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| |type = Sith | | |type=Dark |
| |firstname=Kandos Katarn | | |image= |
| |homeworld=[[starwars:Pydyr|Pydyr]] | | |firstname=Kandos |
| |birth=[[1 ABY to 10 ABY|01/05/1ABY]] | | |lastname=Katarn |
| |death=N/A
| | |homeworld=Unknown |
| | |birth=5BBY |
| |species=Human | | |species=Human |
| |gender=Male | | |gender=Male |
| |hair=Brown | | |hair=Brown |
| |eyes=Solid Black | | |eyes=Blue |
| |height=1.82 meters | | |height=1.82 meters |
| |weight=80 kg | | |mother=Jalie Katarn |
| |era=[[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]] | | |father=Paulos Katarn |
| | |children=None |
| | |spouse=None |
| | |allies=[[Rins'zler Sang-Kalinor]], [[Edema R'uh-Kalinor]], [[Ood Bnar Sythe'rae]] |
| | |saber=Red |
| | |form=Soresu |
| | |weapons=Lightsaber, BlasTech A280C Blaster Rifle, Vibrodagger, Grenades |
| | |fightingstyle=Teras Kasi |
| | |profession=[[starwars:Assassin|Assassin]], [[starwars:Bounty hunter|Bounty Hunter]] |
| | |era=* [[Rise of the Brotherhood era]] |
| | * [[Exodus era]] |
| |affiliation=[[Rogue]] | | |affiliation=[[Rogue]] |
| |ship= | | |ship=[[starwars:Fang fighter|Fang Fighter]] |
| |dossier=[[dossier:2779|2779]] | | |dossier=[[dossier:2779|2779]] |
| |nocat=true
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| | == Summary == |
| | Kandos Katarn is a human male, born on a planet he doesn't remember, kidnapped by the Empire when he was 10 years old and trained to be a Force-sensitive assassin. After escaping this brutal life, he drifted for a number of years taking on Bounty Hunting and assassination jobs, before finally finding a home amungst the Brotherhood. After five years in the Brotherhood he went Rogue and has seemingly retired from the galaxy, but who knows if he may return one day. |
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| == Character History == | | == Character History == |
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| === The Early Years (1ABY - 16ABY) === | | === Childhood === |
| Kandos was born on an ex-Imperial colony on the planet [[starwars:Pydyr|Pydyr]], as a very young child it was discovered that he had a higher than normal [[starwars:Midichlorian|midichlorian]] count and the local Warlord, by the name of Turan Sek, had him kidnapped and his parents arrested. Kandos grew up in a facility on the other side of the planet and was trained up to be the personal assassin of Warlord Sek. This training was provided by the Warlord’s many soldiers, including one of the few Mandalorians left in the galaxy. | | Kandos knows nothing about the planet he was born on, and remembers little of his childhood other than his parents and the remote settlement they lived in, but the one event he remembers very clearly is the day the was taken by the Empire. |
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| And so it went that when Kandos was 14 he was given his first assassination assignment to perform. After infiltrating the base of one of Warlord Sek’s many opponents in the local area, Kandos easily killed him and most of his bodyguards. Happy with his new weapon, Sek sent him out on many similar missions and the Warlord’s territory quickly grew in size as he folded the territory’s of his former opponents into his own.
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| ==== Escape (15ABY) ====
| | It was his tenth birthday and his mother, Jalie, had taken him to the market to get some supplies. While his mother had bargained with a trader, Kandos had stood watching a large cargo hauler being loaded with crates of ore from the mine the settlement had grown up around. There had been a commotion and one of the crates of ore had been knocked off the top of the hauler, and fallen directly towards Kandos. He cried out and threw his hands up in a pointless attempt to ward off the falling crate, but a couple of seconds later Kandos realised it hadn't hit him. Opening his eyes he saw the crate was hovering above him, seemingly held up by nothing. Shocked and confused, Kandos stumbled backwards and the crate dropped to the ground, directly where he had been standing. The market crowd that had seen what happened just stood in shocked silence, apart from his mother who rushed over to him, weeping. Unfortunately, a patrol of Stormtroopers that had been passing through also saw what happened, and quickly moved in and stun-bolted both Kandos and his mother before carting them off to the nearby Imperial base. |
| It was, however, on one such mission that the 15 year old Kandos found out his true history, rather than what he had been told previously. The Governor that he had been sent to kill had caught wind of the coming assassination attempt and had taken precautions, when Kandos broke in, to kill the man, all he found was a data pad with a note telling him to read the contents. When he found out that his parents had been murdered by Warlord Sek, and that he had been kidnapped as a child, he went into a fit or rage, confusion and grief. | |
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| Abandoning his mission he headed back to Warlord Sek, killing anything and anyone that got in his way. The trail of death and destruction quickly caught up with the Warlord and Kandos killed him as he cowered in a locked security room, the training Kandos had received was most helpful in accomplishing this.
| | The local Moff had been informed and had quickly ordered the father rounded up as well, and the entire settlement to be wiped out so there were no witnesses, and ordered his staff to prepare a report suggesting the mine and settlement were destroyed by Rebels. He had then ordered the Stormtrooper squad to take the prisoners to a secret base the Moff had been building on the planet, and Kandos had woken up in the detention cell he would spend many years of his life. |
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| Stealing the Warlord’s own personal ship he took off in the customised [[starwars:StarViper-class attack platform|StarViper]] and jumped to lightspeed, heading towards the core planets.
| | === Unwilling Assassin === |
| | The Moff, who had secretly been collecting information on the Jedi, Sith, and the Force, in the hopes of one day having his own Force-sensitive assassin had quickly jumped at the chance to use the child his Stormtroopers had unwittingly found. Rather than reporting the child to his higher command, as he should have, he instead had the child and his family listed with the rest of the settlement when he reported its destruction. |
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| | For the next five years Kandos was subjected to brutal indoctrination and training to make him into the assassin the Moff so very much wanted, always with the threat of Kandos' parents being tortured or executed if he did not comply being held over him. The Moff did allow Kandos brief visits with his parents as a reward when he did well, although these visits became briefer and briefer until they were but the promise of a visit, which never quite occurred. |
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| ==== The Meeting (16ABY) ====
| | It was during this time that Kandos was also pushed to improve his nascent control of the Force using the Moff's secret collection of Force-related materials. Unsurprisingly, Kandos quickly fell to the Dark Side once his control of the Force improved. Fear for himself, his family, and his brutal new life quickly pushing him down a dark path. |
| After a year or so of being a hired-gun for those that could pay, Kandos met Jandos Kalinor, who would in the future change his name to Shadow Stalker. The two future friends met on the planet Tholatin while on a bounty hunting mission for the same man, when Kandos discovered that Jandos was also a Force-user he was intrigued and went with Jandos to join the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. The anger that Kandos still felt for what had been done to him by the Warlord allowed him to fit right in with the other Dark Siders.
