Darth Imperius (Line of False Time)

==Darth Nox[1] ==

Eye color

 * Red/Yellow (Dark Side)
 * Purple (Force walk)[2]

Era(s)
Old Republic era

Affiliation(s)

 * Sith Order
 * Sith Empire
 * Dark Council
 * Sphere of Ancient Knowledge
 * Reformists
 * Empire's Fury
 * Cult of the Screaming Blade

Masters

 * Harkun (informal)
 * Samus (informal)
 * Darth Zash[3]
 * Aloysius Kallig

Apprentices
[Source]
 * Corrin[4]
 * Kaal[4]
 * Xalek[5]
 * Ashara Zavros[6]
 * "I am the heir of Kallig and Tulak Hord, and Master of the dead."
 * ―Darth Imperius

Darth Imperius, formerly known as Arxyan Ventryx-Kallig, and also by the callsign Rage, was a powerful Dark Lord of the Sith that served the Sith Empire during the Cold War and Galactic War. The heir of ancient Sith Lord Aloysius Kallig, Imperius sought to restore the Kallig bloodline to greatness.

Discovered as a slave of the Sith, the future Darth Imperius started at the bottom of the ladder when the slave was chosen to be trained as an acolyte at the Academy on Korriban. As the future Darth Imperius succeeded in overcoming all of the trials imposed by the academy's masters and instructors, the heir of Kallig rose in the hierarchy, embracing the way of the Sith Inquisitor.

During their rise to power, the future Imperius developed a bitter rivalry with Darth Thanaton, a powerful Dark Lord of the Sith and a member of the Empire's Dark Council. The antagonism between the two Sith was brought to an end when the Inquisitor defeated Thanaton on the very floor of the Council chamber, occupying his seat on the Dark Council, as the Dark Councilor heading the Sphere of Ancient Knowledge.

Later, he became one of most powerful Sith sorcerer, geneticist, magician and "Destroyer of Old Ways". This nickname was common among reformists like Darth Malgus, Darth Serevin and even Darth Marr.

Biography

 * "Now, go. Return to Harkun and nurture your hatred for him, and use your fear of him to grow stronger. He may raise his fist to strike, but it is Lord Zash who will determine where the blow will land."
 * ―Spindrall's advice to the young Acolyte[src]

Arxyan was born and raised on long forgotten Sith slave colony. There he was found. Later in his life, he recruited acolytes from slaves ranks. Most of his early life was on Sith Academy of Korriban and in services of Darth Zash, powerful and ambitious Sith lord finding way to became immortal.

Darth Zash underestimated her apprentice and she was destroyed by Darth Imperius. This collision led to conflict with staunch and extreme traditionalist Darth Thanaton, who in old Sith traditions, wanted to decimate and purge everything from Darth Zash powerbase, include Arxyan.

Lord of the Sith

 * "You are Lord Kallig now. It was once a glorious name, use it well."
 * ―Aloysius Kallig[src]
 * "Behold, the heir of Kallig, slayer of Zash, successor of Tulak Hord, Lord of the Sith. Now, bow!"
 * ―Khem Val announcing the rise of Lord Kallig to Zash's followers[src]

War between Sith lords.
Darth Thanaton traditionalism led to long and bloody conflict between two powerful and ambitious Sith lords. In this conflict, Arxyan doubts about traditionalism was definitly confirmed. Especially when he met with enlighted Sith lord Darth Serevin on Voss and later, when he saw selfdestructive effects of conflict on Battle of Corellia. While it is exaggrated, Arxyan blamed Darth Thanaton for Sith defeat on Corellia.

During his way to destroy Darth Thanaton, Arxyan builded his own powerbase, found many allies among aliens (Xalek, Khem and his wife Ashara), important army commanders (Moffs Pyron, Graham and Dolus, Hoth garrison) and other Sith lords (Darth Achelon, Darth Malgus...). Thanaton fierce in fight against Arxyan helped Arxyan in building massive powerbase which became important core in struggle against traditionalists and conservatives during later period.

