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HALL OF THE SITH LORDS

Within this great hall is the story of the Lords of the Sith. Mighty warriors, masters ofthe Dark Side, rulers of races, conquerors of galaxies. These Lords created and

ruled the vast Sith empire that rivaled the Old Republic in size and grandeur. To theSith people they were Gods, to the Jedi they were mortal enemies. A Sith Lord'simmense political and military influence was surpassed only by his mastery of theDark Side of the Force, which often surpassed the powers of any one Jedi Master.

NOTE: These are the only Sith Lords we currently know about, but archeologists onKorriban and Old Republic historians are vigilantly digging into the past to learn thehistory of the Sith.Most dates are approximate (dates are bby = before battle ofYavin, or aby = after battle of Yavin).

XOXAAN Lord of the Sith. Xoxaan was one of the first Sith Lords, one ofthose who abandoned the Jedi Order to seek a darker path to truth. Her spirit layin wait in a tomb on Korriban for several millenia until the arrival ofA'Sharad Hett.Ready for a new path, A'Sharad became her apprentice and reestablished new

Sith Order.

DATHKA GRAUSHDark Lord of the Sith (7,000 bby). "Dathka Graush was apureblooded Sith Dark Lord, a conqueror whose forces won one of Korriban's cyclical civilwars over seven millennia before the Battle of Yavin. Though assassins eventually ended the

Graush dynasty after fifty years of bloodshed, the Sith Lord by then controlled two-thirds of theplanet. Graush's reign was one of terror and cruelty even by Sith standards, and researchersat the Jedi Academy think they know why. Dathka Graush literally had no heart. Using Sithmagic and the most advanced technology he could find, Graush replaced his own heart with aForce-sensitive crystal capable of keeping him alive (some said invincible). The crystal was ofthe same kind used to entomb defeated Jedi in other Sith crypts, but it held Dark Side spiritscollected over thousands of years. No one is sure who made the Heart, but Graush put it togood use. When his mummified corpse was entombed in the Valley of Golg, the Heart wasentombed with it. The Jedi have been unable to locate the artifact to this day, despite athorough survey of Graush's tomb made at great risk to the surveyors." (from Star Wars RPGas posted on www.wizards.com)

AJUNTA PALLDark Lord of the Sith (6,900 bby). Ajunta Pall was one of the firstgreat Sith Lords. He was one of the Jedi that first rebelled against the old Light Side teachingsin favor of the Dark Side. They rebelled against their Jedi Masters and were eventually drivenoff into hiding. It was then that the outcast Jedi encountered the Sith race and began buildingtheir empire. He was famed to have created a sword of terrible Dark Side power. The sword isrumored to still lie within his tomb on Korriban.

TULAK HORD Dark Lord of the Sith. Perhaps the greatest Sith swordmaster ever.

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Very little else is known of Tulak Hord, only that this tomb is located in the Valley of the DarkLords on Korriban. His tomb is guarded by a pack of tuk'ata beasts.

SIMUSLord of the Sith (?-5,100 bby). Marka Ragons defeated Simus and became thenext Dark Lord.

MARKA RAGNOS Dark Lord of the Sith (5,100-5,000 bby). Ruledapproximately 5,200 years before Darth Vader. Ragnos was a hafl-breed Sith, awarlord of tremendous physical power and frightening grasp of the Dark Side ofthe Force. He rose to prominence through a series of short, ruthless campaigns

against his enemies. Once he gained control of the Sith Empire, he maintained dominance bypitting his detractors against one another, manipulating them into challening him, or simplyassassinating them. Among the Sith, Marka Ragnos was feared, obeyed, and admired. MarkaRagnos retained power for over a century, crushing all resistance - but he expanded the SithEmpire only slightly in all that time. Ragnos was one of the few Sith alive who had researchedthe history of his people and knew of the Old Republic and its defenders, the Jedi Order.Ragnos knew that if the Sith Empire were to expand too far toward their ancestral home, they

would encounter the Republic. He believed the Sith were not yet ready to enter into aprotracted war with the forces of the Republic, especially if the Jedi were still as strong as theyhad been when they defeated his ancestors. Obviously, his views were not shared by all theSith. Many was his lack of expansion as a sign of weakness and took it as an opportunity - austification, even - to unseat the Dark Lord of the Sith. At fist irate that the other Sith would soblindly endanger his empire with their ambition, over time Ragnos came to realize that whilethey were focusing their efforts on him, they were not actually expanding the borders of theSith Empire, and thus, not precipitating contact with the Republic. Marka Ragnos elected toplay to the aggression of the other Sith, to distract them from making a mistake that could bringthe Sith Empire to ruin.

