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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 of
the 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 the
Sith people they were Gods, to the Jedi they were mortal enemies. A Sith Lord's
immense political and military influence was surpassed only by his mastery of the
Dark 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 on
Korriban and Old Republic historians are vigilantly digging into the past to learn the
history of the Sith. Most dates are approximate (dates are bby = before battle of
Yavin, or aby = after battle of Yavin).

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

DATHKA GRAUSH Dark Lord of the Sith (7,000 bby). "Dathka Graush was a
pureblooded Sith Dark Lord, a conqueror whose forces won one of Korriban's cyclical civil
wars 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 the
planet. Graush's reign was one of terror and cruelty even by Sith standards, and researchers
at the Jedi Academy think they know why. Dathka Graush literally had no heart. Using Sith
magic and the most advanced technology he could find, Graush replaced his own heart with a
Force-sensitive crystal capable of keeping him alive (some said invincible). The crystal was of
the same kind used to entomb defeated Jedi in other Sith crypts, but it held Dark Side spirits
collected over thousands of years. No one is sure who made the Heart, but Graush put it to
good use. When his mummified corpse was entombed in the Valley of Golg, the Heart was
entombed with it. The Jedi have been unable to locate the artifact to this day, despite a
thorough survey of Graush's tomb made at great risk to the surveyors." (from Star Wars RPG
as posted on www.wizards.com)

AJUNTA PALL Dark Lord of the Sith (6,900 bby). Ajunta Pall was one of the first
great Sith Lords. He was one of the Jedi that first rebelled against the old Light Side teachings
in favor of the Dark Side. They rebelled against their Jedi Masters and were eventually driven
off into hiding. It was then that the outcast Jedi encountered the Sith race and began building
their empire. He was famed to have created a sword of terrible Dark Side power. The sword is
rumored 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 Dark
Lords on Korriban. His tomb is guarded by a pack of tuk'ata beasts.

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

MARKA RAGNOS Dark Lord of the Sith (5,100-5,000 bby). Ruled

approximately 5,200 years before Darth Vader. Ragnos was a hafl-breed Sith, a
warlord of tremendous physical power and frightening grasp of the Dark Side of
the 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 by
pitting his detractors against one another, manipulating them into challening him, or simply
assassinating them. Among the Sith, Marka Ragnos was feared, obeyed, and admired. Marka
Ragnos retained power for over a century, crushing all resistance - but he expanded the Sith
Empire only slightly in all that time. Ragnos was one of the few Sith alive who had researched
the 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 a
protracted war with the forces of the Republic, especially if the Jedi were still as strong as they
had been when they defeated his ancestors. Obviously, his views were not shared by all the
Sith. Many was his lack of expansion as a sign of weakness and took it as an opportunity - a
justification, even - to unseat the Dark Lord of the Sith. At fist irate that the other Sith would so
blindly endanger his empire with their ambition, over time Ragnos came to realize that while
they were focusing their efforts on him, they were not actually expanding the borders of the
Sith Empire, and thus, not precipitating contact with the Republic. Marka Ragnos elected to
play to the aggression of the other Sith, to distract them from making a mistake that could bring
the Sith Empire to ruin.

NAGA SADOW Dark Lord of the Sith (5,000 bby). "He ruled
approximately a thousand years before the time of Exar Kun. A member of an
elite priesthood of pure Sith blood." At the funeral of the previous Dark Lord of
the Sith, Sadow chalenged his arch-rival, Ludo Kressh, for the title of the next
Dark 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. The
duel was interupted by the arrival of Gav and Jori Daragon, unlucky explorers that
hyperspaced 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 Sith
Lord. 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 raid
to free the prisoners, killing a prominent Sith Lord in the process. Sadow whisked them off to
his private fortress. The Sith Lords were thrown into an uproar, seeing the weapons, the
evidence, and assuming they had been attacked by Republic forces. In turmoil, they turned to
Naga Sadow for leadership and named him the Dark Lord of the Sith. Outraged, Ludo Kressh
stormed off, taking his supporters with him. Discovering Sadow's trickery, Kressh mounted an
armed rebellion against the evil Dark Lord, vowing to fight to save the Sith Empire from
Sadow's reckless plans. While attacking Sadow's decoy fortress on Khar Shian, Kressh had
inadvertantly 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 being
held elsewhere, and with a hidden homing beacon led Naga Sadow right to the Republic. He
began teaching the Force-sensitive Gav Sith magic, and later gave him command of the Sith
invasion fleet; Sadow himself would watch the battle from his meditation sphere orbiting
Primus Goluud, where he used forbidden Sith magic to rally his forces and create the illusion
of a more massive invasion force than it actually was. But Gav could not stand being the
commander 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 set
out to hunt down Sadow. Causing the Primus Goluud star to explode, Sadow tried to hide his
escape back to the Sith Empire. In Sadow's absence, Ludo Kressh retook control of the Sith
Empire and had his fleet waiting for Sadow's return. But Kressh's fleet was still no match for
Sadow's already depleated fleet. Just as Sadow destroyed Kressh's ship, and Ludo Kressh
with it, the Republic fleet arrived, led there by Jori. "He escaped across the galaxy, engaging
Republic gunships in a cataclysmic battle at the Denarii Nova. Eventually, he and his followers
ended up on Yavin Four, with his followers devolving into the primitive Massassi warriors over
the centuries."

