Kal Skirata Kal Skirata , born Falin Mattran — sometimes called Kal ' buir ( " Mando ' a " for " Papa Kal " ) by the clone commandos that he trained — was a Human male Mandalorian instructor who trained clone commandos in the Grand Army of the Republic during the time of the Separatist Crisis . After being orphaned , he was adopted by Munin Skirata . As Skirata grew up , he became the husband of Ilippi Skirata , the biological father of Tor , Ijaat , and Ruusaan Skirata . He would also become the adopted " buir " of Omega Squad and the Null - class Advanced Recon Commando s , RC - 1136 of Omega Squad , and Jedi Knight Etain Tur - Mukan , and ex - j edi Knight Bardan Jusik . He was also the adopted grandfather of Venku Skirata . Biography . Life as a Mandalorian . Falin Mattran was born on the planet of Kuat , the son of a Kuat Drive Yards engineer and his wife . When Mattran was around 6 years old , his family had moved to Surcaris because his father was contracted to do some engineering on the KDY warships that were stationed there . War had broken out on Surcaris shorty after the Mattran family had arrived on the planet , and Falin was orphaned when both of his parents were killed . The only thing he had salvaged from his father ' s body was a three - sided knife , and because he was alone after his parents died , he trained himself how to use it , eventually getting to the point where he could hit any target he threw the knife at . After surviving for a year in the war - torn rubble of Surcaris on his own , Mattran was discovered by a Mandalorian named Munin Skirata , whom he had promptly attacked with his father ' s knife . Munin was amused by the attack rather than angry , and decided to adopt Mattran into his Mandalorian clan , renaming him " Kal Skirata " — with " Kal " meaning " Blade " in " Mando ' a " — and took it upon himself to train young Kal . Skirata later married a non - Mandalorian , Ilippi , with whom he had three children : Tor , Ijaat , and Ruusaan . However , she had trouble dealing with his long absences and refused to allow him to take their eight - year - old sons into battle with him , per Mandalorian tradition . Ilippi eventually left him , taking with her all three children . Early in his career as a mercenary , his ankle was shattered by a Verpine shatter gun due to his failure to follow an order . The injury would later become a grievance for most of his career , only being healed after his adopted clone sons forced him to undergo surgery . When Jango Fett was recruiting the " Cuy ' val Dar " , Kal was recruited due to fellow Cuy ' val Dar , Walon Vau ' s recommendation . He and Jango went back a long way , and had an up and down relationship . Kal was a very aggressive Mandalorian traditionalist and was devoted to the welfare of his troops . When Ilippi died , Kal ' s sons tried to find him , to let him know . However , because of the extreme secrecy surrounding the existence of the clone army , he could not contact them and after they couldn ' t find him to come to their mother ' s funeral , they parentally divorced him . This was something that was considered a great disgrace among Mandalorians , but Kal felt that it was worth it , for the safety of the clones he had now become quite attached to . Training clones . Eight years before the Battle of Geonosis , Kal was brought to Kamino when he answered Jango Fett ' s call for trainers for the clones , joining the ranks of the Cuy ' val Dar — literally " " Those Who No Longer Exist " " in the Mandalorian tongue . He was disgusted with the Kaminoans ' arrogance and indifferent attitude toward the " reconditioning " ( a euphemism that often meant killing ) of clone children who didn ' t pass quality control standards . Kal first met the Nulls when the Kaminoan technicians considered them failures that would be destroyed . Null - 11 and Null - 7 attempted to defend themselves and their brothers with Null - 7 stealing the hold out blaster Kal kept within his boot , and Null - 11 aiming at Kaminoan , Orun Wa . Though Kal cared little for the fate of the Kaminoan scientist , he managed to talk Null - 11 down for fear of repercussions toward the boy . Kal became sympathetic to the clones , and took the Nulls under his wing , giving them names and training them personally , instilling the heritage and values of the Mandalorians in them . The Nulls , in return , were