User:Jedi Kasra/First Project

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

- Kol Skywalker

Cade Skywalker was a Human male who was a former Jedi Padawan, who later became a bounty hunter and a pirate. He was the son of the Jedi Master Kol Skywalker and Nyna Calixte, who was going under the guise of an Imperial spy named "Morrigan Corde", as well as a direct descendant of Anakin and Luke Skywalker. He was also the nephew of Nat Skywalker, who was going by the alias "Bantha" Rawk, and his wife, Droo. Cade was the stepcousin of their children Ahnah, Skeeto, and Micah.

Cade trained briefly under the Jedi Knight Wolf Sazen, who was his father's former Padawan, before the devastating events of the massacre at the Jedi Praxeum on Ossus after the end of the war between the Galactic Alliance and the Fel Empire. His father, who ordered Cade and his friend and fellow Padawan Shado Vao to escape Ossus with a shuttle of Jedi younglings, was brutally slain by the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Krayt's Sith forces. After he used the Force to revive Sazen, who had been killed by Krayt's Fist Darth Nihl, he left the shuttle in a starfighter in an attempt to go back and kill the Sith that murdered his father. However, he was shot down by a Imperial fighter, and managed to survive by sealing his flight suit and jettisoning as his ship was destroyed.

Three days after the slaughter at Ossus, the Feeorin pirate Rav and his crew found Cade floating in the debris. His future crewman and friend Jariah Syn convinced Rav that Cade was not a Jedi, saving his life. He joined Rav's crew, abandoning the use of his surname to avoid any connection to his heritage. Cade eventually became a bounty hunter, flying a light freighter called the Mynock along with Syn and the Zeltron female Deliah Blue, who was his on-and-off lover. Seven years after the massacre, Cade

Early life and Jedi training
"Listen to the Force, Cade. A Jedi's first concern is to preserve life."

- Kol Skywalker

Cade Skywalker, a human male, was the son of the Jedi Master Kol Skywalker &mdash;a powerful member of the Jedi Council &mdash;and Morrigan Corde, an spy for the Galactic Empire run by Emperor Roan Fel. However, Corde, who had married Kol, left him and Cade, telling Kol that they had different paths to follow, and that she thought Cade was better off going with him to Ossus. From an early age, he was trained as a Jedi by various teachers, including the Whiphid Jedi Master K'Kruhk, who had served during the Clone Wars. He eventually came under the tutelage of his father's former Padawan, the Zabrak Jedi Wolf Sazen.

Cade spent some of his childhood at the New Jedi Temple on the galactic capital of Coruscant, where he explored the secrets of its foundations and the outer city with the young Twi'lek Jedi Shado Vao. He believed that his father was unaware of this, despite the fact that he and Vao once fell asleep at the midday meal. On Ossus, he became close to fellow Padawan Azlyn Rae, once kissing her on the cheek.

Massacre at Ossus
"I will not let you go, Master!"

- Cade using the Force to revive Wolf Sazen.



In 130 ABY, at the end of the war between the Galactic Alliance and the Galactic Empire, 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 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 Vao's dismay, Cade left the shuttle to fight by his father's side. As soon as he joined Kol however, he was ordered to take Sazen back to the shuttle. Cade was devastated, but did as he was told. Aboard the shuttle which was now leaving Ossus, Sazen died in Cade's arms. He could not accept that however, and focused his anger to the point where he used the Force to successfully revive his Master.



At that point, Cade felt the death of his father. Overwhelmed with anger, he promised revenge on Darth Nihl, the Nagai Sith that had murdered Kol. Cade left the shuttle one final time in a X-83 TwinTail starfighter, in an attempt to kill the Sith. He cleared a path for the shuttle so that it could escape into hyperspace. Cade's fighter was shot down by a Predator-class fighter, though he managed to survive by sealing his flight suit and jettisoning just as his ship exploded. Withdrawing from the Force so the Sith wouldn't sense his presence, he fell into deep meditation in order to conserve oxygen. He awoke three days after the massacre, and the pirate Rav found Cade floating in the debris around the planet. It was his future crewman Jariah Syn who convinced Rav to rescue Cade. Soon after, he apprenticed himself to Rav and joined his crew. When Cade revived his Master with an unknown Force power, Darth Krayt, who was the leader of the One Sith, sensed a dark murmur in the Force, recognizing that it came from a Jedi. Krayt vowed to find this Jedi and lure him completely to the dark side, calling him a dark light in the Force.

