Darth Kardis

"I crave the death of the Jedi and the revenge of the Sith."

- Darth Kardis

Gainal'veruk, later known to the wider galaxy as Gain Alveruk - and to a select few as Darth Kardis - was a male who joined the  during the dying centuries of the, first as the  of Darth Iratus and then as the reigning  and  to the. Kardis belonged to the Sith lineage begun by and  following the  almost  and adhered to Bane's, which restricted the Sith's numbers to one master and one apprentice at any given time.

Publicly, Kardis led the life of Gain Alveruk, an esteemed Twi'lek scientist, doctor of medicine and member of the Pantherapeia Project, a huge scientific undertaking with the stated aim to find a cure for every known disease in the galaxy that affected sentient beings.

Ambitious to forward the to overthrow the Republic and destroy the, and determined to live to see the plan realised, Kardis embarked on a years-long mission to create a deadly virus that would target only the Jedi. However, the plan ended in failure. Undaunted, Kardis and Tenebrous created a, which allowed the Jedi to sense the presence of the  for the first time in approximately eight centuries. Eventually, however, Kardis and Tenebrous reached an impasse as to how the Sith plan should proceed, and Tenebrous killed Kardis, as the Rule of Two dictated, taking the mantle of Dark Lord for himself. Tenebrous would later take the  as his apprentice who would, in turn, assume mastery the , also called Darth Sidious, who would see the Grand Plan succeed and reign as  after.

Early Life and Apprenticeship
"You are gifted, young one. And if you swear your life to me I will give you yet more gifts, beyond counting."

- Darth Iratus tempts the young Gainal'veruk into becoming his Sith apprentice

Gainal'veruk, the Twi'lek who would eventually become Darth Kardis, was born on the Twi'lek homeworld of  more than two centuries before the. While young, he exhibited strength in the Force, able to move boulders with the power of his mind alone, and was also possessed of the ability to seemingly read and even control the thoughts and feelings of his peers. After telekinetically strangling a playmate in a dispute over a favourite toy, Gainal'veruk was kept in isolation, away from the company of almost all other beings, save for a gang of mercenaries set to guard him. During this isolation, the youngster's village on Ryloth was visited by a traveller, a Human from, who claimed to have taken an interest in "the young sorcerer". Though he was turned away by the Rodians, the Corellian returned day after day. When the Rodian mercenaries, angered by the Human's persistence, attempted to deal with him violently, the Human killed them all by blasting from his fingertips, before releasing Gainal'veruk from his isolation.