very fond of Kal , and would only answer to or accept orders from him alone . He also formed alliances and contacts with many other Cuy ' val Dar while there , forming a " closer " relationship with Walon Vau , Wad ' e Tay ' haai , Mij Gilamar , Rav Bralor , Dred Priest , and many other Mandalorians . Clone Wars . The War Begins . With the Battle of Geonosis , Kal ' s contract as a " Cuy ' val Dar " was finally over . But when the battle was won and the Null ARCs were expected to be put into stasis , they resisted and took control of an entire barracks block . Skirata had to be called in under willing CSF arrest to help calm down the Nulls , but he helped on the condition that he would be re - enlisted in the Grand Army of the Republic and there would be no punishment for the Nulls . Mission on Coruscant . One year into the war , with several recent terrorist attacks on GAR facilities , Skirata assembled a secret black ops team consisting of himself , fellow Cuy ' val Dar Walon Vau , clone commando squads Delta and Omega , Null ARCs Ordo and Mereel , and Jedi Generals Etain Tur - Mukan and Bardan Jusik . The team ' s objective was to locate and eliminate the Separatist terror cells operating on Coruscant . For the mission , Ordo acquired a large cache of explosives from GAR facilities , and Skirata used some of his criminal contacts within the more seedy areas of Coruscant to set himself up as a man looking to sell the explosives . Once contact had been made with the terror cell , the different teams were given different objectives . Omega and Delta Squads , along with Jusik and Tur - Mukan , tracked the members of the terror cell . Walon Vau served as interrogator for any prisoners taken . Once the exchange took place between Skirata and the terror cells , a strike was made to eliminate all members of the cell . During the mission , Kal took a liking to Bardan and believed him fit to be his son . Afterward , he also convinced General Zey that clone trooper Corr ( an injured ordnance disposal trooper who ' d been swept up into the team during the investigation ) be allowed to stay with him and train as a commando . It was also during this period that he learned of Etain ' s pregnancy with clone commando Darman and told her that he would raise the child so that it would grow up in the proper " Mandalorian " way . He also expressed disgust in Etain ' s decision not to tell Darman that she had conceived , thinking that she had merely " used " him , just like the Republic used its slave army . The Hunt for Ko Sai . A few months after the mission on Coruscant , Kal Skirata , along with Ordo and Mereel , traveled to Kamino to find information on the whereabouts of the missing Kaminoan scientist , Ko Sai . Not long after , Kal and Ordo were forced to rescue Walon Vau from Mygeeto after he fell into a crevasse after a bank heist at the Dressian Kiolsh Merchant Bank . When they managed to recover him aboard their ship , the goods from the heist were given to Kal by Vau , forcing Kal to change how he thought of Vau and forging a more comradely relationship between the two . After the rescue , Kal formally adopted Ordo according to Mandalorian tradition . Though Kal had been angry at Etain for getting pregnant , he felt guilty afterward for bullying her . He managed to track Ko Sai down and capture her with the help of Mereel after a firefight with a group of Mando ' ade who were her bodyguards , something that made Kal believe Mando ' ade should stop working for others and work for themselves . After learning of the order to euthanize Fi , Kal and Ordo left for Coruscant , leaving Etain on Mandalore at his home and made a call to Obrim for aid in retrieving Fi . After the birth of Venku Skirata , Kal offered to let Etain stay on Mandalore with Venku if she left the Jedi Order , something she refused as she felt it would be betraying the other soldiers who served under her . Both he and Etain decided to pick the moment when they would tell Darman about Venku and rented a place for Laseema on Coruscant where he and Venku would stay . After retrieving Fi , Kal officially adopted all members of Omega Squad and the Nulls according to Mandalorian tradition , expanding the Clan Skirata . Besany in trouble . Skirata assigned two of his Null adopted sons , Mereel Skirata and Jaing Skirata as " fundraisers " for his research into stopping the clone rapid aging , to give his boys a natural life . Agent Besany Wennen had previously given Kal and the Nulls her access into the national Republic Treasury access codes , so they could research where new clones were coming from to get new cloning research material and to see where the war was going . Upon Jaing ' s data - mining worm virus being discovered , the Republic Treasury launched a full investigation . The Republic special investigators brought in were Mereel and Jaing , their involvement in the actions that caused the investigations , unbeknownst to the GAR . Jaing and Mereel ' s investigations revealed no results , and that they would have to check Army databases in addition to treasury databases to see how far this " mystery program " went . The Republic agreed to give the Nulls full access to all GAR records . While the Null investigation found nothing , the droid investigation revealed questionable access made by one of Besany ' s co - workers , Jilka Zan Zentis , who was investigating a government shell company on Besany ' s request . Besany felt awful that her friend Jilka was imprisoned because of her . Later , a Gurlanin spy told Besany that Jilka was framed , and the actions made on Jilka ' s terminal were made obvious by the Gurlanins , so the GAR wouldn ' t see any of Besany or Skirata ' s sons ' actions . Besany was upset her friend was going to prison in her place , but Ordo and Skirata didn ' t understand why . Skirata ordered Jilka to be broken out of jail , her prison transport hijacked by Ordo and Wad ' e Tay ' haai . Family reunion . Months later , Tor Skirata contacted , via comlink , his father to let him know that he had lost contact with Ruusaan and asked Kal to look for her . During the conversation , Tor said he was sorry for what he and Ijaat did to Kal . To his surprise , Kal found out that Ruu was arrested for playing as part of the Separatists and was placed in a Republic Detention Center on Pols Anaxes . Kal sent Fi and Bardan Jusik , along with Spar and Sull with falsified records to escort Ruu out of the Pols Anaxes facility . Even though his biological sons had disowned him , and his daughter did not talk to him for years , Skirata still protected his biological children , along with those he adopted . Telling Omega and other plans . Kal Skirata had made many plans and decisions , the first was that he was going to take his adopted sons , and as many clone troopers as decided to come , to desert the Grand Army of the Republic and come live in his secret facility on Mandalore , while he had the best scientists in the galaxy use all the cloning data he could buy or steal ( such as from Ko Sai ) to create a cure for the rapid - aging of the clone troopers . He told all his Null - Arc sons , but waited to tell Omega Squad because he feared the news would interfere with their concentration during missions . Kal had Mereel and Jaing raising credits for the research materials , and through clever banking they had managed to amass over a trillion credits . The second thing he had to tell Omega , was that he had told Etain that she was to keep it a secret that Kad was her son , and that Darman was the father . Kad / Venku was able to walk before Darman knew he was the father , and Darman ' s confusion as to how Kal could have hidden so much from him caused him to have a temporary mental break , punching Kal Skirata repeatedly , knocking out at least one tooth , and leaving Skirata ' s face broken and bloody , while Kal apologized for what he had done to Darman . Darman felt horrible for striking his father afterwards , and forgave Kal and Etain later , just hoping they also forgave him . Battle of Coruscant . As Count Dooku and General Grievous waged war on Coruscant , Skirata decided that now was the time to get Dr . Uthan , but not before being reunited with Ruu . She couldn ' t believe that after all this time , her father had never forgot her . Skirata told her that after the battle was done , Ruu would have the choice to return to Drall or go with the clan . Carrying out their plan , Skirata , Vau , Bardan , Fi , and Ordo retrieved Dr . Ovolot Qail Uthan out of the madhouse in Valorum Center , while the other inmates were evacuating . But before they could leave , Bardan went to collect another passenger : Arla Fett , the long lost sister of Jango himself . Skirata was impressed by this discovery . Order 66 . Skirata