Exile
"Why do you use those deathsticks?" "They keep you away."

- Luke Skywalker's Force ghost and Cade

Some years passed after the massacre at Ossus, and Cade had freed himself from Rav's debt, becoming the captain of a light freighter called the Mynock, whose crew included the Zeltron Deliah Blue, a former party girl and the ship's mechanic, and Jariah Syn, his longtime friend and co-pilot. He hid both his surname and his Jedi abilities from everyone who knew him, especially his crew mates. One of Cade and his crew's favorite haunts during this time was Rik's Cantina on Coruscant, a meeting place for various underworld denizens.



In the year 137 ABY, the crew of Mynock was contracted by Rav to locate bond-skipper Naxy Screeger on the planet Lok. After locating Screeger, the group also came across a Bothan Jedi healer named Hosk Trey'lis. Cade prevented Syn from killing the Jedi, seemingly because Jedi were worth more alive than dead. The group left Lok with both Screeger and Trey'lis in tow. After turning in their bounties on Socorro, Rav paid them in death sticks, which, though pleasing Cade, enraged Syn and Blue. Around this time Cade was being haunted by the Force ghost of his ancestor Luke Skywalker, who was pleading for Cade to return to his Jedi legacy. However, Cade was growing increasingly agitated with these visitations, using death sticks to block them out, and even going so far as threatening to end his own life.

As the Mynock's crew prepared for liftoff from Socorro, they were approached by the Imperial Princess Marasiah Fel and the Imperial missionary Astraal Vao, who were being pursued by the Twi'lek Sith Lord Darth Talon. Princess Fel demanded passage to the planet Vendaxa, attempting a mind trick on Cade. However, because he was a Jedi, he was resistant to her Force powers. When he saw the Twi'lek Sith, he initiated emergency take-off procedures, and set a course towards Vendaxa. He intended on delivering the Princess Fel to her father, Emperor Roan Fel so that he could get paid, and then sell the both of them to the Empire, earning enough credits to be out of Rav's debt.

Reunion on Vendaxa
"Ah, shut up and kill something!"

- Cade Skywalker to Jariah Syn while being attacked by Darth Talon

Astraal Vao, having pre-arranged a rendezvous with her brother Shado if ever they were in trouble, guided the crew of Mynock and Princess Fel to the crash site, where Shado and Astraal's parents died. There, they came under attack from an acklay, and only the timely arrival of her brother and Wolf Sazen saved Astraal from being impaled by the acklay's fore-claw. With the immediate danger over, Princess Fel set about arranging safe passage with the two Jedi, revealing that she knew of the Mynock crew's intention to turn her in for the bounty on her head. Not wanting to be recognized by his former Master, Cade stayed in the shadows and did not argue with Princess Fel. However, Syn called him on his wanting to cut his losses, using Cade's name as he did so, which attracted the attention of the two Jedi. Turning to face the Jedi, he calmly stared down his former Master and admitted his name was Cade. If Sazen gave no indication that he recognized his former student, instead electing to direct Princess Fel to where he and Vao had secreted their own ship. A sudden explosion signaled that ship's destruction, however, and that was quickly followed by an attack from Darth Talon, who used the dark side to provoke a number of native fauna into attacking alongside her. Talon singled out Sazen and brought him down with Force lightning, intending to kill him, but Princess Fel intervened, hoping for revenge for the death of her Master, Imperial Knight Elke Vetter. Princess Fel was no match for the Sith, and Talon swatted her away with the Force. Wrapped in Force lightning, Sazen was still able to ask Cade to take Princess Fel to safety, but the captain of Mynock only stood by numbly, his mind flashing back to when the Sith attacked Ossus.

Snapping back to the present with an expletive, Cade unloaded both barrels of his Rawk chopped special at the Sith. Both Blue and Syn joined him, with Syn declaring that they'd all gone insane; Blue told Syn that it was a "good" insane. Talon easily deflected their blasts, disarming the three with a wave of her hand. Talon then advanced upon them, her lightsaber at the ready. With an angry cry, Cade used the Force to lift some nearby wreckage and hurled it at Talon, sending her into the nearby forest. Retrieving his blaster, Cade calmly directed the stunned onlookers to head for Mynock. However, they soon discovered that Talon had sabotaged the ship, forcing them to remain on Vendaxa until repairs could be made. Meanwhile, Talon remained hidden in the shadows nearby. After the battle, Cade had a conversation with his former Master, telling him that he wasted years looking for a man that didn't exist. That was followed by an argument with his friends, with Syn pulling a blaster on him. Princess Fel approached him, saying that she knew he was a Skywalker, and went on to say how she wished could disappear from her destiny. But she also told him that she would not run away from her responsibilities.

