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Malachai Darkblade was a Corellian Male who was a Jedi Padawan who chose to disobey the orders of the Jedi High Council and aid the Crimson Knights in its struggle against the invading Mandalorians Geo-Crusaders during the 2nd Mandalorian Wars. Rising to the rank of Jedi Knight during the war, he served with distinction under the command of his fellow crusaders Dosan Kujo and Ryan Moore, and was eventually commissioned as a General in the Crimson Military.

Darkblade played a vital role in defeating the Mandalorians during the latter stages of the conflict, but as a direct result of his controversial actions during the cataclysmic final battle, he effectively cut his connection to the Force. Afterwards, out of all those who went to war, he was the only Jedi to avoid the call of the dark side and return to the Jedi Council to be judged for his crimes. After he was exiled from the Jedi Order, he wandered the periphery of known space for nearly a decade before returning to the Republic during the Dark Wars, at the height of the Ragni Purge.

Caught up in the schemes of various mysterious factions, he was swiftly drawn into the ongoing conflict and became instrumental in engineering the defeat of the Ragni ruled by Darths Underlord, Nosferatus, and Teron. Able to sense the Force once more, Darkblade emerged victorious from his campaign against the Ragni Lords and immediately began a search for the long absent Jedi Dosan Kujo. In the following years, he and the Jedi that he trained during his travels would prove essential to the process of rebuilding the Jedi Order in the wake of its near annihilation at the hands of the Ragni.

Early Life
Details about Ashla Master’s past are scarce, but some events in his history have been established. He was born on a remote planet called Corillia, Malachai Darkblade originally did not know that he was Force-sensitive at all. When Darkblade left his home planet with his, he set out on an old, barely space worthy ship on route to the Core Worlds to seek employment. However, long before he could reach his destination, his ship was struck by an asteroid, causing the ship to become severely disabled beyond his abilities to repair. Darkblade spent several days drifting dead in space during which time his life support systems and rations was close to being exhausted, and there was still no response to the distress signal. It seemed like he would soon meet his death until the sensors picked up a star system not too far away. Their was just enough power to make it there, and did so before crash landing on a dusty planet covered with sand.

The meeting of Master Con-Der Kenobi
Like many Jedi of his day, Darkblade started his training as a Padawan at the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine. In the years prior to the 2nd Mandalorian Wars, he was taken as an informal apprentice by the Jedi Knight Con-Der Kenobi who would often caution the young Jedi to be mindful of her powers, especially her aptitude for severing one's connection to the Force.

The 2nd Mandalorian Wars
When the Mandalorians attacked Crimson space, Malachai Darkblade had overwhelming compassion for the lives lost on the Outer Rim. Inspired by Master Con-Der Kenobi, who had fought in the early skirmishes, he soon joined the ongoing battle, becoming a part of the Jedi Knight Dosan Kujo's forces after being been personally recruited by Ryan Moore himself; leaving a prospective Padawan, Matjo Acar, without a master. Darkblade served as Kujo's most trusted general, second only to Moore, during the 2nd Mandalorian Wars. He would prove his skills in battle and his knowledge of warfare in many of the war's bloodiest battles and campaigns, including the Battle of Dxun. He also attained the rank of Ashla Knight during the war, but no knowledge is known as to how this happened.

Overseeing the final battle at Yinchorr, he gave the order to activate the Mass Shadow Generator when it was clear that the bulk of the Crimson's forces, led by Kujo, would not arrive in time to engage the massed Mandalorian armada. He watched silently from the bridge of his command ship as the generator crushed both the Crimson and Mandalorian forces caught in its destructive wake. The ensuing death and destruction, particularly that of the comrades she had led, and befriended, during the war caused such a substantial wound in the Force that the shock would have killed Darkblade had he not unconsciously, and instinctively, severed his connection to the Force.

Thereafter he was deafened to the Force's call; incapable of sensing it through the interference caused by the Force echoes of the suffering that he had inflicted and been forced to witness. The only Jedi under Dosan Kujo able to turn away from the dark side after Yinchorr, he was also the only Jedi to willingly return to Coruscant and face trial for his actions—and also to defend them. Ryan Moore originally wanted Dosan to use his assassin droid to eliminate Darkblade, but Dosan, who referred to him as a Jedi "who was already dead", wanted Darkblade to face the Council and show them the hypocrisy of their teachings, and so let him leave.

Despite an impassioned plea, the Jedi High Council decreed that because he had followed Dosan Kujo to war, he was to be cast out of the Jedi Order. The Council feared the "wound" in the Force that surrounded him. Some on the Council, most notably the Jedi Master Tyvooka, felt that they were punishing Darkblade not because of what he did, but because he was symbolic of the many Jedi that had fallen to the dark side over the course of history. These Council members felt that she was the perfect opportunity to examine why and how so many Jedi fall to the dark side. But more conservative Council members, such as Master Fray, felt no need to do more than exile the former Jedi, even going so far as to comment that it was as though he were already dead.

