Kasmiri

In the concluding year of the Clone Wars, a widespread galactic conflict involving the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Kalleran criminal Janus Kasmir possessed the Kasmiri. A battle broke out on Kaller, Kasmir's homeworld situated in the Outer Rim Territories. Following the Confederate defeat, Depa Billaba, a Jedi Master, and her Padawan, Caleb Dume, who had commanded the Republic's forces, were presented to Kasmir before retiring to sleep beneath the stars alongside their loyal [Clone troopers](/article/clone_trooper]. Meanwhile, Kasmir journeyed to Plateau City, where the Kasmiri was docked at the city's spaceport. After a few planetary rotations, Kasmir encountered Dume in an alley, having survived his troopers' betrayal, although his master did not. Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, secretly a Sith Lord, had transformed the Republic into the First Galactic Empire—with himself as Emperor—and mandated the extermination of the [Jedi Order](/article/jedi_order]. Kasmir sheltered Dume aboard the Kasmiri, where he cleaned up and rested for a complete day. Subsequently, Dume received a message from the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, the Imperial capital, summoning him back. Kasmir declined to transport Dume to the city-planet, advising him to adopt theft and deception for survival against Imperial troops and bounty hunters hunting him. At that moment, two clone troopers arrived to search the Kasmiri for Padawan Dume. Kasmir disembarked to parley with the armored troopers, while Dume heeded Kasmir's counsel. Dume input the Coruscant subsector coordinates into the Kasmiri's navigation computer, blasted away from the spaceport, and engaged hyperspace. Soon after, as Dume approached Coruscant, he received a warning from Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, instructing all Jedi to avoid Coruscant at all costs, revealing the summons to the temple as a trap. Upon exiting hyperspace in orbit over Coruscant, Dume realized his error, finding himself immediately surrounded by Imperial ARC-170 starfighters demanding his surrender. Dume did not comply within the clone pilots' allotted time, prompting them to open fire on the Kasmiri. The Kasmiri's shields withstood the assault, while Dume executed evasive maneuvers and destroyed two Imperial fighters. Piloting the ship away from the wreckage, Dume fled into hyperspace, ultimately returning to Plateau City, lacking alternative destinations. After landing, Kasmir discovered Dume and expelled him for stealing his ship. Over the next few months, Kasmir continued to use the Kasmiri for his criminal activities across Kaller, before encountering Dume once more. Kasmir welcomed the former Padawan aboard and subsequently employed him as a partner for his next undertaking. Kasmir disguised Dume from an obvious Jedi to resemble a bounty hunter, before traveling to a Kalleran complex at night to steal a shipment of valuable IG-RM bodyguard and enforcer droids. The pair smuggled several droids to the Kasmiri before being apprehended by Gamut Key, a Kalleran official. Kasmir surrendered Dume to Key to claim the bounty on surviving Jedi, intending to escape with the IG-RM droids. However, Kasmir had deceived Key: he had not betrayed Dume, his friend. Kasmir rescued Dume from prison with one of the thug droids, and together, they fled back to the Kasmiri and departed swiftly. Subsequently, they journeyed to another planet, selling the droids to fund Kasmir's subsequent scheme. As time passed, the criminal duo traveled to various worlds aboard the Kasmiri, while Grey and Styles, Dume's former clone soldiers, pursued them across the galaxy to bring Dume to "justice." Kasmir piloted the Kasmiri to Lahn, an ocean planet, where he had arranged a trade: stolen goods for stolen goods. However, Dume and Kasmir had not yet acquired their goods, so Dume engaged in negotiations with their business partner while Kasmir sought to obtain the items for the exchange. As Kasmir loaded the goods onto the Kasmiri, Grey apprehended him, arresting him for harboring Dume, an Imperial fugitive.