Post by Cad Bane on Feb 16, 2012 14:47:11 GMT -5
Name: Cad Bane
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Race/Species: Duros
Alliance: Highest bidder
Rank: Bounty hunter
Weapons and other items: Bane used an impressive arsenal of weapons and tools to ensure that he would be well-prepared for any situation that might arise.He carried a set of personalized twin blaster pistols customized from BlasTech Industries' LL-30 model and wore a set of quick-draw holsters made of scuffed nerf-hide to hold them at his waist. He also kept explosives, a concealed bola, and a smaller, alternate pistol as extra weapons. When necessary, he used shots of cortosis to short out lightsabers; though cortosis was high-priced and "hell on barrels," it got the job done. His tools included a durasteel ice pick, which he kept in his gun belt.He utilized removable cybernetic breathing tubes that were embedded in his cheekbones; they were directly connected to his windpipe, allowing him to work freely in the harshest atmospheres without requiring additional protection. Bane's durasteel magno-grip boots were equipped with customized Mitrinomon jetpack thrusters, and his bulky but useful multipurpose wrist gauntlets hid a variety of control devices, built-in tools, and weapons, including a cable launcher, comlink, data uplink, lanyard, non-lethal contact stunners, and a flamethrower. Bane's gear itself was designed to counteract the abilities of Force-users; his external breathing tubes prevented him from being Force-choked, and his rocket boots rivaled a Jedi's Force speed. His usual choice of clothing included a wide-brimmed hat and a Nashtah-hide tunic with a heavy cloak.
Bane owned the techno-service droid Todo 360, whom he used for a number of missions. Despite the droid's resentment of such disparagement, Bane viewed him as a "butler droid." He eventually used Todo as a decoy at the Jedi Temple to distract the Jedi, sacrificing the droid to make his own escape. Bane made use of a number of modified starships for his operations. He utilized The Sleight of Hand, a Telgorn dropship with formidable weapons systems that he personally outfitted and customized with military-grade gear and an advanced hyperdrive to suit his needs as a transport vessel. A sophisticated sensor jammer even rendered the dropship invisible to most scanners. Though the craft was stolen from him by Kul Teska on Ryloth, Bane later recovered it from him. He also flew the Xanadu Blood, a heavily modified Rogue-class Porax-38 starfighter that was given to him by Darth Sidious. Although its layers of paint were chipped, the fighter served Bane well in his hunt for Force-sensitive infants. After his capture on Naboo, his ship was left with the Jedi on board the Resolute.
Lightsaber design: None
Lightsaber color: None
Lightsaber form: None
Relationship: Single
Height/Weight: 5'9" @ 120 lbs.
Image:
Description:
Cad Bane wears a cowboy hat, with cybernetic breathing tubes. His skin is blue-green and he has red eyes.
Personality:
One of the galaxy's most lethal, ruthless, fearsome, and deadly bounty hunters, Cad Bane earned the reputation of the foremost blaster-for-hire during the Clone Wars,filling the position that fellow mercenary Jango Fett vacated when he perished (or was presumed dead) on Geonosis at the beginning of the conflict.Quintessentially cold, cruel, and calculating, Bane was unscrupulousand had much less moral content than Fett, often turning upon his own clients unless he was paid and ignoring the morality of his work. Bane's loyalty was ultimately to credits and therefore to the highest bidder who offered them.His usual rate was considerable, but so was his reputation, to the point that his quarries knew that nothing would stop him from capturing them. Bane regarded credits with the highest importance, and although he did not pass up the opportunity to demand more pay from his clients when one arose, he was very dedicated to his work if paid the right amount for it,taking on jobs that were considered to be tough, costly, and even impossible. It was said that he could not be stopped and would pursue his prey across the galaxy if necessary, no matter how dangerous the missionor the target; he even enjoyed difficult assignments. He was both respected and feared in his line of work, and he would not let anyone stand in his way. As a bounty hunter, Bane practiced some amount of autonomy and did not place his trust in others easily or often, believing that the best way to ensure that a task was completed was to do it himself. As such, when his frigate was crippled over Devaron, he ordered his battle droid crew to transfer full control of the ship to his wrist-com. Although he did not always operate alone, he usually worked solo, as doing so gave him the freedom of improvisation and the advantage of more credits that did not have to be split with others. When he recognized that the job was big enough, he employed his fellow hunters for added assistance, though he preferred to keep both his methods for selecting comrades for joint operations and his introduction into the bounty business itself obscure to the galaxy at large. He proved his skill as a leader while commanding the posse that he formed to free Ziro the Hutt from Republic prison, and his assured manner and brutal methods earned him respect from his subordinates. Bane displayed a lack of concern for his accomplices, caring little what happened to his team after they had liberated Ziro, provided that they avoided being captured by the Republic. Additionally, when his comrade, Cato Parasitti, was captured by the Jedi during their joint operation of infiltrating the Jedi Temple, Bane did not attempt to rescue her. Instead, he ignored her plight and left her in the Jedi's custody to continue his work for Darth Sidious.Bane even swore to return the "favor" when Parasitti tipped the Jedi off to his next target.
