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Birth
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1460 BTC
5113 BBY | |||
Death
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3630 BBY (final death)
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Status
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Deceased
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Homeworld(s)
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Medriaas (now known as Nathema)
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Species
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Sith Pureblood-Human mix
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Gender
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Male
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Skin color(s)
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Pale White
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Hair color(s)
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None
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Eye color(s)
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Black
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Level(s)
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50
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Health
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24350
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Elite
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Location(s)
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Imperial Citadel
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Voiced by
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Doug Bradley
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Faction(s)
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Sith Empire
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- "A past shrouded in secrets. A future clouded by uncertainty. It was believed that the once-and-former Sith Emperor sought to consume all life in the galaxy to grant him the dark power required to attain immortality... but is that still the case? Was it ever? Did he actually have another plan all along?
The man now called Vitiate by those who once served him was not strong enough to usurp all life on Yavin 4 after his reawakening. However, he did gain power enough to flee the jungle moon and survive. Now that he has found in Ziost a suitable target to replenish himself--now that he appears to grow more powerful by the hour--what now? When will his unforgiving depletion of Ziost end? And when it does end, what fate will befall the rest of the galaxy?" - ―In-game Codex (Persons of Note)
Tenebrae, also known as Vitiate, the Sith Emperor and Valkorion, was the Dark Lord of the Sith and the ruler of the Sith Empire. He declared himself as the new Sith Emperor and ruled over the Sith after the Great Hyperspace War. Since his arrival on Dromund Kaas, the Emperor isolated himself from his people and started on his lifelong quest to destroy the entire galaxy and obtain eternal life.
Tenebrae was born during the Golden Age of the Sith, prior to the outbreak of the Great Hyperspace War. He was born on the planet Nathema, one of the fringe worlds of the first Sith Empire. His family were simple farmers who had no connection to the Force. However, when Tenebrae grew older, he started to develop a connection with the Dark Side of the Force and his powers grew significantly. When his father found out about his powers, he started to question his wife and abused her for answers. Tenebrae's mother told them that Tenebrae was related to Dramath, the ruler of Medriaas. Tenebrae was so angry that he killed his father for abusing his mother and battered his mother for months until she died at his hands. After murdering his family, he forced the other villagers to bow down to him. When Dramath became aware of the existence of his son, he payed him a visit and asked him to bow down before him. Tenebrae refused and appeared to be stronger than his biological father and killed him in a duel. After the death of Dramath he became the ruler of Medriaas and managed to impress Dark Lord Marka Ragnos, ruler of the Sith Empire, at the age of thirteen. Marka Ragnos then recognized him as the ruler of Medriaas and renamed him as Lord Vitiate.
After Marka Ragnos died, and the Sith Empire lost the Great Hyperspace War against the Galactic Republic, Lord Vitiate called all living Sith Lords to his world to perform a ritual to wipe out the Republic. However, the ritual was a scam to grant eternal life and he single-handedly wiped out every living thing on the planet, including the Force. After the ritual he lead the surviving Sith into space, fleeing from the Republic and hoping to find a proper planet. After several years floating in space they found Dromund Kaas. Lord Vitiate declared himself as Sith Emperor and promised his people vengeance. Several hundred years passed by and the Sith Empire had become a prominent empire. Around 303 BTC a few Dark Council members started to plot against him, knowing his goal to destroy the Galaxy. When Revan was secretly captured by Darth Nyriss and Lord Scourge, and Meetra Surik managed to contact Scourge, Lord Scourge plotted a move against the Emperor, by letting the Emperor wipe out the entire Dark Council so Scourge could free Revan from his prison.
After his release Revan confronted the Emperor but was defeated after Scourge betrayed them. The Emperor then granted Scourge enteral life and named him as the Emperor's Wrath. Revan was captured and imprisoned in the Maelstrom Prison, his thoughts linked to the Emperor's, hoping he could scatter information about the Republic's defenses. Unknown to the Emperor, Revan also managed to manipulate the him, delaying the war as much as possible.
