Darth Kaos

"I am Lord Kaos. I served Sidious, duelled Maul and formed a new Sith empire. Now you will die."

- Darth Kaos speaking about himself to Darth Massac


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Darth Kaos, born Gerad Herks on Lehon in 21 BBY during the Clone Wars, was the secret apprentice of Darth Sidious. Kaos' father was a Jedi Knight and fought during the Clone Wars. In 14 BBY Lehon was discovered by Darth Sidious in his quest to find Rakatan technology and rebuild the Star Forge. Sidious took Herks to be his new apprentice and assassin. He performed many missions for Sidious including espionage. assassinations and being a symbol of the Empire's power. After the Battle of Endor, Kaos founded the New Sith Triumvirate along with Darths Evilios and Diabolicus. He outlived both of these and wasn't killed until 137 ABY when Darths Krayt, Talon and Nihl all joined forces to defeat him.

Early Life
Born on the obscure planet of Lehon in 21 BBY, Gerard Herks never saw his father in person. This is because Juron Herks left to fight in the Clone Wars aproximately 5 months after the Battle of Geonosis. Being a Jedi General, Juron was later killed on Saelucami by the clone troopers under his command when Order 66 was issued. When Gerard was seven years old, Darth Sidious and Carnor Jax landed on Lehon searching for traces of the Rakata that would allow the Star Forge to be rebuilt, giving the Empire two symbols of fear. Sidious intended that both the Star Forge and the Death Star be his to control. Herks was playing on the beaches of Lehon when he saw a Star Destroyer fly to the ruined temple. The boy went to investigate. Sidious and Jax both felt the boy's presence long before they saw him. When Herks finally arrived, Sidious also sensed his fear. He used this fear and the boy's thoughts of instantly returning to his mother to bring her to him. Sidious instantly used the Force to wipe her mind and give her the thoughts that she had no son and lived on Korriban. He then did the same to Herks, making him think that his only purpose in life was to do as Sidious instructed. Sidious's first order to Herks was to find something to hide his identity. This was achieved by retrieving some armour worn by soldiers under Revan and Malak. The four of them then left for Korriban.



Training as a Sith
Herks was trained on Coruscant by both Sidious and Jax. While Sidious taught him the philosophies of the Dark Side and force techniques, Jax taught him tactics and lightsaber combat.



Herks was originally shown kindness by Sidious. However, as he grew older, Herks was treated more and more cruelly. In the end hatred was all he knew. When Sidious deemed him ready in 6 BBY Herks's original name was wiped from his memory and replaced by the name of Darth Kaos. When Darth Vader took an apprentice secretly just as Sidious had done, Kaos sensed it before even Sidious did. Kaos informed both of his masters and asked Sidious to let him kill Vader and his apprentice. Sidious refused, telling Kaos to wait until Vader had no further use of his new apprentice. Kaos agreed and instead asked for something to do in the name of the Empire. Sidious sent Kaos to Iridonia to kill a revived Darth Maul. Sidious had deliberately let Maul die and was angered at the Zabrak's return. Kaos immediately went to Iridonia to confront his rival.

First Kills
Upon arrival on Iridonia, Kaos was immediately greeted by a Zabrak welcoming party. Annoyed at how they treated him like a Jedi, Kaos killed every last one of them. Maul sensed the sudden death and followed the echoes in the Force to Kaos. He ignited his new lightsaber and began to duel Kaos. The duel was extreme. Maul using his new single-bladed lightsaber and Kaos using a captured green lightsaber. The duel continued for many hours but eventually Maul was killed for a second time. Kaos was then confronted by five of the Disciples of the Dark Side. Another duel began, in which Kaos received several scars but killed all five of his opponents. After this battle, Kaos returned to the under-construction Death Star to report his success. As a reward for his success on Iridonia, some elite troopers were made to be Kaos's guards. They were named Murder Squad.

