Kaffman

"From a historical standpoint, the only laws that matter are those of the conscience. I can not, in good conscience, do nothing about this Sith Holocron. We must learn more about it. A Holocron this recently made suggests that the Sith have somehow returned, and if that's true, the fate of the galaxy is at stake."

- Kaffman

Kaffman was an archeologist who taught history at the University of Corellia before he formed the 1337 N00B5 at the start of the Clone Wars. An intelligent man, Kaffman was fascinated by the Jedi and the Sith, and his studies in history and his excavations across the Galaxy reflected this passion. His studies of the Jedi brought out an introspective, moral character in Kaffman, who believed firmly in the "law of conscience," which preceded over the laws of government. He was best friends with Radar Spectros, who was equally prodigious as he in academics, but studied engineering and technology.

Early life
Kaffman was born on Tralus, in one of the more remote regions. His parents were farmers who made a decent living, but Kaffman, who was fascinated by the Force and the Jedi, had little interest in his parents' lifestyle. By the time he was 12, he had completed a research paper on the Mandalorian Wars and submitted it to the InterGalactic Senior History Exposition, and after winning the local, planetary, and sectoral divisions, he proceeded to Coruscant to compete in the Galactic level. There he met Radar Spectros, whom he befriended immediately, and won second place in the final Galactic Exposition. With mixed feelings about the outcome, Kaffman became somewhat biased against the Jedi, as he saw the winner's entry to portray them too worshipfully, though still remained utterly fascinated by and respectful towards them. Having toured the Jedi Temple, the Senate Hall, and other famous Coruscanti landmarks that the Exposition winners were privileged to see, Kaffman returned with his new friend Radar to Corellia, where he would learn to pilot a prototype Eta-2 Actis-class interceptor simulator. After an extended vacation on Corellia, he returned briefly to Tralus to complete his secondary education, then proceeded back to Corellia to attend its planetary university, one of the most prestigious in the Galaxy. Through careful sweet-talking to the university officials, Kaffman managed to board with Radar, who had graduated secondary school just a year before Kaffman, just after the Battle of Naboo.

Kaffman and Radar, though pursuing unrelated fields, would compete with and spiritually support one another through their relatively short years at the University of Corellia, which led to each of them excelling beyond the other students. They graduated two years ahead of their class, Kaffman having written his senior thesis on the Schisms and the Prophecy of the Chosen One.

Early career
Kaffman worked for several months as an understudy to an archeologist on Corulag, where he met a Ilmar Grmek who was determined to become a leading naval strategist, but he quit for "moral disagreements." He joined an interplanetary excavation project to support himself financially, at one point investigating an infiltrator on Naboo, and writing several papers on different findings. The publications gained notoriety, and Kaffman was soon offered a stable position in the University of Corellia. There he worked as an apprentice to the head of the history department, who was an aged Zabrak who was ailing from a rare, untreatable cancer, with a prognosis of two years at most. Kaffman gained an official position as a professor before the department's head died, but not soon enough to replace him as the department's head. Radar Spectros, however, was more able to accelerate his rise, being the son of a high-level engineer who worked at Kuat to codesign starfighters, and propelled himself to the head of the university's science department at record speed.

After the Zabrak teacher died, Kaffman started organizing archeological excavations for the university, which Radar tagged along on with the excuse of managing the technical examinations. The later archeological campaigns included historical surveys of notable landmarks on Korriban.

Life-changing discovery
"We are whatever we need to be in order to do what is right."

- Kaffman

On one of the last digs on Korriban, in a scouting project involving only Kaffman, Radar, and Kaffman's assistant, they unearthed a Sith Holocron which Radar dated to be less than four years old. After a thorough analysis, the Holocron was judged to be a genuine Sith product, which Kaffman concluded meant the Sith were not extinct after all. Fearing the Jedi response to such a discovery, but needing to know more about the Holocron, Kaffman decided that he and Radar were doomed to be outlaws, who had to fight this threat, but not divulge the secret of the Sith's existence. Contacting Ilmar Grmek, the Mon Calamari he met on Corulag, he managed to convince her that forming a "pirate" gang would be the best way to learn more about the Sith and avoid telling the Jedi about the threat.

Raid on the Jedi Temple
"I'm hoping we manage to do this as deftly and subtly as possible."

- Kaffman

To find out about the Holocron they had discovered, Kaffman planned to obtain a Force-sensitive bacteria sample from the Jedi Temple, which Radar could stimulate in a way that could fool the Holocron into thinking that there is a Force-sensitive ready to receive its knowledge.

Kaffman, Radar Spectros, and Ilmar Grmek made their way to the Jedi Temple in three Eta-2 interceptors, which Radar had inherited from his father. They were accompanied by PK-10, Grmek's weather prediction droid, in a Ferrier-class rescue shuttle, who was to take Kaffman from the Jedi Temple once he obtained the microbial incubator he was after.

Their approach was simple; Radar and Kaffman neutralized the Jedi Temple's hangar, while Grmek fought off the alarmed Coruscanti Police Droids that were on patrol. Soon after their first triumph, however, another pirate gang, in T-36 airspeeders, appeared and tried unsuccessfully to rob the Bank of Coruscant. After Kaffman managed to make his way into the Temple's science labs, Anakin Skywalker, who had been with his wife in 500 Republica at the time of the attack, appeared, and noticed the Blood Karvers. Assuming that the Eta-2s were friendly, and that the Blood Karvers were the ones behind the attack, Skywalker quickly shot down all of the airspeeders.

Meanwhile, in the Jedi Temple, Kaffman ran into Mace Windu, who assumed Kaffman was part of the Temple staff at first. It became clear in the Force to Windu, however, that Kaffman was part of the attack on the Jedi Temple, but Kaffman was able to convince Windu that he had to be let go, hinting that he only raided the Temple as part of a quest to reveal critical secrets of the Dark side. Windu, sensing that Kaffman would become a great enemy of the Dark side in the future, decided that whatever he came up with might help the Jedi in their search for Count Dooku and Darth Sidious (Kaffman, nor anyone unaffiliated with the Jedi Order, was aware that they were Sith Lords), and agreed to turn a blind eye to his escape. Kaffman continued to hold conspiracy theories about Mace Windu after the encounter, thinking that the Jedi Master was trying to establish Jedi control of the Senate by forcibly removing the Chancellor after the war is won and the emergency powers are no longer necessary.

Before leaving the Temple, Kaffman made contact with the Blood Karvers and offered to assimilate them into their small gang, in order to be able to get past the Acclammator-class Assault Ship in orbit, which was blocking their retreat.