NAGA SADOW Dark Lord of the Sith (5,000 bby). "He ruledapproximately a thousand years before the time ofExar Kun. A member of anelite priesthood of pure Sith blood." At the funeral of the previous Dark Lord ofthe Sith, Sadow chalenged his arch-rival, Ludo Kressh, for the title of the nextDark Lord. Sadow felt the Sith Empire was stagnating and should expand its

territory, while Kressh wanted a more isolationist approach to governing the Sith Empire. Theduel was interupted by the arrival ofGav and Jori Daragon, unlucky explorers thathyperspaced to the wrong place. Kressh wanted them executed as precursors to an invasion,but Sadow saw it as an oportunity to expand the Sith Empire. Gav and Jori waited in their cells,sentenced to be executed, despairing . . . not realizing that they had become pawns of a SithLord. With his fierce loyal Massassi warriors, Naga Sadow secretly stole strange Republic

weaponry from Gav and Jori's impounded ship, Starbreaker 12, and staged a commando raidto free the prisoners, killing a prominent Sith Lord in the process. Sadow whisked them off tohis private fortress. The Sith Lords were thrown into an uproar, seeing the weapons, theevidence, and assuming they had been attacked by Republic forces. In turmoil, they turned toNaga Sadow for leadership and named him the Dark Lord of the Sith. Outraged, Ludo Kresshstormed off, taking his supporters with him. Discovering Sadow's trickery, Kressh mounted anarmed rebellion against the evil Dark Lord, vowing to fight to save the Sith Empire fromSadow's reckless plans. While attacking Sadow's decoy fortress on Khar Shian, Kressh hadinadvertantly waltzed into an ambush set by the Dark Lord. With Ludo Kressh out of the way,Naga Sadow rallied all the Sith Lords for the comming conquest. During Kressh's attack,




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Sadow had tricked Jori into fleeing back to the Republic without her brother, who was beingheld elsewhere, and with a hidden homing beacon led Naga Sadow right to the Republic. Hebegan teaching the Force-sensitive Gav Sith magic, and later gave him command of the Sithinvasion fleet; Sadow himself would watch the battle from his meditation sphere orbitingPrimus Goluud, where he used forbidden Sith magic to rally his forces and create the illusionof a more massive invasion force than it actually was. But Gav could not stand being thecommander causing all the death and destruction, and instead attacked Sadow himself. With

his meditation sphere damaged, his Massassi armies began losing, and the Republic fleet setout to hunt down Sadow. Causing the Primus Goluud star to explode, Sadow tried to hide hisescape back to the Sith Empire. In Sadow's absence, Ludo Kressh retook control of the SithEmpire and had his fleet waiting for Sadow's return. But Kressh's fleet was still no match forSadow's already depleated fleet. Just as Sadow destroyed Kressh's ship, and Ludo Kresshwith it, the Republic fleet arrived, led there by Jori. "He escaped across the galaxy, engagingRepublic gunships in a cataclysmic battle at the Denarii Nova. Eventually, he and his followersended up on Yavin Four, with his followers devolving into the primitive Massassi warriors overthe centuries."

EXAR KUNDark Lord of the Sith (3,997-3,996 bby). "As a Jedi, he wasapprenticed to Master Vodo-Siosk Baas, who admitted that Kun was the mostformidable student he ever had. He was seduced by the dark side and drawn tothe planet Korriban, where the spirit ofFreedon Nadd enticed him to let the darkpowers of the Sith enter him. On Yavin Four, he discovered ancient Sith temples

guarded by the Massassi, whom he eventually conquered. He confronted Master Odan-Urrinthe library ofOssus, and after killing him, took the Sith Holocron in order to further his darkpowers," (fromA Guide to the SW:Tales of the Jedi Universe by Bob Cooper). Four thousandyears before the time ofDarth Vader, Kun precipitated the Sith Warwhich was one of themost destructive conflicts in the entire history of the Republic. With the help ofUlic Qel-Droma,the Krath illusionist Aleema, and the warlord Mandalore they built up an army that rivaled theRepublic's own. While Ulic and Mandalore waged a huge military battle against Republic

outposts, shipyards, and eventually Coruscant itself, Kun was busy seducing other Jeditrainees to the Dark Side to do his bidding. With his new Sith initiates, Kun waged a covert waragainst what he called the aging and outdated Jedi Masters, sending them out to kill their oldJedi masters. During the attack on Coruscant, Ulic Qel-Droma was captured and later chargedwith treason against the Republic. In the middle of his trial, Ulic was rescued by Kun andMandalore as they barged into the courtroom filled with thousands of Jedi that were imobilizedby Kun's Sith spell. During the rescue, Exar Kun killed his old masterVodo-Siosk Baas in arematch of their previous duel in which his master won. Exar Kun later sent the treacherousAleema to Kemplex Nine with the intent to ambush the Republic/Jedi forces using an ancientSith superweapon that was aboard Naga Sadow's ship, recently unearth from the Yavintemples. The weapon tore the core of a sun in the Cron Clusterand hurled it at the Republicfleet, but also caused the sun to catastrophically supernova, destroying everything in thesystem including the Great Jedi Library on Ossus. The war ended with all the Jedi bandingtogether and laying waste to most of Yavin 4, but not before Exar Kun absorbed the life-energies of the entire Massassi race to entomb his spirit in a Sith Temple. Four thousand yearslater when Luke Skywalkerestablishes his Jedi Academy on Yavin 4, Kun once again madehis bid for galaxy domination by attempting to sway Luke's new trainees to the Dark Side. ExarKun almost succeeded with Kyp Durron, but not before Luke, the Jedi trainees, and the spirit ofMaster Bodo Baas together destroyed Kun's spirit forever.




