Venku Skirata Venku Skirata , also known to family and close friends as Kad Skirata , was the Force - sensitive Human male who was the son of the clone commando , RC - 1136 a . k . a Darman , and the Jedi Knight Etain Tur - Mukan , and thus a biological nephew of Boba Fett . He was adopted by Kal Skirata as his grandson and was raised in Mandalorian culture of his genetic ancestors , and became a farmer on Mandalore , but by 40 ABY , under the name Kad ' ika , or " Little Saber " in Mando ' a , he was the leader of a political faction who wanted to see a resurgence of the Mandalorian people . Biography . Early life . Venku Skirata was born on the planet Mandalore , the son of the Jedi Etain Tur - Mukan and clone commando Darman Skirata . The child ' s father , Darman , did not know that Etain was pregnant , and was unaware he had a son until a year after the child ' s birth . Because of the Jedi rules forbidding attachment , Etain ' s pregnancy was kept secret , and the Jedi Council were unaware that she had a lover and a son . The child was given the name Venku by his adoptive grandfather , Kal Skirata . A few days later , however , when Omega Squad met the newborn , Darman — unaware he was Venku ' s father — said that he would name a son " Kad " . From then on , Venku came to be referred to in private as " Kad " by members of Clan Skirata . Kal Skirata was searching for a way to slow down the accelerated growth of his adoptive clone sons , and shortly before Kad ' s birth he found and captured the Kaminoan geneticist Ko Sai . Ko Sai was the geneticist responsible for the Fett genome that the clones were grown from , and refused to help Skirata , believing that he would only sell her research for credits . However , Etain bartered with Ko Sai by appealing to the Kaminoan ' s interest in studying Jedi blood . Etain offered Ko Sai samples of her blood and Kad ' s umbilical cord from which to study . Satisfied with this exchange , Ko Sai started giving out random bits of information on how to reverse the clone aging process . Shortly after Kad ' s birth , and before she could release all the pertinent information regarding stopping the clones ' aging , Ko Sai committed suicide . Ko Sai ' s data to stop clone aging was eventually completed , although some details remain unclear as to the how , when , where and who completed it . During the last year of the Clone Wars , Kad was kept primarily in his aunt Laseema ' s apartment , with Laseema , his aunt Besany Wennen , grandfather Kal Skirata , or uncle Bardan Jusik looking after him . Etain would visit with Venku whenever she got leave from her duties as a Jedi General , and was delighted when Venku called her " Mama " during one of her visits . Later that year , Etain finally told Darman that Kad was his son . Although shocked and hurt at first because this knowledge was hidden from him , he recovered and the three of them enjoyed some family time together , with Etain even recording some family holos of the three of them . When Kad met Darman , he kept saying " Dada " over and over . During Order 66 , Etain was killed by a Jedi while she was protecting a clone trooper from a Jedi attack . Kad felt her die through the Force , screaming for five whole minutes at the moment she died , and after her death he became a more serious child who rarely smiled . Among Etain ' s possessions were her two lightsabers , which Skirata wanted burned alongside her , but Jusik insisted that Kad keep them . Also among her possessions were a data and comm kit , some data chips containing the family holos recorded earlier , and a small stuffed nerf toy , which Kad put on her funeral pyre . Skirata took the stuffed nerf out after it had been burned a bit , stating that he would give it back to Kad when he gets older to teach him the significance of the toy . However , the plan lasted hours , as Kad , being Force - Sensitive already knew that his mother was dead and wouldn ' t return . As a result of Darman refusing to leave a wounded Niner behind , he was stranded on Coruscant and got reassigned to one of the newly formed Imperial commando units , so it fell to Skirata to raise Kad , and Bardan Jusik to further teach him how to use the Force . All the members of Clan Skirata , with the exception of Darman and Niner , defected from the Grand Army and relocated to Mandalore after Order 66 , and they made their home in the town of Kyrimorut . Later life . By the year 40 ABY , Kad had chosen to go by his birth name of Venku . Boba Fett , as ruling Mandalore , learned of the political views represented by Kad ' ika from his second , Goran Beviin . Fett was curious to know if he