Darth Taipan

=Darth Taipan=

Darth Taipan, was the Dark Lord of the Sith following the fall of the Sith Triumvirate. He was one of the few survivors and a spawn of the Battle of Malachor V. Darth Taipan was a wound in the force and a threat to the force and every living thing it touched. He was ultimately destroyed by his own power.

Origins
Little is known about Taipan's early life other than he was among the faction of Jedi that defied the Jedi Council and followed Revan to war. Taipan was present at the Battle of Malachor V when the Mass Shadow Generator was activated. The ensuing wound in the force created by the deaths of so many caused Taipan to unconsciously create a force-well that effectively nulled the strength of the force in his localised area. He would later perfect this ability during his travels in the unknown regions.

Jedi Civil War
Following the end of the Madalorian Wars, Taipan joined Revan, the newly self-proclaimed Dark Lord of the Sith in his New Sith Empire. During this time, Taipan's strength in the force grew at a tremendous rate and he began to hone his newly learned force-well technique, using it to diminish his opponent’s connection to the force and overpower them.

Scattered Remnants
With Malak dead and the Sith Empire all but destroyed, Taipan saw his chance for power. Rallying other surviving Sith to him, Taipan, now a Sith Master, formed his own Sith faction with himself as its head.

Taipan's rise to power, however, was short lived, as the many newly-formed Sith factions, remnants of Revan's fallen Sith Empire, fell to infighting, squabbling over what little power remained. Taipan's Sith were quickly swept aside. Taipan realised that a strong leader was needed to reorganise the Sith, though he was not yet powerful enough to assume this role.

First Jedi Purge
When Darth's Traya, Sion and Nihilus formed the Sith Triumvirate, the attention of the remaining Sith was turned from each other and towards the now weakened Jedi order. Taipan returned to malachor V where he began his studies at the Trayus Academy. There, Taipan learned much about the nature of the force and of the dark side. It was his belief that the path to true power lay in the subtler arts of treachery and cunning rather than brute strength. It was here also that he learned of the existance of a greater 'True' Sith Empire beyond the reaches of known space.

Hunt For Revan
Following the exile of Darth Traya and the schism of the the Sith Triumvirate, Taipan felt he had learned all he could from the order. Wanting nothing more to do with their dark crusade against the now almost extinct Jedi and following a rumour as to the whereabouts of Revan, Taipan left known space in his hunt for the one master whose cause he had truely believed in.

Return
Taipan returned to known space some years later to find the Sith Triumvirate in ruins and the Jedi order well on its way to being rebuilt. It is unknown as to his whereabouts during his time beyond the known reaches or whether or not he found any trace of Revan or the True Sith Empire. What is known however, is that he had returned more powerful than ever.

Dark Lord of the Sith
Declaring himself Dark Lord of the Sith, Taipan began searching for any surviving Sith and force sensitives that he might rebuild the Sith order in secret, away from the prying eyes of the Jedi order. He knew that it was essential the Sith remain in hiding until they were again strong enough to retake the galaxy.

Downfall
During his reign as Dark Lord, no other Sith could match his power or hope to defeat him in battle. Taipan's power was so great that it slowly ate away at him both body and soul. Legend has it that one day he simply crumbled to ash and blew away in the wind leaving behind nothing but his empty armour.

Legacy
Taipan never took an apprentice, presumably his power and knowledge he had gained from his travels was too dangerous to be allowed to be imparted onto others. Rather, he ensured the continued survival of the Sith order to whom he taught only as much as was needed.

Personality and Traits
Darth Taipan returned from the unknown regions encased head to toe in armour of alien origin over which he wore black Sith robes. Taipan was both intelligent and wise, believing treachery and cunning to be the true way of the dark side.

Like many Sith, he lusted for greater power and knowledge. Unlike the Sith Triumvirate of his time who cared only for the destruction of the Jedi, Taipan cared deeply for the Sith's continued survival as an organisation.

He was an anomaly amongst the Sith, for he cared little for the destruction of the Jedi order beyond it's impediment of the Sith's conquest of the galaxy. Also uncommon, Taipan did not wish to take an apprentice to whom he could pass on his knowledge. It is likely that Taipan recognised himself to be a wound in the force and the threat his power presented and for this reason did not want to risk imparting that power onto another. This shows an unusual level of care for the force beyond the power it provided, another uncommon trait among Sith. It is for this reason that Taipan could be described as a Grey Sith.