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by freefly » Sat Feb 04, 2006 2:00 pm
Ailyn Vel is a character developed for the "History of the Mandalorians" in Insider #80. Ailyn blamed her mother's death and her solitude on Boba Fett for leaving them for the bounty hunting trade. When Ailyn learned that her father was still alive, she decided to finish what the Sarlacc couldn't. Tracking him to the Extrictarium Nebula, she blows her pops away and takes his armor! But, the joke's on Ailyn. While the guy she killed looked exactly like Boba Fett, it turned out he was actually Alpha-ز--an insane clone of her grandpappy Jango Fett!
About 15 years after Return of the Jedi, Ailyn tracks her father down to a mysterious dream-like planet called Shogun. It's here that Ailyn finds an aging Boba Fett's ship, as well as an unrecognizable corpse in Mandalorian armor. Convinced that at last Boba is dead and her mother avenged, Ailyn takes Boba's ship and permanently assumes his identity.
The dead guy wasn't Boba, of course. Boba goes into hiding as he takes over the Mandalorian Supercommandos, who make their reappearance in James Luceno's novel The Unifying Force. Ailyn herself goes on to a successful bounty hunting career under her father's name up until the time the Yuuzhan Vong invade the galaxy. At this point, Ailyn disappears, while the true Boba Fett remerges with his Mandalorians to fight the alien conquerors.
Release the Good!