Darth Verraeter

Crisan Kenobi Solo or Darth Verraeter was a male human/Chalactan and a former Jedi Knight. He became a Sith Lord after having a disagreement with his Master and formed a new cult named Der Hintergedanke.

An heir to the Kenobi Solo name, he proved to be the only one known who fell to the dark side, besides Destrum Kenobi Solo. His actions would prevent future Kenobi Solos from choosing his path.

Early Life
Crisan was born on Ossus in the year 1,100 ABY to two Jedi, one a human and the other a Chalactan. At the age of five, he was taken away to be apprenticed by the Mhingxin Jaorl Okim. He was a quick student and learned to use lightsabers very efficiently, and was taught the basics of Form X, because he wanted to continue the trend of all Kenobi Solo's taking on the form of their ancestor.

Unfortunately, Crisan's parents would die facing off a rogue Mandalorian group headed by the newest man to claim to be the rightful Mandalore Luroin Vevlin. This was kept away from him at first by his Master, and when he eventually found out, it weakened the bond they had towards each other.

Corellian Troubles
His relationship with his Master would be threatened again, after he had been apprenticed to him for eight years, when a dissident group of Jedi had founded their breakaway Sith group, a popular trend in the Darkness era. Jaorl was assigned by the Council to establish communications and negotiate the release of the planet Corellia.

With a major Core world out of their control, the Republic was desperate. They were spread out more than they could sustain as was, and they couldn't possibly send even a small taskforce to Corellia. On the opposing side, the Jedi had even less to work with, but they were bound by the new laws to help the Republic before their interests. So the two embarked on the Mission to Corellia.

Crisan and Jaorl proceeded to Corellia discreetly and managed to find that the dissidents had their headquarters in Coronet, and the general population was for their takeover! Crisan was ordered to await Jaorl's signal to attack and stay at their landspeeder until then.

The spirit, stubborness, and recklessness of the Kenobi Solos, unfortunately, was very powerful in young Crisan and he disobeyed his Master as soon as he was out of sight. If the Sith were there, he wanted to kill at least one of them. The Jedi would proclaim his name among the greatest of Jedi in later history for his actions that day, or at least that's what he wanted to think.

Sneaking into the new palace constructed for the Sith, Crisan made his way to finding a Sith to kill. He was met by a Shownarri/human female, who revealed herself as a Sith. Crisan ignited his lightsaber and attacked, but he was hopelessly outmatched by their more mature and better trained Sith.

Instead of killing the brash apprentice, the Sith began to talk of how Crisan should join them. She felt Crisan's anger and knew of his lineage. Crisan asked for a name and she gave it to him, her name was Leeah Raklec and she was the daughter of an important Jedi, just like him. Her father was Riol Raklec, the man responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents in a biological attack on Ruul a couple of years ago.

Horrified, and yet, at the same time curious, Crisan asked what was so bad about the Sith. She replied that the only drawback was having people like him come after them for wanting to tak away their rightful places as leaders of the Galaxy.

Further conversation was disrupted by his Master falling through the window and crashing through another leading straight down into the streets below. He was about to rush to help him, but Leeah stopped him and asked him to consider what she had said. He did, and went through his family's history, starting at the beginning. In it all, he found none of the Kenobis turning to the dark side, yet their lives could have been better, in his opinion, if they had succumbed. If that were the case, then maybe his parent's could be alive.

He was going to say that he had agreed to join them, but he was stopped by some outside force, pardon the pun. The outside force turned out to be a Force ghost, but not one he had been expecting.

"Hello, Crisan. My name is Jacen Kenobi Solo, I am a descendant of yours from times past. Normally my father would be here to mess with you, but we were able to deter him for the moment. The choice you are about to make is one of hardest ones ever faced by a Jedi Knight. I urge you to reconsider your answer."

- Jacen

"But why? What has being a Jedi ever done to help us at all? We shouldn't be listening to their stupid, serene answers to life. I for one am turning our family name around to the way it was supposed to be."

- Crisan

"What if it is already the way it's supposed to b&mdash;Oh, what now? Oh, no, not him again."

- Jacen

Bewildered, Crisan looked around to find who Jacen was talking about. He found the source when he saw the ghost of another Jedi from the past: Nathaniel Kenobi Solo.

