Thought bomb



"I ask that you join me in one last task: the creation of a weapon so powerful that when it is detonated, the victors shall become the vanquished and be swept from the pages of history."

- Kaan

The Thought Bomb was a powerful and destructive application of the Dark Side of the Force which targeted all Force-sensitive individuals and vaporized clothing, flesh, bone, and even stone within the radius of the weapon's blast. The only known thought bomb was activated by Lord Kaan, the leader of the Brotherhood of Darkness (whom Darth Bane gave the knowledge of the weapon to him as a gift) against the Army of Light in the catastrophic Seventh Battle of Ruusan. It was formed through an ancient ritual that required the combined will of many powerful Sith Lords, which when triggered, unleashed the pure destructive energy of the dark side.

Darth Bane, a young force-sensitive girl named Rain, and her cousin Darovit were among the survivors of the dark side weapon. Other survivors included Lord Farfalla and the remaining jedi of the Army of Light that fled with him. The Sith Lord Githany was killed by the blast trying to flee the cave where all of the remaining Sith Lords detonated the weapon. Lord Kaan killed himself, the remaining Sith Lords with him, as well as Lord Hoth and the ninety-nine Jedi who traveled into the cavern to stop Kaan. Bane sensed the wave of dark side energy pass over him, but he was distant enough to only feel the reverberations of the blast.

It was Bane's plan all along for Kaan to use the thought bomb in order to purge The Brotherhood of Darkness of any Sith survivors, allowing Bane to rebuild the Sith Order under the Rule of Two in the shadows of secrecy. Darth Bane, last Dark Lord of the Sith, satisfied that his work was done, prepared to leave Ruusan when he came across the young girl Rain. Calling herself Zannah, Bane wondered if she was the apprentice the Force had led him to and decided to take her with him to teach her the nature of the dark side.

The knowledge of the thought bomb was revealed to Bane when he travelled to the planet Lehon, where he found the Temple of the Ancients, and there discovered a Sith holocron which taught him the fearsome creation of the ancient Sith. The holocron was constructed by Darth Revan nearly three thousand years earlier.

Appearances

 * Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
 * Jedi vs. Sith
 * Bane of the Sith
 * Dark Forces: Jedi Knight