Rajah Ubooki

"But for that to be the case, I would have to be mistaken. And in this universe, Gornash, all things are possible, except one. And what may that be? Say it, prove that I have taught you well." "It's impossible that you could ever be mistaken, all-seeing, all-knowing Supreme Prophet of the Dark Side."

- Kadann, and Gornash

This Bimm, an Imperial Intelligence agent, masqueraded as Supreme Prophet of the Dark Side Kadann in 5 ABY, and became known simple as the false Kadann to those who knew of the deceit; to everyone else, he was believed to be the true Kadann. After the Battle of Endor, Imperial Intelligence created an elaborate ploy in order to tighten their grip over the Empire's populace: it established the Church of the Dark Side, a sham religion supposedly made up of the Prophets of the Dark Side, who were believed dead by the Empire at the time. This Bimm Intelligence agent was selected to impersonate Supreme Prophet Kadann, and for a time acted under the orders of his superiors, becoming greatly idolized by the once spiritually-starved citizens of the Empire.

Eventually, however, the false Kadann and his peers grew discontent with following others, and decided to strike out as their own, self-governed entity. Kadann established a headquarters for his faction at Space Station Scardia in the Null Zone, making a prophecy in the same vein as those made by the true Supreme Prophet, except that the Impostor's was not based on any Force vision. He "foresaw" that whoever found and donned the Glove of Darth Vader would lay claim to the Empire and become Palpatine's successor as Galactic Emperor. Many high-ranking Imperials searched for the elusive gauntlet, until Trioculus and the Central Committee found it; Kadann gave them his blessing and Trioculus became the leader of the Empire, though he vied for that honor with Ysanne Isard. Kadann ultimately recanted his blessing and launched a coup d'etat against Trioculus, proclaiming himself to be the Emperor.

His reign was short. The impostor Prophets tussled with the Central Committee and captured its leaders. Kadann punished them and later attempted to access the Lost City of the Jedi on Yavin 4, but barely escaped with his life after an encounter with the New Republic. With his slave, Triclops, the false Prophet eventually escaped Yavin 4 and fled to Scardia. Waiting for him were Grand Admiral Afsheen Makati and Dark Jedi Azrakel, who both harbored an intense hatred for the true Kadann. The Bimm impostor was killed, his ruse ended.

Ruse
This short, stocky Bimm was an agent of Imperial Intelligence during the Galactic Civil War.

In 4 ABY, members of the secretive, Imperial-aligned Prophets of the Dark Side, led by their Supreme Prophet, Kadann, on Coruscant predicted that Galactic Emperor Palpatine would be defeated by his nemesis Luke Skywalker during the impending Battle of Endor. Enraged at such a negative prophecy, Palpatine decided he no longer required the services of Kadann and his disciples. The Prophets fled to Dromund Kaas, but were followed by legions of Imperial Inquisitors, who routed them. Palpatine believed that the Prophets had all been killed, though in truth a number of them, including Kadann, had fled and gone into hiding on remote Bosthirda. Their prophecy ultimately came to pass: Palpatine was killed at Endor and an Empire devoid of leadership fell into disarray.

Several months later, in 5 ABY, a number of Imperials who held power on Coruscant devised a scheme to keep their subjects loyal and content. Under Palpatine, religion had been almost entirely outlawed, so acting-Emperor Sate Pestage ordered the creation of a new religion to which the masses would hopefully flock. He commissioned former Director of Imperial Intelligence Cronal&mdash;once a Prophet of the Dark Side himself&mdash;to found the Church of the Dark Side, which the Empire claimed was consisting of power Prophets of the Dark Side. The plot was also intended to help certain Imperial moffs retain power. A number of Imperial Intelligencers were drafted into the scheme to act as impostors of high profile Prophets of the Dark Side; the Bimm agent was assigned to masquerade as Supreme Prophet Kadann, while a Null comrade of his acted as High Prophet Jedgar. The Church of the Dark Side was very successful, and its members became heavily idolized and respected, by both Imperial citizens and members in the Imperial military and other institutions. The "false Kadann," as he became known by those who were aware of his true identity, lacked the Force-sensitivity of the actual Prophets, but made a number of "prophecies" anyway, relying on a far-reaching network of spies and informants to provide him with information which he could use to make educated guesses. When these guesses proved incorrect, the Prophets relied on other, mundane means to make them come true. They were unscrupulous in these endeavors, and were content to resort to murder, bribery, or any number of crimes to uphold their fraudulent reputation.