The Imperial Knights Antares Draco and Ganner Kreig arrived, but they were shot down by the Sith. They survived the crash, and the battle with the Sith began. Cade rushed to battle with his blaster, telling Syn and Blue to lift off. When Cade entered the battlefield, he was flooded with the memories of the massacre at Ossus. He was so dazed that he did not see a Sith approaching from behind. It was Princess Fel that saw the Sith and charged at him, cutting down the Sith and saving Cade's life, but not without injury. When Cade, holding her injured form in his arms, asked her why she did it, she told him that she had to make it right, even if it was only one life, and fell silent. Cade called her lightsaber to him using the Force and ignited it, ignoring his oath to never pick up a lightsaber again, and proclaimed that he had enough. Cade then attacked Darth Nihl, during the fight, Cade told Nihl he saw him kill his father at Ossus, and Nihl replied that he had killed many Jedi that day, and that his father might have been one. Cade shouted that his father was Kol Skywalker, and began to use his rage against Nihl, despite warnings from Sazen. Syn entered the fight and hit the Sith with a blaster bolt, but promptly got pushed away. Afterwards, Cade kicked Nihl off a cliff, and got everyone on board the Mynock. While aboard the ship, Cade heard that Princess Fel was dying. When Cade said he could help her, Antares Draco attacked him, blaming him for the condition she was in. Draco eventually stood down and let Cade help her, and he healed her with the same Force technique he used to heal Wolf Sazen seven years earlier.

Vendaxa aftermath and further Jedi training
"Kark this 'destiny' sludge. I make my own way!"

- Cade to Darth Vader's Force ghost



After the group arrived on the Imperial planet of Bastion, which had been recaptured by the Emperor-in-exile Roan Fel's forces, Cade slipped away and left Blue and Syn on their own, stating to Sazen that he couldn't trust Syn anymore. Cade then offered a ride to Sazen and Vao, but told them to not get any ideas regarding him rejoining the Jedi Order. He later found out that Emperor Fel had placed five homing beacons on the Mynock, who was wary of Krayt finding him. He expected Skywalker to find one or two, but Cade managed disabled all of them.

Later, Cade, Sazen, and Vao traveled to a space station called The Wheel. Unknowingly, Cade was being pursued by numerous agents of Krayt's faction of the Galactic Empire, including his mother, Morrigan Corde–an undercover Imperial agent who had been reactivated by Moff Nyna Calixte–and Jor Tolin, who accompanied Corde. The two Imperial agents suspected he was either going to Hapes, which was neutral during the Sith-Imperial War, or Ossus. But Corde decided to stop hunting her son, so when they landed on Ossus, she killed Tolin. Cade proceeded to the ruins of the Ossus Jedi Praxeum, where, after ingesting several death sticks, he had visions of his ancestors Mara Jade and Anakin Skywalker, who then transformed into Darth Vader, and warned him of the perils of falling to the dark side. He was then found by the Whiphid Jedi Master K'Kruhk, a former teacher of Cade's, who healed his mental trauma. After Sazen and Vao arrived, Cade asked Sazen to complete his training. Sazen accepted, and Cade began his training again under the tutelage of both Sazen and K'Kruhk. During a sparring session with Vao, they both fell into a repository of priceless Jedi artifacts, whereupon they were attacked by two Yuuzhan Vong warriors named Liaan Lah and Choka Skell.



The Yuuzhan Vong Master Shaper Nei Rin ordered both Lah and Skell to cease their attack on the two Jedi. Rin, once a friend of Kol Skywalker and the leader of the terraforming project on Ossus, revealed herself as the keeper of the Jedi artifacts left on Ossus after the massacre, and claimed that Cade should become their keeper. Cade refused, and after being confronted by Master Sazen about his fears, was once more visited by his ancestor, Luke Skywalker, who told him to fix his mistake of turning in fellow Jedi Hosk Trey'lis by rescuing him on Coruscant. As Cade prepared to leave for Coruscant, Rin gave him his father's lightsaber, and K'Kruhk gave him the droid R2-D2&mdash;who had served the Skywalker family for generations&mdash;to serve aboard the Mynock.