"Well, what are you waiting for, Crisan? Join the Sith and prosper."

- Nathan

"Do what?!? What? Huh?"

- Jacen, Crisan, and Leeah

"You heard me, Crisan. Join the dark side, restore our lost honor. I'd suggest the man that killed your parents first. But what do I know? I'm a kriffin' Force ghost. Probably should be doing something better. Later. Come on Jacen, let's talk about this privately."

- Nathan

"Indeed we will, father."

- Jacen

Astounded, neither Crisan, nor Leeah spoke for the next minute. In the confusion, Jaorl had been able to find his way back into the building.

Seeing his padawan, he grew angry and demanded an explanation. Crisan replied that his Master was good for only one thing: being the first Jedi he killed. Before Jaorl could react, Crisan flung him out the window he had just left with a combination of force lightning and push. He turned to Leeah and said that he wanted to meet with her Masters, he wanted to make it official: a Kenobi Solo was to become a Sith.

With great jubilation, he was received by the Masters, which, to his disappointment, turned out to be a scruffy-looking vagabonds with very little training. The fact they had been able to knock Jaorl out of the building had been pure luck. They were tired from the battle and some could stand only with support from the Force.

Appaled that this was the best the Sith could offer, he ignited his lightsaber and cut down the weakest members of the motley crew. The rest he ordered to follow him. They were mostly the younger, more malleable students their former teachers had taken with false hopes and plans for domination.

"Say farewell to the old ways, my new friends. For they are a hinderance to our true goals. We are too few in number to even combat the weakened Republic. Follow me and I promise we shall rule this Galaxy!"

- Crisan

One of the more bold apprentices, a male Belovian named Su Triaxalike, stepped forward and asked a question.

"And how are you to be different than our Masters? Surely you cannot be that much stronger than them."

- Su

"Spirit, good, you will make an excellent apprentice. To answer your questions: the only information you will really need to know will be this: I am the last descendant of the Kenobi Solos! As to my name, you shall refer to me as Verraeter, for I am a turncoat to the ideals of my ancestors."

- Verraeter

The apprentices were amazed at the news of his lineage and none failed to heed his call from that day forward. He named Su his apprentice and Leeah his second-in-command. He had a plan for dealing with the Jedi, but it would take years of patience on their part, an attribute not usually contributed to Sith.

Unfortunately, Jaorl had survived his latest fall and, angry at his padawan, refused to go back for him and instead left for Ossus to deliver the news. He and the Order awaited his return to the Galaxy as a self-proclaimed Sith Lord, but that day never arrived. Most Jedi forgot about it and focused on other issues, but Jaorl remained stubborn, knowing his apprentice would show up. How right he was, for Verraetor did reappear, but in the most unexpected way of all: as leader of a cult, even though no one knew it was him at the time.

How Do You Skin A Mando?
The years in-between the rise of Der Hintergedanke and Verraeter are mainly shrouded in secrecy. What historians do know is that he made a rare public appearance on Mandalore that was documented only by one woman: a Maltorran Jedi Knight by the name of Trini Fuox. Leeah and Su were able to stop her before she could give her account to the Jedi.

In the years since he had killed Verraeter's parents, Luroin Vevlin had become the newest Mandalore of the Mandalorians. Despite his small stature, he was a formidible warrior and was about to threaten the Republic with his newfound might. The Jedi Council had dispatched a young Knight named Trini Foux&mdash;who was unusually gifted in the art of diplomacy&mdash;to see if they could get the new Mandalorians to ally with the weakened Republic.

The mission was a failure from the start, her ship was shot down as soon as she entered the system and he was captured. Unexpected "help" came in the form of a dark, strong, yet young man who changed Trini's life forever. The man had a group of friends who busted Trini out of prison. She was told that they were there to kill the newest Mandalore, who would cause problems for the Republic in the future. They needed her help to take him down with a minimum of casualties. In truth, they were actually just using the Knight to see if she would be capable of joining their organization.

Trini agreed and found that the newest Mandalore was a bit of a womanizer and slipped into his harem to await her "turn". She waited a week and eventually was invited into his quarters for the night. As soon as she did, however, she locked the doors and asked him to reconsider his position on the Republic. He laughed at her and instead called security in there and captured her again.

