Narsk Ka'hane

"I thought you worked for Odion!" "I'm an independent contractor, much like your friend here who doesn't help people. Arkadia is the highest bidder. Of the moment." "This is why I like you, Narsk. I always know where I stand with you. This is good."

- Kerra, Narsk and Arkadia discussing Narsk's true loyalties

Narsk Ka'hane was a Bothan spy during the Republic Dark Age who worked as an independent operator, serving several different Sith Lords within the Calimondra family including Odion, Arkadia Calimondra, and the family matriarch Vilia Calimondra. In 1,032 BBY, he was sent by Lord Odion to gather information on the Convergence combat airspeeder being developed at the Black Fang research facility on Darkknell by rival Sith Lord Daiman, ruler of the Sith princedom known as the Daimanate. During the mission, he was overpowered by the Human Jedi Knight Kerra Holt who destroyed the datapad containing this information and stole his stealth suit, leaving him to be captured by Daiman. While in Daimanate captivity, Narsk was subjected to intensive torture and interrogation by Daiman, but refused to divulge his true employer. Thus, Daiman arranged for Narsk to be allowed to escape captivity by revealing information about a business deal involving the Quermian Sith Lord Ayanos Bactra transferring a mobile war university known as an arxeum to Gazzari. By allowing Narsk to escape, Daiman planned to lure the Bothan spy's true employer&mdash;his rival Odion&mdash;into a trap on Gazzari.

As planned, Narsk escaped with some "reluctant assistance" from his Jedi enemy Kerra and made his way back to the Odionate. Within two standard days, three rival Sith fleets assembled on Gazzari, a volcanic clouded in metallic ash. While Bactra's fleet observed the battle from space, Odion's ground forces landed only to be attacked by Daiman's forces. However, during the ensuing battle, Odion's forces gained the upper hand through the deployment of a siege tower known as the Death Spiral, which inflicted heavy casualties on Daiman's forces and destroyed the arxeum. In the middle of the battle, Narsk was contacted by his true employer&mdash;matriarch Vilia&mdash;who ordered the Bothan to transmit a message ordering Odion and Daiman to end their sibling rivalry and attack Bactra's forces since the Quermian Sith Lord was an outsider who had outlived his usefulness to the family. Thus, Narsk played a pivotal role in bringing about the collapse of the Bactranate, which was subsequently divided up by several Sith Lords including Odion, Daiman, Lioko, and Malakite. His perennial Jedi adversary Kerra also resurfaced during the battle: destroying the Death Spiral and evacuating thousands of student refugees from the arxeum to safety on the Human mercenary Jarrow Rusher's troopship Diligence.

Following the fighting on Gazzari, Narsk disappeared and later resurfaced on the Dyarchy world of Byllura, where he participated in the Arkadianate invasion of that planet. While in the service of the female Human Sith Lord Arkadia Calimondra, Narsk encountered Kerra and Jarrow again on Arkadia's capital of Calimondretta on the icy world of Syned. Later, he would help Kerra and Jarrow escape from Arkadia into Republic space.

Early life
"Yes, I was working for Odion. But I'm not an Odionite. It's just a job." "That's worse, you're an enabler."

- Narsk and Kerra's first meeting

Narsk Ka'hane was raised solely by his aunt on the planet Verdanth in the Bothan community. Nearly every year, a new Sith Lord was taking over the planet and the Bothans always supported the new ruler without resistance. Narsk received assignments from various rulers. Once, he was harvesting rimebats from the caverns on Verdanth in a stealth suit. Later, he was tracking escapees, worked as a nonmilitary scout and as a saboteur. However, he never had any children. Finally, when there was a power vacuum on the planet because two Sith Lords had destroyed each other, Narsk went into space and studied the balance of power there.