wanted to be Mandalore himself , though both Beviin and Fett ' s granddaughter Mirta Gev said he wanted Fett to be the Mandalore . Later that year , Boba Fett and Mirta came across a clone with gray leather gloves on Kuat who claimed he fought in the Clone Wars . The clone introduced himself as Jaing Skirata , and Fett asked him if he had Ko Sai ' s data , which Fett had been trying to track down to use on himself to cure his cloning - related ailments . Jaing said that the research was destroyed after it was used on him and his brothers , and that he no longer had a copy . Jaing stated that if he gave Fett a blood sample , he feared that Fett might sell it to the Kaminoans . However , Jaing did relent and say if Fett would give him a sample of his blood , he might be able to return with a cure . The only condition to this was that Fett would have to go back to Mandalore and follow Kad ' ika ' s advice . Fett agreed , and Mirta took his blood sample for Jaing . A short time later on Mandalore , Venku introduced himself to his uncle and to Mirta when he delivered a sample of bone marrow from Jaing Skirata as a cure for Fett ' s cloning - related ailments . Venku was present when the bone marrow cure was injected into Boba Fett , and when he made mention of Mirta ' s Heart of Fire pendant as he was leaving , she said that she needed a Kiffar to read it . He promised to let her know if he found someone , and true to his word , a short while later he approached Fett and Mirta in the tapcaf and told them a Kiffar named Gotab could read the stone . Gotab read the stone and told them some details about Fett ' s dead wife Sintas Vel , including her last known location . However , Gotab got tired from reading the stone and Venku took him home . Venku and Gotab would later come across Jedi Knight Jaina Solo , who was on Mandalore to learn how to fight like a Mandalorian in order to kill her Sith Lord brother , Darth Caedus . Gotab revealed to Jaina that he was not a Kiffar , but a former Jedi Knight named Bardan Jusik , and that Venku was the son of a Jedi and a clone trooper . He admitted that Clan Skirata hid Venku for years because they were afraid that the Empire was either going to kill him for being Force - sensitive or capture and breed a whole new clone army from Venku ' s DNA . They also kept Venku ' s existence a secret from Fett , because they were afraid that Fett was going to sell him to the Kaminoans . After Gotab ' s confession to Jaina , and after hearing his advice on how to deal with her brother , Jaina engaged Venku in a lightsaber training duel , with Venku using both of his mother ' s lightsabers . Personality and traits . As a child , Venku was always happy and smiling , but after his mother ' s death he became grave and serious . Having been raised in the Mandalorian tradition by Kal Skirata , Venku was very passionate about his fellow Mandalorians and his planet , and even supported Mandalorian reform so his people could live better lives . As an adult , Venku ' s voice had overtones of a Kuati accent , and possible hints of a Muunilinst inflection as well , suggesting that he had spent time in these places . It should be noted , in regard to this , that Kal Skirata was a native of Kuat before becoming a Mando ' ade . He wore a patchwork of armor , which he claimed was created from plates of the harness of dead relatives , naming uncles , a cousin , and an aunt as well as his father — an extreme variation on an old Mandalorian tradition . In addition to wearing the armor of his various family members , Venku also carried both of his mother ' s lightsabers . By way of his mother , Venku was Force - sensitive , but he deliberately chose not to use the Force if he could help it . This was possibly due to the way he was raised , having hid from the Galactic Empire on Mandalore , a planet not well known for its tolerance for Force users , during the Great Jedi Purge Behind the scenes . Even before Venku ' s identity as the son of a Fett clone was known , fans speculated that he was the child of Darman and Etain Tur - Mukan , as the child was to be taken by Kal Skirata to be raised as a Mandalorian and so would have inherited his attitude towards traditional Mandalorian culture . With the release of " " , the question of whether Venku was Etain ' s and Darman ' s son was closed . Karen Traviss verified that Venku was indeed Etain ' s and Darman ' s son . The name " Venku " derives from the Mando ' a word " vencuyot " , which means " future " . This version of " vencuyot " means " positive future . " The name Kad is the Mando ' a word for saber . Kad ' ika , in turn , means " little saber . "