About three hundred years later the Emperor found his armada ready for war against the Republic, and so the Great Galactic War began. After 28 years the Sith Empire managed to win the war, but the Republic wasn't defeated. A peace treaty was settled between the two factions and the Emperor became the ruler of half the Galaxy. During the Cold War, the Emperor was attacked at his Emperor's Fortress|fortress but managed to defeat the strike team and brainwashed them as his pawns. One Jedi Knight managed to break free from the Emperor's will and allied with Scourge to take down the Emperor. Eventually, they followed the Emperor to the Dark Temple and defeated the Emperor, destroying his body. Later, however, an Emperor's Hand member confirmed the Emperor was still alive.
Biography[]
Becoming the ruler of Medriaas[]
- "Have you ever heard tales of the Emperor's childhood?"
"I don't even know what planet he's from."
"Few people do. He's hidden his past, because if the truth came to light none would follow him." - ―Darth Nyriss and Scourge
According to stories circulating among the Dark Council, Tenebrae was born in the decades before the Great Hyperspace War on Medriass, a fertile and vibrant agricultural world on the far fringes of the Sith Empire. He was born to a family of simple farmers, and it was said that he was born with eyes as black as the void of space. He never cried, even as an infant, no animal would come near him, and when he spoke, his voice carried a power and weight that a child should not have. When he was six years old, he began manifesting signs of being strong in the Force. However, as his parents were not Force sensitive, his father was suspicious about the boy's true parentage.
He confronted his wife, who admitted to adultery with the Sith Lord who ruled the planet. The farmer became enraged over his wife's unfaithfulness and attacked her. Tenebrae fed on the father's anger and hate to call upon the dark side, and telekinetically broke his neck with a mere thought. He then tortured his mother for months with the Force for having betrayed their family, eventually killing her. Afterwards, he forced the other villagers to bow down to him, torturing and killing those who refused the dark side.
For the next few years, his influence and reputation spread throughout the neighboring villages, and he raised legions of followers, some frightened into obedience, and others fanatically devoted to him. He slaughtered thousands in his rise to power, with many of them tortured for days in public executions to feed his insatiable appetite for suffering, savoring their agonies.
Tenebrae's birth father, Lord Dramath, had heard rumors of his illegitimate son's activities, but they happened in a remote and unimportant area. He had long forgotten about the farm woman who bore him a son, and he thought what was happening in a few small villages didn't concern him. Because of that, he didn't decide to go see Tenebrae until four years had passed. He had gone to decide if Tenebrae would be suitable to serve Dramath, or if he should be killed; however, Tenebrae intended to do neither. When they met, Tenebrae proved the stronger of the two. Even though he was only ten years old, he stripped his father of his power and his sanity before killing him. Lord Dramath's last moments saw him weeping in terror, looking into his son's black eyes.
It took Tenebrae three more years to subjugate the rest of Medriaas. While Dramath's first-born son fled Medriaas, other Sith Lords attempted to seize the unoccupied throne of the world, only to fall before Tenebrae, who became more ruthless and powerful with each victory.
Sith Lord of Nathema[]
When he was thirteen, he came before Marka Ragnos, the Dark Lord of the Sith and the ruler of the Sith Council and Sith Empire. Lord Ragnos was impressed by the youth's power and ambition, and recognized him as the ruler of Medriaas, bestowing on him the name of Lord Vitiate. Lord Vitiate returned to his home world, which he renamed Nathema, and proceeded to rule and study the Dark Side. He built a palace on the site of his childhood home, where he killed his parents. His rule lasted for a hundred years.
After Ragnos's death, Vitiate did not join in the struggle for succession, nor was he involved in the conflict between Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh, or the Great Hyperspace War. However, after the Sith Empire was defeated by the Republic and the Jedi, he emerged from his isolation to call a council of all the remaining Sith Lords, inviting them to his palace where they would participate in a ritual to unlock the power of the Dark Side, unleashing power beyond anything they had ever witnessed or imagined. Some refused to go, but many more came. They thought that one Sith Lord couldn't do anything against a hundred. He was considered the ruler of a single unimportant planet, who was a scholar rather than a warrior who fought any noteworthy battles, conquests, or victories beyond Nathema. Furthermore, the Sith Lords were afraid that the Jedi would wipe them all out, and they were desperate for anything they could use against them. Lord Vitiate used those fears, making public speeches with graphic warnings of what the Jedi would do, broadcasting and transmitting them throughout the entire Empire, persuading the Lords to set aside their suspicions of himself and each other to unite in a single cause.
