Ommin

"Believe me, Jedi&mdash;the Sith way will live forever!"

- King Ommin to Jedi Master Arca Jeth

King Ommin of Onderon was the King of Onderon up until the end of the Beast Wars. He was a descendant and apprentice of Freedon Nadd.

Early life
"The dark side does not come without its price, you have the power over the Force, but in exchange you have lost power over your own body."

- Freedon Nadd's spirit to King Ommin

Ommin was a member of the Onderon Royal Family. He was a direct descendant of Freedon Nadd, a Dark Lord of the Sith who ruled the world for more than fifty years three centuries before. The Royal Family was the heir to all the legacy of Nadd: the tomb of Freedon Nadd, which was a focal point of dark side energy, and a large amount of Sith artifacts, including at least two Sith swords and a Sith Amulet.

Ommin fell to the dark side like all his ancestors. When his father was the King of Onderon, Ommin learned about dark side lore from him. Originally Ommin thought the lore was just another lesson of the use of power, much like diplomacy and etiquette. Eventually Ommin found out those dark lore offered much more power than anything else, thus the young Prince Ommin devoted himself to Sith sorcery. After the death of his father, Ommin was skilled enough to summon Nadd's spirit for further studying of the dark side of the Force.

When Ommin's father became one with the Force, Ommin took his rightful place as the ruler of the city Iziz. King Ommin rose to power in the exact same manner as his ancestors: by dominating the citizens of Onderon with the power of the dark side. Ommin married Amanoa as his Queen, and the couple had a daughter named Galia.

Soon, Ommin lost interest in the mundane daily activities as his training under Freedon Nadd came to the earnest moment. Nadd taught Ommin far more than his father ever had, teaching the King not only the dark side of the Force, but the traditions of the Sith as well. His wife Amanoa did not suspect Ommin's dark side allegiance for many years, but eventually his secret was discovered by the Queen. Amanoa tried to break the bond between Ommin and the Sith, which proved to be futile as the blood of the ancient Dark Lord ran in Ommin's very body. Eventually with the help of Nadd, Ommin corrupted his wife to the dark side, and the couple became powerful Sith sorcerers. Someday, Ommin decided, he would corrupt his daughter Galia to be the heir of the dark side as well.

The love between Ommin and Amanoa faded during their quest of the dark side. Mistrust, loathing, and outright hatred took the empty space. Little did the couple know that they were both manipulated by Freedon Nadd. Nadd's ultimate goal was to physically resurrect himself. By teaching his descendants well, Nadd hoped to find a powerful candidate to study Sith Alchemy and create a body to hold his spirit. To ensure Ommin or Amanoa would be powerful enough, Nadd made them compete with each other.



However, Ommin lost control of his own body in his path for darkness. A durasteel exoskeleton was built by the King's personal doctors to support his blood and flesh. At that days, Ommin murdered his aide Tolo Kad with a wave of dark side energy, who failed him completely in the arrangement of a state dinner. Ommin then appointed Kad's aide, the young Novar, as Minister of State and his new aide. It was not known whether King Ommin figured out Kad's failure was a setup of Novar, but one would assume such details would not matter to the Sith wizard.

After a decade of Novar's "manipulation" (or so Novar thought), King Ommin took Novar as his Sith apprentice. However, two years into the teaching, Ommin's body proved too ill to continue. The King retreated from the public, handing Iziz and Novar's dark side study to his wife. Thus Queen Amanoa assumed the daily duties as the ruler of Onderon.

Nadd realized that the couple had failed him: Ommin himself would never be strong enough to fulfill Nadd's dream, while Amanoa would not further her study once her husband failed to compete with her anymore.

The Freedon Nadd Uprising
"But do you know the great one is with us&hellip; even yet?"