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| | Kandos was also taught how to use many different weapons, and to pilot a starship. |
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| === The Dark Brotherhood (17ABY - Present Day) === | | === His First Mission === |
| When Kandos joined the Dark Brotherhood he tried his luck with the Obelisk order but soon found he had an affinity more attuned to the Krath Order, soon after Kandos transferred to the Krath and joined House Qel-Droma. By the time Kandos was an Apprentice there was already a Great Jedi War starting. Kandos came into the fighting late as he and his friend Kalinor had been away on other business when it started. The two Dark Jedi Apprentices quickly moved to the main base of the Dark Brotherhood and started making their way through the maze of corridors. As they got deeper and deeper into the base they started meeting enemies, they dispatched them quickly and continued on their way, after a while they split up and Kandos was on his own. After a few more fights Kandos became pinned down in a small room, he was eventually saved by Mejas Doto and continued on his way. Kandos made a large enough contribution in the end and was promoted to Novice. | | When Kandos was 15 he was finally deemed ready for his first mission, and his trainers presented him to the Moff. By this time Kandos was fully indoctrinated to the Imperial cause, and was looking forward to serving the Moff. |
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| | The Moff personally briefed him on the mission, that he was to infiltrate the estates of one of the Moff's underlings, retrieve some sensitive information on a data-disk that the Moff didn't want getting out, and to kill the underling. The Moff informed Kandos that he had been specially chosen for this mission as he could not be linked back to the Moff, and that he should not leave any witnesses, even if it meant killing other Imperial personnel. |
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| ==== The Exodus (19ABY) ====
| | That night, fully kitted out with a vibro-knife, blaster pistol, and various other gear, Kandos was shuttled to a spaceport and took a Speeder-bike to the outskirts of the estates. After spending some time scouting the area and taking note of the guard's patrol routes he found his opening, a gap in the patrols where the guard's were lax and not really paying attention. |
| As Kandos continued his training with the Dark Brotherhood he settled in with the rest of his house and eventually joined the Prophecy Phyle. The everyday life in the Dark Brotherhood were shaken when they split from the Emperor’s Hammer. When this happened Kandos knew that he would be firmly with the Brotherhood, unfortunately with the split some of the Dark Jedi left the brotherhood to start their own one in the Emperors Hammer. As the numbers lessened Kandos realized that the Brotherhood was weaker now so they would need more highly trained warriors if it came to a battle, he therefore threw himself into his training and was eventually promoted to Acolyte and then Protector. Kandos also picked up a few Dark Crosses for his work in the Dark Brotherhood. When the new Antei Combat Center was up and running Kandos jubilantly started his qualification battle but unfortunately he lost the fight to Mejas Doto. He did however pick up a few moves which could come in useful in the future.
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| | Moving quickly and quietly through this opening, Kandos silently killed first one, then the other of the Stormtroopers that were meant to be guarding the area, and stashed their bodies in some nearby bushes so they wouldn't be found. He then made his way deeper into the estates, avoiding the guards and other personnel where possible, but killing them where required, until he made it to the underling's private quarters. |
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| ==== Clan Feud (20ABY) ====
| | Moving into the room as quietly as possible, Kandos found his target seemingly passed out of a bed, with various bottles scattered around the room. When Kandos moved in closer for the kill, his target suddenly rolled over, and on seeing an assassin standing over him, yelled out and scrambled backwards, falling off the bed. Not being close enough for a quick kill, and not wanting to risk a blaster-shot, Kandos reached out with the Force, his ever-present rage fuelling his abilities, and crushed the target's neck. |
| Then came the feud between [[Arcona|'''Clan''' Arcona]] and [[Clan Satal Keto|'''Clan''' Satal Keto]]. Kandos again threw himself into this and engaged in many fights against members of House Satal Keto, unfortunately he lost all the fights but he gained experience doing so. During one of the fights against KAP Dalthid, his Vibro-sword was badly damaged by his opponents Lightsaber, the sword was damaged beyond repair so he then needed a new weapon. He did however managed to get a hold of some Cortosis, and made the Cortosis into a new Vibro-sword, this time it was Lightsaber proof. Kandos did however help in other ways and was rewarded with a promotion to Guardian. He also got a Grant of Arms which is proudly on display with his Dark Jedi robes.
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| After the feud Kandos engaged in a friendly fight with Shadow Stalker which took place in a large bouncy castle, Kandos emerged victorious from the fight and went out looking for new opponents. He also beginning training with DA Trevarus Caerick, hoping this will help him improve his fighting skills and win more battles in the future. After training with a variety of trainers Kandos fought many battles through the third Sith war, the Qel-Droma Phyle war and some against his friend Shadow Stalker.
