Cad Bane

"I'm in control. I make the rules now."

- Cad Bane

Cad Bane, a Duros male, was the leading bounty hunter in the galaxy during the Clone Wars due to the death of Jango Fett at the Battle of Geonosis.

Biography
"Cad Bane, who needs no introduction."

- Count Dooku, introducing Bane

Clone Wars
Bane became one of the leading Bounty Hunters during the Clone Wars after the demise of Jango Fett on Geonosis. Subsequently, Bane was hired by many of the galaxy's highest bidders, including the Confederacy of Independent Systems and Jabba the Hutt.

Heist at the Jedi Temple
During the War, Bane was hired by Darth Sidious to steal a Holocron from the Holocron Vault in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Bane successfully executed the heist with the assistance of the Clawdite Cato Parasitti, a shapeshifter.

Kidnapping Force Sensitive Children
"Kidnapping innocent children? Seems like a small-time crime for the likes of you."

- Cad Bane to Darth Sidious

After obtaining the Holocron from the Jedi Temple, Darth Sidious tasked Bane to kidnap numerous force sensitive children. After kidnapping the Rodian child Wee Dunn, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano managed to arrest Bane. The two Jedi attempted to interrogate Bane, but Bane managed to escape.

Senate Hostage Crisis
Bane was later hired by Jabba the Hutt to free Ziro from the Republic's high-security prison on Coruscant.

Hunt For Ziro
"I'm kind of tired of being paid for this job, too. But not that tired."

- Cad Bane to Gardulla the Hutt

Bane was once again hired by the Hutt crime families after Ziro escaped his prison with the help of singer Sy Snootles. Unbeknownst to Bane, the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Quinlan Vos were also after Ziro, hoping to recapture Ziro after escaping Prison. Bane eventually managed to track down Ziro to the planet Teth only to find him already dead, murdered by Snootles who had used him to find a holo-diary, recording the dealings of the Hutt families. After a brief battle, Bane once again managed to escape capture by the Jedi.

Prison break on Coruscant
"It's not the first time I've broken out of this stinkhole."

- Cad Bane to Moralo Eval and Rako Hardeen

At a certain point during the war Bane was apprehended by the Republic for his crimes and imprisoned in the Central Detention Centre. However, he merely allowed himself to be captured as part of his latest job. He had been hired by Moralo Eval, a criminal mastermind working for Count Dooku, to break him out of prison. Eval was highly involved in a Separatist plan to kidnap Chancellor Palpatine was also planning on recruiting Bane in his plan. Not long thereafter Eval became interested in recruiting Rako Hardeen, a bounty hunter, who was imprisoned for killing Obi-Wan Kenobi, after watching him fight with some of the inmates. Eval had Hardeen brought to his own cell to talk with him and introduced him to Bane, who had a strong dislike of Hardeen and was definitely not in for breaking Hardeen out as well and Eval had Hardeen brought back to his cell. Both Bane and Eval did not know that Hardeen was in fact Obi-Wan Kenobi in disguise only there to learn about Eval's plan.

Bane had paid fellow bounty hunter Boba Fett, who was in the prison as well, to start a riot as a diversion for him and Eval to escape. Fett was succesful and Eval and Bane escaped in the ensuing chaos. Hardeen followed them into the hallways and although Bane was not in for it, he reluctantly let Hardeen come along as Eval thought he might be of use. Bane's plan was to escape the facility via the mortuary, but the lock of the mortuary doors had been changed and Bane was unable to open them. Hardeen, actually Kenobi, told his comrades to stand guard while he would figure it out and secretly used the Force to open the lock. The three quickly climbed into the coffins meant to send the victims of the riot to the cremation centre. The clones in the cremation centre found out that the people in the coffins were still alive. The trio quickly climbed out of the coffins. One of the clones tried to shoot Bane, who used another clone to shield himself from the blast, before disarming and killing the clone that shot with his own gun. Hardeen disarmed the third clone, but hestitated to kill him. The clone triggered the alarm before Bane executed him. Bane angrily asked Hardeen why he didn't take the shot, but Hardeen claimed that his blaster jammed. The trio proceeded to make their way to a landing platform with Bane shooting more guards in the process. They stole a police speeder and used it to fly to the docks, where they stole a cargo ship from a Quarren pilot which they used to escape Coruscant. Once in the air Bane hit Hardeen in the face for hestitating to shoot the clone in the cremation centre. Eval, however, was most pleased that Hardeen had come along and considered to involve him in his plan again.

Trouble on Nal Hutta
"Relax. On this slime pool everybody's an outlaw."

- Cad Bane to his comrades while on Nal Hutta

Tournament on Serenno
"So, what kind of friendly little contest you think the count's got planned?" "I'd be surprised if we all survive"

- Rako Hardeen and Cad Bane about the tournament on Serenno

Moralo Eval, Rako Hardeen and Bane made it to Serenno, where they met Count Dooku. Both Bane and Hardeen demanded their payment, but instead Dooku asked them to take part in a special bounty hunter tournament that could gain them a much larger payment. The two reluctantly accepted with Bane suspecting that it would be a deadly contest and that not all participants would survive. Bane then spotted the hat of fellow contestant Bulduga and asked the bounty hunter how he got it. Bulduga responded by drawing his blaster pistol, but Bane was faster and shot Bulduga in the chest, killing him in front of his brother Onca. He then mockingly took Bulduga's hat and dropped his old hat on Bulduga's body. Shortly thereafter Dooku gathered the contestants for a briefing on the tournament.

Dooku introduced the other candidates: Kiera Swan, Derrown, Sixtat, Jakoli, Embo, Twazzi, Onca, Sinrich and Mantu. He then showed them "The Box", a floating cube like station that served as the tournament arena. He explained that five most skilled among the survivors would participate in a job that would pay very well, while any remaining survivors would be eliminated to protect this job. Eval proceeded to explain that The Box was designed by him to simulate some situations that might happen on the job and the bounty hunters had to hand in their weapons. They were then escorted to an elevator that led into The Box and the tournament started.

The contestants found themselves in a room and Eval appeared on a screen to mention that the only rule during the contest was that there were no rules. Thereafter a hole in the floor opened, releasing lethal Dioxis gas. Platforms started to rise from the ground to escape the gas. Bane kicked Mantu off a platform to get on it. When the platforms started to rise too much towards the ceiling the group found themselves between getting crushed by the ceiling and a layer of Dioxis below them. Hardeen deduced that the way out of the room wasn't in the ceiling but was somewhere in the floor. Hardeen found out that there was a hole in the floor that led to a tunnel below the gasline and to another room. Bane and the others followed Hardeen's example and survived the first test without casualties.

The tunnel led to a second room where Eval appeared on screen again and commented that the second test unlike the first would result in some casualties. Suddenly columns with electrified blades started to shove in and out the walls. Onca and Kiera Swan ended up impaled on the blades and Sinrich was killed by Embo. Hardeen discovered a pattern in the way the columns shoved in and out and noticed it led to a hole in the ceiling of the room. He showed Bane his discovery who told him to go to the hole. Bane and the others followed Hardeen in his climb and made it to the shaft in the ceiling that led to a third room.

Equipment
Cad Bane was widely known for wielding a pair of LL-30 blaster pistols.

Behind the scenes
Cad Bane was designed from unused concept art of a bounty hunter developed for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Bane also appeared in the "Star Wars Rebels" episode Fighter Flight in the form of graffiti on the Ghost.