Final Confrontation

 * "By order of the Dark Council and in light of your reputation as a master of the dark side, you are now Darth Imperius."
 * ―Darth Marr[src]

Thanaton soon called for a Kaggath on Corellia, an opportunity for one another to silence their foe once and for all. Thanaton put many resources to shutting down Kallig's base of operations and fought the lower-level Sith Lord as much as the Republic defenders. Kallig still managed to get ahead using knowledge and power to avert disaster.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[43460,43984,0,0]}">Thanaton finally challenged Kallig to a duel on Corellia, but when it became apparent that he would lose, Thanaton fled to Korriban to plead to the Dark Council for the former slave's execution. Unfortunately for Thanaton, the Sith Lord interrupted his speech before he could convince anyone. Curious to see why Thanaton was unable to destroy Kallig himself, the Dark Council allowed the two to duel again in front of them.[60] Thanaton submits to his rival.<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[44069,45030,0,0]}">After one last struggle, Kallig proved the stronger Sith and unleashed the power of the Force ghosts to overcome Thanaton's Lightning Storm and bring Thanaton to his knees with the power of the Force. Beaten, Thanaton crawled to his fellow Dark Councilors, seeking their aid, but Darth Mortis reached out with the Force and snapped Thanaton's neck, killing him instantly for breaking the rules of the Kaggath. With Thanaton's seat on the Council now open, Mortis offered his position to the young Sith. Darth Ravage protested, stating that Kallig, as merely a Lord, could not sit on the Dark Council, but Darth Marr silenced his protests, stating that Kallig had earned the right. In light of the reputation earned as a dark side master, Marr bestowed Lord Kallig with the title of Darth Imperius, head of the Sphere of Ancient Knowledge, one of the twelve power-bases of the Sith Empire.

After Thanaton fall.
Arxyan Ventryx-Kallig rised from struggle with Thanaton as Darth Imperius. He was proclaimed as head of the Sphere of Ancient Knowledge, appointed his allies and purged sphere from Thanaton loyalists. However, he never ever used terror against Thanaton allies and loyalists. He gave them chance and despite all expectations, they did not tried to reclaim control over Sphere and rather dispersed among Sith dominions and joined different conflict zones against Republic.

Arxyan, despite his own despise for Thanaton, traditionalists and old ways, never destroyed or purged any texts, documents, books and artifacts which belong to traditionalists and conservative Sith lords of past history. He even punished every radical reformist who tried to destroy these artifacts and enweak role of traditionalists in Sith history.

Until insurgency of Dromund Kaas and murder of Sith Emperor Vitiate, Thanaton spend most of time in deepening cooperation with Imperial Reclamation Service, Imperial Military and reorganization of Sphere, with deeper coordination with Sith Academies. He formed first basic lines of new Sith Training Program and accepted many aliens in to ranks of Sphere.

Shortly before insurgency, Darth Imperius formed secret conspiracy group with reformist lords and imperial moffs. Darth Imperius, Darth Malgus, Darth Serevin, Arkos Rakton, Zasha Ranken and Valion Pyron. They had only one meeting where they agreed that greatest enemies of Sith Empire are traditionalists and agreed on intention to overthrow Vitiate, who they called as "Traitor of Empire".

Before they even started gathering their forces, Dread Lords and their enigmatic Jedi allies striked on Dromund Kaas. Vitiate was killed, Empire fall in chaos and large scale insurgency spread in Kaas City. Darth Imperius called all his allies to defeat insurgents and he helped in suppresing rebellion at Dromund Kaas spaceport and in lower parts of Kaas City. He was not present in liberation of Sith Academy, but he went with his men to Dark Temple of Dromund Kaas, where he met with his ancestor Kallig and other Sith lord spirits. They confirmed that Vitiate was destroyed and that murderers were powerful and dangerous Dread Lords.

