Mission to Cog Hive Seven

In 33 BBY, Darth Maul was dispatched by Darth Sidious on a mission to infiltrate Cog Hive Seven, a prison where secret gladiatorial matches were held pitting inmates against each other. Sidious instructed Maul with recovering a nuclear bomb from the reclusive weapons designer Iram Radique, who operated in the prison. While Maul was tasked with simply recovering the bomb to deliver it to Radique's enemy, the Bando Gora cult, Sidious intended to manipulate events to ensure that the bomb would be used in an attempt to kill his master, Darth Plagueis, on Sojourn.

Maul's mission saw him enter the prison under a pseudonym, where he participated in a series of gladiatorial death matches while attempting to search for Radique. When he recovered the nuclear device, he was forced to work with Komari Vosa, leader of the Bando Gora, when a self-destruct sequence was initiated due to an attack by the forces of Jabba Desilijic Tiure. Despite their initial misgivings toward each other, Maul and Vosa together defeated the Syrox creature before fleeing the prison's destruction with the young inmate Eogan Truax. The three managed to reach Hutt Space, before Maul successfully returned to report to his master on Coruscant.

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