In the Claws of the Dragon
"How do you like me now schutta?!"

- Cade to Darth Talon

Cade's approach to Coruscant was detected by both Imperial forces and Darth Krayt himself, but Cade was able to elude the Skull Squadron and hide in the depths of the Coruscant Underworld. Leaving R2-D2 in charge of the Mynock, Cade walked towards Rik's Cantina, blasting a would-be mugger and scaring off his cronies in the process. At the cantina, Cade encountered two old friends, the Wookiee Chak and the Devaronian Kee, who asked where Chak's ship, the Grinning Liar, was. Cade said had no clue where Syn and Blue had taken Chak's ship, and his impertinence offended the Wookiee, but amused the owner of the establishment, Queen Jool the Hutt. He left the access codes to his ship with her in case he did not return, instructing her to turn them over to his former crew mates if they showed up.

Cade entered the Temple of the Sith using secret routes that he discovered when he lived there, and found Hosk Trey'lis manacled to a wall inside the structure by reaching with his Force senses. When he released Trey'lis, the Bothan attempted to warn him that he had given in and betrayed his would-be rescuer, but Cade would have none of it, retorting that no one died for him. As they made their way out, they were ambushed by Darth Talon, who waited for them by a long causeway. She subdued Hosk with a Force push, but enraged Cade by telling him he and his quarry were both wanted alive. Cade's eyes shifted, signifying his enthrallment by the dark side, and he overpowered the Twi'lek Sith. His victory faded fast, as Darth Nihl suddenly appeared, using the Force to choked him into submission. Nihl went on to inform Krayt of his victory. Meanwhile on Ossus, during his meditations, Wolf Sazen received a vision of Cade turning toward him, with his face half in shadow, and the dark side gleaming in his eyes.

Encounter with Darth Krayt
"What do you know about the Jedi&mdash;besides wanting them all exterminated?"

- Cade to Darth Krayt

Following his capture, Cade was tortured by the Devaronian Sith Darth Maladi, who used a lethal dose of ixetal cilona&mdash;a chamical that was used to make deathsticks&mdash;though the poison had no effect due to Cade's past usage of deathsticks and powerful Force abilities, boosting his immunity to it. Darth Krayt acknowledged that Cade had more power than he had ever seen in any Jedi. Krayt wanted Cade to join him, but Cade refused the offer from his father's true murderer. Krayt had imprisoned Syn and Blue, and while they were in the Sith's hands, Maladi implanted Yuuzhan Vong Yorik-Kul coral seeds into them. She then used Force lightning on them, which mutated their bodies. Cade had no option but to help both of his friends by using his anger to cure them. Krayt invited Cade with Talon and his most loyal Sith adviser, Darth Wyyrlok, to his chambers. There, Krayt surprised Cade by showing him his father's lightsaber encased in transparisteel, giving Cade's father a place of honor. Cade was further surprised when Krayt revealed his knowledge about the Jedi and his former identity of A'Sharad Hett, another Jedi Master that served during the Clone Wars.



Krayt then recited the story of his duel on his homworld of Tatooine against the Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi&mdash;who mentored Cade's ancestors Anakin and Luke Skywalker&mdash;near the Lars homestead, and how he was cast out of both Tusken and Jedi society. After finishing his story, Krayt found Cade to be barely moved. Talon then attacked Cade after he mocked Krayt, and she was nearly killed when he used the Force to slam her in a pillar, and then use his healing ability to re-open her recently healed wounds. Krayt, however, prevented this and asked Cade that he allow the Dark Lord to focus his anger into strength through the Sith teachings. Cade agreed, and was then ordered to heal Darth Talon, as she would become his Sith Master. During his Sith training, Cade developed an intimate relationship with Talon, as well as a deep bond that was created when he healed her. After they slept together, Talon informed Krayt that he was just pretending to be a Sith. Regardless, Krayt was sure that he would fall to their side permanently. The next day, to ensure his fall, Krayt placed Cade in the Embrace of Pain&mdash;a Yuuzhan Vong torture device&mdash;while he continued to tell him about his own fall to the dark side. Cade was able to free himself and tried to escape the Temple, but was caught by Talon. He was taken back to Krayt, where he was ordered to kill Hosk Trey'lis or die. After Cade refused to kill the Bothan Jedi, Krayt then killed Trey'lis himself, evoking Cade's anger. But Cade then received a vision of his father, telling him that which can heal can also break. Using his power, Cade shattered the transparisteel case containing his father's lightsaber, and stabbed Talon through the stomach as she tried to attack him. When he engaged Nihl in a lightsaber duel, he drew on his anger, and his eyes changed to the sulfuric red they had been once before.

