Mission to Ryloth

Some eight years after the onset of the Clone Wars, the Galactic Emperor Palpatine&mdash;secretly Darth Sidious&mdash;undertook a secret mission to quell the growing rebellion on Ryloth known as the Free Ryloth movement. Sidious took his Sith apprentice Darth Vader with him, using Vader's flagship Perilous as a transport. The Moff Delian Mors was only informed that the Galactic Empire was sending the Senator of Ryloth&mdash;the Twi'lek Orn Free Taa&mdash;on a state visit to his homeworld.

Spies within Taa's circle secretly informed the leader of the Free Ryloth movement&mdash;Cham Syndulla&mdash;that the Emperor and Vader would be with the Senator aboard Perilous, and so Syndulla's goal turned to assassinating both Sith Lords as they entered Ryloth space. Although Perilous was successfully destroyed&mdash;and Taa's fate left unknown&mdash;the two Sith Lords survived the Star Destroyer destruction in orbit and skirmished with the Free Ryloth forces on the planet's surface.

Some of the Emperor's Royal Guardsmen were killed on the surface as Sidious and Vader escaped into nearby lylek caves, before the two Sith Lords and Sergeant Erstin Deez wiped out the entire lylek hive. In the meanwhile, the Moff Mors learned of the truth of Taa's mission to Ryloth and aided in the search for the Emperor, as well as exposing the traitor Belkor Dray, who had been feeding Syndulla information before and during the conflict. In the search that ensued, Mors eventually managed to kill Dray and come to the Emperor's rescue.

After escaping from the lylek caves, the Sith Lords encountered a Twi'lek girl named Drua, who welcomed the Imperials to her remote village&mdash;completely oblivious to their true identities or the ongoing battles nearby. There, the Free Ryloth commander Isval attacked Vader and the rest of the Imperial forces before they were routed, but not before Syndulla escaped and evaded capture. In the aftermath of the victory, Sidious commanded Vader to kill Drua and her people, as they had witnessed too much of the events of the day.

Appearances

 * Lords of the Sith