Cad Bane/Legends

Cad Bane was a male Duros bounty hunter from the planet Duro who earned the reputation of being the galaxy's best and deadliest mercenary during the Clone Wars. Though he worked for a number of clients, his loyalty was ultimately to credits&mdash;and by extension, the highest bidder to offer them. Bane employed a variety of weapons and allies to insure that he always got his pay and became the leader in his line of work after fellow bounty hunter Jango Fett perished in the opening battle of the war. Bane's reputation even attracted the attention of the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious, who employed him numerous times for his own means. Bane also found a rival in the Separatist scientist Kul Teska, whose superweapon Bane hijacked a part of. Teska forcibly retrieved the device from him on Ryloth, though Bane later shot him on Behpour. After being hired by the Hutts to break the Republic captive Ziro Desilijic Tiure out of prison on Coruscant, Bane formed a team of hunters in order to capture members of the Galactic Senate and force Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to free Ziro. Once he had liberated the Hutt crime lord and escaped with his team, Bane disbanded his posse.

Once again under the employ of Darth Sidious, Bane stole a Jedi holocron from the Jedi Temple to unlock the Kyber memory crystal, a repository of all known Force-sensitive infants in the galaxy. On Devaron, he then pilfered the crystal from Jedi Master Bolla Ropal, who sacrificed himself to protect its contents. When he came under attack by Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, on his own command ship, Bane separated the pair and took Tano hostage, forcing Skywalker to unlock the crystal with the holocron. Escaping and evading capture by the Jedi, Bane continued his work for Darth Sidious by embarking on an attempt to capture four of the Force-sensitive infants listed in the crystal. Using his modified starfighter, the Xanadu Blood, Bane captured and delivered two of the younglings&mdash;Zinn Toa and Wee Dunn&mdash;to Darth Sidious's secret facility on Mustafar, but while attempting to kidnap the third child on Naboo, he was apprehended by Skywalker and Tano. After being forcefully interrogated by the Jedi, Bane lured Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu into a trap on Black Stall Station, his base of operations, and fled from the Jedi's custody shortly thereafter.

Early career
"Master Cad Bane, I presume. I've heard much about you. Who hasn't? The greatest hunter since Jango lost his head&hellip;"

- Davtokk

The Duros male Cad Bane hailed from the planet Duro during the last decades of the Galactic Republic. He eventually became a bounty hunter, earning a reputation as the galaxy's preeminent mercenary who operated solely for the financial reward of his missions. Bane worked for the highest bidder, caring little for who employed him as long as he continued to get his pay. If his quarry offered him a better fee, Bane had no qualms with turning on his original client. Bane was in operation during the Clone Wars and became based out of a number of locations. He kept a safe house on the planet Keyorin, a hideout in the Outer Rim's Rogue Antar system named Black Stall Station &mdash;which he personally outfitted with booby traps and a laser defense grid &mdash;and a secret base on the planet Tatooine. By the time Jango Fett&mdash;the bounty hunter considered to be the galaxy's best&mdash;perished in 22 BBY in the opening battle of the war, Bane was something of a veteran in his line of work. With Fett out of the picture, Bane rose to be among the galaxy's most notorious, ruthless, and fearsome bounty hunters. Among the several "underworld dregs" that Bane frequently worked with was the shapeshifting Clawdite bounty hunter Cato Parasitti, an assassin who subcontracted assignments for him or brought on extra help as needed. However, Bane's work in the bounty hunting business earned him enemies, and a considerable price was placed on his head.

Deception on Kynachi
"Jedi, huh? My fee just went up. A lot.''" "''You will be compensated. Go to Kynachi immediately. I will contact you with further instructions."

- Cad Bane and Darth Sidious

By around the war's first year, Bane was residing in a shabby apartment on the galactic capital of Coruscant. While cleaning his LL-30 blaster pistols there, he was holographically contacted by the Sith Lord Darth Sidious and was hired to pursue a Jedi-led clone trooper squad, which was heading to conduct an investigation on the planet Kynachi regarding the origins of the recently destroyed Separatist warship Malevolence. After arriving on the Trade Federation–controlled world, Bane recruited a food vendor to identify any strangers in the town and provided the vendor with a special comlink that overrode the Federation's frequency-jammer on the planet. The vendor later contacted Bane in the hotel where the bounty hunter was staying and reported that three robed men&mdash;two of whom were carrying blaster rifles&mdash;and a Chiss youngling were headed with the local Lalo Gunn to her diner. The men and the Chiss going to the diner were in fact three Republic clone troopers and Jedi Padawan Nuru Kungurama. Complying with Darth Sidious's latest instructions, Bane proceeded to the diner and staged an elaborate deception in order to manipulate the group's actions. Bane summoned four BX-series droid commandos to fake a fight with him at Gunn's starship, the Hasty Harpy. After the battle droids had been destroyed, Bane pretended that he had been blinded by a luma grenade, and was taken into the diner by trooper CT-5177, nicknamed "Chatterbox," and trooper Knuckles. Bane chose to take the risk of revealing to Gunn, Kungurama, and the clones that he was a bounty hunter in order to deceive them.

Bane lied and stated that he had been hired to break someone out of the KynachTech factory prison, having been provided with a datatape of its schematics. However, he also truthfully reported that he had seen the facility's droid guards escorting in four Republic troopers and an unconscious Ring-Sol Ambase, Kungurama's own Jedi Master. Unbeknownst to the Republic squad, Bane himself had been hired by Sidious to capture Ambase alive. With the scenario that Bane had provided, Kungurama developed a plan to have trooper CT-8863, nicknamed "Breaker," build a new droid&mdash;using parts from the disabled droid commandos and the Genetech brain of Gunn's destroyed navigation-turned-waiter droid, Teejay&mdash;to break into the prison. Bane accompanied Chatterbox, Knuckles, and Gunn as they reconnoitered the facility and checked out the hunter's own ship, which the group planned to use to escape Kynachi and break through the Trade Federation blockade surrounding the planet, with additional assistance from pass codes that Bane had been given. After completing their mission, the four returned to Gunn's transport, where Breaker and Kungurama were assembling the new droid. The unit was successfully reactivated and renamed "Cleaver."