Crafty,resourceful, vicious, and "brutally ruthless,"Bane was good at what he did.He was a clever strategist and carefully planned his trap for the Jedi at Devaron; he was willing to sacrifice anything, even an entire Trade Federation fleet, to lure the Jedi into it.Displays of his astuteness included his arrangement for rival mercenary Davtokk to unwittingly serve as a test for his own team of hunters, his wily pilferage of the murdered Denal's armor to ensure his own escape from the Jedi at Devaron, and his ruse for Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi at Black Stall Station that enabled him to make another getaway.The fact that Bane was able to free Ziro the Hutt with considerable and consummate ease was a testament to his overall abilities. He chose to orchestrate his raid on the Senate during guard shift changes to maximize his operation's element of surprise—and his casualties—by eliminating the majority of the active Senate security all at once, showing his opponents no mercy. As a highly skilled mercenary, Bane was a cunning fighter and was proficient in both armed and unarmed combat. Despite his penchant for a good fight, he preferred to use stealth and surprise tactics to avoid a direct fight when possible. Although laconic, Bane could be quite bold and impudent to higher authorities like Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who was outraged by his audacity, and the Jedi. He was fearless and "unflappable" in the face of danger, and he remained undaunted by the Senate Commandos' attempt to arrest him, the Chancellor's threats of retribution for his crimes, and the Jedi's interrogation of him aboard the Resolute. During the latter situation, Bane refused to disclose the identity of his wealthy and powerful Sith Lord client to his Jedi questioners, though Windu attributed his lack of submission to the questioning to his fear of his hirer.
Bane's heavy restrictions on the allotment of his trust led him to develop several special skills—including the ability to gather, organize, and make use of data necessary to controlling situations—that rivaled his adeptness at creating chaos. He preferred that everything operated his way, and his perennial belief in the chance that someone was after him fueled his skill for staying ahead of his opponents. He valued security over punctuality, and while preparing to land on Bogg V, he did not hesitate to spend an extra two hours executing a roundabout landing course to ensure that he was not being followed, regardless of the setback that such a detour caused his waiting client. He made sure that he did not place all of his trust in starship sensors and developed several habits, including the constant monitoring of shipboard displays and reports, as part of his ongoing routine to ensure that he would not become a victim to anyone or anything, faulty technology included. Besides his practices of extra caution, Bane did not waste his time while out of combat, using a hyperspace trip from Kynachi to Bogg V as an opportunity to hone and broaden his bounty hunting skills through watching a pirated Bounty Hunters' Guild's Greatest Hits holovid.
Although he did so with the intention of adding to his arsenal the Guild's exclusive techniques for killing amphibious targets that were included in the holovid, he only received a few laughs from watching the film's portrayal of the entertainingly disagreeable pair of Guild leader Cradossk and his son, Bossk, both contemporaries of his. A talented actor, Bane was able to deceive Nuru Kungurama, Lalo Gunn, and a squad of clone troopers while on Kynachi, though the troopers eventually came to mistrust him. He secretly manipulated the group into raiding the KynachTech prison by staging an elaborate fight with a few droid commandos to mask his machinations. To gain the group's trust, Bane revealed that he was a bounty hunter; regardless of the risk he took in doing so, he knew that it was easier to deceive someone by telling most of the truth rather than a complete lie.
Bane "specialized" in fighting Jedi and did not fear them like other bounty hunters did.Although he developed a certain level of respect for them and their abilities, he was not intimidated by the Force and believed that they sometimes placed too much faith in it. He was capable of posing a significant challenge to the Jedi, and he even welcomed the chance to test his abilities against the "legendary prowess" of the Jedi Knights. In the case of Ring-Sol Ambase, Bane would have gladly killed his Jedi target on the spot, but did not do so because he had not been contracted for such an exploit. Though not Force-sensitive himself, Bane evened the odds against his Jedi opponents by employing his surroundings as weapons, countering Anakin Skywalker and his forces at Devaron with his ship's functions and escaping from Black Stall Station by maneuvering Kenobi and Windu into a deadly laser grid. Bane was quite pleased when Shahan Alama and Aurra Sing defeated the formidable Skywalker during the Senate hostage crisis. Despite the fact that his will was too strong to be bend by Jedi mind tricks, the influence exerted by the combined forces of Skywalker, Windu, and Kenobi forced him to submit to their demands.Although he would have enjoyed taking down down the likes of Skywalker and Kenobi, Bane did not let personal feelings get in the way of his work.Even so, he pursued Kul Teska—a "competitor" of his—to Behpour after Teska retrieved the Gravitic Core and stole the bounty hunter's ship on Ryloth. Bane took his revenge on Teska by firing at him, disabling his rocket thrusters during his fight with Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano. Regardless of how tough he was, however, Bane always kept his cool under control.
