The rise in power of the Dathomirian Asajj Ventress, became a cause of concern for the
dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious, and he ordered his apprentice Dooku to eliminate
her. After reluctantly turning upon her, the Count of Serenno unknowingly becomes a target
of vengeance for the Nightsister clan, as he sought to find a replacement. Dooku landed
on the planet of Dathomir, seeking to form an alliance with the Nightsisters, and he
is given the brute of a Nightbrother in Savage Opress. Training him in the dark side of the
Force, the Zabrak is actually under the control of the Nightsisters, and upon one mission
to the planet of Toydaria, he disobeyed Dooku’s orders and brought back the body of King Katunko.
As the Jedi had been chasing the murders of the Nightbrother, Ventress is forced to try
and kill Dooku before Savage is ready, and they fail, forcing Dooku to relinquish another
apprentice, and Savage to escape back to Mother Talzin to find his lost brother Maul. But
what if Savage had remained as Dooku’s apprentice? Would Dooku be able to succeed in his quest
to defeat his master? Or would the Nightsisters be able to get their revenge? As you are going
to discover, Savage could have changed the outcome of an entire war…
Aboard a Separatist frigate, Count Dooku turned from his window to the brute of his apprentice,
depositing another victim. The Sith began torturing Savage with a lightning attack,
and as he screamed in pain, the doors swung open, revealing Asajj Ventress. Dooku realised
that the acquisition of the Nightbrother was a form of deception by Talzin, and he used
the Force to pull his wheezing body to his direction. Ventress ignited her blades, as
Dooku carried Savage over his shoulder, then duelled her with his other hand, pushing her
back outside of his cabin, before jumping down one of his emergency hatches. Ventress
scowled in frustration, but had no time to dwell on the loss of the Nightbrother, as
an entire army of droids headed in her direction. The Dathomirian could not have battled them
all, had it not been for the intervention of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, and
the Jedi ask for the location of the brute that had committed the murders, at the Jedi
temple on Devaron. Ventress reluctantly muttered that it was too late for either of them, to
try and save the Nightbrother from Dooku, and together, they used the combined powers
to push the droids away, before escaping in separate directions. Ventress utilised one
of the remaining escape pods aboard the ship, then directed herself back to her home planet
of Dathomir, finding Mother Talzin waiting for her arrival. The spiritual leader of the
Nightsister clan, was not concerned however, as she guided Ventress over to her base, and
gazed into her crystal ball. The blurred figure of the former Sith Maul appeared, and before
Ventress is tasked with going to retrieve him, she shows her a cauldron, from which
she could control the actions of Savage from Dathomir. Without the connection to her brother,
Ventress has to use the Force to try and track the Zabrak, but on one journey across neutral
airspace, her fan bladed starfighter is drawn in by a Republic ship, and it turned out to
be the fleet of Obi-Wan Kenobi. The clones are quick to arrest Ventress upon the departure
from her ship, but she had actually wanted to talk to the Jedi master, and he turns to
meet her in one of the onboard cells. The Jedi had sensed the growing power of Savage
Opress, and revealed that they needed her help to track him, to which Ventress told
them that she had been tracking Maul. Obi-Wan could not believe that Maul could have survived,
and meeting with the Jedi Council, they order him to bring Ventress back to Coruscant. The
former Jedi walked between the walls that she had once known, and is questioned by the
Council on the survival of Maul. The Dathomirian wanted nothing more than to see Dooku fall,
and believed that Maul could help their cause, but Obi-Wan did not agree. Even if Maul could
have survived the events on Naboo, his mental state could be scrambled, and Ventress promised
the Jedi that Talzin would maintain control over the Zabrak. Rather sceptically, they
deploy the Jedi master Quinlan Vos to track the Zabrak with Ventress, and they eventually
find their way to the spaceport of Stobar, and a pilot mentioned the planet of Lotho
Minor. Using an amulet given by Talzin, and the psychometry of Vos, they through the tunnels
of junk lands, and chance upon a multi legged creature that would have shocked any lesser
beings. Vos quickly stuns Maul and placed him an ancient cage, as Ventress takes them
back to the planet of Dathomir. Talzin carries Maul to a stone tablet near her lair, and
they watched the Nightsisters perform a ritual to restore Maul to his former state, as she
also ensured that he only hated Dooku and Sidious. His new robotic legs were kept in
place by his hate, and Talzin ordered Maul and Ventress to track down Dooku and Savage,
starting on the planet of Serenno. Vos travelled back to the Jedi Temple, and there he reported
what had been done to Maul, leaving Obi-Wan in complete shock. The Jedi master released
the anger he held for Maul into the Force, and focused on his next mission, which was
to investigate a 2,000 year old signal in the outer rim, bringing his padawan Anakin,
and Ahsoka Tano. The Jedi master continued to be curious about the return of Maul, and
arriving on Mortis, he soon faced his old master Qui-Gon.
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