Bane devised a risky plan to break into the prison and liberate the captives, and the group proceeded to put the plan into motion. With Kungurama, Gunn, the troopers, and a poncho-adorned Bane posing as prisoners and Cleaver acting as their droid captor, they were admitted into the facility. The squad confronted Techno Union Overseer Umbrag, but as Kungurama cornered Umbrag, the Overseer inadvertently caused a battle droid to fire its blaster rifle. At the sound of blaster fire, Bane drew his pistols and began to shoot at the nearest battle droids, sparking a chaotic firefight. With the others occupied with the battle, Bane was able to slip away and capture Ring-Sol Ambase, who had been taken prisoner by battle droids. Bane eventually returned to the prison with Ambase's lightsaber and met with the Jedi and clones, who had forced Umbrag to flee and had been reunited with the rest of their clone squad. Bane continued to deceive the group, stating that he had been unsuccessful in finding his previous quarry. Although the clones did not trust Bane, the hunter gave Ambase's lightsaber to Kungurama with the lie that it was all that he had found of Ambase; Bane received Kungurama's thanks before departing. Bane used a gravsled taken from the KynachTech Industries factory to transport a transparisteel coffin containing an unconscious Ambase. Bane returned to his ship in Docking Bay 21 and brought Ambase's body onto the vessel. Departing the planet, Bane used his pass codes to bypass several Republic Navy Star Destroyers that had arrived in orbit of the world. After evading the cruisers and activating his ship's automated pilot mode, Bane returned to the main cabin and contacted Darth Sidious. The Sith Lord was pleased to learn of Bane's success and told him to deliver Ambase to the fifth moon of the Bogden system before severing the connection.

Theft from Kul Teska
"Bane? Ha, ha, ha. Forgive my surprise. I didn't think even you were foolish enough to steal from me.''" "''Pity you didn't go down with the ship, Teska."

- Kul Teska and Cad Bane exchange pleasantries on Ryloth

Using his personally modified Telgorn dropship, The Sleight of Hand, Bane hijacked the Gravitic Core of the gravitic polarization beam weapon manufactured by the Separatist scientist Kul Teska&mdash;a "competitor" of his&mdash;over the ice world Alzoc III. Stealing the crate containing the Core, Bane and his ship fled Teska's Munificent-class star frigate and left it to be hit by an explosion. Bane proceeded aboard The Sleight of Hand to the planet Ryloth, which had recently been liberated by the Grand Army of the Republic from the Confederacy. In the city of Resdin, Bane knocked Clone Captain CC-7567 and Clone Sergeant CS-2207&mdash;nicknamed "Rex" and "Boomer," respectively&mdash;unconscious and took them hostage to assist him in his exploits. Bringing Rex and Boomer to a hangar and placing them in explosive-wired binders, Bane forced the clones to comply with his demands. As Separatist battle droids broke into the hangar, Rex and Boomer agreed to defend Bane's crate and take the cargo to his ship, and the bounty hunter released the links on the pair's handcuffs, allowing them to operate freely. Bane and his new comrades defeated the attacking lines of B1 battle droids and B2 super battle droids. The clones managed to close the main hangar door and several tunnels, halting the droids' advance.

When a Vulture droid starfighter suddenly broke through the main entrance and opened fire on the group, Bane offered some heavy artillery&mdash;which he had stored for "just this type of occasion"&mdash;to the clones, and they used it to destroy their mechanical adversary. Shortly thereafter, Separatist reinforcements appeared in the form of B1, B2, and sabotage droids, but with the arrival of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano&mdash;who had come to rescue the clones and grudgingly decided to assist the bounty hunter&mdash;Bane, Rex, and Boomer were able to defeat the droids. After the group had taken down a large tri-droid, Bane directed blaster fire on the Jedi and clones. Skywalker rebounded Bane's blaster fire, causing the bounty hunter to lose his balance atop a platform and tumble to the ground. Bane was held at lightsaber point by Skywalker, and the hunter's "bargaining chips" were rendered defunct when Skywalker severed the clones' binders. Rex and Boomer took Bane's blaster, though Bane kept an extra pistol hidden. As explosions went off outside, Bane offered The Sleight of Hand as a means of escape. With no other options, Skywalker took Bane up on his offer and sent Rex and Boomer to provide covering fire from an elevated position. Though unaware of the crate's contents, Skywalker and Tano were unwilling to let it fall into Separatist hands and forced Bane to carry the Core to his ship. En route to the Telgorn dropship, Skywalker, Tano, and Bane encountered numerous B1, B2, chameleon droids and droidekas, but the Jedi were able to defeat all of them.

Along the way to The Sleight of Hand, Bane frequently grew tired from carrying the heavy weight of the Gravitic Core and stopped several times to rest behind larger crates scattered around the landscape, relying on the Jedi and clones to protect him from the droids' enemy fire. When the path was blocked by starship wreckage, Rex fired a rocket launcher, and the Jedi and Bane climbed the debris. Skywalker and Tano jumped across a gap and used the Force to collapse a fighter wing, enabling Bane to cross the divide with the Gravitic Core. Skywalker, Tano, and Bane soon took a cliff-side path, but as they moved beyond the clones' range, they were forced to cope without the troopers' covering fire. Skywalker and Tano jumped to the ground and eliminated a thicket of B1, DSD1, sabotage, and destroyer droids. After the two Jedi had disabled a squad of LM-432 crab droids, Bane followed the pair to the ground and across a destroyed droid tank to an adjacent ridge. Arriving at The Sleight of Hand, Bane set his crate down and slowly retrieved his alternate pistol as Skywalker conferred with his Padawan. At that moment, some of the wreckage surrounding the dropship exploded. Although Skywalker and Tano were occupied with levitating debris and were open targets for the bounty hunter, Bane's firing hand was hit by a piece of wreckage before he could take advantage of the Jedi's distraction.

Teska himself blasted out of the wreckage and confronted the three, demanding that Bane hand over the Gravitic Core. Teska used a grappling hook to seize the crate, but Skywalker intervened and Force-pushed the device into Bane's ship. Before Bane could board The Sleight of Hand and escape with the crate, Tano trapped him under a slab of metal. As the Jedi and Teska engaged each other in a duel, Bane sneaked away and made his own escape from Ryloth. Although Teska fled with the Core and stole The Sleight of Hand, Bane later intervened during the Republic's siege of Teska's facility on the planet Behpour. While Teska's gravitic beam powered up to attack the Naboo sun, Bane took his revenge on the scientist by firing at Teska's rocket boosters during the scientist's fight with Skywalker and Tano in the weapon's core room, stranding Teska on the room's central platform. Leaving Teska to be defeated by Skywalker and Tano, Bane retrieved his Telgorn dropship and escaped. Following this incident, Bane sabotaged the Sheathipede-class transport shuttle that the Confederate Head of State Count Dooku and Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress were using to escape Behpour; the mercenary watched the pair's vessel malfunction in space from The Sleight of Hand before leaving them behind.

