Ken
Ken is an existing Legends character.[1] In ReExpanded, he was also known as Qaga Lok, briefly as Candidate QL,[2] and later in life as Sedriss QL.[3]
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| Homeworld: | Yavin 4 |
| Born: | 7 BBY, Kessel |
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| Species: | Human |
| Gender: | Male |
| Hair Color: | Brown |
| Eye Color: | Gray |
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Biography
The search for Triclops
In late 5 ABY, Ken was enrolled at the Dagobah Tech school on Mount Yoda on Dagobah. While he was fond of what he learned there, he also felt lonely and abandoned by his friends, such as Luke Skywalker, who had left for Mindor without taking him along. When Mammon Hoole arrived at Mount Yoda in the guise of first Zak and then Tash Arranda, Ken poured his heart out to who he thought was Tash. The false Tash then shocked him by revealing that Ken had become something of an embarrassment to the New Republic and his former friends because of the holo series "The Jedi Prince" that was loosely based on his life. Feeling betrayed by his friends, Ken agreed to leave Dagobah with Tash in search of his father, the mutant Triclops.
Together with "Tash," Ken traveled to Yavin 4 aboard the Shroud, where he was further irritated by the fact that even a technician in the village of Vornez recognized him and his story from the holo series. He learned that Triclops and the false Kadann had left Yavin 4 in a spaceship cobbled together from Death Star wreckage and the remains of Anakin Skywalker's Azure Angel. Following their course to nearby Krylon, Ken and "Tash" acquired a tracking fob for the ship Triclops and the false Kadann had taken from there. On the way to Space Station Scardia, however, Ken saw Hoole in his Shi'ido form, whereupon Hoole stunned and imprisoned him.
On Space Station Scardia, Ken was freed from his locker by the apprentice Prophet of the Dark Side Locor, who was the only surviving false Prophet apart from Kadann. Ken followed Locor into the station, but the knocked him out and used his cloak, which had remote controls for doors installed in its sleeves, to make his way to the false Kadann's throne room. There he heard Triclops arguing with Kadann, and when Kadann opened the bulkhead to let Ken in, he saw Hoole imprisoned in a cage built to contain shapeshifters. Triclops desperately told him he should not have come, moments before Grand Admiral Makati began his bombardment of Space Station Scardia. Triclops tried to reach Ken in order to escape with him, but Hoole's cage was damaged and he transformed into a rancor to bite Triclop's head off, then into a giant bird to fly away when the throne room was opened to vacuum. Ken survived thanks to an emergency force-field projector held by the false Kadann, which contained him and Ken in a bubble of atmosphere. When the Dark Jedi Azrakel descended from Makati's star destroyer Steadfast and killed the false Kadann, he took Ken with him to Steadfast, sensing the fury and the strength in Ken.
Gaining and losing a mentor
Steadfast soon set course to Bosthirda, where the true Prophets of the Dark Side were hiding. During the voyage to Bosthirda, Azrakel instructed Ken in the ways of the dark side. Ken felt like he learned more in this short time than he had ever learned from his droid tutor DJ-88, and he killed a Herglic mechanic using the Force together with Azrakel as a rite of passage.
When Steadfast reached Bosthirda, Ken stowed away on the Scimitar assault bomber Azrakel used to get to the planet, infuriating Azrakel but saving his life when they passed through the shards of Bosthirda's moon, which Kadann had ordered blown up as a defensive measure. The ship was grabbed by the Dreaming Vineyard of Bosthirda, which was in league with the Prophets, and delivered to the Prophets' temple. When Azrakel leaped out to strike at Kadann, the vines grabbed him as well, immobilizing him and taking away his lightsaber. Inside the ship, Ken managed to convince the Vineyard to renounce its allegiance to the Prophets, arguing that Kadann had ensured its death by blowing up the moon. The Vineyard then let go of Azrakel's lightsaber, and Azrakel moved it with the Force to cut High Prophet Jedgar's arm off; but Kadann caught the weapon and held it against Azrakel's throat, telling him to submit. Ken distracted Jedgar and Kadann by emerging from the ship, which shocked the Prophets because they had seen a vision of him being on Coruscant; Azrakel used the distraction to grab his lightsaber by the blade using the Glove of Darth Vader, wrenching it from Kadann's grip and decapitating him.
