Kazdan Paratus
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Kazdan Paratus was an Aleena Jedi Master and General who fought in the Clone Wars and survived Order 66.
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[edit] Biography
During the final days of the Republic, Jedi Master Kazdan Paratus was the Jedi Temple's head engineer, a position the Jedi Council appointed to him due to his skills as a 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 theses circumstances, he was forced to create his own troops that consisted of combat droids that he assembled using makeshift parts. This instance enabled him to escape the issuance of Order 66.
Driven insane by the loss of the Jedi, 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 Master'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 Master by crushing him with an avalanche of junk and scrap metal.
[edit] Behind the scenes
His name may be a reference to Lawrence Kasdan. "Paratus" means "prepared" in Latin, but the reference in his name is likely a play on "apparatus," an allusion to his mechanical limbs and other mechanical tinkerings. His mechanical arms are reminiscent of those of the Marvel Comics villain Doctor Octopus.
Kazdan Paratus is oddly absent from the graphic novel with the story skipping from Galen Marek's first encounter with Rahm Kota to the Executor then right to Felucia.
[edit] Appearances
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video game
- The Force Unleashed novel (First appearance)