Raid on the Senate
Bane was later hired by the Hutts to free Hutt crime lord Ziro Desilijic Tiure, who had been arrested earlier in the war for crimes against the Republic and had since been incarcerated in the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center. Instead of opting for a straightforward prison break, Bane decided to force the Republic into freeing Ziro the Hutt by taking hostages in the form of senators of the Galactic Senate. To do so, Bane required a skilled group of bounty hunters, as even he could not hold the entire Senate hostage on his own. He therefore assembled a team consisting of the Jedi hunter Aurra Sing, the Weequay mercenary Shahan Alama, and the Patrolian slicer Robonino, backed up by a number of Separatist BX-series droid commandos and IG-86 sentinel droids. As the organic members of Bane's posse usually worked alone, Bane arranged a test for his comrades to ensure that they could function together as a team. Bane lured rival bounty hunter Davtokk to the planet Keyorin under the cover of holding a recruitment drive for his posse. Knowing that Davtokk intended to kill him and collect the bounty on his head, Bane assembled a life-size mannequin of himself from a scrapped B1 battle droid to fool Davtokk. After arriving on Keyorin and entering Bane's safe house with directions from Bane's techno-service droid, Todo 360, Davtokk fired upon the droid mannequin, assuming it to be Bane, but then came under attack by Robonino, Alama, and Sing. Bane watched the events unfold as his accomplices ambushed and crippled the enemy mercenary.

Bane emerged from the shadows and confronted Davtokk, explaining that the entire operation had been arranged as a final test for his new team&mdash;and stated that they had passed by ensuring that Davtokk had failed. Bane then pointed one of his blaster pistols at Davtokk's head and discharged the weapon, killing the incapacitated mercenary. Now confident that his team could work together, Bane took his accomplices to Coruscant to raid the Senate in order to take several senators hostage and to force Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to release Ziro the Hutt. Bane carefully timed the operation concurrently with the Senate Commando guards' shift change in order to maximize his casualties. After dispatching Sing, Robonino, and two of the sentinel droids in an airspeeder to a nearby tower from where to wait as backup, Bane, Alama, another sentinel droid, and a pair of droid commandos that were there for Bane's protection proceeded to the Republic Executive Building's restricted landing platform in a speeder. Bane's arrival was greeted by a squad of Senate Commandos, who intended to arrest him for his violation of security protocols.

As Senate Commando Captain Jayfon ordered him to get on his knees and raise his hands, Bane smugly remarked on the Captain's hastiness. Just as a Senate Command moved forward to handcuff Bane, Sing opened fire on the guards with a sniper rifle from her long-range post. In the confusion, Bane rushed forward and personally eliminated Captain Jayfon by tackling him and snapping his neck. At the same time, Alama and the droids rushed out of the speeder and took care of the rest of the Senate Commandos. With the guards' threat rendered moot and the coast clear, Bane signaled for Sing and the rest of the group to join them at the Executive Building. Bane also ordered the droid commandos to pose as the Senate Commandos by putting on their armor. Once Sing, Robonino, and the droids had arrived at the platform, Bane told the droid commandos to remain outside and finish clearing the platform while he proceeded into the headquarters of the Senate with the others. After eliminating the Senate Commando posted at the Executive Building's power control room as well as several Republic droids inside, Bane left Robonino there to shut off the power while the Duros hunter headed for the building's east wing atrium with the rest of his team. Along the way to "meet" the senators, Bane took advantage of the Senate Commandos' shift change by tossing a primed thermal detonator into their crowded barracks, removing most of the active Senate security from their duties. Bane and his comrades continued on to discuss their "business" with the Senate.

Bane, Sing, Alama, and the sentinel droids entered the atrium through different doors and converged on the ten senators there that were discussing an upcoming vote on the Enhanced Privacy Invasion Bill legislation. Bane caught the senators' attention by firing several blaster shots into the ceiling and asserted that they were now all in his power. As Bane and his accomplices surrounded the senators, Senator Philo objected to being taken hostage, walking right past Bane while refusing to listen to this "insolence." Bane shot Philo in the back and turned back to the shocked senators, ordering them to turn over their communication devices before they could call for help. With the first stage of his operation complete, Bane contacted Supreme Chancellor Palpatine in his office via a holotransmission and dictated to him his terms: the hostages would be freed if Ziro the Hutt were to be released from prison. Although Palpatine objected to Bane's "foolhardy" show of force, Robonino shut off the Executive Building's power at that moment, trapping Palpatine and Senator Orn Free Taa in the office and compromising all external communications. As the bounty hunters collected the senators' transmission devices in the atrium, Bane came across Senator Padmé Amidala, and though she stated that the Senate would not treat with "terrorists," Bane questioned if she was "too young and pretty" to be a senator. Bane then noticed Amidala glance at something behind him, and the bounty hunter turned around to see Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker surveying them from an upper level of the atrium.

Bane immediately opened fire on Skywalker, and the Jedi Knight's escape prompted Bane to order Alama and an IG-86 sentinel droid after their quarry. When Alama returned without the droid, he reported to Bane that the droid had been destroyed by Skywalker but stated that an examination of the droid's remains had revealed that Skywalker was without his lightsaber. Bane then dispatched Sing to assist Alama in finding, apprehending, and bringing Skywalker back to him. When the senators began to talk amongst themselves, Bane quieted them by firing off a blaster round and contacted Palpatine once more. He told the Chancellor to make a pardon disc to free Ziro, and Senator Taa would be picked up by Bane's airspeeder to deliver the disc to the prison. Taa reluctantly obeyed, and the sentinel droid HELIOS-3D transported Taa to the Detention Center. Shortly thereafter, Sing and Alama came back to the atrium with Robonino and an unconscious, handcuffed Skywalker in tow. Bane taunted the comatose Jedi Knight before having his accomplices toss their prisoner in with the rest of the senators. Bane then checked in with HELIOS-3D, who stated that they were on schedule and was arriving at the Detention Center with Taa. Preparing to leave, Bane told his comrades to set up their "parting gifts"&mdash;a laser web that would activate explosives upon the slightest touch. After making contact with Palpatine one last time and telling him that "the crisis had passed," Bane wished the senators a "most respectful farewell" and left the Executive Building with his accomplices.

