Darth Krayt

"I have broken the spine of the Galaxy&hellip; Sometimes, things must be broken in order to be rebuilt. As I have bent the Force to my will, so I will bend the Galaxy and it will know order. My true work is about to begin."

- Darth Krayt

Darth Krayt was the founder and leader of the most recent incarnation of the Sith Order c. 130 ABY. Presumed to be a Human male, his identity and his past is something he hid under Yuuzhan Vong bioengineered vonduun crab armor, and kept secret even from most of his own Sith companions.

Krayt was born into a Galaxy deeply wounded by civil war and the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, leading him to believe that the Galaxy was fractured and weak, and that a single will was needed to make it whole and strong again. Equipped with knowledge gained from Sith holocrons found on the ancient Sith burial world of Korriban, he reestablished the cult under his leadership and pledged to reunify the Galaxy according to the will of the Sith. Unlike the previous incarnation, however, Krayt abolished the somewhat disastrous Rule of Two, Darth Bane's ancient diktat commanding that there could be only two Sith at any one time, master and apprentice. Instead, there would be the Rule of One&mdash;that One being the Sith Order itself, under which there would be many Sith.

For more than a hundred years, Krayt grew and strengthened the Sith on Korriban, surreptitiously planning to bring its vision of peace and order to the Galaxy, until at last, in the period of 120–130 ABY, the Sith made their presence known openly under Krayt's leadership, launching a devastating attack on the Jedi Temple and Emperor Roan Fel of the Empire.

Proving as fierce as his namesake krayt dragons of Tatooine, he later killed Fel's double and took control of the Empire as the new Emperor, forcing the Moffs to swear loyalty to him. However, by this point, Krayt had contracted some kind of disease, and was dying. He believed he had as little as two decades to live.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Legacy