Keska' Cay

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"Una betrayed one of my smugglers, who was running weapons and explosives to the Rebel Alliance. The assassin is a psychotic killer known as Keska' Cay. I want him killed."
―Lady Valarian, to a spacer[3]

Keska' Cay was a male Ualaq Aqualish assassin who lived on the planet Tatooine during the time of the Galactic Civil War. After the Battle of Yavin, Keska' Cay worked for the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure.[2] In 1 ABY,[1] a member of the Valarian Syndicate named Una betrayed Lady Valarian and sold information to Jabba the Hutt. Una informed the Hutt about one of Valarian's gun running operations so Jabba used the lunatic killer Keska' Cay to assassinate one of the pilots running that operation. In retaliation, Lady Valarian later tasked a spacer with killing Una and Keska' Cay.[2]

Behind the scenes

Keska' Cay was a cut non-player character (NPC) in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[2] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[4]

Keska' Cay was intended to be part of the cancelled Themepark. This questline was initially planned to be introduced in the game with the "Publish 23" to replace the original "Valarian Quest Series."[5] Although the old "Valarian Quest Series" was deactivated with the release of Publish 23 on August 31, 2005,[6] the new Themepark was never activated.[7] Several NPCs of the Valarian Theme Park were implemented into the game but Keska' Cay was not known to have appeared on the live servers.[8] Unused game files pertaining to this questline indicated that Keska' Cay was intended to be part of a new quest named "Fencing."[9] An emulated depiction pulled from this character's Interchange File Format revealed what he would have looked like.[10]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — directory tree files
  3. ↑ tatooine_knives_fencing_valarian.stf
  4. ↑ Gal-icon IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  5. ↑ Gal-icon Valarian Quest Update on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  6. ↑ Gal-icon Update Notes: Publish 23 on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (original site is defunct)
  7. ↑ Gal-icon In Development on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  8. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Publish 25
  9. ↑ tatooine_knives_fencing.stf
  10. ↑ dressed_tatooine_keska.iff