Cade bested Nihl by severing his arm and throwing him against a wall, finally defeating the Nagai Sith. Krayt ordered Cade to kill his Hand in an effort to tip Cade over to the dark side permanently. However, Cade refused, because that was what Krayt wanted him to do, and started fighting the Dark Lord of the Sith. During their duel, Cade said he saw through the Force just how sick Krayt really was, and questioned whether the rest of the Sith would be willing to follow him if they knew his true condition. He taunted Krayt, saying that if he died, he would die as himself, but if Krayt killed him, then he would condemn himself to death not as Darth Krayt, or even A'Sharad Hett, but as a mindless Yuuzhan Vong growth. Just as their duel was reaching its climax, Morrigan Corde blasted open the window behind them, shooting Krayt in the back and telling Cade to run. He then jumped out and was rescued by Syn aboard the Mynock, who pulled him inside. The Mynock then escaped the planet and jumped to hyperspace, but not before Corde revealed to Cade that she was his mother over a comlink. When Cade demanded some answers, she replied that he would not be getting any. Unbeknownst to Cade, Krayt was planning on breaking him, using his power to heal himself, and then kill him.

Settling Old Scores
"Rav. You need to settle some accounts. Time t'pay what you owe."

- Cade, to Rav

Shortly after he escaped the Sith's clutches, Cade, accompanied by Chak, Kee, and Syn, later went after Rav on his base on Soccoro in an attempt to recover the Grinning Liar. After a brief fight, Rav handed the ship over and was forced to swear the Bloody Bones oath to Cade. However, after they left, Rav reported their actions to Darth Maladi. After placing Naxy Screeger in the cargo hold, Cade set course for Rawk's Nest, on the planet Iego. He apologized to Blue for what happened with Talon. When they made it to Iego, they assisted "Bantha" Rawk in defending his home against a group of Black Sun mercenaries.

Later, while the others enjoyed a pool party, Cade conferred with Rawk&mdash;whom he knew as his uncle, the former Jedi Master massacre of the Mon Calamari, he also saw an arrest warrant for him that said he was a terrorist who had attacked the Sith Temple. When the report also mentioned the fact that he was a Skywalker, Cade confirmed his identity to his cousins Ahnah, Skeeto, and Micah. Rawk then berated Cade for not thinking, and the two attacked each other. Later, Cade woke up during the night, and Blue commented that he looked like he had seen a ghost. Cade told her that he needed to go check something on the Mynock, and that he would be right back with her.

When he arrived on his ship, the spirits of Luke and Kol Skywalker tried to counsel him. When Luke suggested that Cade use Jedi meditation techniques to clear his head, Cade mentioned that he learned Sith methods as well, saying that maybe he should try some of those. His father then warned him of the dark side, telling him that the technique that he showed Cade in the Temple of the Sith was for defense. When Cade asked Kol how he could he could show up after seven years and start dictating what he did, he explained to Cade that his anger blocked him from appearing to Cade for those seven years. Luke then warned him of events that he must be ready for. When their spirits departed, Cade used his one of his death sticks to get relief for one night. Shortly thereafter he walked out, stoned, and was attacked by a masked figure who followed him from Socorro. He was saved by the timely intervention of his uncle. But the figure was Azlyn Rae, an old friend of his and fellow Padawan before the Sith attacked Ossus. The next day, a scouting party of Imperials showed up looking for Cade, having heard from Black Sun. Cade was determined to leave, but Rawk told him to hide. Rae sent the Imperials off with a mind trick. Afterwards, Rawk suggested that Cade change his name, looks, ship, and friends, and advised Cade not ever to use the Force again. But Cade determined that there was only one way to end the threat of the Sith: kill Darth Krayt. Again, Rawk berated him for trying to do something stupid. But Cade pointed that the current Sith Order was having internal conflicts, and with Krayt dead, they would turn on each other and everyone would leave him alone. But he needed allies; he did not trust either Roan Fel or the Galactic Alliance Admiral Gar Stazi, and he believed that there were not any other Jedi to find, until his uncle revealed the existence of a hidden Jedi Temple.