| | Not wanting to wait around to see if anyone had heard the target's yell, Kandos quickly searched the room for the data-disk, and on finding it, went back the way he had come in, and made his way out of the estates, heading for the rendezvous coordinates for pickup. |
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| | === The Aftermath === |
| | Kandos stood before the Moff and reported what had occurred during the mission, before handing over the data-disk. The Moff in turn was very pleased, after all the time and money he had invested into it, he now had his Force-sensitive assassin, the only souring point in the whole affair was when Kandos persisted in asking to see his parents again. |
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| ==== Fighting Continues (21ABY - 24ABY) ====
| | Over confident in his assassin's loyalty, and the indoctrination that he thought guaranteed it, the Moff bluntly informed Kandos that he would not being seeing his parents again, as they had been executed years before for some infraction he barely remembered. |
| Kandos has helped his '''clan''' in the third Sith war, his Phyle in the Phyle war and again helped his '''clan''' in the Fifth Great Jedi War. For his activities Kandos was promoted to Dark Jedi Knight and constructed his Lightsaber, finishing his training. During the Fifth Great Jedi War Kandos fought for his '''Clan''' but unfortunately became infected with the disease that was ravaging the brotherhood, even so he attempted to aid in finding a cure that would save the brotherhood. When the Fifth Great Jedi War ended Kandos, now cured, was awarded the Seal of Memories for his activities
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| As the Krath members of the Dark Brotherhood once again fought for supremacy over each other Kandos was not found wanting. For his participation in the Krath Right of Supremacy Kandos gained four Seals of Retribution. Not long after the entire Brotherhood celebrated another year of independence from the EH by hosting the Independence Games, Kandos also took part in this and competed for himself, his '''clan''' and the Brotherhood as a whole. For this he gained four Seals of Alliances.
| | Something snapped in Kandos, the pain of loss and rage built in him to breaking point, and with a cry of utter loss and pain he lashed out with the Force, crushing the two Stormtrooper guards against the wall, shattering a number of pieces of furniture, and throwing the Moff across the room. The Moff had but seconds to realise his mistake as he was lifted off the ground and thrown through the window behind him, but that didn't stop him screaming all the way to the ground. |
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| | The door behind Kandos opened and a squad of Stormtroopers rushed in, but their confusion and shock at seeing what had happened was their undoing, as Kandos scooped up a fallen blaster rifle and burned them all down. What followed was a blur of rage and pain, but when Kandos resurfaced, he found himself in the Moff's personal hanger, the bodies of countless personnel and Stormtroopers scattered around. |
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| ==== The Sixth Great Jedi War (25ABY) ==== | | === Escape === |
| When the Sixth Great Jedi War engulfed the brotherhood Kandos sided with 'Blue' Jac, and fought against the forces of the 'Red' Jac. While Kandos' contribution was fairly minimal he still earned himself 3 Seals of Duplicity.
| | Mind still fuzzy and working mostly on instinct, Kandos ran to the closest fighter in the hangar, one of the Moff's personal collection and jumped in. He quickly familiarised himself with the controls of the Mandalorian Fang fighter before taking off and blasting his way out of the hanger. |
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| | Skimming over the Imperial base, Kandos was quickly engaged by two TIE-fighters that had been on patrol, but the pilots had little chance as the Moff had been very exacting in his requirements that his assassin be able to pilot a ship and be more than competent in a dog fight. After destroying both fighters in a hail of blaster fire, Kandos turned the ship towards space and engaged full burn. |
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| == Weapons Currently in use ==
| | As he left the gravity-well of the planet, Kandos suddenly realised he had no idea where he was in the galaxy, or where he was going, so he picked a random planet from the navi-computer and engaged the auto-pilot. As his fighter jumped to light-speed he slipped into a deep sleep, finally free for the first time in five years. |
| * [http://www.geocities.com/kandosk/Pictures/LSFullSize.bmp Lightsaber]: As the final part of Kandos's training he created his personal Lightsaber.
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| * [http://www.geocities.com/kandosk/Pictures/PFSFullSize.bmp Pydyrn Fighting Staff]: The Pydyrn Fighting Staff is a collapsible quarterstaff made of a special mnemonic alloy that allows it to extend and retract, while still being fairly strong and hard to damage. In its deactivated state the staff retracts down to a 15 cm hand grip, and in its active state the staff extends to 2 meters in length. The staff can be extended by either pressing the pressure pad built into the grip or by triggering the mechanism using the Force.