During the last decades of the Republic Dark Age, Narsk ended up serving under the Sith Lord Vilia Calimondra, the grandmother of most Sith Lords who all want to inherit her possessions. Like other agents, Vilia needed him to gather information as well as to serve her grandchildren and to create challenges for them so that they are prepared for a future war. From her, Narsk learned more about Sith space and the whole galaxy than most people. He received an implant with which he could receive simple messages on his mission. Following Vilia's orders, Narsk took up missions from several Sith Lords and his reputation grew over time. Vilia also provided him a Cyricept Personal Concealment System, Mark VI stealth suit with an embedded tracking device.

Trials on Darkknell
"The saboteur is here. Do you recognize him?" "Bothan. No, I don't. But their kind tends to meddle in things that are above them."

- Daiman and Bactra discussing the captive Narsk

In 1,032 BBY, he was serving the Sith Lord Odion. On a mission to gather intelligence about and finally destroy the Convergence, constructed by Odion's brother and rival Daiman in the Daimanate Dynamic Testing Facility on Darkknell, he set up a cover identity as a machine tool operator from Nilash. After studying the traffic patterns and shifts of the guards, he sneaked into the facility multiple times with his stealth suit and loaded information about the ship onto his datapad. Finally, he installed a baradium thermal charger in the facility. But on leaving the building, he was chased by what he thought would be one of Daiman's Correctors on the rooftops. Narsk stole a speeder bike from the Personal Transport Assembly Shop but was eventually stopped by the Human woman who turned out to be the Jedi Kerra Holt who did not support any of the Sith Lords. To his horror, she destroyed Narsk's datapad with the information, triggered the explosion and left him without his stealth suit handcuffed in a garbage bin, where he was eventually found by Daiman's Correctors.

Following the bomb blast, Daiman’s Correctors combed the area, rounding up suspects for questioning including Narsk himself who was brought to the sentry station on Administrative Way. Most of these suspects were homeless vagrants who lived on the streets of Xakrea. During interrogation, Narsk tried to maintain his cover identity that he was a machine operator who had been robbed. However, Daiman’s Correctors were able to sense through the Force that he was lying and hiding something inside his mind. Narsk was himself interrogated by Lord Daiman who used mind-reading to discern that the Jedi woman Kerra had also infiltrated on Darkknell. Under pressure from Daiman’s mental prodding, Narsk broke down and confessed that he had been near the Black Fang facility, but refused to divulge who he was working for.

After several more days of interrogating and torturing Narsk, Daiman had the Bothan suspended at the top of a large public arena in a circular gyroscopic torture wheel within the Sanctum Celestial. Since he had no platform to support his feet, Narsk was forced to rely on his arms, which caused a great physicial and emotional strain to his already emaciated and beaten body. Daiman and his entourage including his female Woostoid aide Uleeta were seated on a suspended platform at the center of the arena. When Narsk made a snide thought on Daiman’s narcissism, Daiman sensed Narsk’s thoughts and retaliated by unleashing Force lightning on the Bothan, enough to torment him but not to kill him. Daiman then taunted Narsk by telling the Bothan that if he and Kerra had intended to hurt him, they had failed to change his course. Daiman then remarked that the Bothan and the Jedi woman had given him exactly what he had wanted.

An Unwitting Sith Pawn
"&mdash;as my Lord knows, the Bothan spy is missing. The Gamorreans left him as instructed. He was not there when they returned." "Your lord knows. I knew he'd find a way, once we left him alone. An intrepid little beast. Quite entertaining."

- Uleeta and Daiman discussing their plans for Narsk

Daiman then contacted the Quermian Sith Lord Ayanos Bactra on a priority communications channel via a holographic projector. During this meeting, Daiman explained to the Quermian the details of the attack, and displayed the captive spy Narsk. In response, Bactra claimed to have no prior knowledge of the strike, or any recognition of the Bothan spy who had been partially responsible for the loss of the research facility. While referring to Narsk, Bactra also commented that his kind tended to meddle in things that were above them. In order to resolve the temporary weakness in the Daimanite defenses created by the loss of the testing center, Daiman requested that Bactra supply him with an arxeum, a mobile university devoted to the development of war sciences. Bactra agreed to the proposition, promising to hand over an arxeum to Daiman on the world Gazzari, in return for Bactranite forces being granted passage across Daimanite space to the world Vellas Pavo, for six weeks. Vellas Pavo was the site of mines extracting the superconductor Gadolinium, which were competing with Bactra's own superconductor interests. Daiman's aide Uleeta speculated that Bactra had planned to destroy the Vellas Pavo facilities for his own strategic interests.

