Cade Skywalker

"You're a Skywalker, Cade! Act like one!"

- Kol Skywalker

Cade Skywalker was a bounty hunter, once the former Jedi Padawan of Wolf Sazen and later a pirate. He was the son of Kol Skywalker and a direct descendant of Luke Skywalker, presumably via Luke's son, Ben.

Early days
"Listen to the Force, Cade. A Jedi's first concern is to preserve life."

- Kol Skywalker

The son of a powerful member of the Jedi Council, Cade was trained as a Jedi from an early age. Eventually he was apprenticed to his father's former apprentice Wolf Sazen.

Massacre at Ossus


As a fourteen year-old Padawan in 130 ABY, Cade was involved in the battle to defend the Jedi Praxeum on Ossus from the Sith. His master, Wolf Sazen, ordered Cade and Shado Vao to evacuate the planet in a Jedi Shuttle full of younglings. However, Cade desperately wanted to stay and fight with his father, Kol. He argued the point, but eventually obeyed his father and went to the shuttle.

Just after boarding the shuttle, Cade sensed that his master had been struck down, and that his father was now fighting the Sith alone. Much to Shado's dismay, Cade left the shuttle to fight by his father's side.

As soon as Cade joined Kol however, he was ordered to take Wolf back to the shuttle. Cade was devastated, but did as he was told. Aboard the shuttle which was now leaving Ossus, Wolf died in the arms of Cade. Cade could not accept that however, and resorted to using Force lightning to successfully revive his master.



At that point, Cade felt the death of his father. Overwhelmed with anger, Cade promised revenge on Darth Nihl, the Sith that had murdered Kol. Cade left the shuttle one final time in a X-83 TwinTail starfighter, to kill the Sith. He cleared a path for the shuttle, in an effort to allow its escape into hyperspace. Cade's fighter was shot down by a Predator-class fighter, though he managed to survive by unknown means.

Sith attention
"I will not let you go master!"

- Cade reviving Wolf Sazen with force-lightning

When Cade revived his master with Force lightning, Darth Krayt sensed a dark murmur in the Force, and recognized that it came from a Jedi, not a Sith. Krayt vowed to find this Jedi and lure him completely to the dark side. At some point not long after the massacre, the pirate Rav found Cade's ship floating in the debris around the planet. It was his future crewman Jariah Syn who convinced Rav to rescue Cade. Soon after, he apprenticed himself to Rav and joined his crew.

Exile from the Order
"Why do you use those deathsticks?" "They keep you away."

- Luke Skywalker's Force ghost and Cade Skywalker

Some years passed after the Massacre at Ossus, and Cade had freed himself from Rav's debt. Cade had become captain of a light freighter called Mynock whose crew included Deliah Blue, ship's mechanic, and co-pilot Jariah Syn. He hid both his last name and his Jedi ability from everyone who knew him, especially his crewmates. One of Cade and his crew's favorite haunts during this time was Rik's Cantina on Coruscant, a notorious meeting place for various underworld denizens.



Around 137 ABY the crew of Mynock were contracted by Rav to locate bond-skipper Naxy Screeger on the planet Lok. After locating him, the group also came across a Jedi healer named Hosk Tre'lyis. Cade prevented Syn from killing the Jedi, seemingly because Jedi were worth more alive than dead. The group left Lok with both Screeger and Tre'lyis in tow. After turning in their bounties on Socorro, Rav paid them in deathsticks, which, though pleasing Cade, enraged the rest of the crew.

Around this time Cade was being haunted by the Force ghost of his ancestor Luke Skywalker, who was pleading for Cade to return to his Jedi legacy. However, Cade was growing increasingly impatient with these visions, using deathsticks to block them out, and even going so far as threatening to end his own life.

As the crew of Mynock prepared for liftoff from Socorro, they were approached by Princess Marasiah Fel and her companion Astraal Vao. The Princess was demanding passage to Vendaxa, and the two were being pursued the Sith Darth Talon. Cade initiated emergency take-off procedures, and headed towards Vendaxa, intent on delivering the Princess to her father, so that he could capture the Emperor himself, earning enough credits to be out of Rav's debt.

Equipment
As a Jedi, he used a blue lightsaber as well as blasters.

In his pirate years, Cade also had a collection of antique and modified blasters, his favorite being the Rawk chopped special, a custom piece built for him by chief mechanic of the Selonian Shipyards, "Bantha" Rawk. His armor chest piece was Mandalorian in origin. He also wore trousers that resemble those worn by Darth Vader.



Behind the scenes

 * In early iterations of the Star Wars script, the character that became Luke Skywalker had the first name Kane. However, the name Cade also suggests Latin cadere, "to fall". This is the linguistic root of the English word "chance", and also of "cadence", meaning a rhythm like a marching beat, while in music a cadenza (the Italian form of "cadence") is also, specifically, a solo. A "cade" can also be an abandoned young animal raised as a pet.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Legacy: Broken