EXAR KUN Dark Lord of the Sith (3,997-3,996 bby). "As a Jedi, he was
apprenticed to Master Vodo-Siosk Baas, who admitted that Kun was the most
formidable student he ever had. He was seduced by the dark side and drawn to
the planet Korriban, where the spirit of Freedon Nadd enticed him to let the dark
powers 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-Urr in
the library of Ossus, and after killing him, took the Sith Holocron in order to further his dark
powers," (from A Guide to the SW:Tales of the Jedi Universe by Bob Cooper). Four thousand
years before the time of Darth Vader, Kun precipitated the Sith War which was one of the
most destructive conflicts in the entire history of the Republic. With the help of Ulic Qel-Droma,
the Krath illusionist Aleema, and the warlord Mandalore they built up an army that rivaled the
Republic's own. While Ulic and Mandalore waged a huge military battle against Republic
outposts, shipyards, and eventually Coruscant itself, Kun was busy seducing other Jedi
trainees to the Dark Side to do his bidding. With his new Sith initiates, Kun waged a covert war
against what he called the aging and outdated Jedi Masters, sending them out to kill their old
Jedi masters. During the attack on Coruscant, Ulic Qel-Droma was captured and later charged
with treason against the Republic. In the middle of his trial, Ulic was rescued by Kun and
Mandalore as they barged into the courtroom filled with thousands of Jedi that were imobilized
by Kun's Sith spell. During the rescue, Exar Kun killed his old master Vodo-Siosk Baas in a
rematch of their previous duel in which his master won. Exar Kun later sent the treacherous
Aleema to Kemplex Nine with the intent to ambush the Republic/Jedi forces using an ancient
Sith superweapon that was aboard Naga Sadow's ship, recently unearth from the Yavin
temples. The weapon tore the core of a sun in the Cron Cluster and hurled it at the Republic
fleet, but also caused the sun to catastrophically supernova, destroying everything in the
system including the Great Jedi Library on Ossus. The war ended with all the Jedi banding
together 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 years
later when Luke Skywalker establishes his Jedi Academy on Yavin 4, Kun once again made
his bid for galaxy domination by attempting to sway Luke's new trainees to the Dark Side. Exar
Kun almost succeeded with Kyp Durron, but not before Luke, the Jedi trainees, and the spirit of
Master Bodo Baas together destroyed Kun's spirit forever.

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DARTH RIVAN Lord of the Sith. Rivan lived during the time of the Sith War. He is
most notable for teraforming the planet Almas. Originally an inhospitable planet with a molten
core and an ice covered crust. The atmosphere consisted primarily of methane and
phosphorus. 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 a
new 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 home
blasted into pieces. The central fortress remained, somehow impervious to blaster fire. The
Jedi, thinking that the fortress was not worth the continued effort, decided to leave it. Centuries
passed, and the kaluthin continued to prosper. They spread across the whole planet and
eventually made the atmosphere partially breathable, except for trace elements of methane
and phosphorus which made the air slightly poisonous. On one side planet, however, there is a
desolate wasteland where even kaluthin cannot grow anymore. The center of this wasteland is
the ancient Sith fortress. Slowly, the wasteland grows... (info on Darth Rivan and Almas from
Star Wars RPG)

