| “ | Foward, Syn. Only way we can go. My father always said, "We take what is given." Felt like all the galaxy ever handed me was darkness and grief. Like Krayt, I took what was given--and gave into my anger...wrapped the anger around me so close, it blocked out the light. Suffocated myself in death and darkness until I forgot how to live. Tried to cut myself off from the Force so I didn't have to feel anything. Tried to make my heart a void... But nothing's a void--not even in space. I've seen the way all things connect. Energy flows through everything in the galaxy. Creating life. Healing it. As long as the galaxy exists, life will find a way. There is no death--There is only the Force. | „ |
| ~ Cade Skywalker from Legacy - War #6 |
| “ | I get it now, everything that's happened all my life… You shaped me to do this. Doesn't matter if I'm a Jedi or not.. Or if I'm a Skywalker or not. Everyone has a destiny. This one is mine. I can feel it in my gut. So, me and Krayt… One final round. Never expected to get old. Never figured to die in bed. I got a job to do -- Even if it's my last. | „ |
| ~ Cade to a vison of himself and Krayt. |
Cade Skywalker is the main protagonist of the Star Wars: Legacy comic.
He is a jaded, edgy and cynical former Jedi turned bounty hunter and pirate. Despite his attempts to dull it with drugs, maintains a strong connection to the Force. He is the son of Grandmaster Kol Skywalker and Morrigan Corde and a descendant of legendary Jedi Grandmaster Luke Skywalker and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker.
Biography[]
As a young student at the Jedi Praxeum, Cade Skywalker showed great potential. His life was torn apart when Darth Krayt assumed control of the Empire and saw to the elimination of the Jedi. Cade's father was killed in the resulting battle, and Cade himself withdrew from the Force and adopted a new life as a smuggler. Cade was constantly haunted by visions of Luke Skywalker and the knowledge of the Jedi he should be. Luckily, he had a steady supply of death sticks to block these visions out.
Cade found that he could only hide for so long, though. Darth Krayt knows of Cade's true power – the ability to use the Force to bring the dead and dying back to life. Krayt desperately needs Cade's power, and he's none too shy about seeking it out. The two have already traded blades once, and it seems a foregone conclusion that destiny will pit them against each other again.
After Cade, his friends, and mentors had discovered the truth behind the third Jedi purge they decided to join the remaining New Jedi Order and the Galactic Triumlarive to take the fight to the One Sith. While the rebels were distracting the One Sith, Cade came face to face with his archenemy, Darth Kryat. Although evenly matched at the early battle, Kryat turned the tide in the mid battle by using Cade’s healing ability against him. Kryat tried to corrupt Cade with Force vision, but this backfired. On the late battle Cade resisted the temptation and slew Kryat once and for all. To prevent possible revival Cade took Kryat’s body to a sun where they can burn together, but Luke Skywalker’s Force Ghost persuades Cade not to burn but choose his own path. Cade accept this and escapes the ship and goes into deep meditation before being picked up R2-D2. At first they thought he was dead until Cade woke up kissing Blue and telling his crew to move forward in life while reciting the Jedi Code.
Cade and his crew were last seen celebrating a newly bought ship pieces by one of Ania Solo (one of his distant cousin)’s friend. It’s unknown if Cade and his crew recused Ania Solo and her gang from blaster fire, but he may have most likely recused them.
Personality[]
On the surface, Cade seems to appear as nothing more than an edgy anti-hero. After his father's death and the destruction of the Jedi on Ossus, as well as being taken in by pirates, Cade became very jaded, cynical and selfish. He hated the Jedi, the Force, and his family legacy, blaming it for much of the galaxy's problems. His jadedness towards the Jedi came to the point where he captured a fellow Jedi and handed it to the Empire as a bounty.
Cade, even at his lowest, however, is not entirely without empathy. He cares deeply for his loved ones, especially his best friend Jariah Syn, his girlfriend Deliah Blue, and some of the Jedi he knew from his youth.
As the story progresses, Cade struggles both against his destiny to become a Jedi and the temptation of the dark side. While he hates it, when push comes to shove, he will use his Force powers. By the story's end, he proudly proclaims himself to be a Jedi. The final page ends with him reciting the Jedi Code.
Powers and Abilities[]
As a member of the Skywalker family, Cade possessed massive power in the Force. Despite his attempts to cut himself of from the Force, is without question one of the most powerful Force users of his time. He displayed immense skill with telekinesis, being able to send powerful Sith flying with ease and being able to lift and throw immensely heavy objects. His most unique trait is Dark Transfer, a form of Shatterpoint which allowed him to heal almost any injury and ailment, but it required tapping into the dark side. He also was proficient at Force Lightning, which he learned during his brief time as a Sith apprentice.
Cade also proved to be an immensely skilled duelist, despite having been out of practice for years after leaving the Jedi. He was capable of fighting evenly with many Sith warriors almost immediately after reembracing the Force, but was unable to defeat Darth Nihl when faced with him. After training as a Sith Apprentice under the lethal Sith Darth Talon Cade's skill as a swordsman rose, allowing him to match Talon and briefly hold his own against Darth Krayt himself before escaping. Cade proved capable of defeating Nihl, Talon, and Darth Stryfe, who had been chosen by Krayt as the Emperor's Hand. He also successfully dueled the Sith scientist Vul Isen and killed him, And cut his way through masses of Sith warriors with terrifying ease.
After finding his conviction and sense of purpose he fully embracing both his identity as a Jedi and the full degree of the Light Side of the Force, reaching the full potential of his abilities. He was able to defeat Krayt's lethal Sith troopers, cybernetically enhanced Sith warriors who were considered to be superior in combat to Krayt's most dangerous lieutenants. Cade then dueled and killed Darth Krayt himself, who had been both a Jedi Master that had fought in the Clone Wars and a Sith Lord of over a century of experience and had been considered one of the most powerful Sith in history, rivalling Palpatine himself. He later dueled to a match the Imperial Knight Master Antares Draco, who was considered one of the most skilled swordsman in the galaxy and had defeated nearly as many Sith as Cade himself had.
Cade was also extremely skilled at hand-to-hand combat and was a master marksman with blasters, having spent years as both a pirate and bounty hunter honing his non-force based combat skills. Like most Skywalkers Cade was a more than capable engineer, but more often left the mechanic work on his ship to Deliah Blue, who was even more skilled than he was. Due to his time as a bounty hunter Cade was an extremely skilled tracker and hunter, with people very rarely escaping him if he was pursuing them, no matter where in the galaxy.