Upon their arrival at the landing platform, Bane and his team were confronted by a pair of LAAT/i gunships that landed and deployed clone troopers of the Coruscant Guard under the command of Clone Commander CC-1010. While the clones blocked the bounty hunters' escape, Chancellor Palpatine contacted Bane and demanded the mercenary's surrender. However, Bane revealed that the senators were still being held hostage by his laser web, and with the senators at the bounty hunter's mercy, the outwitted Palpatine reluctantly relinquished his attempts to apprehend the bounty hunter. Holding his fighter over the button that would destroy the east wing atrium and kill the senators, Bane was able to buy himself and his team safe passage from the Executive Building and the Coruscant Guard. HELIOS-3D arrived at the Executive Building with a freed Ziro the Hutt in tow, and Bane and his comrades boarded the speeder and left the Senate without further resistance from the Republic. As they headed away from the Senate, Bane turned around and conferred with Ziro the Hutt, who professed that the indignities he had suffered in prison were unimaginable.

Bane offered some dead senators to the Hutt as payback for his grievances, and with that, Bane remotely detonated the explosive charges in the east wing atrium. Skywalker had recovered in the meantime and managed to cut a hole in the floor around himself and the senators, allowing them to drop into the room below seconds before the atrium exploded. As Ziro congratulated Bane on a "job well done," Bane demanded his pay from the Hutt, as he did not work for free. Bane then convened with his team at a hideout elsewhere on Coruscant, where he told his fellow bounty hunters that they had been "handsomely rewarded" for their part in the operation. Although Alama did not believe that he had transferred all of the proper credits, Bane went on to tell his accomplices to execute the last part of their gambit: to "bury their prides" and flee separately to hide from the Republic, stating that it would not do for them to get captured. Alama expressed his mistrust of Bane one last time before the Weequay and the other bounty hunters complied with his orders, escaping from the Republic. Bane himself was able to evade apprehension by the Jedi Order, although Alama, Robonino, and HELIOS-3D were not as successful in their endeavors. Bane's actions made him a wanted individual, and a five hundred thousand credit bounty was placed on his head for his "crimes against the Republic."

Stealing a Jedi holocron
While in his apartment in one of the Coruscant Underworld's seedy hotels, Bane was personally contacted by Darth Sidious, who recruited his services to steal a holocron from the Jedi Temple's Archives. Sidious required the holocron to access the Kyber memory crystal, a repository of all Force-sensitive children in the galaxy that was under the protection of Jedi Master Bolla Ropal; the Sith Lord also hired Bane to purloin the crystal. Bane initially believed infiltrating the Temple to be impossible, but when Sidious put the bounty hunter's reputation into question, Bane consented to the job, albeit with the request for an elite starfighter and triple his usual rate; Sidious agreed to compensate these terms and additionally provided schematics of the Temple. In preparation for the operation, Bane had the body of the late Jedi Master Ord Enisence brought to his apartment and subcontracted Cato Parasitti for extra assistance. Bane also chose to use his techno-service droid, Todo 360, for the job. As Bane worked on Todo, he lied to his droid that he was only doing some maintenance, while he was actually installing an explosive-wired memory chip in the droid.

When the doorbell rang, Bane told Todo to get the door and opened up Sidious's intelligence file on Master Ropal. Parasitti arrived in the apartment and joined Bane at his computer, examining Ropal's file and questioning whether they were going after him. Bane replied that they soon would but brought her attention to their current assignment&mdash;stealing a holocron from the Jedi Temple. Despite Sidious's inside information, Bane still required help beyond what Todo could provide&mdash;an agent on the inside of the Temple. To this end, Bane pointed Parasitti to Enisence, whose form the Clawdite easily assumed to pose as the dead Jedi. Bane passed an ear-comlink to Parasitti so that they could maintain contact, and although Parasitti questioned the details of Bane's own plan to break into the Holocron Vault, Bane kept a calm demeanor and stated that he would handle it. With that, the bounty hunters proceeded to the Jedi Temple and set their plan into motion. Bane and Todo used their rocket boots to get to an unattended overhang on the side of the Jedi Temple, close to the building's roof. With Parasitti at a computer terminal in the Archive Library, Todo was able to locate a weak point in the Temple's energy shield and opened up an aperture in the shield with a touch of his finger. Bane and his droid zoomed in through the breach and entered a ventilation shaft, where they descended into a wide, vertical passage that was being blocked by a set of large, active fans. Parasitti directed Todo to the control board, and the droid deactivated the fans so that he and Bane could slip between their blades.

Once Bane and Todo had passed between the blades of one of the fans, the droid accidentally reactivated the fan from a motion-sensing security switch. Before the two could be sucked into and sliced by the blades, Parasitti disabled the fan, saving both of them. Sparing Todo a brief glare, Bane resumed his descent with his droid in tow, and the pair continued on through the vent system to a shaft directly overlooking the high-security Holocron Vault, which was being protected by a dense laser web. Although Todo wanted to bypass the grate, Bane stopped him and checked with Parasitti on the vault's security measures. Bane noted a change in his comrade's voice, as Parasitti had assumed the form of Jedi librarian Jocasta Nu. Hearing the sounds of the Jedi searching for them, Bane impatiently waited as Parasitti deactivated the vault's laser sensor system from her terminal. The instant that the primary laser systems were down, Bane and Todo descended into the shaft leading to the Holocron Vault. While Bane used his gauntlet to cut through the safe's lock mechanism, Todo deactivated the remainder of the laser beams surrounding the vault's entrance. Bane then directed Todo to slice through the wall and cut a passage to the Temple's communication center in order to have his techno-service droid lure the Jedi away from the vault, although the bounty hunter hid his intentions&mdash;and the fact that he had implanted a bomb in the droid&mdash;from Todo. When Todo was unable to make a hole quickly enough, Bane commented on his incompetence, earning an angry response from his droid.

Parasitti, meanwhile, was captured by Ahsoka Tano and revealed Bane's objective to the Jedi. Loosing contact with his inside agent, Bane was unable to access the diagrams that would help him deactivate the lock. He barked at Todo to go to the Jedi Temple's communication center to pose as a distraction for the Jedi, and once his droid has departed, Bane primed a bomb of the same model that he had installed in his droid to break through the vault's lock. Bane hid from the approaching Jedi&mdash;Anakin Skywalker and Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, who had been tipped off by Tano to the mercenary's target&mdash;as the explosive went off and waited until the pair had followed Todo to the communication center before emerging from the shadows. Bane walked toward the entrance to the Holocron Vault and heaved the safe's door open all the way. He proceeded into the room unopposed and extracted the holocron from its holding place, smiling at his success. Stuffing the holocron into a pocket, Bane donned a Jedi robe and sneaked away through the Archive Library. Despite catching sight of a cuffed Parasitti being led away by Tano and Jocasta Nu, Bane did not attempt to rescue her and ducked his head, heading away in the other direction. Bane escaped the Temple without either of his accomplices, leaving Parasitti in the Jedi's custody and allowing Todo to serve his purpose as a decoy by being destroyed by the explosive that he had installed in the droid earlier.