Seeing as no client was too "wicked" for him,the grim-faced Bane worked for the shadowy Darth Sidious numerous times during the war, as the bounty hunter's reputation was distinguished enough to attract Sidious's attention. When Sidious recruited his services for infiltrating the Jedi Temple, Bane believed the mission to be a "tough challenge," if not impossible and foolhardy. However, he immediately agreed to the "costly assignment"—and requested triple his normal rate—when Sidious suggested that his reputation had been exaggerated. Bane took pleasure in striking fear in his quarries and captives,as evidenced by his treatment of the senators during his brazen hostage-taking in the Senate. He responded to Senator Philo's refusal to submit to his "insolence" by killing Philo without hesitation, showing the other senators that he meant business. Bolla Ropal's refusal to help Bane open the holocron prompted the mercenary to intensify his torture of the Jedi Master, ultimately killing him. Bane deemed Ropal's sacrifice to be foolish and held little regard for his life,walking away from the murder scene without a backward glance and seeing the death as only a "slight delay" in achieving his objective. An arrogant killer, Bane was happy to cause collateral damage as part of his work. He did not take prisoners, preferring to obliterate all in his path to his intended victims, regardless of the trail of carnage he left; as such, he sought to kill his senator hostages even after he had negotiated for their release in exchange for Ziro the Hutt's freedom. He had no problems with going back on his word, exemplified in his discharge of the explosives that were trapping the senators in the Executive Building's atrium, even when his and his Hutt quarry's escape from the Senate had already been secured. When Skywalker attempted to attack him during the fight over Devaron, Bane opened his frigate's airlock and put Tano's life at risk, despite his bargaining just minutes before for her safe release.
History:
Early career
The Duros male Cad Bane lived during the last decades of the Galactic Republic and hailed from the planet Duro. He eventually became a bounty hunter, earning notoriety and a reputation as the galaxy's preeminent mercenary who operated solely for the financial reward of his missions. His renown ensured that he became feared and dreaded by his prey. Using a number of weapons and allies, Bane worked for the highest bidder, caring little for who employed him or the faction that his client represented, as long as he received his pay. His usual rate itself was quite considerable, and his allegiance to credits was so potent that if his quarry offered him a better fee, he had no qualms with turning on his original client. By the time Jango Fett—the bounty hunter considered to be the galaxy's best—was assumed dead in the opening battle of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY, Bane was something of a veteran in his line of work. With Fett presumingly out of the picture,Bane rose to be among the galaxy's most notorious, ruthless, and fearsome bounty hunters in operation during the war.
Bane utilized a number of locations as bases, from a base of operations in the Outer Rim's Rogue Antar system named Black Stall Station to a secret hideout on the planet Tatooine. He personally outfitted the former with several booby traps and a laser defense grid to stop his adversaries, countermeasures that no one was reportedly able to survive. Bane frequently worked with several "underworld dregs" in his operations; among their number was the shapeshifting Clawdite Cato Parasitti, a lethal assassin who shared his staunch loyalty to money. Parasitti subcontracted assignments for him and recruited extra help as he required.
During the war, Bane made use of The Sleight of Hand, a Telgorn dropship he extensively modified himself, the ion cannon of which he used many a time to disable merchant cargo ships. Bane's numerous encounters with Jedi furthered his respect for them and their Force powers to a certain degree, though he was not intimidated by them. His work in the bounty hunting business earned him some powerful enemies, and a considerable price was placed on his head.
The Clone Wars
In the war's second year, Bane was residing in a shabby hotel room on the galactic capital of Coruscant. He was eventually contacted through his compact holoprojector by the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who hired him to pursue a Jedi-led clone trooper squad that was heading to conduct an investigation on the planet Kynachi regarding the origins of the recently destroyed Separatist warship Malevolence. Though he raised his fee due to the involvement of a Jedi, Bane accepted the assignment and immediately left for Kynachi. After bypassing the Trade Federation's blockade of the planet and arriving on the Federation-controlled world, Bane recruited a food vendor to identify any strangers in a town on the planet. He provided the vendor with a special comlink that overrode the Federation's frequency jammer, which disrupted communications on the planet. The vendor later contacted Bane in the hotel where the bounty hunter was staying and reported that three robed men—two of whom were carrying blaster rifles—and a Chiss youngling were headed with the local Lalo Gunn to her diner. The men and the Chiss were in fact three Republic clone troopers and the Jedi Padawan Nuru Kungurama, respectively, who had been stranded on Kynachi after their ship had crash-landed there due to sabotage. Complying with Sidious's latest instructions, Bane proceeded to the diner and staged an elaborate deception in order to manipulate the group's actions, summoning four BX-series droid commandos to fake a fight with him at Gunn's starship, the Hasty Harpy.
After the battle droids attacked Kungurama and the clones and were destroyed by the Republic squad, Bane pretended that he had been blinded by a luma grenade, and troopers CT-5177, nicknamed "Chatterbox," and Knuckles found him lying on the ground in front of the diner. The clones brought Bane into the building, where Kungurama, Dunn, and trooper CT-8863, nicknamed "Breaker," questioned him on his identity and business. Taking the risk of revealing to the trio that he was a bounty hunter in order to more effectively deceive them, Bane lied and stated that the droid commandos had been trying to arrest him and had opened fire on him when he had tried to run away. When Gunn asked after the reasons for his presence on Kynachi, Bane flatly replied that a job had brought him to the planet, but Gunn, unsatisfied with his vagueness, put one of the fallen droids' E-5 blaster rifles to his forehead and demanded to know how he had bypassed the Trade Federation's blockade.
Bane fictitiously stated that he had been hired to break someone out of the KynachTech Industries factory prison and that his client had provided him with a datatape of the facility's schematics and pass codes to get through the Federation blockade. His disclosures earned him freedom from the blaster on his forehead. However, Bane also truthfully reported that earlier he had seen the factory's droid guards escorting four Republic troopers and an unconscious Ring-Sol Ambase, Kungurama's Jedi Master, into the prison. Unbeknownst to the Republic squad, Ambase was the quarry whom Sidious had hired Bane to capture alive. With the scenario that Bane had provided, Kungurama, determined to rescue his Master, developed a plan to have Breaker build a new droid—using parts from the disabled droid commandos and the Genetech brain of Gunn's navigation-turned-waiter droid, Teejay, who had been destroyed in the droid ambush—to gain access to and break into the prison. This idea was, in fact, the exact plan Bane had intended for Kungurama to devise.