Throughout the meeting, Narsk's gyroscopic torture wheel continually rotated and slowed down at irregular intervals, causing the Bothan much discomfort. The Jedi Kerra Holt was also present during the holo-conference since she had used her newly acquired stealth suit to evade the security. Both Narsk and Daiman sensed her presence of at the doorway but she was able to elude detection. Narsk also heard Daiman discussing with Bactra his plans to visit the mobile research facility on his flagship Era Daimanos. At the end of the holo-transmission, Daiman had Narsk's prison platform lowered, and it landed on a cushion of anti-gravity force before striking the floor. Daiman then ordered his two Gamorrean sentries to move the wheel-like prison into a secluded maintenance area.

In reality, Daiman had planned to use the arxeum to lure his estranged older brother Sith Lord Odion into a trap on Gazzari. Throughout the holo-conference, Daiman had programmed Nark's gyroscopic torture wheel to slow down whenever anything important was said since Daiman had made secret arragements for Narsk to escape and leak the information back to his master Odion in order to lure him into a trap. As part of his plan, Daiman ordered his Gamorrean guards to loosen Narsk's bonds. During a subsequent military briefing session, Daiman addressed his generals and outlined his battle plans. Besides his regular military forces, Daiman also enlisted the services of several mercenary groups including the Human Jarrow Rusher, the Togorian Kr'saang, and the Toong Mak Medagazy. The specialist battalions would depart Darkknell at sunset, each making hyperspace jumps to different destinations. In four standard days, they would reassemble on Gazzari. Since Gazzari was a volcanic world shrouded in metallic ash, Daiman regarded it as a perfect site for an ambush. As part of the plan, Odion’s forces would enter the Gazzari where they would be assaulted by Daiman’s gun emplacements, which were hidden behind the volcanic ash. Daiman also had his flagship Era Daimanos prepared for a hyperspace jump.

Meanwhile, Narsk encountered his Jedi adversary Kerra in the maintenance unit. When Narsk asked Kerra if she had come to return his stolen propery, Kerra replied that depended on what information the Bothan told her and how quickly he disclosed it. Narsk agreed to trade the information in return for his freedom, stressing that he was not in the business of helping Jedi. Narsk quickly revealed that Daiman was going to Gazzari on his flagship. When Kerra inquired whether this trip was connected to Daiman's dealings with Bactra, Narsk only agreed to disclose this information once she had moved his gyroscopic torture wheel outside. Upon arriving outside the Sanctum Celestial, Narsk reneged on his earlier agreement by demanding that she take him in exchange for him revealing the information; adding that his life was in danger because he had made an enemy in the form of Daiman.

However, Kerra refused to cooperate since she did not work with the Sith nor with their collaborators. After taunting Narsk about his slim chances of survival down the chute, Kerra pushed the captive Bothan and his torture wheel down a long stone trouch leading downwards from Daiman's palace. However, Narsk survived this fall and emerged in a junkyard. Narsk also managed to reach a spaceport where he found offworld transport on a freighter heading to a neutral planet in the Grumani Sector, which was a regular destination for visitors from the Odionate. After two standard days, Narsk found his way back to the Odionate and in the presence of Lord Odion himself. While Odion was enraged at the loss of the information on the Convergence stored in his datapad, the Sith Lord spared the Bothan's life since he had succeeded in fulfilling part of the mission by destroying the Black Fang facility. Narsk had also alerted his master to the Jedi Knight Kerra's presence, which interested Odion since he desired revenge against the Jedi woman for seriously wounding him during the Chelloan incident.