Exploits at Devaron
"You have nowhere left to run, bounty hunter.''" "Let me worry about that, Jedi. If I activate this control, the outside airlock will open, and she will be sucked into oblivion. Do you think you can kill me and then save her before she's pulled out into space? It's a horrible way to die. Besides, isn't negotiation the Jedi way?" "What do you want?" "''This holocron carries information I've been paid to collect. I can't unlock it, but you can. The last Jedi who had it wouldn't open it. I hope you don't make the same mistake."

- Anakin Skywalker and Cad Bane negotiate the unlocking of the holocron in exchange for Ahsoka Tano's life

With hired assistance from Aurra Sing, Bane took a fleet of Munificent-class frigates and C-9979 landing craft to mount a surprise attack on the planet Devaron, where Master Ropal maintained a Republic base. Initiating a ground assault on the planet and commanding his armada from his lead Munificent-class frigate, Bane contacted Sing's battle droid squad, codenamed "Nashtah Team," to check on her progress. Sing reported that she was on the western end of the valley where the outpost was located, but even though she spotted Ropal and had a clear shot at him, Bane ordered her not to shoot the Jedi Master, as he was the Duros's target. Instead, Bane told Sing to distract Ropal's Padawan, Tyzen Xebec, and several clones that had just arrived. In the meantime, Bane left his command ship and moved in to capture Ropal. En route to the surface in a Porax-38 starfighter, Bane shot several clone troopers before landing and heading for Ropal's position. Along the way, Bane received word from his command ship's crew that the Republic Star Destroyer Resolute had arrived out of hyperspace and realized that Parasitti had betrayed his target, at which he swore to "return the favor." Bane ordered his fleet into defensive formation to stop the Resolute before it could interrupt his "errand." He found Ropal deflecting blaster shots with his lightsaber and loaded an expensive shot of cortosis ore into his blaster pistol, using it to short out Ropal's weapon. With Ropal disarmed, Bane threw a cord at the Jedi Master, tying his legs together and knocking him to the ground.

Although Ropal tossed his temporarily defunct lightsaber aside and refused to open the holocron for him, Bane had one of his super battle droids shock Ropal, rendering him unconscious. Bane took Ropal hostage and stole the Kyber crystal from his person before loading him on board a Sheathipede-class transport shuttle and taking him to his command ship. As Bane rendezvoused with a Trade Federation escort of Munificent-class frigates over Devaron that had been dispatched by Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray at Darth Sidious's request, they were ambushed by the Resolute, commanded by Skywalker. Ordering his battle droid crew to move the ship out of the battle zone and prepare to jump to hyperspace, Bane went to ask a "small favor" of Ropal in the Jedi's holding cell, as only a Jedi could open the holocron and combine it with the Kyber crystal to make it readable. However, the Resolute targeted the frigate's hyperdrive and compromised the ship's power converters, trapping Bane in the system. Bane was notified of this impediment on his way to Ropal's cell by a battle droid, and wondered out loud what the Jedi were planning.

Though Bane tortured Ropal with electrical charges, the Jedi Master continued to refuse to unlock the crystal with the holocron. Having no use for an uncooperative prisoner, Bane ordered his droids to increase Ropal's electrocution to full power, killing the Jedi Master. After his battle droids confirmed Ropal's passing, Bane had the Jedi Master's body dropped from his containment field to the ground. Bane saw this murder as only a slight setback to achieving his objective, but still required a Jedi to access the crystal. Returning to his ship's bridge, Bane was contacted by an upset Gunray, who was angered that four of his loaned ships had been destroyed. Bane remained unconcerned about the losses; he knew that Darth Sidious valued the information in the memory crystal and believed that the Sith Lord would compensate Gunray's expenses. As Skywalker and Tano landed on the dorsal hull of Bane's frigate with All Terrain Tactical Enforcers, Bane refused to send out more Vulture droid reinforcements&mdash;to the surprise of both his battle droid crew and Viceroy Gunray. Although Gunray demanded that he transmit the information and abandon the plan before the Jedi boarded his ship and stole the holocron back, Bane replied that he could not submit the data, but still intended to let Skywalker and Tano embark his ship in order to get one of them to unlock the crystal with the holocron. Ending his conversation with Gunray, Bane gave orders to his crew, telling them to wipe the frigate's memory, activate the self-destruct sequence, and transfer control of all shipboard functions to his wrist-com.

Leaving his battle droids to defend the bridge, Bane escaped through a ventilation duct moments before Skywalker, Tano, Clone Captain Rex, and their clone trooper squad arrived there and captured it from the droids. On the frigate's gunnery deck, Bane assembled his B1 and B2 battle droids, intending to have them fight and distract the clones while he himself separated the Jedi and led one of them away. With his troops in place, Bane ran through the hallways of his frigate and lured the Jedi and clones&mdash;who had found the late Master Ropal in his holding cell&mdash;to the gunnery deck. Once Skywalker, Tano, and the clones had arrived in the darkened room, Bane revealed his forces by reactivating the lights and ordered the droids to open fire on the Jedi and clones. As a gunfight erupted as planned, Bane secured himself to the floor with his mango-grip boots and made the fight "a bit more interesting" by disabling the frigate's gravity generators and deactivating the artificial gravity. The Jedi and clones rose off the floor, while the battle droids, still magnetized to the deck, continued to fire at them. Bane targeted his blaster fire at Skywalker, who made it past him, and the bounty hunter quickly got out of range of the Jedi's lightsaber slash. Bane opened fire on the clones, shooting and killing several of them. However, Skywalker soon returned to fight Bane, surprising him from behind and delivering a kick that knocked the holocron out of his grip. Just as Skywalker was about to grab the holocron, the astromech droid R2-D2 reactivated the gravity, plummeting everyone back down to the floor.

Bane retrieved the holocron and shot at a trooper still magnetized to the roof, keeping Skywalker occupied with safely lowering the clone to the floor while he himself made his escape. Bane drew Tano after him, and the Padawan fell into his trap. Luring Tano into a dead-end corridor away from Skywalker, Bane cut her off from her Master by closing the hallway's blast doors behind her. As Tano cornered him, Bane fired a laser shot at the Padawan, only to have it deflected at one of his gauntlets. Bane ducked around Tano and spun through the air, knocking her lightsaber out of her hand, but while the bounty hunter took aim at Tano, she grabbed his blaster arm, elbowed him, and flipped him to the ground, causing him to lose grip of the holocron once again. Before Tano could telekinetically retrieve her lightsaber, however, Bane reached out and grabbed her ankle, sending a paralyzing stun charge through her body that knocked her unconscious. Bane picked up the holocron and placed Tano in self-tightening stun cuffs that had been "specially designed" for Jedi. Once Tano had woken up, Bane stole her Padawan braid jewelry from her as a trophy.

