Cade Skywalker

"You're a Skywalker, Cade! Act like one!"

- Kol Skywalker

Cade Skywalker was a bounty hunter, once the former Jedi Padawan of Wolf Sazen and later a pirate. He was the son of Kol Skywalker and a direct descendant of Anakin Skywalker (via Anakin's great-grandson, Ben).

Early days
The son of a powerful member of the Jedi Council, Cade was trained as a Jedi from an early age. Eventually he was apprenticed to his father's former apprentice Wolf Sazen.

Massacre at Ossus
As a fourteen-year-old Padawan 130 ABY, Cade was involved in the battle to defend the Jedi Praxeum on Ossus from the Sith. His master Wolf Sazen ordered Cade and Shado Vao to evacuate the planet in a Jedi Shuttle full of younglings. However, Cade desperately wanted to stay and fight with his father, Kol. He argued the point, but eventually obeyed his father and went to the shuttle.

Just after boarding the shuttle, Cade sensed that his master had been struck down, and that his father was now fighting the Sith alone. Much to Shado's dismay, Cade left the shuttle to fight by his father's side.

As soon as Cade joined Kol however, he was ordered to take Wolf back to the shuttle. Cade was devastated, but did as he was told. Aboard the shuttle which was now leaving Ossus, Wolf died in the arms of Cade. Cade could not accept that however, and resorted to using Force lightning to successfully revive his master.



At that point, Cade felt the death of his father. Overwhelmed with anger, Cade promised revenge on the Sith that had murdered Kol. Cade left the shuttle one final time in a X-83 TwinTail starfighter, to kill the Sith. He cleared a path for the shuttle, in an effort to allow its escape into hyperspace. Cade's fighter was shot down by a Predator-class fighter, though he managed to survive.

Sith attention
When Cade revived his master with Force lightning, Darth Krayt sensed a dark murmur in the Force, and recognized that it came from a Jedi, not a Sith. Krayt vowed to find this Jedi and lure him completely to the dark side.

Exile from the Order
Some years passed after the Massacre at Ossus, and Cade had abandoned the Jedi lifestyle. He hid both his last name and his Jedi ability from those who knew him, even his closest associates. Cade was captain of the Mynock, and was formerly apprenticed to the pirate Rav (who gave him his symbol, the Bloody Bones). The Mynock's crew included Deliah Blue, ship's mechanic, and co-pilot Jariah Syn. One of Cade's favorite haunts was Rik's Cantina on Coruscant, a notorious meeting place for various underworld denizens. Cade was also known to be a user of spice.

Cade, along with Syn and Deliah, were contracted by Rav to locate gambler Naxy Screeger on the planet Lok. After locating him, the group also came across a Jedi healer named Hosk Tre'lyis. Cade prevented Syn from killing the Jedi in order to make capture easier. The group left Lok with both Screeger and Tre'lyis in tow shortly after Deliah's attempt to capture Tre'lyis failed.

During the Sith-Imperial war, Cade began to rediscover his destiny as a Jedi and as a Skywalker, and began to fight the new Sith to save the galaxy.

Equipment
As a Jedi, he used a blue lightsaber as well as blasters.

In his pirate years, Cade also had a collection of antique and modified blasters, his favorite being the Rawk chopped special, a custom piece built for him by chief mechanic of the Selonian Shipyards, "Bantha" Rawk. His armor chest piece was Mandalorian in origin. He also wore trousers that resemble those worn by Darth Vader.



Behind the scenes

 * In early iterations of the Star Wars script, the character that became Luke Skywalker had the first name Kane. However, the name Cade also suggests Latin cadere, "to fall". This is the linguistic root of the English word "chance", and also of "cadence", meaning a rhythm like a marching beat, while in music a cadenza (the Italian form of "cadence") is also, specifically, a solo. A "cade" can also be an abandoned young animal raised as a pet.
 * In the image to the right, Cade is standing next to Jariah Syn who is using Han Solo's DL-44 heavy blaster pistol from A New Hope, while he himself wears the lower half of Darth Vader's armor, the upper half of armor similar to that of Boba Fett, and the same style of cloak/coat worn by Luke Skywalker and the clone Emperor in the Dark Empire series.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Legacy: Broken