Moments after Kadann's death, Lumiya and Carnor Jax arrived at the scene in a Pacifier-class assault boat, killing Jedgar and other Prophets who had been about to attack Azrakel in retaliation. However, Kadann had burst Azrakel's heart using the Force as he died, ensuring Azrakel's death. Lumiya told Carnor Jax to cut off Azrakel's right hand with the Glove of Darth Vader on it; then she allowed Ken to approach the dying Azrakel, offering him employment in the Empire when she returned. While Lumiya and Carnor Jax went inside the temple to kill the rest of the Prophets, Ken bade farewell to Azrakel, who told him with his last breath that his original name had been Qaga Lok. Ken then stole the assault boat Lumiya and Carnor Jax had arrived in and departed from Bosthirda.[2]
Mercenary career
Some time later, Ken was found drifting near Rhelg in the heavily damaged assault boat by Urai Fen and his crew, who were hunting for the Nightsister Silri. Fen managed to recruit Ken by offering him money and transportation in exchange for helping to capture Silri, carefully avoiding the impression that he was using Ken. Ken, who now called himself Qaga Lok, joined the landing party and helped fight the Carbonite Sith Army Silri had awakened as well as Silri's rancor Cuddles. The entire landing party except Ken was killed, but when Silri confronted Ken and announced her intention to use him as a slave, Ken cut off her arms with Fen's blades using the Force. Fen's ship crew then picked Ken up and took the injured Silri prisoner.
Ken was brought to Tyber Zann at a deep-space rendezvous to receive his reward. Zann offered Ken further employment, hinting that with Ken's help he would attempt to raid the Emperor's resort world of Byss. However, Zann was ambushed at the rendezvous by Warlord Zsinj, who brought Silri and Ken aboard Iron Fist. Zsinj offered to pay Ken what Zann owed him, and more if Ken agreed to work for him.
Ken then joined a team of Zsinj's operatives in a mission to infiltrate the Ubiqtorate base on Phindar. Ken was left in the dark about the actual plan for the mission, which was to turn him over to the Ubiqtorate, wait for him to destroy the base from the inside, and then retrieve the Renewal technology the Ubiqtorate had reconstructed there. During the mission, the other members of the commando team decided Ken was becoming a liability and stunned him, delivering him unconscious to the Ubiqtorate base in Phindar's Derida complex. There, Ken was subjected to the Renewal procedure, which erased some of his memories, but he eventually managed to overcome it and destroyed the machines using the Force in a fit of rage. The base's security systems rendered him unconscious again through the use of nerve gas, and the Inquisitorius was called in to deal with Ken.[2]
Breaking and submission
Grand Inquisitor Ja'ce Yiaso transported the unconscious Ken to his ship, the Voltage, where he evaluated Ken and found a midi-chlorian count in the five digits. Ken was then handed over to High Inquisitor Volytar in the Botajef system, where Ken was transferred to Volytar's Whisper Bird. Once aboard, Ken killed Volytar, which disabled the ship by means of a dead-man switch. Yiaso requested assistance from the Inquisitorius, and InQuestor Halmere brought a Lictor-class dungeon ship to the system. Transferring Ken to the dungeon ship resulted in the complete destruction of Whisper Bird and the death of Apprentice Inquisitor Doondagh. Ken was then delivered to the Citadel Inquisitorius on Prakith, where he was kept in an energy cage until High Inquisitor Shynne released him into the care of Sa-Di, who brought him to Byss as a gift for Emperor Palpatine.
Palpatine released Ken, now known as "Candidate QL," from his energy cage and goaded him into attacking him. Ken insisted he refused to be mastered, resisting Palpatine with all his strength, but was ultimately overpowered by him and pledged his allegiance to Palpatine as his new master. Ken watched as Palpatine used the Kaan Heptad to compel the obedience of every darksider in the galaxy; when Lumiya broke free from the Heptad and was about to strike Palpatine down with her lightwhip, Ken attacked her, dislodging Kaan's amulet from her throat. Lumiya fled, but Palpatine succumbed to the strain of containing the explosion of Byss' star Beshqek moments later.[4]
After the death of the Emperor's clone, Ken joined a party of Palpatine's servants and friends on an expedition into the subterranean levels of the Emperor's Citadel, where they found all of Palpatine's other clones dead. Sa-Di offered Ken to take him to Darth Vader's castle on Vjun for his further education.[5]
Appearances
Re-Expanded appearances
- Empire of Ashes: Fear (First Re-Expanded appearance)
- Empire of Ashes: Anger
All appearances
- The Lost City of the Jedi (First appearance)
- Zorba the Hutt's Revenge
- Mission from Mount Yoda
- Queen of the Empire
- Prophets of the Dark Side
- Empire of Ashes: Fear (First Re-Expanded appearance) (First identified as Qaga Lok)
- Empire of Ashes: Anger
- Dark Empire II (Retcon)
- Empire's End (Retcon)