Bane accompanied Chatterbox, Knuckles, and Gunn as they reconnoitered the prison, and then took them to the Kynachi spaceport's Docking Bay 21 to check out his ship,The Sleight of Hand, which the group planned to use to escape from the planet and break through the Trade Federation blockade once they had rescued the prisoners from the KynachTech prison. After completing their mission, the four returned to Gunn's transport, where Breaker and Kungurama were assembling the new droid. The unit was successfully reactivated and was renamed "Cleaver." Bane proposed a risky plan to break into the prison and liberate the captives, and the group proceeded to put the stratagem into motion. With Kungurama, Gunn, the troopers, and a poncho-adorned Bane posing as prisoners and Cleaver acting as their droid captor, they were admitted into the facility. Upon entering the prison, the members of the squad dropped their disguises and confronted the facility's Techno Union overseer, Umbrag. As Kungurama cornered Umbrag and demanded information from him, the Overseer inadvertently caused a battle droid to fire its blaster rifle. At the sound of blaster fire, Bane drew his pistols and began to shoot at the nearest battle droids, sparking a chaotic firefight. With the others' attention focused on the battle, Bane was able to slip away and capture Ring-Sol Ambase, who had been taken prisoner by battle droids. Bane placed the comatose Ambase in a transparisteelstasis pod to keep him in his near-death condition.
Bane eventually returned to the prison with Ambase's lightsaber and found Kungurama, Gunn, and the troopers, who had driven Umbrag away and had been reunited with the rest of their clone squad. Bane continued to deceive the group, stating that he had been unsuccessful in finding his previous quarry. Although the clones did not trust him, the bounty hunter gave Ambase's lightsaber to Kungurama with the lie that it was all he had found of Ambase; Bane received Kungurama's thanks before departing, though he refused to give the Padawan his name. Bane used a gravsled taken from the KynachTech factory to transport Ambase's stasis pod and returned to The Sleight of Hand in Docking Bay 21, bringing Ambase's body onto the vessel. Departing from the planet, Bane used his pass codes to bypass several Republic Navy Star Destroyers that had arrived in orbit of the world. After evading the cruisers and activating his ship's automated pilot mode, Bane returned to the main cabin and contacted Sidious, to whom he reported his success. The Sith Lord was pleased with the result and told Bane to deliver Ambase to Bogg V, the fifth moon of the Bogden system, before severing the connection.
During The Sleight of Hand's hyperspace trip to Bogg V, Bane passed the time by watching The Bounty Hunters' Guild's Greatest Hits: Volume VII, a collection of holorecorded assassinations compiled by the Bounty Hunters' Guild that featured the Guild's Trandoshan leader, Cradossk, and his son, Bossk. Bane also corrected a fluctuation in the Telgorn dropship's null quantum field generator and kept watch on Ambase's vital signs. When The Sleight of Hand exited hyperspace near the planet Bogden, Bane piloted his ship to the starship traffic–heavy Bogg V and obtained his landing coordinates from a satellite in orbit of the moon. Although his designated landing area—an unpopulated spot north of Mong'tar City—was empty save for a waiting Punworcca 116-class interstellar sloop, he spent the next two hours circling the vicinity to ensure that he was not being followed. Once he had confirmed as much, he touched down near the solar sailer and met with the Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress, an agent of Sidious's associate, the Confederate Head of State Count Dooku. After showing Ventress how to operate Ambase's stasis pod, the monitor of which frequently built up with ice that required an ice pick to break, Bane handed the inert Ambase over to her and completed the transaction. He then received Sidious's next assignment from her and left for the planet Bilbringii to execute the job.
Skills and Abilities:Given his formidable reputation, Bane was a highly skilled mercenary. He possessed a "stoic tolerance" for pain and Jedi mind tricks, the latter of which he was normally—though not always—immune to. A cunning fighter who was skilled in the various forms of the art of combat, Bane was well known for his prowess in combat and was one of the deadliest beings in the galaxy with a blaster. Said to rarely miss a target, he was able to hit moving targets, such as clone troopers during the firefight aboard his frigate. Although Ahsoka Tano got the better of him during that engagement by disarming him, he simply used her "victory" as a distraction to electrocute her and take her hostage. In addition to a proficiency in armed combat, Bane's formidable skills included a talent in unarmed combat; he was quite acrobatic and was able to swiftly dispatch his opponents whether they were clone troopers during his escape from the Resolute or Captain Jayfon during the Senate hostage crisis. Despite not being Force-sensitive, he was able to hold his own against Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Quinlan Vos during a fight on Teth. Although he specialized in fighting Jedi, he was defeated and captured on Naboo by Tano and Anakin Skywalker, though he later managed to escape. Overall, however, Bane was not particularly athletically powerful; he instead relied on mechanical aids and sharply honed wits to survive outside of his native environment.
