Boba Fett's Palace, previously known as Jabba's Palace, and for a short time, Bib Fortuna's palace, was situated on the outskirts of the Northern Dune Sea within Mos Espa on the planet Tatooine. Originally constructed as a sanctuary for the B'omarr Order, it later functioned as the central hub for the criminal operations of the Hutt kingpin, Jabba Desilijic Tiure. Following his death, his majordomo, the Twi'lek named Bib Fortuna, assumed control, only to be eliminated and superseded by the renowned bounty hunter, Boba Fett.
The location of Boba Fett's Palace, also referred to as Boba's Palace, and formerly known as Jabba the Hutt's Palace or Jabba's Palace, was in the Northern Dune Sea, a sector of the Dune Sea on Tatooine; it could be accessed via a solitary dirt road that traversed a canyon. This palace, built from metal and stone that had been sandblasted, served as the venue where Jabba orchestrated his illegal transactions. Functioning as a fortress, its design was primarily focused on defense and protection against potential assaults. A garage was one of the structures contained within the palace.
Within a throne room, Jabba would receive his guests; this area also featured a live band headed by Max Rebo, and it overlooked a pit housing a rancor towards the end of the Hutt's criminal empire's days. Bib Fortuna later seized control of the throne room, but eventually lost it to Boba Fett. Although both presided from this room, Fett also chose a more direct approach in managing the criminal world, rather than remaining secluded within the Palace.
A vast subterranean complex existed beneath the palace. This complex featured Jabba's throne room, workshops, animal enclosures, the sail barge Khetanna, and spice plantations.
Constructed in an era long past by monks, Jabba's Palace originated as a monastery affiliated with the B'omarr Order, a religious group that advocated for isolation from all physical stimuli to amplify their mental capabilities. To achieve this, the monks would extract their brains and encase them in nutrient-filled jars, which were then transported around the monastery by droid walkers under their control. The earliest sections of the monastery were located underground, and included a mine. At one stage, a bandit known as Alkhara seized the monastery for his own use. During his 34-year occupation, he incorporated battlements, dungeons, and a nine-story tower, in addition to constructing a road connecting the fortress to the Western Dune Sea and the Great Pit of Carkoon. Eventually, Jabba drove him out.
Following his takeover of the monastery, Jabba had it further reinforced by master armorers. After they presented the bill for their services to the Hutt, these armorers became the crime lord's first prisoners. Despite having designed all of its defenses, they were never able to escape the palace's formidable walls and cruel traps. It was rumored that the area that became the rancor pit within Jabba's Palace had once been a sacred grotto for the B'omarr monks, who continued to roam the palace in their droid forms throughout Jabba's reign.
In 22 BBY, Jedi Master and Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi journeyed to Jabba's Palace to assure Jabba that the Galactic Republic would ensure the rescue of his son Rotta and to secure a commitment from the Hutts for safe passage for Republic ships through the Outer Rim Territories. After rescuing Rotta from Separatist forces, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano returned him to Jabba's palace. Because they had failed to deliver the kidnapper, Jabba intended to execute both Skywalker and Tano. However, Senator Padmé Amidala intervened, saving her comrades by exposing Jabba's uncle Ziro as the mastermind behind Rotta's abduction.
Following the kidnapping of his daughters in 21 BBY, Senator Papanoida and his son Ion traveled to Jabba's Palace to confront the Rodian bounty hunter Greedo, who was implicated in the kidnapping of the Papanoida girls. After a confrontation, Greedo agreed to lead Papanoida and Ion to Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina in Mos Eisley where one of Papanoida's daughters, Che Amanwe, was rescued and reunited with her family.
After kidnapping the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO, stealing the Senate Building's schematics, and wiping their memories, the Duros bounty hunter Cad Bane traveled to Jabba's Palace to deliver the plans to Jabba. There, the crime lord assigned Jabba on a mission to free Ziro from Republic imprisonment. Ziro had classified information which the Grand Hutt Council did not want to fall into the hands of the Republic. After assassinating Ziro, the Pa'lowick singer Sy Snootles returned with Ziro's holo-diary to Jabba, keeping Ziro's secrets from both the Republic and the Grand Hutt Council.
