Cassie Cryar

"Master Sinube, you're right. I've found the intruder and she has my lightsaber. She's a Terellian jango jumper, and hard to keep up with."

- Ahsoka Tano to Tera Sinube

Cassie Cryar was a female Terellian jango jumper who lived on Coruscant during the Clone Wars. Cryar, as a Terrelian jango jumper, possessed incredible skills in acrobatics and agility. Using these natural gifts, Cryar made a living as a bounty hunter in the Coruscant underworld with her accomplice, Ione Marcy. During one of her operations as a bounty hunter, Cryar assisted Marcy in the murder of a Trandoshan assassin, Nack Movers, and ransacked his condo complex, looting a lightsaber which Movers had recently purchased from a petty pickpocket.

When the Jedi Ahsoka Tano, the original owner of the lightsaber, and an elder named Tera Sinube arrived at Mover's condo to retrieve the stolen lightsaber, Cryar fled the scene, prompting Tano to pursue. Cryar managed to escape with the assistance of Ione Marcy, fleeing to a train station in an attempt to lose the Jedi. However, using a tracking beacon, Sinube tracked the two bounty hunters to their hiding place. After a struggle aboard a hover train with Tano, Cryar was apprehended and arrested by Sinube.

Biography
Cryar was a Terellian jango jumper, a species with advanced capabilities in flexibility and motion. With her natural abilities, Cryar made a living for herself in the underworld of Coruscant, the galactic capital, along with her accomplice, Ione Marcy.

Murder of Nack Movers
Around 22 BBY, Cryar and Marcy were involved in the murder of the Trandoshan assassin Nack Movers and the ransacking of his condo on Coruscant. After poisoning the assassin, Cryar looted a lightsaber from him, which he recently bought from the petty pickpocket and merchant, Bannamu. When the owner of the lightsaber, the Jedi Padawan of Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, and a Jedi elder named Tera Sinube arrived at Movers' condo in search of her lightsaber, Cryar fled into Movers' bedroom while Marcy posed as a frightened bystander, insisting that the act was committed by a group of men. Tano soon enough decided to investigate the bedroom, prompting Cryar to attempt to use the lightsaber. After the lightsaber failed to ignite, Cryar fled the bedroom through the window onto the rooftops.

Tano gave chase, pursuing Cryar through the rooftops. Tano identified Cryar as a female Terellian jango jumper, and alerted Sinube of this discovery. As the chase progressed, Cryar discovered how to activate the lightsaber, and severed a satellite dish from a rooftop in an attempt to crush Tano. After Tano dodged the falling dish, Cryar attempted to lose Tano's trail by using a series of floating billboards as platforms, and disabled them with Tano's lightsaber. This led to Tano getting trapped on a billboard displaying an address by the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic, Palpatine, giving Cryar a few minutes to climb up a vertical pipe on the side of a building.

Arrest
Sinube realized that the fact that Cryar was a female contradicted Ione Marcy's earlier claim that the crime was commited by a group of men, and secretly planted a tracking beacon on Marcy and summoned a squad of police droids. Marcy, her cover now blown, fled the scene to her speeder and alerted Cryar of the situation. Cryar, still scaling the pipe, requested a pickup. By then, Tano had recovered, and used the force to detach the pipe from the building. Marcy arrived in her speeder and managed to recover Cryar before Ahsoka could apprehend her. However, Cryar and Marcy were unaware that Sinube had planted a tracking beacon on Marcy's clothing before she fled. Cryar and Marcy took refuge in a nearby train station, hoping to shake the Jedi off by blending in with the crowd. By the time Cryar had noticed the tracking beacon on Marcy and smashed it, Tano and Tera had already arrived and summoned a squad of police droids.



The police droids quickly overwhelmed and apprehended Marcy. Cryar abandoned Marcy to the police droids and attempted to board the departing train, but the train doors sealed shut by the time she arrived. Cryar instead leapt onto the roof of the train. Tano again gave chase, which would lead into the interior of the train. Out of desperation, Cryar grabbed a Twi'lek woman and her child, holding them hostage with the stolen lightsaber. Cornered, Tano attempted to have Cryar surrender. Cryar refused, believing that possessing a lightsaber made her as strong as any Jedi. Tano then offered to trade herself for the hostages. Cryar again refused, fearful of Tano's abilities in the force. As she attempted to leave the train, Tera Sinube intercepted her, disarming her with a lightsaber hidden in his cane and knocking her unconscious with the cane itself.

Personality and traits
As a jango jumper, Cryar possessed incredible abilities in agility and mobility, possessing a jumping skill similar to jumps amplified by the Force by Jedi Knights. Cryar herself believed that with her abilities, coupled with her use of Ahsoka Tano's stolen lightsaber, she was just as strong as any Jedi. Though a skilled assassin, Cryar sometimes acted without thinking things through in times of desperation, evident with actions such as attacking Ahsoka Tano with a lightsaber without any knowledge of how to operate it, and the hostage situation aboard the hover train when she was cornered.

Behind the scenes
Cassie Cryar was created for the episode "Lightsaber Lost" of the second season of the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series, and is a featured bounty hunter in the Rise of the Bounty Hunters storyline. During her appearance in the show, she was voiced by Jaime King, who also voiced another female criminal on the show, Aurra Sing. King was drawn to the role for the character's strength. King does not consider Cryar to be a bad person, as she is only doing what she needs to do to survive.