Character Intel: Kazdan Paratus

Kazdan Paratus

Kazdan Paratus was an Aleena Jedi Knight and General who fought in the Clone Wars and survived Order 66. Paratus, during his younger years, did not possess the detachment most Jedi needed in order to pass the Jedi Trials. Paratus preferred to hole himself in his room and to build droids for the Temple. 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, 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 created an army of personally customized combat droids to protect himself from intruders. 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. Kazdan moved all of his forces against Vader's apprentice, Starkiller, who had been sent 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 "I'm sorry, Masters. I've failed you again…"

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.