In 19 BBY, former Sith apprentice Maul and his Shadow Collective traveled to Jabba's Palace. After killing most of Jabba's guards, the Shadow Collective forced their way into Jabba's throne. Faced with overwhelming force, Jabba and Gorga Desilijic Aarrpo decided to join Maul's Shadow Collective.
During the Imperial Era, Jabba the Hutt welcomed the Wookiee bounty hunter Krrsantan, whom he contracted to track down Obi-Wan Kenobi, a survivor of the Great Jedi Purge, who had attacked his water tax collectors during the Great Drought. To demonstrate his combat abilities, Krssantan single-handedly shot several of Jabba's guards in his throne room. Krrsantan located Kenobi but was unable to kill him. Fearing Jabba's anger, the Wookiee escaped from Tatooine.
Following the Battle of Yavin, Darth Vader visited Jabba's Palace in 0 ABY to finalize arrangements for the transport of supplies through Hutt Space to Weapons Factory Alpha on the moon Cymoon 1. Jabba attempted to claim a bounty on Vader's head and had his underlings attack the Sith Lord. Using his Force powers and lightsaber skills, Vader slaughtered Jabba's guards and Force choked the Hutt crime lord.
To mend bridges, Jabba agreed to provide Vader with two bounty hunters: Boba Fett and Black Krssantan. Fett was tasked with hunting down Luke Skywalker, the Rebel Alliance pilot who destroyed the Death Star, while Krssantan was assigned to bring the Emperor's agent Cylo to him. The following day, Vader returned to Jabba's palace and concluded negotiations. Jabba agreed to permit the Empire access to Hutt Space in return for financial compensation. Jabba then took Vader on a tour of Tatooine's Dune Sea aboard the sail barge Khetanna.
When Nix, a creature of the rare merqaal species, was stolen and ended up in Jabba's possession, criminal Kay Vess broke into Jabba's Palace to recover her companion. Nix showed aggression towards Jabba by attacking him. After a conflict, Jabba decided to send Vess along with Vail Tormin, a bounty hunter who was after Vess and tried to escape from the Palace with her in a WTK-85A interstellar transport, to discover the identity of a spy that the crime syndicate Zerek Besh placed in Jabba's Palace. In return, Jabba would forgive the two of them for the confusion at the Palace, return Nix, and allow the two of them to leave Tatooine alive. The mission was a success and the spy was discovered. After Vess obtained compromising information against Governor Thorden of the moon Toshara, at the request of Jabba, who intended to use it to gain an advantage over the Pyke Syndicate, Vess delivered the information to Jabba at his palace.
Luke Skywalker and his allies conceived a strategy to rescue Han Solo, who had been frozen in carbonite and was being kept by Jabba as a decorative piece in his palace. Initially, the bounty hunter Beilert Valance openly attacked Jabba's Palace to deceive the Hutt into deploying his Megadroid guardian. With the droid destroyed in the ensuing Death Match on Tatooine by Valance and T'onga's crew, Skywalker and company were set to have an easier time breaking Solo out. Eventually, Lando Calrissian, disguised, infiltrated the palace as a new skiff guard. Shortly into his stay at the palace, Calrissian allowed Valnir Nai, a waitresses forced into Jabba's service, to escape his watch with a set of valuable gems stolen from the Hutt's tribute. While they lost the gems in a struggle with the Rodian enforcer Raymo, Nai and her friend Laizhu Bedenn both managed to escape the palace for new horizons.