was still on Coruscant when Supreme Chancellor Palpatine had issued Order 66 , the order that tells all clones to turn and eliminate their Jedi officers . It was at that time when Vau had revealed that the Grand Army of the Republic was all planned by Jango Fett to destroy the Jedi Order . He would later learn that Palpatine was a Sith Lord called Darth Sidious . Skirata and Omega went to search for Etain , who was trying to pass herself off as an innocent bystander , as she made her way to be extracted from Coruscant by Skirata . However , as a couple of Jedi were exposed , the 501st Legion , now under command of Darth Vader , opened fire on them at the Shinarcan Bridge Extension . During the battle , Etain instinctively tried to stop one of the Jedi from killing a clone trooper by shielding him from a lightsaber strike with her own body . Skirata , along with Omega , witnessed the scene and was angered by her death , so he turned on the Jedi and helped to kill a number of them . Niner broke his spine in the battle and all of the Jedi were either killed or forced to flee . Darman stayed behind to look after Niner and waited for a medic to show up . Captain Obrim was forced to set his blaster for stun after Skirata refused to leave Coruscant immediately , saying that he wouldn ' t leave without his family . While Skirata was out cold , Ordo carried him to safety with the rest of the clan , including Ruu , Jilka and Dr . Uthan , and headed out to Mandalore . After the battle , almost all of Clan Skirata left Coruscant to move to Kal ' s secret hide - out Kyrimorut on Mandalore , with the exception of Niner , and Darman . Shortly before Etain ' s Funeral , Skirata adopted Etain as his daughter , deciding that daughter - in - law wasn ' t good enough for all she had done for him and his sons . Post Clone Wars . Shortly after Order 66 , Skirata proceeded to operate out of Kyrimorut with his extended family . Three weeks after Order 66 , he agreed to have Nyreen Vollen transport the Jedi Tallisibeth Enwandung - Esterhazy , nicknamed " Scout " and Kina Ha to his home , wanting Kina Ha ' s genetic information though Ny wasn ' t aware of this at the time . During his conversation with Mij Gilamar on the subject , Kal admitted to himself that he liked Ny so much that it scared him , determined to find a cure to the rapid aging gene the clones were engineered to have . Mereel agreed to be civil to Kina Ha , which was amazing as she was a Kaminoan . He also affirmed that he would enforce the house rules even though he wanted a pair of Kaminoan gloves like Jaing ' s , made out of Ko Sai ' s skin . Jaing replied by telling him to get his own Kaminoan , as he needed the matching belt next . When she arrives with the Jedi , Kal became a 14 - year - old boy again wishing he was taller . Upon seeing how much Scout looked like Etain , Kal had to blink back tears . Mereel helped him back inside , telling him not to compare Scout to Etain . At dinner that night , Scout remarked about being weak in the Force , making Kal automatically defend Etain , who was also weak in the Force . It was clear during this dinner that he was still on needles around Jedi , and Ny wondered to herself how to get him to give the Jedi a chance . When Vau returned from failing to find Sev on Kashyyyk , they hold a meeting of what to do next . Mij suggested they make an antigen to FG36 , Ovolot Qail Uthan ' s virus intended to kill clones with Jango Fett ' s genetic structure but never completed ; instead of it targeting clones , it targets any sentient being . Jaing then told them that the fortune they ' came across ' from the Republic ' s people accrued 200 million credits a week , without compound interest . In all , it came to a minimum of 15 billion credits a year . When Kal worried that the Empire would notice the fortune in one single account , Jaing replied that he split it up in thousands of accounts across the galaxy , and invested them in hundreds of companies . When Mereel was asked if he trusted Gaib and TK - 0 of Gaib & TK - 0 Inc . enough to get a secure untraceable link to Niner , he responded that he did , as they only wanted credits like everyone else . Upon hearing that Darth Vader was Sidious ' s apprentice , Kal wished that the Jedi and Sith would go to a far away planet and fight to the death , then leave the galaxy in peace . It was during this meeting that