At the same time, he had his scientists and historians secretly search for the location of the world of Dromund Kaas. The group Vitiate assigned to locate Dromund Kaas operated in secrecy, hidden day and night in a lab while they studied ancient star maps and astrogation charts, finally theorizing a hyperspace route to the world. When the Sith Lords arrived on Nathema, Lord Vitiate quickly brought them under control. He crushed their resistance and dominated their minds, turning them into slaves to his will and forcing them to participate in the most complex ritual of Sith magic ever attempted. Calling on the Dark Side, Vitiate consumed them, absorbing all their power and totally obliterating all traces of them. However, the Sith Lords weren't the only victims, the ritual also destroyed all life on Nathema; all the people, animals, plants; every living being touched by the Force, their life force consumed by Vitiate. Afterwards, Nathema ceased to be a world, but was a lifeless husk sucked dry of even the Force itself, while Vitiate became immortal. He ceased to be merely Lord Vitiate and became the Emperor.
Leader of the Sith[]
Becoming the Emperor of the Sith Empire[]
The Emperor declaring himself as Sith Emperor, ruler of the new Sith Empire The Emperor was able to blame the destruction of his homeworld on the Jedi, frightening the remaining Sith, and then offering them a glimpse of hope, promising to take all those who pledge their loyalty to him to a world where the Jedi could never find them. He did not go straight to Dromund Kaas, rather he took them on a long and trying exodus where the Sith were repeatedly forced to turn to him for leadership, thus increasing their dependence on him to the point when they finally reached Dromund Kaas, they basically worshiped their Emperor as a deity. Finally, the fleet found Dromund Kaas, and the Emperor set up a new home on the planet's surface with his most trusted Sith Lords. There, he began building Sith Empire, vowing to return and defeat the Republic. However, Jedi Master Gnost-Dural suggested that the Sith spirits in the Korriban mausoleums did not support the Sith Emperor's rule, since they gave the title of Dark Lord to Exar Kun. The Emperor approached both his Sith counterparts and their non-Sith servants with an offer to build an orderly society, a society which would eventually control the Galaxy. The remnants of the Sith gathered to his banner, and the Emperor created the Dark Council, at which time he left the public arena to pursue his original goal.
Sending the Mandalorians into battle[]
About two years before the Mandalorian Wars begun, the Emperor sent a Sith pureblood emissary to the leader of the Mandalorians, Mandalore the Ultimate, and told him that he was sent by the descendant of the Sith Lord who drove Dramath the Second into exile. The emissary persuaded Mandalore to help him search for Dramath's tomb, which was on the snowy world of Rekkiad, where the Sith broke into the crypt and took Dramath's remains for his Lord. In return, the emissary told Mandalore of a vision the Emperor had received of the Mandalorians crushing the Republic in a glorious victory, and Mandalore believed him. What Mandalore didn't realize was that the Sith used the power of the Dark Side to manipulate him into launching a war against the Republic to test its strength. He only came to know that when he laid dying at Jedi Knight Revan's feet following their duel; however, he managed to tell Revan about the Sith's existence before he died.
Sending Revan and Malak in war[]
Revan and Malak confronting the Emperor at his throne on Dromund Kaas.
Having found out about the Sith's involvement in the War, Revan and his friend Malak came to the frozen world of Rekkiad to find out more, there they discovered Dramath's tomb where they found his sarcophagus, and inside it a datacron which had information about Dramath's life and history. The two Jedi then traveled into the Unknown Regions to try to investigate, which led them to first Nathema, and then Dromund Kaas. They disguised themselves as mercenaries, and spent months finding out everything they were able to about the Emperor and his people. They discovered that even back then, the Emperor was planning to invade the Republic. When Revan and Malak found out, they attempted to stop him. They found a member of the Imperial Guard who was seemingly willing to sneak them into the Citadel; however, the Guard was bound to the Emperor's will, resulting in Revan and Malak being led into a trap, with the Emperor waiting for them. The two Jedi underestimated his power. When they tried to battle him, he broke their wills and dominated their minds, turning them into puppets. Afterwards, when Revan and Malak left Dromund Kaas they were following the orders of their new master. He ordered them to both recover the ancient Star Forge for use by the True Sith, and to act as a vanguard to set the stage for the Sith invasion, with instructions to report back when all resistance was crushed. Revan and Malak complied, initiating the Jedi Civil War.