Yourself
Name- Ashley
Age-22
Years of (RP) experience- Four
Character Roster- Padme, Kayla Solo
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Race/Species: Duros
Alliance: Highest bidder
Rank: Bounty hunter
Weapons and other items: Bane used an impressive arsenal of weapons and tools to ensure that he would be well-prepared for any situation that might arise.He carried a set of personalized twin blaster pistols customized from BlasTech Industries' LL-30 model and wore a set of quick-draw holsters made of scuffed nerf-hide to hold them at his waist. He also kept explosives, a concealed bola, and a smaller, alternate pistol as extra weapons. When necessary, he used shots of cortosis to short out lightsabers; though cortosis was high-priced and "hell on barrels," it got the job done. His tools included a durasteel ice pick, which he kept in his gun belt.He utilized removable cybernetic breathing tubes that were embedded in his cheekbones; they were directly connected to his windpipe, allowing him to work freely in the harshest atmospheres without requiring additional protection. Bane's durasteel magno-grip boots were equipped with customized Mitrinomon jetpack thrusters, and his bulky but useful multipurpose wrist gauntlets hid a variety of control devices, built-in tools, and weapons, including a cable launcher, comlink, data uplink, lanyard, non-lethal contact stunners, and a flamethrower. Bane's gear itself was designed to counteract the abilities of Force-users; his external breathing tubes prevented him from being Force-choked, and his rocket boots rivaled a Jedi's Force speed. His usual choice of clothing included a wide-brimmed hat and a Nashtah-hide tunic with a heavy cloak.
Bane owned the techno-service droid Todo 360, whom he used for a number of missions. Despite the droid's resentment of such disparagement, Bane viewed him as a "butler droid." He eventually used Todo as a decoy at the Jedi Temple to distract the Jedi, sacrificing the droid to make his own escape. Bane made use of a number of modified starships for his operations. He utilized The Sleight of Hand, a Telgorn dropship with formidable weapons systems that he personally outfitted and customized with military-grade gear and an advanced hyperdrive to suit his needs as a transport vessel. A sophisticated sensor jammer even rendered the dropship invisible to most scanners. Though the craft was stolen from him by Kul Teska on Ryloth, Bane later recovered it from him. He also flew the Xanadu Blood, a heavily modified Rogue-class Porax-38 starfighter that was given to him by Darth Sidious. Although its layers of paint were chipped, the fighter served Bane well in his hunt for Force-sensitive infants. After his capture on Naboo, his ship was left with the Jedi on board the Resolute.
Lightsaber design: None
Lightsaber color: None
Lightsaber form: None
Relationship: Single
Height/Weight: 5'9" @ 120 lbs.
Image:
Description:
Cad Bane wears a cowboy hat, with cybernetic breathing tubes. His skin is blue-green and he has red eyes.
Personality:
One of the galaxy's most lethal, ruthless, fearsome, and deadly bounty hunters, Cad Bane earned the reputation of the foremost blaster-for-hire during the Clone Wars,filling the position that fellow mercenary Jango Fett vacated when he perished (or was presumed dead) on Geonosis at the beginning of the conflict.Quintessentially cold, cruel, and calculating, Bane was unscrupulousand had much less moral content than Fett, often turning upon his own clients unless he was paid and ignoring the morality of his work. Bane's loyalty was ultimately to credits and therefore to the highest bidder who offered them.His usual rate was considerable, but so was his reputation, to the point that his quarries knew that nothing would stop him from capturing them. Bane regarded credits with the highest importance, and although he did not pass up the opportunity to demand more pay from his clients when one arose, he was very dedicated to his work if paid the right amount for it,taking on jobs that were considered to be tough, costly, and even impossible. It was said that he could not be stopped and would pursue his prey across the galaxy if necessary, no matter how dangerous the missionor the target; he even enjoyed difficult assignments. He was both respected and feared in his line of work, and he would not let anyone stand in his way. As a bounty hunter, Bane practiced some amount of autonomy and did not place his trust in others easily or often, believing that the best way to ensure that a task was completed was to do it himself. As such, when his frigate was crippled over Devaron, he ordered his battle droid crew to transfer full control of the ship to his wrist-com. Although he did not always operate alone, he usually worked solo, as doing so gave him the freedom of improvisation and the advantage of more credits that did not have to be split with others. When he recognized that the job was big enough, he employed his fellow hunters for added assistance, though he preferred to keep both his methods for selecting comrades for joint operations and his introduction into the bounty business itself obscure to the galaxy at large. He proved his skill as a leader while commanding the posse that he formed to free Ziro the Hutt from Republic prison, and his assured manner and brutal methods earned him respect from his subordinates. Bane displayed a lack of concern for his accomplices, caring little what happened to his team after they had liberated Ziro, provided that they avoided being captured by the Republic. Additionally, when his comrade, Cato Parasitti, was captured by the Jedi during their joint operation of infiltrating the Jedi Temple, Bane did not attempt to rescue her. Instead, he ignored her plight and left her in the Jedi's custody to continue his work for Darth Sidious.Bane even swore to return the "favor" when Parasitti tipped the Jedi off to his next target.