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| * [http://www.geocities.com/kandosk/Pictures/A280FullSize.bmp Custom A280 Blaster Rifle]: Kandos's A280 is similar in most respects to the standard Blas-Tech rifle but has a few modifications. Kandos has customised his A280 by adding a NiteSite scope, for use in dark conditions, and a variable energy setting to the weapon giving the A280 four power settings:
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| ** Fully Automatic - The weapon fires a tremendous amount of Blaster rounds but at a low energy setting, similar in effect to a Repeating Blaster.
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| ** Rapid-fire - The weapon can fire quickly but the Blaster rounds have more of a kick to them, this setting is similar to the alternative fire of an E-11, but is more accurate.
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| ** Single Shot - The weapon fires a single Blaster round when the trigger is depressed and is the standard energy setting for unmodified A280s.
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| ** Hot-shot - The weapon fires a single, high power round that can penetrate even the most powerful personal armor and can even penetrate the armor of an AT-AT walker, unfortunately the shot takes up so much energy that an energy cell only holds enough energy for two Hot-shots.
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Summary
Kandos Katarn is a human male, born on a planet he doesn't remember, kidnapped by the Empire when he was 10 years old and trained to be a Force-sensitive assassin. After escaping this brutal life, he drifted for a number of years taking on Bounty Hunting and assassination jobs, before finally finding a home amungst the Brotherhood. After five years in the Brotherhood he went Rogue and has seemingly retired from the galaxy, but who knows if he may return one day.
Character History
Childhood
Kandos knows nothing about the planet he was born on, and remembers little of his childhood other than his parents and the remote settlement they lived in, but the one event he remembers very clearly is the day the was taken by the Empire.
It was his tenth birthday and his mother, Jalie, had taken him to the market to get some supplies. While his mother had bargained with a trader, Kandos had stood watching a large cargo hauler being loaded with crates of ore from the mine the settlement had grown up around. There had been a commotion and one of the crates of ore had been knocked off the top of the hauler, and fallen directly towards Kandos. He cried out and threw his hands up in a pointless attempt to ward off the falling crate, but a couple of seconds later Kandos realised it hadn't hit him. Opening his eyes he saw the crate was hovering above him, seemingly held up by nothing. Shocked and confused, Kandos stumbled backwards and the crate dropped to the ground, directly where he had been standing. The market crowd that had seen what happened just stood in shocked silence, apart from his mother who rushed over to him, weeping. Unfortunately, a patrol of Stormtroopers that had been passing through also saw what happened, and quickly moved in and stun-bolted both Kandos and his mother before carting them off to the nearby Imperial base.
The local Moff had been informed and had quickly ordered the father rounded up as well, and the entire settlement to be wiped out so there were no witnesses, and ordered his staff to prepare a report suggesting the mine and settlement were destroyed by Rebels. He had then ordered the Stormtrooper squad to take the prisoners to a secret base the Moff had been building on the planet, and Kandos had woken up in the detention cell he would spend many years of his life.
Unwilling Assassin
The Moff, who had secretly been collecting information on the Jedi, Sith, and the Force, in the hopes of one day having his own Force-sensitive assassin had quickly jumped at the chance to use the child his Stormtroopers had unwittingly found. Rather than reporting the child to his higher command, as he should have, he instead had the child and his family listed with the rest of the settlement when he reported its destruction.
For the next five years Kandos was subjected to brutal indoctrination and training to make him into the assassin the Moff so very much wanted, always with the threat of Kandos' parents being tortured or executed if he did not comply being held over him. The Moff did allow Kandos brief visits with his parents as a reward when he did well, although these visits became briefer and briefer until they were but the promise of a visit, which never quite occurred.
It was during this time that Kandos was also pushed to improve his nascent control of the Force using the Moff's secret collection of Force-related materials. Unsurprisingly, Kandos quickly fell to the Dark Side once his control of the Force improved. Fear for himself, his family, and his brutal new life quickly pushing him down a dark path.
