Darth Phobos
| Darth Phobos | |
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| Biographical Information: | |
| Homeworld: | Korriban |
| Descriptive Information: | |
| Species: | Theelin |
| Gender: | Female |
| Hair Color: | Blue-Black |
| Eye Color: | Yellow |
| Chronological and political information: | |
| Affiliation: | Cult of Darth Phobos |
Darth Phobos is an existing character in the Star Wars Legends continuity.[1]
Biography
First Phobos Conflict
Approximately one hundred years before the Fourth Great Schism, Darth Phobos seized power over the disparate Sith tribes on Korriban.[2] Forcing them to serve and worship her by way of mind control, she slowly amassed a following hundreds strong. Jedi explorers in the Outer Rim encountered Phobos' forces during expeditionary trips; very few survived to tell the tale. In 2075 BBY, after she began to indiscriminately kill other Sith warlords to consolidate her power, the Sith monastery at Hakem-Yût, where Phobos had trained, fired upon her starship while it sat in low-orbit over Korriban. Most of her followers were killed in the mass purge that followed.
Some of Phobos' more devoted followers dug her out of the wreckage and nursed her back to health by offering themselves up in sacrifice. Operating from deep within the Mausoleum of House Graush, she dispatched her most loyal sycophants as assassins to sow fear and discord among both the Sith on Korriban and the Jedi expeditionary forces encroaching upon Sith space.[3] The assassinations were a major point of discussion at the Tython Summit[2], and led to reformations within the Jedi Order. While the Sith had their suspicions that Phobos still remained active, neither they nor the Jedi could determine the actual cause behind the assassinations. Using the confusion to her advantage, Phobos orchestrated her revenge through the purge of Hakem-Yût, and relocated her cult, whose ranks had burgeoned into the thousands, to the monastery in 2072 BBY.
Second Phobos Conflict
By 2067 BBY, Phobos' cult numbered five thousand strong. She held most of Korriban in her thrall; the remaining Sith holdouts who opposed her had fled to the Dromund system to evade her assassins. In an unprecedented move, the Sith parleyed with a Jedi Expeditionary Force troop over Dromund Fels to broker a joint alliance that would destroy Phobos once and for all. In exchange, the Sith would stick to their worlds away from the galaxy at large. The Jedi relayed the message to the Jedi High Council on Coruscant, who initially thought the missive was a cruel joke.[2]
Phobos herself had left Korriban in the hands of a trio of governors and relocated to Krayiss II to study ancient Sith magic. Jedi explorers encountered her cult during a pilgrimage to the Krayiss Obelisk. One survivor returned to Coruscant to report their findings, after which the High Council agreed to destroy Phobos.[3]
After her spies reported that warships were closing in on Krayiss II, Phobos attempted to flee the system. However, expecting only Sith forces, a bevy of Republic Navy and Jedi warships caught her by surprise. Her flagship went down in flames, and the joint Jedi-Sith war ensemble assumed her destroyed once and for all. However, she avoided death yet again by jettisoning an escape pod. When the next band of Jedi pilgrims landed on Krayiss II, she slaughtered them herself and left the planet in their courier ship.
Rhen Var and final death
After her "defeat" at Krayiss II, Phobos' cult splintered across the galaxy. Despite being scattered, they were still enthralled by their leader so long as she continued to live. Retreating to the abandoned world of Bosthirda, Phobos rejoined with the cultists who had fled there, including her now-deposed governors. It was here that she also created her holocron.[3] Knowing Krayiss II and its secrets were lost to her, she and a small band of cultists set out for Wayland, where she uncovered an ancient Sith text originating from the Hundred Year Darkness. Believing she might uncover the ultimate means with which to plunge the galaxy into chaos and fear, she and her cult departed for Rhen Var.
Instead of finding new knowledge, Phobos and her cult became lost in an unnavigable blizzard. Gradually, her followers began to turn against one another, leaving a trial of blood and corpses strewn across the snowfields. When Phobos and the survivors reached a crumbling citadel, her remaining cultists turned on and killed her.[4] The last of her triumvirate, Arachne, interred Phobos' holocron on Ossus in the Great Library.[3]
Life in the spirit world
Phobos' spirit refused to die, and persisted within the confines of her holocron. When Darth Cinder arrived on Ossus and found Phobos' holocron, the long-dead Sith saw a way to break free.[5] While still permanently bound to her holocron, Phobos gradually began to intrude upon Cinder's mind over the course of Cinder's quest to pursue vengeance against Darth Ruin. Eventually, after Ruin freed Chial from his tomb on Rhen Var, the boundaries of Chaos and the material world blurred enough for Phobos to materialize in corporeal form.[6][4]
However, this came at a cost: Phobos became particularly susceptible to the perception of wounds in the Force, the presence of which numbed her and left her in a state similar to catatonia.[7][8] Chial, one such wound who existed in an-almost similar vein to Phobos' spirit, caused such emptiness within the Force that, for the first time, Phobos felt her power over fear used against her.[8]
Personality and Traits
Appearances
Sources
References
- ↑ "Darth Phobos" on Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Essential Guide to the New Sith Wars, Vol. I
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Azimuth
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dark Days I: Zenith, Cinder XIX
- ↑ Dark Days I: Zenith, Cinder III
- ↑ Dark Days I: Zenith, Cinder XVI
- ↑ Dark Days I: Zenith, Cinder XX
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Dark Days II: Perihelion, Cinder III