DARTH REVAN Dark Lord of the Sith (left) and

DARTH MALAK Dark Lord of the Sith (right) (3,959-3,956
bby). Following the Sith War and the fall of Exar Kun, the Republic
was at its most vulnerable state. Sensing this weakness, the warlike
Mandalorians began a series of brutal attacks against worlds throughout the Outer Rim. In
desperation, the Republic turned to the Jedi Council for aid. The learned Masters wanted to
proceed with customary caution and due care before embarking on a long and destructive
military campaign; however, more immediate help came in the form of two young Jedi Knights
named Revan and Malak. Ignoring the dictates of the Jedi Council, the charismatic pair
recruited many to their cause, rallying the impulsive youth of the Order with cries of victory and
glory. 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 the
struggle. Yet, at its end, the Republic emerged triumphant, and Revan and Malak were hailed
as heroes. But the heroes did not leave the war untouched; something about the Outer Rim
worlds twisted and corrupted them. On Korriban, Revan uncovered the lost secrets of the Sith
and became the heir to an ancient and evil legacy. Succumbing to the lure of the dark side, the
fallen Jedi assumed the title of Darth Revan, Lord of the Sith. Revan's friend Malak grudgingly
took the mantle of the Dark Lord's apprentice. The great fleet under their control abandoned
the Republic and swore fealty to their new Sith masters. With their army of followers, Revan
and Malak returned not as saviors, but as conquerors. For two years battles raged on the
perimeters of Republic space. The Sith gained victory after victory, until the Jedi set a trap to
capture Revan and Malak. But during the chaos of battle, Malak turned on his master and tried
to destroy both Revan and the Jedi, but his plan failed. Revan was captured by the Jedi, while
Malak escaped and proclaimed himself the new Dark Lord, swearing revenge on the Jedi and
Revan. But the Jedi had other plans. They used the brain-washed Revan to help track down
Malak. On the ancient Star Forge station, Master and former-apprentice faced off one last
time, ending in Malak's defeat. Having regained his memory and the title of Dark Lord, Revan
renewed his crusade against the Jedi. Just as the Sith were nearing victory, having nearly
wiping out the Jedi, Revan mysteriously left his Sith followers to hide in the Unknown
Regions... never to be seen again. The Jedi Civil War would drag on for years to come, the
Sith hunting down the Jedi and the Jedi managing to survive.

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DARTH TRAYA (Kreia) Lord of the Sith (3,959-3,951

bby). Jedi Master to Revan, Keria became consumed by guilt after
Revan's turn to the Dark Side, wondering if her teachings led to
Revan'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 the
Light and the Dark Sides of the Force. Her two most notable pupils were Darth Nihilus and
Darth Sion, who in true Sith fasion, betrayed their master, stripped her of her powers, and
exiled her. She later joined up with The Exile, and together they regained their lost Force
powers. Unbeknownst to the Exile, Keria was using him to track down the Sith leadership, Sion
and Nihilus, and kill her rebellious pupils. Ultimately the Exile discovered her plans and
defeated her.

DARTH BANDON Lord of the Sith (3,959-3,956 bby). "Like most of

Malak's followers, Bandon was once a student of the Jedi. But though the Force
flowed 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 on
Korriban. There he embraced the dark side and the way of the Sith with every fiber of his
being. His great strength in the Force, his natural cruelty and his absolute ruthlessness in his
quest for power soon set him apart from his fellow students, and drew the calculating eye of
Lord Malak himself. In the tradition of their order, Malak sought a single pupil from among his
many followers to become his chosen apprentice: one who could learn the terrible secrets of
the Sith and use them to destroy the Jedi and the Republic. So far, Darth Bandon has proven
himself 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 the
mantle 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 and
extinction of the entire Jedi Order." (from lucasarts.com)

DARTH NIHILUS Lord of the Sith (3,955-3,951 bby). "Darth Nihilus

consumes the Force from Force-sensitives in order to stay alive. He can even
consume entire Force-sensitive planets. Little is known of Nihilus's true
beginnings, 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 the
ways 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 against
their dark mistress Traya. They cast Traya down, stripped her of her power, and expelled her
from the Sith Order. Nihilus and Sion had now begun their shadow war against the remnants of
the Jedi Order. They hunted Jedi to the brink of extinction." (from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sith). Nihilus was eventually tracked down and killed by the Jedi
Exile.

