Narsk Ka'hane

Narsk Ka'hane's upbringing was solely under the care of his aunt within the Bothan community on the planet of Verdanth. The planet experienced frequent changes in Sith Lord leadership, with the Bothans consistently supporting the new rulers without resistance. As a slave under the rule of various Sith warlords, Narsk was assigned tasks by different leaders. On one occasion, he was tasked with harvesting rimebats from the caverns of Verdanth while wearing a stealth suit. In other instances, he tracked escapees, served as a nonmilitary scout, and engaged in sabotage. He remained unmarried and childless throughout his life. Eventually, when a power vacuum emerged on the planet due to the mutual destruction of two Sith Lords, Narsk ventured into space to study the balance of power there.

During the concluding decades of the Republic Dark Age, Narsk found himself serving under Vilia Calimondra, a Sith Lord and the matriarch of a large family of Sith warlords within the Grumani sector. Similar to other agents, Vilia tasked him with gathering intelligence, assisting her grandchildren, and creating challenges to prepare them for future conflicts against the Republic and the Jedi. Under her tutelage, Narsk acquired a deeper understanding of Sith space and the galaxy than most individuals. Due to internal tensions among her seven children regarding the inheritance of her vast empire, Vilia initiated a competition known as the Charge Matrica, promising to bequeath her holdings to the heir who conquered the most territory. The Charge Matrica commenced in 1066 BBY and eventually devolved into internecine warfare among Vilia's children after Xelian, the mother of Odion and Daiman, declared war on Chagras. Ultimately, Chagras emerged victorious and became the nominal ruler of the Chagras Hegemony. However, Vilia remained alive and retained control over a significant portion of her empire.

By 1042 BBY, Chagras was prepared to challenge the Galactic Republic, which had been reduced to a rump state centered around the Core Worlds and Colonies. However, his death in 1040 BBY ended the fragile truce among Vilia's grandchildren, leading to renewed conflict. This triggered the Second Charge Matrica, with Vilia deliberately fueling the conflict by encouraging her grandchildren to fight each other. She regularly conducted a series of bequests to resolve disputes and allocate territories and assets to her children. Vilia was content with maintaining this status quo, as it prevented the emergence of a strong contender who could challenge her control over family affairs.

Vilia also implanted a device in his head that allowed him to receive coded transmissions while on missions. As Vilia's agent, Narsk undertook missions for several Sith Lords, gradually building his reputation. At some point before 1032 BBY, Vilia provided him with a Cyricept Personal Concealment System, Mark VI stealth suit equipped with an embedded tracking device. Narsk valued this advanced stealth suit, which had been developed on Coruscant, the Republic's capital, and smuggled into Vilia's empire through clandestine networks. Vilia's technicians had also modified the Mark VI stealth suit to enable her to monitor Narsk's location. When deactivated, the suit silently pinged the secret communications network Vilia used to track her family.

In 1032 BBY, he was in the service of the Sith Lord Odion. His mission was to gather intelligence and destroy the Convergence Tactical Assault Vehicle, a military starship under construction by Odion's brother and rival, Daiman, at the Daimanate Dynamic Testing Facility on Darkknell. To carry out this operation, he adopted the guise of a machine tool operator from Nilash. After studying the traffic patterns and guard shifts, he used his stealth suit to infiltrate the facility multiple times, uploading information about the ship onto his datapad. Finally, he planted a baradium thermal charger within the facility. However, as he was leaving the building, he was pursued by someone he initially mistook for one of Daiman's Correctors on the rooftops. Narsk commandeered a speeder bike from the Personal Transport Assembly Shop but was eventually stopped by a Human woman who turned out to be Kerra Holt, a Jedi who did not align with any of the Sith Lords. To his dismay, she destroyed Narsk's datapad containing the information, triggered the explosion, and left him handcuffed in a garbage bin without his stealth suit, where Daiman's Correctors eventually discovered him.

Following the explosion, Daiman's Correctors conducted a sweep of the area, rounding up suspects for questioning, including Narsk, who was taken to the sentry station on Administrative Way. Most of the suspects were homeless individuals living on the streets of Xakrea. During the interrogation, Narsk attempted to maintain his cover identity as a machine operator who had been robbed. However, Daiman's Correctors were able to sense through the Force that he was lying and concealing something. Lord Daiman himself interrogated Narsk, using mind-reading techniques to discern that the Jedi woman Kerra had also infiltrated Darkknell. Under the pressure of Daiman's mental probing, Narsk confessed to being near the Black Fang facility but refused to reveal his employer.

After several more days of interrogation and torture, Daiman had Narsk suspended at the top of a large public arena in a circular gyroscopic torture wheel within the Sanctum Celestial. With no platform to support his feet, Narsk was forced to rely on his arms, causing immense physical and emotional strain on his already weakened and battered body. Daiman and his entourage, including his Woostoid aide Uleeta, were seated on a suspended platform in the center of the arena. When Narsk had a snide thought about Daiman's narcissism, Daiman sensed his thoughts and retaliated by unleashing Force lightning on the Bothan, inflicting torment without killing him. Daiman then taunted Narsk, stating that if he and Kerra had intended to harm him, they had failed to alter his course. Daiman then remarked that the Bothan and the Jedi woman had given him exactly what he had wanted.

