Kazdan Paratus

"Dont worry, Masters. I'll defend you from this Sith trash."

- Kazdan Paratus

Kazdan Paratus was an Aleena Jedi Knight and General who fought in the Clone Wars and survived Order 66.

Biography


In his early life and work towards the Jedi trials, Paratus did not possess the detachment most Jedi needed in order to pass the Jedi Trials, instead preferring to hole himself in his room and to build droids for the Temple, to aid in training Padawans. After completing the Trials with his machines, Paratus was appointed a Jedi Knight of the Old Republic.

During the final days of the Republic, Jedi Knight Kazdan Paratus was the Jedi Temple's head engineer and leader of the Technical division, a position the Jedi Council appointed to him due to his skills as an extraordinary droid maker. He was responsible for many exceptional and unique machines that were in possession of abilities far beyond those of average droids. He worked in seclusion on Coruscant until the Clone Wars broke out.

Refusing to pass up the opportunity to study the droids of the Separatists, Kazdan lived life on the front lines, building medical and power droids as well as other machines designed to support the clone army. Eventually, he took command of a group of clone troopers that were mostly killed off in a disastrous campaign. Due to these circumstances, he was forced to create his own troops that consisted of combat droids that he assembled using makeshift parts. After a great battle, the Jedi Knight returned to the Temple a few days before the issuance of Operation: Knightfall. In an act of cowardice, Paratus fled the Temple, leaving the other Jedi to die inside.

Driven insane by the loss of the Jedi and his own guilt for abandoning them, Kazdan went into hiding on Raxus Prime, becoming a reclusive droid maker. Kazdan built an army of personally customized combat droids to protect himself from intruders, creating such types as the Scrap Guardian, Junk golem and Junk Titan. To increase his size and mobility, he designed four mechanical arms to wear on his back. While on the junkyard world, Kazdan built a Jedi Temple from scratch out of refuse and made puppets of all the Jedi councilors for the Council Chamber, arming them with various melee weapons.



Approximately 16 years after Order 66, the insane Jedi's location was discovered by Darth Vader who acted with the natural response of a member of the Galactic Empire. Kazdan moved all of his forces against Vader's secret apprentice, Starkiller, who had been sent by Vader to eliminate the Aleena Jedi, in their duel in the Council Chamber. Starkiller, however, destroyed all of Kazdan's creations including his beloved "Council members," before finally killing the Jedi by crushing him with an avalanche of junk and scrap metal. As he lay dying, Paratus uttered his last words, apologizing to the Masters for failing them yet again.Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (novel)

Because of Paratus' death, Raxus was left defenseless, as his droids protected the planet. The Empire then took over the planet, stripping its metals to create Star Destroyers, leaving little for scavengers to obtain.

Personality and traits
Paratus held a special robotic rig on his back which served as additional limbs for him. Two of these served as arms which held his lightsaber staff. They also allowed him to walk on walls and vertical surfaces.

He held a great deal of guilt after abandoning the Jedi at the Temple on Coruscant. In time, he began to slowly become deranged and recreated the Temple on Raxus Prime and believed that the Order survived in his facsimile junk creations.

Kazdan had a great level of control over his Force powers and was capable of giving life to robotic creations that were subject to his will. He was capable of making such creations like the Junk Titan in a short span of time and with ease. With his death, all of the junk creatures he created collapsed.

Behind the scenes
Kazdan Paratus was voiced by Larry Drake in The Force Unleashed video game.

Kazdan Paratus wields a blue lightsaber staff in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game, but a yellow-ish double-bladed lightsaber with an elongated hilt in the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS and Wii versions. His death also plays out differently in the Wii and PS2 versions; instead of crushing him with junk as in the PS3 and Xbox 360 version, Starkiller smashes him against a wall before finishing him off with Force lightning.

Kazdan Paratus does not appear in the graphic novel adaptation of The Force Unleashed.

Appearances

 * The Force Unleashed novel
 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video game

Notes and references
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