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Sirak
"I do not issue challenges. I have no need to test myself against a lesser opponent."

- Sirak

Sirak was a male Zabrak who trained as a Sith apprentice at the Academy on Korriban during the New Sith Wars. He was the top apprentice at the Academy, favored by many of the Sith Masters, particularly Qordis.

Sirak was reknowned at the Academy for his strength in the Dark Side and his skills in lightsaber combat. He developed a rival in the apprentice Bane, whom Sirak believed was one of the few apprentices that could eventually challenge his place at the academy. When Bane lost favour with the Masters at the academy when he began pulling away from The Force, he sought to re-establish his position by challanging Sirak. The Zabrak defeated the Human easily, and disregarded the former threat to his standing.

Some weeks later, Sirak was challenged by Bane again. Sirak was unaware that Bane had recieved secret training from Kas'im, the Academy's Blademaster, in preparation for seeking his revenge for his first defeat.. Bane's secret training allowed him to fully control the duel, drawing out Sirak's defeat. Hesitating on the killing blow, Bane was stopped by Kas'im, and Sirak was not only defeated but humiliated.

Furious and desperate for vengence, Sirak plotted ways of killing Bane. He was handed his opportunity when Githany, a deserter of the Jedi Order and Bane's other secret teacher alongside Kas'im, sought him out to kill Bane. Sirak, along withLlokay and Yevra, his Zabrak kin, waited in the library while Githany lured Bane to them. However, Githany had betrayed the Zabrak trio, providing Bane with his lightsaber to defend himself. The former Jedi killed the twin Zabrak with her light-whip, and Bane decapitaed Sirak after he begged for mercy.

The Korriban Academy
Hailing from the Zabrak homeworld of Iridonia, Sirak was a Sith Apprentice on Korriban during the fianl years of the New Sith Wars. He was rumored amonst some of the apprentices that Sirak had begun training under the Korriban Academy's Headmaster, Qordis, some twenty years before.

During his time at the Academy, Sirak rose through the throng of students to become the top apprentice there. He won the admiration of his fellow Zabrak within the academy, the twins Yevra and Llokay, though he was by far their superior in skill. The two apprentices followed Sirak constantly, giving the appearence of obedient servants following their master. Compared to the other students, his power was so great several apprentices believed Sirak was the Sith'ari, and embodiment of the Dark Side itself.

Sirak was reknowned in the academy for utilizing the double-bladed training saber. Although there were other apprentices who used this style of saber, the student Bane noted it was only Sirak that wielded the weapon with any kind of skill, apart from the Twi'lek Blademaser of the Academy, Kas'im.

Rivaly with Bane
After Bane killed the Makurth apprentice, Fohargh, during a training duel, Sirak followed the apprentice until they were in a seperate corridor, alone. The Zabrak found Bane intriguing, and felt he would be a powerful opponent - one who would eventually challenge himself for the position of top student. Sirak attempted to intimidate the Human, telling him a confrontation between them would be inevitable, and when Bane felt he was ready, he knew Bane would eventually challenge him in the duelling ring.

Bane knew the challenge was to goad him into a duel before he was ready. But in killing Fohargh, he realised he had also killed his father using the Dark Side. Over the course of the next month, Bane began to loose his control of The Force, unable to access his anger. When Qordis, headmaster of the Academy, told the other Masters to cease his preferencial treatment, Bane knew his prestige was weakened and had to take measures to re-claim it. Bane rashly challenged Sirak in an attempt to prove himself.

Sirak utterly defeated him, breaking several bones and putting him into bacta therapy for a number of weeks.

Though his progress was slow after this, Bane secretly sought training from both Githany and Kas'im. After weeks of intense training from Githany and Kas'im, Bane thought it was the appropriate time to take revenge on Sirak for the humiliation he suffered. When Bane challenged Sirak for the second time, he found himself much more advanced in the art of lightsaber combat. Throughout the whole duel, Bane had to hold himself back from striking many smaller blows that would have ended the duel. Eventually Bane let himself go and ended the confrontation with lightning-fast blows to the wrist and shin which left part of Sirak's bone exposed. Bane hesitated before striking the killing blow as he and Githany had planned. Kas'im saw the hesitation and called an end to the duel. Sirak was placed in the bacta tanks. As he sat in the healing liquid, his rage towards Darth Bane rose.

past was shrouded in mystery. One of the greatest, to the students at the Academy on Korriban, was why he did not remain on his homeworld despite their being another Academy on the planet.

