Darth Exolus

"What does the Force tell you? To conquer? To defend? No. It does nothing. It does not make the choice. We, however do."

- Darth Exolus

Darth Exolus, known also by his birthname of Karai Narat, was a prominent member of the near-extinct Sith species long before the Clone Wars. He learned much of the Jedi ways before learning all he wished about the ways of the Sith Order before heading a small faction of Sith, both of the species and few non-Sith some time after the Yuuzhan Vong War.

Early Life
"I can do these... Things. Hear what other people are thinking and convince them to do things. Move big objects by thinking it. Why?"

- A young Karai to his father

Darth Exolus was born as Karai Narat on Korriban, nearly sixty years before the fated Battle of Yavin. He was part of a small pocket of the surviving Sith species, who were rapidly becoming less and less populous over the millenia following the Great Hyperspace War. Like all members of his species, Karai was naturally strong in the Force, showing the ability to influence minds and telekinetically lift even large objects from a very young age.

His parents gave him to the Sorcers of Tund at the age of ninteen for informal training, though the arcane uses of the Force confounded the young Narat to the point where the highest vassals of the Sorcerors ignored him. He would later come across a former Jedi Master, Suun Jool who agreed to teach him about the Force. Though not officially a Jedi, Karai was a most promising student, growing in power with each passing month. Like many things, tranquility was not to last.

Sensing grave danger, Suun and Karai fled Tund narrowly escaping the devestation of the electromagnetic torpedo, unleashed upon the planet. Their luck took a turn for the worse, when the two sought refuge on the forgotten moon of Khar Shian. Upon arrival, they were caught in the crossfire by Alliance and Imperial troops, both fighting over Sith artifacts. Suun was shot in the midsection several times in the crossfire, and was mortally wounded.

Karai took up her lightsaber and defended her until they could flee the beseiged moon. Jool died from her wounds, greatly upsetting Karai. This event would become the crucible for the young Sith's quest for power, much like Anakin Skywalker, to protect the ones he cared about.

The Brotherhood
"The Power you seek shall not be easy to acquire. You may think you know much, but you shouldn't be so sure of yourself. Arrogance is self-destructive."

- Darth Vidia

After cremating Jool's body on Korriban, Karai drifted the Outer Rim for many months, until, perhaps by the will of the Force, arrived on a once-abandoned mining outpost which the spice smuggler he travelled with called Bethrezen. Landing, Karai could sense an enormous amount of power from the station, and soon discovered it to be the headquarters for a marginal Sith Order calling themselves the New Sith Brotherhood. Formally apprenticed to Darth Marda, he trained fiercly, learning how to safely use the power of the Dark Side without the fear of corrupting himself from the Dark Lord Darth Xaos himself.

A New Dark Lord
Finishing his Sith Trials, Karai was christened Darth Exolus, and became a prominent member of the brotherhood, even rising to take command of what few ships they had. In a bold move, the brotherhood decided to attack the Jedi Order on Yaving, resulting in a battle in which the Dark Lord was struck down by Grand Master Skywalker. Darth Vidia then became the Dark Lady in his stead though many in the order were skeptical about this turn of events, none more so than one Sith named Darth Rayden. Allowing an ancient Sith spirit to inhabit his body, he drove a wedge down the Sith Brotherhood, with Exolus siding with him so he might gain the oppertunity to kill him. Succeeding at the cost of his life, Exolus fell into Chaos where he was found by a strange old woman who called herself Kreia.

Kreia explained to Exolus that she was once both a Jedi, and a Sith, betrayed by both, and betrayer in turn. She taught Exolus that in order to survive with the Force, he must never bow down to a singular aspect, that he must "walk the edge of the coin". She then instructed him on how to restore his essence back to his body, and thus communed with his Sith comrades on Bethrezen to clone his body. Returning to life, Exolus cut his ties with the Brotherhood and left Bethrezen for good.

Rekindling an old Empire
"Let us do as we did, before we were doomed to our current fate by the machinations of Naga Sadow. Let us reforge our old Empire, away from the Republic, away from the Jedi, from the Lords of the Sith, and away from the place we once called home."

- Darth Exolus.

Returning to Korriban, Exolus propsed to a small group of like minded Kissai, Massassi and non-Sith that the Sith Empire should be reforged, away from the harsh galaxy at large. Though initally met with some skepticism, nearly three hundred sentients agreed to his proposal, and declared the birth of a new Sith Empire, which many Sith Lords or Jen'ari would govern. They made the home of their new Empire in the satellite galaxy Companion Grek, due to it's highly remote location. The new Sith Empire would stand for nearly two hundred years until Exolus took his first apprentice.

The Proteges
"You want power do you? Then you will have it. But this power comes with a price. You must use it to protect our home, our Empire and it's people from evil intent, and those who would seek to destroy what they do not or do not want to understand."

- Darth Exolus to a young Kaleesh initiate.

After a long and glorious two-century long era known as the New Golden Age of The Sith, Exolus after transfering into his latest clone body took his very first apprentice, a young Kaleesh who would later be known as Darth Kaleval. Kaleval was incidentally his first failure, as the Kaleesh took off into the known galaxy, only to be slain by the One Sith as he attempted to dominate them sometime after 145ABY. It would be three years until he would take another. The Sith Empire eventually elected him as Sith Emperor sometime before Darth Krayt made his rebirth known, in which he took his second apprentice, fellow Sith Darth Dephos. Despite two centuries of prosperity many of the new Empire felt the declaration of Darth Krayt, and began to fear their safety. A dead Sith Lord had come back to life, stronger for it. The new Emperor became increasingly concerned.

Personality and Traits
"A follower of darkness kills for themself. A follower of light kills for anyone but themself. I kill to protect all I have work so hard to build, and will not see it torn down by the very people that enslaved my race long ago."

- Darth Exolus.