DARTH SION Lord of the Sith (3,955-3,951 bby). "A twisted wreck,
Darth Sion is a Sith Lord held together only by sheer force of will. Every bone in

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his body has been shattered and rebuilt, turning his skeleton and his flesh into a
patchwork mass of bruises and scraping bone. He is in constant pain, and only his hatred and
the power of the Dark Side keeps him alive." (from lucasarts.com) Sion was eventually tracked
down 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 on
Ruusan. When outright battle would not win the war, Darth Bane brought the Sith
Lords 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 battlefield
with 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 Dark
Side energy assault, wanting to kill the Jedi with their own hands. Jedi reinforcements arrive
just as the Sith Lords attack and drove them off. Beaten yet again, Kaan desperately decided
to work together with the other Sith Lords (as long as HE was leading them) and planed to
detonate a thought bomb. Delusional of their own power, Kaan thought that the Sith were
strong enough to withstand the detonation of the bomb. As the Jedi army cornered the Sith
Lords in a cavern, Kaan detonated the thought bomb, killing all the Jedi and Sith... save one,
Darth Bane.

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

DARTH BANE Lord of the Sith (1,000 bby). Two thousand years before
Palpatine'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 the
Dark, 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 war
against the Jedi. He had adopted patience as a virtue when the others had forsaken it. He had
adopted cunning, stealth, and subterfuge as the foundation of his way - old Jedi vitrues the
others had disdained. He stood aside while the Sith tore at each other for supremacy. The
Jedi/Sith war came to a climax on the planet Ruusan, where both armies were taking great
losses. Knowing that the only way to defeat the Jedi was by working together, Bane proposed
a Dark Side meld to combine their Sith powers. While lowly Sith minions engaged the Jedi in
battle, the Sith Lords, channeling through Darth Bane, combined their Dark Side powers and
began 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 while
they were recovering from the Dark Side energy assault, wanting to kill the Jedi with their own
hands. Kaan and the Sith Lords were driven off when Jedi reinforcements arrived. In
desperation, 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 army
cornered the Sith Lords in a cavern, Kaan detonated the thought bomb, killing all the Jedi and
Sith... save one, Darth Bane. When the carnage was complete, he went into hiding, biding his
time, waiting for his chance. Bane was forced to crash-land on Dxun, a moon of Onderon, after
the vengeful sprit of Lord Qordis disabled his ship. At the tomb of Freedon Nadd he discovered
a 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 was
attacked by armoured creatures called orbalisks that attached to his body and would
eventually form a symbiotic suit of armor that fed off of Dark Side energy. With his ship
destroyed, Bane escaped Dxun by subjugating a giant flying beast and rode it to Onderon
where he would find his apprentice. But from now on there would only be two Sith at any one
time. There would be no repetition of the mistakes of the old cult. Their common enemy was
the 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 Dromund
Kaas by the Sith apprentice Darth Millennial. The apprentice abandoned his master to focus on
the philosophy of Rule by the Strong, espoused by the "Dark One" Lord Kaan, rather than on
Darth Bane's restrictive Rule of Two. (from www.wizards.com)

DARTH ANDEDDU Lord of the Sith (dates unkown). A Sith

Holocron created by Darth Andeddu was discovered on Korriban approximately
16 months after the Battle of Geonosis and brought to Darth Tyranus by the
double-agent Quinlan Vos. Little else is known of Darth Andeddu.