As the two exchanged banter, Bane electrocuted Tano to increase Skywalker's sense of urgency. Bane moved the subdued Tano to the frigate's airlock and placed her on the space-ward side of the shield. After receiving word from a battle droid outside the airlock that Skywalker had arrived, Bane activated the airlock's shield, trapping Tano so that she could serve as a bargaining chip. Skywalker entered the room to find Tano at Bane's mercy, and Bane demanded that Skywalker unlock the memory crystal, fully prepared to open the airlock to the vacuum of space and send Tano to her death if he refused to do so. With his Padawan's life at risk, Skywalker handed over his lightsaber and used the Force to disassemble the holocron, combining it with the crystal and making the crystal's contents readable. Once Bane had taken the holocron, Skywalker retrieved Tano's lightsaber and his own weapon with the Force and made quick work of Bane's super battle droid bodyguards. In retaliation, Bane opened the airlock, keeping the two Jedi occupied while he flew away with his rocket boots through an emergency bulkhead that sealed behind him. Bane made contact with Gunray and informed him of his success with gaining access to the crystal. Although Gunray offered to send an escape vessel in exchange for the transmission of the data, Bane remained too cagey to give into his terms. With his own plans for escape, Bane made his way to a shaft overlooking the frigate's hangar bay, which was housing a firefight between the clones and droids over control of a Sheathipede-class shuttle.

While looking over the firefight, Bane was confronted by troopers Denal and Koho. The bounty hunter killed Denal and stole the trooper's armor, using it to pose as the clone. Bane also removed his own cybernetic breathing tubes in order to don the trooper's helmet. To convince Skywalker and Tano that he was Denal, the clone armor–clad Bane shot a figure garbed in his own outfit. The Jedi witnessed Bane's exploit, and as they believed him to be dead, they did not suspect that the trooper was Bane when he joined them on their shuttle and escaped the frigate with them shortly before it exploded, though Skywalker could still sense his persona in the Force. After returning to the Resolute with the Jedi and clones, Bane disembarked the shuttle with the others and discreetly made his way away from the group. Tano followed the disguised Bane to get him to receive treatment for his injuries at the medical bay, and she eventually realized that he was not a clone. Bane responded to her accusations by kneeing her in the midsection, causing her to fall to the floor. Making his way to a V-19 Torrent starfighter, Bane took out several troopers around the fighter and boarded the ship. Skywalker jumped onto Bane's activated fighter and knocked his helmet off, revealing the true identity of the "trooper". Bane piloted his fighter through the magnetic shield and out of the hangar, forcing Skywalker to jump off, and proceeded to the Resolute set of hyperdrive rings. He stole a booster ring before the Resolute crew could lock them down in time, escaping to hyperspace and evading capture by the Jedi.

Against the Jedi Order
Returning to Black Stall Station in the Rogue Antar system, Bane informed Darth Sidious of his success with unlocking the crystal. The Dark Lord gave Bane a new mission: capture four of the Force-sensitive infants on the list and deliver them to the remote planet of Mustafar, where Sidious planned to use them as test subjects in his experiments for the alteration of Force-sensitives to build his own personal corps of spies. Using the Xanadu Blood, the heavily-modified and well-equipped Porax-38 starfighter that had been gifted to him by Sidious, Bane captured the young Nautolan Zinn Toa on the planet Glee Anselm. Next traveling to Rodia, Bane donned a Jedi robe to pose as a Jedi and avoid attracting unwanted attention in the forthcoming operation.

Bane met with the Rodian Mahtee Dunn, mother of the Force-sensitive Wee Dunn, in the pair's home in Kay-Tap square. Bane deceived the elder Dunn, stating that Jedi impostors had been roaming the galaxy and stealing Force-sensitive children. Encountering difficulties with convincing Mahtee to hand over her son, the hunter used a hypnogazer to temporarily alter her memory and force her into complying with his demands. Leaving one of his blasters behind with Mahtee Dunn and preparing to escape with Wee Dunn, Bane witnessed Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi&mdash;who had been dispatched to prevent the kidnapping&mdash;enter the room and learn of the child's capture from Mahtee. Bane activated his rocket boots and soared to the platform where the Xanadu Blood was docked. Kenobi pursued Bane but arrived too late to prevent him from escaping with the Rodian infant.

After delivering both Toa and Dunn to Sidious's Mustafar facility and wiping his own starfighter's navigation records, Bane traveled to the planet Naboo to track down his next target&mdash;the Gungan infant Roo-Roo Page. Touching down near Page's home, located in the waterfall-surrounded Jan-gwa city, Bane witnessed a Gungan mother place a small figure in a crib before leaving the room. Believing that she had left behind Page, Bane entered the nursery and pulled back the blanket, only to find a tooka doll in place of the expected infant. A moment later, Ahsoka Tano jumped into the room, lightsaber drawn. Remarking on the Padawan's combination of cleverness and naivety, Bane used his gauntlet's lanyard to ensnare her weapon and pull it away from her. Bane fired his blaster at Tano, who rolled and ducked behind some furniture. Bane attempted to escape out the window with his rocket boots but was confronted by Skywalker, who jumped and grabbed onto his boots. With the extra weight, Bane's boosters were disabled, and as the two tumbled onto a roof, the hunter's hat was knocked off. The pair struggled before landing on the ground, and the outmatched Bane looked up to see Tano's lightsaber in his face.

Bane was placed in binders, and Tano retrieved her Padawan braid jewelry that he had previously taken from her at Devaron. Bane and the Xanadu Blood were taken to the Resolute; Bane was placed in a shielded holding cell, while his starfighter was examined by the Jedi. Interrogated by Masters Kenobi and Mace Windu, Bane refused to reveal the whereabouts of the kidnapped children and the location of the holocron. Without any alternative methods of interrogation, Windu, Kenobi, and Skywalker bound together and employed the Force to compel the strong-minded Bane to lead them to the stolen holocron&mdash;an act that came at the risk of destroying his mind. Thrashing from his attempts at resisting the Jedi's influence, Bane eventually promised to take them to the holocron, albeit with the intention of leading them into a trap. The bound Bane was escorted into a waiting T-6 shuttle, where he dictated the Black Stall Station's coordinates to his accompanying guards&mdash;Kenobi, Windu, and Clone Commander CC-2224, nicknamed "Cody."