Showdown on Gazzari
"Of course, Bothan, it is a trap, we could send you down first. It ought to take you just a few minutes to bollix things up entirely!"

- Odion responding to Narsk's concerns about a trap on Gazzari

In return for his services, Odion allowed Narsk to participate in his battle preparations for the assault on Gazzari on the Sith Lord's flagship Sword of Ieldis. While reflecting on his dangerous mission to Darkknell enroute to Gazzari, the Bothan spy realized that Daiman had spared his life to arrange for a battle with his estranged older brother Odion. Both Narsk and Daiman had realized that Odion's nihilistic beliefs meant that he savoured a battle more than anything else in life. Narsk also realized that Daiman had allowed his escape to occur in order to report news of the deal over Bactra's arxeum back to Odion. Thus, Daiman hoped to lure Odion into a trap on Gazzari by using the unwitting Bothan spy as a means of accomplishing his goal of beating his estranged sibling once and for all. While Narsk suspected it was a trap, Odion was not worried since he knew that traps were a trademark tactic of his younger brother. Due to his nihilistic philosophy, Odion was willing to sacrifice the lives of his men to fulfill his goal of ending all life in the galaxy.

Upon arriving in the Gazzari system, Odion ordered his Givin navigator, Jelcho, to search for Daiman's forces. Although they saw no trace of Daiman's fleet in the system, they did spot about a dozen of Bactra's ships near Gazzari's sun, where they could observe the events on the planet from a safe distance. Bactra had already arrived on the planet with the arxeum, which landed in the crater along with four transports filled with hundreds of students, impoverished younglings who had been recruited from the Daimanate. Although Odion knew that Bactra had just delivered the arxeum, he ordered his fleet not to fire on the Quermian's forces since he intended to attack his estranged younger brother Daiman, whom he regarded as his main rival. He also intended to track down his perennial Jedi foe: Kerra, whom he regarded as a dangerous threat to his nihilistic ambitions. After sighting Bactra's fleet, Odion contacted the Quermian, and Bactra informed him that the deal with Daiman had taken place, and that the Bactranites were no longer concerned with the fate of the arxeum. Bactra's fleet then remained in the Gazzari system, observing the battle between the Daimanites and the Odionites.

For this engagement, Odion had deployed a quarter of his own home fleet including elements of his elite Thunder Guards. During the early stages of the battle, Odion's home fleet formed an orbital perimeter around the planet and awaited the arrival of his most important weapon, a massive siege tower called the Death Spiral. Once the Death Spiral exited hyperspace behind Odion's fleet, the Sith Lord ordered his Thunder Guard units to their transports. Narsk was present on the bridge of the Sword of Ieldis where Odion had outlined his battle plan. Prior to the ground assault, Odion ordered both Narsk and Jelcho to accompany on his personal transport. While the two Odionites served the same Sith master, the Bothan Narsk dested the Givin whose entire species he regarded as physically unsightly due to the large numbers of holes in their skulls. Within the Odionate, Lord Odion had a policy of assigning individuals jobs based on their species' skills specifications; with Bothans being utilized as spies, Verpines as engineers, and Givin as navigators. However, unknown to both Narsk and Odion, Daiman's forces had already landed on Gazzari where they had positioned themselves on the ridges of a massive crater on Gazzari where they were hidden under the metalic ash.

During the subseuqent Battle of Gazzari, Odion's forces including the Death Spiral landed inside a crater. In the subseuquent fighting, Odion's forces engaged Daiman and his mercenaries, destroying all four transports and significantly damaging the arxeum. The mercenaries bombarded the Death Spiral with cannon fire, but were unable to destroy the tower, which deployed several speeder bikes, airspeeders, and walkers from its base. Unable to withstand the firepower of the Death Spiral, Daiman's mercenaries were forced to retreat and the Death Spiral inflicted heavy casualties on Daiman's mercenaries. In the midst of the fighting, Narsk's Jedi adversary Kerra resurfaced. The Jedi woman had managed to infiltrate Gazzari by stowing aboard Daiman's flagship Era Daimanos. After fighting several Thunder Guards and stealing their speeder bikes, Holt shepherded the students off the battlefield to the cliffs of the crater.

