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Ten percent of the Mon Calamari population are to be executed. Effective immediately. We will start with the Mon Calamari at hand. All surviving Mon Calamari in the galaxy will be interred in work camps! Any who seek to evade us will be hunted down and killed! The Mon Calamari will have time to suffer and reflect on their crimes until all are extinct. I will purge the galaxy of their culture and history. Such will be the fate of all who defy the Sith!
~ Darth Krayt ordering the genocide of the Mon Calamari species.
I have been through death and conquered it. I have returned with my power multiplied. The dark side of the Force lives and manifests itself through me! I reach into the dark side now and send ripples through it to all who serve it—know that I live!
~ Darth Krayt
The Galaxy must experience the pain of death and rapture of rebirth as I have. I will bring chaos. It is time for war.
~ Darth Krayt announcing his intent to “enlighten” all life in the galaxy.

Darth Krayt, born A'Sharad Hett, is the main antagonist of the Legacy Era of the Star Wars Legends continuity.

He is also a major protagonist of the Star Wars: Republic comic series. He is one of the longest living characters in the franchise, appearing from the end of the Prequel Era to the Legacy Era, a time period of nearly 200 years.

Previously a Master of the Jedi Order, Hett abandoned the ways of the Jedi following Order 66 and hid on Tatooine where he eventually became a warlord for the Tusken Raiders. He eventually became a bounty hunter, but would train under holocron of XoXaan and eventually became a Sith Lord. Upon becoming the Dark Lord of the Sith, he founded the One Sith, a powerful Sith cult under his leadership. He is also the "Dark Man" that haunted Jacen Solo's dreams which resulted in him becoming Darth Caedus.

During the conflict with the dark side entity Abeloth, Grandmaster Luke Skywalker would form a brief alliance with Darth Krayt and together they would defeat her. Around 130 years after the Battle of Yavin IV, Krayt would put his plan into action, waging a vicious war against the galaxy to establish a new Sith Empire under his brutal and absolute control, becoming the second Sith Lord to do so after Darth Sidious.

Biography[]

Jedi[]

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A'Sharad Hett as a Jedi Padawan.

Before the Clone Wars, A'Sharad Hett was trained as a Jedi by his father, also a former Jedi Knight named Sharad Hett. During that time, Sharad was killed by a bounty hunter named Aurra Sing. After his father's death, A'Sharad eventually became Ki-Adi-Mundi's Padawan. A'Sharad and his fellow Jedi then began to search for Aurra. A'Sharad fought and defeated her in a lightsaber duel. Instead of killing Sing, he turned her over to the Jedi. Meanwhile, he completed his Jedi training, and became a Jedi Knight.

The Clone Wars and Surviving the Jedi Purge[]

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During the Clone Wars, A'Sharad served as a General for the Galactic Republic, and flew his Jedi starfighter in air support during the Battle of Geonosis. He would also fight during many of the ground campaigns of the war, leading clone troopers on worlds such as Metalorn and Aargonar. After Obi-Wan Kenobi's presumed death during the Battle of Jabiim, Hett befriended the young Jedi Anakin Skywalker, who was in desperate need of guidance as well as companionship. It was during this time that Hett had learned that, only months earlier, Skywalker had slaughtered an entire tribe of Tuskens after they killed his mother.

At the end of the Clone Wars, Palpatine issued Order 66 to A'Sharad's clone troopers. Hett, one of the few Jedi to survive, headed to Tatooine, his home planet. He then became a war leader of several Tusken clans. As they reached the boundaries of the small moisture farm of Owen Lars, they were halted. To A'Sharad's surprise, he saw Obi-Wan, who also survived Order 66 and lived in exile as well. Obi-Wan had noticed Hett's recent activities, and believed Hett was close to falling to the dark side.

He begged Hett to stop his crusade there and then (not mentioning to Hett exactly why he had chosen to defend this small farm), but Hett refused to listen; the settlers and farmers had killed countless Tuskens, and blood called out for blood. With little choice, both Jedi ignited their lightsabers and fought a brutal duel on the desert flat, with the entire Tusken army watching them.

The duel ended with the loss of Hett's right arm, and the extra humiliation of having his mask removed. To the Tuskens, to expose any part of the flesh is forbidden, and with one hand, Hett could not hope to wield the traditional Tusken weapon, the gaderffi also known as the gaffi stick. The clans turned on him and he departed without a word. Hett was now an outcast, and asked Obi-Wan to kill him. Obi-Wan spared his former comrade, however, making him swear on the honor of his late father that he would leave Tatooine and never return, hoping that one day, Hett would see the error of his ways and return to the light side of the Force.

Years later, Hett learned that the moisture farm Obi-Wan had been defending concealed the son of Anakin Skywalker. When he realized that Skywalker and Darth Vader were one and the same, Hett bitterly regretted protecting Skywalker's bloody secret on Aargonar; to have turned him in, or simply killed him, Hett believed, would have spared the galaxy untold suffering.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi & A'Sharad Hett engage in combat.

Following his departure from Tatooine, Hett became a bounty hunter, masking his Jedi skills. While he pursued a bounty named Resk to the planet Korriban, a storm forced them down, and Hett continued his pursuit of Resk. Hett killed him after Resk threatened to turn him over to the authorities when Hett revealed himself to have been a Jedi. He shortly afterward heard a voice summon him.