Prophecy
"After Palpatine's fiery death Another leader soon comes to command the Empire And on his right hand he does wear The glove of Darth Vader!"

- Kadann's supposed prophecy

Eventually, however, the phony Prophets grew dissatisfied with following orders, and decided to form their own Imperial faction, answering to no higher authority. The devotion shown to them by their Imperial subjects meant that they had great support. Kadann established his headquarters at Space Station Scardia, located in the Null Zone in the Mid Rim. The region was very remote and suffered from heavy radiation, so few beings ventured into the Prophets' territory. Kadann took with him huge amounts of expensive artwork and stolen valuables, turning much of the space station into his own personal museum. While the majority of Imperials remained loyal to Ysanne Isard, who had taken the reigns of the Empire after Sate Pestage, Kadann's network of spies was loyal only to him; that, combined with the reverence most religious Imperials held for the Church of the Dark Side, made he and his cohorts powerful individuals.

Kadann took to wearing the true Supreme Prophet's hallmark sparkling black regalia, and using trance-inducing tree bark from Endor as well as colored chalk powder to make himself appear mystical and clairvoyant. He also adorned himself with a number of lofty titles, such as "Dreamer of Dark Dreams, Supreme Prophet of the Empire." After spending some time attracting the attention of Imperial warlords and the fledgling New Republic, Kadann made his first major prophecy since leaving Imperial Center: he "foretold" that the rightful heir to Palpatine's Empire would find and wear the Glove of Darth Vader, an almost indestructible gauntlet that had supposedly survived the destruction of the second Death Star at Endor. Many Imperial warlords, desperate to gain Kadann's "dark blessing" and become Emperor, scrambled to locate the glove, with little initial success. Eventually, however, the glove was discovered. The newly founded Central Committee of Grand Moffs was hailing Trioculus as the rightful heir to the Empire, because he was, they claimed, Palpatine's son. While many accepted his claim for the throne and flocked to his banner, others refused to stand by anyone who did not have Kadann's blessing. Thus, they searched for the glove and eventually located it, on Mon Calamari of all places, located on the opposite side of the galaxy to Endor. Trioculus' right-hand-man and effectively the power behind his would-be throne, Grand Moff Bertroff Hissa, arranged to meet with the Prophets at Scardia Station, though Kadann had little respect for Trioculus; like Kadann, he was a fraud.

The false Prophet had his agents research Trioculus, and they found that he was not who he claimed to be: while Palpatine had fathered a three-eyed son, albeit unconventionally, his third eye was located at the back on his head, while Trioculus' was on his forehead. Kadann's spies learned that the true son of Palpatine, Triclops, had been killed because he suffered from insanity. Trioculus, Bertroff Hissa, and some of their personnel arrived at Scardia Station to meet with the Prophets. Kadann met them in the Chamber of Dark Visions, and greeted Trioculus, but he was disrespectful toward the former slavelord, accusing him of lying about his ancestry and murdering Palpatine's true son, over whom he had authority while overseeing slave operations in the Spice Mines of Kessel. Trioculus denied murdering Triclops, and Hissa explained that Palpatine's son had been secretly banished to a secure facility on the planet Duro. The Grand Moff informed Kadann that the Central Committee deemed Triclops too unstable to rule the Empire, but that Trioculus would be a suitable figurehead to whom many would ally themselves, and who could keep the Empire in one piece. Kadann was satisfied with his reasoning, and gave Trioculus his dark blessing&mdash;as well as another prophecy. He told the former slavelord that there was a prophecy of a Jedi Prince from the Lost City of the Jedi on Yavin 4, who could challenge and topple he who donned Vader's gauntlet.

Coup d'etat
"Tormented and frozen alive The three-eyed ruler commands no more. Never again shall he receive The dark blessing of the Supreme Prophet. Eyes cannot behold the new ruler, for the ruler is the Dark One of ancient times. But from this day forth he speaks through me, And I shall speak his commands to you."

- Kadann declares himself Emperor to his comrades

Trioculus went to Yavin 4 and razed the moon in his search for the Lost City of the Jedi, but, with the help of Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker and the New Republic, the Jedi Prince&mdash;known only as Ken&mdash;escaped, and Trioculus was unable to locate the Lost City. Around this time, Trioculus stopped wearing the Glove of Darth Vader because it was deteriorating his health, donning a replica gauntlet instead. Kadann's spies learned of this and Prophet Jedgar quickly fetched the true glove for his master, who kept it amongst his art collectino. Trioculus and Hissa put great effort into capturing Ken, ultimately apprehending him at Cloud City on Bespin; however, Trioculus himself fell into a trap of crime lord Zorba Desilijic Tiure's. The self-proclaimed Emperor was imprisoned in carbonite, and Ken escaped into the custody of the New Republic. By this point, however, Kadann had no intention of continuing to co-operate with the Central Committee; he wanted power for himself and intended to launch a coup d'etat and usurp Trioculus' rule.

