Jango Fett 2

Publisher's summary

THE GREATEST BOUNTY HUNTER IN THE GALAXY IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF A DANGEROUS RIVAL! JANGO FETT is after a stolen artifact at the center of a planetwide war! But the hunter is being hunted by the notorious AURRA SING! What is the secret conspiracy that threatens them all?

Opening crawl

In the years before the Clone Wars, a lone bounty hunter makes is way through the
galaxy, one hunt at a time. His name is….

After a brazen heist of the priceless Hope of Glee Anselm, the galaxy braces for war! The Republic has hired the legendary bounty hunter
Jango Fett to track down the thief before it's too late.

But little does Fett know that an old adversary is hot on his trail--the assassin known as Aurra Sing….

Plot summary

The broker

On Level 1313 of the Coruscant underworld, a group of Trandoshans take notice of the Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett's armor and attempt to mug him. Fett makes short work of them, leaving their bodies to be pickpocketed by others. After, Jango makes his way to the office of an information broker he knows. As he arrives, however, he finds the door broken down and the young human cornered by five armed Anselmi. Once they spot Jango, their leader tell him that the Hope of Glee Anselm belongs to them. To the Anselmi, its theft is a declaration of war on the rightful heirs of Glee Anselm. The Anselmi leader prepares a blaster pistol to silence the armored witness to their secret mission.

Fett was hired to recover the statue, not to get involved with politics. Reveling in the how the secrecy of the Anselmi's mission will absolve him, he uses a wrist-mounted micro-rocket to kill the clustered group of Anselmi. The human emerges from their hiding place, lamenting the explosive damage to their office. Fett wastes no time threatening the broker with needing to pay him for the use of the rocket darts. Since they are supposedly the best information broker in Corusca sector, Fett demands all the information they have on the heist of the Hope of Glee Anselm. The broker ponders the implications of devolvement of the Nautolan-Anselmi peace negotiations on the career of Chancellor Finis Valorum before showing an image they acquired: An unidentifiable ship caught by a comm satellite leaving Jaloria after the ports were locked down. With just a datapad image and no transponder codes, Fett takes the datapad as payment for saving the broker from the Anselmi and heads back to his ship.

The fixer

As the Mandalorian walks through the streets, the Palliduvan assassin Aurra Sing takes aim at him with her Adventurer slugthrower rifle, Republic Judicial Huijari at her side. Told not to take a kill shot, she instead fires a tracker onto Slave I.

In orbit, Jango is contacted by the Nautolan diplomat Fiarok, the head of the Nautolan peace delegation. With the situation too delicate and too much of a risk to rely on a bounty hunter to return the relic, Fiarok informs Fett that his contact has been canceled. However, Jango doesn't agree with these terms, so he abruptly ends the transmission to take a more important one.

Fett answers the transmission from his collaborator, expert fixer Tarr Kligson. Kligson was able to identify the ship as an Arkon II level transport being used as a garbage scow. Fortunately, only one salvage yard in the Jalor sector does that.

The salvager

Fett follows the lead to Hallitron-7, where the Blood Oath Syndicate member Renzoh Silliac, a Chevin, operates his salvage yard. Searching among the piles of scrap, He finds the same black and red armor that the thieves used in the heist. Fett approaches Silliac, who is busy bossing around his employees. The Chevin is unintimidated by Fett's quips, but soon finds his employees dead and himself facing Fett's blaster pistol. Jango questions where the thief of the Hope of Glee Anselm is, but Renzoh explains that he'll be dead if he reveals anything. Using force to pressure him more, the Chevin talks and reveals that he was paid to transport the thief and the statue to Hallitron-7 for pickup, but it was a double cross. To save the young thief from the traitors, Silliac helped her hide away somewhere safe. Before Jango can learn anymore, he is attacked from behind by a bounty hunter he has never met. Vigor Struk strikes at Fett with his electrostaff, and claims that he will be the Mandalorian's death.

The assassin

As the two fight it out, Judicial Huijari and Aurra Sing arrive at the salvage yard. The latter is tasked with infiltrating the bunker where Renzoh keeps his office. She breaks in through the ceiling, but drops in to find herself held at blaster point by multiple thugs. She takes them all out using her assassin skills, knocking one over with a kicked chair, slitting another's throat, using one as a living shield against incoming blaster fire, and finally impaling one in the face with a thrown knife. Sing finds herself alone with an RA-7 protocol droid. She thus orders it to access the computer and gather its information after slicing into the judicial personnel database.

Meanwhile, outside, Jango tries to fight off Vigor Struk with his gadgets, but is overpowered and brought down to the ground. Struk admonishes Fett for relying on his gadgets far too much, but Jango reveals that he isn't out of moves and remote pilots Slave I to open fire on his attacker. With his enemy being forced to find cover, Jango takes the opportunity to get to his ship and flee the planet. While all of this happens, Renzoh tries to run from the chaos and chastises himself for sticking his neck out, but runs into Judicial Huijari. Huijari wastes no time and comments about him sticking his neck out whilst snapping it, killing the Chevin.

Afterwards, Aurra regroups with Huijari and reveals the thief booked a commuter shuttle to Coruscant, but Sing knows of a supply drop along the way on the remote mining colony of Roxuli. Back on Slave I, Jango is angry with himself about losing his best lead, but to his surprise he discovers a message waiting for him, asking him to come find the sender on Roxuli.

Media

Cover gallery

Final cover by Leinil Francis Yu

Solicit cover by Leinil Francis Yu

by Giuseppe Camuncoli

Variant cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli

Variant cover by Carlo Pagulayan

Master & Apprentice variant cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli

Collected in

• Star Wars: Jango Fett – Trail of Lost Hope

Appearances

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Sources

• Jango Fett 3

Notes and references

External links

• Star Wars: Jango Fett (2024) #2 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)