Cad Bane/Legends

Cad Bane was a male Duros who rose to be the galaxy's deadliest bounty hunter during the Clone Wars. Born on the planet of Duro, he became the galaxy's best and most fearsome mercenary after fellow bounty hunter Jango Fett perished in the opening battle of the war. In 22 BBY, Bane was hired by the Dark Lord Darth Sidious to capture Jedi Master Ring-Sol Ambase on the planet Kynachi, a job that the bounty hunter successfully executed. The Duros also hijacked a dangerous weapon from the Skakoan assassin Kul Teska on Alzoc III, and Teska and the Jedi Order both attempted to retrieve the stolen cargo because of its value.

Later in the war, Bane was hired by the Hutts to break the Republic captive Ziro Desilijic Tiure out of prison on Coruscant. The bounty hunter formed a team of hunters to capture members of the Galactic Senate. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was forced to free Ziro, and after escaping, Bane disbanded his team of hunters. Once again under the employ of Darth Sidious, Bane stole a Jedi holocron from the Jedi Temple to activate the Kyber memory crystal, which contained information on Force-sensitive infants. After launching an attack on Devaron, the bounty hunter captured Jedi Master Bolla Ropal, the keeper of the Kyber crystal, who refused to help him open the holocron and instead preferred to die.

Bane and his loaned Trade Federation fleet were ambushed over Devaron by the Jedi Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano. Luring the Jedi onto his command frigate, the bounty hunter separated Skywalker and Tano and took the latter hostage, forcing Skywalker to unlock the holocron and make the crystal readable. Bane captured the infants listed in the memory crystal and brought them to a secret facility on Mustafar, where Sidious planned to alter them for his own purposes. At some point, the Duros was given the heavily modified Porax-38 starfighter Xanadu Blood by the Confederacy as partial payment for his work.

Bounty hunter
"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 was born on the planet of Duro during the last decades of the Galactic Republic. He 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, and cared 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 employer. Bane was in operation during the Clone Wars, and by the time Jango Fett&mdash;the bounty hunter considered to be the galaxy's best&mdash;perished in 22 BBY during 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. However, Bane had 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

In the first year of the war, while cleaning his blaster pistols in his shabby Coruscant apartment, Bane was holographically contacted by the Sith Lord Darth Sidious and hired to pursue a Jedi-led clone trooper squad, which was headed to investigate the origins of the recently destroyed Separatist warship Malevolence on the planet Kynachi. After arriving on the Trade Federation–controlled world, the Duros 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, reporting 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 the Jedi Padawan Nuru Kungurama. Complying with Darth Sidious's latest instructions, Bane proceeded to the diner to set up an elaborate staging of events and manipulate the group's actions. The Duros 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, the bounty hunter pretended that he had been blinded by a luma grenade, and was taken into the diner by trooper CT-5177, nicknamed "Chatterbox," and another trooper named "Knuckles." Bane chose to take the risk of revealing to Gunn, Kungurama, and the troopers that he was a bounty hunter in order to deceive them. The Duros 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, the Duros 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 the Duros had been given. The four returned to Gunn's transport, where Breaker and Kungurama were assembling the new droid. The unit was successfully reactivated and renamed "Cleaver," and Bane devised a risky plan to break into the prison and liberate the captives. With Kungurama, Gunn, the troopers, and the poncho-adorned Bane posing as prisoners and Cleaver as their droid captor, they were admitted into the prison.