DARTH PLAGUEIS Lord 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 the
Force. With this ability he was able to manipulate the Force to create and extend life. It is
unknown how long Darth Plagueis lived, but even with this great power he could not prevent
his 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 in
politics 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 and
became 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 of
the galaxy. As senator he feigned to solve those same problems while at the same time
gaining 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 of
Naboo 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 result
was his being elected to Supreme Chancellor of the Republic, replacing Chancellor Valorum
with a no-confidence vote. During that same campaign, Palpatine sent his apprentice, Darth
Maul, to kill the Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi who were meddling in his plans. Maul
was killed by Obi-Wan, but not before he killed Obi-Wan's master, Qui-Gon. Palpatine wasted
not time, and quickly found another apprentice to further his work: Count Dooku. Unsatisfied
with the Jedi Order, Dooku was quickly turned to the Dark Side and began helping his master
with Galactic conquest. Dooku learned of the Republic's clone army on Kamino that was
ordered by Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas. With the Jedi Master's death before anyone else in the
Republic could find out about the army, Palpatine instructed the Count to ensure the
Republic's army remained a secret. The Republic would not find out about its clone army for
another 10 years. In that time, Palpatine's power and supporters grew in the Senate, and
Dooku began convincing sector after sector to secede from the Republic to join his Separatist
movement. 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 his
new-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 the
Senate to the Supreme Chancellor in the name of expediency in making military decisions. As
the 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 defeat
of 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, they
ruled the galaxy through fear. These two Lords of the Sith instigated the great Jedi Purge that
all but wiped out the Jedi order. Palpatine would later disband the Galactic Senate, furthering
the seeds of rebellion against his magnificent Empire. Emperor Palpatine entrusted Vader with
the annihilation of the Rebellion that had risen against him. During that time he also
commanded Vader to give Luke Skywalker an ultimatum: "Join us, or die!" Above the moon of
Endor, in the final battle of the Galactic Civil War, Emperor Palpatine was killed when Darth
Vader threw him into the Death Star II's reactor core. Luke Skywalker had managed to bring
his father back to the Light Side, to the dismay of the Emperor. For six years after the Battle of
Endor, it was believed that the Emperor was no more. Utilizing Sparti Cloning Cylinders left
over 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 the
reactor core by Vader. Six years after that fateful day, the Emperor emerged from hiding with a
new army to conquer the galaxy. Utilizing super-weapons like the World Devastators and the
Galaxy Gun, Palpatine made another bid for galactic domination. His last clone was finally
destroyed and the Emperor was finally gone. Many years after, it seemed like the Emperor had
returned yet again; But it was just a small group of Imperial Royal Guards that were using the
Emperor's persona to their own gain, splicing holo-footage to make it appear as if the Emperor
were alive.

DARTH MAUL Lord of the Sith (43-32 bby). Darth Maul was a weapon
forged 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 his
ultimate devotion to his master, Darth Sidious. His goal was singular -- to exact
vengeance 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 survival
test on a savage planet where he was ultimately forced to face his own master in a duel. Only
when Maul's turn to the Dark Side was complete and he was willing to kill his own master was
he deemed worthy of becoming a Sith Lord. While Qui-Gon Jinn was escorting the fugitive
Queen Amidala from Tatooine to Coruscant, Darth Maul swept down from above, lunging at
Qui-Gon from his rocketing Sith speeder. Maul's attack was relentless; he hammered down
lightsaber strikes against the accomplished Jedi Master, forcing him back time and again. It
was 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 -- a
dark attacker, trained in the Jedi arts, brandishing a lightsaber no less. Maul was dispatched
by Darth Sidious to track down the Queen, a feat he accomplished through mysterious yet
effective means. Traveling aboard his sleek Sith Infiltrator, Maul scouted the galaxy for the
missing 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 and
devotion, Maul plunged headlong into battle against two Jedi warriors. Using his double-bladed
lightsaber, Maul held off both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn in the heart of the Theed
Royal 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 pushed
Obi-Wan into a deep mining pit. Kenobi held onto an outcropping for dear life. Calming himself
by calling upon the light side of the Force, Kenobi was able to surprise Maul, and cleave him in
half with his saber.

