After striking a bargain to bring about a new golden age for the Sith, Exar Kun and
Ulic Qel Droma separated and spent the next 6 months preparing for an invasion of the
Republic.
Believing they needed more allies trained as Sith, the Dark Lord travelled to Ossus
where he pretended to still be a jedi and made grandiose claims about wanting to reveal
ancient secrets the Masters kept hidden.
Intrigued by his words and displays of power, 20 young jedi were swayed to follow him, however
he could not fool the Old Master Odan Urr who guarded a Sith Holocron which immediately
sensed Exar’s dark side aura.
Taking the Holocron, the Dark Lord then killed Odan Urr when he tried to resist, afterwards
telling the others that the master died of old age.
Meanwhile, Ulic Qel Droma focused on recruiting a substantial army to challenge the might
of the republic, growing their forces in the Empress Teta System as they expand their holdings.
Yet a unique opportunity soon presented itself when Cinnagar was attacked by Mandalore the
Indomitable, leader of the famous Mandalorians, a warrior-culture entirely devoted to the
idea of personal glory in combat.
However instead of a devastating battle between their forces, Mandalore challenged Ulic Qel
Droma to single combat to the death, with the winner emerging as the undisputed ruler
of both factions.
Though Mandalore fought valiantly, Qel Droma emerged victorious, choosing to spare his
opponent’s life in order to take advantage of his vast military experience, making him
their general in the coming war.
With both the Krath and Mandalorians behind him, Qel Droma then led an attack against
Foerost, capturing 300 of the republics newest warships.
With both Sith Lords making progress, they communicated but found themselves at odds
with how to move forward.
Exar made it clear he wanted to slowly build up their forces and launch a well thought
out, large scale, multipronged attack to ensure total victory.
While his apprentice wanted to attack at once, maximizing the effect of their existing forces
with strategy and sith magic to capture Coruscant, capital of the republic.
Qel Droma was also angered by how little his Sith Master did in their time apart, having
gathered only 20 jedi who were not yet trained in the dark side, as opposed to the two massive
armies and fleet gathered by the apprentice.
Believing that Exar’s small group of jedi would make little difference in the outcome
of the war, Qel Droma insisted on attacking Coruscant without them, and while he still
though it a mistake, the Dark Lord saw he could not be dissuaded and agreed to the plan,
but also warned that he would continue on without them should they fail.
Taking his jedi followers to his home of Yavin 4, Exar crushed the sith Holocron taken from
Odan Urr, releasing the remnants of the ancient sith trapped within, causing the shattered
pieces to explode out and embed themselves in the skin of 19 of the jedi, imbuing them
with the dark side to form the Brotherhood of the Sith.
The only one left unaffected was the Cathar named Crado, who was already loyal to Exar
as they were apprentices together on Dantooine years earlier.
While the Dark Lord worked to train and prepare his Sith followers, Qel Droma, Mandalore and
Aleema Keto went on to strike at the heart of the republic, using sorcery to distract
and confuse the enemy while they attacked with all their strength.
Yet as the battle raged on, and Qel Droma made his way towards the enemy War Room, his
lover Aleema Keto betrayed him by falsely telling Mandalore the battle was lost, the
Sith Lord was dead, and they must pull out at once to save as much of their forces as
possible.
With his armies retreating, Qel Droma was left almost entirely alone on Coruscant, and
was soon surrounded and captured by a number of powerful Jedi including his brother Cay
and former love interest Naomi Sunsrider.
Retreating to the Empress Teta System, the Sith Army of Qel Droma was now under the command
of Aleema Keto, with Mandalore the Indomitable as her General.
However the Mandalorian was disturbed by what happened on Coruscant and upon hearing that
Qel Droma was merely captured and not killed, wanted to launch a rescue operation at once.
However Aleema refused and instead issued new attack orders.
Suspecting betrayal, Mandalore relayed her orders and then set off on his own to Yavin
4, seeking Exar Kun’s assistance to rescue Qel Droma.
The Dark Lord agreed, but before departing left orders for his students to tracking down
and kill their former jedi masters.
Exar then decided to turn their rescue operation into a grand display of power and dominance
for the republic, by travelling directly to Coruscant and bursting into the senate house
to interrupt the trial of his Sith apprentice.
Using sorcery to freeze the spectators in place, the Dark Lord murdered Chancellor Sidrona
before fighting and killing his former master Vodo Soisk Baas with the a double bladed lightsaber
based on a design from the old sith empire.
Before passing away, the old Jedi declared they would one day fight again, and he would
have victory.