The Hidden Temple
"Nice temple you got here, Master Saa. Hope you're planning to take out the trash soon, though. The stink of crimson armor always makes me gag."

- Cade referring to Imperial Knights Fel, Draco, and Kreig

Cade, along with his uncle, Azlyn Rae, and the crew of the Mynock, traveled to the planet of Taivas, and went to the hidden Jedi Temple, which was founded by Nat Skywalker as a refuge for the Jedi Order during a worst case scenario. When the Mynock landed, Cade and his crew discovered that not only were Wolf Sazen and Shado Vao in the Temple, but that they were followed by the Imperial Knights Marasiah Fel, Antares Draco, and Ganner Krieg, who were secretly guided there by Rae. After a brief confrontation between the Jedi and the Imperial Knights, both parties put away their weapons and began to talk at Sazen's request. Cade immediately realized it was Rae who betrayed them and after he demanded to know why, he was told by Princess Fel that Rae was in fact an Imperial Knight. When the Imperials explained that they were on a mission of peace, Sazen informed them that the Jedi Council would receive them. This new Jedi Council was formed by the Clone Wars veterans K'Kruhk and the Neti Jed Master T'ra Saa, as well as the Chadra-Fan Jedi Master Tili Qua.

Cade revealed to the Council that Darth Krayt's true identity of the Clone Wars Jedi Knight A'Sharad Hett, telling them that he was dying. He also proposed to the Council his plan to assassinate Krayt, arguing that the former Jedi Knight had no heir as Dark Lord of the Sith, and that it was his will alone that kept his followers from turning on each other. The Council at first refused, saying that assassination was not the Jedi way and as Jedi, they respected all life&mdash;even that of a Sith. Cade retorted that Krayt had already killed countless innocents in an attempt to achieve his "vision" of a unified galaxy, arguing that perhaps it was the will of the Force that Krayt be destroyed and that perhaps assassination should become the Jedi way before Krayt tracked him down and forced him to use his healing powers. The Council said that they would meditate on his plan.

Later that night, Shado Vao came up beside Cade in a speeder, and Cade asked him where Syn was. Vao told him that he was chatting with the Cathar Jedi Master Rasi Tuum, and asked Cade if he cared for a tour of the temple. Cade accepted, and

The Council ultimately decided not to go through with the assassination plan, fearing that if Krayt died, another Sith would take his place, or that the Sith might fracture, making them more dangerous. They preferred to let the Sith undermine each other. Despite this, Cade decided to do it with the help of his crew. Draco, Krieg, and Rae joined him under orders from Fel, and Shado also decided to come with them, hoping that Cade would not fall to the dark side.

An Ancient Threat


Cade and his allies headed for the Deep Core; while journeying there, Rae tried to talk to him, but he refused to listen to her. During his meditations, he received a vision of a Jedi. After this, the Mynock was pulled out of hyperspace and into the path of a Pellaeon-class Star Destroyer called the Iron Sun. Once inside, he and his allies split up to explore the ship. Cade and his party eventually came across a group of rakghouls. During a brief skirmish with them, he and Rae were wounded, and the skirmish was ended when the woman Cade had envisioned, Jedi Master Celeste Morne, who was born around the time of the Great Sith War, regained control of the rakghouls. When Morne saw that Cade and Rae had been infected by the Rakghoul plague, she imprisoned them and explained her past, such as her meeting with the Jedi Padawan Zayne Carrick, how the Muur Talisman, a Sith device that was created by the ancient Sith Lord Karness Muur, attached itself to her, and her confrontations with Cade's ancestors, Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. When the plague began to transform Cade and Rae, he asked Morne if the plague was a disease or the work of the Force. She told him that it was an affliction, and Cade realized that he could cure it. He then used his healing power to rid himself and Rae of the plague, impressing both Morne&mdash;who agreed to join Cade and his allies in their quest to assassinate Darth Krayt&mdash;and the spirit of Karness Muur.