Death
After Bane's departed to the Valley of the Dark Lords, Githany approached Sirak, and they plotted to kill the future Dark Lord of the Sith. When Bane returned, Githany met him in his chambers and secretly took his lightsaber. She asked him to follow her to the library. When they walked in, they found Sirak, Llokay and Yevra standing in waiting. Githany tossed Bane his lightsaber and they engaged in a three-on-two duel. First, Bane Force Pushed Yevra into a shelf, causing it to splinter badly; seeing the female Zabrak vulnerable, Githany quickly ended her life. While Bane and Sirak engaged each other in lightsaber combat, Yevra's grief-stricken brother, Llokay, charged Bane. Normally the Zabrak would not be able to stand up to Bane's superiority, but the rage empowered him through the dark side of the Force. While Bane and Llokay dueled, Sirak launched a bolt of Force Lightning at Bane, which he caught with his lightsaber. This turned his attention back to Sirak and they dueled once again. Llokay's attention was focused on Githany's flashing lightwhip. Eventually, he missed a parry, and his vocal chords and an eye were seared out by the dangerous weapon. Sirak, seeing his followers dead, dropped to his knees and begged for mercy from Darth Bane. The Sith Lord decapitated the groveling Zabrak.

Personality & traits
Sirak had pale yellow skin and orange eyes, Sirak was one of three Zabrak at the academy at the time. The other two, the twins Yevra and Llokay, were followers of his and were often seen at his side.

Behind the scenes
In the novel, Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Sirak is incorrectly described as being a practitioner of Vaapad, a lightsaber form based on Juyo, created millennia later by Jedi Master Mace Windu with the help of fellow Master Sora Bulq.

Appearances

 * Darth Bane: Path of Destruction

Sirak

First Battle of Ruusan
The First Battle of Ruusan was one of the final battles of the New Sith Wars, and the first battle of the last campaign of the war. A fleet of Sith warships under the direct command of Lord Kaan ambushed a larger Republic fleet orbiting Ruusan, a politically insignificant world that the Republic was using as a base to launch raids on Sith-occupied Kashyyyk. On his command ship Nightfall, Kaan used battle meditation, while Kopecz flew with the Sith interceptors.

The battle
In the initial attack, Nightfall destroyed the Republic battleship on picket duty, and began to overwhelm the other two support ships, preventing them from offering any support to the heavier but less maneuverable Hammerhead-class capital ships that formed the backbone of the Republic defense. Meanwhile, an attack by the Sith's Buzzard fighters crippled two of the Hammerheads themselves, taking down their deflector shields.

The three Sith Dreadnaughts followed up the attack on the two now-shieldless Hammerheads, while the corsair battleships used their superior maneuverability to attack the other two.

However, at this point, the Jedi Master commanding the Republic fleet intervened with her own battle meditation. One of the corsairs, Fury, was destroyed by a sudden volley of coordinated weapons fire from the two Hammerheads it was attacking, and the Sith Dreadnaughts were surprised by four full squadrons of Aurek fighters, launching from the cargo holds of the two cruisers they were attacking.

The remaining battleship, Rage, and the three Dreadnaughts, were forced to withdraw and regroup as the Republic seized the initiative. Kaan had lost the element of surprise, and found himself faced with an enemy that outnumbered and outgunned him, backed by battle meditation that was the equal to his own.

At this point, Lord Kopecz fought his way through the Republic fighter screen to board the Republic flagship in his interceptor, killing the troops guarding the hangar, and then moving on foot through the ship to find and eliminate the the Jedi Master. After defeating an elite security squad and two Selkath Padawans guarding the Master&mdash;an elderly female Cerean&mdash;Kopecz cut the alien down, silently acknowledging her resolve, but ending the Republic's change of fortune.

Kaan's forces pressed the attack once more, and all the defending Republic ships were destroyed, along with all the Republic troops aboard them.

Appearances

 * Darth Bane: Path of Destruction