Daiman then used a holographic projector to contact Ayanos Bactra, the Quermian Sith Lord, on a priority communications channel. During this meeting, Daiman explained the details of the attack to the Quermian and displayed the captive spy, Narsk. In response, Bactra claimed to have no prior knowledge of the strike or any recognition of the Bothan spy who had been partially responsible for the loss of the research facility. Referring to Narsk, Bactra also commented that his kind tended to meddle in matters beyond their understanding. To address the temporary weakness in the Daimanite defenses caused by the loss of the testing center, Daiman requested that Bactra provide him with an arxeum, a mobile university dedicated to the development of war sciences. Bactra agreed to the proposition, promising to hand over an arxeum to Daiman on the world of Gazzari in exchange for Bactranite forces being granted passage across Daimanite space to the world of Vellas Pavo for six weeks. Vellas Pavo was the location of mines extracting the superconductor Gadolinium, which competed with Bactra's own superconductor interests. Daiman's aide, Uleeta, speculated that Bactra planned to destroy the Vellas Pavo facilities for his own strategic gain.

Throughout the meeting, Narsk's gyroscopic torture wheel rotated continuously, slowing down at irregular intervals, causing the Bothan considerable discomfort. The Jedi Kerra Holt was also present during the holo-conference, having used her newly acquired stealth suit to evade security. Both Narsk and Daiman sensed her presence at the doorway, but she managed to avoid detection. Narsk also overheard Daiman discussing his plans with Bactra to visit the mobile research facility on his flagship, Era Daimanos. At the end of the holo-transmission, Daiman had Narsk's prison platform lowered, and it landed on a cushion of anti-gravity force before striking the floor. Daiman then ordered his two Gamorrean sentries to move the wheel-like prison to a secluded maintenance area.

In reality, Daiman intended to use the arxeum to lure his estranged older brother, Odion, a Sith Lord, into a trap on Gazzari. Throughout the holo-conference, Daiman had programmed Narsk's gyroscopic torture wheel to slow down whenever anything important was said, as he had secretly arranged for Narsk to escape and leak the information back to his master, Odion, in order to lure him into the trap. As part of his plan, Daiman ordered his Gamorrean guards to loosen Narsk's bonds. During a subsequent military briefing session, Daiman addressed his generals and outlined his battle plans. In addition to his regular military forces, Daiman enlisted the services of several mercenary groups, including the Human Jarrow Rusher, the Togorian Kr'saang, and the Toong Mak Medagazy. The specialist battalions would depart Darkknell at sunset, each making hyperspace jumps to different destinations. In four standard days, they would regroup on Gazzari. As Gazzari was a volcanic world shrouded in metallic ash, Daiman considered it the perfect location for an ambush. According to the plan, Odion's forces would enter Gazzari, where they would be attacked by Daiman's gun emplacements, which were concealed behind the volcanic ash. Daiman also had his flagship, Era Daimanos, prepared for a hyperspace jump.

Meanwhile, Narsk encountered his Jedi adversary, Kerra, in the maintenance unit. When Narsk asked Kerra if she had come to return his stolen property, Kerra replied that it depended on what information the Bothan provided and how quickly he disclosed it. Narsk agreed to trade the information for his freedom, emphasizing that he was not in the business of helping Jedi. Narsk quickly revealed that Daiman was going to Gazzari on his flagship. When Kerra inquired whether this trip was connected to Daiman's dealings with Bactra, Narsk only agreed to disclose this information once she had moved his gyroscopic torture wheel outside. Upon arriving outside the Sanctum Celestial, Narsk reneged on his earlier agreement, demanding that she take him in exchange for revealing the information, adding that his life was in danger because he had made an enemy in the form of Daiman.

However, Kerra refused to cooperate, as she did not work with the Sith or their collaborators. After taunting Narsk about his slim chances of survival down the chute, Kerra pushed the captive Bothan and his torture wheel down a long stone trough leading downwards from Daiman's palace. Nevertheless, Narsk survived the fall and emerged in a junkyard. Narsk also managed to reach a spaceport where he found offworld transport on a freighter heading to a neutral planet in the Grumani sector, a common destination for visitors from the Odionate. After two standard days, Narsk made his way back to the Odionate and into the presence of Lord Odion himself. While Odion was enraged by the loss of the information on the Convergence stored in his datapad, the Sith Lord spared the Bothan's life because he had succeeded in fulfilling part of the mission by destroying the Black Fang facility. Narsk had also alerted his master to the presence of the Jedi Knight Kerra, which interested Odion, as he sought revenge against the Jedi woman for seriously wounding him during the Chelloan incident.

In return for his services, Odion allowed Narsk to participate in his battle preparations for the assault on Gazzari aboard the Sith Lord's flagship, Sword of Ieldis. While reflecting on his perilous mission to Darkknell en route to Gazzari, the Bothan spy realized that Daiman had spared his life to orchestrate a battle with his estranged older brother, Odion. Both Narsk and Daiman had recognized that Odion's nihilistic beliefs meant that he relished a battle more than anything else in life. Narsk also realized that Daiman had allowed his escape to occur in order to report news of the deal over Bactra's arxeum back to Odion. Thus, Daiman hoped to lure Odion into a trap on Gazzari by using the unwitting Bothan spy as a means of achieving his goal of defeating his estranged sibling once and for all. While Narsk suspected it was a trap, Odion was unconcerned, knowing that traps were a trademark tactic of his younger brother. Due to his nihilistic philosophy, Odion was willing to sacrifice the lives of his men to achieve his goal of ending all life in the galaxy.