Luckily, and unluckily for Trini, Verraeter had decided to quit waiting and entered the man's chambers, lightsabers blazing. He demanded he fight him for the right to be Mandalore. Luroin chuckled and agreed, on the condition they fight it out as true Mandalorians. He asked Verraeter his name and he replied:

"My name is Crisan Kenobi Solo. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

- Verraeter

Luroin began to laugh uncontrollably and eventually spoke:

"So the petty wannabe Jedi is here to avenge his parents? Cute, you'd better start praying, brat."

- Luroin

Verraeter threw him backwards with Luroin's own bed.

"Never assosciate me with the Jedi ever again. Now, I believe we will be starting an honorable fight. I am ready."

- Verraeter

Luroin stood up and unsheathed his vibrosword, as Verraeter was handed another from one of the Mandalorian security guards. The two men then fell upon each other with such a rage it sent the spectators flying out of the room and into the valley below.

Most were able to safely land on Mandalorian Iiki plants and survived, others weren't so lucky. Leeah, Su, and Trini had all survived the fall, but Trini had run away from them as soon as possible. She knew that she had been doublecrossed and wanted to tell her superiors about the return of Crisan. Unfortunately, the fall had almost sprained her ankle, and she was hobbling to a suitable ship when Leeah and Su caught up with her.

Verraeter had been able to get a swipe at one of Luroin's veins on his hand and the man was bleeding terribly. Verraeter stood back, watching with glee at the man who had killed his parents. He asked for the man's lieutenant to step forward. (The Mandalorians who had fell in the fight had obtained jetpacks and returned to the site. Among them was Luroin's Kerestian lieutenant Gotah Miillk.) With Luroin slowly dying in the corner&mdash;preserved by Verraeter only so that he could view him die as horribly as Verraeter's parents had&mdash;Verraeter pronounced Gotah the new Mandalore and the leader of his soon to be formed army. The Mandalorians would take the agenda of their new leaders and hide for the next couple of years, awaiting the day for glorious battle and the fight for lost honor.

Trini had been killed in the fight against Leeah and Su, but not before recording what had happened into a random datapad. Luckily for historians, this was the datapad of Bablek Roain, a male Shaliz'Na and a friend of the Kenobi Solo family. He had been sent to Mandalore under specific orders from someone known and told to leave his datapad in a specific spot for a day. He had returned the next day to find the message, along with a new one: don't tell anyone until the time comes.

As it was later found out, agents of Nathaniel Kenobi Solo, known as the Avenger's Knights, had acted under his orders to tell the man to do as he did. The reasoning behind this was very vague, but it is said that this, and many other acts by Verraeter are what caused his descendants to forsake his view of the Force.

It was also known that during this period of time, he began a romantic relationship with his second-in-command, Leeah. Eventually, the two married in a private ceremony on Corellia, the Der Hintergedanke's headquarters.

The Cult
Besides the attack on Mandalore, Verraeter's history until he turned up in Nar Shaddaa with over two hundred billion converts is a mystery. His cult was growing by the day and the Jedi were beginning to investigate the cult, based on the suggestions of Jaorl, who suspected that his old padawan had returned as the leader of the cult.

The Order knew that it had started under humble conditions on the isolated world of Aaris III, where they gained willing converts in the Aaris. They soon went to the rest of the Kathol Sector under their control. (Corellia was still under their control, but the major players involved were trying to spread their religion to the Outer Rim, where the weak-minded were abundant.) The Elrood Sector was soon to follow, with the cult eventually expanding to Hutt space. It was there that rumors of Verraeter's existence were circulated.

Gotah's Mandalorian forces and the newly-formed Hintergedanke Crusaders were training in the Outer Rim for the coming war between them and the Republic and, in so doing, eradicated the peaceful Ruhig of Ruh in a fleet exercise. Reports of the attack were kept secret, and, due to their isolated existence, no one would challenge that.

Behind the Scenes
Verraeter is German for turncoat.

The quote he uses when he first meets Luroin is a variation of Inigo Montoya's quote against the Count Tyrone Rugen in the movie Princess Bride.