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Darth Manipulous, birth name Nykolus Morra, is a Force- sensitive Human male who served as the Senator of Coruscant during the late years of the Clone Wars and the Galactic Republic. Nykolus served in the Senate at the young age of 20 and had won through cunning manipulation and force skills. Throughout much of his younger years prior to being elected Senator, Nykolus had engaged in learning about the Dark Side of the Force for some time. Much of what he learned came from his adventures to old Sith temples and by reading old Sith texts. Nykolus had used the Holocron created by Darth Bane to learn more about the Dark Side and to train himself. Aside from his interest in Sith objects, Nykolus was skilled in politics and diplomacy which ultimately led to his election as Senator of Coruscant, a very noble position.

Chancellor Palpatine quickly took note of Nykolus's ability and recruited him to become his secret apprentice without the knowledge of Darth Tyranus. Chancellor Palpatine promised Nykolus a very honorable position in the Senate upon the success of his future plans at the end of the Clone Wars. At the end of the Clone Wars, Nykolus rallied the Galactic Senate to support Palpatine's move to become Emperor and establish the Galactic Empire. It was at this point that Nykolus was appointed as the Imperial Senate Chair and given the title Darth Manipulous. Palpatine informed Manipulous that he was not to interfere in the activities that Darth Vader was to partake in and instructed his apprentice to take on a Sith acolyte of his choosing, while at the same time watching over the now symbolic body of the Imperial Senate. Darth Manipulous would also go on to oversee the Inquisitorius and trained the Seventh Sister during the years prior to the Rebellion. Darth Manipulous played a crucial role in developing and training the Inquisitors, however he believed that many of them lacked discipline and dedication to the Force. Eventually the duties of training new Inquisitors was give to Darth Vader.

During the Rebellion Era, Emperor Palpatine moved to dissolve the Imperial Senate effectively, ending the Chair position Darth Manipulous held in the Imperial Senate. Feeling quit betrayed by his master, Darth Manipulous continued to serve him albeit feeding information to the dissident Senators and helping the Rebels throughout the war. Even after the Empire was established, Darth Manipulous still cared a great deal about the common people and was stuck between choosing both the light and the dark side. Darth Manipulous began to view himself more as a balance between the light and the dark side instead of submitting to one or the other. Darth Manipulous viewed the Force as a spectrum and true heartily believed that the Force is not so black and white as many would assume. Darth Manipulous even went as far as to meet with Luke Skywalker sometime after his encounter with Darth Vader. At first Luke regarded Darth Manipulous as an enemy almost immediately, however Darth Manipulous explained himself and taught Luke that there is always a balance in the Force. While the Dark Side is thought to be evil, it is those who seek to exploit its power that become corrupted. Darth Manipulous pledged that he would serve under Luke Skywalker provided that he be able to continue to represent his people on Coruscant and help them break free of the Empire.

Darth Manipulous proved to be a very valuable ally to the rebellion as he fed them more information but also taught and helped them to prepare Luke for what he may face when going up against his father and the Emperor. Darth Manipulous warned Luke that the Dark Side is very tempting but that he must resist the urges that the Emporer will try and use to get Luke to crack. After the destruction of the second Death Star, Darth Manipulous became an integral part of the new Jedi order serving as a librarian for archives. Darth Manipulous was reelected back onto the New Republic's Senate as a Senator from Coruscant once again under the name of Nykolus Morra. In Star Wars the Force Awakens, Han Solo believed that Darth Manipulous was the one who turned Ben Solo to the Dark Side and accused him of manipulating his son after confronting the Sith Lord in his private office. Darth Manipulous assured Han that the real person behind all of this is someone far darker and more sinister, which was no surprise to Han when he learned that it was Snoke.

Darth Manipulous has all but separated himself from the old Sith ways and instead has embraced a more harmonic relationship between the light and dark side. He continues to train his apprentice Maris Brood to become the first of hopefully many Spectrum Acolytes. These Acolytes will serve as masters of both Dark and Light having both a Jedi Master and a Sith Lord train them in the ways of the Force to show them all sides of the spectrum.