Upon arriving in the Gazzari system, Odion ordered his Givin navigator, Jelcho, to search for Daiman's forces. Although they found no trace of Daiman's fleet in the system, they did spot about a dozen of Bactra's ships near Gazzari's sun, where they could observe the events on the planet from a safe distance. Bactra had already arrived on the planet with the arxeum, which landed in the crater along with four transports filled with hundreds of students, impoverished younglings who had been recruited from the Daimanate. Although Odion knew that Bactra had just delivered the arxeum, he ordered his fleet not to fire on the Quermian's forces, as he intended to attack his estranged younger brother, Daiman, whom he considered his main rival. He also intended to track down his perennial Jedi foe, Kerra, whom he regarded as a dangerous threat to his nihilistic ambitions. After sighting Bactra's fleet, Odion contacted the Quermian, and Bactra informed him that the deal with Daiman had been completed and that the Bactranites were no longer concerned with the fate of the arxeum. Bactra's fleet then remained in the Gazzari system, observing the battle between the Daimanites and the Odionites.

For this engagement, Odion deployed a quarter of his own home fleet, including elements of his elite Thunder Guards. During the early stages of the battle, Odion's home fleet formed an orbital perimeter around the planet and awaited the arrival of his most important weapon, a massive siege tower called the Death Spiral. Once the Death Spiral exited hyperspace behind Odion's fleet, the Sith Lord ordered his Thunder Guard units to their transports. Narsk was present on the bridge of the Sword of Ieldis, where Odion had outlined his battle plan. Prior to the ground assault, Odion ordered both Narsk and Jelcho to accompany him on his personal transport. While the two Odionites served the same Sith master, the Bothan Narsk detested the Givin, whose entire species he regarded as physically unsightly due to the large number of holes in their skulls. Within the Odionate, Lord Odion had a policy of assigning individuals jobs based on their species' skills specifications, with Bothans being utilized as spies, Verpines as engineers, and Givin as navigators. However, unbeknownst to both Narsk and Odion, Daiman's forces had already landed on Gazzari, where they had positioned themselves on the ridges of a massive crater, hidden under the metallic ash.

During the subsequent Battle of Gazzari, Odion's forces, including the Death Spiral, landed inside a crater. In the ensuing fighting, Odion's forces engaged Daiman and his mercenaries, destroying all four transports and significantly damaging the arxeum. The mercenaries bombarded the Death Spiral with cannon fire but were unable to destroy the tower, which deployed several speeder bikes, airspeeders, and walkers from its base. Unable to withstand the firepower of the Death Spiral, Daiman's mercenaries were forced to retreat, and the Death Spiral inflicted heavy casualties on Daiman's mercenaries. In the midst of the fighting, Narsk's Jedi adversary, Kerra, resurfaced. The Jedi woman had managed to infiltrate Gazzari by stowing away aboard Daiman's flagship, Era Daimanos. After fighting several Thunder Guards and stealing their speeder bikes, Holt shepherded the students off the battlefield to the cliffs of the crater.

During the initial conflict, Jelcho, the navigator, kept Narsk under observation while he was on Odion's transport. By this point, Daiman had begun to gain the upper hand in the battle. Daiman's warships materialized from hyperspace, effectively cornering Odion's fleet within the Gazzari system. This validated Narsk's theory that the engagement with Bactra on Gazzari was a ruse to ensnare Odion. Just then, Narsk received a communication from Vilia Calimondra, his true master and family matriarch. The Sith Lord desired that her grandsons, Odion and Daiman, cease their familial strife and join forces against Bactra, who was still watching the battle from space, and she tasked Narsk with conveying this message. However, the Bothan's comlink malfunctioned due to the proximity of the Death Spiral's energy shield. After persuading Jelcho to abandon him and participate in the battle against Daiman, Narsk headed south of the Death Spiral, hoping for a clearer signal. He delayed delivering the message, however, because Odion and Daiman were both on the battlefield, nearing each other in preparation for a duel. The Bothan believed that neither Sith Lord was likely to receive his message, given their preoccupation with the battle.

In the meantime, Jelcho joined the battle on a speeder bike, only to be stopped by the Jedi Kerra Holt, who was evacuating students from the transports. Using the Force, she slammed the bike into the ground, rendering the Givin unconscious. Kerra then used a bandolier to secure Jelcho to the bike, jammed its accelerator, and directed it into the Death Spiral's speeder bays. The resulting explosion destroyed the siege tower. While traversing the battlefield, Narsk witnessed this explosion and survived by sheltering inside an abandoned airspeeder. He also became aware of Kerra's presence on Gazzari but chose not to pursue her, as he was already focused on Calimondra's new, unconventional orders. Narsk was perplexed by these new orders, as they defied standard military protocols, even by the unorthodox standards of Sith warfare.

With the Death Spiral's destruction, Narsk was able to transmit Calimondra's message to Daiman and Odion via comlink, as the physical barrier that had been blocking the signals was gone. These directives were then relayed to their orbiting fleets, which promptly ceased hostilities. They immediately combined their forces and attacked Bactra's fleet, destroying half of his warships in under a minute. The remaining ships of Bactra's fleet entered hyperspace and escaped to Jutrand, the Bactranate's capital. However, the Daimanite and Odionite forces pursued them, and within days, Bactra's empire was conquered by Daiman, Odion, and the Sith Lords Lioko and Malakite.

