Darth Arbuss

Darth Arbuss, formerly known as Lashava, was a Togruta female who formerly served the Jedi Order as a Padawan and later became the Sith apprentice to Darth Bane after the destruction of the Neo-Sith Empire during the last Jedi-Sith war at the end of the Old Republic Era.

The girl who would become Darth Arbuss was inducted into the Jedi order as a child. Her training began during the last Jedi-Sith war, the final war in the age-long conflict between the Jedi and the Sith Order. This meant she had much less training than the average Padawan due to the lack of masters available to teach her, which left her with feelings of abandonment, a sentiment shared by many of the other students. When the war ended, Lashava expected to be given proper training when the rest of the Padawans all received masters, however, no such training came as there was a deficit in Jedi after the deadly war. This angered the Togruta and she left the order, seeking her own way. After rumours spread of a Sith Lord surviving the war, she began to seek the Sith out.

In 1027 BBY, after 5 years of searching, Lashava found Darth Bane on a desolate, rocky moon. After proclaiming that she wanted to become her apprentice, Bane initially refused her, however, a Republic and Jedi search party had followed her. She embraced the dark side and defeated all the Republic scouts and Jedi. Impressed with her performance, Bane agreed to train Lashava as the first Sith in his lineage of new Sith and proclaimed her Darth Arbuss.

They went on many travels together in search of ancient knowledge. They visited the planet Malachor to scour the remains of the Great Scourge of Malachor. They visited the planet Arkroyd and the remains of the ruined city Jorrent Prime, the ancient capital of the Empire led by the rogue Sith Vycerant. And they also explored Ithulus, the homeworld of the sisters of the Sith Quadrumvirate, whom Bane had once been subservient to.

In 1009 BBY, Darth Jhorrus, a former member of the Neo-Sith Empire and ally of Bane, returns from hiding to exact his vengeance upon Bane for leaving him to die during the Moraband Cataclysm. In the ensuing duel, Bane was mortally wounded. Before delivering the killing blow, Arbuss impaled Jhorrus through the back. When her mastered ordered her to assist him, she chose the opportunity to kill her master. As he died, Bane was pleased with what he had created in Arbuss. Becoming the new Dark Lord, Arbuss set out in search of a new apprentice.

She found potential in a young Miraluka named Qaas scheduled for execution on Cato Nemoidia. She staged his escape and offered his place as her apprentice. Despite hesitation, Qaas eventually accepted his place at her side, becoming Darth Merlok. Quickly embracing Sith tradition, Merlok would almost regularly try to kill Arbuss but failed every time, as she wanted him to understand how to find her weakness and kill her properly. They both travelled to the Core Worlds attempting to establish secret political power in the senate.

In 998 BBY, Merlok learned the ability of Force Projection and used the power to distract Arbuss before impaling her in the same way she had killed Darth Jhorrus many years before. He took her place as Dark Lord, however, the use of the ability paralysed him from the waist down. This made him use a hover chair for the rest of his life an refused to train another apprentice in fear of his own life, jeopardising the lineage created by Bane and Arbuss.