Hett followed the voice that he felt rather than heard, a darkness calling to his darkness. He found and shattered a sealed door and discovered a glowing Sith holocron. The specter of the ancient Sith Lord XoXaan, one of the first of the Sith Lords to arrive on Korriban centuries before, stated that she had been waiting for someone like Hett to find her. She offered to teach him the ways of the Sith, and Hett agreed to become her apprentice.

XoXaan opened Hett's eyes to the dark side, and Hett deluded himself into believing that he was only pretending, that he was really just learning new skills with which to avenge himself on Vader and Palpatine. But when he resurfaced from the tombs, he found that more time had passed than he had thought; the Empire had been defeated, and Palpatine and Vader were both dead. Disillusioned yet again, Hett left Korriban behind and made for the Unknown Regions, determined to lose himself.

The Rise of Darth Krayt[]

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With his new dark side powers, Darth Krayt kills his tormentors.

In the Unknown Regions, Hett was captured by a Yuuzhan Vong advance scout ship. Imprisoned in the Embrace of Pain, Hett was met by Vergere. He was tortured endlessly by the Embrace and was subjected to the experiments of the Shapers; his cybernetic arm was replaced by an organic one and his left eye was replaced by the eye of a Yuuzhan Vong creature. During his imprisonment, Vergere taught him how to use his agony to open himself to the dark side, and that's when Krayt received his vision of his new Sith Order. He had conversations with Vergere (mirroring those she would later have with Jacen Solo) and he came to believe that the galaxy was fractured and weak, and that a single will was needed to make it whole and strong again. Shortly after Vergere left him to join with the main invasion force, Hett escaped and destroyed the scout ship, and returned to Korriban.

There, Hett took the Sith name Darth Krayt, after the fearsome krayt dragon of his homeworld, and reestablished the cult under his leadership, pledging to reunify the galaxy according to the will of the Sith. Unlike the previous incarnation, however, Krayt abolished the Rule of Two, Darth Bane's ancient diktat commanding that there could be only two Sith at any one time—a Master and an apprentice. Instead, there would be the Rule of One—that one being the Sith Order itself, under which there would be many minions.

After the Yuuzhan Vong war, Krayt sought to recruit Lumiya to his Order, but she instead chose to side with Vergere and her apprentice, Darth Caedus. When Caedus went about with the Second Galactic Civil War, the Jedi were distracted from Krayt's order, which grew in strength, hidden under Korriban's miasma of dark side energy.

For more than 100 years, Krayt grew and strengthened, along with his Sith, on Korriban, surreptitiously planning to bring its twisted vision of order to the galaxy. Krayt's body could not have survived the Vong implants, but he endured by placing himself in extensive periods of stasis, his mind only open to his closest disciples, such as Darth Wyyrlok. Krayt was living well beyond his standard lifespan and his body began to fail him, his condition kept at bay by healing trances. He estimated that the Vong implants would consume him within a decade or two, and his later interest in Cade Skywalker, direct descendant of Anakin and Luke, motivated by the knowledge that the young Jedi apprentice in exile had once used the Force to revive his Master from the edge of death.

The Sith-Imperial War[]

At last, in the period of 127–130 ABY, the Sith made their presence known openly under Krayt's leadership, and the result of his machinations was the Sith-Imperial War. Krayt's own holocron contained entries relating how he caused the fall of the Galactic Alliance and the restoration of the Galactic Empire as the dominant galactic power:

Krayt harnessed that hatred to sabotage a Jedi project that was established for entirely altruistic reasons. The original intent of the Ossus Project was to use Yuuzhan Vong terraforming techniques to restore a barren section of the once-devastated Jedi fortress world of Ossus. When the test proved successful, the response was tremendous.

Out of a host of applicants, 100 worlds were selected for the Vong terraforming process. Yuuzhan Vong Shapers, overseen by Jedi escorts, produced incredible results. But the Sith had already tainted the process. Krayt's agent Darth Maladi was an expert in Vong bio-forms, and she coupled this knowledge with her understanding of the dark side to mutate the Vong's efforts. On every world on which the Vong had carried out their work, the vegetation withered, and bony growths—like those once seen on those the Vong had taken as slaves during their invasion—began forming on the skin of the inhabitants.

The Jedi immediately suspected sabotage, but could never prove it. It did not matter; the lingering resentment the galaxy felt towards the Vong, even decades after their defeat and exile, did Krayt's work for him, and soon the Vong were accused of trying to restart their genocidal crusade against the galaxy by other means.

The results were everything he could have hoped for. The Jedi, devoted to the truth above all, defended the Vong and encouraged the Galactic Alliance to support them. The Empire reacted accordingly; members of the Council of Moffs demanded retribution (quite possibly instructed to do so by Krayt himself) and, invoking the Treaty of Anaxes, declared war on the Alliance. The Empire's puppet ruler, Emperor Roan Fel, reluctantly went along with Krayt's designs, feeling that the brutal methods Krayt used to fight the Alliance were necessary to preserve order in a chaotic galaxy. He never truly supported Krayt's war, however, even keeping his Imperial Knights out of the fighting whenever possible.

