The Only Time Boba Fett Accepted a Risky Bounty for Just Three Credits

Most people think of Boba Fett as the galaxy’s deadliest bounty hunter — cold, calculating, and always chasing the biggest payday. But here’s the thing: one of his most badass moments had nothing to do with money at all. In Star Wars: Blood Ties, Fett accepted a bounty for just three credits. Yeah, three.

Everyone in the room laughed, thinking there’s no way the legendary Boba Fett would work for pocket change. But Fett wasn’t working for credits — he was working for his code. He’d already made his choice about who to protect, and once Boba Fett gives his word, that’s it.

The Legacy of Fear: Jango and Young Boba

Boba Fett’s story in Blood Ties begins with his father, Jango Fett. To teach his son to master fear, Jango brought young Boba into a cave, marked him with the scent of a monstrous Balyeg, and ordered him to retrieve one of its teeth. Boba succeeded, but the boy resented the danger. Jango insisted the ordeal was necessary:

“A test of fear… so you’ll never have to fear again.”

That lesson — to face fear without hesitation — became a cornerstone of Boba Fett’s identity.

Later, on Atzerri, Jango accepted a mission from Count Dooku. The target wasn’t a politician or a Jedi — it was a runaway clone. A man with Jango’s own face. Jango pulled the trigger, but the kill didn’t sit right. The clone’s only crime had been wanting freedom. Worse, he had a young son: Connor Freeman.

The boy’s eyes haunted Jango. For the first time, the hardened mercenary felt he’d gone too far. He couldn’t undo what he’d done, but he could try to make amends. Jango quietly set up a secret inheritance fund in Connor’s name — credits to help the orphaned child build a life of his own.

He never told Boba the full truth. “One day,” Jango promised. But that day never came. At Geonosis, Jango fell to Mace Windu’s blade, leaving Boba only with unanswered questions — and the steel-hard lessons of survival.

Connor Freeman and Tayand’s Grudge

Decades later, Boba Fett discovered a bounty placed on Connor Freeman. The boy Jango had once spared had grown into a man marked by bad luck and worse choices. He inherited credits Jango left behind, gambled them away, and humiliated a crime lord named Tayand in a sabacc game. Tayand accused him of cheating, and placed a bounty on his head.

Boba confronted Connor, but instead of simple capture, the situation spiraled into betrayal and bloodshed with the League of Bounty Hunters. Eventually, Connor was delivered into Tayand’s clutches. Fett stepped in, not for profit, but for principle. He offered to pay Connor’s supposed debt to wipe the slate clean. Tayand refused. Pride mattered more than credits. He wanted Connor dead.

Fett tried to resolve the matter without violence. Standing before Tayand, he made a simple offer:

“I’ll pay what he owes. The two of you will be square.”

Tayand’s answer was venomous:

“No. I don’t need the credits. I want to kill him. He beat you, he hurt your pride.”

Connor protested:

“He didn’t beat me — he cheated!”

But Fett stayed calm:

“Don’t be petty, Tayand. I am willing to pay what he owes. This wipes the slate clean.”

Tayand sneered, unmoved:

“He will die, Fett. I’ll play with him, then feed him to my rancor. You’ve collected the bounty. Now leave.”

For Tayand, it was no longer about money — only pride and vengeance.

The Three-Credit Bounty

In a desperate gambit, Connor turned to Fett. With nothing left in his pocket, he made a meager offer:

“I’m placing a bounty on Tayand… I have… three credits. Three credits to the man who kills him.”

The room erupted in mocking laughter. Tayand jeered:

“Ha ha ha ha! You think… you think Boba Fett is going to—”

But Fett cut him off with a single line:

“I accept.”

With that, the balance of power shifted.

Chaos followed. Tayand’s men and rival hunters encircled Fett. Weapons pointed at him from all directions. Behind him loomed a rancor, straining at its chains. Before him, a furious Tayand and his mercenaries. Any other man would have despaired. But Fett only thought:

“I am surrounded. A monster at my back. In front of me — something far more monstrous. A powerful madman. Everything in this room wants me dead. I am not afraid.”

The firefight erupted. Blaster bolts lit the chamber red. Fett fought like a machine of war, cutting through hunters and guards with brutal precision. Even outnumbered, he never faltered. His belief, his code, his father’s lesson — all of it guided him.

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Debt Paid in Full

When the smoke cleared, Tayand was dead, his men scattered or crushed by the rancor Fett had unleashed in the chaos. Connor, shaken but alive, looked at Fett in disbelief. Fett turned to him and spoke only of business:

“The credits.”
“What?”
“You owe me three credits. Boba Fett always collects.”

To Connor, it seemed absurd. But to Fett, it was principle. The credits were meaningless — what mattered was finishing what he accepted, no matter the price. Connor later reflected:

“I don’t know why he chose to help me. If it was out of compassion or guilt. I doubt men like him feel at all.”

But for Fett, the truth was simple. He had accepted a contract — and he always fulfills a contract.

The story closes with Boba Fett and Connor walking separate paths, both bound by the shadow of Jango Fett. Connor sought meaning in his father’s memory. Boba claimed the tooth of Tayand’s rancor as his trophy, another echo of Jango’s teachings.

The final image is Jango’s face, vast and ghostly, as Fett reflects:

“…trying to make a dead man proud.”

The three-credit bounty was never about wealth. It was about belief. Boba Fett chose to protect Connor, and once he gave his word, nothing could sway him. Not mockery. Not overwhelming odds. Not even the absurdity of the reward.

Fearless, unshaken, Fett proved the truth of Jango’s lesson: master fear, keep your word, and live by your code.

That is why Boba Fett accepted three credits — not for the money, but because it was his way.