- King Ommin to Jedi Master Arca Jeth

After years of isolation, one piece of major news reached his hide-out, possibly through Novar who fled to his hide-out: the death of Queen Amanoa by the hands of the Jedi, and the unification between Galia and the Beast Lord Oron Kira. Ommin plotted to take the planet back from the light as the rightful leader of the Naddists. He deployed subordinates to launch attacks throughout the fortified city. Sensing the presence of the darkness haunting the planet, the Jedi decided to move the sarcophagi of Amanoa and Nadd to the moon Dxun. The King tasked the dark side warrior Warb Null to ambush the Jedi with a groundborer, and the armored warrior successfully recovered the sarcophagi.



The Jedi learned the location of Ommin's hide-out from Galia, and the Jedi Master Arca Jeth and his Padawan Ulic Qel-Droma decided to infiltrate it with Galia. Ommin played weak upon the Jedi's arrival, and Nadd's spirit appeared to confront the Jedi. As Master Arca was distracted by the spirit of the ancient Dark Lord, Ommin rose and choked the neck of Arca with his left palm, then incapacitated the experienced Jedi Master by smothering him in dark side energy. Ommin offered his daughter a career with the dark side but was turned down. As Ulic dueled with Warb Null and destroyed the armored warrior, Ommin kidnapped Arca and fled to his stronghold.

The Republic sent more Jedi and ships out to stop King Ommin from retaining Freedon Nadd's sarcophagus and to quell the Naddist uprising on Onderon. The amount of Jedi sent, including the talented Nomi Sunrider, eventually countered the extreme dark side presence on the planet and turned the tide of the battle.

Treachery of the Sith Lord
"I'm sorry, Ommin&hellip; They don't belong to the dark side but you do!"

- Freedon Nadd to King Ommin before executing him



In his stronghold, King Ommin was visited by Satal Keto and his cousin Aleema, who requested Ommin to translate an ancient Sith magic book for them. The King gave Satal a Sith talisman, which could grant its wielder the ability to read ancient Sith text, as a gift in return for making a copy of the book for Ommin himself.

While Ommin ordered Novar to handle the copying, the King showed the Ketos his most prized possession: Jedi Master Arca Jeth, a prisoner of the dark side. Ommin determined to extinguish the light from Arca in an attempt to turn the Jedi over to the dark side. However, Arca's knowledge that other Jedi were coming for him gave the Master strength to resist the darkness.



At that very moment, the reinforced Jedi task force broke into the stronghold. Both sides suffered casualties as the Jedi engaged the Naddists. At last Ommin joined the fight personally, and the King knocked the gifted Nomi Sunrider away with dark side energy. He fought against Ulic Qel-Droma next, and lost to the young Jedi as Qel-Droma sliced apart his exoskeleton. Ommin's body collapsed, and he lay crumpled on the floor, dying. Freedon Nadd, after guiding the Ketos into the subterranean chambers of the palace, arrived by Ommin's side, who begged for Nadd's assistance. Seeing the potential in the Ketos, Nadd decided to abandon the august King. Nadd submitted Ommin to the dark side in front of the Jedi&mdash;the life of King Ommin of Onderon was terminated by his own ancestor.

After the revolt was settled, Ommin's sarcophagus, together with his wife's, were moved to Dxun and interred within the new tomb of Freedon Nadd.

Behind the scenes

 * Formally introduced in Tales of the Jedi: The Freedon Nadd Uprising, King Ommin shared many similarities with Emperor Palpatine of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi:
 * Both held royal title as king and emperor;
 * Both played physical weakness;
 * Both fought in a sorcerer's style, with attacks of pure energy instead of physical skills;
 * Both attempted to corrupt a Jedi during their final confrontation;
 * Both had a fully armored and masked subordinate: Warb Null and Darth Vader respectively.
 * Although King Ommin's energy attacks in the comics looked nothing like the Force lightning of the movies, The Dark Side Sourcebook claimed that Ommin knew such a feat.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Freedon Nadd Uprising
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Bane of the Sith