Dashade/Legends

The Dashade were tall, reptilian humanoids with dark skin and lamprey-like mouths. They were powerful warriors and assassins, and they were highly resistant to the powers of the Force. Though they were rendered nearly extinct during the Great Sith War, remnant populations were seen regularly for millennia, using their natural abilities to their advantage as elite assassins, mercenaries, or similar professions.

Description
Thanks to their partial Force-immunity, Dashade warriors easily found employment as combat instructors for the Jedi and assassins for the Sith, though the Dashade's aggressive, might-makes-right culture caused most of them to favor the Sith. Dashade also had powerful claws, high radiation resistance, and an ability to dissipate heat which made them hard to detect using standard life-form sensors.

Their planet, Urkupp, was destroyed when the Cron Drift supernova exploded during the Great Sith War, killing most of the Dashade. Thirty-six Dashade Shadow Killers, retainers of a Falleen royal house, were among the off-world survivors. In order to preserve these elite warriors, they were placed in cryogenic suspension, to be revived one at a time when needed for special assignments. By the time of the Galactic Civil War, only one known Dashade remained &mdash; Ket Maliss. Prince Xizor, a descendant of the royals who had passed the Dashade down over the generations, inherited this warrior and made him an assassin for Black Sun.



In addition to these preserved warriors, rumors of Dashade sightings continued sporadially over the millennia. For example, there was evidence that Dashade mercenaries participated in the Great Jedi Purge. Some have even theorized that Dashade colonies founded before Urkupp's destruction may have existed.

New Republic Security also became concerned that lost colonies of Dashade may have started working for the Imperial Remnant and in the criminal underworld. To assay their fears, they dispatched a number of adventurers to scout uninhabited star systems close to novas, supernovas, highly charged gas clouds, and even tide-locked worlds from binary star systems. They supplied ships and a mobile HoloNet transceiver to aid them. It is unclear what discoveries were made from these endeavors.

Behind the scenes

 * The Dashade mask was the prototype for the Falleen species, Xizor in particular. George Lucas instructed all those working on Shadows of the Empire to study the Dashade face.


 * Ket Maliss may or may not appear in the Cantina scene in A New Hope. Decipher, the creators of Star Wars Customizable Card Game claim they took the picture from the scene in A New Hope, while the Databank claims that he only appears in the Holiday Specials Cantina scene, and that a photo was digitally manipulated for his card to make him appear to be in A New Hopes scene.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * The Star Wars Holiday Special
 * Star Wars Legacy 2: Broken, Part 2
 * Star Wars Legacy 2: Broken, Part 2