Search for the Ashla Order
Malachai Darkblade endeavored to stabilize the political conditions on several planets; On Nar Shaddaa he helped the refugees who were being exploited by the Exchange, destabilizing the criminal syndicate's operations on the moon by killing the crime lord. He also destroyed the crime lord Jabba the Hutt's flagship, the Visionary. Jabba himself went along with Dakblade in hopes of stabilizing the galaxy, though ostensibly in the guise of one of his eyes. He then met with the Jedi Master Tyvooka and convinced him to go to the ruins of the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine. After Darkbldes's exploits on Nar Shaddaa, he discovered that the bounty hunter and scout Ryan Kaja, who joined his party on Nar Shaddaa, was Force-sensitive, and he showed Kaja how to harness the Force.



Back from Exile
Full details of Malachai Darkblade's adventures in the Outer Rim are unknown, but it is known that Aden Fray had orchestrated Darkblade's return to known space. In order to trick the Ragni into revealing themselves, he leaked his return to the galaxy and, predictably, attracted the attention of the Ragni. Darkblade's return to Republic space occurred in 33 BBY, in a time where Dosan Kujo had vanquished Ryan Moore and the last of the Jedi were being hunted down and exterminated. The Negotiator, a Crimson cruiser bound for Onderon, had been ordered by the Crimson admiral Ganner Krieg, a veteran of the 2nd Mandalorian Wars and the Ragni War, to abort the planned trip and head to the Outer Rim instead, in order to pick up Darkblade. He was requested to be given status as a diplomatic passenger and escorted to Telos IV, though it was made clear that he was to be given no special treatment nor to make any indications of his identity.

During the trip to Telos, the ship received a distress call from a low-stock freighter, claiming to be engaged in a firefight with a Ragni warship. When the Negotiator arrived, they found the ship derelict; when the crew boarded the vessel they found it to be empty, save for the battered body of Darth Underlord. The Final Blow a small freighter that once had played a major role in the Ragni War, also seemingly deserted, was picked up as well. In the next few days, crew aboard the ship began to disappear; when Darth Underlord finally awoke, saying that he had come for the Jedi, the stealthed Ragni Assassins revealed themselves and slaughtered the ship's crew en masse.

In the ensuing chaos, it went unnoticed that an protocol unit had drugged Darkblade and sealed him away; as the ship died around them, Raina found him and brought him back to the Final Blow and attempted to flee. Unfortunately they attracted the attention of the now fully-operational warship, which fired on the freighter, damaging it severely and nearly killing both Darkblade and Raina. With the help of the utility droid A1-D1, Darkblade was taken care of and the Final Blow was guided to the nearby Mining Facility.

When Darkblade awoke from his torpor in the mining facility's medlab, he found the inert form of Raina (who, as he later found out, was a mysterious Jedi Master exiled by the Council supposedly because of her many failed apprentices—Kujo especially—and who later guided Darkblade through his journey to find the missing Jedi Masters who had sentenced him). They found the facility to be completely abandoned except for malfunctioning mining droids, who attacked Darkblade on sight. To add to the mystery, Darkblade's Force connection slowly began to return; while searching for a way off the station he found Jaq Rand, a male scoundrel imprisoned within a force cage in the station's brig.

After Darth Underlord and a group of his Ragni Assassins arrived on the Negotiator intending to kill Darkblade, believing he was the last of the Jedi, the three escaped with A1-D1 aboard the Final Blow, traveling to Telos since it was the only available destination in the facility's navigational charts. While being pursued by the Ragni in the asteroid field, laser fire from the hijacked warship ignited the volatile fuel within the asteroids. The resulting explosion destroyed both the facility and the planet itself, though the Final Blow and the Ragni on board the Negotiator were able to escape.

When Darkblade and his crew arrived at the massive Station in orbit around Telos, the Final Blowand A1-D1 were stolen and brought to the Telosian surface while they were held for questioning about the explosion. After a Telosian investigation proved their innocence, they were "asked" to stay on-station until the Crimson's inquiry was complete. Instead, Darkblade allied himself with the Ithorian Force adept Chodo Habat, eventually gathering enough evidence to expose Lana Starkiller, the executive of the outpost on the Station. After gathering the necessary evidence to bring Starkiller down, and after Darkblade saved Habat from mercenaries hired to kill him and his herd, he allowed Darkblade and his companions to use one of their shuttles to reach Telos' surface, where they were shot down by air-defense turret.

