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One of Lyn Me's earliest memories is being pressed against the battered and cold breastplate of a suit of Mandalorian battle armor. Older Twi'leks have told her how her village on Ryloth was being ravaged by slavers, and that the village leaders pooled their resources to hire a bounty hunter to exterminate them. The hunter was Boba Fett. The village leaders transferred every last credit the citizenry had to an account on Bespin along with a plea for help. Then they waited. Weeks went by, and the slavers continued to raid. Just as the Twi'leks were giving up hope, the bounty hunter arrived, and when the pitched battle was over, the slavers lay dead and Boba Fett stood victorious.
But the battle was not without cost. Many villagers had been caught in the crossfire, and the local school caught fire. Lyn Me and many of the other children would probably have died if not for Boba Fett. The bounty hunter paused long enough to rescue the children before he returned to the stars. She remembers this day with great clarity.
From that day on, Lyn Me followed Boba Fett's career. She watched every holo-news broadcast, and read as many scan-docs as she could with reports about Fett's exploits as his reputation grew. In her mind, she came to see Fett as a hero in tarnished armor who travelled the spacelanes righting the most severe of injustices. To her, Fett came to be the very definition of heroic, and as she grew up she entertained a vast array of fantasies as to the nature of the man under the armor.
Lyn Me studied the ancient arts of the seductive Twi'lek dances, hoping to use her skills to get off Ryloth. Eventually, she honed her skills to the point where she was the greatest dancer of all the Twi'lek clans. After one performance, a pudgy Ortolan came up to her and asked if she was interested in joining his band on their next tour of the Outer Rim Worlds as a backup dancer and singer--the Ortolan was Max Rebo, and Lyn Me joined two other dancers, Rystall and Greeata, for what turned out to be the most successful tour the Max Rebo Band had ever been on. Lyn Me became fast friends with the other two women, as well as the band's lead singer Sy Snootles, but these friendships and even fame remained secondary to her; forever she was scanning the audiences of the cantinas and community center performance halls for Boba Fett, constantly hoping to cross his path.
As the tour came to an end, the Max Rebo Band was booked to play an extended engagement at Jabba the Hutt's palace on Tatooine. Lyn Me almost left the band, because she believed her art would be wasted on the scum that gravitated to Jabba--the Hutt might indeed be one of the most powerful crime lords in the galaxy, she stated, but he has no class and neither do those who associate with him.
But then Lyn Me heard that Boba Fett had been hired as a personal retainer to Jabba. Perhaps the Hutt did have some class after all, she reasoned, and even if he didn't, this would be her chance to reunite with Boba Fett and show him what she had made of herself in his honor.
For the first several weeks, Boba Fett was not present at Jabba's palace, and Lyn Me instead had to suffer through lascivious advances from Jabba's unsavory associates. But then her fantasy man finally attended an audience, and she finally got a chance to perform for Fett.
During a break in their performance, Lyn Me had a chance to speak with Fett, and he honored her by telling her h