Kazdan Paratus

Kazadan Paratus was an Aleena Jedi Knight and The Jedi General who fought in the Clone Wars and survivrd Order 66. In his early life & work towards the Jedi Trials, Paratus did not possess the detachment most Jedi needed in order to pass the Jedi Trials, instead preferring to hole himself in his room and to build droids for the Jedi Temple, to help in training the Padawans. After accomplishing the Trials his his machines, Kazdan was appointed a Jedi Knight of the Republic.

During the last days of the Republic, Paratus was the Jedi Temple's head engineer and leader of the Technical division, a position the Jedi Council appointed to him due to his skills as an extraordinary droid maker. He was responsible for many exceptional and unique machines that were in possession of abilities far higher 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, Paratus lived life on the front lines, building medical and power droids as well as other machines designed to aid the Grand Army of the Republic. Eventually, he took command of a group of clone troopers that were mostly cut off in a disastrous campaign. That is due to these circumstances, he was forced to create his own troops that consisted of combat droids that he assembled using makeshift parts. After a great battle, the Jedi Knight returned to the Temple a few days before the the dreadful execution of Order 66 against the Jedi.

With the activation of Order 66 & the subsequent execution of Operation: Knightfall, the Jedi Temple was sacked by the 501st Legion, led by none other than Darth Vader. In the face of this brutal carnage, Kazdan Paratus panicked and fled the Jedi Temple in a act of cowardice. He escaped Coruscant in a nondescript freighter with 7 droid prototypes in tow.

Paratus, wracked with guilt when he abandoned the Jedi, descended into insanity. Going into hiding on the waste-covered planet of Raxus Prime, he become a reclusive droid maker. Paratus built an army of personally customized combat droids to shield himself from invaders. creating such types as the Scrap Guardian, Junk golem & Junk Titan.
To increase his size and mobility, he designed four mechanical arms to wear on his back. While on the junkyard world (Raxus Prime), Paratus built a Jedi Temple from scratch out of refuse and made puppets of all the Jedi councilors for the Jedi Council Chamber* arming them with many melee weapons.

Approximately 16 years after Order 66, the insane Jedi was discovered by Darth Vader, who sent his apprentice, Galen Marek on a mission to eliminate the Aleena Jedi. Paratus noticed his ship landing and began to worry about what he should do. He consulted a metallic effigy of Yoda as to this matter and grew nervous after his silent "answer," moving his lightsaber from hand to hand.

After navigating the junk world, Marek arrived in Paratus's facsimile Temple and was confronted by a Junk Titan armed with 2 huge vibro-axes & a variety of weapons tipping his other arms. The Sith apprentice dodged blows from the junk warrior, & as the floor buckled under the Titan's weight, knocked off one of its weapons with a telekinectic punch. Dodging another attack by the golemm, slicing as he went, Marek removed more of its weapons. He rolled through the machine's legs & cut up its spine, scoring a insane blow.

Everyone, I have a video to show you below of Marek's battle with the Junk Titan, which you will see what it looks like in video than words upon this message. However this video content will show Kazdan Paratus's death by the gruesome hands of Vader's apprentice: (THIS VIDEO DOES NOT HAVE THE HIGH QUALITY OF VISUAL)






*If you don't know what the Consulars are, then seek the article called "Guardians, Sentinels, and the Consulars" in the month of October, Inside the Blog Archive.