Enter the Matriarch
"Bactra is finished. Odion and Daiman are fighting over the remains, but that is to be expected." "The errand is complete, then. A bequest will be arranged."

- Narsk conferencing with his true employer Vilia Calimondra During the initial stage of the battle, Narsk remained aboard Odion's transport under surveillance from the navigator Jelcho. By then, the tide of the battle had began to turn in Daiman's favor. A fleet of Daimanate warships had emerged from hyperspace, trapping Odion's fleet within the Gazzari system. This confirmed Narsk's suspicions that the engagement with Bactra on Gazzari was a ploy to lure Odion into a trap. At that moment, Narsk received a signal from his true master, family matriarch Vilia Calimondra. The Sith Lord wished for her two grandsons Odion and Daiman to end their sibling feud and unite against Bactra, who was still observing the battle from space, and she ordered Narsk to deliver her message to them. However, the Bothan's comlink was not working due to his proximity to the Death Spiral's energy shield. Convincing Jelcho to leave him and join the battle against Daiman, Narsk made his way south of the Death Spiral, where he hoped the reception would be clearer. However, he waited to deliver the message, as both Odion and Daiman were on the battlefield, approaching each other and preparing for a duel. With both Sith Lords engrossed in the battle, the Bothan found it unlikely either of them would receive his message.

Meanwhile, Jelcho entered the fray on a speeder bike only to be intercepted by the Jedi Kerra Holt, who had been evacuating the students aboard the transports. She used the Force to telekinetically slam the bike to the ground, knocking the Givin unconscious. Kerra then used a bandolier to secure Jelcho to the bike before jamming its accelerator and sending it into the Death Spiral's speeder bays. This created an explosion which destroyed the siege tower. While wading through the battlefield, Narsk witnessed this explosion and survived it by hiding inside a derelict airspeeder. He also discovered Kerra's presence on Gazzari but did not pursue her since he was already preoccupied with Calimondra's new maverick orders. Narsk was baffled by these new orders since they defied the protocols of conventional military doctrine even when measured by the unorthodox standards of Sith warfare.

With the destruction of the Death Spiral, Narsk was able to deliver Calimondra's message via comlink to Daiman and Odion since it had eliminated the physical barrier that had blocked the signals. These orders were then transmitted to their orbiting fleets which quickly ended their hostilities. They then immediately joined forces and turned on Bactra's fleet with their combined firepower destroying half of his warships within under a minute. The remnants of Bactra's fleet jumped into hyperspace and fled to Jutrand, the capital of the Bactranate. However, the Daimanite and Odionite forces pursued them, and, within a few days, Bactra's empire had fallen to Daiman, Odion, and the Sith Lords Lioko and Malakite.

Meanwhile, Kerra encountered the mercenary Jarrow Rusher, whose forces had sustained heavy casualties during the fighting, and managed to convince him to evacuate over a thousand student refugees on his modified troopship Diligence. They fled to Byllura, a planet in the Sith state known as the Dyarchy, where they hoped they could find safety for themselves and the refugees, while making much needed repairs to the damaged vessel. However, Holt and Rusher found that the planet's entire population were slaves to the Sith twins Quillan and Dromika, and as a battle broke out, they fled, kidnapping Quillan. Since Quillan was linked to a mental telepathic network which enforced a mental grip on the population, his incapacitation caused the collapse of the Dyarchy into total anarchy. The planet was then captured by Sith Lord Arkadia Calimondra, Vilia Calimondra's granddaughter and the older sister of Quillan and Dromika.