Concurrently, Kerra encountered the mercenary Jarrow Rusher, whose forces had suffered significant losses in the fighting, and successfully persuaded him to evacuate over a thousand student refugees on his modified troopship, the Diligence. They fled to Byllura, a planet within the Sith state known as the Dyarchy, hoping to find safety for themselves and the refugees, while also making necessary repairs to the damaged vessel. However, Holt and Rusher discovered that the planet's entire population was enslaved by the Sith twins Quillan and Dromika, and as a battle erupted, they escaped, kidnapping Quillan. Because Quillan was connected to a mental telepathic network that controlled the population, his incapacitation led to the Dyarchy's collapse into chaos. The planet was then seized by Sith Lord Arkadia Calimondra, Vilia Calimondra's granddaughter and the older sister of Quillan and Dromika. Unbeknownst to Kerra, the stolen Marsk IV stealth suit was connected to a secret communications network, allowing Vilia to monitor all of her actions.

After the battles on Gazzari, Narsk departed from the Odionite forces and sought refuge at an oasis resort near the planet Jutrand to observe the Bactranate's downfall and receive medical attention for his previous injuries. He then contacted Vilia via hologram to report on the recent events on Gazzari and the collapse of the Bactranate. Pleased with Narsk's performance, Vilia arranged for a bequest to distribute Bactra's former territories and assets among her grandchildren. Vilia also instructed the Bothan to monitor the Jedi Kerra Holt's whereabouts, mentioning that she knew the Jedi woman's location. Finally, Vilia ordered Narsk to prepare for travel, as she knew someone who required the services of a specialist. This individual turned out to be Sith Lord Arkadia Calimondra, her granddaughter and the ruler of the Sith state known as the Arkadianate.

Following his brief respite, Narsk established contact with Arkadia, who dispatched a specialized stealth starfighter to transport him to the Arkadianate, where she was preparing to invade the Dyarchy. The Dyarchy was a small Sith principality located on the planet Byllura, governed by the young Sith twins Quillan and Dromika, the youngest offspring of the late Lord Chagras. Before his death in 1042 BBY, he had entrusted them to the care of his Regent, Saaj Calician, an ambitious Krevaaki Sith adept. Calician ruled in the twins' stead while exploiting their Force abilities for his own purposes. The Dyarchy's Sith rulers resided at the Loft, a grand hilltop palace situated across from the capital city of Hestobyll.

The twins possessed a strong Force connection that enabled them to control others through Force persuasion. By 1032 BBY, under their regent's influence, the twins had created a planet-wide mental telepathic system that imposed a Force-induced state of mental servitude on Byllura's population, transforming them into mindless slaves. To support his vision of a galaxy operating as a highly centralized organism under a single Sith Lord, Calician had constructed a fleet of battleships known as the Dyarchy Fleet. Calician intended to launch an invasion of the Daimanate's rearward systems as the initial phase of a large invasion campaign.

Before the invasion, Narsk infiltrated Byllura in a specially modified stealth starfighter and attached a transmitter to the Loft's video surveillance system. This allowed Arkadia and her military commanders to monitor the Dyarchy's rulers, who lived in a penthouse at the top of the Loft, a massive seaside palace perched atop a rock overlooking Hestobyll's harbor. Narsk then retreated to a cave in the highlands, from which he would observe the unfolding events on Byllura. Because Kerra had acquired Narsk's stolen stealth suit on Darkknell, Vilia was able to use its electronic systems to spy on the Jedi woman and learned that the Diligence was en route to Byllura. She then informed her granddaughter Arkadia about the Jedi woman's presence.

From his secure position in the mountains above Hestobyll, Narsk Ka'hane was able to monitor the developments following the Diligence's arrival. He also intercepted communications signals from the Diligence, confirming Kerra's presence on Byllura. Narsk also observed Kerra's chaotic chase through the streets of Hestobyll, which ended at the Loft. After confirming that Kerra was within the Dyarchy's sanctum, the Bothan spy contacted his employer, Arkadia, and instructed her to prepare to strike Byllura. Narsk also observed the Dyarchy Fleet's movements into Byllura's upper atmosphere. At one point, Narsk contacted Kerra via comlink and demanded that the Jedi return his stolen stealth suit. Having confirmed Kerra's presence, Narsk left Byllura on his stealth fighter and headed to space, where he was picked up by Arkadia's flagship, the New Crucible.

When Rusher's modified troopship, the Diligence, arrived in Byllura, Calician mistakenly believed that it was the opportune moment to attack Daiman, reasoning that the Daimanite would not have allowed a ship to leave their territory if they had sufficient military forces near their border. He ordered his red-clad Unifiers to capture the intruders, but Kerra and Rusher fought back and fiercely resisted "integration." Their actions set the stage for the Battle of Byllura, which culminated in Quillan's capture and fatally undermined the Dyarchy, creating a power vacuum that aided Arkadia's invasion plans. Using Narsk's intelligence, Arkadia's fleet entered the Bylluran system and quickly disabled the Dyarchy's battleships. The Arkadianate refrained from destroying the enemy's battleships, intending to salvage their parts. Arkadia also extended a seemingly friendly gesture to Kerra and Rusher, promising to provide shelter for the Diligence within her domain.