The Emperor oversees the Jedi Civil War.
While Revan and Malak underestimated the Dark Lord's power, he also underestimated them too. The two Jedis' minds were stronger than he assumed, their minds twisting and changing his instructions until they thought they were acting of their own accord. While the two Jedi were turned to the Dark Side, they found the strength to suppress all memory of the Emperor, partially freeing them from his control. When the Emperor failed to hear from them, he thought they failed and returned to his original plans of slowly building up his strength so that when he invaded, he would be certain of victory. Throughout the Jedi Civil War, Revan deliberately left key Republic infrastructure intact on many planets to assure stability so that he could take his Empire to war with the hidden faction lead by this mysterious Emperor. Revan's ultimate plan never came into fruition as Malak betrayed him and took the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith for himself. Caring little for his former master's aspirations of stability, Malak sought to destroy anything that got in his way to achieve his goals. Malak was eventually hunted down and killed by his former master, who was redeemed by the Jedi Council, effectively putting an end to the potential vanguard.
Plot to destroy the Emperor[]
- "I did not expect you to return."
- ―Lord Vitiate to Revan
The Emperor at his throne.
After Malak's death, the remnants of Revan's Empire was destroyed by Meetra Surik, the "Jedi Exile" who once served as a general in Revan's army. Shortly after her victory, Surik journeyed to the Unknown Regions to search for Revan, who disappeared after the end of the Jedi Civil War due to his efforts to destroy the "True" Sith. Her travels first brought her to Nathema, and then Dromund Kaas where she found Revan a prisoner of Darth Nyriss, a member of the Emperor's Dark Council. She found an apparent ally in Lord Scourge, a Sith Lord who realized the scope of the Emperor's evil nature, and was willing to join forces with the two Jedi in order to assassinate him. But in order to break into Nyriss' stronghold to free Revan, Scourge sought the Emperor's help and revealed to him the members of a conspiracy on the Dark Council, including Nyriss. The Emperor agreed to act and promised Scourge that he may reward him for his service, but warned that if his information is false, then he'll suffer a fate worse than death. The Sith Emperor dispatched the Imperial Guard to destroy Nyriss and her fellow conspirators but that was not the end. The Emperor slaughtered the entire Dark Council, including the members who weren't part of the conspiracy, so they can be replaced with less-confrontational Sith and imposed martial law on Dromund Kaas, placing the entire planet in lockdown.
The Emperor defending himself.
To stop his insane plans, Revan, Meetra and Scourge attempted to slay the Emperor. However, the plan failed when Surik was killed by Scourge, who had foreseen that a Jedi other than Revan or Surik would be most likely to slay the Emperor, while Revan was incapacitated by the Emperor's force lightning. Scourge then claimed that the Jedi were working with Nyriss. As Scourge brought his lightsaber to finish Revan off, the Emperor stopped him, seeing this as proof of his loyalty. Afterward, the Emperor imprisoned Revan in a state between life and death, feeding on him while trying to learn vital information regarding both the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic. Revan, however, was able to resist with the help of Meetra's Force ghost, even subtly influencing the Dark Lord's thoughts, and exploiting his caution, patience and fear of death to delay his planned attack on the Jedi and Republic as much as possible. As for Scourge, the Emperor granted him the position of Emperor's Wrath, being his personal enforcer and executioner and subjected him to the same ritual that granted him immortality. Scourge accepted the position, knowing that it would give him time to plot the Emperor's downfall and to await the prophesied champion who would finish him off.