The party journeyed to the planet of Had Abbadon, where they attacked the local Imperial base. During the battle, Morne allowed the Devaronian Sith Lord Darth Reave to escape so that he could inform Krayt of the attack. The party then settled in to wait for Krayt; during this time, Rae tried to kill Morne and destroy the Talisman, believing that Morne was evil. Cade prevented her from doing so, however. During an argument, Cade and Rae both realized that their old feelings for each other had resurfaced. They spent the night together, until the voice of Muur interrupted them. Cade went to confront Morne, and told her that if Muur continued to mess with him and his friends, he would shove her and the Talisman into a rocket and send it into a black hole. Later, Morne sent Krayt a message using Muur's voice, showing Krayt that Cade was her prisoner. She claimed that Muur had the power to heal him. Krayt took the bait, and traveled to Had Abbadon with Darths Wyyrlok, Maladi, Talon, and his new Hand Stryfe. Once there, Cade and his allies sprang the trap, with Morne unleashing her rakghouls on Krayt while Cade dueled with Talon. The Twi'lek Sith told Cade that the bond they shared was driving him closer to the dark side. Unfortunately, Morne, who was under the influence of Muur, declared that Cade and his allies' usefulness was over, and turned the rakghouls against them.

After Cade defeated Talon once more, he fought Stryfe and quickly defeated him with some help from Syn's explosives. Soon after this, Morne, under the influence of Muur, blasted both Krayt and Rae&mdash;who used her lightsaber to stab the Dark Lord in the back&mdash;with Force lightning. Morne then regained control and used the Force to throw Krayt off a cliff. Cade was enraged that Rae had been hurt, but Morne asked him if he really thought he and his team would escape unscathed, and that Rae knew the risks when she struck against Krayt, and that she accepted her destiny. When Cade retorted that he made his own destiny, she told him to keep fooling himself, but like Rae, she accepted her fate as Muur's keeper and controller. Morne then admitted that she was losing control. Morne told Cade that she had never met anyone like him, amazed that no matter how close he walked to the dark side, he wasn't at all tempted by the Talisman or the power it could give him. She asked Cade to kill her, saying that he knew what had to be done, without anger of fear. He told her that he knew the song, "We take what we are given. We do what we must." He thrust his ignited lightsaber through her chest, killing her. As Morne's body dissolved into dust, the Talisman attached itself to him, and Muur said he was finally free. However, Cade proved to truly be above Muur's influence, and used the Force to obliterate the Talisman, vanquishing the ancient Sith Lord for good.

He then rushed to Rae and attempted to use his healing powers on her, but she was too heavily wounded for it to completely work. Vao advised Cade to let her go, but he refused, saying he would keep trying until he could find a medical facility. Blue suggested taking Rae to his aunt Droo, and Cade agreed. As they tried to leave, Krieg and Draco tried to come with them, but Cade refused, since they tried to secure the Talisman for Roan Fel. Vao used the Force to push them away when Krieg tried to prevent them from taking Rae. Cade then boarded the ship with his friends and set a course for Kiffex, Droo's homeworld.

Personality and traits
Cade was known for his independent nature and his utter adversity to having others sacrifice themselves for him. Like his ancestor Anakin Skywalker before him, Cade was reckless, headstrong, and often led by his emotions. He walked a fragile line between the light and dark sides of the Force, frequently unnerving his friends and Jedi companions with displays of his dark side abilities, while also frustrating his former master, Darth Krayt, with his resilience against the lure of the dark side's power. Furthermore, Cade exhibited a lack of respectfulness to others (especially towards those in positions of power) to the point where he would openly mock them in public. After becoming a bounty hunter, Cade developed an addiction for death sticks, which his mentor Rav used to keep him in his debt. Cade was also, again like Anakin Skywalker, unwilling to let those he cared about go. His constant use of his healing powers to keep people from dying was proof of this.

As a Jedi Padawan, he used a lightsaber with a blue crystal. During the skirmish on Vendaxa, Cade used Marasiah Fel's blue-bladed lightsaber after she saved him from a Sith. After he left Deliah Blue and Jariah Syn on Bastion, he went to Ossus, where he was armed with a green lightsaber with which he battled a vision of his ancestor, Darth Vader. After he met the Yuuzhan Vong shaper Nei Rin, she gave him his father's lightsaber, which used a green lambent crystal of her shaping, due to the fact that his father's blue crystal was charred from the intensity of the battle in which he was killed. He used the lightsaber against Darth Talon in the Temple of the Sith before he was captured by her and Nihl.

After his capture and before Darth Krayt revealed to Cade his former identity of A'Sharad Hett, the Dark Lord had Kol's lightsaber encased in transparisteel. When Cade agreed to learn the ways of the Sith, he used a Sith lightsaber containing a red crystal. He later recovered his father's lightsaber after Kol's Force ghost appeared to him, using the Force to shatter the transparisteel his father's lightsaber was encased in, and used it to fight the Sith, grievously wounding Talon and cutting off Nihl's arm.