In addition to war with the Empire, the Alliance found itself facing dissension from within its own ranks. Worlds that had suffered the most under the Vong now aimed their resentment at the Alliance; many of them refused to support the Alliance and actively sided with the Empire, while others just stood by and watched under the banner of neutrality. So divided, the Alliance was easy to conquer.

In three years, the Galactic Alliance was forced into surrender and the Empire absorbed all its former holdings, even reclaiming Coruscant as the Imperial throneworld. It was a reversal of the galactic order that no one could have foreseen, or believed was possible. But despite the grandeur of this victory, it was but a stepping stone for Krayt. Quite possibly he felt that it would be easier to establish his definition of order over the galaxy under an Empire than under a democratic government, even if that Empire was no longer the absolute tyranny his predecessor Palpatine had originally intended.

Emperor[]

Now that the Empire was triumphant, it was time to remove the last obstacle to the Sith: their ancient enemies, the Jedi. With the fall of Coruscant, Fel called on the Jedi to surrender and submit to the Empire. But the Jedi were now aware of the Sith's involvement in the war and refused to join them. They withdrew from Coruscant, yielding their Temple to their enemies, and holed themselves in their praxeum on Ossus. Krayt dispatched his Hand, Darth Nihl, on a devastating attack against the praxeum. But what came to be called the Massacre at Ossus was not the absolute victory he hoped for. Nihl managed to make several significant kills, especially one of the most prominent members of the Jedi Council, Kol Skywalker. But the death of even a good number of Jedi did not make for victory. The Jedi were sent to flight, scattered, but they were not yet defeated.

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Darth Krayt declares himself Emperor of the galaxy.

Nevertheless, the Jedi had still been brought low enough to allow Krayt to take the next step - seize its throne.

He launched a daring palace revolution, marching with his cohorts straight into Fel's audience chamber, (apparently) killing him, and taking his place. Noting the confusion and outrage from the members of the Moff Council who were present, he laid out the facts of life for them: he had more than enough military might and political power to crush them should they refuse to submit. Faced with little choice, the Moff Council swore loyalty to him. For the first time in more than a century, a Sith Lord ruled the galaxy.

Behind his newfound power, however, Krayt had a secret: he had not, in fact, killed Fel, but merely a double. The real Fel was a fully trained Imperial Knight and would surely have defended himself, rather than just stand there and let himself be slain. It was imperative that the real Fel be found, before he recruited allies among the Moffs, the military, or those Jedi who had survived.

And there was a further concern that he kept to himself and his lieutenant, Wyyrlok. Krayt knew all too well that his health was failing him; he was more than 170 years old, and he was ruling on borrowed time. But he had felt a murmur in the Force during the Ossus massacre; someone, a Jedi, had somehow used the Force to heal someone else, bring them back to life from the brink of death. If his reign was to endure, if he was to establish his vision of galactic order, he had to find this Jedi with the power to bring beings back to life, and bend his power to serve the dark side.

With the passage of seven years, Krayt's grip on the throne was still uncertain. Fel remained at large, and finding him was of paramount importance. He sent one of his newest and most devoted hands, the vicious Darth Talon, on a mission to lure Fel out into the open by capturing his daughter, Princess Marasiah Fel. But Fel refused to take the bait; he had plans of his own. In fact, though Krayt did not know it yet, Fel had succeeded in reclaiming the historic fortress world of Bastion, making it a staging area for the Imperial forces he had spent the last seven years moving into position. Little by little, the ground was being laid for a reckoning between Emperors, between the man who claimed to have a birthright to the title and the man who had taken it from him.

It did not help that Krayt was distracted by his own condition. In an attempt to find out how he could survive being consumed by his Vong implants, Krayt traveled to Korriban in an attempt to learn from past Sith Lords how to avoid this fate. Krayt activated the holocrons of Darth Bane, Darth Andeddu, and Darth Nihilus, and asked how he could overcome the limitations of his armor, or at least keep it at bay. The ancient Sith were of no help at all: Bane lambasted Krayt for not adhering to the Rule of Two, Nihilus merely gave a small statement in his peculiar dialect (which neither Bane nor Andeddu deigned to translate), and Andeddu caused Krayt's armor to consume him, transforming him into a creature very much like his namesake. Laughing, the Sith avatars taunted him with what they said was his destiny. The three ancient Sith Lords, declaring Krayt to be nothing but an impostor and his order a mockery of the Sith, taunted and laughed as Krayt's fear nearly overcame him.

But Krayt refused to accept it. In response to this outburst, he focused his anger to the point that he was able to reverse the effects of Andeddu's wizardry. He was determined that if he could get no help from the ancient Sith, he would find other teachings, another way. Again he was directed on a path that was likely to lead to Cade Skywalker, the only being in the galaxy able to bring the dead to life.

Discovering and Capturing Cade Skywalker[]

When Krayt's lieutenant Darth Talon returned from her unsuccessful mission to capture Marasiah Fel on Vendaxa, she expected to be executed by Krayt for her failure. Her master, however, forgave her when she informed him that one of the foes she faced there was a Skywalker. Musing that it was perhaps fate that had allowed the Skywalker lineage to continue, Krayt ordered Talon to find this Skywalker and bring him to Coruscant. Krayt hoped that this Skywalker's abilities would prove useful in his quest to prolong his life.

