Exar Kun

Dark Lord of Sith

Exar Kun was a Jedi Knight, apprenticed to Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baas. He was an ambitious young Knight, who's curiousity could be heightened at the slightest thing. His Jedi training, however, still could not hold back his curiosity. Intrigued by the mystique which the Dark Side offered, Exar Kun began using Master Baas' Holocron, revealing and investigating the ancient lore and religion of the Sith. Soon, Kun's curiousity got a hold of him and it turned into an obsession. He became partially seduced by the Dark Side and let himself be led to the planet Korriban, where the spirit of Freedon Nadd enticed him to let the dark powers of the Sith enter him. Back on his home planet, Kun became so obsessed that it caused him to unleash his anger upon one of his fellow students and eventually his own master. His master was afraid for Kun and told him to turn back to the Light Side. When it was apparent that Kun was obsessed with the Sith, Master Baas challenged Kun to a duel. The young and inexperienced Kun was no match for the veteran and expert Jedi Master. Thus, Kun left his master to pursue the Sith teachings of Freedon Nadd, whose followers had just been put down following the Freedon Nadd Uprising.

There, the surviving followers of Freedon Nadd led Exar Kun to the Dxun moon where he came upon Nadd's spirit, which was roaming around in his tomb, waiting for someone to come in. Seeing the ambitious young rogue Jedi, Nadd knew that this was his chance. He enticed the young man with visions of glory, promises of riches, and power. However, his true plot was soon uncovered by Kun. Nadd, once being one of the most feared Sith Lords in the galaxy, had actually been planning on taking over Kun's body, so that he may get another chance to rule Onderon and the galaxy, itself. So, Kun left for Yavin IV, but upon landing, he realized that Nadd had come first. Nadd confronted Kun and offered his help to find Naga Sadow's hidden domains. Kun refused. Soon, Exar Kun came upon one of Sadow's domain. Little did he know that Sadow had left behind mutated Massassi- called Massassi Beasts. Their only purpose to life was to guard and protect Naga Sadow's realms of darkness. They trapped and captured Kun and began to prepare to slowly kill their prisoner. However, much to Kun's luck, one of them was so anxious that he broke the rules and attacked Kun alone. Exar Kun then, through the Dark Side, wrenched Sadow's Sith amulet from the hands of the Massassi guardian and used it to kill the monster. When Freedon Nadd tried to gain access into Kun's body, Kun used the amulet and destroyed the Sith Lord forever. The Massassi Beasts realized that this man was very powerful and pledged their allegiance to him. Thus, gaining thousands of fresh, fierce, and loyal troops, Kun was very satisfied. Knowing that there was no return to the Light Side, Kun enslaved the Massassi people and built vast and tall temples as focal points of the Dark Side (Later on, during the Galactic Civil War, the Rebels who were based on Yavin IV could feel a strange and powerful evil emanating from some of the temples, and soon restricted themselves to normal temples.).

Then, after completing that project, he traveled to Ossus. There he confronted Jedi Master Odan-Urr in the Library of Ossus, and killed him. He took the Sith Holocron from the Library, so that he could study and greaten his Sith powers. He also believed that whoever held the Sith Holocron could well recruited Dark Jedis. And so, he gained alot more of Sith in his ranks. Very soon, however, he heard that an imposter had declared himself the new Dark Lord of Sith. He was located in the Sith citadel of the Empress Teta system. And so, Kun and his Massassi guards arrived. The "imposter" was Ulic Qel-Droma, a Sith Lord, well trained in darkness. Not wanting to let Kun get an easy kill, he challenged Exar Kun to a duel. Both were extremly powerful and were experts in swordcraft causing neither to gain an advantage. Then, Marka Ragnos appeared to them, in spirit. He announced a new era for the Sith and declared that Exar Kun would be the Dark Lord of Sith and that Ulic Qel-Droma would be the Dark Lord's Apprentice. Kun's old foe, a Sith Lord named Crado, soon came to terms with the new Dark Lord of Sith and banded together, adding a large army of Sith, to Kun's already vast army. With the help of Qel-Droma, Kun gained even more followers, as the Krath ruler Aleema Keto, and the warlord Mandalore, joined. Seeing that his army had grown considerably stronger and powerful, he decided to attack the Old Republic.