War against the Republic[]
Great Galactic War[]
In the year 28 BTC, the Emperor and his Empire withdrew from their seclusion on Dromund Kaas and attacked the Republic in what was considered to be the best orchestrated military strike in galactic history. The Sith Emperor led his people through the war with meticulous cunning, creating widespread fear and panic that turned the Republic against itself and allowing his followers to systematically exterminate their age-old Jedi adversaries.
Around 25 BTC, his apprentice, a hybrid Sith called Exal Kressh, betrayed him and fled to Republic space. He maintained his presence inside her mind, tracing her location, and deferred the choice of who to hunt her down to the Dark Council, who settled on Sith apprentice Teneb Kel for the task. Eventually, Kel tracked Kressh back to Korriban and succeeded in killing her.
The Sith Emperor led the Sith Empire during the Great Galactic War and after its conclusion withdrew, deferring control to his Dark Council, in order to pursue his own goal in destroying the Galaxy. By the time of the Great War, he was well over 1,400 years old.
Cold War[]
- "An infantile display, Tol Braga. Reckless pride limned by self-righteousness. You are master of nothing."
- ―The Emperor
The Emperor's Voice.
At an unknown moment, Darth Baras lured the Emperor into choosing the Voss body of Sel-Makor, knowing that he would be bound to the temple, unable to commit suicide to free himself. Then, Baras locked him away in the Dark Heart, on Voss, preventing anyone to discover the truth. Indeed, Baras posed himself as the new Voice of the Emperor in front of the Dark Council, and only Darth Vowrawn dared to question his words. The Emperor was eventually freed by his Wrath; The Emperor's essence was then retrieved by his closest servants known as the Emperor's Hand.
The Emperor became aware that one of his Children, Kira Carsen, had escaped the Empire and sought refuge with the Jedi after she and her Master, a powerful Jedi Knight, earned the ire of Darth Angral. The Emperor dispatched another Child, Valis, to retrieve Kira but she and her Master managed to best him. They both later revealed the existence of the Children to the Jedi Council, who eventually managed to root them out with the assistance of the Barsen'thor.
Eventually, when Kira and her master faced Angral aboard the superweapon, the Desolator, the Emperor briefly took control of Kira, ordering Angral to finish off her Master. But Angral was soundly beaten by both the Knight and Kira. But the Emperor managed to assume total control over Kira and used her body to kill Angral for his failure. Her Master demanded that the Emperor release Kira and come and fight in person. The Emperor refused, stating that he had foreseen the Knight's future, a future he will not allow. However, the Knight proved to be more powerful than expected, leaving the Emperor no choice but to destroy the Desolator through Kira. Kira, however, was able to overcome his will, severing their link. The Knight and the Padawan escaped.
The Emperor in the Emperor's Fortress.
Learning about the Emperor's location, the Jedi Knight invaded his fortress orbiting Dromund Kaas. The plan implemented by Jedi Masters Master Tol Braga, Warren Sedoru and Leeha Narezz was to take the Emperor on Tython and turn him to the light side. However, they were all defeated and placed under his control. Only the Jedi Knight was freed, with the assistance of the Force ghost of Orgus Din, and he escaped the Fortress with the help of Lord Scourge, who betrayed his master, and revealed to the Jedi Council that the Emperor had renewed the war with the Republic as a lightning rod to conceal his true plan - the Emperor was plotting to consume all life in the galaxy, both Republic and Empire.
The Emperor defeated by the Hero of Tython in the Dark Temple on Dromund Kaas.
After thwarting the Emperor's attempts at genocide on Belsavis, Voss (During which they had a vision of a battle with the emperor) and Corellia, the Jedi set in motion a plan to destroy the Emperor - Republic and Jedi forces would attack Dromund Kaas, where the Emperor resided, drawing the attention of the Imperial forces, and giving the Knight an opportunity to confront the Emperor, and destroy him once and for all. Only the Knight and T7-O1 could face the Emperor without anyone else succumbing to his dominating influence. The Knight ultimately won the duel, badly injuring him. Vitiate attempted to goad the Jedi into killing him in an attempt to drive them to the dark side. The Jedi refused, and Vitiate attempted to kill the knight by collapsing the roof. The Emperor was thought to have been destroyed after the duel. In reality, he had possessed a new avatar to replace the one lost on Voss - it was this facade that the Jedi Knight killed the Emperor - this was confirmed by a holomail message sent by the Emperor's Hand to the new Emperor's Wrath.
