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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.