Cad Bane/Legends

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

- Cad Bane to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine

Cad Bane was a male Duros born on the planet Duro, who rose to be a bounty hunter during the Clone Wars, a galaxy-wide conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Bane would work for the highest bidder, and would not hesitate to turn against his original employer if his quarry offered him more. Because fellow bounty hunter Jango Fett &mdash; the bounty hunter considered to be the galaxy's best &mdash; had been killed during the opening battle of the war, Bane rose to be one of the top bounty hunters in his time.

During the Clone Wars, Ziro Desilijic Tiure, a Hutt crime lord based on the galactic capital of Coruscant, was arrested after he assisted the Confederacy Head of State and Sith Lord Count Dooku in a plot to kidnap Rotta, the son of Ziro's nephew Jabba Desilijic Tiure, and force Jabba to turn against the Republic. Desperate to escape, Ziro employed Bane to break him out of prison. Bane assembled a team of hunters to capture senators of the Galactic Senate and force Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to free Ziro. After entering the Senate Building on Coruscant and taking the senators hostage, Bane and his team encountered Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker. Skywalker was captured, and Bane was successful in freeing Ziro from prison.

Later working for Count Dooku, Bane stole a holocron containing information of potential Force-sensitive infants. Bane kidnapped the infants and brought them to the planet Mustafar, where Darth Sidious, Dooku's Sith Master, planned to use them for his own purposes.

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, speaking of Cad Bane

Cad Bane was a Duros male born on the planet Duro during the last decades of the Galactic Republic. He became a bounty hunter, earning a reputation as a ruthless mercenary who worked solely for the financial reward of his missions. Bane worked for the highest bidder, caring little who employed him, as long as he continued to get his pay; he had no qualms with turning on his original employer if his quarry offered him a better fee.

Bane was in operation by the time the Clone Wars &mdash; galaxy-wide conflict between the Galactic Republic, and the faction of separatist planetary and sectorial governments known as the Confederacy of Independent Systems &mdash; were underway. By the time the bounty hunter considered to be the galaxy's best, Jango Fett, 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, he had enemies, and a considerable price was placed on Bane's head.

Recruitment
"Such fighting spirit, Davtokk. Almost commendable, if you were successful. But you know what they say about ' almost.'" "This...this was a test?" "Yes. But not yours. A test of my colleagues. They're solitary types and I need a team. I am happy to say they passed...by ensuring that you failed."

- Cad Bane, and Davtokk



During the Clone Wars, Ziro Desilijic Tiure, a Hutt crime lord based on the galactic capital of Coruscant, assisted Sith Lord and Confederacy Head of State Count Dooku in a plot to kidnap Rotta, the son of his nephew Jabba Desilijic Tiure. The kidnapping would cause Jabba to act out against the Republic and be arrested, leaving Ziro to take his place as head of the Hutts. However, the plan failed, and Ziro was incarcerated by the Republic and imprisoned in the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center.

Desperate to escape, Ziro promised Bane handsome payment to free him. Bane agreed, but did not opt for a straightforward rescue. Instead, he decided to force the Republic into freeing Ziro by taking hostages. To do so, the Duros would need a group of skilled bounty hunters, and he began assembling the team. The group consisted of notorious bounty hunter and Jedi killer Aurra Sing; Weequay mercenary Shahan Alama; and Robonino, a diminutive, piscine technician. The team was backed up by two Separatist droid commandos and a number of IG-86 sentinel droids, including one designated 3D.

As the organic members of Bane's team usually worked alone, Bane wanted to ensure that they could work together as a whole. Bane arranged a final test for his colleagues, and lured fellow bounty hunter Davtokk to the planet Keyorin&mdash;where the Duros had a safehouse&mdash;under the pretense that Bane was holding a recruitment drive. Bane knew that Davtokk intended to execute the bounty on his head, so he assembled a lifesize mannequin of himself, created from a scrapped battle droid. After entering the safehouse, Davtokk fired upon the mannequin, assuming it to be Bane. Robonino then detonated explosives set inside the safehouse, and caught Davtokk in a razor net.

The bounty hunter quickly escaped the net, and managed to evade the onrushing Alama with a flash grenade. From a distant perch, Sing fired her sniper rifle upon Davtokk's legs, preventing him from making any further progress. Bane, having watched the entire affair unfold, made himself known to Davtokk, explaining that it had all been arranged so as to test his new team. Bane then killed the crippled mercenary, and the team headed to Coruscant.



Raid on the Senate
"I've got business with the Senate. How 'bout you fellas step aside?"

- Cad Bane to several Senate Commandos

Bane took his team to the Galactic Senate, planning to take senators hostage in order to force Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to release Ziro the Hutt. After Bane, Robonino, Alama, and two droid commandos landed at the Senate Building, the Senate Commandos, a branch of the guards of the Senate, confronted Bane. Before they could arrest him, Sing used a sniper rifle from a long-range post to kill most of the guards. Bane killed one of the guards personally, tackling him and snapping his neck with his bare hands. The team entered the building, and Bane killed an entire group of guards with a thermal detonator. After eliminating the guard posted at the power control room, as well as several droids inside, Bane left Robonino to shut off the power before entering the atrium to confront the senators.