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DARTH RIVANLord of the Sith. Rivan lived during the time of the Sith War. He ismost notable for teraforming the planet Almas. Originally an inhospitable planet with a moltencore and an ice covered crust. The atmosphere consisted primarily of methane andphosphorus. Darth Rivan chose Almas for his home and he built a fortress partly underground,and enclosed the whole in a dome. An expert in biology and Sith alchemy, Rivan created anew grass-like plant called kaluthin, and spread it across the planet's surface. Kaluthin's

unique properties include the ability to synthesize methane from the air and create oxygen.Darth Rivan was driven from Almas by the Jedi during the Sith Wars, and his dome-like homeblasted into pieces. The central fortress remained, somehow impervious to blaster fire. TheJedi, thinking that the fortress was not worth the continued effort, decided to leave it. Centuriespassed, and the kaluthin continued to prosper. They spread across the whole planet andeventually made the atmosphere partially breathable, except for trace elements of methaneand phosphorus which made the air slightly poisonous. On one side planet, however, there is adesolate wasteland where even kaluthin cannot grow anymore. The center of this wasteland isthe ancient Sith fortress. Slowly, the wasteland grows... (info on Darth Rivan and Almas fromStar Wars RPG)

DARTH REVAN Dark Lord of the Sith (left) andDARTH MALAK Dark Lord of the Sith (right) (3,959-3,956bby).Following the Sith War and the fall of Exar Kun, the Republicwas at its most vulnerable state. Sensing this weakness, the warlike

Mandalorians began a series of brutal attacks against worlds throughout the Outer Rim. Indesperation, the Republic turned to the Jedi Council for aid. The learned Masters wanted toproceed with customary caution and due care before embarking on a long and destructivemilitary campaign; however, more immediate help came in the form of two young Jedi Knightsnamed Revan and Malak. Ignoring the dictates of the Jedi Council, the charismatic pairrecruited many to their cause, rallying the impulsive youth of the Order with cries of victory andglory. With Revan and Malak at the head of their great fleet, the Republic set forth to drive the

invaders back. The Mandalorian Wars were long and bloody, and many Jedi perished in thestruggle. Yet, at its end, the Republic emerged triumphant, and Revan and Malak were hailedas heroes. But the heroes did not leave the war untouched; something about the Outer Rimworlds twisted and corrupted them. On Korriban, Revan uncovered the lost secrets of the Sithand became the heir to an ancient and evil legacy. Succumbing to the lure of the dark side, thefallen Jedi assumed the title of Darth Revan, Lord of the Sith. Revan's friend Malak grudginglytook the mantle of the Dark Lord's apprentice. The great fleet under their control abandonedthe Republic and swore fealty to their new Sith masters. With their army of followers, Revanand Malak returned not as saviors, but as conquerors. For two years battles raged on theperimeters of Republic space. The Sith gained victory after victory, until the Jedi set a trap tocapture Revan and Malak. But during the chaos of battle, Malak turned on his master and triedto destroy both Revan and the Jedi, but his plan failed. Revan was captured by the Jedi, whileMalak escaped and proclaimed himself the new Dark Lord, swearing revenge on the Jedi andRevan. But the Jedi had other plans. They used the brain-washed Revan to help track downMalak. On the ancient Star Forge station, Master and former-apprentice faced off one lasttime, ending in Malak's defeat. Having regained his memory and the title of Dark Lord, Revanrenewed his crusade against the Jedi. Just as the Sith were nearing victory, having nearlywiping out the Jedi, Revan mysteriously left his Sith followers to hide in the UnknownRegions... never to be seen again. The Jedi Civil War would drag on for years to come, theSith hunting down the Jedi and the Jedi managing to survive.




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DARTH TRAYA(Kreia) Lord of the Sith (3,959-3,951bby). Jedi Master to Revan, Keria became consumed by guilt afterRevan's turn to the Dark Side, wondering if her teachings led toRevan's fall. Following the Jedi Civil War Keria left the Jedi Order.

Her search for Revan led to Malachor V, where she discovered an ancient Sith academy.Corrupted by the Dark Side presence of Malachor, she embraced the Dark Side and became

Darth Traya. She began training new Sith followers, and her teachings incorporated both theLight and the Dark Sides of the Force. Her two most notable pupils were Darth Nihilus andDarth Sion, who in true Sith fasion, betrayed their master, stripped her of her powers, andexiled her. She later joined up with The Exile, and together they regained their lost Forcepowers. Unbeknownst to the Exile, Keria was using him to track down the Sith leadership, Sionand Nihilus, and kill her rebellious pupils. Ultimately the Exile discovered her plans anddefeated her.

DARTH BANDONLord of the Sith (3,959-3,956 bby). "Like most ofMalak's followers, Bandon was once a student of the Jedi. But though the Forceflowed through him, Bandon could never accept the Jedi teachings. Powerful

emotions like anger and hate raged within him, and they fueled his strength.When the Sith rose to power, Bandon rejected his old Master and fled to the Sith Academy onKorriban. There he embraced the dark side and the way of the Sith with every fiber of hisbeing. His great strength in the Force, his natural cruelty and his absolute ruthlessness in hisquest for power soon set him apart from his fellow students, and drew the calculating eye ofLord Malak himself. In the tradition of their order, Malak sought a single pupil from among hismany followers to become his chosen apprentice: one who could learn the terrible secrets ofthe Sith and use them to destroy the Jedi and the Republic. So far, Darth Bandon has provenhimself to be an excellent choice. Many Jedi have fallen beneath the blade of his lightsaber,and he has yet to meet his equal in combat. In time, Bandon may even challenge Malak for themantle of Dark Lord, for this is the way of the Sith: the strong must rule, and when the

apprentice surpasses the Master, the Master must fall. But such ambitions are for the future.For now, Bandon is focused on the destruction of the Republic and the slaughter andextinction of the entire Jedi Order." (from lucasarts.com)