Tantive IV
In 0 BBY, two years into the Galactic Civil War Kaos was sent to Tatooine with orders to await the arrival of a Star Destroyer. Kaos did as he was ordered and waited in a small AT-AT Barge. He did not have to look carefully. Within two hours of his arrival, he saw a small Corellian ship being assaulted and pursued by a much larger Imperial Star Destroyer.



When the Corellian ship had been boarded by the 501st Legion in the Star Destroyer accompanied by Darth Vader, Kaos and Murder Squad proceeded to board the craft aswell. They soon discovered by means of torture that the ship was the Tantive IV and was the personal ship of the Organa family, rulers of Alderaan. Kaos then killed the soldier who gave him the information and proceeded to the bridge of the ship. He had to be careful not to let Vader know of his existance so he used the Force to sense where Vader was and avoided him. When Kaos reached the bridge, he piloted the Tantive IV back to Alderaan. Vader, the 501st had already returned to the Death Star to interrogate their prisoner. Upon reaching Alderaan, Kaos and Murder Squad got on an Imperial Shuttle and headed straight back to Coruscant. As they left Alderaan, they saw the huge green beam of the Death Star hit the planet and it exploded. They had escaped very narrowly.

Yavin IV
After learning the location of the Rebel's hidden base on Yavin IV, the Emperor sent Kaos to the system to aid Vader and the rest of the Imperial forces. Carnor Jax was also sent. They lnked up with the Imperial Fleet at the remains of Alderaan and hyperspaced to Yavin IV. The attack on the Rebel base was unprecedented. Kaos, Jax, Murder Squad and some of the 501st landed on the moon while the two fleets fought in space. Kaos found the Massassi Temple and infiltrated it. Inside he found the Rebel generals that weren't aboard battleships above him. Most of them were slaughtered by Kaos and his small army.



Kaos sensed that the Death Star had been destroyed before he was informed. To punish the rebels, Kaos contacted Sidious asking permission to at last reveal himself to Darth Vader. Sidious gave permission on the terms that Kaos would help Vader until either Kaos or Vader was killed. Kaos spoke to Vader giving the false name of Treka Horok. Vader agreed to his idea of massacaring the rebellion's forces and landed on Yavin IV with the survivors of the battle overhead. They stormed into a ceremony being held in one of the temples and slaughtered almost everyone inside. The only people to escape were Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO. For his success on Yavin IV, Kaos was given a Super Star Destroyer, smaller than the Eclipse and easily the rival of the Executor. He named it the Sith'ari.



Hoth
Three years after Yavin IV, Kaos was once again sent to do the Emperor's bidding. By this time, Sidious had allowed Kaos to talk freely to Vader and told Kaos that his primary use to Sidious was no longer to kill Vader. The polar planet of Hoth was the target of the next Imperial campaign. The Empire's best were all sent to the planet to deal with the rebels there. Vader, Kaos, Jax, Murder Squad, the 501st and Maximillian Veers were all part of the ground forces at Hoth. Although Veers and Vader were the commanders of the Imperials in the battle, Kaos and Jax were given control of a large contingent of the Imperial Army and fleet, including the AT-AT unit. Kaos ordered his forces to bombard ethe shield generator defending Echo Base. This was accomplished and Kaos, Jax, Vader and the 501st then stormed the rebel stronghold and began slaughtering everyone inside. Only a few rebels escaped. Sidious gave orders that some of the rebels be allowed to escape and spread the message about the Empire's victory to their comrades. However, there were special orders for the two Sith Apprentices. While the Executor searched for the Millenium Falcon, the Sith'ari would attempt to find remnants of the Star Forge. As Kaos knew Lehon well, he was eager to accept this mission.

Star Forges
Kaos immediately flew back to his home planet to recover the holocron of Darth Revan from the ruined Temple of the Ancients. When he finally found the place, he entered with only Carnor Jax. Murder Squad was left to stand guard as only Force-sensetives could enter the temple.



