Ludo Kressh

"Ludo Kressh whines like the weakest of downtrodden underlings. The blood of many Sith slaves must run in his veins."

- Naga Sadow

Ludo Kressh was a Sith Lord in the Sith Empire during the Great Hyperspace War. A conservative Sith Lord, Ludo planned to rule the Empire as the new Dark Lord of the Sith after Marka Ragnos's death. However, the unexpected arrival of the Daragons allowed Naga Sadow to engineer incidents which undermined Ludo's support. Ludo eventually faked his own death and ambushed Sadow, only to be truly destroyed by Sadow's fleet.

Biography
After Marka Ragnos's death, Ludo Kressh was one of the many Sith who attempted to become the Dark Lord's successor. Ultimately, he ended up fighting Naga Sadow on Korriban for the position. While they were fighting, Gav and Jori Daragon arrived there on their ship, the Starbreaker 12. Kressh saw them as precursors to a Republic invasion, while Sadow saw the Republic as a new territory to conquer. The Sith sentenced the Daragons to death, but Naga Sadow sprung them from their cell and brought them to his fortress where he began to instruct Gav in the ways of the Sith. Kressh suspected that Sadow had something to do with their escape, so he sent his loyal forces to destroy Sadow. Sadow had suspected that Kressh would try something like this, so he easily crushed the raid, proclaiming himself Dark Lord of the Sith. Jori Daragon escaped on their ship and promised to come back for her brother. Little did she know that her ship carried the homing beacon that would lead the Sith to the Republic.

As the Great Hyperspace War was nearing an end, Kressh sent forces loyal to him to destroy Sadow's remaining fleet. The two Dark Lords met up, and Kressh banished Sadow from the Sith Empire forever. As the fleet of Empress Teta arrived, Sadow purposefully crashed one of his ships into Kressh's flagship, ending Ludo's short-lived reign as Dark Lord of the Sith.

He was buried in a secret room deep in a large Shyrack cave on Korriban. His tomb was rumored to be filled with the dark side energies of his hatred, causing visitors to experience massive hallucinations, so real they could not tell whether they were real or not. A group of Jedi died in the tomb when one of their own, driven mad by the illusions, slaughtered his companions. The Jedi Exile visited the tomb once. The Jedi Exile knew unmistakeably that illusions of Malak and his followers were just those &mdash; illusions. However, when she saw Kreia deeper in the tomb, she could not discern whether her presence was real, or also another vivid hallucination. After speaking with her, she discovered she was indeed another illusion. The corridors of the tomb were stalked by shyracks, as well as Force-sensing Hssiss.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire
 * Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (mummified corpse)