DARTH NIHILUSLord of the Sith (3,955-3,951 bby). "Darth Nihilusconsumes the Force from Force-sensitives in order to stay alive. He can evenconsume entire Force-sensitive planets.Little is known of Nihilus's truebeginnings, other than the fact that he was a survivor of the Mandalorian Wars,and may or may not have at one point been a prisoner of the Mandalorians. After

the war he was found by Darth Traya to be Force-sensitive, and she began training him in theways of the Sith at the Trayus Academy on Malachor V. After his true powers and potential

were realized, Nihilus, along with fellow Sith student Darth Sion, plotted and turned againsttheir dark mistress Traya. They cast Traya down, stripped her of her power, and expelled herfrom the Sith Order. Nihilus and Sion had now begun their shadow war against the remnants ofthe Jedi Order. They hunted Jedi to the brink of extinction." (fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sith ). Nihilus was eventually tracked down and killed by the JediExile.

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his body has been shattered and rebuilt, turning his skeleton and his flesh into apatchwork mass of bruises and scraping bone. He is in constant pain, and only his hatred andthe power of the Dark Side keeps him alive." (from lucasarts.com) Sion was eventually trackeddown and killed by the Jedi Exile.

LORD KAAN Lord of the Sith (1,000 bby). Self-proclaimed leader of all

the Sith Lords, Kaan led the Sith army against the Jedi in their final stand onRuusan. When outright battle would not win the war, Darth Bane brought the SithLords together for a Dark Side meld. While lowly Sith minions engaged the Jedi in

battle, the Sith Lords combined their Dark Side powers and began to annihilate the battlefieldwith Dark Side energy. However, Kaan had other ideas. Breaking the meld and insulting Bane,Kaan took the other Sith Lords to ambush the Jedi while they were recovering from the DarkSide energy assault, wanting to kill the Jedi with their own hands. Jedi reinforcements arriveust as the Sith Lords attack and drove them off. Beaten yet again, Kaan desperately decidedto work together with the other Sith Lords (as long as HE was leading them) and planed todetonate a thought bomb. Delusional of their own power, Kaan thought that the Sith werestrong enough to withstand the detonation of the bomb. As the Jedi army cornered the SithLords in a cavern, Kaan detonated the thought bomb, killing all the Jedi and Sith... save one,Darth Bane.

QORDISLord of the Sith (1,000 bby). A powerful Sith Master under the leadership ofLord Kaan. He assisted in the training of many Sith followers, including Darth Bane. Qordiswas killed on Ruusan by the Sith thought bomb, but his spirit survived to torment the lone Sithsurvivor of that battle, Darth Bane. Qordis' spirit caused Bane to crash-land on Dxun, havingfled there after the Battle of Ruusan.

DARTH BANELord of the Sith (1,000 bby). Two thousand years beforePalpatine's Empire, a group of Jedi broke from the order to form their own Sith

order. Believing that true power lay not in the Light Side of the Force, but in theDark, they waged a bloody war against the Jedi. Based on ambition that excluded

the sharing of power, the Sith began conspiring against each other, undermining their own waragainst the Jedi. He had adopted patience as a virtue when the others had forsaken it. He hadadopted cunning, stealth, and subterfuge as the foundation of his way - old Jedi vitrues theothers had disdained. He stood aside while the Sith tore at each other for supremacy. TheJedi/Sith war came to a climax on the planet Ruusan, where both armies were taking greatlosses. Knowing that the only way to defeat the Jedi was by working together, Bane proposeda Dark Side meld to combine their Sith powers. While lowly Sith minions engaged the Jedi inbattle, the Sith Lords, channeling through Darth Bane, combined their Dark Side powers andbegan to annihilate the battlefield with Dark Side energy. However, Lord Kaan had other ideas.

Breaking the meld and insulting Bane, Kaan took the other Sith Lords to ambush the Jedi whilethey were recovering from the Dark Side energy assault, wanting to kill the Jedi with their ownhands. Kaan and the Sith Lords were driven off when Jedi reinforcements arrived. Indesperation, Kaan planned to detonate a thought bomb and destroy all the Jedi at once,feeling the Sith Lords powerful enough to withstand the bomb's effects. As the Jedi armycornered the Sith Lords in a cavern, Kaan detonated the thought bomb, killing all the Jedi andSith... save one, Darth Bane. When the carnage was complete, he went into hiding, biding histime, waiting for his chance. Bane was forced to crash-land on Dxun, a moon of Onderon, afterthe vengeful sprit ofLord Qordis disabled his ship. At the tomb of Freedon Nadd he discovereda concentrated region of Dark Side power. Within the tomb he discovered a Sith holocron, and




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used it's teachings to build his own power. However, while retrieving the holocron, Bane wasattacked by armoured creatures called orbalisks that attached to his body and wouldeventually form a symbiotic suit of armor that fed off of Dark Side energy. With his shipdestroyed, Bane escaped Dxun by subjugating a giant flying beast and rode it to Onderonwhere he would find his apprentice. But from now on there would only be two Sith at any onetime. There would be no repetition of the mistakes of the old cult. Their common enemy wasthe Jedi, not each other. It was for their war with the Jedi they must save themselves.

