Remulus Dreypa

Remulus Dreypa was a male Baron and Jedi Admiral who fell to the dark side during the Hundred-Year Darkness. Following the Battle of Corbos which ended that conflict in 6900 BBY, he and several other Dark Jedi followers including Karness Muur, Sorzus Syn, and XoXaan were exiled by the Jedi Order to the Stygian Caldera. These Dark Jedi exiles discovered and conquered the Sith civilization on Korriban, forging it into the Old Sith Empire. During his time on Korriban, Dreypa played an important role in founding the Sith Order, a Force order which harnessed the powers of the dark side and pitted themselves against the Jedi. Eventually, he and several other like-minded Dark Jedi became no longer content to rule over "mongrels" in exile, and sought to return to the wider galaxy and wreak vengeance against the Jedi and the Galactic Republic.

However, Dreypa's starship was intercepted and attacked by Jedi starships outside the Stygian Caldera. This pursuit eventually brought them to the remote planet of Kesh in the Unknown Regions. Both parties became trapped on the planet due to its strange magnetic field. Dreypa and his followers fought with the Jedi and devastated the planet. This battle would be remembered by the indigenous Keshiri people as the "Great Calamity" and evolved into the Keshiri legends of the Protectors and Destructors. In the end, Dreypa's Dark Jedi allies grew weary of his excesses and imprisoned him within his oubliette. They then made peace with their former Jedi adversaries and migrated to the planet's polar continent of Eshkrene where they established the Doomed, a Force-sensitive community which was devoted to finding a balance in the Force and protecting the Keshiri.

Remulus Dreypa remained imprisoned within his oubliette for almost four thousand years. For millennia, the descendants of the Doomed maintained a watchful vigil over Dreypa's prison and remembered him as the "Great Weapon." They were determined to prevent him from posing a threat to Kesh and the wider galaxy again. During his absence, a second group of predominantly Human Sith known as the Lost Tribe of Sith established themselves as the rulers of the Kesh. In 2974 BBY, the Tribe's reigning Grand Lord Varner Hilts dispatched an expeditionary mission to explore the planet's South Pole. This expedition included the Sith outcast Parlan Spinner and Hilt's own daughter Takara Hilts. After making contact with the Doomed, Spinner learnt about the "Great Weapon" and sought to use it to settle scores with the Tribe.

Spinner and several Keshiri sailors stole Dreypa's oubliette and fled aboard their ship the Southern Star, which sailed back to Keshtah Minor, the Tribe's traditional domain. After awakening Dreypa, Spinner allied himself with the ancient Dark Lord, who was determined to return to the stars and to pursue vengeance against the Jedi and the Galactic Republic. However, he also agreed to help Spinner instigate a slave revolt against the Tribe. While Dreypa's newly-found allies had also taken Takara Hilts as a hostage, he lost this valuable leverage after the Sith princess and the Doomed leader Kaliska escaped back to Eshkrene and brought back the Doomed to battle Dreypa.

Dreypa led his forces against the Tribe's military at the Battle of the Marisota Floodplain. Despite initial successes, they sustained heavy casualties at the hands of the Tribe's airborne Skyborn Rangers. Dreypa and his followers retreated to the volcano Sessal Spire where the Sith Lord turned the table on his pursuers by unleashing his Leviathans, reptilian Sithspawn capable of draining the life force of sentient beings. Dreypa's Leviathans quickly wiped out both his pursuers and former allies, whom he rejected for failing to live up to his rigid Sith philosophy. The Doomed also arrived and attempted to destroy Dreypa and his Leviathans but were also no match for his mastery of the dark side.

Meanwhile, Lord Dreypa's former ally Spinner survived and allied himself with his former enemy Takara and the Doomed leader Kaliska. Prior to her death, Kaliska revealed that her people's Jedi forebears had hidden an operational interstellar-capable starship beneath the Circle Eternal, the Tribe's palace complex in their capital, Tahv. She urged them to destroy the starship in order to prevent the Sith Lord from returning to the galaxy. Following Kaliska's death, Dreypa learnt about the existence of this Jedi starship. He also defeated Takara in combat and took her hostage.

Despite Lord Dreypa's efforts, his adversary Spinner succeed in reaching the Jedi Starship and bringing it into the space above Kesh. Dreypa used his holo-emitter to contact the younger Sith and demanded that he hand over the starship. Knowing Spinner's affection for Takara, he threatened to harm her unless Spinner handed over the starship. Meanwhile, Dreypa and his Leviathans laid waste to the Tribe's capital Tahv, devastating much of the city. However, Spinner turned the tide of the battle by using the starship's laser cannons to destroy all of the elder Sith's Leviathans. He also succeeded in retrieving both Takara and Dreypa from the battlefield and took the starship on a joyride to Sessal Spire.

Spinner then "returned" the starship to Dreypa and jumped off the vessel's hull with Takara; landing safely in the Southern Ocean. Determined to return to the stars, Lord Dreypa took Spinner's bait and took the helm of the starship. However, Dreypa quickly discovered too late that Spinner had set the ship's autopilot for a one-way trip to Sessal Spire's crater. In the end, the Sith Lord was killed when the Jedi Starship crashed into the volcano, triggering an explosion that consumed both the starship and its passenger. The death of Dreypa ended both a major threat to the Sith Tribe on Kesh and the wider galaxy.

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