In Cade's pirate years, he owned a collection of antique and modified blasters, his favorite being the Rawk chopped special, a custom piece built for him by the chief mechanic of the Selonian Shipyards, and his own uncle, Nat Skywalker, who was going by the alias "Bantha" Rawk. His armor chest piece was Mandalorian in origin. He also wore trousers that resembled those worn by his ancestor, Darth Vader.

Powers and abilities
"Cade, the Force is too powerful in you for you to just walk away! Healing me like you did was not something you were taught&mdash;you did that by instinct alone!"

- Wolf Sazen to Cade Skywalker on Vendaxa



Having been both a Jedi and a bounty hunter, Cade Skywalker spoke and comprehended Basic, Huttese, and Shyriiwook. As a Padawan, Cade showed great potential in the ways of the Force, and was able to hold his own against a large number of stormtroopers and Sith during the massacre of Ossus. Perhaps his most impressive and mysterious power was his apparently instinctive ability to use Force Resuscitation, which allowed him to revive Wolf Sazen from death. To do so, Cade tapped into the power of the dark side, and both he and Sazen felt the effect as a Force power with a similar appearance to Force lightning coursed over their bodies. The power he exerted even caused Cade's eyes to glow with Force energy. Within moments, Sazen had been revived, and he was soon able to talk and walk of his own accord. As Cade would later relate to Sazen some seven years later, the price for bringing his Master back from death was high: Cade admitted he "tapped into all the fear and rage" within him, and as he told the Force ghost of Luke Skywalker, he was afraid that the hunger for power he felt that day was "not a good place for a Skywalker to be".

Cade's use of the dark side was even felt by Darth Krayt, from the New Imperial Palace on Coruscant. Krayt believed that this power would enable him to cheat death, and began a search for what he called "a dark light in the Force". It should also be noted that Cade discovered the ability that his ancestor Anakin Skywalker had desired for so long&mdash;to keep people from dying. In addition to being able to heal people with his power, it could be used to kill those that suffered a previous injury, allowing Cade to focus it into a point where their wound was, similar to finding shatterpoints. It should also be noted that Cade was skilled at lightsaber combat, having defeated both of Krayt's "Hands" Talon and Nihl, and he even held his own against the Dark Lord himself. He would eventually defeat Talon again, and Krayt's new Hand, Darth Stryfe.<ref name="



Cade's Force powers did not appear to atrophy in the seven years he spent in Rav's crew, despite rarely drawing on his powers in that time. During a confrontation with Darth Talon on Vendaxa, Cade used the Force to hurl a crashed starship at the Sith, once more tapping into his anger to fuel his abilities. He later admitted that he could sense the Sith nearby, showing that his Jedi senses were as attuned as ever. When he attempted to rescue Hosk Trey'lis from the Temple of the Sith on Coruscant, he was able to sense the Jedi's presence from outside the mammoth structure. When Cade and the crew of the Mynock went to reclaim the Grinning Liar from Rav, he ordered all of his henchmen to attack Cade; even though he was greatly outnumbered, Cade almost single handedly defeated them all. In addition to his Force powers, Cade was a capable starfighter pilot, being able to evade the Skull Squadron when he was attempting to rescue Hosk Trey'lis. He was also proficient in both hand-to-hand combat and ranged combat with his weapon of choice, the Rawk chopped special.



Behind the scenes
An action figure of Cade was released in 2008 as part of Hasbro's Comic Pack line, paired with Darth Talon.

Appearances



 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 25: Vector, Part 1
 * Star Wars Legacy: Broken
 * Star Wars Legacy 8: Allies
 * Star Wars Legacy: Trust Issues
 * Star Wars Legacy: Ghosts
 * Star Wars Legacy: Claws of the Dragon
 * Star Wars Legacy 22: The Wrath of the Dragon
 * Star Wars Legacy: Loyalties
 * Star Wars Legacy: The Hidden Temple
 * Star Wars Legacy 27: Into the Core
 * Star Wars Legacy: Vector
 * Star Wars Legacy: Storms
 * Star Wars Legacy: Tatooine

Non-canonical appearances

 * Star Wars Miniatures: Legacy of the Force ad