Final Demise[]
- "My ascendance is inevitable. A day, a year, a millennium—it matters not. I hold the patience of stone and the will of stars."
- ―The Emperor to the Jedi Knight
The Emperor continued to live on, past the collapse of his Empire, but, after surviving for millennia, Vitiate is presumed to have died close to 67 BBY at the hands of a Jedi Knight after being pursued in an effort to end his plans for the galaxy.
Legacy[]
Vitiate disappeared in the aftermath of the Ziost massacre, only to reappear as Valkorion, the leader of a hidden Eternal Empire in Wild Space. Unbeknownst to the rest of the galaxy, Vitiate had spent the last several centuries forging a new society on the planet Zakuul, and even had three children, Arcann, Thexan, and Vaylin. After Valkorion's sons raided the larger galaxy and drew the attention of the Republic and the Empire, Valkorion was struck down in a confrontation with his treacherous son Arcann and a famous warrior known as the Outlander. Releasing his hold on his Human form, Valkorion embedded his energy and consciousness within the Outlander's mind, leading Arcann to freeze the Outlander in carbonite for five years. The Outlander was eventually freed and began to lead a revolution against the Eternal Empire and now-Emperor Arcann's domination of the galaxy, and Valkorion counseled the Outlander and offered to share his immense power with his new host as the Outlander's Alliance sought to topple Valkorion's son from the Eternal Throne.
Personality[]
- "You stand there because I allow it. Because I do not fear."
- ―The Emperor
The Emperor confronting a Jedi Knight unarmed with no fear.
Vitiate seemed to have been influenced since birth with the corrupting influence of the dark side. He was a very unusual child, who never cried, and radiated strong connections to the Force. He fed on his step-father's anger when he went into a rage against his wife and killed him while still a small child and then proceed to torture his mother for weeks. In the same time, he used his powers and his ability to draw on pain and rage to grow and force thousands of people to swear loyalty to him in his quest for power. However, despite his incredible power, Vitiate still had one fear that consumed him completely; he feared death. His entire plans and plots from reforming the Sith Empire to waging an age-old war against the Jedi and the Republic involved his bigger plan to consume all life in the galaxy; to destroy every single last threat to his life. He also possessed an intense hatred of the Jedi Knight, and was willing to destroy his mortal body in an attempt to take his foe with him. Despite this he does care for his people. Vitiate gave hope and a new cause to take revenge against the Jedi and the Republic. He is also very popular to his people who admire him for rebuilding the empire.
Physical appearance[]
Powers and Abilities[]
The Emperor uses Force lightning.
The Sith Emperor (or simply Vitiate) was a master of the Dark Side of the Force and believed to be the most powerful Force-user in the galactic history. Even at a young age, he proved to have immense potential in the use of the dark side and acquired many Force abilities without formal training such as telekinetic powers, telepathic powers, and also the ability to strip a being's connection with the Force. When he was just a child of six, he was able to use the Force to kill his adoptive father by breaking his neck with a mere thought. And when he was only ten years old, he was able to strip the Sith Lord Dramath of his power and mind in a confrontation. Vitiate explored the dark side in greater depth then any other Force-user to hone his talents in the dark side and overcome shortcomings of mortality.