Once inside the Temple, the two mn could feel the strong presence of the ancient holocron and only needed to follow the currents of the Dark Side to find it. The start of the holocron contained information on the long-lost Trayus Academy on the dark planet of Malachor V. However, the middle section contained information on the Star Forge and the ancient Rakatan Empire that had flourished before even the Old Republic. The Star Forge was a battle station and factory rolled into one. Kaos began to think that the Star Forge could be better used in his hands to defeat Sidious and rule the Empire himself, with a new apprentice. However, he did not follow through with these plans. He instead brought the holocron back to Sidious, who used Revan's information to rebuild the Star Forge five times in different places of the Empire. The first Star Forge was built over Coruscant to defend the Imperial Palace. The second was built over Naboo to keep Sidious's own people under control. The third was built over Tatooine to protect Vader's homeworld. The fourth was built over Korriban as a symbol of continued Sith influence over the planet. The final Star Forge was built over Dathomir, as the massive amounts of Dark Side energy when the Star Forge became combined wth the power of the Dathomiri witches would keep Kaos, Vader and Sidious powerful for many years. The same was also achieved at Korriban through the mixing of the Star Forge and the ancient Sith Lords.

Cloud City and Dagobah
After the Satar Forges' constructions had begun, Kaos flew to Cloud City to aid Vader in his mission there. When Kaos arrived, it turned out that the crew of the Millenium Falcon had already been captured, expect one. Luke Skywalker had not been with the Millenium Falcon after Hoth. Kaos sensed that Skywalker was on Dagobah and would soon fall into the trap Vader had set for him. Kaos travelled to Dagobah to find out why Skywalker had been there. Kaos sensed someone incredibly strong in the Force and found Jedi Master Yoda living alone in a small hut. Kaos decided not to kill him straight away, but to make him ill. At 900 years of age, Yoda's immune system was not what it once was and he began to die slowly. Kaos then left Dagobah, taking with him Yoda's walking stick as proof that the master had survived his duel with Sidious in 19 BBY. Kaos followed Skywalker back to Cloud City and lured him into the Carbon Freezing Chamber. Once there, Skywalker encountered Vader and duelled him. Using this as a distraction, Kaos snook to Skywalker's X-wing and took the Death Star plans that had been stolen three and a half years before. He then took the plans back to Coruscant to show Sidious the weakness of the first Death Star.

A New Death Star
Sidious decided to build a second Death Star, which would not have the weakness of the last one. Kaos oversaw the construction of this new Death Star.



Darth Vader visited the under-construction Death Star to check its progress and Sidious came later on to give Vader and Kaos a mission. Jabba the Hutt was dead and Boba Fett was missing. The rebellion now had almost complete control of the Outer Rim space lanes. This would allow them to attack the Death Star's shield generator on Endor. Vader was sent to the Imperial base on the ground while Kaos would patrol the space around the moon in the Sith'ari along with a large number of smaller ships.

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The Death Star, the Executor and the rest of the Imperial Fleet would arrive later. The two Sith Lords left for the forest moon in the Sith'ari.

Endor
The two Sith Lords arrived at Endor and did as they had been instructed and awaited Sidious's arrival. The arrival of the Dark Lord was heralded by the immense sound of many thousands of ships and the Death Star coming out of hyperspace. Both Kaos and Vader went to the Death Star to greet Sidious. Vader then went to the Executor and Kaos returned to the Sith'ari. When a small imperial shuttle arrived in the midst of the massive Imperial Fleet, Kaos sensed the deception and informed the Executor via holo-link. He also advised that they let the shuttle go to the forest moon so as not to look suspiscous. Vader heeded his advice and cleared the transport. Kaos then returned to the Death Star to inform Sidious that a small band of rebels had been allowed to land on the moon. Sidious approved of this and told Kaos to activate his portion of the fleet's cloaking devices. Kaos obeyed and thus fooled the rebel fleet into thinking that only a small amount of Imperial ships were guarding the moon. When the rebel fleet left Sullust and arrived at Endor, Kaos let them head for the Death Star. His plan was to come up behind them and crush the rebel fleet between Sidious's fleet and his. This was exactly what he did. Commanding half of the fleet from the Sith'ari, he almost succeeded in destroying the rebels. He sent Murder squad in TIE Defenders into the battle and they destoyed many rebel one-man craft. Kaos sensed when Vader killed Sidious and when Vader himself died. At that moment, he recalled his forces and retreated to Dathomir.