In the meanwhile, Krayt sent his Sith minions Darth Maleval and Darth Kruhl to destroy the 908th Stormtrooper Division and eliminate Emperor Fel, respectively. Maleval was shot down by Anson Trask, and Kruhl was shot and killed by Emperor Fel on Bastion. Krayt also sent the Quarren Darth Azard to oversee the Outer Rim Third Fleet, which had been tasked with eliminating Admiral Gar Stazi and the Galactic Alliance Core Fleet.

While meditating in the Temple of the Sith, Krayt sensed Cade Skywalker heading in his direction to rescue the Jedi Hosk Trey'lis. Krayt tasked his Hands, Darth Nihl and Darth Talon with capturing him, which they did.

Krayt later came to oversee Cade's interrogation at the hands of Darth Maladi, and was astonished to see Cade's body had purged itself of the deadly substances Maladi had injected into his body. In order to witness his power, Krayt ordered Maladi to infect the recently captured Jariah Syn and Deliah Blue with deadly Yuuzhan Vong Yorik-Kul coral seeds. Cade saved his friends and made a deal with Krayt: remain with the Sith in exchange for his friends' freedom.

Krayt then took Cade to his chambers alongside Darth Talon and Darth Wyyrlok, leaving both Lady Maladi and Lord Nihl outside. There, Krayt gave food to Cade and revealed he had once been a Jedi, A'Sharad Hett. Skywalker was far from impressed, even after Krayt explained his origins, but when Cade was provoked to anger by Darth Talon, and nearly killed her, it was clear to Krayt that Skywalker was exactly what he had hoped for. Krayt urged Cade to use his anger properly, focus it, let the Sith teachings help him to reach his full potential. At last, Cade accepted what Krayt believed to be his destiny, and agreed to learn the ways of the Sith. Krayt commanded him to heal Talon, for she would be his teacher. During Cade's training, Talon informed Krayt that he was only pretending to be like them but Krayt was confident that Skywalker would come to embrace the Sith, like his ancestor, Darth Vader. He later placed Cade in the Embrace of Pain to ensure his conversion while telling him more of his own fall.

Not long after, Cade escaped from the Embrace of Pain and then attempted to escape the temple itself, but was quickly apprehended. Cade was brought before Krayt who, in front of his two "Hands", ordered Skywalker to execute the captured Jedi Hosk Trey'lis. Cade refused, and so Krayt executed Trey'lis personally, unintentionally provoking Cade's rage. Cade broke the transparisteel casing around his father's lightsaber and used the weapon to impale Darth Talon. Skywalker then engaged Darth Nihl in a duel, while Krayt stood back and observed; throwing in insults every now and then in an attempt to bring Cade closer to the dark side. When Cade succeeded in cutting off Nihl's right arm, Krayt commanded him to kill the Sith Lord.

Cade refused and began a duel with the Sith lord. Krayt was almost at the edge of defeating Cade when the latter's mother, Morrigan Corde, shot him in the back. With Cade successfully rescued, Krayt commanded his Sith servants to find him by any means necessary. He swore that he would break Cade, have him use his healing power, and then kill him. As the Sith began to recover, Krayt is angered, desiring to end Nihl's life for his failure. But Wyyrlok suggested there was another way he could serve him; Krayt relented, ordering Maladi to replace Nihl's arm with a Vong one, but revokes his position as a Hand, calling Stryfe in his place. He also ordered Talon in a bacta tank. Soon after, Krayt was placed in stasis as Wyyrlok searched for Andeddu's true tomb on Prakith, finding a number of texts that could help the Dark Lord.

Genocide on Dac[]

After Admiral Gar Stazi stole the new Imperious-class Star Destroyer Imperious during the battle against the Outer Rim Third Fleet, Krayt personally traveled to Dac to confront Gial Gahan, former Triumvir and supporter of the Galactic Alliance Remnant. The capture of the Star Destroyer infuriated Krayt, as did the disastrous failure of his underlings. Therefore, Krayt, before Holonet droid cams, murdered Gial Gahan and the other Mon Calamari present. Krayt issued the extermination of ten percent of the planet's Mon Calamari population and internment of the rest in work camps.

He ordered his Sith apprentices to execute the entire Mon Calamari Council, including those Quarren opposing his edict, thus showing the galaxy the cost of betraying the Empire. With so much fear on the planet, through the dark side it strengthened Krayt. But this action triggered a catalyst that resulted in a resistance movement and an alliance between Stazi and Fel.

Betraying the Dream[]

As the genocide on Mon Calamari continued and the hunt for Cade Skywalker commenced, one of Krayt's minions, a Devaronian Sith known as Darth Reave, encountered Cade and his companions on the Imperial world of Had Abaddon. During the skirmish, Reave was attacked by Cade, who led a group of Imperial Knights and Jedi. One of the Jedi, a female, used ancient Sith magic and transformed Reave's stormtroopers into mutants. Realizing that he was outnumbered, Reave fled and returned to Coruscant, to report on both the Jedi female and her monsters, as well as on Cade's presence on Had Abaddon.

Before he could finish his report, however, Reave himself transformed into one of the same mutants he had recently encountered, only to be quickly stricken down by Darth Stryfe. Krayt was unfamiliar with the creature, and was informed by Lady Maladi that it was a rakghoul; a form of sithspawn that had been extinct in the galaxy for thousands of years.