Following the invasion, Narsk visited Hestobyll, which had been occupied by Arkadianate forces. The Arkadianate advance guard established itself in The Loft, the former seat of power of the Dyarchy. Having been freed from the mental control of the Dyarchy's twin rulers, the Bylluran population did not resist the Arkadianate occupiers. Narsk accepted Arkadianate propaganda that the "newly liberated" Byllurans would become "contributing members" of the Arkadianate. Narsk also witnessed Arkadianate forces freeing the enslaved Celegians, whose telepathic abilities had been used by the Dyarchy to create the organic network that enslaved Byllura's population. During his visit, he also learned that the former regent, Calician, had been executed and had met his end quietly.

Shortly after the execution, Narsk received a transmission from Arkadia and rejoined the Sith Lord at her capital, Calimondretta, a city on the icy planet of Syned, where he provided a brief report on the ongoing occupation of Byllura. There, he had a reunion with his nominal Jedi adversary, Kerra, while meeting Rusher's Brigade mercenary leader Jarrow Rusher for the first time. He demanded that Kerra return his prized Mark VI stealth suit. Kerra had already given the suit to her teenage Sullustan friend, Tan Tengo. Kerra agreed to return the suit but mentioned that it was located in Tan's room aboard the Diligence. To complicate matters, Tien had gone on an official tour of Calimondretta, the icy capital city of the Arkadianate. By portraying her regime as an "enlightened" one compared to its Sith neighbors, Arkadia attempted to win over Rusher and Kerra. She also offered to provide a safe haven for Rusher to leave his student refugees.

Arkadia's friendly demeanor towards her guests concealed a hidden agenda. She intended to recruit Kerra as an assassin, with her intended target being Vilia Calimondra, her grandmother and the family matriarch. Arkadia blamed her grandmother for the suspicious death of her father, Chagras, and for willingly supporting the internecine family feud between her grandchildren. Arkadia's propaganda efforts temporarily succeeded in winning over Brigadier Rusher, who wanted to accept Arkadia's offer to host the student refugees. In contrast, Kerra distrusted the Sith Lord, as the two Force-using orders had been bitter rivals for millennia. The Jedi woman also correctly suspected that Arkadia intended to exploit them in some way.

Her suspicions were confirmed when Arkadia summoned her to the family bequest at her private museum, where she explained the complex family dynamics of the Calimondra family. During the meeting, Vilia distributed the corporate assets of the defeated Bactranate among her grandchildren and formally recognized Arkadia's annexation of the Dyarchy. Arkadia also confirmed that she had the twins Quillan and Dromika in her custody, though they were kept separate from each other. At the end of the conference, Vilia agreed to look after Quillan's welfare and arranged for the hyperspace coordinates to her planet to be sent across a secure channel. Finally, Arkadia attempted to recruit Kerra as an assassin, but the Jedi unequivocally rejected her job offer, asserting that she did not work for the Sith. In response, Arkadia had Kerra arrested and sent to the Impound, where she would be interrogated and then executed.

While the Bequest was in progress, Narsk and Rusher waited outside the museum. An hour before the meeting, Narsk had received information about the Bequest from Vilia via his implant. The seven long pulses indicated that today would be a special day. As the Bothan had not been invited to participate in the proceedings, he could only speculate as to why his current employer had invited a Jedi to a top-secret function. While the meeting was taking place, Narsk pestered Rusher and attempted to persuade him to return his stealth suit. However, Rusher was uncooperative and attempted to postpone the suit's return until Arkadia's meeting with Kerra had concluded. Narsk suggested communicating with the Diligence via comlink, but Rusher refused, stating that he did not want to annoy the Sith Lord by requesting side trips. He added that this errand could wait, as the refugees were scheduled to be transported to Calimondretta in the evening by an icecrawler. Rusher offered to send the stealth suit back to Narsk with Tengo, but Narsk argued that it would be too late.

Following the Bequest, Arkadia emerged from the museum with Kerra as a captive. She then demanded that Rusher bring the student refugees to Calimondretta immediately. She ordered the Brigadier to report to the main atrium, where he would be picked up by the icecrawler. She reiterated her promise that Rusher and his mercenaries could depart into hyperspace, providing him with a set of coordinates that supposedly led out of the Arkadianate. However, Arkadia secretly intended to kill the mercenaries by sending them on a one-way trip to the Nakrikal Singularity, a black hole. With Kerra unwilling to carry out Arkadia's errand, the Sith Lord instead recruited the Bothan, asking him if he was ready for more fieldwork. Narsk accepted Arkadia's offer and then followed Quillan, who was being pushed in a hoverchair by the Human aide known as Enbo. When Rusher inquired about Kerra, Arkadia stated that she planned to kill the Jedi before she could cause chaos throughout the Arkadianate. In return for employing his services, Narsk got Arkadia to order Rusher to return his stolen stealth suit. Rusher had no choice but to comply with Arkadia's command.

Through unknown means, Vilia discovered her granddaughter's plot and sent a transmission to Narsk's implant, ordering the Bothan spy to turn against his "current" employer, Arkadia, by launching her own "counter-plot." Aware of his new orders, Narsk approached Brigadier Rusher, who was uneasy about abandoning Kerra to the Sith Lord's mercy. However, the Brigadier was unwilling to risk the lives of a thousand student refugees for the sake of one person. Still, Rusher tried to reassure himself by dismissing his anxieties as not being part of his job. Narsk convinced the Brigadier that following Arkadia's orders would endanger his crew by citing the events that had transpired during the Bequest. The Bothan added that they could use explosives to damage the tractor beam emitters at Calimondretta, allowing the Diligence to escape the Arkadianate. For this escape attempt to succeed, however, it would require the full support of Rusher and his mercenaries.