Crafty,resourceful, vicious, and "brutally ruthless,"Bane was good at what he did.He was a clever strategist and carefully planned his trap for the Jedi at Devaron; he was willing to sacrifice anything, even an entire Trade Federation fleet, to lure the Jedi into it.Displays of his astuteness included his arrangement for rival mercenary Davtokk to unwittingly serve as a test for his own team of hunters, his wily pilferage of the murdered Denal's armor to ensure his own escape from the Jedi at Devaron, and his ruse for Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi at Black Stall Station that enabled him to make another getaway.The fact that Bane was able to free Ziro the Hutt with considerable and consummate ease was a testament to his overall abilities. He chose to orchestrate his raid on the Senate during guard shift changes to maximize his operation's element of surprise—and his casualties—by eliminating the majority of the active Senate security all at once, showing his opponents no mercy. As a highly skilled mercenary, Bane was a cunning fighter and was proficient in both armed and unarmed combat. Despite his penchant for a good fight, he preferred to use stealth and surprise tactics to avoid a direct fight when possible. Although laconic, Bane could be quite bold and impudent to higher authorities like Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who was outraged by his audacity, and the Jedi. He was fearless and "unflappable" in the face of danger, and he remained undaunted by the Senate Commandos' attempt to arrest him, the Chancellor's threats of retribution for his crimes, and the Jedi's interrogation of him aboard the Resolute. During the latter situation, Bane refused to disclose the identity of his wealthy and powerful Sith Lord client to his Jedi questioners, though Windu attributed his lack of submission to the questioning to his fear of his hirer.
Bane's heavy restrictions on the allotment of his trust led him to develop several special skills—including the ability to gather, organize, and make use of data necessary to controlling situations—that rivaled his adeptness at creating chaos. He preferred that everything operated his way, and his perennial belief in the chance that someone was after him fueled his skill for staying ahead of his opponents. He valued security over punctuality, and while preparing to land on Bogg V, he did not hesitate to spend an extra two hours executing a roundabout landing course to ensure that he was not being followed, regardless of the setback that such a detour caused his waiting client. He made sure that he did not place all of his trust in starship sensors and developed several habits, including the constant monitoring of shipboard displays and reports, as part of his ongoing routine to ensure that he would not become a victim to anyone or anything, faulty technology included. Besides his practices of extra caution, Bane did not waste his time while out of combat, using a hyperspace trip from Kynachi to Bogg V as an opportunity to hone and broaden his bounty hunting skills through watching a pirated Bounty Hunters' Guild's Greatest Hits holovid.
Although he did so with the intention of adding to his arsenal the Guild's exclusive techniques for killing amphibious targets that were included in the holovid, he only received a few laughs from watching the film's portrayal of the entertainingly disagreeable pair of Guild leader Cradossk and his son, Bossk, both contemporaries of his. A talented actor, Bane was able to deceive Nuru Kungurama, Lalo Gunn, and a squad of clone troopers while on Kynachi, though the troopers eventually came to mistrust him. He secretly manipulated the group into raiding the KynachTech prison by staging an elaborate fight with a few droid commandos to mask his machinations. To gain the group's trust, Bane revealed that he was a bounty hunter; regardless of the risk he took in doing so, he knew that it was easier to deceive someone by telling most of the truth rather than a complete lie.
Bane "specialized" in fighting Jedi and did not fear them like other bounty hunters did.Although he developed a certain level of respect for them and their abilities, he was not intimidated by the Force and believed that they sometimes placed too much faith in it. He was capable of posing a significant challenge to the Jedi, and he even welcomed the chance to test his abilities against the "legendary prowess" of the Jedi Knights. In the case of Ring-Sol Ambase, Bane would have gladly killed his Jedi target on the spot, but did not do so because he had not been contracted for such an exploit. Though not Force-sensitive himself, Bane evened the odds against his Jedi opponents by employing his surroundings as weapons, countering Anakin Skywalker and his forces at Devaron with his ship's functions and escaping from Black Stall Station by maneuvering Kenobi and Windu into a deadly laser grid. Bane was quite pleased when Shahan Alama and Aurra Sing defeated the formidable Skywalker during the Senate hostage crisis. Despite the fact that his will was too strong to be bend by Jedi mind tricks, the influence exerted by the combined forces of Skywalker, Windu, and Kenobi forced him to submit to their demands.Although he would have enjoyed taking down down the likes of Skywalker and Kenobi, Bane did not let personal feelings get in the way of his work.Even so, he pursued Kul Teska—a "competitor" of his—to Behpour after Teska retrieved the Gravitic Core and stole the bounty hunter's ship on Ryloth. Bane took his revenge on Teska by firing at him, disabling his rocket thrusters during his fight with Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano. Regardless of how tough he was, however, Bane always kept his cool under control.
