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In early July 2020 I finally subscribed to Disney+, the streaming service offered by The Walt Disney Company. There were a few programs I wanted to watch, most of them Star Wars.  Between February and May 2020, Disney+ began airing the much-anticipated final season of The Clone Wars . Readers may remember when I wrote about that show that when Disney purchased Lucasfilm, they cancelled all ongoing projects, including The Clone Wars . A shortened sixth season was put on Netflix and some stories were released in other media, such as the Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir comic miniseries and the novel Dark Disciple . Resources were refocused onto new Star Wars content for Disney, the main television series being Star Wars Rebel s. Nevertheless, the creators of The Clone Wars knew how they intended to finish the series, and worked on the assumption that the events of the planned series finale were canon. Years later, after Rebels had been completed, they were able to finally finish The C...

With the initial adventures of the Jedi Knights and their apprentices post-Episode I out of the way, I refocus my attention on a set of characters that have been part of the core of Star Wars since the very beginning.  They're badass warriors who prey upon the scum of the galaxy. They're hired guns who sell their services to the highest bidder. They're cold-blooded killers who live in a shoot-or-be-shot universe. Bounty hunters have been part of the Star Wars mythology from the start, since Greedo tried to apprehend Captain Han Solo and bring him to Jabba the Hutt. It didn't go so well for Greedo, but that didn't stop more hired guns from hunting the smuggler-turned-Rebel. The Empire Strikes Back gave us a group of bounty hunters including the man in Mandalorian armor, Boba Fett.  The prequel era had its share of bounty hunters as well, continuing the tradition George Lucas had begun decades earlier. The story of Episode I involved no bounty hunters, but one charac...