Windu to avenge his father's death. Many fans had expressed their wishes to see such a confrontation. Fett, then a hot-headed child, was able to match the Jedi Master, but the fight was ended before either was killed. Darth Vader's future impression of Boba Fett as a highly capable and reliable bounty hunter may have been shaped by this event.
• Boba Fett re-paints his father's armor in the green and red livery that will later achieve infamy.
• On the spines of later editions of this title, the word "Wars" was accidentally omitted from the name "Star Wars".
• This book incorrectly states Boba Fett had never been to Coruscant before, but he in fact did so in Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive.
• The book incorrectly describes Jedi Luminara Unduli as having dark eyes and bronze skin, when she has bright blue eyes and olive green skin.
• At the end of the story Boba Fett entertains the notion of visiting the Regional Sector Number Four's All-Human Free-For-All on Jubilar, indicating that the events at the start of the short story The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett happen immediately thereafter. However, according to the timeline this story takes place at least 6 years earlier. Of course it would not be impossible for Fett to visite the games before that.

[edit] Cover gallery

This is a gallery of the different cover variations of Boba Fett: Pursuit.

Cover art

Paperback

German - Boba Fett - Auf der Spur

[edit] External links

• Scholastic.com
•  Boba Fett in Pursuit on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
• TheForce.Net - Pursuit

Boba Fett Series

The Fight to Survive Crossfire Maze of Deception Hunted A New Threat Pursuit