Seeing as no client was too "wicked" for him,the grim-faced Bane worked for the shadowy Darth Sidious numerous times during the war, as the bounty hunter's reputation was distinguished enough to attract Sidious's attention. When Sidious recruited his services for infiltrating the Jedi Temple, Bane believed the mission to be a "tough challenge," if not impossible and foolhardy. However, he immediately agreed to the "costly assignment"—and requested triple his normal rate—when Sidious suggested that his reputation had been exaggerated. Bane took pleasure in striking fear in his quarries and captives,as evidenced by his treatment of the senators during his brazen hostage-taking in the Senate. He responded to Senator Philo's refusal to submit to his "insolence" by killing Philo without hesitation, showing the other senators that he meant business. Bolla Ropal's refusal to help Bane open the holocron prompted the mercenary to intensify his torture of the Jedi Master, ultimately killing him. Bane deemed Ropal's sacrifice to be foolish and held little regard for his life,walking away from the murder scene without a backward glance and seeing the death as only a "slight delay" in achieving his objective. An arrogant killer, Bane was happy to cause collateral damage as part of his work. He did not take prisoners, preferring to obliterate all in his path to his intended victims, regardless of the trail of carnage he left; as such, he sought to kill his senator hostages even after he had negotiated for their release in exchange for Ziro the Hutt's freedom. He had no problems with going back on his word, exemplified in his discharge of the explosives that were trapping the senators in the Executive Building's atrium, even when his and his Hutt quarry's escape from the Senate had already been secured. When Skywalker attempted to attack him during the fight over Devaron, Bane opened his frigate's airlock and put Tano's life at risk, despite his bargaining just minutes before for her safe release.
History:
Early career
The Duros male Cad Bane lived during the last decades of the Galactic Republic and hailed from the planet Duro. He eventually became a bounty hunter, earning notoriety and a reputation as the galaxy's preeminent mercenary who operated solely for the financial reward of his missions. His renown ensured that he became feared and dreaded by his prey. Using a number of weapons and allies, Bane worked for the highest bidder, caring little for who employed him or the faction that his client represented, as long as he received his pay. His usual rate itself was quite considerable, and his allegiance to credits was so potent that if his quarry offered him a better fee, he had no qualms with turning on his original client. By the time Jango Fett—the bounty hunter considered to be the galaxy's best—was assumed dead in the opening battle of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY, Bane was something of a veteran in his line of work. With Fett presumingly out of the picture,Bane rose to be among the galaxy's most notorious, ruthless, and fearsome bounty hunters in operation during the war.
Bane utilized a number of locations as bases, from a base of operations in the Outer Rim's Rogue Antar system named Black Stall Station to a secret hideout on the planet Tatooine. He personally outfitted the former with several booby traps and a laser defense grid to stop his adversaries, countermeasures that no one was reportedly able to survive. Bane frequently worked with several "underworld dregs" in his operations; among their number was the shapeshifting Clawdite Cato Parasitti, a lethal assassin who shared his staunch loyalty to money. Parasitti subcontracted assignments for him and recruited extra help as he required.
During the war, Bane made use of The Sleight of Hand, a Telgorn dropship he extensively modified himself, the ion cannon of which he used many a time to disable merchant cargo ships. Bane's numerous encounters with Jedi furthered his respect for them and their Force powers to a certain degree, though he was not intimidated by them. His work in the bounty hunting business earned him some powerful enemies, and a considerable price was placed on his head.
The Clone Wars
In the war's second year, Bane was residing in a shabby hotel room on the galactic capital of Coruscant. He was eventually contacted through his compact holoprojector by the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who hired him to pursue a Jedi-led clone trooper squad that was heading to conduct an investigation on the planet Kynachi regarding the origins of the recently destroyed Separatist warship Malevolence. Though he raised his fee due to the involvement of a Jedi, Bane accepted the assignment and immediately left for Kynachi. After bypassing the Trade Federation's blockade of the planet and arriving on the Federation-controlled world, Bane recruited a food vendor to identify any strangers in a town on the planet. He provided the vendor with a special comlink that overrode the Federation's frequency jammer, which disrupted communications on the planet. The vendor later contacted Bane in the hotel where the bounty hunter was staying and reported that three robed men—two of whom were carrying blaster rifles—and a Chiss youngling were headed with the local Lalo Gunn to her diner. The men and the Chiss were in fact three Republic clone troopers and the Jedi Padawan Nuru Kungurama, respectively, who had been stranded on Kynachi after their ship had crash-landed there due to sabotage. Complying with Sidious's latest instructions, Bane proceeded to the diner and staged an elaborate deception in order to manipulate the group's actions, summoning four BX-series droid commandos to fake a fight with him at Gunn's starship, the Hasty Harpy.
After the battle droids attacked Kungurama and the clones and were destroyed by the Republic squad, Bane pretended that he had been blinded by a luma grenade, and troopers CT-5177, nicknamed "Chatterbox," and Knuckles found him lying on the ground in front of the diner. The clones brought Bane into the building, where Kungurama, Dunn, and trooper CT-8863, nicknamed "Breaker," questioned him on his identity and business. Taking the risk of revealing to the trio that he was a bounty hunter in order to more effectively deceive them, Bane lied and stated that the droid commandos had been trying to arrest him and had opened fire on him when he had tried to run away. When Gunn asked after the reasons for his presence on Kynachi, Bane flatly replied that a job had brought him to the planet, but Gunn, unsatisfied with his vagueness, put one of the fallen droids' E-5 blaster rifles to his forehead and demanded to know how he had bypassed the Trade Federation's blockade.
Bane fictitiously stated that he had been hired to break someone out of the KynachTech Industries factory prison and that his client had provided him with a datatape of the facility's schematics and pass codes to get through the Federation blockade. His disclosures earned him freedom from the blaster on his forehead. However, Bane also truthfully reported that earlier he had seen the factory's droid guards escorting four Republic troopers and an unconscious Ring-Sol Ambase, Kungurama's Jedi Master, into the prison. Unbeknownst to the Republic squad, Ambase was the quarry whom Sidious had hired Bane to capture alive. With the scenario that Bane had provided, Kungurama, determined to rescue his Master, developed a plan to have Breaker build a new droid—using parts from the disabled droid commandos and the Genetech brain of Gunn's navigation-turned-waiter droid, Teejay, who had been destroyed in the droid ambush—to gain access to and break into the prison. This idea was, in fact, the exact plan Bane had intended for Kungurama to devise.