Entering the Republic Executive Building, Bane caught the attention of the senators discussing the Enhanced Privacy Invasion Bill, a piece of Senate legislation, by firing a blaster, and the bounty hunters surrounded the senators. When Gran Senator Philo objected to being taken hostage, walking away while refusing to "listen to insolence," Bane shot him in the back. Bane ordered the senators to turn over their communication devices, and contacted Chancellor Palpatine in his office via a holotransmission. Bane stated that if the hostages were to be freed, Ziro the Hutt must be released from prison. After Palpatine objected, Robonino shut off the power, leaving Palpatine and Twi'lek Senator Orn Free Taa trapped in the office.

As the bounty hunters collected the communication devices, Bane came across Senator Padmé Amidala. While speaking with her, Bane noticed Amidala glance at something behind him. Bane turned around and recognized Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker surveying them from an upper level window. Bane fired at the man, and Skywalker fled. Bane ordered Alama and an IG-86 sentinel droid after him. Alama returned without the droid: it had been destroyed, but from examination of the droid's remains, Alama deduced that Skywalker was without his lightsaber. Bane sent Alama back with Sing to find the Jedi.

Bane contacted Palpatine once more. He told the Chancellor to make a pardon disc and give it to Senator Taa, who would be picked up by Bane's ship and deliver the disc to the prison. Taa reluctantly obeyed, and 3D took him in the airspeeder to the prison. The droid collected the Hutt while Taa stayed at the prison in the safety of the Coruscant Guard. Preparing to leave, Bane ordered Robonino and Alama to set up their "parting gifts" around the senators &mdash; a laser web that would activate explosives upon the slightest touch.

Wishing the senators a "most respectful farewell," Bane left the building with his team. Upon arriving outside on the landing platform, two LAAT/i gunships landed, and clone troopers of the Coruscant Guard appeared and cornered the team. Palpatine contacted Bane, and ordered him to surrender. Bane informed the Chancellor of the trapped senators, and Palpatine reluctantly let Bane go. Bane's airspeeder arrived, driven by 3D, and hauling Ziro in a rear transport. Bane and his team boarded the speeder, and they zoomed away.

After they were a safe distance away, Bane remotely activated the explosives. 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, they all dropped into the room below. As Ziro congratulated Bane on a "job well done," Bane demanded his pay from the Hutt, as he didn't work for free.

Aayla vs Cad Bane
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Later work
Bane was later hired by Sith Lord Count Dooku and the Separatists to work against the Republic. On one mission for Dooku, Bane stole a holocron containing a list of potentially Force-sensitive infants, and captured each of the infants himself. Bane took them to the remote planet Mustafar and handed them over to Dooku's Sith Master, Darth Sidious, who planned to use them for his own deeds.

Personality and traits
"Once Ziro has been released and is handed over to me, then your associate will be released, understand?" "Oh, I do. But I feel it is my duty to warn you that you will end up paying for this outrage." "I can live with that."

- Cad Bane and Palpatine



Bane was one of the galaxy's most fearsome and deadly bounty hunter during the Clone Wars, as fellow bounty hunter Jango Fett was no longer around, having died in the Battle of Geonosis. Bane had much less moral content than Fett, and would often turn upon the very people who hired him unless he was paid. Bane was ruthless, and unlike the later-emerging bounty hunter Boba Fett &mdash; an unaltered clone of Jango Fett, raised as his son &mdash; he did not take prisoners, for he intended his senator hostages to be killed, even after he had gone through negotiations with the Chancellor.

Equipment
Bane carried custom-made twin blaster pistols built from BlasTech LL-30 pistols. Bane had breathing tubes that were imbedded in his cheekbones and directly connected to his lungs, allowing him to work freely in the harshest atmospheres without additional protection. Bane was also equipped with rocket boots and wrist gauntlets, which had a variety of built-in tools and weapons, including a cable launcher, comlink, data uplink, and non-lethal stunners.

Behind the scenes
Bane made his first appearance in The Clone Wars web comic Invitation Only, and then appeared in the television series' Season One finale, "Hostage Crisis". He was voiced by Corey Burton, who also voiced Ziro Desilijic Tiure and Shahan Alama in the episode. Because the episode introduced the concept of bounty hunters into the series, Bane was one of the first such bounty hunters to be featured in the television series. Bane will apparently be making more appearances in Season Two of the series, and is already scheduled for a part in the episode "Cargo of Doom".

Unused sketches of a bounty hunter existed from the original Star Wars films, and the sketches ended up providing the basis for Bane's model. Early versions of the character were based on Gen'Dai bounty hunter Durge, but the final design, at the request of George Lucas, took inspiration from Lee Van Cleef's characters from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and For a Few Dollars More.

Appearances

 * The Clone Wars: Invitation Only