After a thousand years of planning and secrecy, Darth Sidious unleashed the revenge of the
Sith converting the republic into an empire and wiping out the Jedi with Order 66.
To aid him in consolidating, maintaining and expanding this new galactic superpower, Sidious
selected the former Jedi Anakin Skywalker as his apprentice, luring him to the dark
side through promises of eternal life for his beloved wife padme Amidala.
Taking the name Darth Vader, the Sith Lord lost a duel to his old master Obi Wan on the
planet Mustafar, suffering severe burns and the loss of limbs.
Yet Obi Wan refused to end his life, and so Vader was rescued by Sidious, who built him
a cybernetic suit to make up for the frailty of his body.
When he awoke in his suit, Vader learned about the death of Padme and lashed out with the
force, creating a wave which struck the Emperor and launched him across the room.
In response, Sidious chastised him with force lightening, telling him to forget about the
past and embrace his pain, as the only possible path that remained before him was that of
the Sith.
Accepting his fate, Vader first task in his new suit, was to follow in the traditions
of the sith before him and create his own red lightsaber.
To accomplish this, Sidious explained that a Dark Lord must pour his rage and hatred
into a kyber crystal, bleeding it until it turned red.
Although this could be done with any crystal, including those in the many weapons left over
after the fall of the Jedi, a sith Lord could not be given a lightsaber and must therefore
take it form a living enemy.
And so Vader’s mission was to find a surviving jedi somewhere out in the galaxy and claim
his weapon, so he could remove the crystal and bleed it red.
As they spoke, Sidious took his apprentice to a balcony where they watched Mas Ameda
deliver a victory speech to the people of Coruscant, decrying the Jedi as traitors and
publicly destroying their collected lightsabers.
Left alone and stranded on a mid rim planet, Vader’s first objective was to locate the
special ship his master prepared for him, which appeared to be stolen.
Fuelled by his rage, the Dark Lord went on a rampage during his quest to obtain a lightsaber,
starting with his massacre of the local gang who were preparing to sell his ship.
Leaving the planet, he then flew to a former jedi space station controlled by the Empire.
Yet rather than provide the imperial codes necessary for safe passage, he ignored their
communications and destroyed every ship sent against him, before docking and slaughtering
every clone soldier who stood in his way.
Believing him a jedi and threat to the empire, the clones hoped to capture him as a gift
for the Emperor, but were utterly outmatched, with Vader performing the incredible act of
preventing a bomb from exploding with one hand while killing enemy soldiers with the
other.
The clones were present on this station to pack up the jedi equipment left behind after
Order 66, and so Vader found a green lightsaber during the battle and used it to fell a number
of enemies, but when the fight was over, discarded it, as it was not taken from a jedi and so
could not be claimed as his own.
Using the station’s computer, Vader ran a search for Jedi who took the Barash Vow,
an act of penance which involved cutting themselves off from the galaxy around them so they might
dedicate themselves entirely to studying the force.
The search revealed that Kirak Infil’a, a Jedi master trained exclusively as a warrior,
took the vow many years before Vader joined the Order and so he blew up part of the station
and made his way to his target on the River moon of Al’doleem.
Once arrived, Kirak sensed the dark side presence approaching, yet rather than be troubled;
he was relieved as this was at last the destiny he awaited.
For years he lived in self imposed exile, Observing the Barash vow to atone for his
mistakes, awaiting the day his purpose would be revealed.
Staying true to the vow he remained on Aldoleem even after sensing the deaths of his fellow
Jedi, but when at last he cast his eye upon Darth Vader, he knew the time had come and
soon declared his Barash completed.
Though the Dark Lord attempted force choke the jedi, who stood upon a cliff overhead
when they first met, the attack was repelled and they briefly spoke, with Kirak asking
if he was responsible for the fall f the Jedi Order.
Vader admitted he was and so Kirak’s suspicions were confirmed and his purpose revealed.
Kirak Infila was meant to must seek justice for the deaths of his brothers and sisters
by slaying their killers and restoring the Jedi Order.
Informing his enemy they would battle at the top of the mountain, Kirak retreated to prepare
while the Dark Lord underwent a series of obstacles and traps to reach the summit.
Though he survived a flood and staved off raptoran attacks, there were still several
more defenses for Vader to overcome, however Kirak grew eager to embrace his destiny and
had them deactivated.
Arriving at the top, a faithful combat droid attacked the Dark Lord, declaring that the
Jedi would not be defeated.
Ripping the purple viroblade form his hands, Vader threw the droid down the mountain and
at last engaged his Kirak who wielded a green lightsaber.
However much to both their surprise, Vader was easily bested, with the Jedi declaring
him weak and realizing there must be a greater master behind all that had occurred.
After breaking his cybernetic leg, Kirak launched the Dark Lord off the mountain so he might
plummet to his death.
Victorious, the Jedi left to retrieve his ship, ready to re-emerge onto the galactic
scene by killing Vader’s dark side master and becoming the leader of a new jedi order.
Yet Vader survived his fall, landing next to the faithful droid, who once again declared
the Jedi would be victorious.
Furious, Vader destroyed him and reattached his leg to continue the hunt for his enemy.
Tracking him town to a nearby city, they met once more on top of a Dam to finish their
battle.
Though Kirak appeared to be the more powerful warrior, and might have bested him again,
a group of Republic soldiers soon arrived and the Dark Lord used them to exploit the
weakness of compassion found in all jedi knights.
With the force Vader threw the soldiers off the dam, making Kirak to use his powers to
keep them from falling.
As this occurred Vader next attacked a large water tank, threating to flood the entire
city.
Desperate to save the innocent, Kirak strained himself trying to keep the tank from bursting,
and with his plan working perfectly, the Dark Lord summoned his enemies lightsaber with
ease and strangled him with the force.
Realizing he was defeated, Kirak Infila used his final words to plead for the lives of
the civilians who had nothing to do with their conflict.
But Vader mocked his weakness, before killing him and destroying the city.
Having obtained a lightsaber, Vader’s ship was programed to reach Mustafar, a planet
steeped in the dark side, where Sidious wanted him to complete the ritual and make the Kyber
crystal his own.
After landing and seeking out a place of power, the Dark Lord poured his hatred and anger
into the Kyrstal bleeding it without mercy.
As this occurred, he received a vision of a possible future, in which he stopped what
he was doing, returned to the lightside and used Kirak’s lightsaber to kill the Emperor
before reuniting with his old Master Obi Wan Kenobi.
But Vader rejected the vision, declaring that path of the Sith was all that remained.
Finishing his mission, the Kyber crystal turned red and he completed his new lightsaber.
Taking his prize directly to coruscant, Vader burst in on a meeting between the Emperor,
Mas Ameda and Wilhuff Tarkin, to present his prize.
Pleased by his accomplishment, Sidious next introduced his apprentice to the Grand Inquisitor,
leader of the Inquisitorious, by pinning them against each other in battle.
After easily besting him, Vader learned these were former Jedi with moderate force powers
who had fallen to the dark side and now served the sith.
Charged with hunting down and eliminating any remaining Jedi, the Inquisitorious originally
believed they served only the Emperor, but were nor introduced to Darth Vader, a second
leader of great power whom they must obey.