Darth Angral

"This is our moment. Channel your fury. Destroy our enemies!"

- Angral, during the Sacking of Coruscant

Darth Angral was a Human male Sith Lord serving the Sith Empire during the time of the Great Galactic War.

Biography
"...never again will I stay my hand when the destruction of the Republic and the Jedi is within my reach.''" "''Never again will that be necessary. I assure you."

- Lords Angral and Baras

Sacking of Coruscant
A human male, the man who would be known as Darth Angral rose to the rank of Sith Lord within the Sith Empire sometime before the end of the Great Galactic War against the Galactic Republic. Near the end of the war, Darth Angral commanded the Sith fleet that sacked the Republic capital of Coruscant in 3,653 BBY. While his fellow Sith Lord Darth Baras led an Imperial delegation to the Core World of Alderaan to distract the Republic in a peace conference.

Angral's primary invasion force was supplemented by a smaller force, led by the Sith Lord Darth Malgus, which would assault the Jedi Temple directly before Angral arrived. Malgus' force was also in charge of disabling the planet's defense grid, and Malgus hired a Mandalorian named Shae Vizla to aid him. However, Angral favored a young Lord named Adraas&mdash;a political rival of the Sith Warrior Malgus&mdash;and demanded that Adraas serve as Malgus' second-in-command. The attack began when Malgus, accompanied by his Twi'lek slave and lover Eleena Daru, entered the temple to distract the Jedi within so that Adraas' team could enter Coruscant airspace in their hijacked Republic drop ship safely and Vizla could sneak inside the Temple.

After destroying Orbital Security Station Six, he landed on the surface near the Galactic Senate Building, where he was greeted by Jedi Master Orgus Din, who engaged him in combat. Angral quickly took the upper hand but Din escaped with his life after the duel was interrupted by a crashing Sith spacecraft. Angral then stormed the Senate Building and attacked the Supreme Chancellor. His attack forced the Republic diplomats on Alderaan to submit to the Sith's demands, and the Treaty of Coruscant was signed.

Angral made his headquarters in the Chancellor's office. Darth Malgus was escorted to there by Captain Roon Neele. Within, he quickly began to question the Treaty of Coruscant in an emotional outburst before his superior. Unknown to Malgus, Adraas had beaten him to Angral's command post, and the inferior Lord's presence made the meeting into a major embarrassment for Malgus. The angered Sith was unpracticed in Imperial politics unlike his two contemporaries, who hoped to use Darth Malgus's love for the Twi'lek, Eleena Daru, and disapproval of the Emperor's policies as political leverage against him. As their tense conversation progressed, Adraas revealed that he had refused Daru treatment aboard the Steadfast and instead redirected her to one of the civilian hospitals on Coruscant's surface. Upon hearing his rival call Daru a "mongrel," Malgus drew his lightsaber and crossed blades with Adraas's own. Angral ended the fight and sent Malgus away to find his lover, but kept Adraas in his offices in a clear showing of where his favor lay.

During the Treaty
Angral returned to Korriban after the treaty's signing. Angral was furious with Darth Baras, the Dark Council's emissary who had represented the Sith at the peace talks. Angral reasoned that if Baras hadn't ended the negotiations so quickly, he could have destroyed all the Jedi on Coruscant. Baras responded by saying he was following their emperor's orders, and blasted Angral with Force lightning, forcing him into submission. Angral said he wouldn't hesitate the next time he had a chance to destroy the Jedi and Republic, regardless of orders. Baras simply told him such hesitation would never again be necessary.

After his confrontation with Baras, Angral traveled to a business meeting in the Star Cluster Casino on Nar Shaddaa to make an offer.

When a Sith shuttle exploded at the Sith Academy on Korriban, Angral blamed the attack on Republic spies, claiming that the Republic was already reneging on the treaty. These actions aroused Baras' suspicions.

Angral was later traveling to Dantooine when he received word that Baras had been behind the attack on the Envoy. Angral at first didn't believe this, but then realized that it was the truth when he remembered that the captain of the Imperial ship that had fired on the Envoy had conveniently been killed in the bombing on Korriban. He then gave the order for his vessel to return to Korriban. Sometime later, he learned that Baras was trying to frame him by telling the Dark Council that he was behind the disruption of the treaty. Upon returning to Korriban, Baras and Angral confronted each other. During a brief duel, Angral revealed that he had discovered that Baras was behind the disruption of the treaty. Baras ended the fight, revealed the truth to Angral (the rogue Jedi Master Dar'Nala was really behind the disruption of the treaty and trying to frame Baras for it) and then tried to persuade Angral over to his side so his plans to corrupt Satele Shan (who he believed to be the descendant of Revan) could work.

Angral accompanied Baras to Dantooine, where they were ambushed by the Jedi Dar'Nala and Fortris Gall, the Republic soldier Harron Tavus, and the controlled bounty hunter Dalborra in the crystal caves. Angral defended himself against Gall, Tavus, and Dalborra while Baras fought Dar'Nala. When Satele Shan joined the fight, Baras put his plan to corrupt her into action: he revealed that Dar'Nala, Satele's master, was behind the disruption of the treaty, including the attack on the Envoy. Baras used this revelation to try to persuade Satele to join the Sith.