Krayt and his advisors were then interrupted by a transmission from one of his officials on Had Abaddon, who had a message for the Dark Lord only. Karness Muur was contacting Krayt under the guise of the Jedi woman that Reave had spoken of, and presented Krayt with none other than Cade Skywalker. When Krayt feigned a lack of interest in the Human, Muur coaxed out the Dark Lord's desire to kill Cade by blasting him with torrents of Force lightning, and Krayt sprang into action, determined that no one kill Cade but him. Muur then issued an invitation to Krayt—one that he was to answer alone, or both he and Cade would die. Krayt accepted the invitation, albeit with three of his Sith lords accompanying him, and set out for Had Abaddon.

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Darth Krayt "dies" at the hands of Darth Wyyrlok.

As they traveled to the Deep Core world, Darth Wyyrlok told Krayt of Karness Muur and his legendary amulet, which had the spirit of Muur trapped within. Wyyrlok further surmised that Muur would not divulge any secrets, and rather sought to control Krayt through his talisman. However, Krayt was in greater desperation to find a cure for himself, as his life was nearing its end. He and the foremost members of his Order traveled to Had Abbadon with intentions of capturing Cade. On the surface, Muur offered an alliance and began to modify Krayt's body. Suddenly, everything was revealed to be a trap, as Cade's allies were waiting in secret. Muur, however, truly took control of Celeste and planned to take Krayt's body for his own.

During the fight, Krayt was stabbed in the right chest by Azlyn Rae, electrocuted and Force-pushed off of the cliff by Morne/Muur, and seemingly fell to his death. At the bottom of the cliff, Darth Wyyrlok, having landed his shuttle nearby, approached the Emperor's body, declaring that he would be taken to the tomb of the Sith on Korriban. To his surprise, Krayt woke, having cushioned his fall with the Force. He asked Wyyrlok to take him to a bacta tank in order to regain his strength, but the Chagrian Sith Lord electrocuted his master in response, seemingly killing him. He then placed Krayt's unconscious body in a stasis chamber within the Sith Temple of Korriban, hiding the truth from the other Sith while planning on inducting all beings the galaxy into the ranks of the One Sith, as Krayt had always intended.

Darth Maladi, however, suspected Krayt had been killed by Wyyrlok and shared her concerns with Darth Nihl. Maladi also feared Wyyrlok would try to eliminate the two, as they had not been born Sith, and suggested Nihl to go to Korriban and verify whether Krayt was alive or not. Once on the Temple, Lord Nihl lied to Darth Talon, telling her that he had felt Lord Krayt's summoning in his mind. The pair entered the Stasis Room and discovered that Krayt's body had vanished, while his armor remained within the chamber.

Resurrection[]

Darth Nihl informed his master Wyyrlok who immediately claimed that somebody had killed the recuperating Krayt and then stolen his body, leaving his armor behind. Already facing serious losses in the war with the Alliance and Fel Empire, Wyyrlok ordered that the incident be covered up temporarily and appointed himself as the new Emperor with Nihl serving as his advisor. An enraged Wyyrlok then used Force lightning to destroy Krayt's armor. As advisor, Nihl used his position to move against his rival Talon by implicating the latter in Krayt's disappearance.

This suspicion was backed by Talon's apparent disappearance following her meeting with Nihl. Wyyrlok expressed his suspicions on Talon's "loyalty" and ordered Nihl to apprehend her for interrogation. As Nihl left, Wyyrlok destroyed Krayt's armor in confused rage. Nihl pursued Talon into the ancient Valley of the Dark Lords by using the Force to home in on her position. Enroute, he encountered a tuk'ata but used his powers to tell the beast that he was not a foe. Meanwhile in a deep chamber, Talon had already encountered the resurrected Darth Krayt who had granted her the power to sense any pursuers. He had also healed himself of his Vong implants which he had foreseen as part of his rebirth.

Eventually Darth Nihl found and dueled Talon until Darth Krayt intervened and revealed to the two Sith his plan to hold the One Sith under his control. For decades he had taken the most powerful, newly-born Force-sensitives, having them enhanced with cybernetic implants and turned into unquestionably loyal Sith troopers that would take their own lives when ordered to do so by their master. It was with these troopers and a new, more powerful class of Sith starfighter that Darth Krayt intended to make himself the unquestioned leader of the Galaxy. Upon revealing this, he then revealed his will and presence to all those in the galaxy that had ever touched the dark side, Cade Skywalker included. Though this brought pleasure to the One Sith, Darth Wyyrlok stood alone as an enemy of Krayt upon confirming that the Dark Lord was alive. This act also increased the Force-sensitivity of all the Sith still loyal to him.

Darth Krayt's Revenge[]

Soon after Krayt proceded to head to Coruscant with Darth Nihl and Darth Talon, along with at least two Sith Troopers. When they arrived they were confronted by several Sith that Darth Wyyrlok had convinced that this Krayt was an imposter. After a short battle, Krayt's forces were successful; an enraged Wyyrlok then confronted the Dark Lord declaring he had already killed him, and that he would not apologize for attempting to kill Krayt.

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Darth Krayt kills his traitorous advisor.