Vitiate acquired tremendous command of Sith Sorcery and Force Drain powers, and could utilize such abilities in overwhelmingly destructive ways as apparent from the cataclysm on planet Medriaas during which he consumed the entire biota of planet alongside stripping the same planet from the Force itself to attain corporeal immortality, leaving a void in its wake. Similarly, centuries later, Vitiate brought cataclysm to planet Ziost with his powers, consuming its entire biota alongside inflicting extensive harm to the planet's environment, leaving another barren wasteland in its wake. Vitiate could also drain knowledge and life-force of other beings to forcefully obtain information from them and fuel his power respectively. Vitiate corrupted the atmosphere of planet Dromund Kaas with his sorcery, transforming its ionosphere into a swirling electric storm that engulfed the entire planet and rendered the concept of day and night meaningless. In single combat, Vitiate could make an effort to confuse the enemy by creating several duplicates of himself, with his duplicates having the ability to function independently. At one point in history, a coalition of powerful Sith Lords rebelled and attempted to assassinate Vitiate but it fell apart from exposure to sorcery of Vitiate from afar. Vitiate also utilized sorcery to share his essence with hundreds of other individuals, transforming them into unwitting agents of his will (i.e. Children). Among the Children, Vitiate created a First Son and bestowed him the capability to effectively conceal the darkness of all Children whom Vitiate planted within the Republic and the Jedi Order.
Vitiate was frighteningly proficient in the use of telepathic powers. He was able to dominate and even destroy the minds of other beings; his mind control powers were formidable enough to completely overpower the wills of legendary Revan and Malak simultaneously. Vitiate also bonded with his Imperial Guards, making them fiercely loyal to himself and enabling them to draw on his power to bolster their chances for victory in confrontations with Jedi and/or Sith when stationed near him. On Ziost, Vitiate possessed all of its inhabitants to orchestrate a bloodbath and fuel his power from the resultant chaos and death.
The Emperor, creating a protection bubble with the Force.
Vitiate was immensely proficient in the use of telekinesis, able to perform most telekinetic actions without the use of hand gestures unlike most Force-users. Vitiate, using his telekinetic abilities, sent powerful Jedi Master Revan flying across the throne room, disintegrated T3-M4 droid, halted Sith Lord Scourge's lightsaber strike mid-air, and collapsed reinforced structures.
Vitiate could unleash his hatred in the form of crackling bolts of energy, utilizing them in the form of a devastating Force Storm to overwhelm the defenses of powerful Force-users and/or kill them. Furthermore, Vitiate could shift his essence into other beings at will, shedding the need to rely on a single permanent body to bolster his safeguard from external threats; a host possessed by Vitiate was commonly identified as his Voice by others.
Vitiate was also proficient in the use of defensive applications of the Force; he could cocoon himself with the Force to dissipate harmful energies if exposed to them such as when he defended himself from T3-M4's flamethrower, and could also formulate a protection bubble around himself to prevent Jedi powers from harming him during confrontations. When enraged, Vitiate's normally black eyes would flash red, demonstrating his deep immersion in the dark side. Even though Vitiate was so powerful that he rarely needed a lightsaber to defend himself, he demonstrated proficiency in its use in a confrontation with Hero of Tython and Lana Beniko while possessing Kira Carsen and Jedi Master Surro respectively.
Appearances[]
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan
- Star Wars: The Old Republic, Blood of the Empire Act 1: Shades of the Sith
- Star Wars: The Old Republic, Blood of the Empire Act 2: The Broken World (mentioned only)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic, Blood of the Empire Act 3: Burn the Future (mentioned only)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace Act 1: Treaty of Coruscant (mentioned only)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived (mentioned only)
- Timeline 1: Treaty of Coruscant (mentioned only)
- Timeline 4: The Empire Changes Strategy (Appears in hologram)
- Timeline 5: The Battle of Bothawui (Appears in hologram)
- Timeline 6: Onslaught of the Sith Empire (Appears in hologram)
- Timeline 7: Peace for the Republic? (mentioned only)
- Timeline 8: The Jedi Civil War (Appears in hologram)
- Timeline 9: The Mandalorian Wars (Appears in hologram)
- Timeline 10: The Exar Kun War (mentioned only)
- Timeline 11: Rebirth of the Sith Empire (Appears in hologram)
- Timeline 12: The Great Hyperspace War (Appears in hologram)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance (mentioned only)
Related missions[]
[40] Descent (Jedi Knight) on Emperor's Space Station- [50] Doomsday on Dromund Kaas
Trivia[]
- The Emperor's birth name, Tenebrae, is Latin for "Darkness".
Gallery[]
External links[]
| Sith Emperor of the Sith Empire | ||
| Preceded by Naga Sadow |
Vitiate | Succeeded by Darth Acina |