After arriving in the asteroid-strewn system and docking to the facility, Kenobi and Windu left Cody with the ship and followed Bane into his base of operations. Though neither Jedi sensed the kidnapped infants, Bane told them that the children were "safe" and instead focused on the holocron, leading them to the station's control room and pointing them to the holocron on a table across the room. Although Bane volunteered to get the holocron for them, Windu refused to let the bounty hunter continue "his tricks" and proceeded to retrieve the holocron himself. However, Windu unintentionally activated the station's intruder alert system. With Klaxon alarms blaring and a laser system targeting Kenobi and Windu, Bane sneaked away from the distracted Jedi Masters. Kenobi pursued the bounty hunter, but Bane escaped through a concealed hatch, biding the Jedi farewell as he left. Breaking out of his binders, Bane fled Black Stall Station in an escape pod. Although Bane had escaped from captivity, he was ultimately unable to complete his job; he had only captured half of the Force-sensitive infants that he had been hired to collect, and Darth Sidious's plot itself was eventually foiled by Skywalker and Tano.

Personality and traits
One of the galaxy's most lethal, ruthless, fearsome, and deadly bounty hunters, Cad Bane earned the reputation of the leading blaster-for-hire during the Clone Wars, filling the position that fellow mercenary Jango Fett had left vacant when he perished on Geonosis at the beginning of the conflict. Bane had much less moral content than Fett, often turning upon his own clients unless he was paid. Bane's usual rate was of a considerable price, and he requested more pay from his clients at every opportunity. However, if the price was right, he could not be stopped and would track his quarry to the ends of the galaxy if necessary; nothing was more important to him than credits. A skilled and cunning fighter, Bane was capable in both blaster and close combat. Despite his enjoyment of a good fight, he preferred stealth and surprise tactics instead of a direct fight when the possibility arose. He stayed a step ahead of his enemies by being prepared for any turns that the situation might take.

Bane did not place his trust in others easily or often, believing that the best way to ensure that a task was completed was to do it himself. As such, when his frigate was crippled over Devaron, he ordered his battle droid crew to transfer full control of the ship to his wrist-com. Although Bane did not always undertake missions by himself, operating alone gave him the freedom to improvise and more credits that did not have to be shared with others, causing him to usually work alone. When he recognized that the job was big enough, he employed his fellow hunters for added assistance &mdash;although he preferred to keep both his methods of choosing comrades for joint operations and his introduction into the bounty business itself obscure to the galaxy at large. However, he displayed a certain lack of concern for his accomplices, caring little what happened to his team after they had freed Ziro the Hutt as long as they avoided being captured by the Republic. Additionally, when his comrade, Cato Parasitti, was captured by the Jedi during their infiltration of the Jedi Temple, Bane did not attempt to rescue her. Rather, he ignored her plight and left her in the Jedi's custody to continue his work for Darth Sidious. Bane even swore to "return the favor" when Parasitti betrayed him and tipped the Jedi off to his next target.

Aware that Davtokk intended to execute him for the bounty on his head, Bane used this knowledge to his advantage and lured Davtokk to Keyorin to serve as a test for his own team of hunters. Undaunted by individuals of higher authority and Force-sensitivity, Bane remained unaffected by the Senate Commandos' attempt to arrest him, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's threats of retribution, and the Jedi's interrogation of him aboard the Resolute. While under interrogation by the Jedi, Bane refused to disclose the identity of his wealthy and powerful client, although Mace Windu simply attributed the bounty hunter's actions to his fear of his hirer. Bane "specialized" in fighting Jedi and did not fear them like other bounty hunters did. Indeed, he even welcomed the opportunity to test his abilities against the "legendary prowess" of the Jedi Knights that Darth Sidious's assignments ultimately provided to him. Although Bane was strong-minded and ordinarily immune to mind tricks, the influence exerted by the combined forces of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu forced him to submit to their demands.

Although he would have enjoyed to take down the likes of Skywalker and Kenobi, Bane did not let personal feelings get in the way of his jobs. Even so, Bane pursued Kul Teska&mdash;whom he saw as a "competitor"&mdash;to Behpour after Teska retrieved the Gravitic Core and stole the bounty hunter's own ship on Ryloth. Bane exacted his revenge by firing at Teska, disabling his rocket thrusters during his fight with Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano. Bane was able to deceive Kungurama, Gunn, and the clone troopers while on Kynachi, though the troopers eventually came to mistrust him. A talented actor and a cold but clever strategist, Bane was able to secretly manipulate the group into raiding the KynachTech prison by creating an elaborate setup of a droid commando fight. To gain the group's trust, Bane revealed that he was a bounty hunter, aware of the risk he took in doing so but also knowing that it was easier to deceive someone by telling most of the truth rather than a complete lie. Bane was willing to sacrifice anything, even an entire Trade Federation fleet, to lure the Jedi into his trap over Devaron. Bane was cunning and wily, stealing the armor of the murdered clone trooper Denal to insure his escape from his crumbling frigate, as well as leading Windu and Kenobi into a ruse on Black Stall Station to secure his own liberation from the Jedi's custody. Bane planned his infiltration of the Executive Building carefully during Senate Guard shifts so that he could maximize the element of surprise&mdash;as well as his casualties&mdash;by eliminating them at the same time.

When Darth Sidious requested Bane's services for infiltrating the Jedi Temple, Bane believed the mission to be impossible and foolhardy. However, he immediately agreed to the job&mdash;and requested triple his normal rate&mdash;when Sidious suggested that his reputation had been exaggerated. Bane took cold pleasure in striking fear through his quarries and captives, as evidenced by his treatment of the senators. When Senator Philo attempted to leave while refusing to listen to Bane's "insolence," Bane killed the Senator without a second thought and showed the other senators that he meant business. Bolla Ropal's refusal to help Bane open the holocron prompted Bane to intensify Ropal's torture, ultimately killing the Jedi Master. Bane deemed Ropal's sacrifice foolish and had little regard for his life, walking away from the murder scene without a backward glance. Bane did not take prisoners and intended for his senator hostages to be killed even after he had gone through negotiations with Supreme Chancellor Palpatine for their release in exchange for Ziro's liberation. Bane had no problems with going back on his word, exemplified in his discharge of the explosives planted near the senators in the Executive Building's atrium. When Skywalker attempted to attack him, Bane opened his frigate's airlock, despite his bargaining just minutes before for the safe release of Ahsoka Tano, whom he had been holding in the airlock.

