Byss/Legends

"If there's a dark center of the universe, this is it&hellip;"

- Luke Skywalker

Byss was a planet in the Deep Core, near the center of the galaxy, discovered no earlier than 45 BBY. A local day lasted 31 standard hours, and a local year lasted 207 standard days. It was the endpoint of the Byss Run.

Byss itself was somewhat of a myth, seeming to be the perfect place to live. Its eerie blue-green glow, caused by its sun, also added to the strangeness of the world. Despite this outward appearance, however, Emperor Palpatine's dark side energies were everywhere, corrupting not only the inhabitants, but the planet itself.

Byss was the secret throne world of Palpatine and the location of his towering Imperial Citadel. He also kept his secret supply of clone bodies there.

History
Around 30,000 BBY during the Pre-Republic era, Byss was ruled by the space-faring Rakata. Using Force-based hyperdrives, they traveled to many worlds around the galaxy that possessed significant signatures in the Force, uniting them to form the Rakatan Infinite Empire. They constructed large temples on Byss. After five thousand years of galactic dominance, the Rakata retreated to their homeworld. Their temples collapsed into ruins overtaken by the jungle, leaving no clues for later settlers as to how or why they died out.

The surface of the world was dotted with "spectacular" ruins that were said to be pre-Expansion Era. During the Galactic Empire's expansion into the Deep Core region, Palpatine selected Byss as his personal retreat and his secret throne world. Thousands of non-Human slaves were forced to labor in the "recolonization efforts" on Byss including the Utapauns and Gamorreans after the Clone Wars. It was on Byss that a number of captured AgriCorps workers and Padawans were held captive under the supervision of Sly Moore, until the Emperor introduced them to Darth Vader. Vader killed all but four of them; these four he trained to be Inquisitors. One of the chosen, named Antinnis Tremayne, would eventually become a High Inquisitor. It was the site of the Sarlacc Project, where a Super Star Destroyer prototype was under creation before being destroyed by a group of freedom fighters and pirates under Bail Prestor Organa and Alya Aldrete. The Emperor drew ignorant followers to the planet under the pretext that it was a paradise world. Among them were survivors of the Destruction of Alderaan, which he offered to resettle on Byss in a public speech delivered following the destruction of the world. Once they had settled into their new lives on the paradise world, the Emperor revealed his true plans for Byss. Immigrants lived out their lives in elaborate pageants and amusements, which distracted them from what Palpatine was really doing: draining their life energies to power his abominable experiments. Eventually, Byss was entirely enveloped in the dark side of the Force. This was evident by the eerie blue-green sunlight that bathed the world in a strange glow.

Byss had orbital drydocks for both World Devastators, Super Star Destroyers and later on, the Galaxy Gun. At the height of its power, the world was encircled by warships and battle stations for the Emperor's protection.

Byss was fanatically loyal to the Emperor even after his first death at the Battle of Endor. When the Emperor was reborn in a new clone body, Byss became the capital world of the Galactic Empire, which Palpatine planned on rebuilding into the beginnings of a universe spanning magocracy. Byss was destroyed during a battle with the New Republic when Eclipse II was rammed into the Galaxy Gun by R2-D2, causing the last projectile of the Galaxy Gun to misfire and aim toward the planet, destroying it.

In 14 ABY, Tavion Axmis absorbed the lingering dark side energy from the remains of Byss during her campaign to resurrect Marka Ragnos. Rosh Penin was sent to investigate, but was seduced to the dark side by Tavion. Kyle Katarn and Jaden Korr later embarked on a mission to Byss to discover Penin's fate. The Raven's Claw was captured by a Dreadnaught-class cruiser among the planet's remains, though the Jedi ultimately escaped the clutches of the Imperial Remnant.

Darth Xybus
Is a dark lord of the sith that betrayed his master, Luke Skywalker. He went and hid in the unknown regions plotting a return of the sith empire. He took on several apprentices, all who attempted to usurp his dark title. Finally he found a twilek female whom he took as an apprentice. Shortly though they fell in love and planned to rule the galaxy together as lovers. Darth Xybus and Darth Mitra found the star maps that Darth Revan, over 5,000 years prior had found, and located the hidden star forge, still in dormancy. Xybus was strong enough to control the corrupting effects of the Star Forge and began building an infinite army and fleet. He quickly took control of outerlying systems and the War had begun. Instead of goin for the outer rim first, Xybus was going straight for the core worlds. In an epic battle Coruscant fell to Xybus' hands, and the New Republic fell. Darth Xybus' old master Luke desperately boarded his ship to either destroy or bring his wayward apprentice back to the light. An epic battle ensued, but Luke was struk a fatal blow. Xybus preserved Luke alive and took him to the Star Forge and put him in a terminal that allowed Xybus to slowly drain the force from him to further strengthen the Dark Lord and his Dark Queen. With the Republic all but destroyed and the Jedi fleeing into exile yet again, the galaxy looked like it was going back into a time of darkness. Until one day, the Dark Queen goes on a mission to destroy Mara Jade, Luke's Wife, who was attacking critical targets trying to inflict enough damage to the empire to allow the republic to rally and defeat the Dark Lord. During the ensuing battle, Mara found a shred of good in Mitra, Through a long conversation Mara persuaded Mitra to the Light. Mitra then took Mara to her Husbands flag ship, The Eclipse IV. Mara engaged Xybus and quickly was injured by the dark Lord. As Xybus went in to strike Mara down, Mitra intervened and engaged her husband, after an epic battle, Mitra reached a sensitive part of Xybus and implored Xybus to turn away from the dark side, after hours of fighting, arguing, and conversing Xybus recieved a vision from the former master Luke Skywalker, who showed the atrocities of the dark side, and showed the good times that they enjoyed during Xybus' training. Xybus fell to his knees and began weeping in his wife's arms. Xybus felt unredeemable for what he has done. Mara said that by destroying this tool of evil and assisting in rebuilding the republic and reestablishing the jedi order, he'll be more than redeemed and welcomed back into the order. Xybus then took his flagship and destroyed the rakatan factory, once and for all. He was able to persuade and convert officials to join the Republic. After reestablishing the republic and the jedi, he rebuilt the long destroyed jedi temple on Coruscant, and once again the high council was located in its temple in the capital. Xybus and Mitra had triplets, and a fourth child, all becoming jedi knights. Xybus at the young age of 35 became the Grand Master with Mitra in the second in command role. Xybus became a renowned jedi and the dark side was nonexistant for the duration of Xybus' and Mitra's life. He and his wife assisted in building a era peace, the longest since before the fall of the Old Republic. He died at the age of 105 on his homeworld of Taris, Mitra lived on for 20 more years and died and was buried with her husband on Taris