A Human engineer name Dave-Urr, who had designed a Shadow Generator and served under Darkblade at Yinchorr, saw the crash and pulled the three unharmed from the wreckage. While on the surface, they learned that the Final Blow had been taken to the old planetary aqueducts in the polar region of the planet. Commandeering a shuttle from an abandoned military compound, Darkblade and his companions traveled to the aqueducts and found Ashla Master Fray there, a former member of the Council that sentenced Darkblade. Fray was attempting to recover lost Ashla teachings and had surrounded herself with several Crimson sisters. These sisters, known as Handmaidens, had vowed not to learn the ways of the Jedi. After a heated debate over what the Jedi should have done during the 2nd Mandalorian wars. With Aden Fray, Darkblade and his party left with the Final Blow and A1-D1.

After leaving the academy, A1-D1 revealed that he had managed to download Fray's database while being held, including a recording of Darkblade's trial and records of where the last five remaining Ashla Masters were hiding: Aden Fray on Telos, Con-Der Kenobi on Onderon, Davion Naberrie on Naboo, Tyvooka on Kashyyyk, and Jonna Rayia on Korriban. Coincidentally, although Raina believed otherwise, these were the same five Jedi on the Council that cast Darkblade out of the Order. The crew went off to these worlds in search of the Jedi in an attempt to unite them against the Ragni and to find the answers as to why Darkblade was sentenced as such.

During his adventures, Darkblade met many beings who would eventually become his companions. He found many of them to be Force-sensitive, and thus he trained them in the Ashla ways. During this time Darth Teron had sent his Ragni apprentice, the Miraluka Toga Dexon, to assassinate Darkblade. However, after a brief lightsaber duel he was able to redeem Toga, accepting her into the ship's crew and retraining her in the ways of a Ashla Sentinel. With Toga gained as an ally, Darkblade knew he could not hide his presence for long, however he also knew that he had an inroad into finding at least one of the Ragni Lords who hunted him. Darkblade also helped Dave-Urr overcome his guilt over the lives lost at the Battle of Yinchorr, and trained him in the ways of a Ashla Guardian.

When two Humans on Nar Shaddaa warned Darkblade about Jaq Rand, saying he was a killer, and not just a soldier, Darkblade asked him about this. Jaq revealed his past as a soldier under the Crimson durng the 2nd Mandalorian Wars, and as a Ragni trooper during the Ragni War, and that he decided to leave the Ragni after he killed a female Jedi, with whom he fell in love with, after Darkblade showed him the Force. After he forgave him for killing that Jedi and welcomed his honesty, Jaq asked Darkblade if he would train him to be a Ashla Knight. Darkblade agreed,  training him as a Ashla Sentinel.

Back from The grave
Before Mal-Mans death it was said that he asked the Jedi to pass his holocron on to a young boy, it was many years later that a old Ben Skywalker had a son and named him Mal-Man Skywalker Mal-Man Nye's holocron was passed on to him and he was to be trained in the Jedi arts young Skywalker learn t how to bring people back from the grave and brought Mal-Man soul back to life though his body.

The Meeting of Matjo Ancar
Mal-Man's ship,s hyperdrive had broking so he had to stop at the nearst planet it was upon this planet he found a Force-Sensative called Matjo Ancar. Matjo was a young 13 year old boy that had been taken from his parents at a young age by the Yuzzhan Vong. Mal-Man sensed of his greatness and told him that he would take Matjo before the Jedi Council and see if he can be trained as a Jedi.

Holocron
Mal-Man’s Holocron was a four-sided -shape Jedi Holocron molded in the shape of the Temple on Ruusan, slightly larger than the Human hand. Recorded by the former Jedi Lord Master, detailing his thoughts on the Jedi and force philosophy, the Holocron contained knowledge of ancient Jedi rituals too powerful for even the strongest Jedi Master to attempt, including the Thought bomb. The Holocron projected a tiny crude image of the Master whose personality that was imprinted on it, wearing dark Brown hooded robes; Mal-Man would share his knowledge with any who was ready.

Following the last days of the battle of Clone Wars, the Holocron was lost within the Temple on Coruscant, a place of great significance to him as it was a stepping stone in founding of the Army Of Jedi and also the place of his redemption.

Ryan Kaja Nye would later rediscover the Holocron. Using the knowledge inside he fashioned the ways of the old Jedi Lord Master.

Lightsaber
Malachai Darkblade's crystal was a naturally-formed crystal that had forged a bond with Darkblade, resonating with him and his relationship with the Force. As a result, the crystal acquired from Darkblade, and had the ability to augment his powers. In the wake of the Ragni War, Malachai Darkblade Darkblade—an exile from the Jedi Order due to his participation in the Clone Wars—found the crystal formation within a Force-sensitive crystal cave located on the Outer Rim world of Dantooine during his search for Ashla Knight Dav Nov Mel. The use of the crystal as a lightsaber focus ensured that the weapon could only be used by Darkblade, as well as enhancing the other components and subsidiary crystals found in the lightsaber.

Midichlorian count
Mal-Man had a recorded midichlorian count of 120,000. This information was discovered when his lost holocron was located.