Kadann gathered all of his fellow phony Prophets to make another prophecy, telling them what their futures held in store, even though there was no audience to witness it. In front of his followers in the Chamber of Dark Visions, he recanted his blessing of Trioculus and his support for the Central Committee, proclaiming that the "Dark One" of ancient times would succeed Trioculus, but that he would communicate to the physical world through Kadann; for all intents and purposes, the false Prophet had proclaimed himself Emperor. Like Trioculus' reign, however, it was not legitimate; Ysanne Isard was the official head of the Empire at that time, but Kadann was still held in great reverence by a portion of the Imperial populace, who supported him steadfastedly. In addition to large numbers of ground forces, he commanded many Star Destroyers. He ordered his excited "disciples" to retrieve ancient relics from the planet Duro; when the relics were placed at the feet, he promised to destroy the light side of the Force. He also made another grandiose, false prophecy that when a being "pierced by gold" visited Mount Yoda on the planet Dagobah, the New Republic would begin to crumble. Kadann's underlings quickly spread his message to those who had pledged loyalty to Trioculus, until each Imperial faction and the New Republic knew of his coup d'etat.

Trioculus' frozen body was being kept by Zorba Desilijic Tiure in Cloud City, so Kadann dispatched his Null accomplice, "Jedgar," to retrieve it in the Prophets' personal strike cruiser, the Scardia Voyager. As Jedgar reached Bespin, the Central Committee were launching a rescue operation of their own, and had already stolen the carbonite slab from Zorba. The false prophets boarded Grand Moff Hissa's Moffship and Jedgar informed the moffs of Kadann's coup. He decreed that their lives would be spared if they pledged allegiance to Emperor Kadann; when Hissa refused, Jedgar blackmailed with him sensitive information that Kadann's spies had compiled that would identify Hissa as an Imperial traitor, and the grand moff eventually relented and accepted Kadann's rule. Jedgar transferred Trioculus' body onto the Scardia Voyager and returned to Kadann's headquarters. With fellow false Prophet Gornash, Kadann had the carbonite slab destroyed, wiping away any trace of Trioculus. Gornash suspected that it might not have been Trioculus they destroyed because Vader's supposedly-indestructible glove would have survived, but when Kadann showed him the true glove in his collection, Gornash's doubts were alleviated. Kadann was adamant that he had not made a mistake and destroyed a fake, but in actuality he was wrong: Zorba had outwitted everyone, publicly displaying the replica carbonite slab that Kadann had just destroyed, while the true Trioculus remained aboard his ship, the Zorba Express.

Trial of the Central Committee
"Blue is the color of shame and disgrace. This trial will be a total sham, a show and nothing more. It's obvious Kadann has already made up his mind that we're guilty."

- Bertroff Hissa, to Muzzer

While Kadann believed he was destroying all trace of Trioculus, Jedgar went to Duro to retrieve the planet's treasures. His attempt was botched, however, after an encounter with the New Republic, who were assisted by Ken and Triclops, Palpatine's true son. After a large amount of toxic fluid threatened to wipe out Jedgar's forces, he fled the planet, empty-handed. With his newfound power, Kadann wanted to implement some changes to how his empire was run: he wished to reduce the power of any groups, such as the grand moffs, which could threaten him. Fearful of this, the Central Committee went rogue and abandoned the Empire. Kadann sent a large force to locate and apprehend them, but it was initially unsuccessful. The moffs chanced upon Zorba Desilijic Tiure over Tatooine and found Trioculus' real body in his ship. They disposed of Zorba and revived the former slavelord but he was soon assassinated by the New Republic.

