Nalrik J'tarr

"I am thinking of the future... when the dark times are going to return...I have seen it in my dreams, I can feel it in the air. When the darkness rises the Jedi will fall. Their order was built to collapse into itself like a house of cards... all it needs is a catalyst. This game of cause and effect has been played before, with Revan, and Malak and Palpatine and Krayt and in the end the Jedi come out strong... But this time I am in control of the board... and their time is running out. And wish... I suffer every second of every minute of every hour until that dark day to feel the same thrill as I do every time I kill a one of their miserable, pathetic kind. The thrill I get when I can see the fear of pain and loss in their eyes. And I swear to the Force itself, whenever I see that; the chaos, the horror, and my blood-drenched hands upon releasing their cold dead bodies, I feel more alive than ever before."

- Darth Echo

Darth Echo, born Nalrik J'tarr in 3,578 BBY and renamed in 3,956 BBY, was a ruthless Dark Master of the Sith from 3,956 BBY up until his dissappearance in 1,000 ABY. Vicious, brutal, horrifying, and disturbing were just a few words to describe his actions. His former tendencies to kill in brutal ways came through to his new life and, with his new powers, were enhanced in more ways than one.

Early Life
Nalrik J'tarr was a Trandoshan Jedi four thousand years before the Rise of the Empire. He grew up on Coruscant in the Jedi Temple and was trained under the Jedi Master Veshin Drenak, an Alirar from the edge of the Galaxy. Nalrik always had one goal in life; to go to his homeworld of Trandosha. Seeing as how he was a padawan, he could only leave Coruscant if he were on assignment with his Master or if his master accompanied him. Knowing this, he constantly begged Veshin to take him to his homeworld but the Alirar Master could not allow it, for if he were to step foot on the planet his personal attachment for Trandosha would grow beyond control.

Loss on Dantooine
When Nalrik was a padawan at 20 years of age, Veshin was expelled from the Jedi Order for marrying and fathering a child. Nalrik was furious at this, telling the Councilmen in the Enclave on Dantooine that his master was innocent, but the Council declared otherwise. While Veshin decided to leave the Order without incident, he asked the council one last request; to train Nalrik in the ways of becoming a Jedi Knight. After the meeting, Nalrik and Veshin returned to their shuttle and Veshin boarded it, saying that the council needed Nalrik to stay on Dantooine to complete his training. Unfortunately, Nalrik never saw his master alive again, as while Veshin left Dantooine to return to Coruscant a Sith Vessel disguised as a Mandalorian Mercenary ship destroyed his transport, killing him and four other jedi knights. Over the next year, Nalrik had slowly begun to be trained in the ways of advancement, but the sadness over the loss of his oldest friend hampered his trainings, almost to the point where he was about to leave the Order himself. One year after Veshin's death, however, Nalrik was ready to begin the self-reflection trial... the final trial to becoming a Jedi Knight.

Echoes of the Future
"The final task of the trials is for a Jedi to see the reflection their future. Your fellings of my Death will not hamper you in the next decade, or the next century or millenium. If you put yourself in that situation you will fall to the dark side, and if that happens I am afraid I will not be able to help you..."

- Veshin Drenak

One year after the death of his master, Veshin came to Nalrik in a dream and told him of the future that would happen if he fell to the Dark Side. His fall "would send an echo in he force so powerful that the very resonance of it would be felt by every living being across the galaxy".



Jedi Civil War
"Many Jedi believe that I am unfit to be a Knight, and many other Jedi think I shouldn't even be in the Order...Those Jedi... they have no idea what they are talking about.

Those sad, ignorant little people."

- Nalrik J'tarr's Personal Log

Nalrik fought in the JCW to proclaim justice for his Master's death. However, he realized that as he fought, his combat skills thrived faster than his Jedi Training. In a duel on Rataak, Nalrik faced off against a Human Sith Apprentice named Darth Kabal. The fight lasted an hour, at the end of which Nalrik gave into his dark side tendancies and slain Kabal by using the Force to crush his lungs, then stabbing him through the head and heart with his two lightsabers. In the Battle of Dantooine, Nalrik swiftly moved through burning fields and anihilated groups of Sith Troops without hesitation and without remorse. Near the end of the JCW, Nalrik played a crucial part in a battle on Trandosha, where thousands of Sith troopers invaded his homeworld-- He killed wave after wave of Sith troops without even being hit.

Capture
During the Battle of the Star Forge at the end of the Jedi Civil War, J'tarr was attacked by Sith Troops who boarded his ship, the Legacy Fight. After a short battle J'tarr was incapacitated and captured. Days later he awoke in a small cage in a Kelorian Asteroid medical facility with Sith science officers overlooking him. The officers removed him from the cage and latched him into a table, where they tortured him for months on end. They twisted his mind, brianwashed him, making him blame the Jedi for Veshin Drenak's death. With his mind filled with hatred and vengeance, Nalrik crushed the steel latches holding him to the table and killed the two officers by twisting them in half with the force. J'tarr then left the facility, using his Force training to cause the asteroid to collapse inward into itself, killing hundreds of innocent workers who were there to mine deposits of Jasca crystals.

"I don't care, they were going to die anyway."

- Darth Echo upon learning he killed the Miners in the asteroid.

Rebirth
Nalrik crash-landed near a Sith Academy hidden in the foilage of Kashyyyk's moon Alpha Prime. When the three Grandmasters of the Academy approached him, Nalrik killed them using his powers instantly. He then made his way to the temple and walked inside...