After a short but intense duel, Krayt pretended to surrender, only to impale Wyyrlok through the chest. Krayt declared that for the galaxy to be truly united he would have to cause it to go through a form of death and rebirth as he had. With that said and done the Dark Lord of the Sith began to make his preparations for war. After taking back control of the Empire and the Sith, Krayt led the Empire into the offensive. To this end he ordered a number of military strikes across the galaxy, including an attack on Vinsoth, which fell to the Sith Empire, the bombing of Falleen, because they refused to ally with him, and a strike on Borosk, which returned to Sith Imperial control. When Grand Moff Morlish Veed was updating him on the state of the galaxy, Krayt told him that he sensed that there was a traitor that it could be one the Moffs. Krayt then gave Veed the assignment of finding the traitor, threatening to kill him if he failed.

After taking back control of the Empire and the Sith, Krayt led the Empire into the offensive. To this end he ordered a number of military strikes across the galaxy, including an attack on Vinsoth, which fell to the Sith Empire, the bombing of Falleen, because they refused to ally with him, and a strike on Borosk, which returned to Sith Imperial control. When Grand Moff Morlish Veed was updating him on the state of the galaxy, Krayt told him that he sensed that there was a traitor that it could be one the Moffs. Krayt then gave Veed the assignment of finding the traitor, threatening to kill him if he failed.

Later, Krayt's Sith Inquisitor, Darth Havok, successfully tortured the location of the hidden Jedi temple out of the imprisoned Antares Draco. After being informed to of the Temple's location by Darth Talon, Krayt ordered her to find Cade and make him a gift of the broken Imperial Knight. Afterwards, he viewed a message from Cade warning Krayt that no matter what he would kill the Sith Emperor. After watching the message Krayt decided Cade would have to be reborn as Krayt himself had been, for he had a vision of Cade serving him.

Battle of Taivas[]

After receiving the location of the Hidden Temple, Krayt met with the Moffs and set out his plan for the assault. Despite Veed's skepticism about Taivas being the location of the Jedi Temple, Krayt maintained his certainty and started to set up plans for the complete destruction of the Jedi, which he believed would destroy the alliance against him. Krayt promoted Moff Fehlaaur'aitel'loro as the new head of Imperial Intelligence. He also placed the Moffs' strike force, which was officially commanded by Veed, Yage and Geist, under the supervision of his Sith Lords, most notably Darth Stryfe. After the meeting however, Krayt contacted Darth Nihl, whom he had made commander of a fleet of his own Dragon ships and Sith troopers, and told him that the Moffs were not to know about the existence of this fleet.

As the assault unfolded, Krayt remained in contact with Veed. Unbeknowest to the Sith, the Jedi, the Galactic Alliance Remnant and Roan Fel's loyalists had laid a trap for them and, as the Jedi and Imperial Knights defended the Temple against the stormtroopers, the fleets of Gar Stazi and Roan Fel ambushed the Sith-Imperial fleet. Despite the Moffs' disbelief, Krayt remained unfazed and unsurprised.

Although he let the battle unfold for some time which would apparently see an allied victory, he then ordered Darth Nihl to attack. The intervention of the Sith army turned the tide of the battle due to their willingness to kill both allies and Imperials. Moff Geist was killed in the assault by friendly fire and Moff Yage, along with his daughter and several over ships of the Imperial Navy, defected to Roan Fel. Despite this and the massive losses sustained by Sith and Imperials alike, Krayt had robbed the allies of their victory.

It also served as a two pronged fork: now, Krayt's enemies in the Empire, the Moffs, were virtually powerless with only two of them remaining to serve him. The morale in the Alliance had been hit and he now had the troops needed for a full assault on the fortified world of Bastion. The war was reaching its conclusion. Knowing that Krayt could now attack them and likely win, Roan Fel and the other allied leaders opted for another option: to take the fight to Coruscant. Although they were unlikely to win, they had to try and take them on. Fel however was secretly working with Hogrum Chalk and the captured Darth Maladi to create a biologial weapon for use on the Sith: Omega Red. The allies attacked Coruscant and a strike team led by Cade sabotaged the orbital defenses, allowing the allied fleet to gain a foothold in the system before being attacked by the full might of the Sith fleet.

Krayt was speaking to Darth Nihl via holoprojector about the state of the battle when he was interrupted by a severely injured Darth Talon. Uttering Skywalker's name, Talon was then telekinectically lifted into the air and forcefully slammed into a nearby wall. Cade ignited his lightsaber and engaged Krayt in battle.

Krayt began their final confrontation by pushing Cade away with the Force before unleashing a barrage of Force lightning. Krayt urged Cade to surrender, as he had become much more powerful since their last encounter, and that the battle was lost. Cade retorted that he had learned many things too, and the two clashed blades. Krayt's skill was great, however, and revealed that by experiencing death, Cade had shown him the mechanism of dark transfer.

Using the power on its creator, Krayt caused Cade to fall to the point of death, and there saw Krayt's vision of the future. Cade saw Coruscant burning, his friends dead, and his becoming enthralled in a Sith body. Krayt revealed Fel's plan to release Omega Red on Coruscant was of his own doing as well, as the Sith were immune to the toxin. Every living being on the planet would be dead, except the Sith. Reviving Cade, Krayt laughed, confident that he had succeeded in turning the young Skywalker to the dark side of the Force. Returning from the brink of death, Cade announced that he did understand. He saw the vision, had no doubts, and now knew his place in the galaxy. Cade Skywalker then immediately summoned his lightsaber and in a flash, leaped around and pierced his lightsaber into Krayt's heart, killing him, and declaring himself a Jedi.

Knowing that Krayt's body would simply heal itself again and return from death once more, and feeling Krayt's spirit prying into his mind, Cade asked his mother for her ship, intending to fly it into Coruscant Prime to destroy both himself and Krayt's body. Telling her that it was the only way, Morrigan was grief-stricken but understanding, and gave him a locket that contained a holo of herself, Cade, and his father, while also secretly acting as a tracking device for Cade's friends to find him.

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Darth Krayt's final death at the hands of Cade Skywalker.

As Cade flew the ship to the sun, Krayt's spirit continued to tempt the newly-declared Jedi, who asked him why he just didn't decapitate him. Cade replied that he wasn't taking any chances. Krayt replied that if his body was destroyed, he would use Cade's body to return, having learned transfer essence from Darth Andeddu and Karness Muur. However, Cade remained resolute in killing himself too. Suddenly, the spirit of Luke Skywalker appeared to him. Luke urged Cade to accept hope and not to let fear shape his life. Accepting his ancestor's guidance, Cade escaped the ship before it collided with the sun, killing Krayt. In an ironic twist of fate, Darth Krayt's life had ended the same way it had begun more than a century before -under the roaring heat of a violent sun. Even still, his ideals inspired the One Sith after his body died, and they continued to fight for a galaxy united under the dark side.

Personality[]

And what, you ask, is the meaning of this? Roan Fel never really embraced the war or the idea of a unified galaxy. He went along with it as a political necessity. That's not what the Empire-- what the galaxy-- needs. The galaxy writhes in chaos and disorder. It required a man of vision. I am that man of vision. I am the new emperor.
~ Darth Krayt explaining his motivation for becoming ruler of the galaxy

Darth Krayt, born A'Sharad Hett, is a deeply complex character who changed drastically during his journey from Jedi Master to Dark Lord of the Sith.

While his upbringing into the Jedi way was unorthodox, A'Sharad Hett was a deeply honorable and devoted follower of the Jedi Order and was dedicated to the light side of the Force. He deeply believed that one should own up to their own actions, which is why he kept Skywalker's confession of the Tusken massacre a secret. Despite, he was also known to hold vengeance and had difficulty with his rage, flaws which caused him much guilt. For all his flaws, or because of them, Hett did his best to remain a dedicated and loyal Jedi.

After Order 66, Hett's belief in the light shattered and he was consumed by the dark. He returned to his Tusken roots and led a violent campaign across the deserts of Tatooine before being stopped by Obi-Wan Kenobi. After coming across Xoxaan's holocron and his torture at the hands of the Yuuzhan Vong, Hett's personality changed drastically. He renounced the Jedi and took up the title Darth Krayt, named after the species of dragon native to Tatooine, and sought to rebuild the Sith Order and conquer the galaxy.

As a Sith Lord, Krayt became a monstrous, ruthless, cunning, barbaric, manipulative and controlling dictator. Any sense of empathy, remorse, kindness or mercy he may have had in his past life was long gone. In his own words, he does not pity. Befitting his nickname as the Dragon of the Sith, Krayt possessed a fearsome temper and was not tolerant of failure or insubordination, often lashing out at his followers either verbally or physically. In one moment of rage, he ordered the genocide of the Mon Calamari species out of spite because some of them aided the Alliance rebels. During his reign as Emperor, Krayt was a brutal totalitarian, settling for nothing less than absolute obedience from his Sith Lords and Imperial officers and would doll out vicious punishments to those who fell out of line. He also subscribed to the Sith belief that only the most powerful should rule and that the weak should serve. Being a totalitarian, he valued order above all else and saw chaos as his ultimate enemy. He saw the Jedi, the Galactic Alliance and the democracies that preceded it as inherently chaotic. He valued obedience and loyalty above all else, expecting his own Sith to fall on their own swords if he ordered it. For this reason, he created the Sith troopers, mindless warriors who obeyed Krayt's orders no matter what, even committing suicide if they commanded it. He passed this mentality down to his One Sith, who were (mostly) loyal to him without question. Krayt was so obsessed with maintaining authoritarian control that he ordered the genocide of an entire species as a warning to anyone who opposed him.

What made Krayt different from other Sith, however, was that he genuinely valued peace and justice. He ultimately believed what he was doing was right for the galaxy and that he needed to rule over it as emperor. Up until his death and resurrection, every evil deed he committed were necessary in his eyes. He also maintained his warrior's sense of honor, keeping the lightsaber of Kol Skywalker in a glass case as a means of honoring him, even though he disagrees with the Jedi way. He is even willing to work with his opponents, as seen when he fought against Abeloth alongside Grandmaster Luke Skywalker. Krayt believed that power should have a purpose, as opposed to the traditional Sith idea that power should be for its own sake, which put him at odds with the ancient Sith Lords of old, who saw Krayt as a pretender and a heretic.