The squad confronted Trade Federation Overseer Umbrag, but as Kungurama cornered the Skakoan, Umbrag inadvertently caused a battle droid to fire its E-5 blaster rifle. At the sound of blaster fire, Bane drew his pistols and began to shoot at the nearest battle droids, sparking the outburst of a chaotic firefight. With the others occupied with the battle, Bane was able to slip away and capture Master Ring-Sol Ambase, who had been previously captured by battle droids. The bounty hunter eventually returned to the prison with Ambase's lightsaber, meeting the Jedi and troopers, who had been reunited with the rest of their clone squad. The Duros continued to deceive the group, saying that he had been unsuccessful in finding his "quarry". Although the clone troopers did not trust Bane, the hunter gave Ambase's lightsaber to Kungurama, stating that it was all that he had found of the Jedi. 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 Master Ambase. The bounty hunter returned to his ship in the nearby Docking Bay 21 and brought Ambase's body onto the vessel. Departing the planet, the Duros used his pass codes to bypass several Republic Navy Star Destroyers that had arrived in orbit of the remote world. After escaping the cruisers and activating his ship's automated pilot mode, Bane returned to the vessel's main cabin and contacted Darth Sidious. The Sith Lord was pleased to learn of the bounty hunter's successful mission, telling the Duros to deliver the Jedi to the fifth moon of the Bogden system before severing the connection.

Cargo thief
After Bane inadvertently hijacked a dangerous weapon on Alzoc III from the Skakoan assassin Kul Teska, both Teska and the Jedi went to retrieve the stolen cargo because of its importance and value.

Raid on the Senate
Bane was later hired by the Hutts to free crime lord Ziro Desilijic Tiure, who had been arrested earlier in the war for crimes against the Republic and incarcerated in the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center. Instead of opting for a straightfoward prison break, however, the Duros decided to force the Republic into freeing Ziro by taking hostages. To do so, he would need a group of skilled bounty hunters, and assembled a team consisting of the Jedi hunter Aurra Sing, the Weequay mercenary Shahan Alama, and the Patrolian slicer Robonino. The team was backed up by two Separatist BX-series droid commandos and a number of IG-86 sentinel droids.

As the organic members of Bane's posse usually worked alone, Bane decided to arrange a test for his comrades to ensure that they could work together as a team. Bane lured fellow bounty hunter Davtokk to the planet of Keyorin under the pretense that Bane was holding a recruitment drive. Bane knew that Davtokk intended to kill him and collect the bounty on his head, and assembled a life-size mannequin of himself from a scrapped battle droid to fool the bounty hunter. After arriving on the planet and entering the safehouse with directions from Bane's techno-service droid, Todo 360, Davtokk fired upon the mannequin, assuming it to be Bane. The Duros watched the events unfold as his comrades 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. Pointing one of his blaster pistols at Davtokk's head, Bane killed the incapacitated mercenary. Heading to Coruscant, Bane took his team to raid the Galactic Senate, planning to take senators hostage in order to force Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to release Ziro the Hutt. After Bane, Alama, a sentinel droid, and two droid commandos landed at the Republic Executive Building in an airspeeder, a squad of Senate Commando guards confronted the approaching Bane. The Duros commented on their hastiness, and before the guards could arrest Bane, Sing used a sniper rifle to kill most of the guards from a long-range post. Bane personally eliminated the Senate Commando captain, Jayfon, by tackling him and snapping his neck.

With the guards eliminated, Bane signaled to Sing, Robonino, and the other hunters that the coast was clear. The bounty hunters arrived at the building with several more sentinel droids. Leaving the droid commandos outside to clear the platform and stand guard, the team entered the headquarters of the Senate. After eliminating the Senate Commando posted at the Executive Building's power control room, as well as several droids inside, Bane left Robonino to shut off the power before heading for the building's atrium with the rest of his team. Along the way to "meet" the senators, Bane&mdash;having planning his infiltration of the Executive Building during Senate Guard shifts&mdash;eliminated most of the active Senate security by tossing a primed thermal detonator into the guards' barracks when two shifts were assembled there. Entering the atrium, Bane caught the attention of the senators discussing a piece of Senate legislation by firing several blaster shots. The bounty hunters surrounded the senators, and when Senator Philo objected to being taken hostage&mdash;walking away while refusing to "listen to insolence"&mdash;Bane shot him in the back.

The Duros ordered the senators to turn over their communication devices before contacting Supreme Chancellor Palpatine in his office via a holotransmission, Bane stated that the senator hostages would be freed if Ziro the Hutt were to be released from prison. After Palpatine objected, Robonino shut off the power, trapping Palpatine and Senator Orn Free Taa in the office and compromising all external communications. As the bounty hunters collected the senators' transmission devices, Bane came across Senator Padmé Amidala. While speaking with her, Bane noticed Amidala glance at something behind him, and the bounty hunter turned around and recognized Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker surveying them from an upper level window. Bane fired at the man, and Skywalker fled, prompting the Duros to order Alama and an IG-86 sentinel droid after the Jedi.

