Darth Bane (Legends)/Bio & Battles

""I am Darth Bane, Dark Lord of the Sith. I will survive. At any cost."

- Darth Bane

Darth Bane, formerly known as Dessel, is a Dark Lord of the Sith and the Sith'ari. Born on the mining planet of Apatros, he worked the mines until he killed a Republic officer in self-defense. He fled the planet to join the Sith forces, initially a simple trooper. His latent force abilities led his unit, the Gloom Walkers, to be one of the most decorated units in the entire army. After committing mutiny over a suicide order, he was then captured and recruited into the Sith ranks.

He trained on Korriban, awakening his powers in the Dark Side alongside Githany, his lover, teacher, and apprentice. Rather than joining the swelling legions of Skere Kahn, however, he strikes off on his own, abandoning even Githany. He finds the abandoned world of Lehon, where he learns further Sith teachings from a holocron of Darth Revan. He pretends to rejoin Kahn and Githany, while plotting the destruction of the entirety of the Sith, excepting himself. He goaded Kahn into using a Thought Bomb, a weapon that trapped the souls of all the Sith and Jedi nearby, and caused an ecological disater on Ruusan. He found and took in a young girl named Zannah, who would become his apprentice.

After escaping Ruusan, Bane seeks more power, and makes his way to Dxun to plunder the tomb of another Sith Lord, Freedon Nadd. There, he gets encased by the parasitic Orbalisks, which feed on their host while amplifying its pain and rage. Bane uses his Sith abilities to turn the relationship into a symbiotic one, as the Orbalisks can withstand even lightsaber strikes, and are only harmed by electricity. Bane bides his time while training Zannah, laying the groundwork for the Rule of Two and Darth Sidious' eventual takeover of the Republic. He is ultimately killed by Zannah, his superior command of the Force and lightsaber combat beaten by his age and Zannah's studies of Sith Sorcery.