Announcing before the entire senate that the Sith Brotherhood was now in control of the
galaxy, Exar, Qel Droma and Mandalore casually walked out of the building, leaving the government
in chaos.
In order to deal with the traitor Aleema, they sent her on a suicide mission to detonate
a series of supernovas in the cron star cluster, destroying everything in the area.
In spite of his devotion, Crado was also sent to die as he was proving weak and quickly
becoming an annoyance.
As the shockwave of destruction spread through space, the Sith Lords went to the nearby world
of Ossus, taking advantage of the emergency evacuation to loot the great jedi library.
However Ulic Qel Droma was confronted once again by his brother Cay, who begged him to
return to the light side.
Blinded by rage, Ulic killed his brother, only to immediately collapse in regret, crying
over his brother’s corpse.
Naomi Sunrider, having witnessed the murder erupted in anger and lashed out as Qel Droma
with a powerful attack, blocking his ability to summon the force.
After successfully robbing the library, Exar was unwilling to wait any longer for his apprentice
and departed the planet, returning to Yavin 4.
Unfortunately for the Dark Lord, Qel Droma’s capture was not the only failure in their
plan, as Mandalore was sent a separate mission to conquer Onderon, but faced fierce resistance
from the local beast riders, who delayed the battle long enough for Republic reinforcements
to arrive.
Facing defeat, Mandalore refused to surrender and led his troops to the moon of Dxun so
they might disappear into its jungles and continue the struggle.
Unfortunately their leader died on the moon, leading one of his warriors to pick up his
mask and continue their traditions by declaring himself the new Mandalore.
After murdering his brother and being stripped of the force, Ulic Qel Droma was utterly devastated
but no longer bound to the dark side, and so revealed the location of Yavin 4 and vowed
to help the Jedi stop Exar Kun.
In response Jedi from all over the republic gathered together and travelled with such
overwhelming force the Dark Lord did not stand a chance.
Understanding he was defeated, Exar decided to perform a powerful ritual, sacrificing
the lives of thousands of his massassi warriors to shed the confines of his body and become
an immortal spirit.
Before the jedi could even launch their attack, they saw a huge shockwave sweep across the
planet, causing the forests to burst into flames and devastate the landscape.
Seeing no way for Exar Kun to have survived the destruction they jedi retreated, but the
ritual had actually worked and the Dark Lord survived as a spirit trapped within one of
his great temple.
Later when Ulic Qel Droma returned to Yavin 4 to sift through the rubble, Exar Kun sensed
him and tried to communicate, but his former apprentice no longer felt the force and so
heard nothing.
With the Sith Lords defeated as well as Mandalore and Aleema dead, the Krath and Sith Brotherhood
quickly fell apart and the Republic recaptured the Empress Teta System.
However the legacy of the Sith and Exar Kun lived on, as the Great Sith War set the stage
for the Second Sith War a few decades later led by Revan and Malak.
As for the spirit of the Dark Lord, it remained for thousands of years on Yavin 4, until 1
ABY when he was awoken by a team of archaeologists from Correlia University, who were then corrupted
to the Dark Side and formed the Cult of Exar Kun.
Yet when Professor Cornelius Wagglehorn learned the fate of the expedition, he hired a team
of spacers to destroy the cult.
A few years later in 11 ABY, Exar’s spirit, which still possessed dark side powers, reached
out through the force to haunt the dreams of a young man named Gantoris, who was later
recruited by Luke Skywalker to join the new Jedi Order.
When they went to train on Yavin 4, Exar continued to reach out to Gantoris, hoping to turn him
to the dark side, but was incinerated when he resisted.
The Dark Lord next moved on to the Jedi recruit Kyp Durron, a powerful force user with a deep
hatred for the Empire.
Exploiting these negative feeling, Exar turned him against Master Skywalker, and departed
the planet to train as a Sith Lord before returning to Yavin 4 in search of an imperial
superweapon known as the Sun Crusher.
When Luke Skywalker tried to stop him, the spirit of Exar Kun appeared and helped his
apprentice defeat the Jedi Master, able to tear his spirit from its body which was left
comatose.
Durron then departed and went on a rampage against the remnants of the Empire, while
Exar continued to attempt corrupting the minds of other Jedi students on Yavin 4, determined
to destroy Skywalker once and for all.
However the Jedi students retaliated, and stood together alongside Jason Solo, Luke
Skywalker’s spirit and the ancient ghost of Vodo Siosk Baas, which returned to face
his former apprentice Exar Kun as prophesied to finally destroy the Dark Lord’s spirit.