Alama returned without the droid, and reported that while it had been destroyed by Skywalker, an examination of the droid's remains showed that the Jedi Knight did not have his lightsaber. Bane dispatched Sing with Alama to find and bring the Jedi back to him. The Duros contacted Palpatine once more and told the Chancellor to make a pardon disc. Senator Taa would be picked up by Bane's airspeeder and taken to deliver the disc to the prison. Taa reluctantly obeyed, and the sentinel droid HELIOS-3D took the senator to the Detention Center. Sing and Alama then returned to the atrium with Robonino and an unconscious, handcuffed Skywalker, and the Duros taunted the knocked-out Jedi Knight before ordering him to be tossed in with the rest of the hostages. Meanwhile, 3D collected the Hutt and went back to the Executive Building, while Taa stayed at the prison in the safety of the Coruscant Guard. Preparing to leave, Bane ordered the rest of his team to set up their "parting gifts" around the senators&mdash;a laser web that would activate explosives upon the slightest touch.

Wishing the senators and Jedi a "most respectful farewell," Bane left the building with his comrades. Upon the team's arrival outside on the landing platform, two LAAT/i gunships landed, and clone troopers of the Coruscant Guard piled out. The troopers confronted the group of bounty hunters, blocking their escape, and Palpatine contacted Bane. The Chancellor ordered the Duros to surrender, but Bane him of the trapped senators, and Palpatine reluctantly relinquished his attempts to apprehend the bounty hunter. Bane's airspeeder arrived, driven by 3D and hauling Ziro in a rear transport. With the lives of the senators still at risk, the Coruscant Guard clones allowed the team of mercenaries to escape. After they were a safe distance away, Bane remotely activated the explosives as payback for the indignities Ziro had suffered in prison.

Skywalker, in the meantime, had recovered, and began to cut a hole in the floor around himself and the senators. Just as the explosives went off, the Jedi and the senators dropped into the room below. As Ziro congratulated Bane on a "job well done," Bane demanded his pay from the Hutt, as he did not work for free. After they had escaped, Bane transferred the rewards for the mission appropriately into the accounts of his accomplices, although Alama did not believe that the Duros had transferred all of the credits. Bane ordered Alama, Sing, and Robonino to "bury their prides" and flee separately to hide from the Republic, stating that it would not do to get captured. The bounty hunters complied, and Bane himself was able to evade apprehension by the Jedi Order. However, his actions made him a wanted individual, and a five-hundred thousand credit bounty was placed on his head for his "crimes against the Republic."

Work for Darth Sidious
"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. We don't have much time. Hurry it up, Jedi, or she dies!"

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

Later, while in his apartment in one of the Coruscant Underworld's seedy hotels, Bane was personally contacted by Darth Sidious, who hired the Duros to steal a holocron from the Jedi Temple's Archives. Sidious was after the Kyber memory crystal, a list of Force-sensitive children in possession of Rodian Jedi Master Bolla Ropal that could be read by a Jedi holocron. Bane initially believed infiltrating the Temple to be impossible, but after the Sith Lord put that the bounty hunter's reputation into question, the hunter agreed to the job, requesting an elite starfighter and triple his usual rate. Sidious provided Bane with schematics of the Temple that would allow him to infiltrate the facility. Preparing for the operation, the Duros recruited the shapeshifting Clawdite bounty hunter Cato Parasitti, whom he frequently worked with. Bane also used his techno-service droid, Todo 360, but implanted an explosive device in his droid and lied, stating that it was a memory chip that had been provided by Sidious. While Bane was examining the Sith Lord's intelligence on Master Ropal, Parasitti arrived in the bounty hunter's quarters, and the Duros briefed the Clawdite on the mission. Parasitti took the form of the late Jedi Master Ord Enisence&mdash;whose lifeless body had been brought to Bane's room&mdash;to gain access to the Jedi Archives' security systems, and Bane gave her an ear-comlink so that they could maintain contact.

