Cad Bane

Cad Bane was a male Duros from the planet Duro who earned the reputation of being the galaxy's best and deadliest bounty hunter during the Clone Wars. Though he worked for a number of clients, his loyalty was ultimately to credits—and by extension, the highest bidder to offer them. Bane employed a variety of weapons and allies to insure that he always got his pay and became the leader in his line of work after fellow mercenary Jango Fett perished in the opening battle of the war. In 22 BBY, Bane was hired by the Dark Lord Darth Sidious to capture Jedi Master Ring-Sol Ambase on the planet Kynachi, an operation that the bounty hunter successfully completed. Bane also hijacked the Gravitic Core—a part of Separatist scientist Kul Teska's gravitic polarization beam weapon—from Teska over Alzoc III, which Teska later retrieved from him on Ryloth.

Bane was eventually hired by the Hutts to break the Republic captive Ziro Desilijic Tiure out of prison on Coruscant. To do this, Bane formed a team of hunters in order to capture members of the Galactic Senate and force Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to free Ziro. After liberating the Hutt crime lord and escaping with his team, Bane disbanded his posse. Later, once again under the employ of Darth Sidious, Bane stole a Jedi holocron from the Jedi Temple to unlock the Kyber memory crystal, a repository of all known Force-sensitive infants in the galaxy. Next launching an attack on Devaron, Bane captured Jedi Master Bolla Ropal and the Kyber crystal in his possession, but Ropal sacrificed himself to protect the crystal's contents. Before Bane and his loaned Trade Federation fleet could escape the system, they were ambushed by Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano.

Luring Skywalker and Tano onto his command ship, Bane separated the pair and took Tano hostage. Skywalker was forced to unlock the holocron and combine it with the Kyber crystal, making the information readable. After escaping his frigate, Bane received his next assignment from Darth Sidious—capture four of the Force-sensitives listed in the crystal and transport them to a secret facility on Mustafar. Using his modified Porax-38 starfighter, the Xanadu Blood, Bane captured and delivered two of the infants—Zinn Toa and Wee Dunn—to Mustafar. During his attempted kidnapping of the child Roo-Roo Page on Naboo, however, Bane was apprehended by Skywalker and Tano. The Jedi's forceful interrogation prompted Bane to agree to take Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu to the stolen holocron, but Bane managed to lure them into a trap on Black Stall Station, his base of operations, and fled shortly thereafter.

Later, he aided all of the other villains in the Ultimate Battle against the heroes. Bane and the villains have won the first part of the last battle.