DARTH TYRANUS (COUNT DOOKU) Lord of the Sith (32-19

bby). Following the death of Darth Maul, Lord Sidious sought out another
apprentice. With his plans quickly coming together, Sidious did not have time to
train 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 the
Dark Side. Unsettled with the restrictions put on the Jedi in their studies of the Force, and
feeling the Jedi betrayed themselves by serving the politicians, Dooku was quick to embrace
Sidious' ideals, and took the tile of Darth Tyranus. Shortly after joining with Sidious, he was
informed by his new Master of the secret clone army ordered by Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas on
Kamino. Sidious ordered Tyranus to kill Sifo-Dyas and erase all reference to Kamino from the
Jedi Archives. Tyranus also secretly funded the clone army, since it would play a vital part in
Darth Sidious' master plan. The Republic did not find out that a clone army was being made for
it until ten years later... just in time to prevent the Separatists from overthrowing the Republic.
On the planet of Geonosis, the first battle of the Clone Wars broke out. Tyranus was
confronted by the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. An incredible lightsaber duel
ensued, but ended with both Jedi being wounded, and Anakin loosing a hand. Before Tyranus
could finish them off, Jedi Master Yoda interrupted him and showed Tyranus a thing or two
about lightsabers. The duel ended in a draw as Yoda saved Kenobi and Skywalker from being
crushed by a falling pillar, while Tyranus escaped in a shuttle. Returning to Coruscant, Tyranus
joined up with his Master and began working on the next phase of their plans for galactic
conquest. Count Dooku visited the planet Rattatak, looking for another world to add to the
Separatist fold. What he found instead was far more promising. Asajj Ventress, a Dark Side
warrior 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 young
warrior by appealing to her disgust with the Jedi and the Republic. Though Ventress longed to
identify herself as a Sith, she did not receive Sith training. Although Dooku helped hone her
talents, he taught her none of the knowledge unique to the Sith. Dooku would use Asajj as a
deadly 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 captured
by the great war hero, Anakin Skywalker, so that after Palpatine establishes his Empire, Dooku
could be instated as his right hand man. The plan was for Anakin to become the "greatest
warrior in the galaxy" by defeating Dooku and the Separatists, and later to lead the Empire's
new armies. During the Separatist attack on Coruscant and the kidnapping of Chancellor
Palpatine, Tyranus fought against the rescuers Anakin and Obi-Wan aboard General
Grievous' flagship. Having been "defeated" and disarmed by Anakin and expecting to be
imprisoned, Tyranus was dumbstruck that Palpatine/Sidious prompted Anakin to kill him in cold
blood. Dooku discovered too late that Sidious' plans were for Anakin to become his new
apprentice, and that Dooku's death was just another part of Sidious' plan for pushing Anakin to
the Dark Side. Such is the way of the Sith.

DARTH VADER(ANAKIN SKYWALKER) 12th Dark Lord of the

Sith (19 bby - 4 aby). Born to Shmi Skywalker, and believed to have been
conceived 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 the
Toydarian junk dealer Watto while betting on a Pod Race. Anakin was a young hot-shot pilot
with force abilities. Very adept mechanically, Anakin built his own Pod Racer as well as
building C-3PO. Anakin won his freedom by winning the famed Boonta Eve Pod Race, with a
little 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 the
space 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 and
winning the battle. Anakin was later apprenticed to Obi-Wan Kenobi in the ways of the Light
Side of the Force before being seduced by the Dark Side. Anakin stayed on the path of the
Light Side for more than a decade, sharing many adventures with his master. However, in that
time, Anakin became good friends with Chancellor Palpatine, who was almost like a second
Master for him. Palpatine encouraged Anakin to be the best Jedi ever, and even then began
bending him to his will. Ten years after the battle of Naboo, Anakin and Obi-Wan were
assigned to protect Senator Amidala from mysterious assassins. Master and apprentice would
be forced to split up, with Kenobi tracking down the assassin and Skywalker acting as
Amidala's bodyguard. Anakin an Padme spent much time together, hiding out in sparsely
populated 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 to
Tatooine to find her. When he and Amidala arrived on Tatooine, they tracked her to a moisture
farm, where Shmi's new husband Cliegg Lars told them what had happened to his mother: She
had been taken captive by Tusken Raiders. Enraged, Anakin frantically searched for his
mother... and found her just as her life slipped away. Seething with anger from watching his
mother die in his arms from the beating the Tuskens had inflicted on her, Anakin slew the
entire camp with his lightsaber. Men, women, and children. That was Anakin's first, irrevocable
step toward the Dark Side. As fate would have it, Kenobi got himself captured by the
Separatists on the planet of Geonosis, and Anakin and Padme decided to rescue him. They
too were captured and the three sentenced to death in the arena. They managed to stay alive
long enough in the execution arena for the Jedi to arrive and intervene. The Jedi were greatly
outnumbered by the Separatist's droid army, but the tides turned when Yoda showed up with
the 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 entered
aggressive negotiations... with lightsabers. Dooku's superior swordsmanship prevailed,
resulting in both Jedi being wounded and with Anakin losing his hand. Yoda showed up to fight
Dooku, but the Count escaped to wreak more havoc in the universe. In a brief respite after
Geonosis, Anakin and Padme returned to Naboo and were married. The two of them spent
what little time they could together, while surviving in a galaxy torn by war. Anakin would again
encounter Dooku while rescuing the kidnapped Chancellor Palpatine. The duel ended with
Dooku 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 was
full 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, Anakin
succumbed to the lure of Darth Sidious' revelation that there were Dark Side powers that could
keep her from dying. Sadly, his fall to the Dark Side ultimately drove off the one thing he most
loved in the galaxy, Padme. In a vicious lightsaber duel on Mustafar between him and his
then-master Obi-Wan, Anakin was horribly wounded and burned, which is why he wears the
trademark protective black armor and breath mask. Before Anakin found out that he had
children, the twins Luke and Leia, Kenobi hid them from him to protect them from their father
and the Dark Side. Even Palpatine told Vader that Padme and his child were dead, knowing
that if he knew he had children we would not be able to focus on running a galaxy. Seething
with 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 the
fabled Kaibur Crystal of Mimban, Vader finally encountered and fought his son, the young Luke
Skywalker. In his last confrontation with Luke, Vader finally returned to the Light Side by
throwing Palpatine into the reactor core to save his son.