Rusher agreed to cooperate with the Bothan spy's plans and arranged for one of his mercenaries, Beadle Lubboon, to transport Narsk's stealth suit and Kerra's lightsaber to Calimondretta. For his plan to succeed, Narsk also needed Kerra's support to provide a second diversion for Arkadia's forces. Narsk modified the settings on Rusher's comlinks, allowing him to relay instructions to Lubboon while evading detection from Arkadia's sensors. In return for Rusher's cooperation, Narsk paid him by giving him half of the coordinates that led to a safe hyperspace lane ending at a jump-point in neutral space leading to the Galactic Republic. Narsk also presumably explained to Rusher that the earlier coordinates which Arkadia had presented earlier was actually a one-way death trip ending in a black hole. Finally, he promised to give the second half of the coordinates to Kerra on the condition that she helped create a distraction that would allow both parties to escape the Arkadianate.

Unaware of Vilia's secret counter-plot, Arkadia had a modified shuttle prepared at Embarkation Station 7 for a single hyperspace jump to her grandmother's top-secret destination. She explained to Narsk that his primary mission was to assassinate Vilia. As the Bothan lacked the Force abilities and lightsaber combat skills of a Force-wielder, Narsk's weapon would consist of remote-controlled nerve toxin pods. These nerve toxins had been harvested from Synedian alga, a flora indigenous to the planet Syned. Upon arriving on Vilia's world, he would slip out of the vessel unseen, shadowing Quillan. Once he located both Quillan and Vilia, he would activate the nerve toxins hidden in the chair, killing both targets and plunging her empire into anarchy. Arkadia hoped to benefit from this chaos by annexing other territories, thus furthering her larger ambitions of galactic dominance. In the event that the shuttle was captured by a third party, Narsk would claim that he was working for the Odionate in order to avoid attracting attention to Arkadia.

For the mission, Narsk would be hidden within a secret compartment within one of the starship's engines. During the middle of the meeting, the Duros mercenary Beadle Lubboon arrived in an environment suit, carrying Narsk's stealth suit within his pouch. Rusher had sent Lubboon to deliver both the stealth suit and Kerra's lightsaber, knowing that the cumbersome Duros would not attract Arkadia's suspicion. The Duros mercenary had managed to smuggle the lightsaber past Arkadianate security by hiding it within the left arm of his spacesuit. Lubboon claimed that his left arm had been injured during a fall and was given permission by Arkadia to leave for the infirmary for medical treatment. Arkadia's experiences with Lubboon's clumsy antics gave her a poor impression of Rusher's mercenaries, leading her to reject their services earlier. She revealed to Narsk that she had planned to kill them by leading them into a rogue hyperspace lane to prevent any information about the Arkadianate from leaking to her enemies.

After acquiring his stealth suit back and concluding his meeting with Arkadia, Beadle left for the infirmary as well by feigning an allergic reaction to the algae. There, Narsk obtained Kerra's lightsaber from Lubboon and infiltrated the Impound using his stealth suit. After destroying several Interrogator droids, the Bothan freed Kerra from her prison. He explained that he wanted to help the young Jedi woman because he was working for someone opposed to Arkadia's plan and that he also needed someone to create a diversion. Since the planned assassination of Vilia would destabilize the Grumani sector's political order, she had assembled several military parties for strategic attacks on the Arkadianate's neighbors. As part of her expansionist campaign, Arkadia also planned to deploy the nerve toxin known as Chagras's Blood as a bioweapon. She had intended to use the inmates at the Impound including Kerra as test subjects.

After confirming that Rusher was collaborating in their escape attempt from the Arkadianate, he gave Kerra the second half of the hyperspace coordinates leading to the safe jump point. When Kerra asked who he actually was and how he had obtained such information, Narsk reiterated that while he was working for the Sith Lord Vilia, he himself was never a Sith. Kerra and Narsk were unable to free most of the other prisoners at the Impound since they had already been exposed to Chagras's Blood and succumbed to the effects of the bioweapon within minutes. When Kerra asked why Narsk had spared her life despite their earlier animosity, Narsk replied that he did so because he had no orders to kill her before departing on a turbolift.

After Kerra's liberation, Narsk made his way back to Embarkation Station 7. Although he wasn't fully informed about Arkadia's elaborate schemes concerning Vilia, the Bothan operative understood that a distraction was essential for Vilia's counter-strategy to be effective. Furthermore, Narsk remembered that Arkadia had installed a timer on the gas canister mechanism beneath the hover chair, which was intended for use during the assassination attempt. Narsk swiftly deduced that Arkadia had incorporated a safeguard to ensure the nerve toxin's release, even if Narsk failed or abandoned his mission. When Arkadia questioned Narsk about his prolonged absence, the Bothan fabricated a story, claiming he needed to perform diagnostics on his stealth suit, implying the Jedi woman had neglected its maintenance. Using the Force, Arkadia levitated the unresponsive Quillan onto the new velvet hover chair, which contained the nerve toxin gas canister. Subsequently, she bid farewell to her younger brother, stating that he never had a chance in life but that his death would avenge their father.

Quillan, absorbed entirely within his own thoughts, remained unaware of the events unfolding around him. Before dispatching Narsk on his assignment, Arkadia instructed the Bothan to establish contact via the encrypted channel programmed into his datapad upon mission success. At that precise moment, emergency sirens blared throughout the hangar. Arkadia and Narsk swiftly discovered that Kerra had escaped from the Impound. Arkadia, in a fit of rage, exclaimed that someone had aided the Jedi woman in her escape from her designated "morgue." With the shuttle prepared for departure, Arkadia left to address the situation, instructing one of the Wookiee Citizen Guards present to ensure the Bothan securely closed his hidden chamber to prevent asphyxiation in space. By this time, the shuttle was ready for its jump to hyperspace. Attempting to undermine Arkadia's plans, Narsk feigned surprise at their early departure. Arkadia retorted that the importance of his mission precluded any delays. Narsk complied, entering the hidden hatch in the shuttle's engine, while anxiously anticipating the promised diversionary attacks from Rusher and Kerra.

Concurrently, Rusher and his team honored their agreement with Narsk by commandeering the icecrawler "Crawler One," utilizing it to transport a pair of artillery cannons. They deployed the icecrawler as a Trojan horse, using it to infiltrate Calimondretta. Once inside the fortified city, Rusher and his mercenaries initiated their diversionary attack, inflicting substantial internal damage upon Patriot Hall. Arkadia's Citizen Guards also intercepted the escaped Jedi Kerra, but proved no match for the lightsaber-wielding Force user. Enraged, Arkadia commanded her troops to deploy thermal detonators into the public square Reflection Prospect in a desperate attempt to eliminate the Jedi woman. Nevertheless, Kerra survived the attack, though numerous civilians and guards were killed or wounded during the resulting chaos. Further damage to Arkadia's assets occurred when the Diligence detached both its massive cargo assembly pods into Syned's two tractor beam emitters and Arkadia's military fleet, which had been assembled for a blitzkrieg against Arkadia's neighbors in the event that Vilia was assassinated.

As Arkadia was consumed by the intruders on two separate fronts, Narsk put his plan into motion. In the meantime, the Bothan Narsk subdued the Wookiee Citizen Guard by using his stealth suit to disorient her, before rendering her unconscious. Quillan remained on the new burgundy hoverchair, surrounded by three technicians. With the technicians distracted by the damage inflicted upon the chamber by the conflagration, Narsk seized the opportunity to switch Quillan back to his original hoverchair, leaving the hazardous burgundy one behind in the hangar bay. While the technicians were preoccupied with Rusher's ultimatum being broadcast over the intercom, Narsk enlisted the aid of a Human mechanic to help him move Quillan and the hoverchair into the shuttle's passenger compartment. Narsk asserted that saboteurs were approaching the hangar bay and that they needed to expedite the mission.

After attending to Quillan, Narsk entered his concealed engine compartment and activated the vessel's droid pilot, donning his gas mask. By this time, the ground crew had recognized their error and attempted to prevent the shuttle's departure by contacting the droid pilot and activating a magnetic field. In response, Narsk promptly activated the nerve toxin assembly system. The burgundy hoverchair below immediately released its lethal nerve toxin, eliminating the ground crew and facilitating Narsk's escape. The Bothan's elation was short-lived, as the deafening roar of the accelerating engines caused permanent damage to his hearing. However, he had succeeded in thwarting Arkadia's scheme to assassinate her grandmother, thereby plunging the Calimondra dynasty into a crisis from which she could profit.

Simultaneously, Kerra engaged in a lightsaber duel with Arkadia at her museum. Just before Arkadia could deliver a fatal blow to the Jedi Knight, Rusher instructed his gunners to fire a precision shot at the museum, creating a hole in its roof and enabling Kerra to escape to the surface. The Brigadier had known that his erstwhile ally was still in Calimondretta and discovered her location at Arkadia's museum through a tag planted on the latter's lightsaber. On Syned's frigid surface, Kerra was rescued by Rusher, who personally transported her back to the Diligence's medical bay. After evacuating five hundred defecting Arkadianate citizens who were dissatisfied with life under Arkadia, the Diligence jumped to hyperspace. Meanwhile, Arkadia survived the artillery attack, but much of her capital and military assets were damaged or destroyed. The Mark VI stealth suit was also damaged by the engines' sonic bombardment which burnt out the receptors and electrical systems, permanently spoiling the suit beyond repair. Narsk also lost his hearing as a result.

Following seven hours of hyperspace travel, Narsk arrived at Vilia's secluded retreat planet, which featured expansive, beautiful gardens. There, Vilia assumed custody of Quillan. Meanwhile, Narsk received medical treatment and had prosthetic implants installed in his ears. Narsk believed that his new implants would enhance his abilities as a spy. After his recovery, Narsk had a private audience with Vilia Calimondra herself as she tended to her private garden. In the background, Quillan sat on a sedan chair under a portable shade, still lost within his vast mindscape. According to Vilia, her youngest grandson possessed the ability to perceive even distant objects, such as unknown galaxies. Narsk then understood that Quillan had been the focal point of the events that had transpired since Gazzari. While Narsk had been on the battlefield to ensure that Odion and Daiman adhered to her instructions to betray Bactra, Vilia had grown concerned about Arkadia's ambitions, which her seers had sensed through the Force.