DARTH MILLENNIAL(1,000 bby) The Dark Force religion was brought to DromundKaas by the Sith apprentice Darth Millennial. The apprentice abandoned his master to focus onthe philosophy of Rule by the Strong, espoused by the "Dark One" Lord Kaan, rather than onDarth Bane's restrictive Rule of Two. (from www.wizards.com)

DARTH ANDEDDULord of the Sith (dates unkown). A SithHolocron created by Darth Andeddu was discovered on Korriban approximately16 months after the Battle of Geonosis and brought to Darth Tyranus by thedouble-agent Quinlan Vos. Little else is known of Darth Andeddu.

DARTH PLAGUEISLord of the Sith (? - 43 bby). A very powerful Sith Master,Plagueis learned how to use the Dark Side to control the very midi-chlorians that influence theForce. With this ability he was able to manipulate the Force to create and extend life. It isunknown how long Darth Plagueis lived, but even with this great power he could not preventhis own death. He was killed in his sleep by his apprentice, Darth Sidious

DARTH SIDIOUS (Senator/Emperor Palpatine) Lord of the Sith(43 bby - 11 aby). A native of the planet Naboo, Palpatine worked his way up inpolitics to become that sector's senator on the Galactic Senate. Unbeknownst to

everyone, Palpatine also learned the ways of the Dark Side of the Force andbecame a Sith Lord. Palpatine played both sides to gain all the power he could.As Sith Lord he began building his dark empire, scheming and causing problems for the rest ofthe galaxy. As senator he feigned to solve those same problems while at the same timegaining more political support. 32 years before the first Death Star was destroyed,collaborating with the Trade Federation Palpatine instigated an invasion of his home planet ofNaboo that caused an uproar in the Galactic Senate. The Trade Federation, Sidious' pawns,failed and the invasion was defeated, but for Senator Palpatine it was a success; The resultwas his being elected to Supreme Chancellor of the Republic, replacing Chancellor Valorumwith a no-confidence vote. During that same campaign, Palpatine sent his apprentice, DarthMaul, to kill the Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi who were meddling in his plans. Maulwas killed by Obi-Wan, but not before he killed Obi-Wan's master, Qui-Gon. Palpatine wastednot time, and quickly found another apprentice to further his work: Count Dooku. Unsatisfiedwith the Jedi Order, Dooku was quickly turned to the Dark Side and began helping his masterwith Galactic conquest. Dooku learned of the Republic's clone army on Kamino that wasordered by Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas. With the Jedi Master's death before anyone else in theRepublic could find out about the army, Palpatine instructed the Count to ensure theRepublic's army remained a secret. The Republic would not find out about its clone army foranother 10 years. In that time, Palpatine's power and supporters grew in the Senate, andDooku began convincing sector after sector to secede from the Republic to join his Separatistmovement. With tension rising between the Republic and the Separatists, just as war was




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about to flash, the Senate voted emergency power to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. Using hisnew-found power, Palpatine ordered the use of the clone army in stopping the Separatists.Thus began the Clone Wars. Throughout the War, more and more power was passed from theSenate to the Supreme Chancellor in the name of expediency in making military decisions. Asthe war ended, Palpatine fabricated a Jedi plot to overthrow the Republic, giving a "legitimate"reason to the Senate for eradicating the Jedi. In his victory speech to the Senate on the defeatof the Separatists and the Jedi he outlined his plan for a new Galactic Empire... with himself as

Galactic Emperor. Taking Anakin Skywalker as his apprentice, renamed Darth Vader, theyruled the galaxy through fear. These two Lords of the Sith instigated the great Jedi Purge thatall but wiped out the Jedi order. Palpatine would later disband the Galactic Senate, furtheringthe seeds of rebellion against his magnificent Empire. Emperor Palpatine entrusted Vader withthe annihilation of the Rebellion that had risen against him. During that time he alsocommanded Vader to give Luke Skywalker an ultimatum: "Join us, or die!" Above the moon ofEndor, in the final battle of the Galactic Civil War, Emperor Palpatine was killed when DarthVader threw him into the Death Star II's reactor core. Luke Skywalker had managed to bringhis father back to the Light Side, to the dismay of the Emperor. For six years after the Battle ofEndor, it was believed that the Emperor was no more. Utilizing Sparti Cloning Cylinders leftover from the Clone Wars, the Emperor had the foresight to clone himself. It was into one of

these clones that he transferred his spirit at the instant his mortal body was thrown into thereactor core by Vader. Six years after that fateful day, the Emperor emerged from hiding with anew army to conquer the galaxy. Utilizing super-weapons like the World Devastators and theGalaxy Gun, Palpatine made another bid for galactic domination. His last clone was finallydestroyed and the Emperor was finally gone. Many years after, it seemed like the Emperor hadreturned yet again; But it was just a small group of Imperial Royal Guards that were using theEmperor's persona to their own gain, splicing holo-footage to make it appear as if the Emperorwere alive.