Kandos was also taught how to use many different weapons, and to pilot a starship.
His First Mission
When Kandos was 15 he was finally deemed ready for his first mission, and his trainers presented him to the Moff. By this time Kandos was fully indoctrinated to the Imperial cause, and was looking forward to serving the Moff.
The Moff personally briefed him on the mission, that he was to infiltrate the estates of one of the Moff's underlings, retrieve some sensitive information on a data-disk that the Moff didn't want getting out, and to kill the underling. The Moff informed Kandos that he had been specially chosen for this mission as he could not be linked back to the Moff, and that he should not leave any witnesses, even if it meant killing other Imperial personnel.
That night, fully kitted out with a vibro-knife, blaster pistol, and various other gear, Kandos was shuttled to a spaceport and took a Speeder-bike to the outskirts of the estates. After spending some time scouting the area and taking note of the guard's patrol routes he found his opening, a gap in the patrols where the guard's were lax and not really paying attention.
Moving quickly and quietly through this opening, Kandos silently killed first one, then the other of the Stormtroopers that were meant to be guarding the area, and stashed their bodies in some nearby bushes so they wouldn't be found. He then made his way deeper into the estates, avoiding the guards and other personnel where possible, but killing them where required, until he made it to the underling's private quarters.
Moving into the room as quietly as possible, Kandos found his target seemingly passed out of a bed, with various bottles scattered around the room. When Kandos moved in closer for the kill, his target suddenly rolled over, and on seeing an assassin standing over him, yelled out and scrambled backwards, falling off the bed. Not being close enough for a quick kill, and not wanting to risk a blaster-shot, Kandos reached out with the Force, his ever-present rage fuelling his abilities, and crushed the target's neck.
Not wanting to wait around to see if anyone had heard the target's yell, Kandos quickly searched the room for the data-disk, and on finding it, went back the way he had come in, and made his way out of the estates, heading for the rendezvous coordinates for pickup.
The Aftermath
Kandos stood before the Moff and reported what had occurred during the mission, before handing over the data-disk. The Moff in turn was very pleased, after all the time and money he had invested into it, he now had his Force-sensitive assassin, the only souring point in the whole affair was when Kandos persisted in asking to see his parents again.
Over confident in his assassin's loyalty, and the indoctrination that he thought guaranteed it, the Moff bluntly informed Kandos that he would not being seeing his parents again, as they had been executed years before for some infraction he barely remembered.
Something snapped in Kandos, the pain of loss and rage built in him to breaking point, and with a cry of utter loss and pain he lashed out with the Force, crushing the two Stormtrooper guards against the wall, shattering a number of pieces of furniture, and throwing the Moff across the room. The Moff had but seconds to realise his mistake as he was lifted off the ground and thrown through the window behind him, but that didn't stop him screaming all the way to the ground.
The door behind Kandos opened and a squad of Stormtroopers rushed in, but their confusion and shock at seeing what had happened was their undoing, as Kandos scooped up a fallen blaster rifle and burned them all down. What followed was a blur of rage and pain, but when Kandos resurfaced, he found himself in the Moff's personal hanger, the bodies of countless personnel and Stormtroopers scattered around.
Escape
Mind still fuzzy and working mostly on instinct, Kandos ran to the closest fighter in the hangar, one of the Moff's personal collection and jumped in. He quickly familiarised himself with the controls of the Mandalorian Fang fighter before taking off and blasting his way out of the hanger.
Skimming over the Imperial base, Kandos was quickly engaged by two TIE-fighters that had been on patrol, but the pilots had little chance as the Moff had been very exacting in his requirements that his assassin be able to pilot a ship and be more than competent in a dog fight. After destroying both fighters in a hail of blaster fire, Kandos turned the ship towards space and engaged full burn.
As he left the gravity-well of the planet, Kandos suddenly realised he had no idea where he was in the galaxy, or where he was going, so he picked a random planet from the navi-computer and engaged the auto-pilot. As his fighter jumped to light-speed he slipped into a deep sleep, finally free for the first time in five years.