The New Sith Triumvirate
After Endor, Kaos let the New Republic form. He, Jax and what was left of their fleet patrolled the Outer Rim Terriotries. In 15 ABY, Kaos found the holocron of Darth Slaughtus, the apprentice of Darth Bandon, who had himself been the apprentice of Darth Malak. Slaughtus had recorded information on the Rule of Three, where three Sith Lords ruled as equals. Kaos thought this a good system as it related to what had taken place after Yavin IV fifteen years earlier. He, Vader and Sidious had all been Sith Lords. Kaos then scoured the Outer Rim looking for potential Sith Lords. The first was found in the person of Kurik Lonn.

Kurik Lonn
Lonn was found on the planet of Tatooine living in Anchorhead. Every day he looked up and saw Sidious's Star Forge orbiting the planet. Kaos touched down in Anchorhead aboard a New Republic shuttle so as not to draw attention to himself. He did, as he had done many times before, follow the currents in the Force until he found Lonn engaged in a small scuffle outside a cantina. Kaos, not wanting any damage to be caused to his aspiring find prematurely, ignited his lightsaber and swiftly killed the rodian Lonn was fighting with. Kaos then used the Force to make everyone around forget everything and he lifted the rodian's body over the city walls and into the Dune Sea. Lonn and Kaos then flew back to the Sith'ari orbiting Geonosis. On board the Super Star Destroyer, Lonn was informed of his force-sensitivity. After being shown proof and being convinced to follow the Dark Side of the Force, he knelt before Kaos and swore fealty to him and his teachings. Lonn's name was then replaced with a Sith name, Darth Evilios.



Roan Korm
The third leader of the Triumvirate was found on the Dark Side planet of Dathomir. Roan Korm was already well aware of his Force-sensitivity after having lived with the Nightsisters for twenty years. When Kaos and Evilios arrived, they were met by the Nightsisters who sensed that the Dark Side was strong in them. They let them see Korm. When Kaos and Evilios entered Korm's presence, he immediately tried to electrocute both of them. However, the two Sith Lords had expected it and had drawn their sabers to block the lightning. Korm stopped his attempt to kill the two Sith Lords. Kaos said that he believed Korm to be a worthy Sith Lord and requested he join Kaos and Evilios. Korm accepted and walked out with Kaos and Evilios. The Nightsisters considered this a betrayal and immediately fell upon the three Sith Lords. Kaos, Evilios and Korm fought against hundreds of Nightsisters and their rancors. However, the Sith Lords prevailed and left for the Sith'ari, now orbiting Dantooine. Upon returning to the Sith'ari, the three men immediately headed for the bridge. There, Korm was made a Sith Lord. Darth Diabolicus had been born.

Darth Massac
Darth Kaos had created the New Sith Triumvirate and revived the Rule of Three. But there was still something pressing him. He had felt a large number of disturbances in the Force. Evilios and Diabolicus had sensed them too and they followed them to their source. It turned out that a rival Sith Lord, Darth Massac and his apprentice, Darth Malevola had been killing force-sensitives across the Galaxy. Darth Massac was a firm believer in the Rule of Two and so despised the New Triumvirate for allowing the Rule of Three to be revived.

Darth Massac threatened Kaos with war if he did not kill himself. Kaos refused and in so doing plunged the Sith into Civil War. The followers of the Rule of Three and the followers of the Rule of Two. The war lasted for three years and claimed many lives. Darth Malevola was one of the many casualties, killed by Darth Evilios in a duel on Rhen Var. Kaos's Commander in Chief, Ignatius Herrts was killed in the Battle of Felucia by Darth Massac himself.

The war's end came when Kaos and Massac met on Dantooine and duelled each other. After a long and hard duel in which both men earned many scars, Kaos killed Massac with a single stab through the chest.