Bane accompanied Chatterbox, Knuckles, and Gunn as they reconnoitered the prison, and then took them to the Kynachi spaceport's Docking Bay 21 to check out his ship,The Sleight of Hand, which the group planned to use to escape from the planet and break through the Trade Federation blockade once they had rescued the prisoners from the KynachTech prison. After completing their mission, the four returned to Gunn's transport, where Breaker and Kungurama were assembling the new droid. The unit was successfully reactivated and was renamed "Cleaver." Bane proposed a risky plan to break into the prison and liberate the captives, and the group proceeded to put the stratagem into motion. With Kungurama, Gunn, the troopers, and a poncho-adorned Bane posing as prisoners and Cleaver acting as their droid captor, they were admitted into the facility. Upon entering the prison, the members of the squad dropped their disguises and confronted the facility's Techno Union overseer, Umbrag. As Kungurama cornered Umbrag and demanded information from him, the Overseer inadvertently caused a battle droid to fire its blaster rifle. At the sound of blaster fire, Bane drew his pistols and began to shoot at the nearest battle droids, sparking a chaotic firefight. With the others' attention focused on the battle, Bane was able to slip away and capture Ring-Sol Ambase, who had been taken prisoner by battle droids. Bane placed the comatose Ambase in a transparisteelstasis pod to keep him in his near-death condition.
Bane eventually returned to the prison with Ambase's lightsaber and found Kungurama, Gunn, and the troopers, who had driven Umbrag away and had been reunited with the rest of their clone squad. Bane continued to deceive the group, stating that he had been unsuccessful in finding his previous quarry. Although the clones did not trust him, the bounty hunter gave Ambase's lightsaber to Kungurama with the lie that it was all he had found of Ambase; Bane received Kungurama's thanks before departing, though he refused to give the Padawan his name. Bane used a gravsled taken from the KynachTech factory to transport Ambase's stasis pod and returned to The Sleight of Hand in Docking Bay 21, bringing Ambase's body onto the vessel. Departing from the planet, Bane used his pass codes to bypass several Republic Navy Star Destroyers that had arrived in orbit of the world. After evading the cruisers and activating his ship's automated pilot mode, Bane returned to the main cabin and contacted Sidious, to whom he reported his success. The Sith Lord was pleased with the result and told Bane to deliver Ambase to Bogg V, the fifth moon of the Bogden system, before severing the connection.
During The Sleight of Hand's hyperspace trip to Bogg V, Bane passed the time by watching The Bounty Hunters' Guild's Greatest Hits: Volume VII, a collection of holorecorded assassinations compiled by the Bounty Hunters' Guild that featured the Guild's Trandoshan leader, Cradossk, and his son, Bossk. Bane also corrected a fluctuation in the Telgorn dropship's null quantum field generator and kept watch on Ambase's vital signs. When The Sleight of Hand exited hyperspace near the planet Bogden, Bane piloted his ship to the starship traffic–heavy Bogg V and obtained his landing coordinates from a satellite in orbit of the moon. Although his designated landing area—an unpopulated spot north of Mong'tar City—was empty save for a waiting Punworcca 116-class interstellar sloop, he spent the next two hours circling the vicinity to ensure that he was not being followed. Once he had confirmed as much, he touched down near the solar sailer and met with the Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress, an agent of Sidious's associate, the Confederate Head of State Count Dooku. After showing Ventress how to operate Ambase's stasis pod, the monitor of which frequently built up with ice that required an ice pick to break, Bane handed the inert Ambase over to her and completed the transaction. He then received Sidious's next assignment from her and left for the planet Bilbringii to execute the job.
Skills and Abilities:Given his formidable reputation, Bane was a highly skilled mercenary. He possessed a "stoic tolerance" for pain and Jedi mind tricks, the latter of which he was normally—though not always—immune to. A cunning fighter who was skilled in the various forms of the art of combat, Bane was well known for his prowess in combat and was one of the deadliest beings in the galaxy with a blaster. Said to rarely miss a target, he was able to hit moving targets, such as clone troopers during the firefight aboard his frigate. Although Ahsoka Tano got the better of him during that engagement by disarming him, he simply used her "victory" as a distraction to electrocute her and take her hostage. In addition to a proficiency in armed combat, Bane's formidable skills included a talent in unarmed combat; he was quite acrobatic and was able to swiftly dispatch his opponents whether they were clone troopers during his escape from the Resolute or Captain Jayfon during the Senate hostage crisis. Despite not being Force-sensitive, he was able to hold his own against Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Quinlan Vos during a fight on Teth. Although he specialized in fighting Jedi, he was defeated and captured on Naboo by Tano and Anakin Skywalker, though he later managed to escape. Overall, however, Bane was not particularly athletically powerful; he instead relied on mechanical aids and sharply honed wits to survive outside of his native environment.
Yourself
Name- Ashley
Age-22
Years of (RP) experience- Four
Character Roster- Padme, Kayla Solo