Kun split his troops between himself and Qel-Droma, and launched what was soon to become a notorious and bloody war: the Sith War. While Ulic and Mandalore waged a huge military battle against Republic outposts, shipyards, and Republic planets, Kun seduced and brought new Jedis to the Dark Side. With his new Sith warriors, Kun began to wage a secret war against what he declared to be aging and outdated Jedi: the Jedi Masters. Exar Kun ordered his new Dark Jedis to kill their Jedi Masters. And so, a great many Masters perished. However, during the attack on Coruscant, Aleema Keto betrayed Ulic Qel-Droma, who was soon captured and later charged with treason against the Republic. But, in the middle of the trial, Kun and Madalore managed to storm the courtroom with thousands of Jedi that were immobilized by Kun's Sith powers, and rescued Qel-Droma. As well as the storming of the courtroom, during the rescue, Exar Kun killed Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baas, after he challenged his old master to a rematch, seeking to take revenge of his previous defeat. Afterwards, Kun, Qel-Droma, and Mandalore acted as if they knew nothing about Aleema's betrayal. However, they plotted to take revenge. Later, Exar Kun sent Aleema to Kemplex IX with the intent to ambush the Republic/Jedi forces using an ancient Sith superweapon that was aboard Naga Sadow's ship, recently unearthed from the Yavin temples. Using this superwapon, Aleema ripped the core of one of the ten stars, in the Cron Cluster, and launched it at the incoming Republic fleet. The result was total destruction. The entire fleet was disintegrated. But, as the three leaders had planned, it also caused the star to catastrophically supernova, and subsequently the other 9 stars. The immense explosion obliterated Aleema and Sadow's ship, and also scorched and almost destroyed the nearby planet, Ossus, which was home of the Great Jedi Library.

But not all was perfect. Among the three leaders, Kun believed they had a permanent bond of loyalty. But Kun missed one small detail. Ever since Ulic Qel-Droma had begun to turn to the Dark Side, his brother, Cay Qel-Droma had told him to turn back. One day, after the supernova, Ulic was confronted by his brother and a few other Jedi friends. He became extremely angry, as he found out what their intent was: to turn him back to the Light Side. In his intense fury, Ulic killed his brother. Immediately, he realized what he had done. During this brief moment of shock, his ex-lover, Nomi Sunrider used the Force and cast a spell on him. He became blind to the Force and thus was stripped of his powers. Guiltstricken, he realized his folly and returned to the Light Side. Then, he led an immense Jedi fleet to Kun's base of power on Yavin IV. There the war ended with all the Jedi banding together and laying waste to most of Yavin 4, but not before Exar Kun drained and absorbed the life force of the entire Massassi race to in order to trap and entomb his spirit in a Sith Temple. He remained trapped in temple of Yavin for over 4,000 years while power passed from the Old Republic to the Empire and the Rebel Alliance established a base there. Though using the temples as a military base, the Alliance felt a strange darkness emanating from some of them and were hesitant to enter them. Later when Luke Skywalker established his Jedi Academy on Yavin IV, Kun once again made his bid for galaxy domination by attempting to sway Luke's new trainees to the Dark Side. Kun destroyed one of them, Gantoris and turned Kyp Durron, Luke's best padawan and the strongest in the Force, to the Dark Side. As a self-proclaimed Dark Lord of the Sith, Durron used his dark powers to avenge his family's deaths and to wreak havoc among the Imperial fleets. When Luke Skywalker confronted him, Kyp teemed with anger and, with the help of Exar Kun, almost killed Luke, leaving him in a coma, fighting Exar Kun in the realm of unconciousness. But he did not end the fight before absorbing some amount of what the Jedi Master had said. Kyp soon realized his mistakes and Kun's lies, and returned to the Academy, combining with the other students to free Skywalker and destroy Kun once and for all with the Light Side of the Force. And thus, ended the reign of the Dark Lord of Sith, Exar Kun.