Kaden

Kaden, sometimes known as the Guardian, was a Lombax who was Ratchet's father, and the keeper of the Dimensionator. When his people were driven to use the device to escape to another dimension following Percival Tachyon's overruning of Fastoon, the Guardian refused to follow them in order to save his son and to protect the device. He, along with his infant son Ratchet, the exiled Lombax Azimuth, and the only known female lombax Angela Cross, were left as the only four Lombaxes in Ratchet's dimension.

Center for Advanced Lombax Research and Attack on Fastoon
Kaden was trusted for being the Keeper of the Dimensionator. As the Dimensionator was designed by the center for Advanced Lombax Research, Kaden was presumably a part of this. Because Alister Azimuth was the elder councilman of the organisation, Kaden and Alister knew each other well and were good friends.

Due to a mistake made by Azimuth, Percival Tachyon used the Lombax's technology against them and attacked Fastoon. Kaden refused to follow his people to the other dimension, determined to save his wife. By the time he returned home however, she had already been killed by Tachyon's forces.

Tachyon, seeking to return the displaced Cragmites from their dimensional prison, began seeking the Dimensionator. As a result, Kaden hid the device on Rykan V, leaving an elaborate trail of clues throughout the Polaris Galaxy that only the best of minds could follow.

Saving Ratchet
However, after Space Pirates stole the Lombax Artifact from the Apogee Station,, explorer Max Apogee relocated the Dimensionator to Jasindu. Fearing for his son's safety, Kaden dispatched Ratchet to the Solana Galaxy and to Veldin, where he grew up in safety, but unknowing of his heritage except from his species' name.

Kaden then faced Tachyon in combat, but was soon bested. In his final moments, he refused to reveal the location of either the device or his son, and so Tachyon took great pleasure in killing him.

His murder was later avenged by Ratchet when he came back to Fastoon and fought Tachyon, defeating him.

Trivia

 * At one point in his life, Kaden sold the Gyro-cycle to the Smuggler at the Vorox Nebula.
 * Kaden was the first person to theorise that the Great Clock even existed, based off some ancient runes translated from the planet Quantos.
 * Kaden was a friend of Alister Azimuth.

Appearances

 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (mentioned only)
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (mentioned only)

Sources and references
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