Darovit

"We kill because it's just."

- Darovit

Darovit, also known as Tomcat, was a failed Human Jedi Padawan and failed Sith during the last battles of the New Sith Wars.

Biography
The Jedi scout Torr Snapit discovered Darovit on Somov Rit along with his cousins, Hardin (known as Bug) and Zannah (known as Rain). He was allowed to go by their cousin and guardian, Root.

On the way to the Army of Light base on Ruusan, the starship flown by Torr Snapit was brought down in the forest. Snapit allowed the children to cross a rope bridge to safety, then sliced it with his lightsaber. After the Sith and Torr had fallen down the canyon, Darovit climbed down to retrieve Torr's lightsaber and found him alive. Although Torr pleaded for him to leave it, Darovit left him dismayed as he took it anyway and rejoined his cousin.



The ragged remnants of the Army of Light and the brutal reality of the war failed to fit in with the youth's expectations of what being a Jedi would be like. He betrayed the Jedi, murdered General Kiel Charny and joined the Sith as a pupil of Dark Lord Githany. At the end of the Seventh Battle of Ruusan, he turned back to the light when he proved unable to kill Hardin. However, no sooner had he made his decision when he became powerless to prevent either his mentor or his cousin from being killed by Lord Kaan's thought bomb.

He was one of the few survivors of the thought bomb, although he had no idea how he managed it. He was reunited with his family around ten years later when his surviving cousin Rain, now the Sith Lord Darth Zannah, returned to Ruusan and engaged him in a deadly confrontation.

Trivia

 * Darovit's name is Croatian or Serbian word for gifted, talented.

Behind the scenes

 * Both The New Essential Chronology and The Dark Forces Saga mistakenly identify Darovit as Zannah's brother, when, in fact, the original source Jedi vs. Sith establishes them as cousins.
 * There is some debate as to whether Darovit was Force-sensitive or not, and whether Jedi vs. Sith intended to hint as this or whether it is just the result of over-analytical fans. Evidence to this theory includes: his inability to sense Bug throwing the fruit at him; the possibility that Rain actually did burst open the Maslak plant on her own; the fact that he never uses any Force abilities (unlike his two cousins) and that the only "Jedi-like" thing he did was use a lightsaber (when a recurring theme of the comic is that a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi); the fact that he survived the thought bomb when all other Force users around him perished; and that the Bouncers reveal his destiny to be "just a man."

Appearances

 * Jedi vs. Sith
 * Darth Bane: Path of Destruction