Darth Drear

Darth Drear was a Sith Lord who served the Sith Empire and lived around 4,645 BBY. During the course of his life, Drear searched for the path to immortality. He lived on the planet Odacer-Faustin, where he built a hidden Sith Temple beneath the Sith Academy on the surface of the world. In the Temple, he researched alchemy and developed a way to evade death through a disease that caused beings to become undead. However, the disease also caused the infected beings to lose all control over their minds and develop a hunger for living flesh. Drear thus developed a process through which he could keep control of his mind even when infected with the disease&mdash;by killing a Jedi and eating the Jedi's heart, ingesting the midi-chlorians in the Jedi's blood. Drear organized a mission to have a Jedi brought to him and infected himself with the disease, preparing for the ritual in which he would gain eternal life. However, his servants failed to bring back a suitable Jedi, and Drear succumbed to the disease.

Millennia later, in 3,645 BBY, the Sith Lord Darth Scabrous also searched out immortality, and discovered Drear's experiments beneath the Sith Academy on Odacer-Faustin. Scabrous tested his work on multiple students at the Academy, and soon acquired a murakami orchid&mdash;the last ingredient in the disease's creation. He unleashed the finished product upon the Sith there, soon infecting every last Sith at the academy, including himself. However, he failed to eat the heart of a Jedi before he succumbed to the disease, just as Darth Drear had. The disease lived on, however, and became part of an Imperial bioweapon project thousands of years later, in 1 BBY.

Appearances

 * Red Harvest