Vitiate

"When the Emperor planned the Republic's destruction, he did not foresee the need for alliances. The Sith would sweep through the galaxy, systematically exterminating their age old Jedi enemies and dismantling the proud Republic."

- The Holocron of Jedi Master Gnost-Dural on the Great Galactic War

Lord Vitiate was a Sith Lord of the Old Sith Empire who survived the Great Hyperspace War to become the Dark Lord and Emperor of a reconstituted Sith Empire. According to legend, he was born Tenebrae, an out-of-wedlock son of Lord Dramath of Medriaas and a poor farmer. His Force affinity was first manifested at the age of six, when Tenebrae's mother revealed to his adopted father the truth of the boy's parentage. After killing his family, Tenebrae began the bloody conquest of his homeplanet, eventually setting himself up as ruler of Medriaas at the age of ten. The Dark Lord of the Sith Marka Ragnos recognized his authority and bestowed upon him a new name and title. Vitiate's lust for death and power grew as he studied the occult Sith arts, and he was detached from the politics of the Empire. After the Sith defeat in the Great Hyperspace War, Lord Vitiate lured numerous Sith Lords fearful of a Republic attack and desperate to unite to his home planet, now renamed Nathema, where he performed a ritual that sucked the life and the Force out of everything on the planet, granting him immortality.

Biography
The Emperor survived the ancient Sith Empire's defeat during the Great Hyperspace War, fled the destruction of the Sith people on Korriban, and led several cruisers into unknown space where they spent several years searching for a new home. Jedi Master Gnost-Dural believed that the Republic's genocide of the Sith people at the end of the Great Hyperspace War was the primary reason why the Emperor led what remained of his people to rebuild their civilization and seek revenge fourteen centuries later.

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 a new, revitalized Empire, vowing to return and defeat the Republic. Using dark rituals, the Emperor prolonged his life and his undisputed rule. However, Jedi Master Gnost-Dural suggested that the Sith spirits in the Korriban mausoleums did not approve of the Sith Emperor's rule, since they gave the title of Dark Lord to Exar Kun in 3,997 BBY.

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 other, more mysterious goals.



In the time after the Mandalorian Wars eminent Jedi Knights Revan and Malak traveled into the Unknown Regions in search of the Star Forge which led them into contact with the Sith Emperor. It is unknown what happened during the first contact, but what is known is that by the time they left Dromund Kaas they were following the order 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. Revan and Malak complied, initiating the Jedi Civil War.

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.

After Malak's death the remnant of Revan's Empire was destroyed by the Jedi Exile who shortly after her victory departed to the Unknown Regions to join Revan, who left at the end of the Jedi Civil War, on his quest against the Emperor and his "True" Sith. About 300 years later it was presumed that they failed when the "True" Sith finally returned and started the Great Galactic War and they were never seen again.

In the year 3,681 BBY, 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 3,678 BBY, 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 mysterious goals. By the time of the Great War, he was well over 1,400 years old.

Appearances

 * 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
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic, Blood of the Empire Act 3: Burn the Future
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace Act 1: Treaty of Coruscant
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived
 * Timeline 1: Treaty of Coruscant
 * Timeline 4: The Empire Changes Strategy
 * Timeline 5: The Battle of Bothawui
 * Timeline 6: Onslaught of the Sith Empire
 * Timeline 7: Peace for the Republic?
 * Timeline 8: The Jedi Civil War
 * Timeline 9: The Mandalorian Wars
 * Timeline 10: The Exar Kun War
 * Timeline 11: Rebirth of the Sith Empire
 * Timeline 12: The Great Hyperspace War
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic