User:Jensaarai/Exar Kun

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Opening
"I, too, had my questions. Every battle I have with fallen Jedi like you answers them. You betray everything you were taught. You betray yourselves. You are faithless..."

- K'Kruhk

The Dark Acolytes were a loosely organized group of Dark Jedi active during the Clone Wars. Gathered and recruited by the former Jedi Master turned Sith Lord Count Dooku, the Acolytes served the Confederacy of Independant Systems essentially as their counterparts to the Jedi Order. The Acolytes functioned as anything from assassins to spies to military leaders, but all operated primarily as Dooku's enforcers. Most of the members would become casualties of the war, and the organization itself would be essentially dissolved with Dooku's death.

Overview
"You will have to deal with them if you are going to get close to Dooku. He sets one against the other, but they will unite against a perceived common threat to their position. Approach them carefully."

- Tholme

The Dark Acolytes were a group of Dark Jedi recruited by Count Dooku and his Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars. They operated as Dooku's enforcers, and served as anything from military commanders to personal bodyguards for the Count himself.

Many of the Acolytes were former Jedi, having defected to the CIS due to their frustrations with the corrupt Galactic Republic. However, many members were previously undiscovered Force-sensitives that Dooku found and trained himself. While not true Sith in their own right, and therefore not a violation of the Sith Rule of Two, certain members of the acolytes were provided with training in certain aspects of Sith power. A notable example of this is Asajj Ventress' training in the Sith Quey'tek meditation.

Dark Acolytes often used Sith Enforcer battle tanks on the battlefield. Each of these craft were armed with a pair of supercharged blaster cannons and two missile launchers. Though effective in one-on-one attacks, Dooku insisted that they travel in groups of three for improved effectiveness.

Asajj Ventress
Arguably the most prominent member of the Dark Acolytes, Asajj Ventress was recruited early on during the weeks proceeding the Clone Wars. Challenging Dooku when he arrived on her homeworld Rattatak, Ventress was soundly beaten by the Sith Lord, though not before impressing him with her skills as a duelist. During the war, she operated primarily as a military commander and assassin, leading campaigns on Ohma-D'un and Teth, to name a few.

Dark Acolyte Trio
The Dark Acolyte trio were a group of anonymous acolytes who participated in the Battle of Geonosis. Their origins and identities were unknown. During the battle, they helped cover Dooku's retreat by guarding the ground entrance to the Count's private hangar. Piloting Sith Enforcer battle tanks, they came into conflict with Mace Windu, and all three perished, but they succeeded in delaying him long enough for Dooku to escape.

Doppelgängers of Dooku


It is unknown how these replicas of Dooku came into being, whether as a Cloning experiment or a Force-based construct/illusion, but they served as members of the true Dooku's acolytes. Compared to the genuine article, these replicas served largely mundane purposes, one being assigned to guard Wat Tambor's C-B3 cortosis battle droid factory on Metalorn, while another was stationed at Dooku's homeworld of Serenno. Both were slain by Anakin Skywalker, who eventually killed the real Dooku.

Kadrian Sey


When the Clone Wars began, the Jedi Kadrian Sey essentially vanished, failing to report to Coruscant following the Battle of Geonosis. One of Dooku's earliest known recruits, Sey served as a personal bodyguard for the Count, alongside Tol Skorr. She and Skorr enjoyed a tense relationship, being set against one another by Dooku, but both would unite against a percieved threat to their position. She accompanied Dooku to Tibrin alongside Skorr, Quinlan Vos and Sora Bulq, for negotiations with the Ishi Tib leader, Suribran Tu. Dooku inquired Sey's opinion regarding what to do with the compliant Tu, and Sey recommended leaving him in power to provide administrative continuity. Dooku ultimately opted for Vos' argument that the sell-out Tu could not be trusted, and executed him on the spot. Kadrian Sey and Tol Skorr were tasked with clearing away Suribran Tu's corpse, and mounting his severed head somewhere highly visible to let the jubilant Ishi Tib see that the dictator was dead.

Sey apparently had some expertise in torture, applying this talent upon the captured Shylar while Dooku interrogated her. Afterwards, she accompanied Dooku to Kiffu as part of his entourage while he negotiated with the Sheyf Tinte Vos. The Sheyf was uncooperative, and negotiations quickly soured. As the Acolytes present with Dooku fought their way towards Tinte Vos, Quinlan Vos stepped in to protect his aunt, revealing himself as a Republic agent. Kadrian Sey was cut in half by the Jedi.

Savage Opress
Effective recruited as a replacement for Asajj Ventress after Darth Sidious ordered her execution, Savage Opress was a Zabrak born into the Dathomiri Nightbrothers, essentially as a slave to the Nightsisters. Reinforced by Nightsister "Shadow Magic", Opress was presented to Dooku obstensibly as a new apprentice, but in truth as an agent of the vengeful Asajj Ventress. Opress' initial assignment was the seizure of the Devaron Temple of Eedit, a task Opress completed with brutal efficiency.

Greatly satisfied with Opress, Dooku immediately took him under his wing, training him as a true Sith apprentice. Opress was trained to wield a Double-bladed lightsaber, following in the footsteps of his kinsman, Darth Maul, and engaged in numerous sparring sessions with Dooku. Despite Opress' obvious battlefield effectiveness, his lightsaber technique was sorely lacking, and he was bested many times. Dooku began to focus his lectures on the use of passionate Hatred to achieve power, brutally torturing Opress with Force lightning. Opress was assigned with capturing King Katuunko of Toydaria, and cut a brutal swath through Katuunko's guards. However, upon apprehending the King, Opress was confronted by Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, and in the heat of the battle, killed Katuunko.

Presenting Katuunko's corpse to Dooku, Opress was viciously tortured by his enraged master, who had wanted the King alive. It was then that Asajj Ventress revealed herself, and Opress' status as an agent was revealed. The two banded together against Dooku, but Opress was handily subdued by Dooku's use of Force lightning, and enraged by the callous insults of both, Opress turned on Ventress. As he attacked both Dooku and Ventress, the two retreated, and he was again confronted by Kenobi and Skywalker before he could pursue.

Tol Skorr
A former Jedi, Tol Skorr was shot down by pirates above Korriban, but was rescued by Dooku. Developing a strong loyalty to his savior, Skorr followed Dooku unquestioningly ever since, even leaving the Jedi Order and defecting to the CIS. A loyal member of the Acolytes, Skorr served primarily as one of Dooku's bodyguards, alongside Kadrian Sey. Set against one another by Dooku, the two enjoyed a tense relationship, though as Tholme noted, they would unite against a perceived threat to their positions.

After Kadrian Sey's death, Quinlan Vos became Skorr's primary nemesis within the Acolytes, the two jockeying for position in Dooku's eyes. Both were sent to the surface of Korriban to retrieve Darth Andeddu's Holocron of Heresies, and Skorr was outmaneuvered by Vos, and only survived thanks to a disappointed Dooku's intervention. When Vos was dispatched by Dooku to infiltrate the Jedi Order, Skorr was teamed with Asajj Ventress and sent to retrieve him, kept in the dark about the nature of the assignment in order to make Vos' redefection appear more convincing. With Obi-Wan Kenobi's help, Vos escaped them, and Skorr and Ventress were afterwards retrieved by General Grievous.

Tol Skorr was ultimately assigned as Sora Bulq lieutenant when the latter was given command of the Morgukai Cloning operation on Saleucami, leading the CIS forces on the ground during the Siege of Saleucami. Made aware of the nature of Quinlan Vos' assignment, Skorr served as one of his contacts among the CIS forces, delivering Dooku's summons. When Vos finally sought to reject the Dark Side and quit the Dark Acolytes, Skorr fought him, relentlessly taunting Vos about how he was deceived by Dooku. Spurred into anger, Vos sent Skorr plummetting into the lava pits below the CIS-held geothermal power station that served as their base.