Jaster Mereel

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Jaster Mereel was a Human male and former Journeyman Protector of Concord Dawn. A reformed murderer who eventually became leader of the Mandalorian clans, he adopted an orphan named Jango Fett on his homeworld in 58 BBY. Six years later, Mereel was gunned down by his rival, Vizsla, on Korda 6 during the Mandalorian Civil War.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Behind the scenes 3 Appearances 4 Sources 5 Notes and references

[edit] Biography

Jaster Mereel was originally a Journeyman Protector of Concord Dawn, who was exiled from the planet for murder^[2][1]. He joined with the Mandalorians and eventually became Mandalore in 60 BBY^[3][4]. Hoping to restore honor to the Mandalorians, he outlined a Supercommando Codex, which outlined proper terms of conduct for the Mandalorian clans.^[4]

Some clans, however, disagreed with Mereel's vision, and rebelled, forming schismatic groups of their own.^[3]

Mereel led the Mandalorians through the Mandalorian Civil War, where they fought against the splinter group known as the Death Watch^[3][1]. The conflict spilled on to the world of Concord Dawn, the same planet that Mereel had been exiled from many years before.^[1]

Mereel and his Mandalorians were saved by the Fett family, who hid the soldiers on their farm. Unfortunately, the Death Watch soon caught up with Mereel.^[1]

When Jango Fett's family was murdered, Jaster took the young boy under his wing and raised him as a son. When the field they were hiding in was set on fire by the Death Watch, Jango proved himself to be useful by leading the Mandalorians through a sewer pipe to escape. Later, Jaster was betrayed by his second-in-command, Montross, and killed on Korda 6 by Vizsla, leader of Death Watch. Jango Fett succeeded him as Mandalore and took ownership of Mereel's ship, which Fett named Jaster's Legacy in his honor.^[1][5]

Jango's son, the infamous bounty hunter Boba Fett, later took Mereel's name as an alias during his brief occupation as a Journeyman Protector sometime between 19 BBY and 12 BBY. This led to rumors that Jaster Mereel and Boba Fett were the same person, rumors which Fett did nothing to dispel, as they only added to his mysterious aura.^[2][6]

The Null Arc trooper Null-7 was known to his comrades as Mereel.^[7]

[edit] Behind the scenes

Jaster Mereel was originally proposed as the true identity of Boba Fett in the novella The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett and repeated in Fett's entry in the The Essential Guide to Characters.

When Attack of the Clones was released, its depiction of Fett's childhood relegated the other backstory to non-canon status.

Jango Fett: Open Seasons retconned the Jaster Mereel character to be a different individual entirely, and the mentor of Fett's father, Jango. It was also revealed that Boba Fett sometimes used Mereel's name as an alias, thus saving the story from being apocryphal.

[edit] Appearances

• Jango Fett: Open Seasons (First appearance) (Appears in flashback(s))
• Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars: Zam Wesell (Mentioned only)
• Republic Commando: Triple Zero (Mentioned only)
•  "Odds" - Star Wars Insider 87 (Mentioned only)
• The Hutt Gambit (Mentioned only)
• Rebel Dawn (Mentioned only)
• The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett (First mentioned)
• Boba Fett: A Practical Man (Mentioned only)
• Bloodlines (Mentioned only)
• Sacrifice (Mentioned only)
• Revelation (Mentioned only)

[edit] Sources

• The Essential Guide to Characters
• The New Essential Guide to Characters
• The New Essential Chronology
• Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary
• Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary
•  "The History of the Mandalorians" - Star Wars Insider 80
•  Boba Fett in the Databank
•  Jango Fett in the Databank

[edit] Notes and references

Preceded by: (last known is a Murdered Mandalore) Mandalore 60 – 52 BBY Succeeded by: Jango Fett