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Stylised original portrait plate for Jodo Kast

DossierHumanAge of Rebellion

Jodo Kast

A bounty hunter who wore Mandalorian armour and let people assume, which turned out to be a fatal business model.

Species
Human
Homeworld
Not established
Affiliation
Independent — bounty hunter
First appearance
Tatooine Manhunt (West End Games, 1988)
Continuity
Legends

Jodo Kast is a bounty hunter in Mandalorian armour who impersonates Boba Fett, introduced in the Dark Horse one-shot Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction (1997).

Trading on somebody else's name

The premise is a good one and unusually specific to this setting: Fett's reputation is worth more than his skills, the armour is generic enough that anyone in a similar suit reads as him, and a hunter who lets clients believe he is Fett can charge Fett's rates. Kast does exactly that while Fett is recovering from the sarlacc and is in no position to correct the record.

Why Fett has to kill him

The story is set during Fett's recovery, and Fett hunts him for reasons that are commercial rather than wounded pride. A counterfeit who takes jobs badly damages the brand; a counterfeit who takes jobs well is worse, because he proves the brand is transferable. Kast's death is Fett protecting an asset.

Continuity

Kast is Legends. He recurred across Dark Horse comics and West End Games material in the 1990s and has not been reintroduced to current canon — though the underlying idea, that Mandalorian armour confers an identity that anyone can put on, is precisely the question The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett spend their runtime arguing about.

On the record

Appearances

Where this figure actually appears, with the medium and the year. Nothing inferred.

Appearances of Jodo Kast
WorkYearMediumNote
Tatooine Manhunt1988Roleplaying adventureWest End Games. First appearance.
Star Wars: Boba Fett — Twin Engines of Destruction1997ComicSerialised in Topps' Star Wars Galaxy Magazine #5–8 (1995–96), then collected as a Dark Horse one-shot on 15 January 1997.