During insurgency, Darth Marr knew that he must act swiftly as informal leader of Dark Council and supreme authority, to prevent collapse of Empire. He gathered as many Sith lords, moffs, general and admirals, as he can on Korriban. Darth Imperius was among them and he was witness of shocking situation when young Sith cathar acolyte named Karin, apprentice of Darth Malgus, murdered Darth Acharon. Darth Jadus proclaimed Darth Marr as new Sith Emperor. He called that Vitiate left his Empire and his loyal people to danger, while Darth Marr led Sith Empire in hardest times of Cold War. Darth Acharon disagreed when Darth Marr announced his intentions for large scale reformation of Sith Empire.

After Acharon death, everyone on this gathering agreed with Darth Marr as new supreme ruler Sith Emperor Vadovas. Vadovas transfered large number of agenda, powers, resources and support to Darth Imperius, he named Darth Imperius as Lord Protector of Sith Academies and called Darth Imperius for reformation of Sith Academy programms and training.

After insurgency, Darth Imperius arrived to Sith Citadel in Kaas City where was for first and last time gathered all leaders, most powerful lords and commanders of Sith Empire personally. Later, never ever this meeting was repeated for security reasons. On this meeting, Darth Imperius announced that Force-Spirits of Sith Lords from Dark Temple of Dromund Kaas agreed with help of training of new acolytes. He was also witness of presenting reorganized Dark Council (which had only half of original members) and presenting new imperial "Military-Civilian Government" which will rule parallel with Dark Council.

Personality and traits

 * "This is end of your era."
 * ―Kallig over dead body of Darth Acharon<sup data-parsoid="{"stx":"html"}">[src]

Powers and abilities

 * "From slavery rises the most powerful Sith in generations. Darth Thanaton is right to fear you."
 * ―Darth Decimus to Darth Nox<sup data-parsoid="{"stx":"html"}">[src]

Darth Nox uses Force lightning<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[51532,51958,0,0]}">Darth Nox was able to channel the Force and adapt it in ways that suited a variety of needs, including subduing, stunning or killing of foes. Nox was also an astonishingly proficient user of Force lightning. The young Sith was a proficient lightsaber duelist, utilizing either a standard lightsaber or a double-bladed lightsaber in combat.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[51960,52287,0,0]}">Proof of Darth Nox's power was demonstrated when Khem Val, the former servant of Tulak Hord, became one of Nox's companions despite many powerful Dark Lords avoiding Khem Val while imprisoned in stasis due to the Dashade's Force immunity and record for killing and devouring even some of the most powerful Force-sensitives. Darth Nox performing the Force walk<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[52378,53124,0,0]}">The immediate aspiration for the young, powerful Sith apprentice and eventually Sith Lord was ascension to the Dark Council. Nox's strength in the dark side was enough to completely overpower a Dark Council member of Darth Thanaton's caliber. During their duel with Thanaton, Nox demonstrated the ability to use Force deflection to fend off Force lightning, such as when Nox effortlessly swatted aside Thanaton's lightning attacks. Telekinesis was among the young Sith's talents, such as when Nox threw Thanaton clear across the Dark Council chamber. Nox's telekinesis was also able to halt Darth Thanaton's lightsaber strike and force the experienced Dark Lord to his knees.[60]

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[53126,53939,0,0]}">Darth Nox was immensely proficient in the "innate gift" of Sith Sorcery, particularly the long forgotten Force walk ritual to draw strength from multiple Sith spirits in order to explosively augment their power in the dark side. Their tremendously increased powers through the use of Force Walk was enough to overpower a Sith Lord as strong as Darth Thanaton. As explained by Aloysius Kallig, Nox has a rare "pull among ghosts", enabling them to sense Nox's presence from a distance and invoke long hidden emotions. Nox was also a proficient user of the Force Storm, using it in combat against a variety of enemies and attackers. The young Sith was also capable of using Force drain and used it to drain opponents while invigorating the young Sith and allies.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[53941,54212,0,0]}">Much like The Emperor's Wrath, Darth Nox was extraordinarily strong willed as the young Sith was able to resist the spirits' attempts to drive the Sith Lord mad, the fear-inducing powers of the Dread Masters, and even the dominating abilities of the Sith Emperor himself.