Bane and Todo used their rocket boots to get to an unattended overhang on 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. Bypassing the shield and entering a ventilation shaft, Bane and his droid made their way into a wide, vertical passage that was being blocked by a set of large, active fans. Parasitti pointed the techno-service droid to the fans' controls, but once the Duros and Todo had passed between the blades of one of the fans, the droid accidentally reactivated it from a laser beam trigger. Before the two could be sucked into the fan's blades, Parasitti disabled the fan, saving both Bane and his droid. The pair arrived at a vent shaft directly overlooking the high-security holocron vault. Hearing the sound of the Jedi searching for them, Bane impatiently waited as the Clawdite deactivated the vault's laser sensor system from her terminal in the Archive Library. As the bounty hunter cut through the safe's lock, he directed Todo to cut a passage to the Temple's communications center, intending to have his droid lure the Jedi away from the vault.

Parasitti, meanwhile, was captured by Anakin Skywalker's Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, and revealed Bane's mission. Having lost contact with his inside agent, the Duros was unable to access the diagrams that would help him deactivate the lock. Bane ordered Todo to the communications center before priming a bomb of the same model that he had installed in his droid to break through the vault's lock. Hiding from the approaching Jedi&mdash;Skywalker and Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, who had been tipped off by Tano on the bounty hunter's target&mdash;Bane detonated his explosive. The hunter waited till the two had passed before emerging from the shadows and heaving open the door to the safe. Entering the vault and extracting the holocron from its holding place, Bane donned a Jedi robe and sneaked away. Despite catching sight of a bound Parasitti being led away by Tano and Jedi librarian Jocasta Nu, Bane did not attempt to rescue her and headed away in the other direction. The hunter escaped without either of his accomplices, leaving Todo to be destroyed in the communication center by the explosive that he had planted in the droid earlier.

With hired assistance from Aurra Sing, Bane took a fleet of Munificent-class frigates and C-9979 landing craft and mounted an a surprise attack on the planet Devaron, where Master Ropal commanded a Republic base. Initiating a ground assault on the planet, Bane contacted Sing's battle droid squad, codenamed "Nashtah Team," and she reported that she was on the western end of the valley where the outpost was located. Even though Sing spotted Ropal, the Duros ordered her not to shoot the Rodian, who was in fact his target. Instead, Bane told her to distract the Rodian's Zabrak Padawan, Tyzen Xebec, and several clones that had just arrived, while he himself moved in to capture Ropal. Bane took the Rodian Jedi Master hostage and recovered the Kyber crystal. The bounty hunter then rendezvoused with a Trade Federation escort of Munificent-class frigates&mdash;which had been dispatched as reinforcements by Viceroy Nute Gunray at Darth Sidious's request&mdash;in the space over the planet.

Bane and his fleet were ambushed over Devaron by Skywalker's flagship, the Star Destroyer Resolute. Ordering his battle droid crew to prepare the ship to jump to hyperspace, Bane went to ask a "small favor" of the imprisoned Ropal in one of the frigate's holding cells. However, the Resolute targeted the vessel's hyperdrive and destroyed the ship's power converters, trapping the bounty hunter in the system. Though Bane tortured Ropal with electrical charges, the Jedi Master refused to assist him in unlocking the crystal. Having no more use for an uncooperative prisoner, Bane ordered his droids to intensify Ropal's electrocution to full power, killing the Rodian Jedi. On the bridge, the Duros was contacted by an upset Gunray, who was angered that four of his loaned ships had been destroyed. Bane remained unconcerned about the lost ships; he knew that the information in the memory crystal was worth much to Sidious and believed that the Sith Lord would compensate Gunray's expenses.