Mereel told them that the 501st Legion , of which Niner and Darman were a part of , were tasked with hunting down Jedi and deserters like them ; no one was surprised by this , but they sped up the plans to get Niner and Darman home to their family . Prudii Skirata and Kom ' rk Skirata volunteered for the mission , choosing the direct approach over stealth . Mij , Vau , and Skirata also decided that they would eliminate Dred Priest if they ran into him again . Kal later met with Mandalore Fenn Shysa , who still wanted him to train the resistance fighters for the inevitable fight against the Empire . The Empire began to buy Mandalorian iron at high prices , in order to prevent Mandalore from mounting a proper assault against them when they invaded . Shysa was not surprised when Kal told him Palpatine was a Sith Lord ; as long as they continued buying the iron , he was unconcerned . Shysa attempted to get Kal ' s blessing on putting Jusik out to stud to help bolster their numbers , which lead Kal to outright refuse . Kal told him that the Nulls would keep him supplied with intelligence on the Empire in exchange for leaving Jusik alone and turning a blind eye to their actions . After a friendly game of bolo ball with Vau , Mij , and the boys ( during which the ' old guard ' scored the first and only goal before halftime ) , Ny had Kal try cookies she made specially for him ; they were so good the remind him of his mother for the first time in years , bringing tears to his eyes . At this time , Ny and Kal openly admitted they feel something for each other . Kal stayed home for the mission to rescue Niner and Darman , worrying about his boys the entire time . He also understood how his former wife Ilippi felt , waiting for him to come home from war . While he waited to hear from Ordo every hour on the hour , the Empire unleashed Uthan ' s virus on her home world of Gibad , who refused to join the Empire following the Clone Wars . He made the final decision to have Uthan create an antigen to FG36 and spread it around Mandalore , vaccinating the planet and its inhabitants ; this would also vaccinate the Imperial Garrison . Kal was against Uthan ' s plan to release the virus on Coruscant , as Niner and Darman were still there , along with the Nulls . With Mij ' s help he got her to begin work on the antigen , with Scout as their lab aide . When Ordo and the others returned home without Niner and Darman some time later , Kal acknowledged that Ordo hadn ' t failed like Ordo believed , saying that he could never disappoint him . He also talked to Ny about marrying him one day , and she wasn ' t against it . Kal ' s heart was broken when Jaing finishes analyzing the chip given to them by Jaller Obrim , which listed Ny as a Jedi sympathizer and ally against her knowledge . When Ny confronted him about helping other Jedi , Kal responded that if he had to choose between helping the Jedi and helping a clone , he ' d choose the clone every time ; they also began to search out Jedi Master Djinn Altis during this time , to have him tale the Jedi in . When Jusik returned with Maze and Arligan Zey , who was supposed to be dead , Kal was deeply hurt that Jusik didn ' t comm him first . He was also angry with Maze for helping the Jedi survive Order 66 ; when Maze began criticizing Kal , Ordo moved to strike him . Zey and Jusik both broke up the fight using the Force , casting more doubt on Jusik ' s allegiance . They also found Plett ' s Well is located in the Plawal Rift during this time , narrowing the search for Altis down . When Jusik found Altis , Kal struggled with how to get them to forget the location of the base , deciding to have Jusik mindwipe them if it was possible . He felt extremely guilty when Jusik told him that the Altisian Jedi invited Etain to join them , knowing if she had she would still be alive . When the antigen for FG36 is shown to work , Kal received Shysa ' s approval to spread it around Mandalore and has his boys do so ; he was also shocked when he found that Cov was dating his daughter Ruusaan . Legacy . In 40 ABY , Taun We told Boba Fett that Skirata found and killed Ko Sai and used her data to stop the aging process of all of his clone sons . One of these clones , Jaing Skirata , would later go on to tell Boba Fett that his father , Kal , had died . It also appears that Kal had cared for Venku . Personality . Skirata felt that it was