Darth Desolous

"A thousand Jedi died cursing Darth Desolous."

- Darth Desolous

Darth Desolous was a Pau'an Sith. Before falling to the dark side of the Force, he was a member of the Jedi Order.

Biography
Desolous fought Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice inside the ruins of the Jedi Temple as part of a metaphysical test in the form of a Sith spirit. His Master was Darth Phobos, who trained him via her holocron. Desolous fought with a single-bladed red lightsaber and a shield, in the same design his people use on Utapau, able to resist a lightsaber.

Behind the scenes
This character was first mentioned on Leland Chee's blog in 2006, where his name was said to be inspired by the word desolate.

In March 2008, an advance review of the game The Force Unleashed described Desolous as a Sith Lord who the Secret Apprentice fights to earn Darth Vader's approval. This review also states that Desolous may also possibly be of the Pau'an species. A second review, a few weeks later, announced that the character is the first-level Boss in the Wii version of the game, located in the decayed Jedi Temple on Coruscant, but spelled the character's name "Desolus".

An image of Desolous, apparently from a German TV program,was posted online in March 2008. This depiction of Desolous is likely to be broadly accurate, as the same image also includes a picture of Darth Phobos, whose appearance has now been confirmed from one of the advance reviews.

According to a fan who has attempted to translate the dialogue, the same German TV clip also claims that Desolous is a former Jedi, and that he was trained as a Sith by the holocron of Darth Phobos. This resembles the way that XoXaan trained Darth Krayt.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed game