Sora Bulq (Powerstaark)

Sora Bulq was a powerful and respected lightsaber instructor in the Jedi order. Sora was a good friend of Jedi Master Mace Windu and helped Mace develope his deadly Vaapad fighting style. However Sora succumbed to the Dark side near the beginning of the clone wars becoming the leader of Count Dooku's Dark Acolytes and arguably the most deadly as well.

Master of the lightsaber
Sora Bulq was born into a wealthy Weequay merchent family which owned most of Ruul, a moon of the Weequay homeworld, Sriluur, and on which they had their estate. Identified as Force sensitive early in his life Sora was taken in by the Jedi Order to be raised as a Jedi. During he's training Sora was one of the Jedi Temples most promising students and as he rose up through the ranks of the Jedi Order he became exceptonally skilled in lightsaber combat, eventually mastering all lightsaber combat forms except Form VIII and was considered to be one of the most formidable swordsmen in history. Eventually Sora became a Jedi Master and a lightsaber instructor in the Jedi Temple.

Sora trained many young Jedi in his career and was said to have great influence over his students. Sora helped Mace Windu delevope and perfect the deadly Vaapad style of lightsaber combat but unknown to Windu, or indeed any other Jedi, Sora became facinated by the Dark side and though he worked hard to resist it this facination didn't go away.

After the Kiffar Jedi Quinlan Vos regained his memory after a period of amnesia Sora gave him some training in Vaapad though not on an advanced level.

A few months before the Battle of Geonosis Sora Bulq accompanied Jedi Knight Carmen Conrose and her recently promoted Padawan Tom Norton to Ryloth to rescue Orn Free Taa from a terrorist group. On Ryloth Bulq used Vaapad to kill or injure the majority of the terrorists which disturbed Carmen and Tom.

Corruption
Battle of Geonosis

Sora fought in the Battle of Geonosis, destroying a Geonosian cannon in the arena, and cutting down many droids and Geonosians. The powerful Weequay was in the survivors circle in the arena and Dooku offered the surviving Jedi a chance to surrender, which Mace Windu rejected. At that moment, however, the Grand Army of the Republic appeared under Yoda. The new clone army swept into the arena aboard LAAT/i transports and laid waste to the surrounding droids. The Jedi were loaded aboard and evacuated.

The battle was not over, however, and the Jedi turned to engage the Separatist armies outside the arena. Sora never joined the battle, though, as his evacuation gunship was shot down. By pure luck the force of the blast knocked Sora out of the gunship before it exploded but Jedi Master Eeth Koth was not so lucky and perished. Sora fell a long way and though he survived the fall the exhaustion of the battle in the arena and the injuries he'd recieved in the fall caused the Weequay to black out and he didn't recover until several hours later. By then the battle was over.

Mission to Bakura

"Anger is useful...unless it is used against you."

- Count Dooku as he defeats Sora Bulq

After recovering from the fall Sora met up with an old friend of his, Jedi Master Tholme who had returned from sabotaging a droid factory (the same one Anakin Skywalker and Padme Armidalla were captured in). Along with Tholme, Sora went to Bakura to try and capture Count Dooku. There he and Tholme duelled with the Sith Lord who commented on Bulq's use of Vaapad. Though the combined efforts of the two Jedi tired Dooku out, the Sith lord caught Sora off guard with a powerful blast of Force Lightning knocking the Weequay unconscious. Tholme fought valliantly against the Sith lord but with Bulq out of the picture he didn't stand a chance. The Count defeated Tholme, stabbing him in the shoulder and cutting out his left eye before burying him in a pile of rubble. Dooku then telekinetically took Sora out of the room.

Sora woke in a small dark room and Count Dooku came to talk to him trying to pursuade Bulq to join the Separatists. Sora said he'd think about it and the next day he agreed to join the Sith lord. Bulq's first mission was to rescue Tholme and return him to the Jedi Order so that the Jedi wouldn't suspect his corruption. Sora obeyed and rescued the injured Tholme. Tholme managed to contact Jedi Master Oppo Rancisis who sent a clone gunship to pick them up.

After returning Tholme to the Jedi Order Sora returned to Dooku after telling the Jedi Council that he needed time to recover from all the life lost on Geonosis (this was half true as Bulq was genuinely upset by the loss of life on Geonosis). Nobody suspected his turn to the Dark side.