Remulus Dreypa

"I helped found the Sith philosophy years ago. And even then, my lessers were content to rule mongrels in exile. But not me! I left then&mdash;as I intend to do again now. I reject Kesh&mdash;just as I rejected the Stygian Caldera! The stars are my domain. And I will have them again."

- Sith Lord Remulus Dreypa

Baron Remulus Dreypa was a male Jedi Admiral who fell to the dark side and became one of the first Sith Lords of the Old Sith Empire during the Hundred-Year Darkness. He was also the archrival of another Sith Lord and fellow exile&mdash;Karness Muur.

Jedi Exile
"Karness Muur. Remulus Dreypa. Xoxaan. Rivals themselves--but allies against the light. It took all the Jedi Order's might to defeat their horrid creations."

- Kaliska about the Hundred-Year Darkness

Wearing the title of Baron, Remulus Dreypa was originally a member of the Jedi Order, but who, along with others, turned to the Dark Side and brought about the conflict known as the Hundred-Year Darkness, in which he was an Admiral of the Dark Jedi fleet.

After the Battle of Corbos in 6,900 BBY, Dreypa was the only surviving admiral, and he was exiled with his fellow remaining Dark Jedi, such as Muur, XoXaan, Sorzus Syn, and their leader Ajunta Pall. After their exile, they came to the worlds of Korriban and Ziost where they discovered the native Sith people which they subjugated, declaring themselves the first Sith Lords, and founded a new order dedicated to the dark side of the Force.

Lord of the Sith
At some point during their exile in the Stygian Caldera, his fellow exile Sorzus Syn, gave to Dreypa a powerful amulet that she had herself created. A rival exile, Karness Muur, had already received another talisman created by Syn. From Sorzus Syn, he also learned that the Sith species was genetically close enough to humans to permit alchemical crossbreeding, a fact which interested the Sith Lord who had his eye on a Sith priestess and was worried to see his bloodline extinguish with him. During his life among the Sith, he created oubliettes which would cause a being inside it to endure a living death, and was immune to sensors. It was intended to imprison Muur so that the Muur Talisman's influence would not escape from it, but it failed as Muur was assassinated before the oubliette could fulfill its purpose.

Some years later, having increased their dark powers and strengthened their dominion over the Sith, Dreypa and some of his fellow exiles decided that it was time to take their revenge on the Jedi Order and their weak Republic. They then assembled a strike force, gathering their new armies and their twisted Sith beasts. Those Sith Lords left their recalcitrant brothers behind them and ventured out of the Stygian Caldera. But Dreypa and his forces came across a Jedi patrol composed of Corbos veterans looking for the Exiles, to make sure that they were unable to try to seek revenge on the Jedi and Republic. After a pursuit across the galaxy, the Jedi and Sith ships crash landed on Kesh, where the space battle became a tremendous clash of lightsaber and Force-powers.

Imprisonment on Kesh
"Yes&mdash;I am he who was Baron&mdash;made Lord of the Sith! After four thousand years&mdash;Lord Dreypa lives!"

- Sith Lord Remulus Dreypa

Unable to call for reinforcements due to the strange magnetic field of Kesh, the Jedi and their former brothers fought with a unparalleled ferocity, devastating the planet by using all the weapons at their disposal. During this conflict, Dreypa, who had realized that the Talisman given to him by Syn was in fact intended to trap his spirit, altered the Talisman to enable him to control the leviathans and increase his life expectancy. Indeed, before leaving the Sith Empire, Dreypa had broke into the laboratory of Sorzus Syn and stole Leviathan larvae, which he had placed upon his arrival on Kesh into the Sessal Spire, a volcano, where they could reach their adult size. But, horrified by the extent of damage and the impact of their conflict on the planet and its inhabitants, both sides formed a truce and the Sith sealed, into one of his own oubliettes, their darkest weapon, Dreypa himself. Seeking atonement, the Jedi and the Sith dedicated themselves to find the true neutrality between Dark and Light sides of the Force, settling at the south pole of the planet, in Eshkrene, where they formed a new community, The Doomed. For thousands of years, the Doomed and their descendants watched over Kesh and the Keshiri, mounting guard initially on the prison of Remulus Dreypa and later monitoring the influence of the Lost Tribe of Sith on Kesh.

