Darth Arkous

Darth Arkous
Biographical information
Died	3640 BBY, Lehon
Descriptive information
Species	Sith
Gender	Male
Hair color	Black
Skin color	Red
Chronological and political information
Affiliation(s)	Sith Empire Dark Council Sphere of Military Offense Order of Revan

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Darth Arkous was a Sith male Dark Lord of the Sith and a member of the Sith Empire's ruling Dark Council during the Galactic War against the Galactic Republic. As a veteran in the Great Galactic War, and a strong Imperial loyalist that ascended to the Council in 3640 BBY by planning the Assault on Tython. It is later revealed that Arkous had an ulterior motive for the attack on Tython: the retrieval of a Rakata artifact. Since the Korriban Incursion, Arkous was reported to have an interest in a shipment of Isotope-5 from Makeb.

Biography

In 3640 BBY, Darth Arkous summoned an Imperial strike team to assist in the Empire's assault on Tython. Officially, he claimed it would be a crippling blow against the Republic and the Jedi. Unofficially, he dispatched Lord Goh to recover Rakata technology hidden within the Jedi Temple. The attack on Tython was to coincide with Colonel Rian Darok's attack on Korriban, which also hid Rakata technology. When the Empire received word of the attack, Arkous sent the strike team to retake Korriban to keep up appearances, while at the same time, the Republic retook Tython. Arkous attempted to reestablish contact with Goh only to learn that a Republic strike team had killed him. Following the reclamation of Korriban, Arkous gave praise to the Imperial heroes.

Arkous later rendezvoused with Darok on Manaan. Together, they journeyed to an underwater base to meet with a Selkath geneticist named Gorima, to find a way to graft the Rakata technology onto test subjects to create invincible supersoldiers for the Order of Revan. However, Arkous' former assistant Lana Beniko, having collaborated with SIS agent Theron Shan, sent a strike team after them. When they confronted Gorima, Arkous and Darok were watching from an observation room. With Gorima's experiments having successfully made the grafting procedure non-lethal, the two conspirators made their escape, leaving a depth charge to destroy the facility and send their enemies to their deaths, unaware that Shan was present to rescue them before the facility could reach crush depth.

Arkous later sent a coded message to Lana, explaining that he was planning on recruiting her to the Revanites, but his plans changed when she met her new allies. He warned her not to interfere with his plan, cryptically stating that the Revanites are everywhere. Lana and Shan tracked Arkous and Darok to Lehon (or "Rakata Prime", as it was then known), the former capital of the Rakatan Infinite Empire, where the Revanites had salvaged fragments of the destroyed Star Forge for Gorima to advance his experients in the building of an "Infinite Army". The Republic and Imperial pursuers, joined by the vengeful Wookiee smuggler Jakarro and his protocol droid "partner" C2-D4, confronted Arkous and Darok on the roof of the Temple of the Ancients, and killed them, despite Shan's hopes that they be taken alive for questioning. However, it soon became clear that neither Arkous nor Darok were the leader of the Revanites, but followers of the true master of the Order of Revan. The master was soon revealed to be Revan himself.

Lana Beniko was declared a traitor to the Empire and charged with murdering Arkous, a fact she could not contest due to the influence of the Revanites, and was forced to go underground with Shan and Jakarro.

Powers and abilities

Darth Arkous was an extremely powerful Dark Lord of the Sith. He was of noteworthy skill in lightsaber combat and he was also capable of using Force choke.

Darth Arkous was also capable of using telekinesis and has demonstrated prowess in the use of Force lightning.

Behind the scenes

Arkous first appeared in game update 2.7 of the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic, released by BioWare in 2014.

He is only accessible through the Invasion quest series of the Imperial players in the game.

Appearances

• Star Wars: The Old Republic (First appearance)
• Star Wars: The Old Republic: Shadow of Revan (Mentioned only)

Sources

• The Story of SWTOR, 2014 on The Old Republic's official website (backup link)
• Lana Beniko's Journal: Darth Arkous on The Old Republic's official website (backup link)
• Surface Details on The Old Republic's official website (backup link)
• The Revanites' Ascendance on The Old Republic's official website (backup link)

External Links

Darth Arkous on Star Wars: The Old Republic Wiki

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