Kul Teska

"Unlike General Grievous, I have no interest in trophies."

- Kul Teska

Kul Teska was a Skakoan cyborg assassin living during the Clone Wars.

Early life
The Skakoan male Kul Teska was a scientist in the Techno Union. He was especially knowledgeable in cybernetics and was considered one of the Union's most brilliant minds. However, an accident occurred with his pressure suit; one that left his body damaged beyond repair. Ashamed of his disfiguration, Teska left the Techno Union to focus on his personal experiments with gravity and began developing the Gravitic polarization beam, a powerful superweapon capable of moving a sun from its orbit. In addition to his research, Teska&mdash;using his knowledge of cybernetics&mdash;rebuilt his suit, equipping it with a vast array of weapons, and became a mercenary. Eventually, Teska's reputation in that field rivaled the likes of the Duros bounty hunter Cad Bane, and his research in gravity technology captured the attention of the leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Count Dooku.

Theft and Juma 9
During the Clone Wars between the Confederacy and the Galactic Republic, Dooku hired Teska and let him continue his research in a Techno Union base on the planet Behpour in the Naboo system. In around 22 BBY, the Gravitic polarization beam was finished and ready for testing, and its crucial part, the Gravitic Core, was to be delivered to Behpour on a Munificent-class star frigate. However, Cad Bane infiltrated the frigate in orbit over the planet Alzoc III and stole the core. To cover his tracks, Bane destroyed the starship that was carrying the weapon; the frigate crashed on Alzoc III and created a gravitational anomaly. In order to recover the stolen part, Teska devised a plan to trace the core by the unique energy signature it radiated. To do that, the Skakoan initiated an attack on the Republic space station Juma 9, which possessed a radar suited for such a purpose. Separatist droid forces under Teska's command fought against clone troopers stationed at Juma 9, and Teska also had the entire station, including escape pods, rigged with explosives. As the battle continued, Teska himself infiltrated the station's communications room and initiated a radar search for the core. He soon discovered that the core was located on the planet Ryloth, where the remnants of the Separatist army still fought the Republic. Teska contacted Dooku, requesting the remaining droid forces on the planet to distract the Republic while he retrieved the weapon core. As Teska prepared to leave, however, he was confronted by Plo Koon and Obi-Wan Kenobi, two Jedi Masters who happened to be at the station at the time of the Skakoan's attack. Igniting their lightsabers, Kenobi and Koon told that they were placing Teska under arrest, but he ordered them not to move and demonstrated his remote detonator that was linked the explosives. The Jedi complied and lowered their weapons, but Teska&mdash;stating that they were no fun&mdash;triggered the explosives anyway and rocketed away farther into the station, saluting his adversaries. Eventually, Kenobi and Koon caught up with Kul Teska, cornered him inside one of the station's chambers and sealed the only door so he could not escape. Teska was not willing to give up easily and once again pulled out his detonator, threatening to destroy the escape pods, which the clone troopers were using to escape from the exploding station.

At that moment, however, Teska's attention was distracted by a sound of explosion, and this allowed Kenobi to Force-push the detonator out of the Skakoan's hands. Teska then attacked the Jedi, using his vast arsenal of weapons. After a lengthy battle, he was defeated and thrown into a glass window. The class shattered and broke, leaving Juma 9 open to the vacuum of space. Teska was almost sucked out of the station, but managed to cling with his hand to the edge. The vaccum also affected Teska's fallen remote detonator and it flied over to him. The Skakoan tried to reach for it, but Kenobi threw his lightsaber at the detonator, slicing it in half. Koon then threw his own weapon at a nearby control panel, and an emergency blast door came down, forcing Teska to let go his grasp and be sucked outside the station. His suit allowed him to survive the vaccum and he veered off toward Ryloth, leaving Kenobi and Plo Koon stranded on the station without weapons, which had also been sucked outside.

Ryloth
On Ryloth, he found the weapon in the possession of Cad Bane, guarded by Jedi Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano. Teska engaged them and gained the upper hand, but was forced to retreat when clone troopers CS-2207 and CC-7567 arrived. He took Bane's transport The Sleight of Hand, taking both Bane himself and the gravity weapon with him. Soon, Count Dooku demanded a demonstration of the weapon and Teska moved his operation to the planet Behpour in Naboo system. Teska planned to use the weapon to destroy the Naboo star. His plan, however, was uncovered by Senator Padmé Amidala and the Galactic Republic launched an assault on the planet.

During the battle Teska prepared to activate the gravity weapon and planned to use Amidala as hostage to keep the Jedi away from himself. However, he was cornered by Skywalker and Tano and eventually defeated and killed. The weapon, too was sabotaged and exploded when fired.

Personality and traits
Teska was extremely arrogant and believed no Jedi could match his strength. He also loved to taunt his opponents during the battle. Kul Teska was known for his ruthlessness and excessive methods.

Equipment
"He's resourceful, I'll give him that."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi



Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes