Darth Bane

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"Do you feel it? Do you feel the power of the dark side? The only real power! The only thing worth living for!"
- Darth Bane

Darth Bane is a Dark Lord of the Sith from the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe. He is first mentioned in the novelization of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Path of Destruction, a book about the Sith downfall and Darth Bane which will be released in October of 2006.


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History

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Darth Bane was a powerful Sith Lord who lived a thousand years before the Battle of Yavin (c. 1000 BBY), and was the only one of his kind known to survive the catastrophic Battle of Ruusan.

Born Dessel on Apatros, his father was a miner, named Hurst. Hurst blamed Dessel for the death of his wife, often mocking him and calling him "Bane". The young boy learned to defend himself and he gained a penchant for violence. He had trained in the ways of the dark side of the Force under the Sith Lord Qordis, but never completed his formal training. Bane believed he had the right to rule, and had little patience for traditional titles and hierarchies. He had a religious, even messianic view of the Force, a view which stood in stark contrast to the power-oriented creed of the time. In Bane's mind, only he could guide the Sith to their true destiny.

As such, Bane often clashed with his colleagues in the Brotherhood of Darkness, particularly the weak-willed Lord Kaan, whom Bane despised and considered a cruel coward. In retaliation, Kaan had Darth Bane poisoned, and left him to die on the field of battle.

Bane was stronger than Kaan thought, however, and fought off the effects of the poison long enough to find a cure. He returned to Ruusan to observe the preparations for battle, and mocked his colleagues for thinking like "dirt generals" rather than Sith Lords.

Shocked by Darth Bane's return, Kaan agreed to follow his instructions to defeat the Jedi through the power of the dark side. The Sith joined together in meditation, and Darth Bane unleashed a wave of destruction upon the unsuspecting Jedi.

Sensing the smothering darkness and ambition in Bane's heart, however, the other Sith Lords broke the circle, intending to finish off the Jedi with more conventional tactics. Eventually, Kaan, driven mad by the glimpse he had received of the "true" power of the Force, unleashed a thought bomb, destroying every other Jedi and Sith on Ruusan.

It was not long before that event that Bane came across a young girl called Zannah. She had been brought to Ruusan by the Jedi and had formed a friendship with a bouncer. When Zannah's friend was killed mistakenly, anger drew her to kill using the Force. Bane thought he had found his first apprentice in this girl and took her under his wing. Bane survived along with Zannah and they stumbled across her cousin Darovit, who tried to stop Bane. Zannah caused Darovit's hand to explode, and Bane, a Sith Lord known to kill children in front of their parents to savor their fear and horror, questioned her on why she allowed him to live; she replied that she was still young. As a final test, Bane told Zannah to find her own way off Ruusan. They would meet on Onderon, and only then would she be worthy of joining the Sith.

After leaving Ruusan, Bane headed for Onderon in his ship, Valcyn. He hoped to learn secrets from deep inside the tomb of the ancient Sith Lord Freedon Nadd, but his past returned to haunt him. The ghostly spirit of his former mentor, Lord Qordis, chided him for abandoning the Brotherhood. Bane insisted that he was only furthering the Sith cause, but Qordis's spirit created a malfunction in the starship controls and Bane plummeted down into the forest of the beast moon of Dxun.

Bane survived the crash, but his ship was destroyed beyond hope of repair. The jungle itself seemed intent on stopping Bane, but he pushed on nonetheless. He was attacked by beasts and monsters, and cried out in frustration.

In reply, surprisingly, the spirit of Lord Kaan appeared to him, offering help. Though in life they had loathed one another, Bane followed Kaan's ghostly silhouette and eventually found himself at the ruined crypt of Freedon Nadd's tomb. He could feel the dark side in the tomb, and knew he would find what he was looking for here. Kaan lead him to a Sith Holocron, where he was attacked by barnacle-like creatures called orbalisks. They attached themselves to Bane's body, causing tremendous pain as they became a part of him. The orbalisk took and gave - they augmented Bane's strength tremendously, but also could not be removed without killing Bane. They bond with their dark sider victim - as they inject poison, the user wields the dark side against them, which they feed off of. The poison also had considerable healing and performance-enhancing properties, assuming the victim survived. As if that were not enough, they were almost impenetrable by lightsabers. The orbalisks reproduced and grew on Bane, eventually covering all but his face.

After spending days studying from the Holocron, he exited the tomb with a new vision: not only would there be just two Lords at a time, but the armies and minions the Sith had once relied on would be done away with too - slowly and in secrecy the Sith would erode the Republic until the time was right for them to reveal themselves to the Jedi once more.

Taming a flying beast using the powers of the dark side, he mounted it like the fabled Beast Riders and rode towards the edge of the atmosphere, where he planned to "nudge" the entire moon closer to its planet, Onderon, so he could cross to the inhabited world to find his apprentice.

Eventually, Bane inducted his new apprentice, giving her the name Darth Zannah, and set his new order in motion. Future Sith Lords were taught the virtues of patience, planning, and secrecy, and each was to take on the title of Darth, a tradition that had dated back to before the Jedi Civil War, nearly three millennia before.

It would not be long, however, before Bane's fledgling order would be rediscovered by the Jedi and (once again) thought eliminated. The Jedi discovered both the new Rule of Two and the identity of Darth Bane, but did not forsee that the new Sith Order he had founded would long survive Darth Bane's death.

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