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Cade Skywalker was a human male bounty hunter | Bounty HunterOrganizationCommunities | , smuggler | SmugglerOrganizationCommunities | , and pirate | PirateOrganizationCommunities | , who in his youth was once the Jedi Padawan | New Jedi OrderOrganizationNew Republic | of Wolf Sazen | Wolf Sazen(Zabrak)CharacterSupporting Characters | . The son of Jedi Master Kol Skywalker | Kol Skywalker(Human)CharacterMajor Characters | and Morrigan Corde | Morrigan Corde(Human)CharacterSupporting Characters | (also known as Nyna Calixte), Cade was also a direct descendant of Luke | Luke Skywalker(Human)CharacterMajor Characters | and Anakin Skywalker | Anakin Skywalker(Human)CharacterMajor Characters | and a descendant of Ben Skywalker | Ben Skywalker(Human)CharacterMajor Characters | . Cade was also the nephew of Nat Skywalker (also known as "Bantha" Rawk) and his wife Droo Rawk, half-brother of Gunn Yage (though neither knew of the other's existence), cousin of Annah, and stepcousin of Skeeto, and Micah Rawk. Thousands of years before his birth, he appeared in Jedi | Jedi OrderOrganizationGalaxy-Wide Organizations | Master Q'Anilia's vision, along with his ancestors, Luke Skywalker, and Anakin Skywalker, who became Darth Vader | Darth Vader(Human)CharacterMajor Characters | , as well as Zayne Carrick | Zayne Carrick(Human)CharacterMajor Characters | , all of whom would be affected by the Muur Talisman. After his mother left him as a baby, Cade was raised as a Jedi by his father on Ossus where he would be apprenticed to his father's former apprentice, Wolf Sazen. He spent most of his childhood where he became close to Padawan Azlyn Rae. However, at the start of the Second Imperial Civil War, Cade turned his back on his heritage after being traumatized by watching his father's death | Massacre at OssusEventLegacy Era | at the hands of Darth Nihl | Nihl(Nagai)CharacterSupporting Characters | and the One Sith. After successfully reviving his master, he swore his revenge and eventually became a pirate and bounty hunter, operating from his personal starship, the Mynock with his longtime companions Jariah Syn | Jariah Syn(Human)CharacterSupporting Characters | and Deliah Blue | Deliah Blue(Zeltron)CharacterSupporting Characters | .After his existence and unique Force powers were discovered by Sith Lord Darth Krayt | Darth Krayt (A'Sharad Hett)(Human)CharacterMajor Characters | , Cade was unwillingly pulled into galactic affairs. Caught up in the power struggle between the Sith and the exiled Emperor Fel | Roan Fel(Human)CharacterSupporting Characters | , Cade became willing to do whatever it took to ensure he was left alone, but was eventually captured by the Sith. Following his capture, Krayt acknowledged that Cade had more power than he had ever seen in any Jedi, and offered him to join him and the Sith. Refusing his offer, Cade was forced to watch his friends die when Darth Maladi planted Yuuzhan Vong | Yuuzhan VongSentient Species | Yorik-Kul coral seeds. Cade had no option but to help both of his friends by using his anger to cure them at a great cost. With the dark side corrupting him, Cade was surprised that Krayt showed him his father's lightsaber and revealed his former identity as Jedi Master A'Sharad Hett. Skywalker was able to escape when he injured Nihl and Talon | Darth Talon(Twi'lek)CharacterSupporting Characters | . After being briefly captured by the Sith, Cade was reunited with his uncle and his childhood sweetheart, Azlyn Rae, who secretly became an Imperial Knight | Imperial KnightOrganizationFel Empire | . After arriving to the secret Hidden Temple on Taivas, and been followed by several Imperial Knights, Cade was angered by Azlyn's betrayal until he had met with the new Jedi Council members, K'Kruhk | K'Kruhk(Whiphid)CharacterMajor Characters | , Tili Qua and T'ra Saa. Together, they participated in a successful mission that saw the death of Darth Krayt. However, Krayt's traitorous advisor conspired to keep this fact a secret and appointed himself Regent over Krayt's Empire. After saving Azlyn's life, against her wishes, Cade and Azlyn's relationship fell apart. Angered by the destruction his actions continually caused, Cade left for Tatooine | TatooinePlanet | , where he began raiding Black Sun | Black SunOrganizationGalaxy-Wide Organizations | shipments. These events drew the attention of both his mother and his half-sister Gunn Yage.After leaving Tatooine, Cade and his crew accepted a recovery mission on Wayland | WaylandPlanet | , site of the failed Ossus Project. There, Cade encountered Darth Maladi, who was seeking to perfect a new Sith bioweapon. Cade attempted to heal Blue, who had been captured and implanted with the weapon, but to no avail. Wolf Sazen tracked Cade to Wayland and convinced him to use the light-side of the Force to heal Blue, which was successful. As a result of these events, Cade finally rejected the dark-side but resolved to not rejoin the Jedi Order, believing the Force shaped him for a different destiny, to destroy the One Sith. Cade set off on a quest for vengeance, accompanied by his friends. On Utapau | UtapauPlanet | , Skywalker killed Sith scientist Vul Isen and learned of Krayt's return from the dead. He would encounter his mother once more on the Wheel, where under the council of his father, forgave her and healed her from certain death. Shortly thereafter, Skywalker returned to the Jedi Hidden Temple on Taivas to defend against the incoming attack there. The battle was a disaster for the Jedi and its allied forces, and Nat Skywalker sacrificed his life to save that of his nephew. Distraught by his uncle's death, Cade led an elite strike team to shut down Coruscant | CoruscantPlanet | 's planetary defenses in the final battle of the war. Cade lost his former master in the fight, but succeeded in resisting temptation and as a Jedi, killed Krayt once and for all. To ensure the Dark Lord of the Sith would never return, Cade took his mother's ship to the planet's sun, where he intended to incinerate both himself and Krayt's body. However, under the guidance of Luke Skywalker, Cade escaped the doomed ship, and was rescued by Syn, R2-D2 | R2-D2(R2-series Astromech Droid)CharacterDroids | , and his lover, Deliah Blue. With the war over, Cade Skywalker set out for a distant place where the group could be in peace.Read more... |
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