This doesn't have to come to violence.
"I know it doesn't: but I want it to!
—Vidril Vesal and Jurus, before the latter attacked the Jedi Knight.
Lord Jurus was a Sith Inquisitor active in the Sith Empire from the beginning of the Great Galactic War through to the Cold War. Often working alongside the feared Imperial Intelligence (specifically the Cipher branch), Jurus was feared throughout the galaxy for his role in hunting Republic spies, Jedi operatives and anyone who crossed the Empire on an espionage level. He also became infamous for torturing his subordinates so much that they pledged eternal allegiance to him, a fact that only became known through those few who broke through the Sith Lord's indoctrination.
Born in 56 BTC, 32 years before the Sith Empire's re-emergence and the subsequent Great Galactic War, Jurus, then called Okin Res, was discovered to be Force-sensitive by a Sith Inquisitor named Darth Kolok, who would later take the boy as an apprentice. For a number of different reasons, Jurus was still an apprentice to Kolok at the age of 32, when the Empire and the Galactic Republic went to war (one reason was his demotion following his brutal murder of an Imperial citizen in the streets of Dromund Kaas). A year into the war, Jurus and his Master were sent to the Mirialan homeworld of Mirial to oversee the take-over of the planet, which was sympathetic to the Sith. During the mission, Jurus and Kolok engaged two Jedi Masters camped on the planet to try and delay the invasion. The Masters were defeated by Jurus alone after Kolok was stabbed in the leg. Seeing his Master as weak, Jurus beheaded Kolok while the Jedi were still alive, before he captured the two Jedi and tortured them for weeks, eventually killing one and turning another to the dark side, becoming a Dark Honour Guard.
As time wore on, Jurus grew a name for himself, and soon began a partnership with the equally-dreaded Imperial Intelligence, serving as the Sith representative to Intelligence's leader, ta man code-named Keeper. Within a month, Jurus grew dissatisfied with Keeper, and replaced him, though eventually killed the replacement too. Over the course of nineteen years working with Intelligence, Jurus personally executed fourty-three different Keepers. Just as he warmed to the latest Keeper a year before the War's end, Dark Council member Darth Jadus relieved Jurus of his role, and the Inquisitor was promptly sent back into the galaxy, to help the Sith in finally conquering the Republic.
Just as the Treaty of Coruscant was being signed, signalling a possible armstice, the Empire brutally attacked Coruscant itself while negotiations happened on Alderaan, with Jurus in command of the Cipher Agents of Intelligence who took part in the invasion. Jurus not only killed the Bureau Chief of the Republic's rival to Imperial Intelligence, the Strategic Information Service, but also purged the SIS of a quarter of it's members on Coruscant, before the Treaty was signed and Imperial forces were called to return to Imperial space. The Treaty, while allowing the Republic to live, ruined them economically, politically and tactically, and the Sith claimed victory.
The galaxy entered a state of Cold War, with the Republic and Empire working against each other covertly and politically, though not in open conflict. Because of this, Imperial Intelligence was still highly active, and so Jurus was permitted by Darth Jadus to continue working with the Cipher Agents. However, Jadus, fearing that Jurus' bloodlust would doom many missions, purposely re-assigned Jurus to unimportant and sometimes trivial tasks for seven straight years. It was not until 7 ATC that Jurus finally got his first true mission in years, when the Agent Cipher Three went missing on Tatooine, not long after a Watcher Agent Cipher Three had been friends with, Watcher Four, had fled the Empire to defect to the Republic. Knowing what could be lost should Cipher Three defect, Jadus sent Jurus to find the rogue agent and bring her back to Dromund Kaas.
Jurus, alongside a team of four Imperial commandos, found Cipher Three in the town of Mos Espa, and managed to sedate her for transportation. However, Jurus had learnt from Jadus before the capture that a Jedi Knight named Vidril Vesal and a smuggler named Salovan Vesal (they were half-brothers) had infiltrated Dromund Kaas, and were possibly looking for Cipher Three as well. This prediction was correct, as the Jedi and smuggler faced Jurus and his team in a Mos Espa cantina. After Salovan launched multiple taunts, infuriating the Inquisitor, Jurus attacked, though to his amazement, Vidril showed plenty of skill with his lightsaber, and after Sal dispatched with the commandos with his dual blasters, Vidril brought Jurus to his knees. However, rather than surrender, Jurus instead chose death, stabbing himself with Vidril's blade before any questioning could begin, a shameful end to the enigmatic Sith.
Personality and characteristics[]
A cruel, inciteful and provacative man, Jurus thought himself to be above any law, and did as he pleased wherever and whenever, often resulting in gruesome murders and brutal torture scenes due to his bloodlust. Jurus had a thirst for pain, and found pleasure in causing others extreme pain, all while managing to sustain enormous amounts of pain himself without worry. On the other hand, Jurus was often hard to cope with when outdone or beaten in a certain activity, from a trivial argument to a lightsaber duel, often taking defeat badly and possessing a large, fragile ego.
Jurus was eccentric in clothing, wearing a monstrous Inquisitor armour suit with a tall brace rising above the back of his head and large boots and greaves that put up his height quite a bit, making him appear larger than most other people. His armour colour was purple and red, the colours of the Sith Inquisitor, and he used a double-bladed lightsaber with red crystals, again a trademark for most Inquisitors and a fearsome weapon when used by the Sith Lord.