Two thousand years after the arrival of Dreypa on Kesh, another ship of the Sith Empire, the Omen, crashed on Kesh. The crew consisting of a majority of humans succeeds to submit Keshiri using the legends that had developed after the earlier conflict between the Pure and Dark Jedi. Watched without their knowledge by the Doomed, who felt that they did not represent a threat to the survival of the planet and the Keshiri, the shipwrecked founded the Lost tribe of Sith, which in 2,975 BBY, had took control of the entire planet.

It was during an exploration mission that a boat from Alanciar, the Southern Star, docked in Eshkrene and that members of the Tribe met for the first time the Doomed. The Keshiri crew as well as the daughter of the Tribe Grand Lord, Takara Hilts, and a Sith anarchist, Parlan Spinner, were captured by the Doomed and brought into their city. One guard of Dreypa, a S'kytri named Kaliska, told them the story of her people, and it was the mention of the sealed weapon that piqued the interest of Spinner. The anarchist escaped and killed the guards of the oubliette of Dreypa and took it with the project to use it to destroy the Tribe and its institutions. He freed the Keshiri crew of the Southern Star and fled aboard their boat before the alarm was given. Convinced by Kaliska of the danger of the stolen weapon, Takara Hilts and the latter tried to prevent Spinner to open the sealed box, but arrived too late to prevent the emergence of Remulus Dreypa from his prison after four thousand years of imprisonment. Following the Sith Lord's awakening, Spinner and the Keshiri crew immediately sided with Dreypa and pledged that allegience to him. Meanwhile, Kaliska and Takara were taken captive and imprisoned within the ship's hold. While Kaliska ceased her resistance and entered into a state of meditation, the Sith princess resisted her captors and had to be restrained in chains.

Against the Lost Tribe
"Your Tribe will serve me&mdash;once I show them what it means to be Sith!''" "''This is our world, Dreypa! The Tribe will resist you!"

- Remulus Dreypa and Takara Hilts

After several days of voyaging across the Southern Ocean, the Southern Star arrived in Keshtah and landed at the port town of Eorm, Spinner's hometown. During the voyage, Spinner became acquainted with Lord Dreypa and related to him the historical origins of the Lost Tribe of Sith and their empire. The Sith Lord was surprised that an entire Sith civilization had developed on Kesh while he had been imprisoned in the oubliette for millennia. Lord Dreypa was grateful towards the Sith rebel for freeing him and swore vengeance against the descendants of his Dark Jedi allies who had imprisoned him within his own oubliette. Since he had been imprisoned in stasis for a long period, Lord Dreypa was slowly recovering his memory but could not remember all his powers at the moment. Spinner also related to Lord Dreypa that Eorm was his hometown and expressed his desire to destroy the town as a means of proving the Sith Lord's powers. Dreypa agreed to level the town but first had to attend to his two captives: Kaliska and Takara. Lord Dreypa had spared Takara Hilts since her father was the leader of the Lost Tribe and he felt that she would be useful as a hostage for future bargaining.

While on the outskirts of Eorm, Dreypa sensed panic emanating from the town and decided to use the city to display the extent of his powers to his new allies and their prisoners. The local townfolk had failed to meet their quota of producing enough sailcloth to supply the Lost Tribe's fleet of wooden ships. As punishment, the local Sith Lord Galathos had ordered his troops to raze several houses. When a local Keshiri begged for mercy claiming that the townfolk had labored day and night to meet the order, Galathos used the Force to choke the man. Galathos also added that the reformist Grand Lord Hilts was too far away to stop such abuses. However, Galathos was interrupted by Lord Dreypa himself who killed him by using powerful Force lightning bolts.

Dreypa then used the Force to conjure flames, incinerating Galathos's troops. After this fiery display, Spinner rallied the crowd of slaves who had become dazed by the power of Dreypa, stating that the Tribe's rulers in Tahv had let the people down and that this new Sith Lord would fight for them against their oppressors. However, Dreypa interrupted Spinner to tell the crowd that he was fighting for nobody and that he would not stay on Kesh. The Sith Lord harangued the onlookers for not keeping to the true Sith path but promised that he would overthrow the tribal leadership, whom he derided for becoming lax and complacent through the exploitation of others. Dreypa also vowed to return to the stars which he described as his domain. Finally, the Exiled urged the townsfolk to join him in order to get revenge against their former tormentors. Dreypa's speech calling for the people to "break their chains" had a spell-binding effect on the people of Eorm.

Among the observers were the captive Sith princess Takara and the S'kytri Doomed leader Kaliska. Kaliska warned the Sith princess not to underestimate the dangers of Dreypa's powers since he had once threatened the entire planet. However, Dreypa overheard their conversation and quickly recognized the winged Sky'tri woman as one of the descendants of one those Dark Jedi who had betrayed him and sealed him within the oubliette. Dreypa then revealed that he had been able to survive within the oubliette for several millennia because of an amulet that his rival Sorzus Syn had given to him on Korriban with the intention of trapping his spirit. However, Dreypa had altered the amulet's powers to help him survive his captivity within the oubliette. While Dreypa still had not fully regained his memories, the Sith Lord recalled that there was something he was looking for. He asked Kaliska if it was with her people but the woman feigned ignorance and claimed that she was only concerned with the well being of the Keshiri natives.

Dreypa then boasted that his campaign would not stop at Eorm and that the Lost Tribe would eventually come to serve him. However, Takara responded that this was her Tribe's homeworld and that they would resist him. Dreypa then insulted Takara bu threatening to kill her father Grand Lord Varner Hilts whom he derided as a "fool." Meanwhile, Dreypa's new "partner" Spinner went to the guardhouse at Eorm where he retrieved the lightsabers the deceased Sith. Upon returning back to the village, Spinner gave one of these lightsabers to Dreypa. In return, Dreypa conferred the rank of Sith Lord on the the young man and instructed him to distribute the remaining lightsabers to his newly-formed peasant army. Dreypa then announced that they would march on the Tribe's capital at Tahv. Takara chided Spinner for his willingness to betray his own people and to collaborate with an enemy. However, Spinner would have none of her lecturing and disowned the Tribe as his people, claiming that he aligned himself with the Exiled in order to overthrow the ruling elite.

Takara then tried to insult Spinner by claiming that Dreypa would take all the glory for himself. She then told him to scurry back to Dreypa's side and disparaged the young man as little more than a slave who had changed his master. Drepya regarded the Sith princess Takara as a valuable hostage that he could used as leverage in negotiations. He then ordered two Keshiri guards to take Takara and Kaliska into captivity. However, the Sith princess had stolen two lightsabers and quickly felled her captors once they were out of sight. Kaliska then convinced Takara to return with her to Eshkrene and rally the Doomed in order to counter Dreypa's plans. The two women fled and also took all the uvaks of Eorm with them, depriving Spinner and Dreypa of an "air force." Meanwhile, the Lost Tribe, advised of the Eorm insurrection but not of the presence of Dreypa, gathered its warriors under the command of Varner's wife Iliana, and marched against Dreypa and his followers in the Marisota Floodplain, a large plain which had been the site of many battles between rival Sith Lords. Grand Consort Iliana initially dismissed the Eorm incident as a mere slave rebellion but expressed concern at the vast numbers and level of organization.

During the battle, Dreypa and Spinner eliminated many of their Sith opponents. Spinner took advantage of the fighting to settle scores against his opponents for real and perceived wrongs. While Dreypa killed several opponents with Force lightning, Spinner cruelly threw daggers into the chest of an enemy Sith warrior. As the man bled to death from his wounds, Spinner claimed that he had returned and was teaching the man a "history lesson" and that some people would be more excited about it than others. However, the tide of the battle changed when the Grand Consort sent forth her air forces, the Skyborn Rangers, who wiped out much of the Dreypa's untrained peasant army with their glass daggers. Facing defeat, Dreypa chided Spinner for not bring uvak steeds along. However, Spinner explained that their army lacked any professional riders and added that it took several months to learn how to fly an uvak.

Spinner suddenly recalled that the guards with their two hostages had not yet caught up with the main army. An argument broke out between the two commanders when Spinner argued that their forces had move too fast. However, Dreypa was unconcerned and expressed his impatience with reaching the capital Tahv in order to escape Kesh. Despite experiencing memory losses since his awakening, Dreypa finally remembered the existence of the Leviathans and ordered his surviving troops to follow him to the Sessal Spire, a large volcano that was situated in a peninsula south-west of the battlefield. Their retreat was observed by the Lost Tribe's commanders and Iliana gloated that the enemy was entering into a trap since the volcano was a dead end at the rim of the continent Keshtah overlooking the Southen Ocean.

After some travelling, Spinner and Dreypa reached the molten crater of the volcano. By then, Spinner was beginning to have doubts about the mental health of Dreypa, and tried to negotiate his surrender with Iliana and the other Lost Tribe pursuers. The Grand Consort immediately recognized Spinner as the same man who had tried to assassinate her husband in Tahv. Spinner however tried to maintain a cheerful disposition and offered to make a deal with the Tribe since his leader had apparently turned insane. Spinner cheekily remarked to Iliana that her husband Varner would have just dismissed his involvement in the uprising as another one of his pranks that had gone wrong. However, Iliana was unwilling to give any quarter to the young anarchist and threatened to throw him into the lava after they had killed the ringleader.

Iliana then turned her attention to the ringleader Dreypa, who insulted the Grand Consort for marrying a "doddering old man." He offered Iliana the opportunity of becoming his new consort and claimed to be a true Sith with "real" power. However, Iliana rejected the offer and stated her preferences for Varner, claiming that he did not have any delusions of grandeur. Iliana then disparaged Dreypa as a mere slave who had thought himself some Force tricks and donned a ridiculous outfit. She then ordered her troops to throw Dreypa and Spinner into the molten crater. However, Dreypa used his talisman to awaken three fully developed Leviathans. These ancient Sithspawn had been developed during the Hundred-Year Darkness and had a fearsome reputation throughout the galaxy. The Sith Lord had earlier stolen them from his rival Sorzus Syn's laboratory on Korriban.

The Leviathans
Having awakened his Leviathans, Lord Dreypa ordered them to kill all the Sith present, including both the Tribe loyalists and the rebels. Spinner and Iliana barely managed to escape with their lives as the massive monsters began using their tendrils to pluck Sithlings. The Leviathans then drained all the life energy within their prey, leaving behind shrivelled husks. The Leviathans also absorbed the knowledge of their prey which Dreypa also gained accessed to. Spinner attempted to save his own life by begging his former ally to spare him. However, Dreypa rejected Spinner's pleas on the basis that he had no allies and that his so-called allies had betrayed him centuries ago. Dreypa regarded the Leviathans as all the help that he needed. In the middle of the feeding frenzy, Dreypa and his Leviathans came under attack from the "Doomed", who had just flow across the Southern Ocean from Eshkrene by riding their uvak steeds. Kaliska herself led the attack and ordered her warriors to target the Leviathans' blister traps and exhorted her men to fight for the fight they had been born for.

Dreypa then unleashed Force lightning on the attackers. At that point, Spinner took the opportunity to desert Dreypa. However, his old enemy Takara caught sight of him and flew her uvak towards him, slamming him to the ground. She attempted to execute Spinner for his treachery but the two were then distracted by the cries of Iliara who had been captured by a Leviathan. Takara quickly rushed away and attempted to save her mother by hacking at the monster's tendrils. However, she too was captured by the Leviathan. At that point, Spinner intervened and attacked the Leviathan. He used his daggers to puncture the beast's blister traps. A free Takara then threw her lighstaber to Spinner who then used it to slay the Leviathan. While Spinner and Takara had managed to save the life of Iliara Hilts, she had been aged by the Leviathan. She was no longer the young warrior queen but was now an old woman. From that point, Spinner and Takara joined forces to stop Dreypa's ambitions.

The Doomed were busy keeping the Leviathans preoccupied which allowed the three Humans to escape the battlefield before more Leviathan larvae hatched. Takara and Spinner then loaded the debilitated Grand Consort aboard an uvak. By that stage, Dreypa had gained the upper hand over the Doomed through the use of Force lightning and the Leviathans' awesome powers. One of his Leviathans managed to catch a Rodian member of the Doomed in one of its blister trap. Since the Sith Lord commanded the Leviathans, he was able to absorb their knowledge and quickly learnt that the Doomed were the descendants of the Jedi and Dark Jedi who had imprisoned him within the oubliette. While he knew that the Doomed had pledged never to go to war again near the Keshiri, they had broken that rule in order to stop him. At that point, Dreypa learnt through the absorbed memories of his defeated foes that his ancient forebears had hidden something from him.

