#How Did He Get It And What Can It Do?

Mandalorian armor typically includes a helmet with a T-shaped visor and metal plates that cover the most vulnerable parts of a person’s body, including their chest, shoulders, and forearms. However, what really makes the armor powerful is that it’s made of Beskar, an incredibly strong alloy native to the planet Mandalore. Not only is Beskar durable enough to repel most blaster fire, but it can even withstand lightsaber strikes. In fact, things might have gone very differently for Windu during his showdown with Jango, had he not managed to land a precise blow with his lightsaber right through Jango’s neck (perhaps the most vulnerable spot not protected by Mandalorian armor).

In the modern “Star Wars” continuity (which rendered the “Expanded Universe” stories about Boba non-canon and made them part of “Star Wars Legends”), Boba’s armor is seemingly the reason he managed to survive falling into the Great Pit of Carkoon — the resting place of a deadly creature known as the Sarlacc — on Tatooine in “Return of the Jedi.” The Sarlacc was seemingly unable to digest the Beskar in his gear, giving Boba the opening he needed to escape before it could finish him off. Boba’s armor was later acquired by Jawa scavengers and sold to Cobb Vanth, the sheriff of the small Tatooine town Mos Pelgo, who then gave it to yet another Mandalorian armor-clad bounty hunter named Din Djarin, as seen in Season 2 of “The Mandalorian.” This led Boba to pursue Din all the way to the Deep Core planet Tython to retrieve it. It’s little wonder he did, given its deep personal meaning to him on top of its practical value.