"He was like an echo of twisted sound, moving through the halls killing everything and everyone in the Academy. He made his way past trained Sith Lords and Sith masters, crushing them with the Force and slaughtering younger students with ease..."

- Survivor of the Temple

Nalrik fiercely made his way to the central tower of Exar Kun, absorbing the energy off of it, which caused a unstable shift in the Force. The Academy shook violently and exploded, sending a massive fireball straight into the sky and killing hundreds of innocent Wookiees in a echoing shockwave. When he came out, Nalrik J'tarr was no more.

Darth Echo was born...

Betraying his friend
Ten years after he became Sith, Darth Echo returned to rebuilt Jedi Enclave on Dantooine to find evidence against the Jedi for Veshin's death. When he searched for hours and couldn't find anything, he went into a rage and began attacking the Jedi. He walked through the halls, slicing apart young padawans.

Reappearance
He first reappeared in 3,750 BBY, 250 years after his renaming, when he killed hundreds of Republic troops on the then-unknown world of Geonosis. He killed them so fast and so swift that no one had a chance to report him. Therefore, no one in the galaxy knew he was there. Four days later a Republic transport vessel was sent to Geonosis to investigate... it was never seen again. By that time the Republic had definitely suspected something was up, so they sent an elite group of Jedi Knights equipped with stealth field generators to investigate the deaths. They arrived on Geonosis and set up camp at their landing site, surrounded by motion sensing devices and heavy turrets. One dark night, however, Darth Echo made his way past the sensors and turrets. With his Trandoshan infrared vision, he slowly picked off the cloaked Jedi one-by-one. Only one Jedi managed to escape and reported the attack to the Council. Due to maintaning secrecy to prevent panic and further deaths from derranged bounty hunters searching the galaxy, Darth Echo remained in the shadows.

First Public Appearance
2,000 years after killing the Jedi on Geonosis, Darth Echo appeared on a HoloNet transmission declaring himself a Master of the Sith. The Jedi, seeing him as a very great threat, hunted him down... but to no avail. After a while they decided to write him off as a hoax to prevent panic in the Galaxy. Even after this, however, he was still impossible to catch, more so that the Jedi never even caught glimpses of him. When they neared him, he returned his eye color, his skin color, and his pale face back to the way he looked before he turned to Darkness. He even used an advanced form of the Mind Trick on Jedi, making them believe they never saw anything. Over the next years, Echo became a Sith Assassin, killing people he believed needed to die anyway. It was one of these missions which sealed his fate as a Dark Lord of the Sith...

Redemption
In the year 230 BBY, Darth Echo met a young Trandoshan woman named Kortha Zachrit when he returned to Dosha to assassinate an unwelcome Senator. After he killed the senator he ran out of the building, running into the scared woman. Seeing her as a witness, he almost killed Kortha before he stopped himself, running off into the darkness. A month later, The two met again, only this time Echo was in his Nalrik J'tarr form. The two spoke with each other for hours on end before Darth Echo left. The next day Nalrik came up to her again and the two talked even longer. It wasn't long before the two went out on dates and eventually married. In his first time of happiness in a long, long time, Nalrik J'tarr buried his blood-stained robe and turned away from the Path of Darkness, even giving up his immortality to be with his new wife. Over the next three years, Nalrik and Kortha J'tarr lived on Dosha, even parenting a child named Vosha. Nalrik finally realized that his life was complete, but the good times did not last long.

Return to Darkness
In the year 207 BBY, a Jedi master named Jaxor Dezali learned of Darth Echo's identity. He went to Dosha to destroy the then-redeemed Dark Lord. On one fateful night, Kortha was killed when the Jedi attacked her home, believing the Ex-Sith lord to be alone at his family estate. Without searching the location, four Jedi Knights who were led by Dezali used the Force to crush the area around the building, fatally wounding Kortha. The Jedi left the area without seaching for her body.

Nalrik and Vosha returned to their home to find it destroyed. Nalrik ran into the remains of the building to help his wife but she was too close to death. The moment she died Nalrik felt a familiar sound... the echo in the Force that called to him before. He walked out and looked at his daughter. He told her of his past...

...He told her everything.

Nalrik J'tarr died again that night and Darth Echo was reborn. Vosha joined her father in his bloody quest of hatred and suffering. She named herself Darth Banshee, and trained herself into adapting Force Scream power, a power magnified by Darth Echo's teachings. Darth Echo himself taught his daughter his secret to immortality, a power known as Force Phoenix and told her that she was the first apprentice in his new Order.

Sith Order
Darth Echo and Darth Banshee moved across the galaxy, locating Trandoshan and Kaleesh infants and padawans who were capalble of Corruption. One such being was nether a Jedi or Sith, but a fatally wounded Kaleesh soldier named Helorn Jal Greegen. Darth Echo appeared before the dying Kaleesh and told him in exchange for immortality, the young soldier would have to kill over a hundred Jedi. Helorn agreed and Darth Echo named him Darth Kalas. Over the next two hundred years Darth Echo and Darth Banshee trained nine Sith Apprentices into the ways of the dark side and gave them the secret of Force Phoenix.

Force Powers
Darth Echo's powers were considered to be the morally darkest abilities ever recorded in Galactic history. One such power was known as Force Phoenix, which gave him almost God-like immortality. His favorite powers to use against enemies, however, were Force Crush, Force Storm, Force Destruction, Death Field, and Force Insanity.

Appearances

 * Echo in the Force