As Skywalker and Tano landed on the dorsal hull of the bounty hunter's frigate aboard All Terrain Tactical Enforcers, Bane refused to send more Vulture droid reinforcements, to the surprise of both his battle droid crew and Viceroy Gunray. The Duros planned to let the Jedi board his ship in order to get one of them to unlock the crystal with the holocron. Bane ended his conversation with Gunray before giving orders to his droid crew, telling them to wipe the frigate's memory, activate the ship's self-destruct mode, and transfer complete control of all shipboard functions to his wrist-com. Leaving his battle droids to defend the bridge, the bounty hunter escaped through a ventilation duct moments before Skywalker, Tano, Clone Captain CC-7567, and their clone trooper squad arrived on the bridge. On the frigate's gunnery deck, Bane assembled his B1 and B2 battle droids, intending to have the droids fight the clones while he himself separated the Jedi. The Duros lured the Jedi and clones&mdash;who had found the late Master Ropal in his holding cell&mdash;to the gunnery deck, where the gunfight that the hunter had planned erupted.

After securing himself to the floor with his magno-grip boots, Bane disabled the artificial gravity. The bounty hunter targeted his blaster fire at Skywalker, who made it past the Duros. Bane narrowly avoided the Jedi's lightsaber slash before opening fire on the clones. As Bane shot and killed several troopers, Skywalker surprised the Duros from behind, delivering a kick that knocked the holocron out of the hunter's grip. As the Jedi was about to grab the holocron, the astromech droid R2-D2 reactivated the gravity, causing everyone to plummet to the floor. Bane retrieved the holocron and shot at a trooper magnetized still 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 her Master, the bounty hunter cut her off from Skywalker by closing the hallway's blast doors behind her. Bane fired a laser shot at the Padawan, which she easily deflected at one of his gauntlets. The Duros ducked around Tano and spun through the air, knocking her lightsaber out of her hand. As the bounty hunter took aim at her, however, 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, Bane reached out and grabbed the Padawan's ankle, sending a paralyzing stun charge through her body that knocked her unconscious. The Duros picked up the holocron and took Tano's Padawan braid jewelry from her has a trophy. As the two exchanged banter, Bane electrocuted Tano to increase Skywalker's sense of urgency. The bounty hunter placed his Jedi hostage inside the airlock, using her as a bargaining chip once Skywalker arrived. Flanked by two super battle droids, Bane was prepared to open the airlock and send Tano out into the vacuum of space if Skywalker refused to unlock the memory crystal. With his Padawan's life at risk, Skywalker handed over his lightsaber and used the Force to take apart the holocron; he combined it with the crystal, making it readable. After Bane had taken the holocron, Skywalker called Tano's lightsaber and his own weapon into his hands, making quick work of the bounty hunter's super battle droid bodyguards. In retaliation, Bane opened the airlock, keeping the two Jedi occupied while he made his escape.

The bounty hunter made contact with Gunray and informed the viceroy of his success with opening the holocron. Though the viceroy offered to send an escape vessel in exchange for the transmission of the holocron data, Bane remained too cagey to give into Gunray's requests. With his own plans for escape, the Duros made his way to his crumbling frigate's hangar bay, where he was confronted by troopers Denal and Koho. As Skywalker and Tano prepared to flee the doomed frigate with the clones aboard a Sheathipede-class transport shuttle, they witnessed Denal shoot Bane on one of the hangar's upper decks. The bounty hunter dropped to the floor, appearing to be "lifeless." The Jedi and troopers escaped and returned to the Resolute shortly before the Munificent-class frigate vaporized. Although the bounty hunter was believed to be dead, Skywalker could still sense Bane's persona in the Force. Bane was eventually able to retrieve the infants listed in the memory crystal and took them to a secret facility on the remote planet of Mustafar, where Darth Sidious planned to surgically alter them and create a corps of Force-using spies.

At some point, Bane was given the Xanadu Blood&mdash;a heavily modified and well-equipped Porax-38 starfighter&mdash;by the Confederacy as partial payment for his work on its behalf.

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 and would often turn upon the very people who hired him 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, the Duros could not be stopped, and would track his quarry to the ends of the galaxy if necessary; nothing was more important to Bane than credits. He was capable in both blaster and close combat, but preferred stealth and surprise tactics instead of a direct fight when the possibility arose.

