User:DeCarta

"I didn't kill Samael. I am Samael! Samael Lestrade!"

- Darth Pestilence

Samael Lestrade was a Human Dark Jedi, ex-Jedi Knight, son of Jedi Grand Master Raphael DeCarta and Arielle Lestrade, twin brother to Jedi Knight Remiel DeCarta, former Padawan to Jedi Master Jain Corba'an, and formerly a Sith Lord, apprenticed to Darth Atrox, under the name Darth Pestilence, and master to Cinara Cade. Lestrade was also a descendant of Anakin, Luke, Kol, and Cade Skywalker, as well as a descendant of Galen Marek, via Marek's clone, Starkiller and Juno Eclipse, which, genetically, also made him a descendant of the Dark Apprentice.

Born into a period of galatic war, Lestrade trained as a Jedi before marrying Lilah Pavan. Lilah, however, was killed during the Battle of Corellia, starting Lestrade on a path to the dark side of the Force, despite his subsequent return to the Jedi Order. His fall to the dark side became complete when he aided Darth Atrox in murdering then-Emperor Cyan Fel. With Fel dead, Lestrade apprenticed himself to Atrox, becoming Darth Pestilence. As a Sith Lord, Pestilence was given dominion over Geonosis and sent on numerous missions for his dark master. After crippling the Black Sun on Nar Shaddaa, Pestilence took war orphan Cinara Cade as his own secret apprentice.

While undergoing a mission to Vjun in order to retrieve Darth Vader's holocron, the first seeds of rebellion were planted in Pestilence, who destroyed the holocron after viewing it's contents. A subsequent mission to abduct Quarren Senator Covves resulted in Pestilence and Atrox betraying each other and the Jedi beginning a massive manhunt for Pestilence.