The sole Sith survivors of the onslaught at Sessal Spire were Spinner, Takara, and Iliana. The Sky'tri woman Kaliska was the lone survivor of the Doomed on Keshiri since most of her brethren had been slaughtered by Dreypa's Leviathans. While Takara was guiding the uvak carrying her mother, Kaliska had a brief conversation with Spinner. Since Dreypa's Leviathans had been too strong for even the Doomed to handle and that he was rapidly learning their secrets, Kaliska suggested that they combine their assault with the Tribe's remaining forces. However, Spinner dismissed the idea since he felt that the Tribe's leadership would have regarded her as a freakish alien in the same vein as the Leviathans.

During the conversation, Spinner and Takara learnt from Kaliska that the ancient forebears of the Doomed had hidden a Jedi Starship within the Keshiri burial cairns beneath the Circle Eternal, the center of the Lost Tribe's government and the Hilt's palace at Tahv. Kaliska explained that Doomed had sworn never to leave Kesh as long as they had remained Force-sensitive. Kaliska managed to convince Spinner and Takara to destroy the vessel before Dreypa could get his hands on it. While Kaliska still distrusted Spinner, they were forced to settle for him because his expertise as a graverobbber had allowed him to break into the catacombs and find the starship within hours. In exchange, Kaliska offered to accompany Spinner in order to make sure he carried out the task. Spinner also agreed to ferry Takara's debilitated mother Iliana back to Tahv on her uvak where the Tribe's Force sages could treat her.

Dreypa and his Leviathans quickly caught up with party. Spinner and Iliana managed to escape on the uvak back to Tahv. However, Kaliska was captured by one of Dreypa's Leviathans which proceeded to drain the S'kytri woman of her life energies and memories. Dreypa quickly found through his close Force bond with the Leviathans that she was the last survivor of the Doomed, whom he derided as traitors and fools who had betrayed and imprisoned him within the oubliette. He taunted Kaliska by claiming that her people's exile had been self-inflicted and ultimately futile to prevent his re-emergence. He quickly learn that the Doomed's forebears had hidden the Jedi Starship in Tahv, the Tribe's capital. Dreypa then ordered his pet Leviathans to transport him to Tahv.

Dreypa was unwilling to enslave the planet which he regarded as a primeval backwater since he was more interested in conquering the galaxy. Instead, he allowed his Leviathans to feed on the entire planet after he had left. However, Dreypa was interrupted by Takara, the Sith princess who had stayed behind to delay him. She promised that Kesh would instead eat him and reiterated that the planet belonged to the Lost Tribe. Dreypa taunted her by remarking that the Tribe had already sent its best forces against him and that she was the sole survivor. However, Takara replied by taunting the Dark Jedi that the Tribe had broken chains from people like him a long time ago. Takara was referring to the red-skinned Sith rulers of the ancient Sith Empire whose forebears had enslaved the Tribe's Tapani human ancestors. The two Force-users then engaged in a duel with lightsabers and Force lightning but Dreypa quickly gained the upper hand due to his superior mastery of the Dark Side.

Legacy
"Curse that fool Dreypa and his blasted oubliette!"

- Karness Muur's spirit

During the Mandalorian Wars, an oubliette of Dreypa came into the possession of Pulsipher, a mandalorian scientist who threatened to place Zayne Carrick into it if the young Jedi did not tell him how to use the Muur Talisman, which Pulsipher had found on Taris. During the events that followed, Pulsipher was killed and the power of the Talisman unleashed when the Jedi Knight Celeste Morne was possessed by the spirit of Dreypa's rival, Karness Muur. To prevent Muur from raising legions of Rakghouls and threatning the Galaxy, Morne then unknowingly fulfill Dreypa original wish, imprisonning herself, Muur spirit and the Talisman into the oubliette.

The oubliette stayed into the ices of Jebble during thousands of years, but it was later found by a group of miners and opened by Darth Vader during the Galactic Civil War. Freed from his agony, Muur cursed Dreypa for the oubliette's creation. As for Morne, tormented and partially under the control of Muur, she engaged a duel with Vader, forcing him to flee, and subsequently ordered stormtroopers turned rakhgouls to destroy the oubliette of Dreypa.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 27: Vector, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 28: Vector, Part 4
 * Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith 2: Spiral, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith 3: Spiral, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith 4: Spiral, Part 4
 * Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith 5: Spiral, Part 5
 * Star Wars: Dark Times: Vector