Cassilyda Cryar

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"Master Sinube, you're right. I've found the intruder and she has my lightsaber. She's a Terrelian jango jumper, and hard to keep up with."

―Ahsoka Tano to Tera Sinube — 20?cb=20250116042720

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Cassilyda "Cassie" Cryar was a female Terrelian Jango Jumper criminal who lived on the planet Coruscant during the Clone Wars.

Biography

Cassilyda "Cassie" Cryar, a female Terrelian Jango Jumper^[2] from Terrelia,^[1] operated as a thief in the underworld on the planet Coruscant during the Clone Wars.^[6] She was hired as an assistant and bodyguard by Nack Movers, a Trandoshan hitman whom the Coruscant Security Force had tried and failed to bring to justice for his string of murders using Sennari poison. He lived in an apartment with his girlfriend,^[7] a Salenga criminal^[3] named Ione Marcy. Despite Movers' paranoia, he failed to notice Marcy and Cryar grow close to each other and become partners. Ignoring Marcy's entreaties to him, the lecherous Movers propositioned Cryar. The two women subsequently plotted to kill him.^[7]

Nack Movers failed to notice that Ione Marcy and Cassilyda Cryar had grown close and were plotting to poison him.

Sometime after Movers had acquired Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano's stolen lightsaber,^[6] his drink was poisoned by Cryar and Marcy using the same poison he used on his targets. As he convulsed and died, his claws raked across a painting of the three beings together.^[7] While Cryar and Marcy were still in Movers' apartment after ransacking it, they were discovered by Tano and Jedi Master Tera Sinube, who had questioned the thief Bannamu after he had stolen and sold Tano's lightsaber.^[4] Using her natural agility,^[6] Cryar escaped the apartment with the lightsaber, but she was pursued across the skyline by Tano. Marcy was able to escape the apartment as well when the police arrived and take her speeder to reunite with Cryar. They fled to a train station, and Cryar took hostages as Tano pursued her across a hovertrain. After the train stopped, Cryar attempted to use Tano's lightsaber, but the weapon was easily disarmed by Sinube. The couple was captured by the Jedi and placed under arrest by the GU-series Guardian police droids.^[4]

Personality and traits

Cassilyda Cryar was a female Terrelian Jango Jumper who was 1.82 meters (6 feet) tall,^[3] with red hair, tied atop her head in a topknot,^[4] had red eyes^[2] and turquoise-blue skin. Her body was also long-limbed.^[4]

Cryar was known as a thief and she stole Ahsoka Tano's lightsaber.^[4] She also was a bodyguard to Nack Movers. While working as hired muscle for Movers, she became a romantic partner to Movers's girlfriend Ione Marcy. The two women worked together to murder Movers after the Trandoshan made lecherous moves on Cryar.^[7]

As a Terrelian Jango Jumper, Cryar had impressive physical abilities that made her exceptionally agile. She could leap vast distances comparable to a Jedi's Force jumps, despite not being Force-sensitive. Cryar also believed that with her species' abilities, coupled with her use of Tano's stolen lightsaber, she was just as powerful as any Jedi. Cryar was bold, and unafraid of falling from the great heights of Coruscant's rooftops, but was also prone to acting without thinking, evident when she threatened Tano with the Padawan's lightsaber without any training in how to operate the weapon, or even the knowledge of how to ignite the blade. She also had a tendency to swing the stolen lightsaber carelessly at surrounding objects and people, without realizing the damage she could do to herself or the other people in the vicinity. Cryar also took a pair of hostages aboard a moving hover train when Tano confronted her, as Cryar became desperate with nowhere else to run.^[4]

Skills and abilities

Cryar's exceptional speed and agility^[3] made it hard for even Ahsoka Tano to keep up with her pace.^[4] She was also skilled in armed and unarmed combat,^[3] and was able to figure out to ignite the blade of Tano's lightsaber as well as block a few strikes from Sinube's lightsaber, before Sinube disarmed her.^[4]

Behind the scenes

"Cassie is very mischievous and strong, but I also like that she's not sure what she's doing once she gets the lightsaber. She's not necessarily all bad; she's doing what she has to do in order to survive. She's also quite charming in a way. She has this acrobatic, beautiful way of moving as well, especially during the chase scenes with Ahsoka."

―Jaime King^[8]

Cassie Cryar appeared in "Lightsaber Lost," an episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series that was part of the second season's Rise of the Bounty Hunters storyline in 2010. She was voiced by Jaime King, who was drawn to the role for Cryar's strength. She doesn't consider Cryar to be a bad person, believing that she is only doing what she needs to do to survive.^[8]

The design of Cassie Cryar harkens back to one of Iain McCaig's early Sith concepts for the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace.^[9]

In the years after "Lightsaber Lost" aired, some viewers posted in venues such as the Jedi Council Forums that there appeared to be romantic subtext between Cassie Cryar and Ione Marcy.^[10] Pablo Hidalgo mentioned via his Twitter account in 2016 that they were written to be a couple.^[5] He subsequently wrote the 2018 reference book Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious, which made this detail more apparent and gave Cryar the full first name "Cassilyda."^[7]