![]() I drew one of my LL-30s and blasted him before he even got his gun out of its holster. He looked me up and down before he answered-by reaching for his blaster. “Where did you get it?” Everybody got real quiet waiting to hear his answer. Well, it wasn’t my hat, but it looked a lot better than the one I’d picked up on Nal Hutta. There were also a couple old enemies and a few small-timers I’d never met.īut the one that stood out was the slime-sucking, knock-kneed hammerhead wearing my hat. There were a couple old acquaintances, including that Kyuzo Embo. It was an ugly bunch, and Hardeen didn’t do much to make it prettier. I was curious to see who else Eval and Dooku had talked into taking their test. So now he’s ready to tell all – from the jailbreak to the shoot-out on Naboo.īut before he can discover the truth he’s got to pass Dooku’s deadly test, known only as. Who can you trust to give it to you straight?Ĭad Bane. That’s The Clone Wars: secrets, lies and betrayals. In fact, he doesn’t have any idea just how far the lying and deceit go … and they go way beyond Obi-Wan, who, of course, is being fooled, too, along with all of the Jedi. He doesn’t know it’s Obi-Wan behind that mask. There’s some heavy stuff there, but I wanted to focus on the fun parts by telling the story from Bane’s point of view and in his own, tough-as-a-gundark, voice. He, too, is deceived by Obi-Wan, after all. Seen from that point of view, it’s a very important part of Anakin’s journey to the Dark Side. It’s really the hero, Obi-Wan Kenobi, in a high-tech disguise. The outlaw says he’s Rako Hardeen, the man who killed Obi-Wan Kenobi.īut the way the show tells that story, we know all along that the masked outlaw isn’t Hardeen. So he hires Bane to bust him out - in coffins, no less - but a masked outlaw tags along. Dooku’s putting a gang together to pull a big job - the biggest - but first he’s got to get the gang leader, Eval, out of jail. (In fact, he was inspired by The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’s Lee Van Cleef.) The story arc where Bane is hired to kidnap Palpatine is loaded with classic Western material. ![]() Bane is just straight up great Star Wars: a planet-hopping bounty hunter that stepped right out of a spaghetti western. But I also loved the new characters, especially Ahsoka and Ventress and the collision of their storylines.Īnd then there’s Cad Bane. It added so much depth to the stories of Anakin, Padme, Obi Wan, Captain Rex, Boba Fett, Darth Maul and other movie characters. Before my book series had ended, The Clone Wars had infiltrated the pages and I was hooked on the show. Luckily, Origami Yoda readers kept sending me pictures of their own Clone Wars origami. I was busy writing my own Star Wars-inspired stories. So much imagination, so much artistry, so much care went into those story arcs. Watching new episodes back in the day, it really felt like a weekly gift someone was giving us. Tom Angleberger is the author of the Origami Yoda series, and two in-universe Star Wars stories: a novelization of Return of the Jedi called Beware the Power of the Dark Side! and The Mighty Chewbacca in the Forest of Fear! Below, he introduces a selection from his new short story “Bane’s Story,” part of the upcoming collection The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark, due out on Aug.
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