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Kast and Kun...these guys are my favourite characters in the Star Wars Universe but the problem is I can't find solid information on them (well I can on Exar Kun but not Jodo Kast )

If anyone can help me with pics, info and other stuff that would be cool...cheers

Kun is awesome! Inventor of the double-edged lightsaber!

Jodo Kast is shown in a collection of star wars short comics simply called Bounty Hunters. The cover has Aurra Sing, Fett, and some guy that looks like Robocop. You can probably order it at Darkhorse.com. It's really good. I'm not sure what else he's in other than being an unlockable character in Masters of Teras Kasi on playstation.
Jodo Kast is some punk kid who dressed up like Boba Fett with the hopes of stealing his rep and getting some work out of it. Boba Fett (now this is after ROTJ and follows the story of him getting out of the Sarlacc of which I'm a frim believer cuz I like him) and Dengar get Kast to some to a planet with all of these old ruins, it looks like Yavin but its not. Jodo finds his target is in fact a hologram. Backing away from the holo he says "What is this?" and Fett says "This is a hologram. And this is called and trap. And I'm calling you dead". A fight ensues with Fett poisoning Kast and leaving him near paralyzed on the floor of the old temple. Fett leaves the antidote for him a few feet away and goes back to his ship. Dengar asks why Fett gave him a chance to live. A huge explosion erupts and brings the temple crashing down behind them. Fett says, "I didn't."

I love that story. It's so evil...

wait, what? i cant remember that...i though Jodo cast WAS boba Fett...hmmm, its been awhile since i read the books, i guess i needto read them again...

boba fett is boba fett. I've only seen Jodo in comics, was he ever in any books or other material? I still remember thinking Boba Fett's name was Jaster Mereel until Lucas had to go and come up with his OWN backstory...like its his character or something...
If you guys want a total KICK @$$ Mandalorian story, and its based on Lucas' backstory to how the clones where produced (at least the Jango aspect of it) read Jango Fett: Open Seasons. You can get it in a trade collection now for like 12 bucks. It is really cool. It shows him from a young age, how he comes to be a Mandalorian, it shows who Jaster Mereel really is, and shows Dooku hiring him to be the source of the clones. Good stuff.

Yeah, Jaster Mereel became the name of Jango Fett's Mandalorian mentor.

Cheers guys all this information is gold keep it coming

Ah... the Sith wars... our golden age, only a few decades before I first came into power.. Exar Kun was perhaps the greatest of the fallen Jedi who became Sith... He was greater even than Naga Sadow, Marka Ragnos, Freedon Nadd, and maybe even Palpatine himself. He lived in a state beyond death for four millenia in the great temples on Yavin IV, built by Naga Sadow's Massassi warriors. When Luke Skywalker set up the Jedi academy there, he possessed Luke's best student, Kyp Durron, as well as others. Sorry, but I don't know about Jodo Kast. I've looked though

I had a thing about Exar Kun somewhere, but it got trashed along with the site.

Here's a short piece about Jodo Kast, quoted directly out of the Star Wars revised guide to characters book(god I love this book)(Its in the minor char section): "This bounty hunter, who wore Mandalorian armor and tried to cash in of Boba Fett's reputation, died a year after the Batte of Endor when Fett finally decided to settle the score." The thing about the Mandalorian armor-maybe that's why JediHDM thought that Boba Fett *was* Jodo Kast, since they both wore the Mandalorian stuff.

ps: Mandalorians kick @ss!!!!!!!!!

I have the comic where Boba Fett kills Jodo Kast right here.
You might like to know that Jodo uses a battered Imperial lambda-class shuttle as means of transportation(looks cool).
Jodo pursues a bounty only to find that Boba Fett layed a trap for him.
When they meet, a duel takes place and Jodo manages to surprise Boba with a rocket pack trick. But in the end Boba brings Jodo down with a toxic dart.
Fett then strips Kast of his amour and you actualy get to see his face(brown hair, blue eyes). Boba then sets jodo's jetpack to a self-distruct
countdown and places three canisters in front of the dying Jodo's face.
One contains the antidode. He gives him a chance.
But the jetpack finaly blows and Jodo dies.

That's gay...Jodo shouldn't be killed so easy

Sure he should, he's an insult to the true Mandalorian order. And that's not a Lamba class shuttle, its the imperial troop transport they added into the SW ANH Special Ed. Its taking off in the background. Note the wing placement is significantly farther back than the Lamba class (the style used by the Rebels to infiltrate Endor in ROTJ and that carried the Emperor and Vader to the Death Star II).

You mean the sentinel class landing craft? You're right its not a lambda-class shuttle though you're wrong it aint a sentine-class either. The wing-shape s are completely different. Its an Imperial Gamma-class Assault
Shuttle.
Four laser cannons, concussion missile launchers, they normally carry forty zero-g stormtroopers(spacetroopers) and can engage ships more than three times their 40 meter length.
Exeptionnal ship.

Sentinel Class Landing Shuttle would be correct...

Jodo wasn't nearly as good as Boba anyway.

Thrawn even disguised himself as Kast once. Thats when he was doing
Vader's dirty work. He met up with the Horns {Hal and Corran) and even put in a good word to vader about Colonel Maximillian Veers who
was then promoted to General.
After having completed his mission, Thrawn asked Vader if he wanted him to deal with Prince Xizor, but the Dark Lord Sith replied that he would take the matter into his own hands.

cool, what's that told in?

Tales from the Empire, bantam books. Its a great story, written by Timothy Zahn and Michael A Stackpole.

I need to read that. I've read Tales of the Bounty Hunters and from the Mos Eisley Cantina, but not that one.

What books are you finding all this information in? I'm really into Star Wars, but dont know anything bout it. So if you could tell me what books could tell me, mainly about Mandalorians, but I would also like to know about the War that happened a Millenia before Episode I. Thanks.

I found some assorted pics of Jodo Kast. =o

http://members.shaw.ca/Jodo_Kast/avatar.JPG
^I think this is Boba though. =o

And some comic pics..
http://members.shaw.ca/Jodo_Kast/JodoKast2.JPG
http://members.shaw.ca/Jodo_Kast/JodoKast1.JPG

How the hell do you post these without using the attachement. Each time I want to post a scan I cant with the attachement. Please tell me gotwa.

They're on sites.

Here's a concept drawing of his shuttle.. possibly large too

http://images2.bejedi.com/art/real_scooby/jodokast.jpg

Yeah, you need a URL and put it in tags.

Cool pic of the ship. Doesn't the name have something like Wolf in it?

What books are you finding all this information in? I'm really into Star Wars, but dont know anything bout it. So if you could tell me what books could tell me, mainly about Mandalorians, but I would also like to know about the War that happened a Millenia before Episode I. Thanks.

I find it from sites and stuff.

the best story of the mandalorians is Jango Fett Open Seasons. Its a darkhorse comic in trade paper back now so you can order it at any book store if they don't already have it. Its about how he gets hired, and how he came to be a mandalorian. its pretty f-ing awesome.

Kast, Jodo

the bounty hunter wore Mandlorian shocktrooper armor, similar to that worn by Boba Fett, although it is unknown if his armor is as modified. Known as a ruthless and cunning bounty hunter, Jodo Kast patterned his own life after Boba Fett, and often let his quarry assume he was the famous bounty hunter. He often got jobs for his resemblance to Fett, when the party posting the bounty wanted Fett's reputation but couldn't afford it. It was Kast who pursued Ponda Baba through Truuzdann. He later teamed up with Puggles Trodd and Zardra when he was approached by Captain Parlan to hunt down Adar Tallon. When Kast took a New Republic bounty to hunt down Jerresk's pirates, he came under the notice of Dengar, who relayed the hunter's impersonation of Boba Fett to Fett himself. Fett, using the alias Sava Brec Madak, hired Kast to hunt down the ficticious Satnik Hiicrop. Hiicrop was none other than Boba Fett, who managed to capture Kast on Nal Hutta some five years after the Battle of Yavin. Fett injected Kast with a neural toxin to disable him, then blew up the building Kast was lying in. (TM, SCRE, EGC, TOD)

was there anything new presented there? or are you summarizing for us?

summarizing

I hate summarizing.

Whats wrong with summarizing?

good summary. whether REX hates it or not. Hey REX! I have your action figure!

Jodo Kast used his Mandalorian armour to collect high bounties due to the reputation that Boba Fett earned. After Dengar (Boba Fett's saviour from the Sarlacc in 'Mandalorian Armour' pt 1 of The Bounty Hunter Wars by K.W Jeter (Bantam Books)) told Boba of Jodo's attempt to kill Dengar.
Boba formulated a plan to 'get' Jodo Kast and carried it out with next to no problems. He gave Jodo a chance to live but Jodo is NOT as hardcore as Boba Fett so of course he died.

Jodo Kast is also in a novel of short stories from Bantam Books, Tales From The Empire. It reveals his true name (which I forgot), Jodo Kast is just an alias. He works for the empire in quite a high ranking position. High enough to go around masquerading as the greatest bounty hunter of all time.

Boba Fett would wooop Jodo Kast's @$$ over and over. Boba Fett is only after credits, whereas Jodo Kast is another sucker after power.

Exar Kun is by far the greatest sith lord of the golden age (better than Qel Droma, Nadd, Kato, Aleema, etc..), and I think that the only sith greater than him are Palpatine and Vader (not sure about bane)

he also wielded a double bladed saber, ala darth maul.

Jodo Kast is rumored to be the son of Montross...for Montross, see Jango fett:Open Seasons comics

Exar Kun sucks! Revan is definelty better!!!!!!!!

Exar kun had a massive double ended (blue) lightsaber.
He froze and destroyed almost the entire the entire republic senate

But exar Kun was easily defeated afterwards!!!!!!

Exar Kun is awesome...he's a good character that never got a chance to develop

His character was developed in the tales of the jedi graphic novels ("dark lords of the sith" and "the sith war"

Yeah true that but I think he should be given more credit

Exar Kuns.... SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!1