DARTH MAULLord of the Sith (43-32 bby). Darth Maul was a weaponforged by the hateful energies of the dark side to ensure the victory of the Sith

over the Jedi order. A creature of pure evil, Maul had no personality beyond hisultimate devotion to his master, Darth Sidious. His goal was singular -- to exactvengeance upon the Jedi for the decimation of the Sith ranks. Born on Iridonia,

his training was harsh and cruel. Maul's training culminated with one final challenge: a survivaltest on a savage planet where he was ultimately forced to face his own master in a duel. Onlywhen Maul's turn to the Dark Side was complete and he was willing to kill his own master washe deemed worthy of becoming a Sith Lord. While Qui-Gon Jinn was escorting the fugitiveQueen Amidala from Tatooine to Coruscant, Darth Maul swept down from above, lunging atQui-Gon from his rocketing Sith speeder. Maul's attack was relentless; he hammered downlightsaber strikes against the accomplished Jedi Master, forcing him back time and again. Itwas only the timely interception of Qui-Gon by the Queen's Royal Starship that spared him.Qui-Gon was utterly surprised and unprepared for such an attack. The Sith, everyone knew,were extinct, disappeared from the galaxy for a millennium. Yet the evidence was there -- adark attacker, trained in the Jedi arts, brandishing a lightsaber no less. Maul was dispatchedby Darth Sidious to track down the Queen, a feat he accomplished through mysterious yeteffective means. Traveling aboard his sleek Sith Infiltrator, Maul scouted the galaxy for themissing monarch, and reported his findings to his master. When Amidala returned to Naboo,Maul was there, waiting to face the Jedi once more. As an undeniable example of his skill anddevotion, Maul plunged headlong into battle against two Jedi warriors. Using his double-bladedlightsaber, Maul held off both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn in the heart of the TheedRoyal Palace. When the Jedi became separated, Maul killed Qui-Gon with a well-placed saber




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strike. Kenobi, enraged, attacked Maul. This barrage was deflected by Maul who used Obi-Wan's touching of the dark side as a conduit for a Force attack; using the Force, Maul pushedObi-Wan into a deep mining pit. Kenobi held onto an outcropping for dear life. Calming himselfby calling upon the light side of the Force, Kenobi was able to surprise Maul, and cleave him inhalf with his saber.

DARTH TYRANUS (COUNT DOOKU) Lord of the Sith (32-19bby). Following the death ofDarth Maul, Lord Sidious sought out anotherapprentice. With his plans quickly coming together, Sidious did not have time totrain a new apprentice from birth. He instead turned to the Jedi. Focusing in on a

powerful, and unsatisfied Jedi, Sidious recruited Count Dooku and quickly turned him to theDark Side. Unsettled with the restrictions put on the Jedi in their studies of the Force, andfeeling the Jedi betrayed themselves by serving the politicians, Dooku was quick to embraceSidious' ideals, and took the tile of Darth Tyranus. Shortly after joining with Sidious, he wasinformed by his new Master of the secret clone army ordered by Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas onKamino. Sidious ordered Tyranus to kill Sifo-Dyas and erase all reference to Kamino from theJedi Archives. Tyranus also secretly funded the clone army, since it would play a vital part inDarth Sidious' master plan. The Republic did not find out that a clone army was being made forit until ten years later... just in time to prevent the Separatists from overthrowing the Republic.On the planet ofGeonosis, the first battle of the Clone Wars broke out. Tyranus wasconfronted by the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. An incredible lightsaber duelensued, but ended with both Jedi being wounded, and Anakin loosing a hand. Before Tyranuscould finish them off, Jedi Master Yoda interrupted him and showed Tyranus a thing or twoabout lightsabers. The duel ended in a draw as Yoda saved Kenobi and Skywalker from beingcrushed by a falling pillar, while Tyranus escaped in a shuttle. Returning to Coruscant, Tyranusoined up with his Master and began working on the next phase of their plans for galacticconquest. Count Dooku visited the planet Rattatak, looking for another world to add to theSeparatist fold. What he found instead was far more promising. Asajj Ventress, a Dark Sidewarrior trained in the ways of the Jedi displayed her raw talent and fierce determination which

impressed Dooku. The charismatic leader of the Confederacy was able to recruit the youngwarrior by appealing to her disgust with the Jedi and the Republic. Though Ventress longed toidentify herself as a Sith, she did not receive Sith training. Although Dooku helped hone hertalents, he taught her none of the knowledge unique to the Sith. Dooku would use Asajj as adeadly tool against the Jedi and the Republic. Having been the leader of the Separatists,Dooku's only chance for regaining power after the war was by allowing himself to be capturedby the great war hero, Anakin Skywalker, so that after Palpatine establishes his Empire, Dookucould be instated as his right hand man. The plan was for Anakin to become the "greatestwarrior in the galaxy" by defeating Dooku and the Separatists, and later to lead the Empire'snew armies. During the Separatist attack on Coruscant and the kidnapping of ChancellorPalpatine, Tyranus fought against the rescuers Anakin and Obi-Wan aboard General

Grievous' flagship. Having been "defeated" and disarmed by Anakin and expecting to beimprisoned, Tyranus was dumbstruck that Palpatine/Sidious prompted Anakin to kill him in coldblood. Dooku discovered too late that Sidious' plans were for Anakin to become his newapprentice, and that Dooku's death was just another part of Sidious' plan for pushing Anakin tothe Dark Side. Such is the way of the Sith.