During the battle, Angral tried to kill Tavus by throwing his lightsaber at him. Tavus managed to evade the attack and wounded the now vulnerable Sith Lord with a grenade. But he refrained from killing him because Satele warned him that would be playing right into the Sith's hands. While Angral was unconscious, Dar'Nala revealed the full extent of her madness when she moved to murder Tavus to punish Satele. This ultimately led to her murder at Dalborra's hands.

Angral regained consciousness after Dar'Nala's death, and attacked Tavus. Satele came to his defense and declared the fight over. While Angral wanted to continue the battle, Baras (who still wanted Satele in the Sith), allowed them to leave. This irritated Angral, who declared his short-lived alliance with Baras over after their adversaries left.

Rampage and Demise
A decade later Angral's son Tarnis, disguised as a doctor, stole a prototype of the Republic superweapon known as the Planet Prison and planned to use it on Coruscant. Angral and his apprentices congratulated Tarnis using the holonet, but before Tarnis could activate the weapon a Jedi knight arrived at Tarnis' location. Angral told Tarnis not to let the Jedi steal their victory, and Tarnis assured him he would defeat the Jedi. But Tarnis greatly underestimated the Jedi, and he was down in front of Angral. Driven mad over his son's death, Angral swore he would kill the Knight and billions of innocents in retribution. While the Empire disavowed Angral's actions, General Var Suthra suspected it to be a lie.

In complete desperation, Angral was determined to kill the Knight. One such instance was when his retainers caught the Knight's new Padawan Kira Carsen on the Ord Mantell orbital station, she told them that her Master was on Corellia and Angral believed her. Little that he know that her Master in fact on Ord Mantell itself, infiltrating an Imperial outpost for information on his plans.

Watcher One of Imperial Intelligence encountered the Knight on Taris in a race to find Doctor Godera, one of the brains behind the Republic superweapons. Though Watcher One was able to get Gedora's information and transmitted it to Angral, the Dark Lord was not pleased to learn that Watcher One had made a compromise with his son's killer. He ordered the agent to subdue the Knight to be shipped to Dromund Kaas with Gedora so he could execute the former himself, but Watcher One failed. Another, was when he ordered Lord Praven to use the Shock Drum superweapon to destroy Tatooine to kill his adversary, even destroy its deactivation code.

Eventually, Angral took the plans of the Planet Prison and other superweapons which he used to create The Desolator. Master Orgus Din, who had earlier taken the Hero of Tython as his Padawan, boarded the Oppressor and tried to stop the Sith Lord. But Angral, disappointed that Orgus didn't bring his pupil, was too strong, and while broadcasting it on the Holonet he impaled his old nemesis with his lightsaber, causing the death of the Jedi Master. Angral tested his new weapon on the Republic's farm world of Uphrades, resulting in the planets total destruction. Angral then attempted to use the Desolator on Tython, aiming to finish the Jedi Order. The Knight, as well as the Padawan Kira Carsen, infiltrated the weapon and disabled it. As Angral and his foe prepared to fight, the Sith Emperor possessed Kira and ordered Angral to finish the job. Angral and the Knight faced off but the Knight ultimately won. As a wounded Angral reached for his blade, the Emperor decided to take matters into his hands. He retook control of Kira and engaged the Knight, during which Angral died from his wounds. When the Knight announced this, the Emperor found his servant's death regrettable.

Personality and traits
"Darth Angral was the spark that lit the flame. Even in failure, he inspired the Sith to violence."

- Bela Kiwiiks speaks of Angral's influence on the Sith.

Darth Angral had been a complete loose cannon in the Sith Empire. He wanted to see the Jedi and Republic be destroyed, but he knew that he had to obey the Dark Council, even if it meant keeping peace with the enemy, which disgusted him.

Angral was not one to lead without controlling his minions. While making his headquarters in the late Supreme Chancellor's office on Coruscant, he ordered Adraas and Darth Malgus to stop their duel.

Angral showed himself to be a supporting father to his son, Tarnis. When he watched him die via hologram, he vowed to make Tarnis' killer pay by killing countless innocent civilians and hold him responsible for it. When the Knight confronted him about Uphrades, Angral freely admitted that he had done so to challenge the knight to a confrontation.

Despite his lust for independent slaughter, Angral remained true to the Sith Emperor until his death.

Powers and abilities
Angral was skilled in lightsaber combat, as well as his knowledge of the Force, being able to quickly defeat Jedi Master Orgus Din, although prevented from finishing him off by an explosion which allowed Din to escape. He later attacked Baras, after Darth Baras had consulted the Dark Council, only to be quickly overpowered. However, he was considered by the Emperor himself to be one of his more useful servants.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace Act 1: Treaty of Coruscant
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace Act 2: New Galactic Order
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace Act 3: Uncertain Surrender
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic 11: The Lost Suns, Part 5
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic