Ardran Kasido

Ardran Kasido was an Imperial bureaucrat who oversaw the military police forces on Dromund Kaas. He was born into an accomplished and wealthy family, and previously served as a prosecutor in the courts.

He died during Zakuul's invasion of the Core Worlds. However, his identity was used as part of a Sith Intelligence operation to destabilize a faction of traitorous Imperials and Sith.

Childhood
Kasido was born the only son to accomplished dignitaries; his father was an ambassador to the Chiss Ascendancy and his mother served as special advisor to the Minister of War. He spent the bulk of his childhood on their estate on Dromund Kaas, where his parents had private tutors see to their son's education. At the age of sixteen, Kasido was chosen to be taken on an archaeological expedition to ancient Sith ruins on Ziost. While he was away, a group of overeager Mandalorian mercenaries inadvertently set his family home ablaze while pursuing a bounty who had fled Kaas City; many of Kasido's relatives died in the fire, his parents among them. Although the mercenaries were swiftly executed, the loss of his parents left him with a hatred for Mandalorians.

Later Life
In his early twenties, Kasido became a prosecutor in the Imperial high courts. He famously saw a Sith Lord found guilty of misappropriating Imperial military funds as well as assassinating several high-ranking officers who threatened to expose her crimes. During his tenure in the courts, it was alleged that he facilitated the conviction of countless Mandalorians on falsified charges. However, these suspicions were never formally investigated. A few years after the Treaty of Coruscant saw the Great War ended, Kasido was appointed to preside over the military police forces on Dromund Kaas.

Early on in his tenure as head of the capital police, a Mandalorian was arrested after chasing a bounty into the Sith Sanctum of the Imperial Citadel, an offense that enraged the Dark Council. Kasido personally executed the Mandalorian in a public plaza in Kaas City, and the act made him rather unpopular among the Mandalorian clans.

Legacy
The Sith Intelligence operative Vardin Karzio assumed Kasido's identity in order to infiltrate a splinter faction of rogue Sith and Imperials who had broken off from the Empire during the Great War. Kasido's personnel file was altered to report him as having abandoned his post. This enabled Karzio to appear a plausible defector who had grown disillusioned with the Imperial cause.

The real Ardran Kasido was killed at some point during Zakuul's attacks on the Core Worlds. Shortly after Karzio completed his mission, Kasido's file was corrected and his name was etched onto one of the memorial walls in Kaas City. In an honorific manner, it was through use of Kasido's identity that Karzio was able to lay the groundwork that ultimately saw the splinter faction eliminated. Karzio himself stated that one could say that Kasido played somewhat of a hand in eradicating the traitors, even if posthumously.