In time, the rebel droids C-3PO and R2-D2 traveled to Jabba's Palace under Luke Skywalker's instructions as part of the rescue plan. Via hologram, Skywalker offered the droids as a gift in an attempt to secure the release of Solo. As expected, Jabba refused and pressed the droids into his service. Later, Leia Organa arrived disguised as the bounty hunter Boushh with the captive Wookiee Chewbacca, Solo's co-pilot.
Leia managed to free Han from carbonite but was captured by Jabba. The following day, Skywalker arrived and reiterated his demand to free Solo and his friends. Jabba refused and threw Skywalker down the trapdoor to the rancor Pateesa, who also killed the Gamorrean guard Jubnuk. Skywalker managed to kill Pateesa by collapsing the dividing door on top of the rancor. Jabba attempted to feed Skywalker, Solo, and Chewbacca to the sarlacc at the Great Pit of Carkoon. However, the rebels escaped and killed Jabba and his henchmen, dealing a blow to his criminal empire.
Following Jabba's demise, numerous members of his staff, including the beastmaster Malakili, remained at the palace, awaiting the arrival of a new Hutt to occupy the dais. As resources dwindled, many of Jabba's former employees deserted the castle. Malakili was among the last to depart. He subsequently joined a community called Freetown, led by the lawman and Mayor Cobb Vanth, who enlisted Malakili's services in taming two rontos and a Huttlet named Borgo. The Red Key crime syndicate had attempted to install the Huttlet in Jabba's palace but Cobb foiled their plan.
The B'omarr Order was known to have reinstated control over the Palace sometime after Jabba's death. They allowed the bounty hunter J'Quille to join them during that time.
By approximately 9 ABY, Bib Fortuna had replaced Jabba as the ruler of the palace. Boba Fett and his ally Fennec Shand infiltrated the palace and reclaimed his vessel, the Slave I, which was housed in the palace's garage. Later, after settling their debt to Din Djarin, Fett and Shand attacked the palace again, assassinating Fortuna and his guards, before Fett claimed the throne.
The B'omarr Monks continued to walk about the Palace premises during Fett's reign. Fett, who became the Daimyo of Mos Espa, received guests and accepted tributes in the throne room with Shand by his side. Fett utilized a bacta tank in the palace to heal from his scars. After Fett and Shand were ambushed in Mos Espa by six assassins of the Order of the Night Wind. Shand captured one of the attackers alive and brought him to the palace. After the assassin refused to give up any information to Fett, Shand dropped the prisoner to the rancor pit. The assassin, believing a rancor was in the pit, succumbed to his fear and claimed that Mayor Mok Shaiz hired him. The Night Wind assassin, though, had been fooled, as there was no rancor behind the door.
Later on, 8D8 gave Fett a presentation on the history of the territories of Jabba the Hutt and Bib Fortuna. As Fett and Shand discussed the assassin attack before, one of the Gamorrean guards came with news that one of Fett's vassals was wanting to speak with the Daimyo. Fett let the visitor enter the thrown room. The visitor introduced himself as a water-monger named Lortha Peel. 8D8 asked what Peel's petition to Fett was, to which Peel claimed that no one respected the new Daimyo. The droid angrily stopped the vendor, but Fett told his assistant to let Peel speak. Peel and the Daimyo then discussed the disorder amongst the residents of Mos Espa and the water-monger asked for Fett to help get rid of the Mods, a group of cybernetically enhanced individuals that were stealing from him. Fett visited the mods, but after hearing their situation, he chose to hire the gang members instead.
Later, the bounty hunter Krrsantan infiltrated the palace while Fett was in his bacta tank and attempted to assassinate Fett. Krrsantan failed and was captured.
Jabba's card from the digital card game Star Wars: Force Collection depicted Jabba's Palace as a structure erected by Jabba himself, utilizing his intelligence and wealth. Conversely, the 2015 book Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! described Jabba's Palace as a former monastery belonging to the B'omarr Order, which Jabba fortified and renovated, thereby creating a continuity inconsistency. Star Wars: Complete Locations, published in 2016, supports the latter history, as does the The Clone Wars film.