After his death and willing himself back to life, Krayt's already brutal mindset only worsened to the point of omnicide. He feared death no longer, only viewing it as a pathway to something greater. He came to believe that the entire galaxy should feel the pain of death and rebirth and abandoned his ideas of order, and instead was determined to bring chaos and war to kill every living thing in the galaxy.

Powers and Abilities[]

As a Jedi Master, A'Sharad Hett was a skilled Force user and lightsaber duelist. Overtime, as he studied the dark side of the Force, Krayt continued to grow and hone his powers, becoming even stronger. He became so powerful that Grandmaster Luke Skywalker, the most powerful Force user to ever live, saw Krayt and the same league as him. Krayt, alongside Luke, were able to contend and defeat Abeloth. At the beginning of Star Wars: Legacy, despite his ailing health due to the Vong implants, Krayt strength continued to the point he was considered the most powerful Force user of his time and the best swordsman alive. After his resurrection and his healing of the Vong implants, Krayt's power skyrocketed to a massive degree, to the point where he was regarded as the one of the most powerful Sith Lords in history after Darth Sidious and Emperor Vitiate.

Powers[]

  • The Force: Although while he wasn't initially a powerhouse, Krayt's long life and determination to expand led him to becoming one of the most powerful Dark Lords of all time.
    • Telekinesis: Krayt was highly skilled in telekinesis, and his power only grew with time. During his final battle with Cade Skywalker, he sent the renegade Jedi crashing into a pillar with a mere flick of his wrist.
    • Telepathy: Krayt was able to read people's minds and read their emotions. After his resurrection, he was able to speak to every single One Sith in the galaxy at once through his power in the Force.
    • Sith Sorcery: Krayt was capable of Sith sorcery, which he used to his advantage during his battle against Darth Wyrrlock III.
    • Force Lightning: Krayt was a master of Sith lightning. His skill was so potent that he was capable of wrapping its tendrils around people without hurting them.
    • Force Choke: Krayt was capable of using the Force to strangle people.
    • Shatterpoint: Krayt was capable of perceiving certain weaknesses in others and used them to his advantage. It is a power also possessed by Mace Windu.
    • Dark Transfer: After his return to life, Krayt reveals that he learned dark transfer, which he can use to hurt or heal. He used this power to heal himself of the Vong infection. His skill was so great that he was even capable of willing himself back to life.

Abilities[]

  • Combat: Whether as a Jedi or Sith, Krayt always possessed a warrior's heart. Over the course of his long life, he became a monstrously skilled combatant. According to him, he has personally killed thousands of people in close quarters combat.
    • Lightsaber Dueling: Krayt had always been a skilled lightsaber duelist. By the time of the Legacy comics, even with the Vong infestation eating him away, he is without question the reigning master of his time.
      • Jar'Kai: Krayt was a master of the Jar'Kai variant of lightsaber combat, which is the use of two single bladed lightsabers. He is regarded as one of the best Jar'Kai specialists of all time. He was one of the few Jedi to escape the Great Jedi Purge through sheer skill and later fought a fierce duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of the greatest duelists of all time, but ultimately lost. During the time of Legacy, Krayt's skill had only improved, becoming the single best swordsman in the One Sith, and without doubt the best swordsman in the galaxy. As a Jedi, he used his own and his father's lightsaber, which were both green. As a Sith, he used two red bladed lightsabers that were modeled after Vong implants. After his resurrection, he carried his father's green lightsaber and his own red lightsaber.
      • Niman: Krayt favored the sixth form of lightsaber combat, known as Niman and was one of its most powerful and skilled practitioners. The most diverse of all lightsaber forms, Niman is a jack-of-all trades style that incorporates aspects from all previous lightsaber forms. The form also allowed for Jar'Kai and the use of Force abilities in combat, both of which Krayt was known to do. Krayt is shown in the comics as trying out various methods to win battles, such as reversing grips, using Force blasts and throwing his lightsaber.

Trivia[]

  • Before Darth Krayt was confirmed to be A'Sharad Hett, a common fan theory was that Krayt was actually Jacen Solo and that the Legacy of the Force book series would determine whether Solo would become Krayt or not. However, that theory was put to rest when the "Darth Who Contest" was held, as Darth Krayt wasn't an option among the potential names for Solo's Sith moniker, which ended up being Darth Caedus.
  • With him dying at 186 years old, Darth Krayt is easily one of the most long-lived Star Wars villains; he was alive during the events of the prequel trilogy and through use of stasis didn't die until more than one hundred years after the end of the original trilogy. Krayt is behind the Sith Lord Vitiate, however, as Vitiate lived for 1,500 years long before the events of the saga.
  • Krayt has one of the most diverse occupations in the Star Wars galaxy, being at different stages of his life a Jedi Master, a general, a Tusken warlord, a bounty hunter, Dark Lord of the Sith and Emperor of the Galactic Empire.
  • Darth Krayt is one of the only beings to have faced Abeloth in combat and won. (Alongside Luke Skywalker.)
  • Darth Krayt was able to contact all dark side users in the entire galaxy with only seconds of preparation.
  • His power after his resurrection is often compared to the likes of Emperor Palpatine and Vitiate.
  • He is the second Sith Lord to rule the entire galaxy, the first being Emperor Palpatine.

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