DARTH VADER(ANAKIN SKYWALKER)12th Dark Lord of theSith (19 bby - 4 aby). Born to Shmi Skywalker, and believed to have beenconceived by the midi-chlorians. Moved to Tatooine at age three. Anakin and his




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mother were sold as slaves to Gardulla the Hutt, but Gardulla lost them to theToydarian junk dealer Watto while betting on a Pod Race. Anakin was a young hot-shot pilotwith force abilities. Very adept mechanically, Anakin built his own Pod Racer as well asbuilding C-3PO. Anakin won his freedom by winning the famed Boonta Eve Pod Race, with alittle help from the Force. Accompanying the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Queen Amidala to the planet Naboo, Anakin inadvertently joined in thespace battle above the planets surface. He "accidentally" managed to knock out the power

generator of the Trade Federation cruiser, destroying the battle droid control computer andwinning the battle. Anakin was later apprenticed to Obi-Wan Kenobi in the ways of the LightSide of the Force before being seduced by the Dark Side. Anakin stayed on the path of theLight Side for more than a decade, sharing many adventures with his master. However, in thattime, Anakin became good friends with Chancellor Palpatine, who was almost like a secondMaster for him. Palpatine encouraged Anakin to be the best Jedi ever, and even then beganbending him to his will. Ten years after the battle of Naboo, Anakin and Obi-Wan wereassigned to protect Senator Amidala from mysterious assassins. Master and apprentice wouldbe forced to split up, with Kenobi tracking down the assassin and Skywalker acting asAmidala's bodyguard. Anakin an Padme spent much time together, hiding out in sparselypopulated areas of Naboo. At first they denied their love for each other, but eventually gave in

to it. Unable to stomach the constant nightmares about his mother, Anakin returned toTatooine to find her. When he and Amidala arrived on Tatooine, they tracked her to a moisturefarm, where Shmi's new husband Cliegg Lars told them what had happened to his mother: Shehad been taken captive by Tusken Raiders. Enraged, Anakin frantically searched for hismother... and found her just as her life slipped away. Seething with anger from watching hismother die in his arms from the beating the Tuskens had inflicted on her, Anakin slew theentire camp with his lightsaber. Men, women, and children. That was Anakin's first, irrevocablestep toward the Dark Side. As fate would have it, Kenobi got himself captured by theSeparatists on the planet ofGeonosis, and Anakin and Padme decided to rescue him. Theytoo were captured and the three sentenced to death in the arena. They managed to stay alivelong enough in the execution arena for the Jedi to arrive and intervene. The Jedi were greatlyoutnumbered by the Separatist's droid army, but the tides turned when Yoda showed up withthe Republic's new clone army. The battle on Geonosis would be the start of the Clone Wars.In the battle, Kenobi and Skywalker chased Count Dooku to a hanger bay and enteredaggressive negotiations... with lightsabers. Dooku's superior swordsmanship prevailed,resulting in both Jedi being wounded and with Anakin losing his hand. Yoda showed up to fightDooku, but the Count escaped to wreak more havoc in the universe. In a brief respite afterGeonosis, Anakin and Padme returned to Naboo and were married. The two of them spentwhat little time they could together, while surviving in a galaxy torn by war. Anakin would againencounter Dooku while rescuing the kidnapped Chancellor Palpatine. The duel ended withDooku disarmed and expecting to be imprisoned. Knowing what a danger Dooku would still be,Anakin killed him in cold blood... taking another large step toward the Dark Side. Anakin wasfull of both joy and despair with Padme's pregnancy, for he foresaw that she would die in

childbirth. Wanting nothing more in the galaxy than to keep Padme from dying, Anakinsuccumbed to the lure of Darth Sidious' revelation that there were Dark Side powers that couldkeep her from dying. Sadly, his fall to the Dark Side ultimately drove off the one thing he mostloved in the galaxy, Padme. In a vicious lightsaber duel on Mustafar between him and histhen-master Obi-Wan, Anakin was horribly wounded and burned, which is why he wears thetrademark protective black armor and breath mask. Before Anakin found out that he hadchildren, the twins Luke and Leia, Kenobi hid them from him to protect them from their fatherand the Dark Side. Even Palpatine told Vader that Padme and his child were dead, knowingthat if he knew he had children we would not be able to focus on running a galaxy. Seethingwith anger, Vader tapped the vast amounts of Dark Side energy through the ancient Sith




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teachings, and later became the Dark Lord of the Sith. As Emperor Palpatine's right hand,Darth Vader chased the Rebel Alliance to the far reaches of the galaxy. While trying to find thefabled Kaibur Crystal of Mimban, Vader finally encountered and fought his son, the young LukeSkywalker. In his last confrontation with Luke, Vader finally returned to the Light Side bythrowing Palpatine into the reactor core to save his son.

KYP DURRON Self-proclaimed Dark Lord of the Sith (8 aby). Bornon the Deyer colony of the Anoat system. Kyp's parents were outspokenpolititians who openly protested the Ghorman Massacre and the destruction ofAlderaan. One night stormtroopers barged into their house and sent Kyp and his

parents to the prison colony on Kessel, and sent his brother Zeth to the Imperial StormtrooperAcademy on Caridia. Kyp's parents were executed when Moruth Doole took over the Kesselfacilities. Kyp survived and met a fellow inmate, Vima-Da-Boda, who taught him the basicsabout the Force. Later, Kyp escaped from Kessel with the help ofHan Solo and managed tobe captured again by Admiral Daala while fleeing into the Maw. Narrowly avoiding a deathsentence from Daala, Kyp escaped again with Solo and the scientist Qwi Xux. While training atLuke Skywalker's newly established Jedi Academy, Kyp encountered the spirit of the long-dead Exar Kun and began gaining power through the Dark Side and ancient Sith teachings.Pissed off at the Empire for all the pain it has cause him and his family, Kyp furiously waged aone-man war against the Empire using the Sun Crusher and his newly acquired Sith powers.While visiting the site ofDarth Vader's funeral pyre on Endor, Kyp claimed the title ofThe DarkLord Of The Sith (he was able to claim this since no other known Sith existed to challengehim, although in my opinion Kyp had not reached a high enough level to rightfully claim thetitle). Kyp eventually returned to the Light Side after Kun's spirit was destroyed by the otherJedi trainies and thus was no longer under Kun's influence.