his absolute duty to let the clones of Jango Fett know their Mandalorian legacy ; Boba Fett viewed him as a fanatic . When Skirata found out that Etain Tur - Mukan was pregnant with Venku , he was more than willing to take the baby from his mother and even hunt her down , to achieve his goal . He had no qualms about torturing prisoners , and Fett considered him one of the dirtiest fighters . A complex man , Skirata disliked many of the things that the Kaminoans did to the clones , and was deeply disturbed by the treatment of his " boys " . He was able to smuggle in treats and other restricted things for the clones , and wanted them to embrace their Mandalorian heritage . He also hated living on the water world of Kamino , as it made his shattered ankle play up . The Kaminoans also unnerved him , and irritated him with questions about how he felt being " defective " . Kal had only ever felt sorry for one Kaminoan ; a female who had given birth to a child with green eyes . Due to the fact that the Kaminoan caste system was based around the eye colors of gray , blue and yellow , the child had been labeled as a threat to the Kaminoan ' s ordered society , and had been exterminated shortly after birth . He also had serious differences with Walon Vau ( differences which bordered on outright hatred ) , as he felt Vau was sadistic toward the clone troopers ( a source of contention was when Vau sicced his pet strill , Lord Mirdalan , on a young Ordo ) . Despite these differences , Vau and Skirata were constant business partners and even friends later on . Skirata had some issues with the Jedi Generals . He especially hated Jedi Master Quinlan Vos for openly distrusting the clones . He also hated the fact that while Ki - Adi - Mundi had a polygamous marriage , while his daughter - in - law Etain would at best be demoted to the Agricultural Corps if evidence of her relationship with Darman surfaced . A surprising aspect of his nature , given his line of work , was his emotionalism . He felt constant guilt for the condition of the clones as slave soldiers , and hated the Jedi Order and the Republic for betraying their principles of freedom and democracy when it was convenient for them . Despite that , he remained with the Republic up until Order 66 so that he could look after the welfare of the Nulls and his commandos . Also , ironic for a mercenary , Kal Skirata was easily seasick , and felt queasy at the sight of painful wounds and copious amounts of blood . Juxtaposing his hatred of the Jedi was his ability to uncompromisingly , unconditionally love those close to him , such as the Nulls , his commando soldiers , Bardan Jusik , and anybody else in Clan Skirata . Skirata , despite his short stature – it was said that he had to stand on a box to head - butt Walon Vau – was an extremely lethal fighter and Jango Fett considered him to be " one of the dirtiest fighters . " The armor Skirata wore was colored sand gold - the color of revenge . Equipment . Kal Skirata ' s sand gold colored Mandalorian armor was a top grade version made of Mandalorian iron . He always wore his gauntlets , even when not wearing the rest of his armor . One of his gauntlets carried a comlink . He also carried his father ' s three - sided knife on his gauntlet . Kal was very fond of Verpine weapons and often carried a Verpine shatter gun . He also used a custom Verpine sniper rifle and a Westar - 34 blaster . Kal often carried a length of sharpened durasteel chain with him to use as a garrote . Despite his dislike for the weapon , during the skirmish on the Shinarcan Bridge Extension , Kal used ( borrowed ) Bardan Jusik ' s lightsaber to kill at least two Jedi in revenge for the death of Etain Tur - Mukan . Behind the scenes . Robert Hendrickson ' s illustrations of Kal Skirata for " Star Wars Insider " bear a close resemblance to actor . Kal Skirata was supposed to have a toy , but the toymakers Hasbro couldn ' t get a head that met the aesthetic designs that author Karen Traviss envisioned for her character , so the toy head was changed and the figure became Mij Gilamar , which was later added into the Clone Commando books . Kal , when pronounced like ' kɑːl ' ( like the ' a ' in start of father ) , means a knife or sword in . The Republic Commando Training Sergeant miniature from the " Legacy of the Force " line of " Star Wars Miniatures " bears resemblance to Kal Skirata .