The Duros 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. 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 himself, operating alone gave him the freedom to improvise and more credits that did not have to be shared with others. After his team of hunters had freed Ziro, the Duros cared little what happened to his accomplices as long as they hid from the Republic. Furthermore, Bane did not attempt to rescue his comrade, Cato Parasitti, when she was captured by the Jedi. Rather, he ignored her and escaped on his own to continue his work for Darth Sidious.

Bane's methods of choosing comrades for joint operations and his introduction into the bounty business remained obscure to the galaxy, and he preferred to keep it that way. He knew that Davtokk intended to execute him for the bounty on his head, and used this to his advantage, luring Davtokk to Keyorin to serve as a test for his team. Undaunted by individuals of higher authority, he remained unswayed with both the Senate Commandos' attempt to arrest him and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's threats of retribution. Indeed, the Duros even welcomed the opportunity to test his abilities against the "legendary prowess" of the Jedi Knights. He did not let personal feelings get in the way of his jobs, but would have enjoyed to take down the likes of Jedi Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

The bounty hunter was able to deceive Kungurama, Gunn, and the clone troopers while on Kynachi, though the troopers eventually came to mistrust the Duros. A talented actor and a cold but clever strategist, Bane was also 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. He was aware of the risk he took in doing so, but also knew that it was easier to deceive someone by telling most of the truth than a complete lie. 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 the bounty hunter's services for infiltrating the Jedi Temple, Bane believed the job to be impossible and foolhardy, but immediately agreed to the job&mdash;requesting triple his normal rate&mdash;when Darth Sidious suggested that the Duros's reputation had been exaggerated.

Bane took cold pleasure in striking fear through his quarries, as evidenced by his treatment of the senators. When Senator Philo attempted to leave while refusing to listen to Bane's "insolence," the Duros killed the senator without a second thought and showed the other senators that he meant business. Bolla Ropal refusal to help Bane open the holocron prompted the bounty hunter to intensify the Rodian's torture, ultimately killing the Jedi Master. Bane deemed the Jedi's sacrifice foolish and had little regard for Ropal's life, walking away from the murder scene without a backward glance. The Duros did not take prisoners, and intended for his senator hostages to be killed even after he had gone through negotiations with the Chancellor for their release in exchange for Ziro's liberation.

Equipment
Bane's impressive arsenal of weapons and tools insured that he would be well-prepared for any situation that might arise. The Duros carried a set of personalized twin blaster pistols that were customized from the BlasTech-engineered LL-30 model, and had quick-draw holsters to hold them at his waist. He also kept explosives and a concealed bola as extra weapons. He had cybernetic breathing tubes that were imbedded in his cheekbones; they were directly connected to his windpipe, allowing him to work freely in the harshest atmospheres without requiring additional protection or oxygen. 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. He often wore a wide-brimmed hat and a tunic made from Nashtah hide.

The bounty hunter 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 and make his own escape. The Duros also owned the Xanadu Blood, a modified starfighter that was given to him by the Separatists.

Behind the scenes


The character of Cad Bane was created for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series and 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. The Duros also appeared in Hunting the Hunters, Part I, the first in a series of 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. Making appearances throughout the ongoing Season Two, Bane will be featured in a multi-part story arc, and is also to be an unlockable playable character in the upcoming multi-platform game 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, and used Bane's already established Western American influences to voice the Duros mercenary 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 introducing the Gen'Dai mercenary Durge as the series' first bounty hunter, and the character was reimagined 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, which additional expansion by Lead Designer Kilian Plunkett to incorporate the Duros species' features. The character's name was eventually changed to "Cad Bane."

Some first season publicity materials mistakenly implied that Darth Sidious and the Separatists had hired Bane to free Ziro the Hutt from prison, but the Hutts were later verified in Bane's Databank entry to have been the ones that gave him the assignment.

Bane was given his own entry in the Star Wars Soundboard.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Forces of Darkness
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars Secret Missions 1: Breakout Squad
 * The Clone Wars: Invitation Only
 * The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part 1)
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