Meanwhile, Kadann made yet another fraudulent prophecy, claiming that when Luke Skywalker was imprisoned in Scardia Station, Ken would betray the location of the Lost City to the Prophets. The once Imperial Intelligence agents were later paid a visit by Zorba, who had survived the moffs' attempts to feed him to Tatooine's sarlacc. Zorba informed them he had vital information on the activities of the Central Committee, but he knew nothing Kadann was not already aware of. The false Supreme Prophet hoped that Zorba might know about the Lost City of the Jedi; he was desperate to locate it so that he could access its main computer library, which contained much hidden knowledge of the Jedi that Kadann reckoned he could use against his foes, but Zorba had no information. However, the Hutt proved useful in that he recorded a statement declaring the grand moffs' traitors, giving consent for it to be used as evidence against them in their trial. Eventually, Kadann's forces apprehended Hissa and his accomplices, and immediately held a sham trial&mdash;the jury members were all Prophets of the Dark Side, and Kadann told them to give a guilty verdict.

The false Kadann ruled the group of false Prophets from the space station Scardia and headed the first Church of the Dark Side on Coruscant. The false Kadann possessed a collection of rare items in display cases on the station. He often sat on his throne on the Scardia Station. A table beside the throne held several chalk balls in different colors: Yellow represented a lie, red represented murder, silver represented a Jedi Prince, and blue represented the shame and disgrace. Whenever someone was brought before him, the false Kadann would use these balls in conversation; if someone told a lie he would hold up the yellow ball, if he knew the person had murdered someone he would crush the red ball and the dust would float towards the murderer, and he would crush the silver ball whenever he was mentioning the Jedi Prince. Grand Moff Bertroff Hissa addressed the false Kadann as "Dreamer of Dark Dreams, Supreme Prophet of the Empire," but his title was usually given as "Supreme Prophet of the Dark Side."



While pretending to continue the true Kadann's prophecies, the pretender stated that the next Emperor would wear the Glove of Darth Vader, which inspired the Emperor-hopeful Trioculus to try to find it. When Trioculus recovered the Glove, the false Kadann named Trioculus the new Emperor and told him to destroy the "Jedi Prince", Ken. The false Kadann knew that Trioculus would be unable to fulfill this prophecy; he simply wanted to control the Empire himself. So, when Trioculus did indeed fail, the false Kadann claimed for himself the title of Emperor. Grand Moff Hissa and his followers, who had wanted to control Trioculus as their pawn, were extremely unhappy with this outcome. Additionally, Ysanne Isard was trying to lay claim to the Empire at this time, adding yet another enemy. Grand Admiral Afsheen Makati, an enemy from the real Kadann's past and an ally of Isard's, requested that he be allowed to hunt down the usurper as revenge for the past.

The prophets and the group of Moffs then raced to find the Lost City of the Jedi on the moon Yavin 4. The false prophets managed to find the city and, when they entered it, discovered it was everything they had hoped. Unfortunately for them, Ken and Luke Skywalker entered the city as the prophets were attempting to steal the main computer, which contained all the information of the Jedi Library. Random fire from Kadann's troops managed to destroy the computer, however, and Luke managed to escape the city and seal off the entrance so that the false Kadann could not escape for some time. While this was all happening, Makati managed to hunt down the real Kadann's former apprentice Azrakel, learning of the location of Scardia from him, and simply waited for Kadann to return.

With the help of his slave Triclops, the false Kadann managed to escape from the Lost City and returned to Scardia to continue his reign. Unfortunately for him, it was too late. Isard had managed to reinstate the galactic freedom of religion, causing the spiritually starved citizens to abandon the necromantic faith of the false prophets. When he entered Scardia, he found the corpses of all his fellow prophets littering the space station. Soon Makati's voice erupted from the comm: "Your subordinate Azrakel was kind enough to help me find you, my Emperor. He doesn't care for your sparkly dress either." And, with that, Makati blasted the station with turbolasers, ending once and for all the false prophet's reign.

Behind the scenes
Though Kadann was created for, and thus first seen in, the Jedi Prince series, he was later retconned in the unlicensed Polyhedron 103 magazine. This retcon stated that the Jedi Prince series had in fact been a children's story of the actual events told by Leia Organa Solo to her children Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin and also stated that the real Kadann was in fact much more powerful, deadly, and fear-inspiring than the Kadann heard of in these stories. However, this retcon was later ignored in the Dark Side Sourcebook which retconned the Kadann featured in these books to have in fact been a false prophet, who simply posed as the real Kadann. Thus, an entirely new Kadann was born who has only ever been mentioned in articles rather than being featured in any stories. This article thus incorporates the old Polyhedron 103 material as being from the real Kadann while not contradicting future, more canon sources.

Appearances

 * The Glove of Darth Vader
 * The Lost City of the Jedi
 * Zorba the Hutt's Revenge
 * Mission from Mount Yoda
 * Queen of the Empire
 * Prophets of the Dark Side