Following the fighting on Gazzari, Narsk left the Odionite forces on Gazzari and fled to an oasis resort outpost near the planet Jutrand to observe the collapse of the Bactranate and to received quality medical treatment for his earlier injuries. He then contacted Vilia via hologram to give a report of the recent developments in Gazzari and the collapse of the Bactranate. Pleased with Narsk's work, Vilia arranged for a bequest to divide Bactra's former holdings and corporate assets up among her grandchildren. Vilia also ordered the Bothan to keep an eye on the Jedi Kerra Holt's whereabouts; adding that she knew the location of the Jedi woman. Finally, Vilia ordered Narsk to prepare for travel since she knew someone who needed the services of a specialist. This someone turned out to be Sith Lord Arkadia Calimondra, her granddaughter and the ruler of the Sith state known as the Arkadianate.

Serving the Ice Queen
Narsk made contact with Arkadia who dispatched a special stealth starfighter to transport him to the Arkadianate, where she was making preparations to invade the Dyarchy. Several years earlier, Narsk had installed a secret transmitter within the video surveillance system in the Dyarchy's nerve-center on Byllura: a large hilltop palace opposite the capital city Hestobyll known as the Loft. This enabled Arkadia to monitor developments within the Dyarchy over a period of several years. The Dyarchy was ruled by the adolescent Sith twins Quillan and Dromika, the two youngest children of the late Lord Chagras. Prior to his death in 1,042 BBY, he had brought them to Byllura to be looked after by his Regent Saaj Calician, an ambitious Krevaaki Sith adept.

The twins possessed a powerful Force connection which allowed them to control others through Force persuasion. By 1,032 BBY, the twins under the influence of their regent had created a planet-wide mental telepathic system which imposed a Force-induced state of mental thralldom on Byllura's population; turning them into mindless slaves. To support his vision of the galaxy operating as a highly-centralized organism under one Sith Lord, Calician had constructed a fleet of battleships known as the Dyarchy Fleet. Calician intended to launch an invasion of the rearward systems of the Daimanate, as the first step in a large invasion campaign. When Rusher's modified troopship Diligence arrived in Byllura, Calician mistakenly thought that it was the right time to strike against Daiman, because the Daimanite would not have permitted a ship to leave their domain if they had had sufficient military forces in the vicinity of their border.

However, Kerra and Rusher fiercely resisted integration into the Dyarchy, setting of a battle which culminated in the capture of Quillan during a raid on the Loft. Kerra and Rusher's actions fatally undermined the Dyarchy, creating a power vacuum which allowed Arkadia to seize control of the planet. The planet's population had been freed from the Force-induced mental thralldom of its twin Sith rulers and they did not resist their new Arkadianate occupiers, presumably viewing them as a lesser evil compare to their previous rulers. While in the employment of Arkadia, Narsk was present during the Arkadianate occupation of Hestobyll where the Arkadianate advance guard installed itself in The Loft, the former Dyarchy's seat of power. Narsk also reported that Arkadianate forces were used to free the Celegians, whose telepathic abilities had been employed by the Dyarchy to create the organic network that enthralled Byllura's population. According to Narsk, the Byllurans would become "contributing members" of the Arkadinate.

Narsk also learnt that the Dyarchy's former Krevaaki regent Saaj Calician was executed and according to accounts met his end quietly. Shortly after the execution, Narsk received a transmission from Arkadia and rejoined the Sith Lord at her capital Calimondretta, a city on the icy planet of Syned, making a brief report of the ongoing occupation of Byllura. There, he had a reunion with his nominal Jedi adversary Kerra, while meeting Rusher's Brigade mercenary leader Jarrow Rusher for the first time. He demanded that Kerra return his prized Mark IV stealth suit. Kerra had already given the suit to her teenaged Sullustan friend Tan Tengo. Kerra agreed to return the suit but mentioned that it was located in Tan's room aboard the Diligence. To complicate matters, Tien had gone on an official tour of Calimondretta, the icy capital city of the Arkadianate. By portraying her regime as an "enlightened" one in comparison to its Sith neighbors, Arkadia attempted to win over the hearts and minds of Rusher and Kerra. She also offered to provide a safe refuge for Rusher to drop his student refugees.