KYP DURRON Self-proclaimed Dark Lord of the Sith (8 aby). Born

on the Deyer colony of the Anoat system. Kyp's parents were outspoken
polititians who openly protested the Ghorman Massacre and the destruction of
Alderaan. 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 Stormtrooper
Academy on Caridia. Kyp's parents were executed when Moruth Doole took over the Kessel
facilities. Kyp survived and met a fellow inmate, Vima-Da-Boda, who taught him the basics
about the Force. Later, Kyp escaped from Kessel with the help of Han Solo and managed to
be captured again by Admiral Daala while fleeing into the Maw. Narrowly avoiding a death
sentence from Daala, Kyp escaped again with Solo and the scientist Qwi Xux. While training at
Luke 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 a
one-man war against the Empire using the Sun Crusher and his newly acquired Sith powers.
While visiting the site of Darth Vader's funeral pyre on Endor, Kyp claimed the title of The Dark
Lord Of The Sith (he was able to claim this since no other known Sith existed to challenge
him, although in my opinion Kyp had not reached a high enough level to rightfully claim the
title). Kyp eventually returned to the Light Side after Kun's spirit was destroyed by the other
Jedi trainies and thus was no longer under Kun's influence.

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

DARTH KRAYT Lord of the Sith (125 -132 aby). Ancient and deadly,
Darth Krayt has created a Sith order that is fully immersed in the Dark Side. For
over a hundred years, Krayt's Sith have hidden on the planet Korriban, using the
miasma 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 Sith
order itself.* But Krayt was not always a Sith. He began his life as A'Sharad Hett, a Jedi
Knight. Raised by his Tusken Raider father (a Jedi himself) A'Sharad was a devoted Jedi, but
frequently 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 he
encountered the ancient spirit of Xoxaan, 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 captured
by the Yuuzhan Vong. While their prisoner he fell further toward the Dark Side, and was also
subject to their biological experiments. Now intent on reforming a new Sith order, Darth Krayt
escaped 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 he
wished it, for the former Emperor Roan Fel had escaped assassination and still had a sizeable
Imperial force loyal to him, and Krayt had also learned of the last surviving Skywalker, Cade
Skywalker. Krayt's body was slowly being consumed by the Vong growths that covered his
body, but after hearing of Cade's strong Force healing powers Krayt captured him and planned
to turn him to the Dark Side and have Cade heal him. But Cade wanted no part of it, and with
the some opportune help... escaped.

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

DARTH TALON Lord of the Sith (132 aby). One of Krayt's "Hands,"
the purpose of her existence is to execute Krayt's will. Talon's tattoos were
earned in ritual combat and inscribed by Krayt himself.* It is Talon who first
exposes Cade Skywalker’s Jedi heritage while pursuing Roan Fel’s daughter.
Talon is also the one who defeats and captures Cade during his attempt to rescue Jedi Hosk
Trey’lis. But during Cade's successful escape attempt he kills Talon.

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

DARTH NIHL Lord 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 the
Sith Order.*

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

DARTH MALEVAL Lord of the Sith (132 ABY) He supervised the 908th
stormtrooper 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 Intelligence
and Assassination, Maladi is also an expert in the ways of torture.* She
interrogated/tortured Jedi Hosk Trey’lis to get information on Cade Skywalker.

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DARTH KRUHL Lord of the Sith (132 ABY) Sith assassin who infiltrated
Bastion in a failed attempt to kill deposed Emperor Roan Fel. Kruhl was killed by
Fel, who is an accomplished Knight.

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

* Info from Star Wars: Legacy issue #1.

last updated 3/10/08

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