DARTH CAEDUS(Jacen Solo) Lord of the Sith (~40 aby). Famous first-born sonof Leia and Han Solo, Jacen grew up exposed to the Galaxy's wars. His accumulatedexperiences of the Universe's pain, suffering, injustice, and chaos eventually led him the DarkSide. (expanded bio coming eventually)

DARTH KRAYTLord of the Sith (125 -132 aby). Ancient and deadly,Darth Krayt has created a Sith order that is fully immersed in the Dark Side. Forover a hundred years, Krayt's Sith have hidden on the planet Korriban, using themiasma of the Dark Side that permeates the planet to conceal themselves. The

Rule of Two is gone, banished by the Sith's new leader. Now there is only the One - the Sithorder itself.* But Krayt was not always a Sith. He began his life as A'Sharad Hett, a JediKnight. Raised by his Tusken Raider father (a Jedi himself) A'Sharad was a devoted Jedi, butfrequently questioned Jedi teachings. He survived the Jedi Purge and went into hiding on

Tatooine, becoming a Tusken Raider warlord, but was later disarmed and humiliated by Obi-Wan Kenobi. This was the turning point that put A'Sharad Hett on the path of the Dark Side.For a time he made a living as a bounty hunter, until one bounty lead him to Korriban where heencountered the ancient spirit ofXoxaan, Sith Lord, who would teach him the ways of the Sith.After leaving Korriban and discovering that the object of his revenge, Palpatine and Vader,were already dead, he fled to the Unknown Regions where he encountered and was capturedby the Yuuzhan Vong. While their prisoner he fell further toward the Dark Side, and was alsosubject to their biological experiments. Now intent on reforming a new Sith order, Darth Kraytescaped and returned to Korriban. Nearly a century later, after establishing a new Sith Order,Krayt masterminded a new war between the Gallactic Alliance and the New Empire. After the




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Alliance was defeated, Krayt proclaimed himself the new Emperor. But all was not as hewished it, for the former Emperor Roan Fel had escaped assassination and still had a sizeableImperial force loyal to him, and Krayt had also learned of the last surviving Skywalker, CadeSkywalker. Krayt's body was slowly being consumed by the Vong growths that covered hisbody, but after hearing of Cade's strong Force healing powers Krayt captured him and plannedto turn him to the Dark Side and have Cade heal him. But Cade wanted no part of it, and withthe some opportune help... escaped.

DARTH RUYN(132 aby) Sith master who apprenticed Darth Talon andtaught her to be an assassin. Talon's final lesson was killing her own master onthe orders of Darth Krayt.

DARTH TALONLord of the Sith (132 aby). One of Krayt's "Hands,"the purpose of her existence is to execute Krayt's will. Talon's tattoos wereearned in ritual combat and inscribed by Krayt himself.* It is Talon who first

exposes Cade Skywalkers Jedi heritage while pursuing Roan Fels daughter.Talon is also the one who defeats and captures Cade during his attempt to rescue Jedi HoskTreylis. But during Cade's successful escape attempt he kills Talon.

DARTH STRYFELord of the Sith (132 aby). Perhaps the most brutalof Darth Krayt's followers, Darth Stryfe is an explosion of raw power.*

DARTH NIHLLord of the Sith (132 aby). The other of Kray'ts Hands,

the Nagai warrior is the top enforcer of Krayt's will both within and outside of theSith Order.*

DARTH WYYRLOKLord of the Sith (132 aby). Third of that name,Wyyrlock is Krayt's most trusted lieutenant, master of ritual lore of the Sith and allthe ways of the Dark Side.*

DARTH MALEVALLord of the Sith (132 ABY) He supervised the 908thstormtrooper squad in their attack on the traitorous 407th squad on Borosk. After the battle,Maleval was shot by his own troops who disapproved of his merciless tactics.

DARTH MALADI Lord of the Sith (132 aby). Head of Sith Intelligenceand Assassination, Maladi is also an expert in the ways of torture.* Sheinterrogated/tortured Jedi Hosk Treylis to get information on Cade Skywalker.




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DARTH KRUHLLord of the Sith (132 ABY) Sith assassin who infiltratedBastion in a failed attempt to kill deposed Emperor Roan Fel. Kruhl was killed byFel, who is an accomplished Knight.

DARTH AZARDLord of the Sith (132 ABY) This Sith commander wastasked with tracking down the renegade Republic fleet led by Admiral Stazi.When Imperial Admiral Sha Dun was unsuccessful for too long, Azard killed himand appointed Admiral Valan to the task of tracking down Stazi.

* Info from Star Wars: Legacyissue #1.

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