Sakaros family

"Bloodthirsty butchers, every last one of them. Handy in a fight, though."

- Arba the Hutt

The Sakaros family, sometimes referred to as the Sakaros Clan, was a Force-sensitive familial group, comprised largely of Sith blood but also featuring humans and unknown alien species. Ancestors of the family extend back into the Sith Empire, records of which identify the Sakaros clan as warriors and assassins. The first known modern member was Nagarian Sakaros.

First Generation
Nagarian and his wife, Velia, both pureblood Sith, gave birth to three children: Velian, Takariak, and Anticlea, born in 92, 89, and 75 BBY, respectively. The same year of Anticlea's birth, the government of the Sakaros homeworld of Andaria collapsed into civil war. Seventeen-year-old Velian join the Nationalist forces, and one of his first missions was to eliminate the families traitors in local bureaucracy, one of whom was his father (or so the government alleged). Velian did so, executing his parents before being killed himself by his brother Tak. Outraged, Tak took Anticlea and fled to the Rebels.

Four years later, Tak was operating as a commando and demolitions expert for the Rebels and Anticlea was his ward. When his sister was murdered by a Nationalist Guardsman, Tak went mad and killed the man (and forty-two other Guardsmen) with his bare hands. Mere months later, he was recruited to be the apprentice of the Dark Lord Khrado Ragnos. Tak would go on to become a powerful and dangerous Sith Lord in his own right.

Extended Family
Through a ritual of blood brotherhood with Khrado Ragnos, Tak Sakaros inherited his new brother's family. This was irrelevant at the time, as neither knew of any living family, but became crucially important later when Tak discovered a number of his brother's long-lost relatives, including two sisters and the Sithmaster's own daughter, Adrienne Keane.

Adrienne, like her father, was a talented alchemist and a powerful Force-user. However, she was also subject to wanderlust, frequently roaming the galaxy unsupervised, with only her lightsaber and a pair of tuk'ata for protection. She bore a single daughter in 26 ABY, and was put into a coma by a failed experiment's explosion not long after. Her unconscious body came into the protection of her uncle Tak.

The Brothers
"They'll keep each other on their toes, that's for sure. If Khrado doesn't kill the other two first, that is."

- Tak Sakaros

Tak Sakaros was married to a human for nine years, during which he had three sons, Khrado, Marquand, and Tariun. His wife, whose identity has been lost, proved to be unfaithful. Accused of infidelity shortly after Tariun's birth, she confessed and was promptly decapitated by Tak, to the horror of Marquand and the fascination of Khrado.

All three Sith brothers grew to become powerful warriors, though their personalities went in radically different directions. Khrado and Marquand were killed in the Battle of Dorian IV, but Tariun escaped with his father and continued to act as his right hand and most powerful disciple.

Hayden
Sithmaster's elder sister, Valadyn, was a talented geneticist and alchemist like her brother, and shortly before the catastrophe at Dorian IV she asked Tak for a sample of his DNA in case anything should happen to him (since he was one of the last pureblood Sith). What Valadyn didn't tell Tak was that she was actually conducting cloning and reproductive experiments. Using her own DNA as well, she created a child who was also pure Sith. Unfortunately, her husband at the time forced her to abandon the child, and he was taken in by the Jedi.

A decade later, when he discovered his previously unknown, Tak was somewhere between disgust at what he perceived as scientific incest and horror that one of his bloodline was a Jedi. His dismay was further compounded when he discovered that Hayden was not only more powerful with the Force than Tak or Valadyn, but also utterly disinterested in the dark side. It was a situation that would cause innumerable headaches for the Sith Lord in the years to come.

Rin
Strangely, considering that he executed his wife of nine years for cheating on him, Tak began an affair with a married Jedi Master named Ye`keb Auroras whom he was hoping to corrupt to the dark side. Unexpectedly for both, Auroras became pregnant with Tak's child. After dispatching her husband (who was also a Jedi Master) in an intense duel on Naboo, Sakaros took the girl and her mother under his protection. Due to Force-strong blood from both parents, when young Katherine (usually called Rin) was born, her power was astonishing, far more than either Ye`keb or Tak, more even than her late half-brother Khrado.

Due to the blood of her mother's unknown species and her father's pure Sith heritage, both of which are marked by extensive longevity, Rin's aging was slowed even from birth, so at the age of six she was still just a toddler. Even at this age, though, her Force affinity was obvious; she was already manipulating her environment, and discovered how to activate her father's lightsaber, even when he had it locked. More incredibly, in the many seconds it took the terrified Tak and Ye`keb to safely disarm Rin, the girl managed to avoid injurying herself with the blade.

"Third Generation"
"Touch her and die."

- Tak Sakaros, to a bounty hunter, concerning his grandniece

While by 40 ABY neither Tariun Sakaros nor Hayden Ragnos-Sakaros had had any children, and Katherine was still a toddler, Adrienne Keane had had a daughter, whom she named Andromeda. Half-Sith like her cousin Tariun, Andromeda was taken in by her great-uncle Tak when her mother was put into a chemical coma during the failed experiment.

With his son fully trained, after Tak trained his apprentice Lorelai Whitesun to mastery, he took Andromeda as his newest apprentice. The two Sith, while hiding from the forces of Tak's former ally Gav Daragon, trained extensively. Eventually, Tak stepped back from constantly defending his niece from Imperial assassins and let his daughter do so herself.

Family Tree
Nagarian Sakaros--+--Velia Sakaros |                       +--+--+                        Velian     |    Anticlea Sakaros |   Unknown Human Female--+--Takariak Sakaros--+--Ye`keb Millennium |                                   |                          |                                Katherine Sakaros +--++ Khrado Sakaros  Marquand Sakaros   Tariun Sakaros