Equipment
Bane's impressive arsenal of weapons and tools insured that he would be well-prepared for any situation that might arise. Bane carried a set of personalized twin blaster pistols that were customized from the BlasTech–engineered LL-30 model and wore quick-draw holsters to hold them at his waist. He also kept explosives, a concealed bola, and a smaller, alternate blaster pistol as extra weapons. He had removable cybernetic breathing tubes that were embedded in his cheekbones; they were directly connected to his windpipe, allowing him to work freely in the harshest atmospheres without requiring additional protection. Bane's durasteel magno-grip boots were equipped with customized Mitrinomon jetpack thrusters, and his wrist gauntlets possessed a variety of control devices, built-in tools, and weapons, including a cable launcher, comlink, data uplink, and non-lethal stunners. Bane's gear itself was designed to counteract the abilities of Force users; his external breathing tubes prevented him from being Force-choked and his rocket boots rivaled a Jedi's Force speed. He often wore a wide-brimmed hat and a Nashtah hide tunic.

Bane owned a techno-service droid, designated "Todo 360," whom he used for a number of missions. Despite the droid's objections, Bane viewed him as a "butler droid." He eventually employed Todo as a decoy at the Jedi Temple to distract the Jedi, sacrificing the droid to make his own escape. Bane employed a number of modified starships for his operations. He used The Sleight of Hand, a Telgorn dropship that he personally outfitted and customized with military-grade gear and an advanced hyperdrive to suit his needs as a transport vessel. Though the craft was stolen from him by Kul Teska on Ryloth, Bane eventually retrieved it. Bane also flew the Xanadu Blood, a heavily modified Porax-38 starfighter that was given to him by Darth Sidious. Although its layers of paint were chipping, the fighter served Bane well in his hunt for Force-sensitive infants. After Bane was captured on Naboo, his ship was left with the Jedi onboard the Resolute.

Portrayal and development
The character of Cad Bane was created for the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. He was first featured in the series' first season finale, "Hostage Crisis," as well as its accompanying web comic, Invitation Only. Because the episode introduced the concept of bounty hunters into the series, Bane was one of the first such individuals to appear in the series. He also appeared in Hunting the Hunters, Part I, the first in a sub-series of The Clone Wars web comics that transitioned between the television series' first and second seasons. He later appeared as a prominent character in Secret Missions 1: Breakout Squad, the first installment in a new series of novels written by Ryder Windham.

Bane was a major character from the very beginning of Season Two, being featured across the three-part story arc&mdash;consisting of the episodes "Holocron Heist," "Cargo of Doom," and "Children of the Force"&mdash;that began the season. In addition to playing a role in Act on Instinct, the web comic tying into Season Two, he was also given a role&mdash;both involved in the plot and as an unlockable playable character&mdash;in the multi-platform game Republic Heroes. Bane was offered as a usable character in Cartoon Network's online The Clone Wars Game Creator, which allowed players to create their own online mini-games and play those developed by others. Bane will additionally be collected in several of Hasbro's 2010 toy figure lines. Bane will return to the television series in its third season, to be aired in Fall 2010.

Throughout the television series and Republic Heroes, Bane was portrayed by voice actor Corey Burton, who also provided the voices for Ziro Desilijic Tiure and Shahan Alama in "Hostage Crisis." At the suggestion of Series Producer and Star Wars creator George Lucas, Burton took inspiration from film actor Peter Lorre in voicing Bane and used Bane's already established Western American influences to bring the bounty hunter to life with his own original characterization.

Initially, bounty hunters were not to be a part of the television series, but as the first season's storylines developed, a character was required to fill the role of a hunter. Supervising Director Dave Filoni and writer Henry Gilroy explored implementing the Gen'Dai mercenary Durge into the series, and the character was re-imagined as a Human. The individual eventually evolved into one named "Nom Kahbah" before George Lucas became involved with the development, suggesting that a Western American influence be used. At Lucas's request, inspiration for the character was taken from Lee Van Cleef's characters from the films The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and For a Few Dollars More. Filoni found an unlabeled sketch of a bounty hunter from the original Star Wars trilogy, and the concept ended up providing the basis for Bane's model, with additional expansion by Lead Designer Kilian Plunkett to incorporate the Duros species' features. The character's name was eventually changed to "Cad Bane."

Inconsistencies
Some first season publicity materials mistakenly implied that Darth Sidious and the Separatists had hired Bane to free Ziro the Hutt from prison. Although the Hutts were later stated in Bane's Databank entry to have been the ones that gave him the assignment, the Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Official Episode Guide: Season 1 publication released in 2009 further complicated the matter by claiming that Bane's employer has yet to be identified in Season Two. Until it is clarified, this article assumes that Bane was hired by the Hutts.

The storyline of the Nintendo DS edition of Republic Heroes greatly conflicts with the television series' first season, as well as the other editions of Republic Heroes. In the DS edition, Bane contacts the Republic from a Separatist prison on Ryloth where he is being held and offers to sell information about a secret Confederate facility, but insists on only dealing with Senator Padmé Amidala. The Jedi believe the bounty hunter's information to be critical in uncovering a large Separatist plot and decide to rescue Bane, sending Jedi Master Kit Fisto as Amidala's escort. The two infiltrate the prison and rescue Bane, but Fisto gets separated from the Senator in the process. Bane promises to reveal the information if Amidala takes him to his ship, the Xanadu Blood, and they fight through battle droids before eventually reaching the craft. Sticking to his word, Bane tells the Senator of Juma 9&mdash;which, in this case, is a strategic Confederate outpost, while in the other editions of the game, it is an active Republic mining facility. It is protected by a defense perimeter, which can only be bypassed with recent Separatist clearance codes. Because of this story's extremely conflicting plot that would otherwise require too much speculation to integrate into the canonical biography, this article assumes that the Nintendo DS edition of Republic Heroes is non-canonical.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Forces of Darkness
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Stand Aside - Bounty Hunters!
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars Secret Missions 1: Breakout Squad
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
 * The Clone Wars: Invitation Only
 * The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part I)
 * The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part III)
 * HoloNet News — A Galaxy Divided (Part 1)
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars Game Creator
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Holocron Heist
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Holocron Hunters
 * The Clone Wars: Act on Instinct
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Children of the Force
 * The Clone Wars: Season Three
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Children of the Force
 * The Clone Wars: Season Three
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Children of the Force
 * The Clone Wars: Season Three
 * The Clone Wars: Season Three
 * The Clone Wars: Season Three