QA Note Regarding Spoilers
AThe following FAQ entries may contain spoilers. Only the biggest ones (if any) will be covered with spoiler tags. Spoiler tags are used sparingly in order to make the page more readable.
QHow and why was Jango Fett chosen for the template of the clone army?
AIn the spin-off video game Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, which takes place shortly after The Phantom Menace and a decade prior to Attack of the Clones, Count Dooku hired Jango Fett and other bounty hunters to eliminate Komari Vosa, the leader of (the Bando Gora) a cult of Force-worshiping gangsters, at the order of Darth Sidious. Dooku placed a bounty on her head. When Jango succeeded in eliminating Vosa, Dooku (under his Sith name, Darth Tyranus) revealed that the bounty hunt was in reality a test and that the bounty hunter who succeeded in eliminating Vosa would go with him to Kamino and create the perfect army of clone warriors in his image (which Sidious had also ordered Dooku to find a host for the clone army as part of his plot). Jango accepted and agreed on only one condition: having an unaltered clone for himself. And thus, Boba Fett was conceived.
QWhy doesn't Owen Lars recognize C-3PO in Episode IV if he'd owned him previously, as in this film?
AAt first this does appear to be a monumental blunder, but if we look back at the Episode IV, we will see that at no point does C-3PO give his number to Owen in the one and only conversation the pair ever have. Owen dies the next day, so this fact has no chance to come to light. In addition, we see throughout the series that C-3PO follows a standard protocol droid design which seems to be quite common. The metal plating covering C-3PO in Attack of the Clones was a rusty brown color, and not at all the shiny gold he sports in the later episodes, further obscuring his identity when he appears again, 22 years later. By that point, C-3PO had undergone a memory wipe, so he doesn't recognize Owen either (although R2-D2 presumably might). No explanation has yet been given, on the other hand, as to why Anakin simply walks off with the Lars' protocol droid without even asking. However, C-3PO is Anakin's, as he is the droid's maker (3PO even identifies Anakin as such when they meet again). Anakin gave 3PO to his mother when he left for the Jedi training, so it is no more than fair that Anakin receive the droid back after Shmi's death. Perhaps Owen had given his permission off-screen, before Shmi's funeral.
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