Darth Maul

""At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge!""

- ~Darth Maul

Darth Maul was a Sith warrior and former apprentice of Darth Sidious in Star Wars Episode I:The Phantom Menace. His main objective was to seek the Naboo Royal Starship that had escaped from the reach of the Trade Federation, so that they could capture her. What he really wanted, though, was to reveal himself to the Jedi and have his revenge.

Darth Maul discovered the Queen was hiding on Tatooine, the home planet of Anakin Skywalker. He encountered Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn when he and Anakin were on their way back to the Naboo Starship. He made Qui-Gon fight defensively in the lightsaber duel, launching quick attacks after swings. After all the people on the starship had arrived at Coruscant, the Jedi were surpised that the Sith had returned, believed to be nonexistent for more than 2,000 years.

Shortly after the Queen had planned and started an attack on the droid armies of the Trade Federation, Qui-Gon and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi entered the ship hangar of where Nute Gunray was hiding. After the Jedi, Queen, and Republic officers had taken out the droids, Darth Maul stood behind the blast door and drew out his double-bladed lightsaber. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon fought him in a long battle. He chased them into the reactor room, and after Obi-Wan was separated from his master by one of the laser walls in the security hallway, he killed Qui-Gon.

Obi-Wan was overwhelmed with despair and anger by the loss of his master, and anger grew inside him. He delivered several vicious attacks on Maul, catching him off guard and slicing his saber in two. With only one functional lightsaber blade, Darth Maul fought back and knocked Obi-Wan into the shaft, and kicked Obi-Wan's weapon into the pit. While Obi-Wan was hanging on for his life, he remembered what his master had told him: "Be mindful of the living Force." At that moment, the Force flowed within Obi-Wan, and he jumped up, called his master's lightsaber to his hand, and striked at Darth Maul. Maul stood still, groaned, and fell backwards into the pit.

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