Darren Cairns

**Darren Cairns** was the Senator of Corellia, also known for being a terrorist, the Agent, and a CISIA droid double.

## Role in 40 BBY Politics

### Relationship with Neemar

Cairns goes to Auqui Desilijic Tiure's party, and also announces Corellia's intervention in the Andoan Free Colonies Crisis.

Darren Cairns allies with Beré Neemar, saying that he will back him if Neemar lets his company build Republic starships. Cairns, however, is suspicious of Neemar and plans to plant listening devices on the starships.

Soon after, Cairns allies with the Techno Union to try to assassinate Neemar, but this fails. Neemar, meanwhile, begins distrusting Cairns.

In the election, Cairns votes for Neemar and later votes for the creation of an army.

### Corellia Crisis

Cairns soon mysteriously disappears. Barcus Skywalker, Director of Internal Affairs and Galaxy Relations, takes over Corellia. After Barcus uses Corellian forces to blockade Naboo, Barcus demands that Neemar sends a fighter to Corellia, and whoever wins, gets to keep Cairns.

Meanwhile, a Mandalorian armor-clan figure known as the Agent—who is secretly Cairns himself—visits Bail Antilles, telling him that he needs Bail's body double to sneak onto Corellia and cause a diversion while the Agent could assassinate Barcus. This plan succeeds, but Barcus is able to escape. Cairns then makes a public appearance, saying that he is safe, and not disclosing his alter ego.

### Kidnapping of Neemar and Attack on Coruscant

Soon, the Agent captures Neemar by knocking him out with a sleeping gas disguised as a gift. After capturing him, the Agent taunts Neemar and demands that he hurries up in his creation of an army. After Neemar denies doing the Agent's dirty work for him, the Agent stabs Neemar in the stomach, flees, and alerts emergency services of Neemar's location. Neemar is then found and nursed to health.

Meanwhile, a thousand starfighters appear above Coruscant, with agents scattering over the planet and committing terrorist attacks. After Senators Alrakis and Janson investigate, they find out that the starfighters were Corellian.

### Protest on Coruscant

Soon after, Cairns publicly leads an anti-Neemar protest, damning him for making an army without Senate approval. Inside a building, Cairns is confronted by Kin Robb and Zokyas Vi. Cairns threatens that he has bugged the droid army and could control it. He then throws a thermal detonator and dons armor, revealing himself as the Agent. He comms the Techo Union to pick him up but before they can, Cairns is found by Antilles and surrenders.

### In Prison

In prison, Cairns defends himself to Neemar, saying that the Republic is divided and that Neemar shouldn't have began the droid army without Senate approval. Neemar tries having the Warden of the prison torture Cairns to find out how he bugged the droid army, to no avail.

Later, Neemar visits Cairns again and they get in an argument, with Neemar drawing a blaster after Cairns saying he will escape before his trial. This is interrupted by the attack of the fallen Jedi Wahd, an ally of the Techno Union, who came to break Cairns out. Neemar frantically shoots Cairns before plunging a shiv into his arm to make it look like it had been self-defense. After Cairns is shot, it is revealed that he is not a person at all, but a droid double. Wahd escapes with the droid double's head and goes to Mustafar.

### On Mustafar

On Mustafar, the Cairns droid got bored, and phoned into Taris News. Wahd then sedated him after feeling that he had given too much away.