Arkadia's warm approach towards her guests concealed an ulterior motive. She intended to recruit the services of Kerra as an assassin with her intended target being Vilia Calimondra, her grandmother and the family matriarch. Arkadia blamed her grandmother for the suspicious death of her father Chagras and for willfully abetting the internecine family feud between her grandchildren. Arkadia's propaganda efforts succeeded in temporarily winning over the Brigadier Rusher, who wanted to accept Arkadia's offer to host the student refugees. In contrast, Kerra distrusted the Sith Lord since the two Force-using orders had been bitter opponents for millennia. The Jedi woman also rightfully suspected that Arkadia wanted to exploit them in some way.

Her suspicions were confirmed when Arkadia summoned her to the family bequest at her private museum, where she explained the complex family dynamics of the Calimondra family. During the meeting, Vilia distributed the corporate assets of the defeated Bactranate among her grandchildren and formally recognized Arkadia's annexation of the Dyarchy. Arkadia also confirmed that she had the twins Quillan and Dromika in her custody though they were kept separate from each other. At the end of the conference, Vilia agreed to look after Quillan's welfare and arranged for the hyperspace coordinates to her planet to be sent across a secure channel. Finally, Arkadia attempted to recruit Kerra as an assassin but the Jedi unequivocally rejected her job offer, asserting that she did not work for the Sith. In response, Arkadia had Kerra arrested and sent to the Impound where she would be interrogated and then executed.

Vilia's Counter-plot
While the Bequest was taking place, Narsk and Rusher waited outside the museum. An hour prior to the meeting, Narsk had received information about the Bequest from Vilia via his implant. The seven long pulses signified that today would be a special day. Since the Bothan had not been invited to participate in the proceedings, he could only ponder on why his current employer had invited a Jedi into a top-secret function. While the meeting was taking place, Narsk harried Rusher and attempted to convince him to return his stealth suit. However, Rusher was uncooperative and tried to put off returning the suit until Arkadia's meeting with Kerra had concluded. Narsk suggested communicating with the Diligence by comlink but Rusher refused, commenting that he did not want to annoy the Sith Lord by requesting side trips. He added that this errand could wait since the refugees were going to be transported to Calimondretta in the evening by an icecrawler. Rusher offered to send the stealth suit back to Narsk with Tengo but Narsk argued that it would be too late.

Following the Bequest, Arkadia emerged from the museum with Kerra as a captive. She then demanded that Rusher bring the student refugees to Calimondretta immediately. She ordered the Brigadier to report to the main atrium where he would be picked up by the icecrawler. She reiterated her promise that Rusher and his mercenaries could depart into hyperspace, giving him a set of coordinates that purportedly led out of the Arkadianate. However, Arkadia secretly intended to kill the mercenaries by sending them on a one-way trip to the Nakrikal Singularity, a black hole. With Kerra unwilling to carry out Arkadia's errand, the Sith Lord instead recruited the Bothan, asking him if he was ready for more fieldwork. Narsk accepted Arkadia's offer and then followed Quillan who was being pushed in a hoverchair by the Human aide known as Enbo. When Rusher inquired about Kerra, Arkadia said that she planned to kill the Jedi before she could go on a rampage through the Arkadianate.

Behind the scenes
Narsk Ka'hane first appeared as a supporting viewpoint character in John Jackson Miller's novel Knight Errant, which was first released on January 25, 2011. While this was Miller's first published novel, he also developed the script for the Star Wars: Knight Errant comic series, which is closely tied to the novel. Narsk later made a cameo appearance in Star Wars: Knight Errant 5: Aflame, Part 5, the fifth issue of the Aflame story arc which was first released on February 16, 2011.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 5: Aflame, Part 5
 * Knight Errant