Narsk also reported that two of Vilia's other agents had spirited Dromika away from Byllura. While both twins were now under Vilia's protection, she had arranged to keep them separated from each other and from any opportunists who might seek to exploit their powers. Upon contacting Arkadia, Narsk learned from her that his impromptu plan had succeeded. By claiming that he had remained in the hidden compartment throughout the entire conflict, Narsk managed to evade her suspicions. Narsk also asserted that he had arrived on Vilia's planet with the incorrect hover chair. Arkadia concluded that her aides had loaded the wrong chair onto the shuttle and were killed when it was accidentally released during the fighting. Enraged by the failure of her schemes, Arkadia abruptly terminated the transmission. Due to the Siege of Calimondretta, Arkadia was preoccupied with rebuilding her war-ravaged capital. With the loss of substantial military assets, Arkadia was also compelled to recall forces from Byllura and abandon her expansionist aspirations.

When Narsk inquired whether Vilia had played a role in Chagras's death, the Sith matriarch attempted to deny her involvement in the death of Arkadia's father Chagras by presenting an alternative theory that Arkadia had the motive and means for murdering her father. Vilia portrayed Arkadia as an ambitious younger daughter who feared that her father's legacy would go to younger, and more favored siblings. She also cited Arkadia's expertise in nerve toxins, the weapon that had brought the death of Chagras, as circumstantial evidence. Vilia then surmised that anyone could construct a case against Arkadia in the same way manner that they could build one against her. For the Calimondra family, shared illusions mattered as much as bloodlines in explaining the complex and fraught relationship between its various members. Narsk also voiced his concerns about having freed the Jedi Knight Kerra Holt and speculated that she would not leave Sith Space, thus posing a constant threat to the Sith.

He feared that the Galactic Republic and Jedi Order could exploit Kerra's knowledge of the Calimondra family and the Charge Matrica in their war effort against the Grumani Sith. However, Vilia dismissed his concerns, arguing that the absence of mass media in Sith Space hindered the dissemination of this information to the general populace. She added that the Republic's authorities were ineffective against the Sith, even with sound intelligence about their Sith adversaries. Vilia ultimately surmised that Kerra remained the sole Jedi throughout the entire Grumani sector. When Narsk reiterated that Kerra could still pose a danger to her dynasty, Vilia described Kerra as an opportunity to provide her grandchildren with some "learning experience" in dealing with the Jedi in preparation for the day when the Sith would invade Republic territory and confront the Jedi Order once more. Vilia also justified her policy of sowing discord within her family as a defining basis of Sith identity. Finally, she remarked that Narsk could send her greetings to Arkadia if the opportunity arose for them to cross paths again.

Narsk Ka'hane was an individual driven by opportunity, prioritizing personal gain over ideological convictions. While Narsk acknowledged working for various Sith employers, he firmly maintained that he was not a Sith himself. However, this association resulted in him being viewed with suspicion by enemies of the Sith, such as the Jedi Knight Kerra Holt. Ka'hane was also a rational and perceptive individual, capable of analyzing situations effectively. He correctly identified the Battle of Gazzari as a trap orchestrated by Lord Daiman to ensnare his estranged older brother Odion. Despite his logical objections, his employer Odion was too irrational and nihilistic to heed the Bothan spy's arguments.

Throughout his career, Narsk maintained no lasting friendships or enmities. Instead, his interactions with other characters were contingent upon shared interests and objectives. Initially, Kerra was an adversary of Ka'hane, as her campaign to sabotage the Sith war effort clashed with his work to acquire classified military information for Lord Odion. However, Kerra later became an ally when they encountered a common enemy in the form of the Sith Lord Arkadia Calimondra. Arkadia's plot to overthrow the Calimondra family matriarch Vilia was opposed by both Narsk and Kerra for different reasons. Narsk facilitated Kerra's escape from her prison in exchange for the Jedi's assistance in containing Arkadia's forces, enabling him to return to Vilia with her grandson Quillan. While they remained officially enemies, Narsk did not kill Kerra because Vilia had not instructed him to do so.

As a spy, Narsk Ka'hane possessed exceptional infiltration skills. While gathering intelligence on the Daimanate's Convergence Tactical Assault Vehicle, Narsk infiltrated Darkknell disguised as a machine operator from Nilash. For his intelligence operations, Narsk frequently employed an advanced Cyricept Mark VI stealth suit, enabling him to move virtually undetected. Narsk also carried a needler pistol, ideally suited for spy missions due to its lack of the loud report associated with a blaster. Narsk could adjust his needler to fire acid-filled darts or pulse-wave darts. Narsk employed this weapon during his initial encounter with Kerra Holt, albeit unsuccessfully. Narsk was also proficient in close-quarters combat, skills he used to incapacitate a female Wookiee Citizen Guard during his escape from the Arkadianate. Narsk lost his hearing after exposure to Arkadia's ship's sonic engines; he accquired audal implants after returning Quillan to his grandmother, Vilia Calimondra, and thought they would make him a more effective spy. Despite his skills and training as a spy, Narsk was no match for Force-sensitive individuals, such as the Jedi Knight Kerra Holt or the Sith warlord Daiman.

Narsk Ka'hane made his debut as a supporting character providing a viewpoint in John Jackson Miller's novel Knight Errant, which was initially released on January 25, 2011. While this marked Miller's first published novel, he also developed the script for the Star Wars: Knight Errant comic series, closely linked to the novel. Narsk subsequently made a cameo appearance in Knight Errant: Aflame 5, the fifth installment of the Aflame story arc, which was first released on February 16, 2011.